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[Cambridge, Mass.]: Printed in Harvard Yard by The Adams House and Lowell House Printers, 1965. First edition. Broadside, one of 100 numbered copies, signed by Updike. Fine. The first signed and limited edition of an Updike work.
Strange Yesterday [first edition, inscribed] by Fast, Howard Melvin - 1934
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Strange Yesterday [first edition, inscribed]
by Fast, Howard Melvin
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New York: Dodd, Mead, 1934. First edition. 273 pp. Full lavender cloth, lettered and decorated in black, with the dust jacket. Top edge spotted, head and tail of spine a bit discolored. The jacket has an inch chip on the top edge of the front panel, affecting the title lettering, and some minor chipping at the tail of the spine, front flap almost detached but holding. Fast's second book, which he later disowned as a "half-assed, hysterical novel." Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "to ---- / Merry Christmas / Happy New Year / 1944-1945 / Howard." Scarce in any format, especially in jacket and inscribed.
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Dog's Death
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Death in the Afternoon
by Hemingway, Ernest
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1932. First Printing. Hard Cover. First Edition, First Printing ("A" and colophon on copyright page). Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, Hemingway's facsimile signature in gilt on front cover. Illustrated with tissue-protected color frontispiece of "The Bullfighter" by Juan Gris and numerous (81) B&W photographs. Includes "An Explanatory Glossary," "Some Reactions of a Few Individuals to the Integral Spanish Bullfight," "A Short Estimate of the American, Sidney Franklin, as a Matador;" "Date on Which Bullfights will Ordinarily be held in Spain, France, Mexico, and Central and South America;" and a "Bibliographical Note." . Gilt on spine mildly faded, head and heel of spine show very light wear, minor spotting on rear cover, small bookshop label on ffep, otherwise unmarked, tight, square and clean. VERY…
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The Seasonal Quartet: Autumn, Summer, Winter, Spring
by Smith, Ali
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A complete set of signed first editions of Ali Smith's stunning Seasonal Quartet. Fine in fine dust jackets. Each has a David Hockney illustrated band and is wrapped in mylar. Smith has signed each book on the title page, her signature on Winter is dated March 27, 2019. An exceptional set of novels published with thoughtful design.
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Espagne Païenne.
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INSCRIBED BY RICHARD WRIGHTWRIGHT, RICHARD. Espagne Païenne. (Pagan Spain). 8vo. Original wrappers, in glassine. (Paris 1958). First French Edition.Inscribed by Richard Wright, "À M. Bill Higgins Hommage de l'Auteur Richard Wright." Bill Higgins was the location manager for the film version of Native Son. A wonderful association copy. Paper aged, o/w a fine copy of a rare book.
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The Hands of Cantu
by Tom Lea
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Boston - Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. Autographed edition limited to 100 copies, this being copy 31, inscribed on the limitation page. Stated First Edition. Bound in full crushed Levant by Harcourt Bindery, Boston; spine with raised bands and gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Dentelle and marbled endpapers; sewn-in silk ribbon. Printed on mold-made white Arches paper. Designed by Moses F. Carr. Some light soiling on about a dozen pages, otherwise fine. 27 illustrations on plates (eight of them two-page spreads) and a tipped-in color frontispiece. Slipcase in ochre cloth with paper label on back side; one of the top rear corners of slipcase is bumped. 244 pages. Inscribed on the limitation page, ''[This copy is Number] 31 / and is for my friend Hal Daugherty, Jr. / Tom Lea / At El Paso del Norte / Day of San Miguel / anno Di 1964''. Hal M. Daugherty and Tom Lea were both executive officers of the El Paso Museum of Art in the early 1960s.…
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Three Things (Publisher series: Ariel Poems.)
by Yeats, W.B. (Illustrations by Gilbert Spencer.)
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London: Faber & Faber 1929. (Hardcover) Very good plus, no dust jacket. Signed and numbered by the author. Pale blue boards with gilt titles. Two illustrations (one in color). Slightly darkened around the edges, lightly rubbed on the spine and a tiny bump on the top corner of the front board. Illustrations by Gilbert Spencer. Publisher series: Ariel Poems 18. (Poetry, Limited Editions, Poetry).
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The Power and the Glory. A novel. (WITH SIGNED SLIP)
by GRAHAM GREENE.
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William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1940. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of his Hawthornden Prize-winning tenth novel. 8vo. 280pp. Yellow cloth lettered in red at the spine. Spine ends just a little bruised, and the top edge lightly dust marked. A narrow strip of discolouration to the head of the upper board, and with some notable browning to the half-title, which is also a little tender. Several small tape residue marks to the pastedowns. A nice, crisp copy. No dust wrapper. A slip of paper bearing the author's signature, the name of a recipient and the date 1982 has been pasted to the front free endpaper. Uncommon. Wobbe A16..
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Baghdad Sketches
by Stark, Freya
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Baghdad, The Times Press Ltd., 1932, hardcover, First Edition, issued without dustjacket, Good condition in original red cloth-covered boards. Laid-in is a bookplate Signed by the Author and dated 1982 in her hand from the collection of autograph enthusiast Derek Birch with his initials in one corner. Also laid-in is a one page (both sides) handwritten signed letter (ALS) dated 12/2/70, where the author discusses the state of her health, the research she is doing on the Mongols for her book Turkey: A Sketch of Turkish History published by Thames and Hudson (1971) in which she provided the text to accompany the photographs of her nephew Fulvio Roiter, and sends her love to Christopher Pirie-Gordon who served as British Charge D'Affaires in Transjordan and later in Yemen on two separate occasions. Boards lightly soiled and spotted, with bumped and fraying corners and spine-ends, spine title label chipped barely affecting text, front label complete, discoloration to endpapers from substandard glue, light…
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Six Crises
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First edition, First printing, Association Copy Inscribed: To Jake Seidenberg With every good wish for the years ahead from Dick Nixon Book is in very good condition with a very good dust jacket with a number of tears and small pieces missing at top and bottom of spine. Small pieces missing on front at top near authors name (see pictures). Clean text. Unclipped ($5.95). Protected by Brodart book jacket cover.(Note: Seidenberg served in the Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford Administrations. He served as the Executive Director of the President's Committee on Government Contracts, appointed by Eisenhower. Vice President Nixon was the Chairman of the Committee. Seidenberg later served as Chairman of he Federal Services Impasses Panel, which settled deadlocks in federal labor negotiations.)Nixon's first book was the result of encouragement from President Kennedy-- who Nixon visited in The White House only months after Nixon was defeated by Kennedy in the 1960 election--and said that a book would…
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The Eater of Darkness
by Robert M. Coates
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New York: Macaulay Company, 1929. Hardcover. Good-/Fair. First American edition. Yellow cloth boards stamped in black and silver. Boards are soiled and worn. Fore-edge of text block stained (not affecting page-faces). Interior is unmarked; a few pages have spots of soiling, else clean. Dust jacket is in fair condition: front panel is chipped; rear panel is very grubby and has damage; old repairs on reverse; not price clipped ($2.50); in a clear archival sleeve. The rear panel of the jacket shows a biographical sketch of the author by Malcolm Cowley. 238 pages. 7.5 x 5 inches. Rare in dust jacket. Robert Coates' first novel, The Eater of Darkness, was first published in Paris by Contact Editions in 1926. This is the first American edition, as issued by the Macaulay Company.
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Strange Yesterday
by FAST, HOWARD MELVIN
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Dodd, Mead & Co 1934. First edition, Remanents of d/w (spine missing), scarce, octavo, purple cloth boards with black lettering to spine & front board, top page edges stained purple, green eps, 273pp, VG (light tanning & light foxing to page edges, light tanning to spine, light sporadic foxing to pages)
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Bloody Sunrise
by Spillane, Mickey
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1965 - First Edition stated - A Tiger Mann Mystery - "...for Tiger is told on his wedding day that he is needed for Operation Plato." - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - no previous owner markings - dj: vibrant colors with some rubbing to the black base and abstract sun - interesting black and white photo of Spillane on the back cover - a few chips repaired with archival tape - dj in protective mylar sleeve
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Saint Monkey (INSCRIBED) (FIRST)
by Townsend, Jacinda
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2014 - 1st ed stated ("1" in number line) - INSCRIBED - authors debut book - "Fourteen-year-old Audrey martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, knows she'll never get out of Kentucky - but when her fingers touch the pion keys, the whole church trembles." - book: very good (like new) - dj: very good (like new) - dj in protective mylar sleeve
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Gold
by Eugene O'Neill
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First edition. Spine ends lightly rubbed, spine has small nick, small reddish stain to front cover and rear cover, otherwise very good or better. Lacks dust jacket.
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A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
by Cohen, Leonard
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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 Merry Month of May: A Novel
by Jones, James
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New York: Delacorte Press, 1971. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Ex-Lib w/ Usual Markings and Expected Imperfections. dj protected by new Mylar wrap.. 8 vo; black boards; 361 pgs.; illust. dj. From the Critically Acclaimed Author of From Here to Eternity. a very clean copy of this classic.
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The Polynesian Triangle
by Berry, Erick & Best, Herbert
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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Quelques Optimistes.
by Sempe
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Paris Editions Denoel, 1992, First Edition. paperback. First edition, Paris 1992, one of 3443 printed. -- Text (the cartoon captions) in FRENCH. -- Softcover, 8.3x10.8 inches, stiff cover with flaps. Condition: near fine (small surface scratch rear cover). -- Nice collectible example of Sempe's classic cartoon work, familiar to New Yorker readers. ISBN 220723861X
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Two Novels by Anthony Powell. Venusberg. Agents & Patients
by POWELL, Anthony (1905-2000)
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New York: Periscope-Holliday, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine-. First American Edition of two early novels. 8vo: [4],328pp. Publisher's quarter-bound black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slate grey paper-covered boards; dust jacket, priced $4.75, replicating (separately, on front and back panels) Osbert Lancaster's illustrations for the original wrappers. Near Fine (top edge soiled and stained, gilt a bit faded, gift inscription on fly-leaf); about Fine jacket. Lilley A.10. First collected in 1952 by Rinehart for the Periscope Book Shop and Holliday Bookshop in New York; the unsold stock was reissued in 1965 by Little, Brown, Powell's then American publisher (our copy), with publisher's label pasted to jacket's spine panel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions…
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Manhattan Beach
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First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with no visible flaws, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in page. A pristine copy of this novel from the Pulitzer winning author of "A Visit From the Good Squad". Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box.
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Christopher Blake
by Hart, Moss
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Random House, 1947. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Book has some toning to the edges; one word previous owner's name to the front free endpaper. The unclipped jacket ($2.50) has light wear to the spine ends /corners and toning to the rear panel. A very good or better copy.
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