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The Author's Portrait -- O, could he but have drawn his Wit: Exhibition Catalog

By: Hare, Tom

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Princeton, Princeton University Library: 2010

Seller ID: 31508

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Color reproductions; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 109 pages; Oversize paperback in stiff, color illuistrated covers. Bright, tight and fresh. Unread copy feels and appears as new. Illustrated with offset lithograph reproductions of portraits from the Princeton hosted exhibition. Event invitation card laid in. Fine copy
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Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions - (Volume 1)

By: Harris, Frank

Price: $69.50

Publisher: New York, Printed and Published By the Author: 1918

Seller ID: 38503

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 320 pages; Printed and Published By the Author. Volume I only. Assumed 2nd printing after the 1916 original. Signed by Harris on the front flyleaf. Soundly bound in original thatch patterned green cloth with titles brightly in gilt to cover and spine. Trace sunning to cloth at spine; mild crimping and rubbing to cloth at spine ends. A few superficial spots of shelf soiling to cloth sides and trace toning to endpages. Illustrated with b&w photos on glossy stock. VG-
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Portrait of Hemingway

By: Hemingway, Ernest) Ross, Lillian

Price: $19.50

Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 1961

Seller ID: 42552

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

frontis portrait; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 65 pages; HC/DJ. 1st edition in book form; 1st printing stated. Tightly bound in original yellow 1/4 cloth and brown paper covered boards. Dust jacket is bright and crisp edged with $2.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Light sunning/toning to jacket spine panel. F/VG+
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Herman Melville, a Biography

By: Howard, Leon

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1951

Seller ID: 40210

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 354 pages; 1st edition. Soundly bound in original patterned pictorial dust jacket with title lettering in black. A few scattered pages (perhaps 12 - 15 or so) with a cursory pencil or red pencil bracket ort word of marginalia. Dust jacket lightly rubbed at edges with modest wrinkle to spine panel and a few tiny nicks at edges. Expected mild toning to page stock. VG-/VG-
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On the Margin; Notes and Essays

By: Huxley, Aldous

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company: 1923

Seller ID: 35830

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 218 pages; Soundly bound and clean in original title lettered dust jacket. Bound in blue cloth with printed paper title label to spine. Cream colored dust jacket has moderate/light general shelf soiling to covers. Light shelf rubbing to jacket at edges with a few small nicks and closed tears. Small square shaped piece of the jacket had chipped from the tail of spine but has been replaced with a small piece of archival mending paper to the blank reverse surface of the jacket. Text bright and clean; no marks. VG+/VG-
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G. A. Henty, 1832-1902 : Some Biographical Essays

By: King, Ann J. & Peter New Bolt (Afterword)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: England, The Henty Society: 2015

Seller ID: 39327

ISBN: 0951955063

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

Color Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 735 pages; Tightly bound and bright in crisp edged and uniformly bright dust jacket. Just superficial prior browsing evidence with trace handling soil to edges and a whisper of shelf evidence to jacket edges. VG++/VG++ ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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Waking the Bones

By: Kirschner, Elizabeth

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Portsmouth NH, Piscataqua Press: 2015

Seller ID: 33860

ISBN: 1939739608

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 204 pages; Trade sized paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Signed by the author on the title page along with a signed inscription below the dated signature. Bright fresh copy with just mild shelf evidence to cover edges; prior owner name stamp inside front cover. VG++
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Letters of the Wordsworth Family; From 1787 to 1855.

By: Knight, William (Ed. )

Price: $39.50

Publisher: Boston & London, Ginn and Co.: 1907

Seller ID: 18402

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

3 Vols. , Complete; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 3 vol set in publisher's burgundy red cloth with title lettering in gilt to spine. Snug copies with bright titling to spine. Prior ownership of the Carnegie Library of Andrews, NC. 3 digit number painted in white to base of spines. Card pocket removal scars to rear endpages; a few mild library ink stamps to prelims. A penned three digit number to the middle of each title page. Some pages unopened; a few opened unevenly. Spines appear to be varnished. Contents clean and pages supple. Solid reading/reference copy. G++ to Vg-
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Down the Rabbit Hole; Adventures & Misadventures in the Realm of Children's Literature

By: Lanes, Selma G. & Maurice Sendak (Jacket Design)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Atheneum: 1971

Seller ID: 42553

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 239 pages; 1st printing. Tightly bound and very neat in original color pictorial dust jacket from a design by Maurice Sendak. Feels and appears unread. Jacket with a shallow price clip to the front flap and with mild toning to the spine panel. NF/VG+
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The Story of Wonder Man

By: Lardner, Ring & Margaret Freeman (Illust. )

Price: $29.50

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1927

Seller ID: 35220

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Poor dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 151 pages; HC with portions only of the original dust jacket. Soundly bound in origianl green cloth with titles in gilt to spine. Light shelf bump to lower front corner of the cover board. This copy retains the rear panel and flap of the dust jacket and the lower 1/3 of the spine. Front flap, publisher priced $1.75 is laid in at front. Rear jacket panel toned with light chipping at edges and a pair of short cello tape repairs. Some pages opened a little roughly at the front edge. Expected light toning to page stock. VG-/Poor
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Ducatiana ou Remarques de Feu M. Le Duchat, Sur Divers Sujets D'Histoire Et De Litterature. [Ex-Libris Emmanuel Viollet Le Duc]

By: Le Duchat (Jacob) & [Jean-Henri-Samuel Formey]

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Pierre Humbert: 1738

Seller ID: 40771

Condition: Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 545 pages; 2 volumes, in 1. Paged continuously, with separate title pages and copperplate frontis facing both title pages. Prior ownership plate of Viollet Le Duc (Emmanuel) to front marbled paper pastedown; later ownership bookplate of Shakespearean scholar H. B. Charlton. Speckled calf binding with extra gilt to spine. Leather splitting in the joints with boards tenuous but holding. Leather at spine browning and a little crazed with dulling to gilt and some shallow chipping at ends. Text block snug and clean. At rear is appended an extensive 41 page alphabetized ca...
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Selected Letters, Vol. 5

By: Lovecraft, H. P. & August Derleth & James Turner

Price: $49.00

Publisher: Sauk City, WI, Arkham House Publishers: 1976

Seller ID: 28024

ISBN: 087054036X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 436 pages; Soundly bound and neat in glossy illustrated dust jacket with $12.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Just very mild shelf/handling wear to jacket at edges. Superficial toning to jacket surfaces. $12.50 not clipped from front flap. Solid and neat. NF/VG++
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Three Young Men in a Pool; with Her Biographies of the Subjects

By: Luhan, Mabel Dodge

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Lancaster, PA, All Kinds Blintzes Press: 2003

Seller ID: 32681

Binding: Wraps

Condition: New

Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 15 pages; Limited edition of 26 copies hand-sewn into Thai Goldgrill Block wrappers and hand lettered A through Z. This copy lettered T. Includes 4 photographic portraits printed on glossy stock. 40% of the proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Beinecke Library, Yale University.
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The Letters of Katherine Mansfield [2 Volumes, Complete]

By: Mansfield, Katherine) & John Middleton Murray (editor)

Price: $39.50

Publisher: London, Constable & Company Ltd.: 1928

Seller ID: 42484

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

12mo 7" - 7" tall; 591 pages; 2 volumes, complete. 1st edition. Handsome example; tightly bound and fresh in thatch patterned sea green cloth with titles and rules in purple to covers and spines. Just a whisper pf shelf evidence to cloth at edges. Trace toning to endsheets. A very well preserved set. 319; 272 pp. B7W frontis to each volume. VG++ or better
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With Shelley in Italy [Large Paper Edition]; Being a Selection of the Poems and Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley Which Have to Do with His Life in Italy from 1818 to 1822

By: McMahan, Anna Beneson (Ed. ) & Percy Blysse Shelley

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Chicago:, A. C. McClurg & Co.: 1905

Seller ID: 40720

Binding: 1/2 leather

Condition: Very Good

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 293 pages; Limited edition of 100 copies printed of the Large Paper Edition. Royal 8vo in 1/2 polished blue calf and marbled paper boards. Top edge gilt; front edge untrimmed. Illustrated with over 60 photo pictorial plates. Printed on laid paper. Snugly bound and clean; light shelf rubbing to bottom edge of boards and milder rubbing to extremities. Prior owner name penned to verso of front marble endpage. Light general toning to laid paper stock. VG ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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The Worlds of Truman Capote

By: Nance, William L

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Stein and Day: 1970

Seller ID: 42555

ISBN: 0812813022

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages; 1st edition. Tightly bound and fresh in original pictorial dust jacket. Feels and appears unread. Dust jacket lightly sunned and fading to spine and top edge of cover panel. NF/VG-
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The Literary Remains of the Late Henry Neele Consisting of Lectures on English Poetry, Tales, and Other Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse

By: Neele, Henry

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Printed By J. & J. Harper, Sold By Collins and Hannay; Philadelphia, Carey, Lea,: 1829

Seller ID: 28504

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good-

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 341 pages; 1st American edition. Bound in period treed calf with red morocco title label to spine. Binding sound but boards a little tenuous in the joints. Light shelf rub to leather over spine surface and to board edges. Appears to be missing a blank at front and rear, though there remain single blanks. Frontis portrait from lithograph is tissue guarded. Ownership bookplate of a college literary society with notes penned in the plate margins. Remnant of a small paper label at spine. Top edge of the lower board shelf bumped with mild damage to the board. Sound and ...
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Charles G. Norris, a Biographical Sketch

By: Norris, Kathleen

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton: 1926

Seller ID: 34413

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 12 pages; [No date given] 1926 E. P. Dutton. Slim paperback of 12 pages published and distributed by Dutton in anticipation of their publicatin of the Norris novel, PIG IRON. Brown card stock wraps with saddle stapled binding and printed paper title label to cover. Solid clean copy with trace rust to the binding staples. Uncommon. VG
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Robert Frost, A Life

By: Parini, Jay

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Co.: 1999

Seller ID: 42578

ISBN: 0805031812

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 514 pages; Stout HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Tightly bound and fresh in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $35 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Illustrated with b&w photos. About as new. NF/NF
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A Spoilt Boy; A Memoir of a Childhood

By: Raphael, Frederic

Price: $12.95

Publisher: London, Orion Books: 2003

Seller ID: 34515

ISBN: 0752855840

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages; 1st printing. Snugly bound and very neat in crisp edged dust jacket. Feels and appears unread and about as new. NF/NF
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Category: Belle Lettres