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Not Quite Posthumous Letter to Daughter
by Caitlin Thomas
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- biblioboy
- Published
- 1963
- Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
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£9.91
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Very good with edge wear, small stain top page edges, in dust jacket with edge wear, rubbing and small closed tears See photos bx 182
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Norris: Novels and Essays
by Frank Norris
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- biblioboy
- Published
- 1986
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780940450400
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£16.51
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Library of America, NY, 1986 1232 pages. First edition. Near fine with llight dust soiling top page edges in fine dust jacket. See photos bx ref 26
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Twain: Mississippi Writings
by Mark Twain
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- biblioboy
- Published
- 1982
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780940450073
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£16.51
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Library of America, NY, 1982 1084 pages. First edition. Near fine with llight dust soiling top page edges in fine dust jacket. See photos bx ref 26
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The Cruise of the Janet Nichol Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson's Dairy of a South Sea Cruise
by Mrs.Robert Louis Stevenson
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- biblioboy
- Published
- 1914
- Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st edition
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£16.51
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Scribners , NY , 1914 First edition 189 pages Illustrated Hardcover lacking the dust jacket. Interesting biography .
A very good copy with light edge wear, light wear to cloth binding, spine darkened , light foxing to the end papers,else a tight clean copy. See Photos
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Marie Corelli The Writer and The Woman
by Coates T.F.G. and R.S. Warren Bell
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- biblioboy
- Published
- 1903
- Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- 1st edition
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£16.51
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A fair only copy of this 1903 first edition 352 pages with light old damp staining to the lower outside corner in the margin of most pages, front and rear hinges cracked but holding well, soiling to the colt binding. See Photos
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A SILVERLOCK COMPANION --- THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JOHN MYERS MYERS
by Myers, John Myers [edited by Fred Lerner] [James M. Crane, Edmund R. Meskys, Charlotte Moslander, Anne J. Braude] [front cover illustration by Celia Myers, rear cover illustration by Jim Reynolds]
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- biblioboy
- Published
- 1988
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780910619028
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£21.88
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Center Harbor: Niekas Publications Book. Near Fine. 1988. First Edition. Softcover. 0910619026 . First edition. Oversize [about 8.5" x 10.75"] pictorial wrappers, saddle-stapled, 52 pages. Near Fine copy [very light creasing]. Scarce. dskdrw4
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Summer at Little Lava
by Charles Fergus
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- biblioboy
- Published
- 1998
- Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780374525521
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£10.57
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New York: North Point Press / Farrar Straus and Giroux [1998]. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 0374525528 . First edition. "Little Lava is a farm on the west coast of Iceland. No roads lead to it; the way lies across a lagoon flooded twice a day by the tide. A lava field borders the… Read more
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Members of the Grolier Club 1884---1984
by Asaf, Allen and Lynda Wornom (compiled by)
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- biblioboy
- Published
- 1986
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
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£10.32
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The Grolier Club is a private club and society of bibliophiles in New York City. Founded in January 1884, it is the oldest existing bibliophilic club in North America. The club is named after Jean Grolier de Servières, Viscount d'Aguisy, Treasurer General of France, whose library was famous; his motto, "Io. Grolierii et amicorum" [of or belonging to Jean Grolier… Read more
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The Personal Art Reading to Good Purpose
by Robertson Davies
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- biblioboy
- Published
- 1961
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
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£16.51
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London: Secker & Warburg [1961]. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1961. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. First UK edition. 268 pages, informal bibliographical note, index. Very good with dust soiling to page edges, edge wear in like dust jacket with age toning and dust soiling. bx131
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Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism
by Krupnick
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- biblioboy
- Published
- 1986
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780810107137
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£9.91
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Near Fine with a trace of wear.bx77
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The Story of the Alcotts
by Cheney, Ednah D
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- biblioboy
- Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
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£8.26
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Vertical crease to the rear cover [which has a museum shops price sticker affixed], else VG+ copy with one minute spot stain to the rear cover. .
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SHADOWINGS: THE READER'S GUIDE TO HORROR FICTION 1981-1982 [STARMONT STUDIES IN LITERARY CRITICISM I]
by Winter, Douglas E. (edited by)
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- biblioboy
- Published
- 1983
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780916732851
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£18.99
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Mercer Island: Starmont House. [Stephen King, Karl Edward Wagner, Dennis Etchison, Alan Ryan, David Morrell, Charles L. Grant, Melissa Mia Hall, Jack Sullivan, Craig Shaw Gardner, Richard Meyers, Brooks Landon, et al] . First edition. This copy has been signed by Douglas E. Winter on the title page. Pictorial wrappers, 148 pages, the years in review, notes on the… Read more
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The Clearing House: a Survey of One Man's Mind: a Selection from the Writings of John Buchan
by Buchan, John (Lord Tweedsmuir)
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- biblioboy
- Published
- 1946
- Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Second Printing
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£37.16
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London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1946. Hardcover. 2nd printing. This copy has been inscribed and signed by Anna Buchan, the author's sister, on the front free endpaper. Green cloth with gold gilt spine lettering, 233 pages. Some fading to the cloth at the spine and along the top edge else VG+ copy in torn and badly … Read more
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GERTRUDE AND ALICE
by Souhami, Diana
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- biblioboy
- Published
- 1991
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780044408338
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£9.91
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[Hammersmith, London]: Pandora / HarperCollins Publishers [1991]. First edition. 300 pages, photo-illustrated, references, select bibliography, credits, index. Near Fine copy [minor upper corner bumping] in Fine Dust Wrapper. ref27
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Ellen Terry's Memoris
by Terry, Ellen
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- biblioboy
- Published
- 1933
- Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- early edition
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£9.91
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Covent Garden, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. Fair in Good dust jacket. 1933. Hardcover. Unstated edition/printing thus. "Ellen Terry's Memoirs, first published in serial form in 1907, and now out of print, have been called 'one of the finest autobiographies in the English language.'" Orange-red cloth with black spine lettering, 359 pages, index. [preface, notes and additional biographical… Read more
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Henry Fielding, a biography
by Pat Rogers
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- biblioboy
- Published
- 1979
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780684162645
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£10.32
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1979 Hardcover. 0684162644 . First [US] edition. 237 pages, with 32 pages of illustrations, Fielding family tree, biographic index, reading list, general index. Near Fine copy with a trace of wear in like Dust Wrapper. .bx145
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NECON Stories
by Les Daniels, Chet Williamson, John Farris, Lucius Shepard, John Coyne, Alan Ryan, F. Paul Wilson, S. T. Joshi, Darrell Schweitzer, Donald M. Grant, Thomas F. Monteleone, et al
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- biblioboy
- Published
- 1990
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
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£20.64
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Providence: Three Bobs Press. Near Fine. 1990. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First edition. Copy #9/50 numbered copies in red lettered [trade sized paperback format] wrappers that were reserved for the contributors. Essays and photographs relating to Necon, stories, plus essays on H. P. Lovecraft, etc. 159 pages, illustrated [by Bob Lavoie, Steve Gervais and Don Maitz].… Read more
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The Way the Future Was A Memoir
by Pohl, Frederik
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- biblioboy
- Published
- 1978
- Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780345277145
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£10.32
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New York: Del Rey / Ballantine Books 1978. Hardcover. 0345277147 . First edition. 312 pages, photo-illustrated. Fine copy in price clipped else Fine Dust Wrapper. .
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THE WORLD OF RAYMOND CHANDLER
by Gross, Miriam (edited by) [Eric Homberger, Julian Symons, Russell Davies, Billy Wilder, John Houseman, Philip French, Dilys Powell, Michael Mason, Michael Gilbert, Clive James, Natasha Spender, Jacques Barzun, et al]
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- biblioboy
- Published
- 1978
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- ISBN
- 9780894790164
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£13.21
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New York: A & W Publishers Inc 1978. First US edition. 190 pages last numbered page is 189,, photo-illustrated, bibliography, introduction by Patricia Highsmith, Near Fine copy very scattered top edge foxing in price clipped [with small printed price sticker added] else Near Fine Dust Wrapper [lower corner crease… Read more
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Starmont Reader's Guide 16: Stephen King
by Douglas E Winter
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- biblioboy
- Published
- 1982
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780916732431
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£12.39
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Mercer Island: Starmont House 1982 Trade Paperback. 0916732436 . First edition. This copy has been signed by Douglas E. Winter on the title page. Pictorial wrappers, 128 pages, chronology, primary bibliography, secondary bibliography, index. Near Fine copy .with very light edge wear. bx25
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