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A Catalogue of Papers Relating to Boswell, Johnson & Sir William Forbes Found at Fettercairn House

By: Abbott, Claude Colleer

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press: 1936

Seller ID: 31600

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 257 pages; HC in original black cloth with paper title labnel to spine. 1st edition, limited to 500 copies. Snugly bound copy; many pages unopened top edge. Ex-library copy with call label to spine, mild ownership attachements including book plate, card pocket and lable to endpages. G+
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Eugene O'neill's Creative Struggle; The Decisive Decade, 1924-1933

By: Alexander, Doris

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Penn State University Press: 2008

Seller ID: 29925

ISBN: 0271027967

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 348 pages; New copy
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Emeric Cruce

By: Balch, Thomas Willing

Price: $69.50

Publisher: Philadelphia, PA, Allen, Lane and Scott: 1900

Seller ID: 13460

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 69 pages; [SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY] Publisher's original textured red cloth, lettered in gilt to cover and spine. Just mild shelf rub to cloth at spine ends and tips. Inconspicuous evidence of a bookplate removed from rear pastedown, of the same size as that at front. Inscribed by Balch to Samuel Dickson, who assisted in the book's preparation. Dickson's engraved, foxhunting themed bookplate mounted to front pastedown. T. W. Balch (1866-1927) practiced law in Philadelphia, devoting much of his time to writing and research in genealogy ans international arbitration. F...
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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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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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Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection. Vol. 2, The Letters [Presentation Copy]

By: Brodsky, Louis Daniel And Robert W. Hamblin

Price: $49.00

Publisher: Jackson, MI, University Press of Mississippi: 1984

Seller ID: 28835

ISBN: 0878051899

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Signed presentation copy x2(1984) As new in as new dj. Inscribed by Brodsky to Georgia Review editor Stanley Lindberg, who has in turn inscribed it (1989) to poet and GR contributor, Sanford Pinsker.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 508 pages; [SIGNED presentation copy x2] 1984 University Press of Mississippi. HC/DJ 1st edition. Inscribed by Brodsky (1984) to Georgia Review editor Stanley Lindberg, who has in turn inscribed it (1989) to poet and GR contributor, Sanford Pinsker. Snugly bound and very neat in crisp edged pictorial dust jacket with a whisper of sunning to spine panel. NF/VG++; Signed ...
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Special Delivery; A Packet of Replies

By: Cabell, James Branch

Price: $29.50

Publisher: New York, Robert M. McBride: 1933

Seller ID: 37620

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 269 pages; 2nd printing (before publication). Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $2.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket has a thin swath missing from the bottom edge of the front panel and a dime sized chip missing front the lower front corner. Shallow chip missing from the crown of the jacket spine panel. Binding snug and contents clean with no marks. VG+/VG-
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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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Do Not Disturb

By: Case, Frank & O. Soglow (Illust. )

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Garden City, N. Y., Garden City Publishing, Star Books: 1943

Seller ID: 32398

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 326 pages; Early printing. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Reissue from the 1940 Stokes edition. Dust jacket lightly rubbed at edges with some shallow nicks and tiny chips to spine ends. Just mild fading to spine panel; a mild stray pencil doodle to the front panel. An attractive and neat copy in dust jacket. VG+/VG
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The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse

By: Charteris, Evan; Edmund Gosse

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1931

Seller ID: 29360

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 524 pages; Sound decent copy with cloth at spine well toned and darkened but with title lettering legible. Hinges tender in the endpaper joints with evidence of a prior owner's glue mending to partiall split endpage at front. Endpages holding tenuously at rear. Text block sound and unmarked; mild evidence of a bookplate removed from front pastedown. Reading or reference copy is near Good
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William Gifford, Tory Satirist, Critic and Editor,

By: Clark, Roy Benjamin

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Russell & Russell: 1967

Seller ID: 0919W259595

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 294 pages; 1967 Russell & Russell HC in blue cloth binding. Square snug copy; deaccesioned from an academic college library with call lable base of spine, bookplate front pastedown and mild card pocket removal scar rear pastedown. Solid clean copuy appears perhaps never checked out or read. VG-
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Lewis Carroll and His Illustrators; Collaborations and Correspondence, 1865–1898

By: Cohen, Morton N. & Edward Wakeling

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Ithaca, Cornell University Press: 2003

Seller ID: 38518

ISBN: 080144148X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

B&W figures; photos and facsimile; Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 392 pages; Square format HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and clean in original color pictorial dust jacket. Just a whisper of shelf evidence to jacket extremities. Illustrated with b&w facsimiles of correspondence, reproductions of illustrations etc. NF/NF
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Ralph Waldo Emerson; How to Know Him

By: Crothers, Samuel McChord

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill: 1921

Seller ID: 29212

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

frontis; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 234 pages; Presumed 1st edition. Snugly bound and neat in original dust jacket. Publisher's brown cloth with title lettering and border ruling in black; cloth lightly crimped at spine ends. Prior owner name penned to front pastedown. Cream white dust jacket with photo of Emerson's home and title lettering to cover panel. Jacket with light general shelf soiling and mild toning; missing shallow chips from vase of spine panel and lower front corner of the cover panel. Uncommon in jacket. VG+/VG
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Initials and Pseudonyms, a Dictionary of Literary Disguises: First & Second Series: 2 Volumes, Complete

By: Cushing, William

Price: $29.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell: 1885

Seller ID: 32930

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1006 pages; 1st editions both volumes. 692 & 314 pp. Handsomely printed in double columns with tissue guards between each printed page. Uniformly bound in original heavy green cloth with beveled edge boards and titles brightly in gilt to spines. Light ex-library ownership indications with catalog label base of spine and minimal attachments to endpages. Both volumes snugly bound and generally neat with mild pulling to cloth at spine ends and light rubbing to cloth at extremities. Aside from ex-library indications a VG set. G++ thus. .. Oversize book will requir...
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Mark Twain; Selected Writings of an American Skeptic

By: Doyno, Victor (Ed. ) & Leslie Fiedler

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Buffalo, NY, Prometheus Books: 1983

Seller ID: 30378

ISBN: 0879751908

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 450 pages; Large format paperback in glossy illustrated covers. Tightly bound and neat. Just mild shelf/handling wear to covers at edges and trace foxing to text block edges. Inscribed and signed by the editor to the title page. Solid copy with unmarkled text. VG++; Signed by Author
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Mark Twain: Ritual Clown; A Collection of Critical Essays

By: Fitzgerald-Hoyt, Mary (Ed. )

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Siena Research Institute: 1990

Seller ID: 30379

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 174 pages; Trade paperback in matte title lettered covers; spine unlettered, as issued. Tightly bound and neat. Just a touch of shelf/handling evidence to cover edges. Mild toning to cover spine panel and to edges. Solid unmarked copy. VG++
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The Life of Charles Dickens. Memorial Edition, in Two Volumes: With 500 Portraits, Facsimiles and Other Illustrations. Collected, Arranged, and Annotated by B. W. Matz.

By: Forster, John & B. W. Matz, (editor)

Price: $375.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott: 1911

Seller ID: 30237

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Facsimile covers, manuscript & photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 996 pages; 1st US issue of this extra-illustrated Memorial Edition edited by B. W. Matz. No date given at front, this edition is made up from plates printed by T. And A. Constable, Edinburgh. The title page is a cancel with the Lippincott masthead imprint added for the exported US edition. The binding design matches that of the 1911 Chapman & Hall London edition save for the change to Lippincott in lieu of Chapman at the base of the cloth spines. Dark blue cloth with double blind ruled borders to boards; elaborate de...
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The Cracked Lookingglass Highlights from the Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Irish Prose Writers: Exhibition Catalogue

By: Fox, Renee & Greg Londe

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Princeton, Princeton University Library: 2011

Seller ID: 31509

ISBN: 0878110550

Binding: Paperback with dust jacket

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Color reproductions; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 205 pages; Oversize paperback in original glossy illustrated dust jacket. Superb copy feels and appears unread. No marks. Profusely illustrated with offset color litho reproduced examples from the exhibition. Handsome copy. F/F ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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Characters and Plots in the Fiction of Graham Greene

By: Gale, Robert L

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Jefferson, NC, McFarland & Company, Inc. , Publishers: 2006

Seller ID: 33028

ISBN: 0786427205

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good+

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 353 pages; Larger trade sized paperback in glossy color illustrated covers. Snugly bound with fresh neat contents. But with ex-library indications limited to light attachments to endpages. Mild shelf evidence to cover edges. Tight and fresh; graded down for institutional ownership indications but generally quite VG. G+ thus
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The American Mercury, Vol. XXIII, July 1931, No. 91 ("The Case Against Henry Ford" by Murray Godwin)

By: Goldman, Emma & Murray Godwin & James Branch Cabell & H. L. Mencken

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1931

Seller ID: 40384

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

8vo 8" - 9" tall; Single issue magazine in original title lettered covers. Light shelf rubbing to yapped cover edges; prior owner numeral string penned top edge of front cover. Features ("The Case Against Henry Ford" by Murray Godwin. VG
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Category: Belle Lettres