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Taiwan: Tunghai University, 1963. Pages clean, unmarked, binding tight. Covers mostly clean [just a little soiling at back cover only], extremities and covers with only a little wear, edges lightly browning. PO's name penned on title page. The other stories are: Brother's Valley and A City Which Could Not Be Taken. During a sabbatical leave from McPherson College Kansas in 1962-63, the author, an anthropologist, served as a Fulbright Lecturer in Formosa and in Pakistan. While in Formosa he lectured at two universities, did research among the mountain aborigines, and wrote the book, "Wu Feng, Companion of Headhunters". Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First American Editio. Trade Paperback. Very Good-. 8vo - over 7 3/4 to 9 3/4".
Beaten By Graft: A Novel (sequel to Diplomacy Versus Courage )( Story of Thomas Arthur Lally ) by Sadd, Norman - 1939
by Sadd, Norman
Beaten By Graft: A Novel (sequel to Diplomacy Versus Courage )( Story of Thomas Arthur Lally )
by Sadd, Norman
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New Zealand: Auckland / Wellington / Christchurch, NZ: Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, 1939, 1st edition, First Printing, 1939. ------------hardcover, a Very Good copy, a bit of light wear, spine is slightly cocked, front blank endpaper has been removed, a bit of age toning to paper but mainly to the endpapers and first few pages, in a chipped and torn but largely intact attractive Good dustjacket, jacket is now in a hi-quality mylar protector, scarce, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (see description)/Good (see description). Illus. by Photo Cover.
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- Place of Publication New Zealand
- Date Published 1939
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Wu Feng, Companion of Head Hunters and Other Stories
by Bittinger, Desmond W.
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Piggott, Arkansas, United States
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Bubbles
by Hewitt, Arthur Wentworth
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Colchester, Vermont, United States
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Rutland Vermont: The Tuttle Company. Good+. 1920. Hardcover. Green cloth over boards cover with gilt lettering. Light wear at binding edges and back cover. Aged with mild page darkening. Approx. Half of the pages remain closed and have not been cut open. Very nice original. Unmarked. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 128 pages .
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[Order Form for Henry Vaughan's Sacred Poems]
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Haddonfield, New Jersey, United States
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London: Vale Press, 1897. Very good with a few instances of minor spotting.. Single leaf announcing the book's publication, size, binding, and edition limitation. Printed in Vale type. Tomkinson 11 (for the book).
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Rodney Stone
by Doyle, A. Conan
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Rodney Stone, A Tale of the Napoleonic Wars by Arthur Conan Doyle. First Edition, copyright 1896 and published 1897 by D. Appleton And Company, New York. Illustrated by Sidney Paget. Used. Exlib. GOOD- CONDITION.Red buckram cloth boards. Gilt titling. Black & White plates Illustrated by Sidney Paget. Frontis and 11 all additional plates are present, in nice shape, and affixed to binding. 408 pages plus adverts. RARE/SCARCE/HARD TO FIND.
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Freddy and the Baseball Team From Mars
by Brooks, Walter R.
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Freddy and the Baseball Team From Mars, Alfred A. Knopf 1st Ed. 1955. Hardcover. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Used. VG/ No DJ. Rose red boards. Spine lightly sunned. A nice copy of a scarce item.
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Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities: The Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving, Sailing, Eccentic and Extravagant Exploits of that Renown'd Sporting Citizen Mr John Jorrocks
by Surtees, R S
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Kirkwall, Orkney, United Kingdom
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London: George Routledge & Sons. Ltd., 1880. Some minor wear to the spine ends and corners of red cloth-covered boards, but gilt titles on spine and front board are still bright, as are black illustrations of groups of sporting equipment. No publication date given, but ''New edition'' on title page, probably around 1880s or so. Some foxing to page edges and to outer pages, 1 page torn to top corner where an uncut page had been opened, the torn-away corner still being attached to opposite page. Some other small tears to a couple of pages,1 page with piece missing. Couple of tissue guards a little creased and torn. Tears to a couple on pages on outer edge. 291pp plus 1p adverts, 16 full-page colour drawings, all with tissue-guards.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Alken, Henry. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Work of Art
by Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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[i-viii+452+[453-56] pages. Octavo (8 1/8" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's medium blue cloth with gilt on spine with concentric impressed rectangle enclosing a gilt laurel branch on cover in original pictorial jacket. 50,000 copies of the first edition in dust jacket issued. (Pastore: 13) First edition. This is the "hotel novel" as it has become to be called, and it shows that odd dichotomy of Lewis that is the decisional measuring stick separating those who love Lewis and those who don't. Here is the story of an artist set against the story of a hotel clerk and here is Lewis equating art and hotel management. Most critics feel that this is not Lewis at his best because of this equation, that in setting out to talk about art, he ends up knee-deep in the hotel business. Of course, this misses the point. Lewis was the master of finding "art" in the commonplace and there is hardly a novel of his that does not touch on this issued. This second Doubleday book firmly established the format…
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Mister Pip
by Jones Lloyd
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- As New
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780143020899 / 0143020897
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Wellington, New Zealand
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New Zealand: Penguin, 2006. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket as Issued. first edition 2nd printing 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Hugh Garner's Best Stories
by Garner, Hugh
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Calgary , Alberta, Canada
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Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1963 Undated Apparent First Edition Of This Scarce 1963 Collection Of Hugh Garner's Short Stories Which Won The Governor General's Award, Ranked By Some As The Best Ever Written. Some Of These Stories Were Read On Cbc Radio On 'Stories With John Drainie." Garner Immigrated From Yorkshire With His Family As A Child. In The 1930'S He Rode The Rails Before Volunteering In The Spanish Civil War. He Apparently Had A Falling Out With Jack Mcclelland And Switched Publishers To Ryerson, Who Were The Publishers Of This Collection. Very Good Butter Yellow Boards With Black Stamped Titles, No Writing Or Marks, Clean And Square. Dust Jacket Is Unclipped But Quite Tattered.
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Adventures of My Cousin Smooth; or, The Little Quibbles of Great Governments. By Timothy Templeton
by Adams, Charles
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Worcester, United Kingdom
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London: Ward and Lock, 158, Fleet Street, 1865. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo; vii, 216pp. In contemporary half leather over green cloth boards (a little rubbed and worn, remnants of early paper label to head of spine), five raised spine bands, gilt lettered leather spine label to second compartment, all page edges marbled, contemporary ink inscription to front blank, early library blind-stamp to first two leaves ('William Todd and Co. Library, Limerick'), light foxing to opening and closing leaves, unobtrusive light paper browning and occasional spots ans stains otherwise internally clean. The title page bears no date but the publisher's address and book's typography place it in the late 1850s to early 1860s. Very good early example of this American novel of the civil war era.
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Kane & Abel
by Jeffrey Archer
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Decatur, Indiana, United States
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New York, 1979. Book Club. Hardcover. Book Club/Has Jacket. Book is a book club edition. Quite a few closed tears, chips, and other signs of wear to the dust jacket. Some bumping to the boards at corners, edges and ends of the spine. Pages are clean.
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Cold Mountain
by Frazier, Charles
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- 9780871136794 / 0871136791
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .
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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural
by Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945)
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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228 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with quarter brown spine and dark green lettering to spine label and cover. First edition, first issue. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly chipped, spine heal rubbed, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts
by Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945)
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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Red Pottage
by Cholmondeley, Mary
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.
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We Loved Them Once
by Rivers, Ronda
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Piggott, Arkansas, United States
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NY: Vantage Press, 1954. Pages [135] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Tan boards, black lettering, clean, minor shelf wear. PO's name penned to endpaper. Set in 1950's America. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
by Traven, B
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- 9780786201006 / 0786201002
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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The Sky and the Forest
by Forester, C.S
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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v+321 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First British edition. St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. He alternated dictating St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston but gradually lost interest in the former. The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf wear, hinges and spine heal moderately rubbed, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy.
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Dobrodruzstvi Toma Sawyera a Huckleberryho Finna.
by Twain, Mark; Jiri Hejna
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Praha: Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury SNKLHU, 1961, hardcover. Apparent first edition in Czech 1961, with the illustrations by Jiri Hejna, of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Translated into CZECH by Frantisk Gel. 393 pages. -- Hardcover. Good used condition (yellow cloth cover some soil) with very good minus dust jacket (spine sunned).
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