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Murder in the Dark

By: Atwood, Margaret

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, Coach House Press: 1983

Seller ID: 17002

ISBN: 0889102589

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 62 pages; Paperback in glossy illustrated covers. Bright, tight and fresh. Feels and appears unread. Signed by Atwood on the title page. Fine; Signed by Author
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New Year Letter

By: Auden, W. H

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1965

Seller ID: 41309

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 188 pages; 2nd edition. Snugly bound and very neat in uniformly bright dust jacket with 18s issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Just superficial shelf rubbing to boards and jacket at tips. VG++/VG++ or better
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A Certain World, A Commonplace Book

By: Auden, W. H.

Price: $32.50

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1970

Seller ID: 37639

ISBN: 0670209945

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 438 pages; Soundly bound copy in original title lettered dust jacket. Binding slightly shelf cocked in the spine and a little shaken. Dust jacket rubbed and worn at edges with light shelf soiling to surfaces. Front flap price clipped top corner. Publisher's top stain fading. Prior ownership of literary modernism scholar, Bruce Kellner, with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Moderate foxing to front edge. G+/G+
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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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Follow a Shadow

By: Ayres, Ruby M.

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.: 1937

Seller ID: io0215

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 269 pages; 1937 Doubleday Doran HC . 1st edition. Original blue cloth with titles and spine vignette/illustration in darker blue. Square sound and clean; no marks. Just very mild toning to spine; endpages mildly toned. All else very neat. Lacks DJ - else VG
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Racine

By: Bailly, Auguste

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Paris, Librairie Artheme Fayard: 1949

Seller ID: 11750

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

L'Homme At Son Oeuvre; French Edition; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 392 pages; 1949 Librairie Artheme Fayard . In original printed wraps. Solid copy; no marks. Appears unread. Expected uniform toning to page stock. Prior owner bookplate detached inside rear with light glue residue remaining. Publisher issued onion skin dust jacket just lightly rubbed edges. Significant toning to page stock but generally found in all copies. Thus VG/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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Staring At the Sun

By: Barnes, Julian

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape: 1986

Seller ID: 39706

ISBN: 0224024140

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 195 pages; 1st printing. Snugly bound and very neat in original color pictorial dust jacket with publisher's £9.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Just superficial shelf evidence to jacket surfaces. Prior owner's small note to front flyleaf, in very neat manuscript - "Cambridge September 86" VG++/VG++
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Within This Present,

By: Barnes, Margaret Ayer

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1933

Seller ID: 39982

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 611 pages; 6th printing. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. On the verso of the title page the author has inscribed an appreciation and signed with August 1934 date. Notably this page appears to have been excised, and judging by the folds, sent through the mails. Perhaps the book's owner mailed the page to the author for the signature? The page is reattached to the stub from which it was apparently removed. Dust jacket worn with rubbing at edges and several small chips and short tears. Flap folds loose with a mild accordion fold to the front e...
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As the Light Led

By: Baskett, James Newton

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, The MacMillan Company: 1900

Seller ID: 21700

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 392 pages; Snugly bound in publisher's heavy blue cloth, ornately embellished with pictorial vine and berry designs in gilt and green to cover and spine. Top edge gilt; other edges untrimmed. Just very mild shelf evidence to boards at edges. Mild foxing to the untrimmed page bolock edges. Armorial bookplate with Fowler name and "Watch and Pray" motto is mounted to the front pastedown. VG copy
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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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English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700 : Volume 4

By: Beal, Peter & Jeremy Griffiths (Eds. )

Price: $65.00

Publisher: London & Toronto, University of Toronto Press & the British Library: 1993

Seller ID: 39171

ISBN: 0802005713

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

facsimile manuscript; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 310 pages; Volume 4 in the series of English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700. Snugly bound and generally quite neat in original pictorial title lettered dust jacket. Light dust spotting / foxing top and front edge of page block. Text clean and unmarked. VG/VG
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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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Till I Come Back to You; A Novel

By: Bell, Thomas

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Editions for the Armed Services: 1943

Seller ID: 17692

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

Armed Services Editions #1020; Oblong 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 192 pages; Oblong format paperback in pictorial covers. Published for the reading enjoyment of soldiers and military persons during WWII. The complete work, unabridged. Square and sound; no marks. Just trace storage rub to edges and expected mild toning to war time page stock. VG++
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Cressage

By: Benson, A. C.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1927

Seller ID: 28818

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages; HC in original ribbed, dark teal colored cloth with title lettering brightly in gilt to the spine. Snugly bound and neat. Trace rub to cloth at corners and just mild crimping at spine ends. A pair of superficial gaps between signatures mid-book. Solid and bright, unmarked copy. VG or better
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Spook Stories

By: Benson, E. F.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Leipzig, Bernhard Tauchnitz: 1930

Seller ID: 17194

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good-

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 288 pages; Small format paperback in printed wraps. Very early edition from the highly regarded publishing house of Bernhard Tauchnitz. Square and sound with light to moderate age fox spotting to cream colored paper cover and much less so to page block edges. Tiny sticker scar front cover. A well preserved and very early copy. VG-
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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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