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City Child
by Robinson, Selma
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Trade Edition
- Published
- 1931
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£78.14
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1931. Book. Illus. by Kent, Rockwell . Fine. Cloth. First Trade Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine in Near Fine, dust jacket, $2.00 price at front flap with line through and $1.00 price in pencil, small grease at head of spine. A lovely copy with numerous Rockwell Kent vignettes. . Item Price
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A Child - World (ASSOCIATION COPY)
by Riley, James Whitcomb
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1896
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£586.05
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Indianapolis and Kansas City: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 1896. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on a tipped-in leaf at front - "For- Orange Frazer, Esq.- From very gratefully and truly, - James Whitcomb Riley Indianapolis, Ind., October 7th, 1896. He was a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus. Carminum Libri Quatuor
by Quinti Horatii Flacci. Horace.
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Baskerville Edition
- Published
- 1762
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£351.63
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Birminghamiae: Joannis Baskerville, 1762. Book. Near Fine. Morocco. First Baskerville Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Finely bound by Bayntun of Bath in full chocolate morocco, gilt back, marbled end papers, all edges gilt. Near Fine, small rubs to morocco at hinges and fore edges of boards. A 20th c. bookplate at front end page in memory of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1886) bound with Underwoods ((1887) and bound with More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885)
by Stevenson, Robert Louis; Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson (co-author The Dynamiter)
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- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- First Editions Thus
- Published
- 1886
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£1,562.80
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London: Longmans, Green & Co./ Chatto and Windus, 1886. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Editions Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Three First Edition books bound in one volume, consecutively Underwoods, Chatto and Windus 1887; The Dynamiter, Longmans, Green & Co. 1885, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Longmans, Green & Co, 1886. Bound… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (A Reprint of the Volume Issued in 1870)
by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
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- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- Reprint
- Published
- 1912
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£156.28
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London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1912. Book. Very Good Plus. Morocco. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Finely bound by Bayntun of Bath in full dark blue morocco, wide turn ins, marbled end papers, all edges gilt. Very Good Plus, light rubbing to boards at joints and corners, toning at end papers only. The Royal Library Belles Lettres Series.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Complete Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel with a Biographical Sketch by William M. Rossetti
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Later Edition
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£78.14
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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Book. Near Fine. Half Crushed Morocco. Later Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. No date, circa 1900. Bound in contemporary half crushed morocco over green buckram boards, gilt back, marbled end papers, top edge gilt. Near Fine, slight wear at head of spine, prior owner name and date front end page.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Lost Pilot
by Tate, James
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- First Trade Paperback Edition
- Published
- 1967
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£195.35
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New Haven and London: Yale Univ Press, 1967. Book. Near Fine. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Trade Paperback Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED BY AUTHOR at front end page. Simultaneous First Trade Paperback Edition. Near Fine, small rub and top corner crease to rear wrapper, book feels unread. The Pulitzer Prize and… Read more about this item Item Price
£195.35
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Songs of a Black Bird
by Rodgers, Carolyn (M.)
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Published
- 1969
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£312.56
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Chicago: Third World Press, 1969. Book. Near Fine. Printed Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Second Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RARE - SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at title page -"To Jason, Peace & love, These things I wish for you. Keep on pushing forward. Carolyn M. Rodgers." Near Fine, crease at top edge rear wrapper.… Read more about this item Item Price
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(Association Copy) Useful and Instructive Poetry
by Carroll, Lewis
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1954
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£312.56
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London: Geoffrey Bles, 1954. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED at front end page -"Enid Shawyer from N. & V. Dodgson June 1954". Presented by descendants of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, to Carroll's friend Enid Stevens nee Shawyer, who he… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Tower
by Yeats, W.B.
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1928
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£781.40
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London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1928. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing, one of 2,000 copies of the first printing. Near Fine, tiny rubs at bottom corners, the decorative gilt cover and spine, by artist Thomas Sturge Moore. are fresh and bright. Lacking the dust wrapper, although original… Read more about this item Item Price
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Steps to the Temple, The Delights of the Muses and Carmen Deo Nostro..... Second Ed. BOUND WITH Poemata et Epigrammata, Quae Scripsit Latina & Graeca, Second Ed.
by Crashaw, Richard
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Published
- 1670
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£5,860.50
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Published by In the Savoy, Printed by T.N. for Henry Herringman at the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, London, 1670. Book. Near Fine. Full Calf. Second Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Frontispiece, (16), 208, [28], 67 pages. Two volumes bound in 18th c. calf with royal coat-of-arms stamped center of front board,… Read more about this item Item Price
£5,860.50
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Black Riding
by Text and Illustrations by Kenneth Lindley
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- Limited and Numbered 1st Edition
- Published
- 1968
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£390.70
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Yorkshire: Finger Pointing Press, 1968. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited and Numbered 1st Edition. Oblong 8vo. Letter A of only 45 copies designed and printed by Kenneth Lindley at Sandal Wakefield Yorkshire. Bound by Arthur Johnson and distributed by Bertram Rota Limited. Fine, as issued, small sticker shadow at bottom edge of rear pastedown.. Item Price
£390.70
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A Street in Bronzeville
by Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Published
- 1945
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£312.56
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New York: Harper & Brother Publishers, 1945. Book. Good. Cloth. Third Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Third Edition stated. Near Fine, prior owner name in ink front end page, shallow 1" chip at fore edge of final page, not affecting text. In a Very Good dust jacket, 1/2" x 2" chip at top edge spine and front… Read more about this item Item Price
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(Cambridge Style binding) The Golden Treasury : Selected From the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and Arranged With Notes
by Palgrave, Francis T(urner)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- Complete Edition
- Published
- 1925
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£234.42
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London: Macmillan & Co., 1925. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Complete Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. x, (2), 648 pages, Contains both the First and Second Series. Handsomely bound by Riviere and Son in Cambridge style polished speckled calf, the back ornately gilt, marbled end papers, the top edge gilt. Very Good, wear to joints and edges, top… Read more about this item Item Price
£234.42
Annie Allen
by Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Published
- 1949
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£1,562.80
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New York: Harper & Brother Publishers, 1949. Book. Fine. Cloth. Second Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine, prior owner name in ink front end page, in Very Good dust jacket, 1/1/2" x 1" triangular chip at top edge front cover, light rubbing at edges. x, 56 pages. The 1950 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry, which made Brooks… Read more about this item Item Price
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T. V. Baby Poems
by Ginsberg, Allen
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition
- Published
- 1967
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£312.56
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London: Cape Goliard Press, 1967. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. Tall 8vo. #40 of 100 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR at colophon page. Near Fine, top edge foxed, foxing at frontis and colohon pages associated with acidic paper used for photograph, in Near Fine dust jacket, spot of browning front cover,… Read more about this item Item Price
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( Outhouse Humor in Fine Binding) Fireside Conversation (Twain) with Little Willie (Fields) with The Old Backhouse (Riley)
by Twain, Mark; Field, Eugene; Riley, James Whitcomb
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- Later Printings
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£156.28
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No Place: No Publisher Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Later Printings. Thin 8vo. 31, [3] pages (the last 3 pages blank) ; 24 cm [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], No date, circa 1920s. Contains three classics of "outhouse" humor. Bound in quarter red morocco over pale green buckram, gilt back, marbled end papers, top edge gilt,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Graveyard By the Sea
by Valery, Paul; Original text, with English rendering and Illustrations by Emlen Pope Etting
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition
- Published
- 1932
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£136.74
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Philadelphia: The Centaur Press, 1932. Book. Very Good. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ARTIST. Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. One of 300 hand-set copies printed for the Centaur Book Shop by Burnley Weaver, the Gollifox Press, at Biltmore, N.C., this copy unnumbered. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY ARTIST at front end page -"For… Read more about this item Item Price
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Before Dawn
by Walter De la Mare, Alec Buckels
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- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- Limited and Numbered 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£78.14
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London: Selwyn & Blount Ltd. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Limited and Numbered 1st Edition. 5" x 3 3/4". #53 of 100 copies. [6] pages : 1 color illustration by Alec Buckels. No date (1924). Fine in string-tied wrappers. SCARCE.. Item Price
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Traduction des Oeuvres d'Horace. Troisieme Edition. In Two Volumes
by Horace; Edited by Rene Binet
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- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Published
- 1809
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Bloomington, Indiana, USA
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£156.28
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Paris: Colas, 1809. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Third Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xlviii, 300, (2), 392 pp. Handsomely bound in contemporary speckled calf, black morocco labels and gilt backs, marbled end papers and edges, gilt stamp of Lycee de Besancon to front board Vol. I only. Near Fine, small label residue front paste down of Vol.… Read more about this item Item Price
£156.28