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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969. First Book Club Edition. Hardcover in black leatherette cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book is in good condition with light foxing to the fore-edge and a slight cock. Scarce.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956. Book Club Edition. Hardcover in black buckram backed red paper boards. Very Good/Good. A nice early book club edition copy with the first edition dust jacket artwork. Book is very good with some edge wear and light page toning. Corners and edges bumped and rubbed. Dust jacket is good with a… Read more about this item

New York: Ballentine Books, 1989. Book Club Edition. Hardcover in black paper. Near Fine/Very Good. A nice copy - near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket has a small tear on the rear panel and some wear to edges. Light page toning. Book will ship in a new Brodart cover.

New York: Ballentine Books, 1985. Book Club Edition. Hardcover in blue paper. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine book in like dust jacket. Light page toning. Sharp and tight binding. Great dust jacket which will ship in a new Brodart cover.

New York: Doubleday, 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in white buckram backed black paper boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. Very clean first printing, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Light rubbing at the folds and edges of the jacket. Book ships in a new Brodart cover.

Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover in printed covers. Very Good/Very Good. Quarto. Dr. Margaret Carney is a ceramics historian, university professor, museum curator, and researcher. She serves as curator of the Blair Museum of Lithophanes in Toledo, Ohio. Book is near fine but is a bit stretched in the front hinge due to… Read more about this item

Secaucus, N.J.: Castle, 1985. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Hardcover in sky blue buckram with dark blue titling. Near Fine/Near Fine. Stories and articles about New England at the turn of the 19th century, illustrated with the original artwork that appeared in the magazines when the stories were first published. 472 pp. Book is near fine -… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1962. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover in black cloth with gold and purple stamping. Near Fine/Good. A very well-preserved fourth printing, near fine, in a good dust jacket. Book is clean and square, with deckled fore-edge. Jacket is price-clipped (price-ripped really) and has some chips and tears to the edges. DJ now… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in purple cloth with blind embossed stylized initials on cover and gilt titling on spine. Near Fine/Very Good. A well-preserved pre-owned copy of this Wolfe reader which covers the 1960s and 1970s, the purple decades. Illustrated by the author, it includes material from The Pump House Gang,… Read more about this item

New York: Scribner, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in blue cloth-backed white paper. Near Fine/Near Fine. A nice first printing (full number line) appears unread and is in mint condition. Will ship in a new Brodart cover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. Third Printing Before Publication. Hardcover in cloth-backed cream paper boards with gilt-stamped author initials in cover cartouche. Near Fine/Very Good. Pre-publication issue. Very clean, square and tight copy of Book 5 of the Vampire Chronicles. Book is near fine. DJ is price-clipped but otherwise near fine as well. A very collectable copy.… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co, 1932. Signed Limited First Edition. Hardcover in decorative paper boards and gilt decorated parchment backstrip. Near Fine/N/A. Octavo. 395 pages. Minor rubbing to binding, lightly toned covers, corners light bumping. Gilt top edge. Signed and numbered (27) by the author on the limitation page. Overall, a near fine copy - square,… Read more about this item

London: Henry Frowde / Oxford University Press, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover in blue cloth and white titling. Very Good/N/A. Rare book on the screens and galleries (architectural details) of churches in England. Book is very good - tight and square - with over 150 photographs and drawings. Cover soiled, corners bumped and rubbed, no dust jacket. Textblock… Read more about this item

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in black cloth-backed blue paper boards. Near Fine/Good. Novel based on Farmer's short story, "The-Sliced-Crosswise-Only-On-Tuesday-World." "In an overpopulated world of the thirty-fifth century, citizens are allowed to live a normal life just one day a week: the other six days are spent in suspended animation. Our hero… Read more about this item

New York: Signet / New American Library, 1987. Book Club Edition. Hardcover in black paper covers. Near Fine/Very Good. The fourth novel in the Discworld series. This copy is well-preserved and near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket has some edge wear but is complete and untorn. Pages are lightly toned but clean. Code 14838… Read more about this item

New York: Hyperion, 2009. First US Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in blue paper covers. Near Fine/Near Fine. Part Six of the Three Part Hitchhikers series. Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl books, was asked to write the 6th installment by Douglas Adams' family. This copy is new and unread first printing. Near fine book in a near… Read more about this item

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1968. First Edition, Sixth Printing. Hardcover in red cloth. Very Good/Good. A lovely book about the naming of groups - something that we pay little attention to now, but in medieval times this was part of the curriculum from young men learning of the hunt. Lipton, the longtime host of Inside the Actor's… Read more about this item

London: Robert Hale, 1963. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover in teal buckram. Very Good/Very Good. Very good condition in like original dust jacket. Small chips to the head and tail of dust jacket spine and light edge wear. Includes a decorative menu from the hotel laid in, with date of 27 September '63 and the name George Jarman… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday and Co, 1952. Stated First Edition. Hardcover in pale yellow cloth. Good/Good. A true survivor - first edition copy. Book is good with wear, staining and rubbing to the edges, a slight cock, and toning of the textblock. Dust jacket is worn but complete. It is toned and chipped at the tail. Shelf-wear evident… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in wine cloth-backed wine-colored paper boards with author's initials gilt-stamped on cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Wallace Stegner lived throughout the West, including Saskatchewan, Salt Lake City, North Dakota, Washington, Montana, Nevada, and California. He was a novelist, short story writer, essayist, historian, biographer, and frontline conservationist, who was… Read more about this item