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The Poems of John Donne (Two Volumes)
by John Donne
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1912
- Binding
- Blue cloth boards with gilt titles and cover design
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
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£173.81
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True first edition of this seminal work on John Donne and his poetry. "Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts with Introduction and Commentary by Herbert J.C. Grierson M.A." This is the only true first edition of this title found on the Web of 05/04/24.
Some rubbing and soiling to boards. Corners are bumped. Spine heads slightly frayed. Hinges are… Read more about this item Item Price
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Heart Throbs and Hoof Beats
by Walter Palmer
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1922
- Binding
- Blue cloth boards with gilt titles and heart-shaped illustrated pastedown on cover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
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£117.22
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This rare title is in excellent condition with just some soiling and rubbing to boards and bumps to corners. Pen name on FFEP. Pages are clean and lovely book ornaments of bridle, halter and horsehoes surround the text on each.
The poems celebrate the relationship between horses and their owners, famous racing steeds and the serene enjoyment the author feels toward… Read more about this item Item Price
£117.22
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Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing & The Land of Silence (2 books)
by May Ssrton
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1965 / 1953
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
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£28.29
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Two books by novelist and poet May Sarton. Both are first editions. Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing "explores a woman's struggle to reconcile the claims of life and art, to transmute passion and pain into poetry" while being interviewed by two young reporters searching for the muse that inspires the author. ---Goodreads
The novel is in Fine condition with no… Read more about this item Item Price
£28.29
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Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons
by James Caulfield
- Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1819
- Binding
- 3/4 brown leather and marbled boards with gilt titles and designs on spines
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
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£198.06
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These rare volumes contatin portraits and short biographies of persons of notoriety in 17th and 18th century Britiain, including highwaymen, convicts, preachers, misers, beggars, aristocrats, murderers, rebels, etc. Each entry has an engaved plate of the individual.
Marbled boards are intact but scuffed, rubbed and soiled so as to obscure most of the marbling. End pages are still beautifully marbled. However… Read more about this item Item Price
£198.06
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Good Morning, Midnight
by Lily Brooks-Dalton
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition - Stated
- Published
- 2016
- Binding
- Dark Blue, heavy paper with white spine titles
- ISBN
- 9780812998894
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
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£24.25
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An aging astronomer, Augustine, posted in the arctic and space mission specialist, Sullivan returning from Jupiter, both face a cataclysmic event that has silenced the world they once knew and the loved ones left behind.
Small scratch on fornt cover, otherwise fine. Dust Jacket pristine. Signed by author on title page. Not price clipped. Includes a letter from Book Passage of… Read more about this item Item Price
£24.25
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As We Are Now & Letters from Maine (2 books)
by May Sarton
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition - Stated
- Published
- 1973 / 1984
- Binding
- Half-bound linen and black cloth with orange and green titles / Black cloth with gilt spine titles
- ISBN
- 0393083721039
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
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£22.64
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As We Are Now tells the story of Caroline Spencer, mentally strong but physically frail, who has been moved by relatives into a "home." Subjected to subtle humiliations and petty cruelties...she fights back with all she has, and in a powerful climax wins a terrible victory." --- Goodreads
Both books are in fine codition. No flaws. Dust Jackets have very slight… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mystic India Through Art (INCREDIBLE, RARE, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TITLE)
by Sass Brunner-Farkas, Elizabeth Brunner
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- in slipcase
- Edition
- First Edition - "Limited Edition"
- Published
- 1937
- Binding
- Three-Quarter Bound Silk and creme colored boards with gilt, debossed titles and Design
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
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£1,333.86
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This is a rare, one-of-a-kind, signed and Inscribed limited edition of paintings, artwork and photography by the renowned Hungarian painters Sass Brunner-Farkas and Elizabeth Brunner. Inspired by a mystic dream of Rabinadrath Tagore, the mother and daughter traveled to India, staying for 5 years. They met and painted Tagore, Mahatma Ghandi, along with portraits of Indian deities, landscapes, and common… Read more about this item Item Price
£1,333.86
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Miss Pickthorn & Mr. Hare / Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine (2 Books)
by May Sarton
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First British Edition / Number Line 1-0
- Published
- 1968 / 1961
- Binding
- Dark green with gilt titles / Light Green with Gilt Titles
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
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£22.64
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Miss Pickthorn & Hare is a short novel about small village life, solitude, independence, and acceptance. Neighbors must learn to get along with each other and find common interests and friendhsip with one another.
Bindings are in pristine condition with only minor soiling. Dust Jacket for Miss Pickthorn & Mr. Hare has bumps and minor chipping to edges and spine ends.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Faithful Are the Wounds / A Grain of Mustard Seed (2 books)
by May Sarton
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition / 3rd Printing
- Published
- 1955 / 1971
- Binding
- Quarter-bound cream and black boards with black and orange titles / Black binding with gilt spine titles
- ISBN
- 9780393043365
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
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£22.64
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Both bindings are in pristine condition. Dust Jacket for Faithful are the Wounds has chipping and small tears to edges and spine ends. Small piece missing on bottom edge of front cover. Dust Jacket for A Grain of Mustard Seed is in Very Good condition with some wear and bumps to edges and some soiling to boards. Faithful are the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Joanna and Ulysses & Halfway to Silence (2 books)
by May Sarton
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition - Stated / First Edition - Stated
- Published
- 1980 / 1963
- Binding
- Quarter-bound cream and black boards with black and orange titles / Black binding with gilt spine titles
- ISBN
- 9780393013689
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
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£24.25
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This two book set is comprised of May Sarton's short novel, Joanna & Ulysses and a volume of her poetry, Halfway to Silence. The novel follows the adventures and travel of a young Greek woman from Athens who goes to the island paradise of Mykonos to paint and find her true self . Upon arrival, she adopts a donkey who… Read more about this item Item Price
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Shakespeare in Bohemia
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Edition
- Printed for Members of the Bohemian Club
- Published
- 1961
- Binding
- Quarter-bound linen and blue cloth boards with paper pastedown spine title
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
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£22.64
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This slim volume was a special edition printed for members of The Bohemian Club by San Francisco's well-respected Grabhorn Press. All three plays were presented as entertainment at the Club's annual Christmas gatherings and riff on Shakespeare and Hamlet's famous soliloquy. Three full-page drawings by Tony Sotomayor. Included is what looks like a Bohemian Club program for Shakespearean recitations that… Read more about this item Item Price
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If I Fall, If I Die
by Michael Chrisite
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition - Stated
- Published
- 2015
- Binding
- Black cloth with silver spine titles
- ISBN
- 9789788041405
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
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£19.40
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Christie's debut novel is about young Will who has never left the house of his severely agoraphobic mother until he ventures out and meets a friend Jonah who teaches him how to be a somewhat normal kid. Another boy in the neighborhood goes missing and Will and Jonah set out to solve the mystery.
Very mild soiling and rubbing to Dust… Read more about this item Item Price
£19.40
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The Forgers
by Bradford Morrow
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition - Stated
- Published
- 2014
- Binding
- Quarter-bound black leather and red cloth with gilt spine title
- ISBN
- 9780802123213
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
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£22.64
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Morrow's, The Forger, is "A must-read for anyone enthralled by the value and integrity of books'...This is the true story of unlikely friends coming together to expose the literary crime of the century, and of a maverick bibliophile who forged not only books but an entire life, erasing his past along the way." ---Goodreads
Book and dust jacket are in pristine… Read more about this item Item Price
£22.64
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Vasco da Gama
by George M. Towle
- Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1895
- Binding
- Blue embossed boards with black and gilt titles, designs, ruling and cover illustration
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
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£22.64
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This is a Heroes of History selection from the publishers. Chronicles in typical Western European style and content the Portuguese navigator and explorer who completed the first successful voyage from Europe to India, opening up the spice trade for Portugal.
Boards are soiled, corners bumped. Spine gilting and titles are somewhat faded. Bookplate on FEP was issued from the Bridgeton Parish… Read more about this item Item Price
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A History of Loneliness
by John Boyne
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition / Second Printing
- Published
- 2015
- Binding
- Cream colored cloth with light brown spine titles
- ISBN
- 9780374171339
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
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£19.40
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Irish priest, Father Odran Yate, moves from beloved teacher and confessor at a boy's school to social pariah as the Catholic diocese he comes to serve is embroiled in sexual abuse scandals.
Slight bump to spine bottom of dust jacket is the only flaw. No internal markings. Signed by the author on the title page. Includes a letter to the First… Read more about this item Item Price
£19.40
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Pogo Comic Books (4)
by Walt Kelly
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Edition
- see description
- Published
- 1958, 1960, 1970, 1967
- Binding
- Perfect Bindings with full cover illustrations
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
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£32.34
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This is a treasure trove of Pogo comic books first published as newspaper comic strips. Conceived and drawn by Disney-trained Walt Kelly, Pogo and his coterie of swamp pals will bring a smile to your face, if not some laugh out-loud humor to your day.
Bindings are intact and there are no internal markings. Some soilng to paper boards and fading… Read more about this item Item Price
£32.34
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Pogo Comic Books (4)
by Walt Kelly
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Edition
- see description
- Published
- 1955, 1958, 1965, 1966
- Binding
- Perfect Bindings with full cover illustrations
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
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£32.34
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This is a treasure trove of Pogo comic books first published as newspaper comic strips. Conceived and drawn by Disney-trained Walt Kelly, Pogo and his coterie of swamp pals will bring a smile to your face, if not some laugh out-loud humor to your day.
Bindings are intact and there are no internal markings. Some soilng to paper boards and fading… Read more about this item Item Price
£32.34
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Pogo Comic Books (4)
by Walt Kelly
- Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Edition
- various
- Published
- 1961, 1962, 1969, 1976
- Binding
- Perfect Bindings with full cover illustrations
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
- Item Price
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£32.34
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This is a treasure trove of Pogo comic books first published as newspaper comic strips. Conceived and drawn by Disney-trained Walt Kelly, Pogo and his coterie of swamp pals will bring a smile to your face, if not some laugh out-loud humor to your day.
Bindings are intact and there are no internal markings. Some soilng to paper boards and fading… Read more about this item Item Price
£32.34
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Muse
by Jonathan Galassi
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition - Stated
- Published
- 2015
- Binding
- Charcoal grey boards with gilt spine titles
- ISBN
- 9780385353342
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
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£24.25
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"Galassi chronicles the decades-long rivalry between two publishing lions, and the iconic, alluring writer who has obsessed them both. Muse is a brilliant, haunting book about the beguiling interplay between life and art, and the eternal romance of literature."--- Goodreads
No flaws to binding or dust jacket. Author signed on title page. Includes a Book Passage of Corte Madera First Edition… Read more about this item Item Price
£24.25
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The Underworld of the East
by James S. Lee
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- no date
- Binding
- Orange cloth with black spine titles
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Rafael, California, USA
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£52.55
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"James Lee, starting in 1895, spent 20 years pursuing all the pleasures and dangers that the Far East had to offer. He travelled with an open mind more in common with our modern times and recorded with stunning candour and great insight a world where few of his contemporaries dared to venture and speaks vividly across time to the Twenty-First… Read more about this item Item Price
£52.55