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The Pointer and His Predecessors; An Illustrated History of The Pointing Dog From the Earliest Times

By: Arkwright, William.

Price: $600.00

Publisher: London, Arthur L. Humphreys: 1902

Seller ID: 34423

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

; Tissue guarded photogravure plates on vellum; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 236 pages; One of a deluxe limited edition of 750 copies. Snugly bound in 1/4 heavy cram colored linen spine over green cloth boards, with title lettering brightly in gilt to cover and spine. Top edge gilt and other edges untrimmed. Lavishly illustrated with 39 photogravure plates after Rubens, Teniers, Wootton, Stubbs, Oudry, Alken, Shayer, G. & M. Earl, and others; printed on vellum with tissue guards. This copy lacks the limitation page and the front lining sheets have been refreshed. A spot of nicking to the cloth...
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Lepidus the Centurion

By: Arnold, Edwin L. & Frank T. Merrill (Frontis) & Decorative Designers (Binding Art)

Price: $39.00

Publisher: New York, T. Y. Crowell: 1901

Seller ID: 31385

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 305 pages; Soundly bound in a decorative prictorial trade binding from a design by Decorative Designers; terra cotta colored cloth with a pictorial standard of the Roman Republic to the cover. DD monogram at the base of the pictorial design. Cloth rubbed and just slightly frayed at top front corners; light shelf soiling to cloth boards. Snugly bound book is justs a little shelf cocked in the spine. Tissue guarded frontis on glossy stock from a design by Frank Merrill. Speculative novel. VG-
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Rusty's Travels; a Little Dog's Part in a Vacation

By: Arnold, Nason H. and Griswold Tyng (Illust)

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Boston, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard: 1931

Seller ID: 19556

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages; In publisher's dark brown cloth with decorative pictorial title designs to cover and spine in black. Binding art design "signed" with Tyng's monogram on the lower front corner of the board. Snug, clean copy; no marks. Cloth a little crimped at spine ends; a tiny nick to the cloth at crown. Expected mild toning to page stock. Solid and neat. VG+
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Rat Life

By: Arnold, Tedd

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Dial Books: 2007

Seller ID: 37784

ISBN: 0803730209

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages; Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page: "To Nancy -- Enjoy the Show! [signed] 2007" Snugly bound and clean in original wraparound pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $16.99 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Prior owner initials penned neatly to front flyleaf; mild shelf bump to top front corner of the page block. Just mild feel of prior reading. Edgar award winner for Juvenile mystery novel. VG+/VG+; Signed by Author
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Cat's Eye

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday & Company: 1989

Seller ID: 41891

ISBN: 0385260075

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 446 pages; 1st American edition, 1st printing. Signed by Atwood on the half-title page. Soundly bound and clean in clean and neat jacket with publisher's $18.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Superficial crimping to cloth at crown. Jacket has a few trivial instances of bubbling to publisher's laminate. Mild shelf evidence to jacket edges and trace toning to jacket flap fold edges. VG++/VG+; Signed by Author
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Audubon and his Journals; With Zoological And Other Notes By Elliott Coues; In 2 Volumes

By: Audubon, Maria R. & Elliott Coues (Notes)

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1897

Seller ID: 32267

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1086 pages; HC 2 volumes. 1st edition. 532 & 554, [2], 9 plates. Uniformly bound in dark green cloth with gilt title lettering to spine and gilt seals to cover boards. Soundly bound and clean; top edges gilt and other edges untrimmed. Prior owner's period bookplates mounted to front pastedowns of both volumes. Gilt at spine just slightly dulled; cloth at crowns a little rubbed with some trace fray. Mild damp line to lower spine corner of the first and last few leaves of the second volume. Endpages joints a little tender. Illustrated with numerous plates on glo...
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Mansfield Park Everyman's Library [Printed by Richard Clay & Sons, 1906]

By: Austen, Jane and R. Brimley Johnson (Intro)

Price: $60.00

Publisher: London & New York, J. M. Dent & Company; E. P. Dutton: 1906

Seller ID: 32334

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 494 pages; Everyman's Library. April 1906 printing, 2 months after the intial Everyman imprint of this title. Printer's notice for Richard Clay & Sons at front and rear. Soundly bound in original trade binding of red cloth with decoratively gilt panelled spine. Prior owner name and 1910 purchase date penned to pictorial front pastedown. Mild crimping and trace rubbing to cloth at spine ends. Mild sunning to cloth at spine. Nicer than usually seen example from the first years of the Everyman series. 2nd printing of the Everyman edition. [Seymour p 79] VG- to VG
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In the Country of Last Things

By: Auster, Paul

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1987

Seller ID: 28371

ISBN: 0670814458

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 188 pages; Tight and neat in clean crisp-edged dust jacket. Just a touch of shelf/handling evidence to jacket at edges. Usual and expected superficial toning to jacket flaps at edges. Fresh unmarked copy. NF/NF
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Changing Pilots

By: Ayres, Ruby M. & Harry Timmins (Jacket Art)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.: 1932

Seller ID: 35387

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 306 pages; Soundly bound in original color pictorial dust jacket with handsome jacket art by Harry Timmins and publisher's $2.00 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Dust jacket lightly rubbed at edges with a vertical stress crease to the spine from having been removed and placed as a bookmark while reading. Light shelf soiling to cloth boards; binding a little shaken in the spine with slight shelf cock. Solid and attractive, uncommon in dust jacket. VG-/VG-
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Dead Drunk

By: Bagby, George

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York, Doubleday & Co. ; Crime Club: 1953

Seller ID: 42232

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages; 1st printing. Snugly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket sunned and a little faed at spine; just mild sheld evidence to edges. Price clipped top corner, front flap. General light tonng to lower grade paper page stock. VG/VG
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The Empress of Mars [Advanced Uncorrected Proof]

By: Baker, Kage

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Burton, MI, Subterranean Press: 2008

Seller ID: 26628

ISBN: 1596062142

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 300 pages; Advanced Uncorrected Proof. Trade paperback in glossy title lettered covers. Pre-publication, advance proof for the Subterranean Press 1st edition. Tight, bright and fresh. Feels and appears unread. Just a mild curl to the cover at the front edge and trace storage evidence to cover edges. VG++ to NF
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Skyscraper

By: Baldwin, Faith

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, N. Y., Cosmopolitan: 1931

Seller ID: Alibris.0004723

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: Very Good-

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages; Original yellow cloth w/ cover profile illustration of skyline in blue and titles in relief along lower edge. Spine boldly titled in matching blue. Spine a bit cocked but soundly bound. Cloth lightly shelf-soiled and cloth a bit rubbed at tips and spine ends. Tiny closed ege tear to cloth tail of spine. Solid somewhat worn copy of this uncommon Baldwin tale, the basis for the MGM film, Skyscraper Souls. VG-
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Death of a Low Handicap Man

By: Ball, Brian

Price: $14.50

Publisher: New York, Walker & Company: 1978

Seller ID: 28727

ISBN: 0802754031

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

1974 Walker & Co HC/DJ 1st printing. Square, sound and very neat. Short neat gift insc ins cvr. Dustjakcet very bright and fresh, price clipped ins flap.NF-/NF; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages; Square, sound and very neat. Short neat gift inscription to front endpage. Dustjakcet very bright and fresh, price clipped from top corner of front flap. NF/VG++
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About Catherine de Medici Everyman's Library [1910]

By: Balzac. Honore De & Clara Bell (Trans) & George Saintsbury (Intro)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London & New York, J. M. Dent & Company; E. P. Dutton: 1910

Seller ID: 32363

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 350 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. Trace crimping and 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 53.0] VG
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THE ENCHANTED TYPE-WRITER

By: Bangs, John Kendrick and Peter Newell, Illustrator

Price: $95.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1899

Seller ID: 13397

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 180 pages; [SIGNED] 1899 Harper & Brothers. HC. Publisher's limited edition of 500 copies: "Author's Autograph Edition." Author signed limitation bookplate - numbered 337 of 500 - mounted to the front pastedown. Bookplate is done in a striking Arts & Crafts design. Decorative pictorial binding with a Newell designed 4 color pictorial panel to the cover board. Title lettering in gilt to cover and spine. Illustration and gilt are bright. Mild soling to cloth and moderate darkening to spine; mild streaks of smoke staining to rear board and top edge. Contents ...
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Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

By: Bangs, Lester

Price: $55.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1987

Seller ID: 41586

ISBN: 039453896X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 386 pages; 1st printing. Snugly bound and clean in original dust jacket with $19.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket is crsip edged but moderately sunned at spine. Bottom front corner of the cover board is shelf bumped with stress rippling to the paper over the corner tip but no rupture or tear. Contents bright and clean; no marks. VG/VG-
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Janus

By: Barker, George

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1935

Seller ID: Alibris.0000733

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 301 pages; 1935 Faber & Faber HC/DJ 1st edition. Square, tight and neat. Prior owner name neatly on front end pg. Dustjacket bright, unclipped and undamaged with original 7s. 6d. Price on front flap. Mild sun fading to the turquoise paper on spine edge; titles bright. Mild tanning DJ edges. Foxing to untrimmed fore edge and less so on the endpgs. Still, a very nicely preserved copy, very likely unread. VG+/VG+
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Creatures in an Alphabet

By: Barnes, Djuna

Price: $23.95

Publisher: New York, Dial Press: 1982

Seller ID: 17001

ISBN: 0385277970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

B&W Illustrations; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 64 pages; Bright, tight and fresh copy feels unread. In original pictorial dust jacket which is crisp at the edges and retains the $10.95 issue price to the unclipped front flap, but which has mild toning to the spine panel and top edge. Light offset purple tone to the very front edge of the rear panel. Remainder speckle bottom edge. NF/VG++
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Mr. Untouchable; The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Heroin's Teflon Don

By: Barnes, Leroy & Tom Folsom

Price: $39.50

Publisher: New York, Rugged Land: 2007

Seller ID: 43021

ISBN: 159071041X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 308 pages; 1st printing. Snugly bound and very neat in crisp edged and unfiformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Just a whisper of shelf evidence to jacket edges. NF/NF
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The Blue Four; Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky and Klee in the New World

By: Barnett, Ms. Vivian Endicott & Josef Helfenstein

Price: $39.00

Publisher: New Haven, Dumont & Yale University Press: 1997

Seller ID: 42501

ISBN: 0300075995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Color reproductions & B/W historical photos; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 366 pages; Oversize HC. DJ. 1sr edition. Very tightly bound and excpetionally fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Feels and appears as new. Lavishly illustrated with color reproductions and b&w photos. As new. F/F. ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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Category: Modern 1st editions