Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Wang Lan Ruo [Lanruo] [Chinese Text]

Price: $29.50

Publisher: U/k., U/K. : 1987

Seller ID: 44661

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Color and b&w reproductions; Square 4to 9" - 11" tall; 84 pages; 1987 Catalog of art work presumably from an exhibition. With text entirely in Chinese. Publisher and place noclear. 84 pp. Works reproduced ostly in color with some in b&w. Oversize square format paperback in glossy pictorial dust jacket. Jacket with moderate sun fading to a 2 inch swath along the front edge of front and rear panels and to front edge of endpages. Laid in at front is a folding 6 panel leaf in English with biographical illustrated portrait of the artist. VG/G+
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For Sylvia, An Honest Account

By: Ackland, Valentine

Price: $13.50

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus : 1985

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 46593

ISBN-13: 9780701139414

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 135 pages; 1985 Chatto & Windus. HC/DJ. 1st edition. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket with sunning and color shift to spine and edges of front panel; front flap price clipped. Mild toning to page stock. VG/G++
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Tom Swift and His Air Scout Or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky

By: Appleton, Victor

Price: $69.50

Publisher: New York, Grosset and Dunlap : 1932

Edition: early

Seller ID: 12866

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 218 pages; Circa 1932 printing. Grosset & Dunlap. HC/DJ. Olive green cloth with quad-oictorial design to boards in red and dark green. Binding snug and contents very neat. No marks. Dust jacket lists 33 Swift titles front flap terminating w/ Dirigible. Ads in rear of book list 35 Swift titles ending with Giant magnet. Dust jacket is bright and generally neat save for the original owner's now very aged application of tape reinforcing the joints, edges and falp folds. Tape is not heavily toned but is tiff and lightly toned. Similar application to inside surface of flap...
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What Harry Found when He Lost Archie

By: Berg, Jean Horton & Cal Massey (Illust. )

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Philadelphia, Westminster Press : 1970

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 37113

ISBN-13: 9780664324766

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 112 pages; Soundly bound in original dust jacket. Mild tamp staining to rear jacket panel and board. Lengthy signed inscription by the author on the title page. G+/G+; Signed by Author
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I Try to Behave Myself; Peg Bracken's Etiquette Book

By: Bracken, Peg; Hilary Knight (Illust)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace & World : 1964

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 50488

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 182 pages; 1964 Harcourt, Brace & World. HC/DJ 1st edition, 1st printing. Snugly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with art from design by Hilary Knight. Snug in magenta cloth lettered in silver. Jacket sunned and faded at spine with back ground color much blanched and titles visible, barely. Jacket price clipped front flap and lightly rubbed with a few tiny nicks and a small chip at edges. Mild foxing to endpages. Illustrated from drawings by Hilary Knight. VG/G+
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The Problem of the Wire Cage

By: Carr, John Dickson

Price: $39.50

Publisher: New York, Books Inc : 1944

Edition: reprint

Seller ID: 41231

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 296 pages; HC/DJ. Early reprint. Soundly bound in dust jacket with original pictorial design identical to the Harper edition. Jacket is worn and rubbed at edges with scrunch creasing along the bottom edge of the rear panel and longer closed but ragged tears along the rear flap fold and rear spine edge. Shorter closed tear top edge. Still presents well in archival mylar protector. VG/G+
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The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt, in London and Moscow Volume 5 (Only)

By: Casanova, Jacques De Seingalt ; Arthur Machen

Price: $13.50

Publisher: New York & London, G. P. Putnam's Sons & Elek Books : 1950

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 37110

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 637 pages; No date given. 1950 believed. HC/DJ. Volume 5 only. 1st edition of this volume of the larger 6 volume publication. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket with $5 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Dust jacket rubbed and worn at edges with shallow chipping; light to moderate shelf soiling and toning to jacket surfaces. VG/G++
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The Lion-hearted

By: CharlesReznikoff,

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society : 1944

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 0915K526512

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 243 pages; 1944 JPS HC/DJ 1st edition. Square sound and clean. No marks. Original dust jacket edge worn with small chips missing edges and spine ends. Spine somewhat sun faded. VG/G+
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon

By: Collin, Hedvig (Illust. )

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan Company : 1928

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 34736

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 198 pages; 1st edition of this Collin illustrated edition. Snugly bound in thatched yellow cloth with titles brightly in gilt to cover and spine. Original pale yellow dust jacket with color pictorial panel mounted to the front panel and title lettering in black. Jacket is lightly toned at spine with some shelf soiling to panels; chips and nicks from the rubbed edges. Color pictorial endpages, 8 color plates on glossy stock and 9 b/w plates from designs by Hedvig Collin. Uncommon in the 1st edition. VG/G+
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What to Listen for in Music

By: Copland, Aaron

Price: $22.50

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill : 1957

Edition: Revised Edition; Fourth Printing

Seller ID: 46574

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages; 1957 McGraw-Hill. HC/DJ Revised edition, 4th printing. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $3.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Light offset toning to endpages and mild foxing to edges. Dust jacket rubbed and worn at edges and surfaces with several short closed tears and nicks at edges. Jacket spine sunned and a little faded. VG/G+
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The Applegreen Cat; A Pat Abbott Mystery

By: Crane, Frances

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott : 1943

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 21707

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 221 pages; 2nd printing of the original edition. Sound clean copy in original wraparound pictorial dust jacket. Prior owner bookplate to front endpage and a penned name to the pastedown have had the writing obscured by pen or marker. Binding sound if a little shaken in the spine. Dust jacket rubbed at edges including flap folds and spine edges. Shallow chips and nicks out along the edges. Small area of damp outline to the base of the spine panel does not offset to the boards. VG/G+
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The Rubaiyat and the Wine of Cana

By: De Santo, Mark

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Pageant Press, Inc. : 1953

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 42038

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 77 pages; 1st edition. Soundly bound and clean in original dust jacket. Jacked sun faded at spine and lightly shelf rubbed to edges. VG/G+
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The First Industrial Revolution

By: Deane, Phyllis.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press : 1965

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 42635

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 295 pages; HC/DJ. 1st edition. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket has the UK price clipped from the bottom corner but preserving the US issue price on the top corner. Jacket sunned and faded at spine and lightly faed at side panel edges. VG/G+
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The Hoosier School-Boy

By: Eggleston, Edward

Price: $17.50

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1925

Edition: reprint

Seller ID: 20878

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Illustrated; Color and b/w plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 261 pages; Square sound copy in publisher's red cloth with paper, color illustrated title label mounted to cover board. Dust jacket reproduces the cover vignette. Illustrated with color frontis and 3 b&w plates on glossy stock. Dust jacket rubbed and chipped with several long closed tears, a few with paper mends to the reverse surface. Sound clean copy in a nearly complete but rather worn dust jacket. VG/G+
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Art and Society

By: Finkelstein, Sidney

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, International Publishers : 1947

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 31144

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages; Presumed 1st edition. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket sunnd and a bit faded at spine but with titles still bold. Light shelf rub to jacket edges with shallow nicks at spine ends and a few tiny closed tears and nicks along the edges. Light surface rub to jacket cover panels. Prior owner name penned to front endpage. Illustrated with B&W plates on glossy stock at rear of book. VG/G++
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Nella Dancalia Etiopica Spedizione Italiana, 1928-1929; "Publicazione Posta Sotto Gli Auspici Della Reale Societa Geografica Italiana."

By: Franchetti, Raimondo

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Milano, A. Mondadori : 1935

Edition: Third Edition

Seller ID: 18693

Binding: Paperback with dust jacket

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 424 pages; Paperback in original pictorial dust jacket. Bound in plain card stock covers. Grpahic pictorial dust jacket in red, black, white and gray. Illustrated with photographs. Prior owner's small name stamp to title page, along with a circular blind stamp which appears to be of government or publisher origin. Mild reader crease to spine. Dust jacket chipped and rubbed at edges with light soiling to the whites of the design. Sound clean copy in a decent dust jacket. VG/G+
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Fires of Ambition

By: Gibbs, George

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company // Grosset & Dunlap : 1923

Edition: Third Printing

Seller ID: 35146

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 443 pages; 1923 (hybrid edition/printing) Text block records D. Appleton with (3) rd printing noted on the final page of the text, but bound in cloth boards with a G&D imprint to the base of the spine cloth and with a Grosset & Dunlap issued dust jacket. Snugly bound and clean in original thatch payyerned brown cloth with titles lettered in black. Prior owner penned neatly to front endpage with 1926 date. Dust jacket is a wraparound pictorial jazz-age, flapper fashion scene; spine panel is sunned and faded. Light chipping and rubbing at edges. Old yellowed cello tape...
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A Different Valor; the Life of General Joseph E. Johnston, C. S. A.

By: Govan, Gilbert E. & James W, Livingood

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill : 1956

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 42768

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

B&W Photographs & Maps; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 470 pages; [SIGNED] HC/DJ. 1st edition. Soundly bound copy in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $6.00 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Signed on a publisher provided leaf by both authors for memebers of the Civil War Book Club. FJacket rubbed and worn with some furring and shallow nicking at edges; spine faed and toned. Illustrated with b&w photos and maps. VG/G+; Signed by Author
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Molly Fox and Other Stories

By: Graham, Henry H.

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Anderson, IN, The Warner Press : 1937

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 47744

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Drawings; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 119 pages; 1937 The Warner Press. HC/DJ 1st edition. Soundly bound in original 3 color pictorial dust jacket. Prior owner name penned front flyleaf. Contents generally clean with occasional mild evidence of handling; several pages with corner creases. Just mild shelf evidence to boards at extremities. Jacket price clipped front flap with moderate shelf rub and some few nicks and short tears at edges. Jacket spine lightly sunned. Illustrated with b&w drawings. VG/G++
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The Foolscap Rose

By: Hergesheimer, Joseph

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1934

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 25982

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages; Very warmly inscribed and signed by Hergesheimer to Mary Hemphill Nagel[? ] on the title page: " with my unchanging love // [signed] // 1934." Soundly bound in original pale green cloth with title and broder deigns in red and black to cover and spine. Wraparound pictorial dust jacket from a painting by F R Gruger is rubbed and chipped at edges, well sunned at spine, and with a closed break to the paper across the spine mended with archival paper repair tape. Larger chips missing from the spine ends with the loss of 2 or 3 letters from the title at...
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Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket