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Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1930. half brown leather over cloth-covered boards, five raised bands, gilt on spine, top edge gilt. 8vo. half brown leather over cloth-covered boards, five raised bands, gilt on spine, top edge gilt. xii, 314, (2) pages. First impression of the trade edition. This copy has been rebound by Whitman Bennett in a lovely half-brown leather over cloth boards, with gilt on spine, for Korner & Wood (binder's ticket on front free endpaper). Spine slightly faded. Very minor rubbing to the spine, else a near fine copy. Studies of the Vatican Library, Sweynheym and Pannartz, Bodoni, etc. A beautiful book.
Fraulein Mina; or, Life in a North American German Family by Miss Mary H. Norris - 1873
by Miss Mary H. Norris
Fraulein Mina; or, Life in a North American German Family
by Miss Mary H. Norris
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New York and Cincinnati: Nelson & Phillips; Hitchcock & Walden, Sunday-School Department, 1873. First edition. Hardcover, decorated boards. 16mo. 253pp. + publisher's ads. Illustrated with 3 plates. Very Good+, spine panel slightly tanned, previous owner info dated 1873, Hoboken. Juvenile Fiction.
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- Place of Publication New York and Cincinnati
- Date Published 1873
- Keywords 19th century
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MAGIC OF THE BOOK, MORE REMINISCENCES AND ADVENTURES OF A BOOKMAN.|THE
by Orcutt, William Dana
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New Castle, Delaware, United States
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Two Fables
by Morley, Christopher
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Manasquan, New Jersey, United States
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine/Near Fine. 12mo., 95pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition. Bound in black cloth with titles on paper label both on front board and spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with just a touch of rubbing to bottom front edge and light bumping to spine ends. Equally attractive, scare unclipped jacket, ($1.50), has some spotting on front and back panels but is still fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A very pretty collectabe copy and quite uncommon with a dust-jacket in such high-grade condition.
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Otto at Sea (Revised Edition)
by Du Bois, William Pene
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- very good
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- Very Good Minus
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Torrington, Connecticut, United States
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New York: Viking, 1958 Blue cloth and grey pictorially stamped in blue, minor shelf wear and bumping to corners (not affecting pages), damp stain to rear endpaper; color pictorial dust jacket with some waviness along bottom edge and damp stain along rear fold, foxing, small hole in front fold, light chipping to extremities, original price intact ($2.50). This book was made during a time when Du Bois was redoing his earlier work to take advantage of advancements in color printing. While the text of Otto at Sea remains untouched, the new artwork makes the book "quite different and more complex..." Bader page 182.. First Revised Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good/Very Good Minus. Illus. by William Pene Du Bois. Small 4to.
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South Pacific
by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein 2nd
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172 pp. Plate number 757-. Vocal score, blue wraps with dark-blue type. Quarto, 9 x 12 in. Very Good with little wear to covers. Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. Adapted from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Tales of the South Pacific." First performed at the Majestic Theater, New York, April 7, 1949. Laid in, a program booklet (9 x 12, b&w photos) featuring the performance by Mary Martin and Ray Middleton, so an exemplar from between June 1950 and July 1951. Also laid in, from the May 1950 Cosmopolitan, an article by John Bartlow Martin.
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Firestarter
by King, Stephen
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- A First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780670315413 / 0670315419
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Palm Desert, California, United States
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 1980. A First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, Price clipped but with the date "0980" at bottom of front flap. Jacket with light shelf wear to spine ends and jacket edges,
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MAGIC OF THE BOOK, MORE REMINISCENCES AND ADVENTURES OF A BOOKMAN.|THE
by Orcutt, William Dana
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New Castle, Delaware, United States
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Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1930. half brown leather over cloth-covered boards, five raised bands, gilt on spine, top edge gilt. 8vo. half brown leather over cloth-covered boards, five raised bands, gilt on spine, top edge gilt. xii, 314, (2) pages. First impression of the trade edition. This copy has been rebound by Whitman Bennett in a lovely half-brown leather over cloth boards, with gilt on spine, for Korner & Wood (binder's ticket on front free endpaper). Spine slightly faded. Very minor rubbing to the spine, else a near fine copy. Studies of the Vatican Library, Sweynheym and Pannartz, Bodoni, etc. A beautiful book.
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Two Fables
by Morley, Christopher
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Near Fine/Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- Hardcover
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Manasquan, New Jersey, United States
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine/Near Fine. 12mo., 95pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition. Bound in black cloth with titles on paper label both on front board and spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with just a touch of rubbing to bottom front edge and light bumping to spine ends. Equally attractive, scare unclipped jacket, ($1.50), has some spotting on front and back panels but is still fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A very pretty collectabe copy and quite uncommon with a dust-jacket in such high-grade condition.
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£102.05
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Otto at Sea (Revised Edition)
by Du Bois, William Pene
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Minus
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- First Revised Edition
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Torrington, Connecticut, United States
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£102.05
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New York: Viking, 1958 Blue cloth and grey pictorially stamped in blue, minor shelf wear and bumping to corners (not affecting pages), damp stain to rear endpaper; color pictorial dust jacket with some waviness along bottom edge and damp stain along rear fold, foxing, small hole in front fold, light chipping to extremities, original price intact ($2.50). This book was made during a time when Du Bois was redoing his earlier work to take advantage of advancements in color printing. While the text of Otto at Sea remains untouched, the new artwork makes the book "quite different and more complex..." Bader page 182.. First Revised Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good/Very Good Minus. Illus. by William Pene Du Bois. Small 4to.
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South Pacific
by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein 2nd
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- very good
- Paperback
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Lake Huntington, New York, United States
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172 pp. Plate number 757-. Vocal score, blue wraps with dark-blue type. Quarto, 9 x 12 in. Very Good with little wear to covers. Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein 2nd. Adapted from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Tales of the South Pacific." First performed at the Majestic Theater, New York, April 7, 1949. Laid in, a program booklet (9 x 12, b&w photos) featuring the performance by Mary Martin and Ray Middleton, so an exemplar from between June 1950 and July 1951. Also laid in, from the May 1950 Cosmopolitan, an article by John Bartlow Martin.
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£130.62
Firestarter
by King, Stephen
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- A First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780670315413 / 0670315419
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Palm Desert, California, United States
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking Press, 1980. A First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket, Price clipped but with the date "0980" at bottom of front flap. Jacket with light shelf wear to spine ends and jacket edges,
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Martin Luther King Jr: A Picture Story
by Margaret Boone -Jones
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Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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clean no tears or marks
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Tarzan and the Forbidden City
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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- Used - Very Good
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- Very Good
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- Hardcover
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St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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£16.33
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Vintage Whitman Publishing Company edition 1957. Hardcover, pictorial matte boards with original dust jacket. Overall condition is very good, dust jacket showing wear at top and bottom of spine and edges, but with bright colors. Dust jacket protected by a removable mylar cover. Slight bumped corners of boards. Pages are unmarked. Beautifully illustrated endpapers, with a slight separation from binding at front hinge. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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The Sky and the Forest
by Forester, C.S
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- First Edition
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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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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Samuel The Seeker
by Sinclair, Upton
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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The Man Who Lost His Head
by Claire Huchet Bishop
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.
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Going To the Doctor (First Experiences Series)
by Fred Rogers
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- Very Good
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- 3rd Printing Thus
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780399212987 / 0399212981
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Fred Rogers: First Experiences Book Series: Going To the Doctor (1986 1st Ed. 3rd Pr. Thus, G.P. Putnam)RARE in this first hardcover edition. Quite the find. Used. VG/VG condition unclipped dust jacket, printed price $12.95 Mr. Rogers appears on the back dj panel wearing a pale blue sweater. "In this book, real life photos are used to help young people feel more comfortable with interacting with other children and making new friends. A Note From Fred Rogers: A child's first visit with a pediatrician usually comes soon after birth. It may be months or even years later, though, that a child first shows fear about going to see a doctor. The worry of an injection or some other unfamiliar medical procedure can trigger that fear. It can also appear because another family member may be feeling medical anxieties. And, of course, new body awareness and needs for privacy develop naturally in children's early years, so all these feelings can make it very hard for them to let doctors investigate the workings of…
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Little May and Her Friend Conscience
by Marianne Parrot
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Little May and Her Friend Conscience. Used. Very Good+ Condition. RARE/SCARCE. ANTIQUARIAN CHILDREN'S BOOK. Thomas Nelson & Sons First Edition, 1876. Color front paper paste-down label is in good shape. Complete. Dark Blue, blind-stamped boards. Pocket-size. 70 pages plus adverts.
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A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
by Verne, Jules
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."
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The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
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- Very Good+
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- First
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780525427384 / 0525427384
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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Black boards with silver writing on spine; dings on top of front and back boards near corners. Top and bottom corners of front boards bumped; top and bottom of spine rumpled. Chip and wrinkles on top edge of front dust jacket; chip on corner of back dust jacket near fold to spine. Shelf wear on top and bottom of dust jacket spine; tight binding and pages still look in excellent condition. Cover price of $17.99 on front dust jacket flap, which has slight wrinkle at top of flap.Dutton First Edition; Thirty-First Printing as indicated by number line ending of "40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31" on copyright page. Signed by author on second interior page. Red cloud image with Target logo and advertising Bonus DVD from author with behind-the scenes looks at the movie.Green's second novel, which became his most famous one and has been made into a movie. Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.
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Doonesbury Classics
by Gary Trudeau
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Orange, Virginia, United States
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Four trade paperback editions of classic Doonesbury cartoons. The slipcase has minor wear but the books themselves are Like New and possibly never opened! Original political satire
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