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Duet

By: Barolini, Antonio & Helen Barolini

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Vicenza, Neri Pozza Editore: 1966

Seller ID: 42253

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good+

Poesia E Veita #15; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 54 pages; [SIGNED] 1966 Neri Pozza Editore. Paperback in cream paper wraps with pictorial title desing in red and black. Inscribed and signed by both Helen and Antonio Barolini on the front flyleaf, dated 1968. Covers lightly shelf soiled and a little toned. Rubbing and light shelf wear to covers at spine ends and corners. Some pages unopened at the top edge. Uncommon. G++; Signed by All Authors
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Walls of Glass

By: Barretto, Larry

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Company: 1926

Seller ID: 37623

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages; Soundly bound in original dust jacket. Binding slightly shelf cocked in the spine. Jacket lightly shelf rubbed with a small short jagged chip from the bottom edge of the rear panel. Light shelf soiling to jacket surfaces. Light dust soiling/foxing to page block edges. Sound clean copy in original dust jacket. VG/VG-
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Second Flight

By: Bartley, Nalbro

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar and Rinehart: 1932

Seller ID: 35379

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages
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Intimate Journals

By: Baudelaire, Charles; Christopher Isherwood (trans.) & TS Eliot (intro)

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London & New York, Blackamore Press & Random House: 1930

Seller ID: 38625

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

Text in English, [8] leaves of Portraits, Plates. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 126 pages; 1st english language edition. #494 of 650 hand numbered copies of the 1st printing. (copies numbered 401-650 were distributed in the US by Random House) Sound neat copy. Bright blue cloth with very bright gilt titling to spine and gilt blocked fascimile authograph of Baudelaire on cover board. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Retains most of the rare original glassine dust wrapper; only a 2" wide swath missing across the lower edge of the upper board and spine. 2 short strips of old cellophane applie...
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A Queer Kind of Death

By: Baxt, George

Price: $42.50

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1966

Seller ID: 37263

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

1966 Simon Schuster (Inner Sanctum) HC/DJ 1st printing. Baxt's 1st pubclished mystery novel. Bright tight and clean copy; no marks. Dust jacket reatins publisher's $3.95 issue price on unclipped flap. Dj front panel has two short closed tears bottom edge and mild rubbing top edge. Rear panel has a longer "scrunch" tear with a small 1/2" triangular loss at corner and some wrinkling and chipping to the author photo. Book's green paper covered boards mildly shelf rubbed and nicked edges/corners. VG+/VG-; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 249 pages; 1st printing of Baxt's 1st mystery novel...
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The Feast Of Love; A Novel

By: Baxter, Charles

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Pantheon Books: 2000

Seller ID: 29538

ISBN: 0375410198

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 308 pages; Exceptionally bright and fresh copy in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial jacket with publisher's $24 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Bookmark from Bibelot Book Store - where signing took place, is laid in at front. Handsome copy. F/F; Signed by Author
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Longing for Darkness, Kamante's Tales from out of Africa; With Original Photographs (January 1914-July 1931) and Quotations from Isak Dinesen

By: Beard, Peter and Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) & Kamante

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1975

Seller ID: 42848

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

B&W Photographs; color drawings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 264 pages; Oversize HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket lightly sun faded at spine, price clipped from top corner of front flap and with light rubbing and ruffling along the top edge. Short diagonal stress crease across the lower corner of the front jacket flap. Contents bright and clean, illustrated throughout with historical b&w photos and color reproductions of the art work of Kamante. VG++/VG ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shi...
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The Petersburg Campaign. Volume 2: The Western Front Battles, September 1864 April 1865

By: Bearss, Edwin C. & Bryce A. Suderow

Price: $125.00

Publisher: El Doarado Hills, CA, Savas Beatie: 2014

Seller ID: 42827

ISBN: 1611211042

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

B&W Photographs & Maps; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 581 pages; 1st printing. Bright tight and fresh in immaculate dust jacket. Feels and appears unread and as new. No marks. Illustrated throughout with b&w photographs and maps. Uncommon in the HC edition. F/F
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The Petersburg Campaign. Volume 2: The Western Front Battles, September 1864 April 1865

By: Bearss, Edwin C. & Bryce A. Suderow

Price: $135.00

Publisher: El Doarado Hills, CA, Savas Beatie: 2014

Seller ID: 42828

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

My Main Mother.

By: Beckham, Barry

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Walker and Company: 1969

Seller ID: 24767

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 214 pages; HC in original black cloth; titles wearing and fading to spine. Soundly bound. Inscribed by Beckham to poet and critic Sandy Pinsker on the half-title page, and dated 1970. Usual moderate toning to endpages and page stock. Good copy; signed 1st edition; Signed by Author
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The Blind Corral

By: Beer, Ralph

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1986

Seller ID: 25176

ISBN: 0670809373

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 229 pages; 1st edition is tight, bright and fresh in original pictorial dust jacket wih $16.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Just trace shelf rub to jacket at tips. Signed by author to title page. NF/NF; Signed by Author
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The Road to Heaven

By: Beer, Thomas

Price: $49.50

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1928

Seller ID: 22295

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 266 pages; Bright, snug, and very neat in the uncommon original pictorial dust jacket. Light blue cloth boards have a pictorial title design in black and a slate blue. Dust jacket design echoes the p[ictorial cloth. Publisher's $2.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Just superficial sunning to spine panel with a tiny chip missing from jacket at base of spine and a corresponding spot of mild fade to the cloth under the chip. A few small nicks and tiny closed tears at the jacket edges. A two inch closed tear from the flap fold into the front panel is archiva...
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The Survivors

By: Behaine, Rene

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin & Co: 1938

Seller ID: bio000162

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 358 pages; HC/DJ. Original light brown cloth with titles stamped in maroon lettering to spine and cover. Original dust jacket is a little chipped at spine ends and rubbed flap folds with significant sun toning to spine panel. A tight clean copy in a worn dust jacket. NF/G++
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The Suspended Drawing Room

By: Behrman, S. N.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Stein and Day: 1965

Seller ID: 39323

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 253 pages; 1st edition. Inscribed and signed by Behrman on the flyleaf, dated Oct 1965 NYC. Soundly bound in original 1/4 cloth backed spine and brown paper covered boards. Spine just slightly shelf cocked. Dust jacket toning at spine and panel edges with light shelf rubbing to edges and a few short closed tears. VG+/VG-; Signed by Author
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Madeline's Rescue

By: Bemelmans, Ludwig

Price: $22.50

Publisher: New York, Scholastic Book Services: 1967

Seller ID: 17173

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Tj 1101; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 46 pages; 1st paperback printing of this Caldecott Award winning book. Bright, tight and very neat; no marks. Appears and feels unread. Expected light toning to the Scholastic page stock, but otherwise as new. NF
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Madeline's Rescue

By: Bemelmans, Ludwig

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, Derek Verschoyle: 1953

Seller ID: 17996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

4to 11" - 13" tall; 56 pages; Oversize, near folio, HC in original pictorial dust jacket. 1st British edition. Sound clean copy in publisher's red cloth with title lettering in black to spine and black outlined pictorial vignette to cover board. Full color illustrated dust jacket retains the publishers 12s. 6d price to the lower corner of the front flap. Cloth lightly shelf rubbed lower edges and boards just midly splayed at front edge. Some pages lightly thumbed to lower edge; a few have tiny closed nicks/tears in the lower margin. Pictorial lining sheets bright and sound. Dust jacke...
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The Beak of Death.

By: BENNET-THOMPSON, LILIAN & GEORGE HUBBARD

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Chelsea,: 1929

Seller ID: haz.al5063

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 242 pages; 1929 Chelsea House HC 1st edition. Original bright red cloth with gilt titles in decorative type to cover and spine. Spine titles a bit dulled. Binding snug but slightly off square in the binding. Bright clean contents; no marks. VG-
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The Children's Book of Heroes

By: Bennett, William J, Dr. & Hague, Michael (Illustrator)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: NY, Simon & Schuster: 1997

Seller ID: Alibris.0003758

ISBN: 0684834456

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Color Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 110 pages; 1st printing w/ complete 1-10 number line. Signed by Hague on the half-title page with a delicate ink drawing of a colonial style candle and holder. Tight bright and fresh with just trivial storage/handling evidence to DJ edges. F/F-Signed with drawing. ; Signed by Illustrator
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Old London [In 4 Volumes]: Portrait of an English Gentleman (Georgian) ; Janet (Victorian) ; Friend of the Rich (Mid-Victorian) ; the Unwanted (Edwardian)

By: Benson, E. F. & Reginald Birch (Illust)

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton-Century Co.: 1937

Seller ID: 34167

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Georgian; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 4 volumes, boxed. 1st edition, 1st printings. All 4 volumes snugly bound and very neat, feeling generally unread. Original pictorial dust jackets are crisp edged with bright panels but with some just mild sunning/toning to the spines. A bit of shallow superficial nicking to jackets at spine ends. In original pictorial slipcase which is sound but a little toned and with some rubbing and wear at joints. Pictorial jacket and box designs along with pictorial endpages from illustrations by Reginald Birch. Books NF to Fine in VG+ dust jackets and VG- slipcase. .....
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Mapp and Lucia

By: Benson, Edward Frederick

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.: 1931

Seller ID: 42262

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 311 pages; HC 1st edition (American). Soundly bound in light green cloth with pictorial vignette to cover and titles at spine in yellow and dark green. Binding a bit shelf cocked in the spine; cloth at spine sunned and tanned. Cloth crimped at spine ends. A well drawn architectural plan in pencil to the blan verso of the final page. G+
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