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NY: ***** Privately Printed *****. VG/NO DUSTJACKET. 1930. Buckram cloth. Tom Maloney of U. S. Camera and other photography fame was also a poet. His first commercial publication was published by Morrow in 1935. This book was copyright, 1930, Mountain Lakes, N.J. On the front fly leaf it is inscribed "For Bill and Ruth and food and fun not forgetting drink. Tom" . Sm 8vo., 60 pp. .
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Prelude. A Novel Nichols, Beverley, Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1920. First Edition dated in Roman numerals title page; no additional printings listed. Green cloth boards; gilt spine titles and gilt stave of music (treble clef) to bottom front board. Lower page edge is rough cut. Boards are clean and with light wear primarily at spine edges. Hinges are firm; pages firmly attached. There is a 2cm by 1cm bookdealer's label affixed to top left pastedown; no other markings. Pages are clean with light toning generally not affecting text block. There is a tiny (3mm) closed tear right edge half title and very light paper fraying inner hinge top of pages 129- 146. Prelude is Nichols' first book and very scarce. It depicts the effects of WW1 on the life of a boy at an English Public School drew much from his own schooldays at Marlborough College. It was described by The Times Literary Supplement (19 February 1920)as a book"which old and present members of the public schools will read with pleasure".
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1907 1st ed Dream of Fair Women Harrison Fisher Girl Illustrated Color PoetryHarrison Fisher, the "Historian of American Beauty," was an American illustrator whose works regularly appeared on the cover of 'Cosmopolitan' Magazine in the early 1900s.
"At the top of the heap stands Harrison Fisher, creator of the Fisher Girl and most popular of all Americans who ply brush and pencil for reproduction. By reason of his industry and because of the uniform soundness of his drawings and color sense, he is the acknowledged master of the pretty girl picture"(Cosmopolitan).
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The Sea-Wolf
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1904 Jack London 1st/1st ed The Sea-Wolf by Adventure Novel Shipwreck FAMOUSA rare first British edition of Jack London's famous novel "The Sea Wolf". This book follows the story of Humphrey van Weyden and his adventures alongside Wolf Larsen on the sea. Like many sea adventures stories, this book describes mutiny, shipwrecks, seal-hunting, and many other adventure tropes.
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Men without women
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1927 1ed Hemingway Men without Women Ernest World War I Europe Bull Fighting"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
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Ernest Hemingway was one of the most prolific American novelists of the 20th-century publishing prize novels such as 'A Farewell to Arms', 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', and 'The Old Man and the Sea'. One of his lesser known, but still highly desirable works was 'Men without Women.' 'Men Without Women' is Hemingway's collection of short stories of 10 previously published and 4 unpublished pieces. Specifically, it includes:
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In Another Country
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Che ti dice la Patria?
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Ten Indians
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A Canary for One
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Now I Lay Me
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I Remember Christmas (1973)
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1907 1st ed Dream of Fair Women Harrison Fisher Girl Illustrated Color PoetryHarrison Fisher, the "Historian of American Beauty," was an American illustrator whose works regularly appeared on the cover of 'Cosmopolitan' Magazine in the early 1900s.
"At the top of the heap stands Harrison Fisher, creator of the Fisher Girl and most popular of all Americans who ply brush and pencil for reproduction. By reason of his industry and because of the uniform soundness of his drawings and color sense, he is the acknowledged master of the pretty girl picture"(Cosmopolitan).
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1904 Jack London 1st/1st ed The Sea-Wolf by Adventure Novel Shipwreck FAMOUSA rare first British edition of Jack London's famous novel "The Sea Wolf". This book follows the story of Humphrey van Weyden and his adventures alongside Wolf Larsen on the sea. Like many sea adventures stories, this book describes mutiny, shipwrecks, seal-hunting, and many other adventure tropes.
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The Sea-Wolf
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1927 1ed Hemingway Men without Women Ernest World War I Europe Bull Fighting"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
― Ernest Hemingway
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The Undefeated
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In Another Country
·
Hills like White Elephants
·
The Killers
·
Che ti dice la Patria?
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Fifty Grand
·
A Simple Enquiry
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Ten Indians
·
A Canary for One
·
An Alpine Idyll
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A Pursuit Race
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To-Day is Friday
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Banal Story
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Now I Lay Me
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I Remember Christmas (1973)
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Prelude a Novel
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THE TIE MANS MIRACLE.
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New York: Morrow Junior Books., 1995. First edition.. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Stephen T. Johnson. Illustrated by Stephen T. Johnson. New York: Morrow Junior Books, (1995). First edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket. faint rumpling to the jacket, otherwise near fine. ISBN: 0688134645
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
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New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
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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
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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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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
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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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Lucky You, What Science Has Done For Us
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Lucky You: What Science Has Done For Us J.B. Lippincott Stated First Edition. SCIENCE. Artfully illustrated by MUNRO LEAF. Good EXLIB in a Good unclipped $2.25 orig. price dust jacket. Last page states: 152 4.
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