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A Heroine of the Wilderness; The Story of Lincoln's Mother

By: Butterworth, Hezekiah & Clare Victor Dwiggins, (Illust. ) Company.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Co.: 1906

Seller ID: 38656

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Color frontis; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 273 pages; HC tightly bound in publisher's highly decorative pictorial color illustrated brown cloth. Pictorial designs to cover and spine in green, red, yellow and black with gilt title panel to spine. Very handsome copy, quite snugly bound and fresh; just trace shelf wear to cloth at spine ends. Illustrated with a color frontis on glossy stock from a painting by Dwiggins. A touch of superficial soiling to the bottom edge of the title and frontis pages. Exceptionally nice copy. NF
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Mazeppa,

By: Byron, Lord [George Gordon].

Price: $275.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1819

Seller ID: 28505

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 72 pages; 1st edition, 2nd issue - with imprint moved from [70] to verso of p. 71. Retains half-title page. Bound in later cloth backed, paper covered boards with paper title label to the thin spine. Without the original wraps and the 8 page inserted Murray catalog. Small horizontal abrasion to the upper board; presumably a paper title label had been mounted to the center. Board edges lightly rubbed at edges, maroon quarter cloth rubbed and a little thin at spine ends. Small chip missing from the top edge of the half-title. Contents bright and clean; complete save fo...
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The Giaour, A Fragment of a Turkish Tale

By: Byron, Lord [George Gordon].

Price: $265.00

Publisher: London, John Murray; Printed by T. Davison: 1813

Seller ID: 28949

Binding: 1/4 leather

Condition: Very Good-

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 41 pages; 1st edition, 2nd issue. Recased in modern 1/4 brown polished calf and brown cloth boards. 2nd issue, the trade printing, with Byron's name on title page but without watermark in the paper of the text block. Lacking half-title page. Contents clean and generally bright, though with a very mild and faint damp line in the lower spine corner of the title and dedication leaves and with trace rippling to the same portion of the book's pages. A well done rebinding if somewhat utitlitarian. Trace rub to cloth at corner tips. Davison imprint between double rules on t...
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English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; A Satire [First American Edition]

By: Byron, Lord [George Gordon].

Price: $295.00

Publisher: Philadelphia & Charleston, Brannan and Morford; E. Morford, Willington, and Co.: 1811

Seller ID: 29399

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 86 pages; 1811 Brannan and Morford, Philadelphia and E. Morford, Willington, and Co. , Charleston. 1st US edition, from the 3rd London edition. Bound in original letterpress printed, paper covered boards. An early 20th century spine rebacking of buff paper with new endsheets laid down. Complete with original half-title. [2], viii, 86, [bl] pp. Publisher's printed paper over boards show some light soiling and toning to upper cover with shallow chipping to paper at front corners and abrasion at edges; lower board comprising a catalog ad for recent titles by E. Morford ...
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth

By: Byron, Lord [George Gordon].

Price: $285.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 1818

Seller ID: 39923

Binding: 1/2 leather

Condition: Very Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 257 pages; 1st edition, 2nd issue. Rebound in 1/2 morocco with marbled paper covered boards and matchng marbled paper endpages. Red leather title labels to spine. [i-iii], iv-xiv, [2], (1-2) , 3-257, [3] pp. Single leaf, 2 pages of ads at rear. Snugly bound; edges untrimmed. 6 lines on errata leaf. Endpages refreshed. Contents complete and bright. Very attractive copy. VG+ thus
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Jurgen, a Comedy of Justice

By: Cabell, James Branch

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, Robert McBride: 1919

Seller ID: 12510

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 368 pages; 1919 Robert McBride. HC. 1st edition, 2nd issue. Original marron cloth with a thatched weave; titles brightly in gilt to cover and spine. 1st edition of 1919 but the 2nd issue with the broken line in the tuling on page 144 and the depth of the book 1 3/4 inches. Still a very well preserved example with only superficial shelf evidence at tips. Binding snug and contents quite neat. Prior owner has stamped his surname with a very small inkstamp in the gutter of the dedication page. VG+
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Cezanne

By: Cachin, Francoise & Isabelle Cahn & Walter Feilchenfeldt

Price: $49.50

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams: 1996

Seller ID: 42485

ISBN: 0810940396

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Color reproduction and b/w photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 600 pages; Stout oversize HC/DJ. A massive monograph published on the occasion of the exhibition of Cezanne's work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Superb copy feels and appears unread. Tightly bound and exceptionally fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Tickets to the Philadelphia exhibit and a book prespectus for the Rewald Catalogue Raisonne of Cezanne's work are laid in at front. An exceptional copy. F/F ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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Vivian Maier; out of the Shadows

By: Cahan, Richard & Michael Williams; Vivian Maier

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Chicago, Cityfiles Press: 2012

Seller ID: 41854

ISBN: 0978545095

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 288 pages; 1st printing. Tightly bound square format HC/DJ in bright, fresh and crisp edged b&w photo pictorial dust jacket. No marks of any kind. Just a whisper of shelf evidence to jacket. Feels and appears about as new. Handsomely printed b&w photographs testify to the superb talent of this wonderful photographer, whose work was unknown during her lifetime. F/NF. ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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Hurricane Years

By: Cameron, Hawley

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Boston, Little Brown & Co: 1968

Seller ID: 13016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; [SIGNED] 1968 Little Brown HC/DJ 1st edition. Warmly inscribed by Hawley to author and fellow prominent Lancaster PA figure, Samuel Slaymaker. Solid clean copy in a clean neat dust jacket with just mild rub at spine ends and edges. VG+/VG; Signed by Author
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Mothers, Tell Your Daughters Stories

By: Campbell, Bonnie Jo

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company: 2015

Seller ID: 33116

ISBN: 0393248453

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages; 1st printing. New copy from publisher's sales representative stock. New in dust jacket
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The Dogs Bark; Public People and Private Places

By: Capote, Truman

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1973

Seller ID: 42540

ISBN: 0394487516

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 419 pages; 1st printing. Snugly bound and neat in original title lettered dust jacket. Gift inscription penned neatly to blank front endpage; trace sunnning to top edge stain and cloth at top edge of boards. Jacket price clipped front flap but otherwise crisp edged and neat. VG++/VG++
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Gaston Lachaise; Portrait Sculpture

By: Carr, Carolyn Kinder & Margaret C.S. Christman & Alan Fern & Gaston Lachaise

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington, DC, National Portrait Gallery: 1985

Seller ID: 21435

ISBN: 0874743052

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

B&W Photographs; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 170 pages; Large-format paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Bright, snug and clean; no marks. Mildly reader-creased spine. Illustrated with B&W photographs. VG++ ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; through the Looking Glass and the Hunting of the Snark

By: Carroll, Lewis & John Tenniel (Illus. ) & Alexander Woollcott (Intro)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1926

Seller ID: 42342

Binding: Flexible cloth

Condition: Fair

Modern Library 79.1; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7" tall; 351 pages; Circa 1925/26 Modern Library. Flexible brown leatherette. Binding style 4 with Bernhard running man on cover and Bernhard illustrated endpages. Cloth rubbed at edges with shallow chipping yo spine ends. Moderate vertical creasing to spine edge and rear board. General toning to endpages and light toning to page stock. With Tenniel illustrations including the long-neck Alice on page 35. Prior owner name top edge of front endpage. Some scattered pencil underlining and occasional notation in the Wonderland but not the other tit...
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An Inner Silence; The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson

By: Cartier-Bresson, Henri & Agnes Sire & Jean-Luc Nancy

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Thames & Hudson: 2006

Seller ID: 41794

ISBN: 0500543178

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

B&W Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 160 pages; 1st edition. Tightly bound and very neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket. Just trace shelf evidence to jacket extremities. Nearly as new. NF/NF. ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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The Secret of 37 Hardy Street

By: Casey, Robert J

Price: $90.00

Publisher: New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1929

Seller ID: 38717

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 322 pages; 1st edition. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket. Soundly bound in tahtched purple cloth with title panels in gilt to cover and with title lettering in gilt to spine. In scarce original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $2 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket moderately sunned at spine; with light general toning to surfaces and considerable rubbing and wear at edges. Shallow nicks and chipping along jacket edges and spine ends; scrunching and closed tears to jacket top front corner. See photos for jacket condition. Hardy's 1s...
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Stickley Style; Arts and Crafts Homes in the Craftsman Tradition

By: Cathers, David & Alexander Vertikoff

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1999

Seller ID: 42524

ISBN: 0684856034

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Color Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 224 pages; Oversize HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Tightly bound and exceptionally neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket wit publisher's $40 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Lavishly illustrated with color photos. Handsome copy is about as new. F/NF ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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The Pussios and the Purr

By: Cautley, Helen and Bonham, Mary E. , (Illustrator)

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Ny: London: Montreal, Louis Carrier: 1929

Seller ID: Alibris.0004687

Binding: Hard cover

Condition: Good+

B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 80 pages; Louis Carrier & Co Medium large HC (4to) with large color title panel on paper mounted to cover board. Original blue cloth; spine unlettered, as issued. 1st edition. Square sound copy; gift inscription neatly penned to front illustrated end page. Cloth rubbed and just a little frayed at corners and spine end. Cover title illustration generally bright and clean with a small "half-dime" sized abrasion and a bit of shelf soiling apparent in the whites. A few pages with mild thumb soiling at fore margins and one page opened a bit ro...
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You Remind Me of Me

By: Chaon, Dan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Ballantine Books: 2004

Seller ID: 24690

ISBN: 0345441419

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 356 pages; Paperback is tight, bright and fresh in glossy pictorial covers. Just a hint of wear to exteriors. Appears and feels unread; about as new. An uncorrected proof/ advance reader's edition. VG++
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The Horse-Stealers, and Other Stories

By: Chekhov, Anton and Constance Garnett (Trans. )

Price: $185.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Co.: 1921

Seller ID: 26024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages; Very handsome copy is bright, snug and very neat in original dark green cloth with title lettering very brightly in gilt to spine and in blind to upper board. Just trace shelf rub to cloth at tips. Mounted to the front pastedown is the attractive pictorial bookplate of book collector, Redmond Conyngham, designed and engraved by noted historian of American printmaking, David McNeely Stauffer. A few pages opened a little roughly at front edge with a few more remaining unopened. An exceptionally nice copy. NF
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The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories

By: Chekhov, Anton and Constance Garnett (Trans. )

Price: $165.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1922

Seller ID: 26025

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 308 pages; Very handsome copy is bright, snug and very neat in original dark green cloth with title lettering very brightly in gilt to spine and in blind to upper board. Just trace shelf rub to cloth at tips. Mounted to the front pastedown is the attractive pictorial bookplate of book collector, Redmond Conyngham, designed and engraved by noted historian of American printmaking, David McNeely Stauffer. An exceptionally nice copy. NF
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Category: Modern 1st editions