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Booth, Edward C. The Treble Clef
New York Dodd, Mead and Company 1924 First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 454 pages; Snugly bound and clean in original floral patterned dust jacket with $2.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Prior owner name and address penned to front endpage; a few early leaves opened a little roughly at the front edge. Dust jacket lightly toned to spine edge with shallow chipping and a few closed tears at edges. VG+/VG
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50.00 USD
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Boswell, James; Marlies K. Danziger & Frank Brady (Eds. ) Boswell; the Great Biographer, 1789-1795
New York, NY Mcgraw-Hill 1989 0070153744 / 9780070153745 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell; Facsimile Paintings and engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 371 pages; 1989 McGraw Hill. HC/DJ. 1st edition and printing w/ complete 1-10 number line. Bright, snug and clean. No marks to text. Small remainder mark bottom edge. Dust jacket quite crisp and clean. NF/NF Uncommon in condition.
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49.50 USD
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Bothwell, Jean The Red Scarf
New York Harcourt, Brace and World 1962 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket Signed by Author
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 189 pages; A neat, solid copy in bright, attractive dust jacket. Just very slightly cocked in the spine. A hint of wear and mild toning to the dust jacket. Signed by author. NF/VG++; Signed by Author
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20.00 USD
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Bouman, Tom Dry Bones in the Valley [Advance Review Copy]
New York W. W. Norton & Company 2014 0393243028 / 9780393243024 First Edition; First Printing Paperback Fine with No dust jacket as issued
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages; Pre-publication 1st printing. Bright tight and fresh in pictorial wraps. Feels and appears unread and as new. Author's well received debut novel. F
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15.00 USD
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Bowden, Mark Road Work; Among Tyrants, Beasts, Heroes, and Rogues
New York Atlantic Monthly Press 2004 087113876X / 9780871138767 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Signed by Author
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 467 pages; 1st printing. Signed by Bowden on the title page. Tightly bound, unread copy in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with just a whisper of shelf evidence base of spine. Essentially as new. F/NF; Signed by Author
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22.50 USD
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Boyett, Steven R. Mortality Bridge
Burton, MI Subterranean Press 2011 1596063750 / 9781596063754 First Edition Paperback Near Fine
Advance Uncorrected Proof; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 422 pages; Advance Uncorrected Proof. In glossy pictorial covers. Bright tight and fresh; unread copy. No marks. Uniformly crisp and fresh with just trace storage/shelf evidence to cover extremities. Very nearly Fine
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29.50 USD
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Boyle, T. C. Budding Prospects
New York The Viking Press 1984 0670194395 / 9780670194391 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 326 pages; 1984 Viking HC/DJ 1st printing. Bright, solid copy in a clean, crisp dust jacket. $16.95 issue price intact on unclipped front flap. Light foxing to pastedowns underneath flaps and light dust soiling to top edge. Spine slightly out of square. VG to VG+ copy in an about Fine dust jacket. Boyle's 3rd book.
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60.00 USD
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Breton, Andre Second Manifeste Du Surrealisme
Paris Editions KRA 1930 First Edition Paperback with dust jacket Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
4to 11" - 13" tall; 103 pages; 1930 Editions Kra. 1st edition. Large format paperback in the scarce, original glassine dust jacket. A notoriously fragile publication, this example has been very well preserved by virtue of the intact glassine dust cover. The usual and expected halo toning to the page stock. A mild nick to the dust jacket and cover stock at the crown. A s, all prior ownership ink stamp in the gutter of page 1. Several pages unopened along the top edge. Though suffering from the usual halo toning, this is really an exceptionally well preserved copy, quite uncommonly seen in the original dust jacket. VG++/VG++ or better. ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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825.00 USD
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Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre: [1943 Photoplay Edition W/ Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles]
New York Grosset & Dunlap 1943 First Edition Thus Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Film Still illustrated dust jacket; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 451 pages; HC/DJ. Photoplay edition, published to coincide with the 1943 film starring Welles and Fontaine. Pictorial dust jacket features a film-still photograph of the actors. Snugly bound in original green cloth with title lettering in black. Dust jacket bright and clean with just mild shelf evidence at edges and trace furring at crown of the spine panel. War-time printing with usual notice of compliance with regulations for paper use. But the paper is supple and only minimally toned. Moderate offset toning to front flyleaf where a newsclipping was laid in. Prior owner name and address 1943 penned to front flyleaf. First few pages have a superficial and very small stain along the front margin. Attractive copy, uncommon in this edition. VG+/VG+
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75.00 USD
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Bronte, Charlotte and May Sinclair (Intro) The Professor; Everyman's Library [Turnbull and Spears, 1909]
London & New York J. M. Dent & Company; E. P. Dutton 1909 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 292 pages; Everyman's Library. 1st Everyman imprint of this title with no indication of subsequent printings. Printer's notice for Turnbull and Spears at rear. Soundly bound in original trade binding of ribbed red cloth with decoratively gilt panelled spine. Trace crimping and light rubbing to cloth at spine ends. Red cloth is lightly sun faded at spine but with gilt still bright. Binding a little shaken. Prior owner name and 1910 purchase date penned neatly to pictorial front pastedown endpage. The 1st printing of the Everyman edition. [Seymour 117.0] VG- to VG
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90.00 USD
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Bronte, Charlotte and May Sinclair (Intro) Villette; Everyman's Library [1909]
London & New York J. M. Dent & Company; E. P. Dutton 1909 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 645 pages; Everyman's Library. 1st Everyman imprint of this title with no indication of subsequent printings. Printer's notice for Temple Press at rear. Soundly bound in original trade binding of ribbed red cloth with decoratively gilt panelled spine. Mild crimping and light rubbing to cloth at spine ends. Red cloth is lightly sun faded at spine but with gilt still bright. Binding a little shaken. Prior owner name and 1910 purchase date penned neatly to pictorial front pastedown endpage. The 1st printing of the Everyman edition. [Seymour 120 .0 (though his record of pagination is incorrect) ] VG- to VG
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85.00 USD
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Brooks, David The Social Animal The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
New York Random House 2011 140006760X / 9781400067602 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Signed by Author
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 424 pages; 1st printing. Bright, tight and very neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with $27 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Inscribed and signed by Brooks along the bottom of the title page. Handsome neat copy. NF/NF; Signed by Author
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45.00 USD
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Brophy, Brigid Hackenfeller's Ape
New York Random House 1954 First US Edition; First Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 177 pages; 1953 Random House HC/DJ 1st printing stated. Square, firm and very neat. No marks. Original dustjacket bright and neat with no significant wear. Price clipped. Brophy's second book, scarce in 1st ed. F-/VG+
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35.00 USD
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Brower, Brock The Late Great Creature
New York Atheneum 1972 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Signed by Author
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 300 pages; Inscribed and signed by the author on the recto of the 2nd free endpage. Soundly bound and generally clean and neat in original dust jacket. Cream linen boards with title design in black and gilt; publisher's red top stain still solid and bright. Binding a little shaken in the spine; light foxing to the front edge of the text block. Dust jacketlightly rubbed at edges; two vertical stress creases to the front flap of the jacket which retains the $4.50 issue price despite a shallow corner clip from the top corner. An old secondary price inconspiocuouly markered out on the black stock front flyleaf. Inscribed by Brower in part "...from the lower depths (if only of effort) ... Signed and dated 1972. A cult novel held in high regard - uncommon in signed examples. VG/VG; Signed by Author
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39.00 USD
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Brown, Palmer Beyond the Pawpaw Trees The Story of Anna Lavinia
New York Harper & Row 1964 early printing Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 121 pages; [Circa 1963-67] Harper & Row. HC/DJ. A lovely vintage copy of this much loved children's fantasy. Published by Harper & Row after the 1962 merger of Harper Brothers with Row Petersen. A tight clean copy in original color pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial boards with identical design to the dust jacket. Everything about the book is sharp and neat; dust jacket is crisp edged and clean. Text block is very tight and feels unread. No marks. The jacket front flap is price clipped, apprently done by the publisher with a replacement price of $3.50 stamped adjacent to the clipped corner. Spine just slightly cocked. This is not a first edition but is a wonderful example of an early, original copy and is quite uncommon thus. NF/NF
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195.00 USD
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Brown, Palmer Hickory
NY Harper and Row 1978 0060208880 / 9780060208882 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 42 pages; 1st edition stated. Superb unread copy in crisp, fresh dust jacket. $6.95 issue price on upper corner of front flap; lower corner inexplicably clipped. All else entirely as new. F/NF
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40.00 USD
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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett The Casa Guidi Windows.
London Chapman & Hall, Ltd. 1851 First Edition Full leather Very Good+
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 140 pages; Bound in a period full polished calf; double fillet gilt rules to cover boards. Spine in six compartments with five raised bands. Decrative gilt tooliing and rules to spine; titles on morocco labels to two panels. Marbled edges and endpapers. Snugly bound and bright. Complete with half-title page; no publisher's catalog at rear. Bound by prior opwner as one of several volumes of Browning's works; title labels at spine read: Browning's Poems /// Vol. III. Bibliographic notes penciled to front endpage. 1st edition. VG+ [Wing 14]
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245.00 USD
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Buck, Pearl S Of Men and Women
New York The John Day Co 1941 Presumed 1st edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 203 pages; Presumed 1st edition. Publisher identifies it as a "Special edition published for the Committee on Economic and Legal Status of Women of the American Association of University Women." Snugly bound and clean in original title lettered dust jacket. Publisher's light yellow cloth with title lettering in reddish brown to cover and spine. Buff cream colored dust jacket is a bit sunned and somewhat faded at spine though with titles distinct. Just mild shelf soiling to the cream colored jacket surfaces and trace rubbing at corners and tips. Uncommon in dust jacketed examples. VG++/VG
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95.00 USD
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Budd, Lillian Land of Strangers
Philadelphia J. B. Lippincott Company 1953 First Edition Hardcover Very Good- Signed by Author
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 369 pages; Snug and generally neat in original light blue cloth with title-lettering in red to spine. Cloth lightly crimped and rubbed at spine ends. Mild bumping to boards at corners with superficial rub through to cloth at tips. Mild discoloration in the gutters of external joints probably from offset of binder's glue. Text clean and unmarked. Signed by author to front endpaper. VG-; Signed by Author
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35.00 USD
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