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The Color Of Water
by James McBride
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother.The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in "orchestrated chaos"...
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Christ In Concrete
by Pietro Di Donato
An uncompromising yet beautiful portrait of the life of Italian immigrants on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1920s, Christ in Concrete is the story of a twelve-year-old boy who must support his family after his father's untimely death.
One L
by Scott Turow
"A wonderful book...it should be read by anyone who has ever contemplated going to law school. Or anyone who has ever worried about being human." -The New York Times It was a year of terrors and triumphs, of depressions and elations, of compulsive work, pitiless competition, and, finally, mass hysteria. It was Scott Turow's first year at the oldest, biggest, most esteemed center of legal education in the United States. Turow's experiences at Harvard Law School, where freshmen are dubbed One Ls, parallel...
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From Cotteswold and Beyond. Poems
by Baddeley, W. St. Clair (SIGNED)
Painswick: E. F. Millard. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. 96 pages; original blue cloth, printed in gilt. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON FEP and dated April 24, 1923. Internally clean; light wear at extremities. Very good+.
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£101.19
BOESMAN AND LENA: A Play in Two Acts
by Fugard, Athol
Cape Town: Buren Publishers, 1969. True first edition. INSCRIBED on title page "For Harold, With my best wishes, Athol Fugard." One of the playwright's best-known and most widely respected dramatic works. The play that established Fugard's reputation as a major playwright. 8vo illustrated paper boards. Small label of Vanguard Booksellers, Johannesburg, at bottom edge front pastedown. Though not affecting any lettering or design, boards are a bit scuffed and spine is a little faded but spine lettering...
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£202.38
Hovering Over Baja (Inscribed Association copy)
by Gardner, Erle Stanley (SIGNED)
New York: William Morrow & Co, 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Quarto. SIGNED AND WARMLY INSCRIBED BY ERLE STANLEY GARDNER TO DR. ROBERT P. BRITTAIN, life-long friend of Mr. Gardner and Professor of Forensic Medicine at Leeds University and frequent lecturer at the Homicide Investigation Seminar at the Harvard Medical School, where Gardner was often a pupil. Dr. Brittain was also the dedicatee of Gardner's book "The Case of the One-eyed Witness" and, it was said, a...
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£129.52
The Fall of Valor
by Jackson, Charles (SIGNED)
New York: Rinehart & Co, 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good+. Octavo. SIGNED AND WARMLY INSCRIBED TO HUSBAND AND WIFE ACTORS KATHARINE CORNELL AND GUTHRIE MCCLINTIC AND DATED BY CHARLES JACKSON. Jackson mentions their role in "The Green Hat" a play in Chicago, in 1925. Notably, McClintic directed the classic movie "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" and Ms. Cornell portrayed Elizabeth Barrett. Bound in original black cloth, decorated in red and white, with small dull...
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£202.38
Livre D'Esperance, La Joie Francaise Vaincra Les Temps Sans Joie
by Fort, Paul (SIGNED)
Paris (c. 1932): Armand Jules Klein. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Dernier. Folio. Unpaginated, original pictorial wrappers, printed in black and green; Dernier portrait by Paul Fort. Number 11 of 300 copies printed for friends of the author. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY PAUL FORT TO MADAME CHRISTIAN SHRAM JUNIOR, with a warm 5 line inscription, in French. A near fine copy.
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£202.38
PARNASSUS ON WHEELS (Inscribed Association Copy)
by Morley, Christopher (SIGNED)
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1919. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED TO RAYMOND E. RUBICAM AND DATED BY CHRISTOPHER MORLEY ON FFEP. Raymond E. Rubicam was an American advertising pioneer who co-established the Young & Rubicam Advertising Co., 190pp., bound in 1/4 green cloth over gray paper covered boards lettered in dark green, spine gilt; light wear to extremities. A very good copy.
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£283.32
MR. CITIZEN
by TRUMAN, Harry
(New York): Bernard Geis, (1960). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight pulling at bottom of half-title page from text block. About Fine in a Near Fine pictorial slipcase. Illustrated with photographs. Truman's account of his experiences after leaving the White House. The scarcest of the three issues of this book, this is the Author's Edition bound in half brown leather and patterned paper boards with two gilt-lettered black labels on the spine and a larger label on the front cover noting this as the...
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£2,529.69
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Poems
by JONG, Erica (SIGNED)
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY ERICA JONG ON TITLE PAGE. viii, 86 pp. Author's First Book. Price of $5.95 on front flap; first edition stated. A Fine copy in a Fine Dust Jacket.
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£141.66
ASPECTS OF EVE. POEMS
by PASTAN, Linda
New York: Liveright, (1975). First Edition. Hardcover. Faint spotting to cloth. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper. The hardcover issue. INSCRIBED and SIGNED in 1980 on the title page to the poet William Meredith: "For William,/who has become/almost family./Linda."
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£101.19
MEMOIRS OF THE NOTORIOUS STEPHEN BURROUGHS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
by (FROST, Robert) BURROUGHS, Stephen
New York: MacVeagh/The Dial Press, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good or better, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Cloth-backed batik boards. Account of an eighteenth century New Englander reprinted from the Albany edition of 1811, this edition with a preface by Robert Frost, his second prose appearance in a book (Crane D2). Howes B1022: "Picaresque adventures, perhaps somewhat exaggerated, of a New England rogue." This copy is SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper with his initials and with an...
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£860.09
LIKE A BULWARK
by Moore, Marianne (SIGNED)
New York: The Viking Press, 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY MARIANNE MOORE ON FFEP. 32pp., bound in paper covered boards, spine lettering black; a fine copy in unclipped dust jacket with a small dark spot to front panel.
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£161.90
A CERTAIN STAR
by Buck, Pearl S. (SIGNED)
New York: The American Weekly, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-. Tall Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY PEARL S BUCK ON FFEP. Illustrated by Herschel Levit. A very good- copy with dampstains covers, affecting pastedowns and endpapers. Bookplate front pastedown. 23 pp.
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£121.42
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La Mano Di Dio [The Left Hand of God]
by Barrett, William E. (SIGNED)
Milan: Edizioni Librarie Italiane, 1956. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. 419 pp. First Italian Edition. SIGNED AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM E. BARRETT TO HIS WIFE. Fine in a Near Fine Dust Jacket.
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£202.38
NIXON: Volumes One and Two; The Education of a Politician 1913-1962 | The Triumph of a Politician 1962-1972
by Ambrose, Stephen E.; (Richard M. Nixon)
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989). First edition. Two volumes: first printing of volume two, second printing of volume one. BOTH VOLUMES INSCRIBED BY AMBROSE. The first two volumes in Ambrose's Nixon trilogy. Illustrated with photos. Volume one: Slight lean at top of spine still very good to fine in bright, near fine dust jacket. Volume two: Spine ends and corners lightly bumped, boards gently edge rubbed, barely perceptible nick midway in rear board, and very faint offset on the pastedowns from the...
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£364.28
THIS TROUBLED WORLD
by ROOSEVELT, Eleanor
New York: H. C. Kinsey & Company, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Joints and gutters of book darkened but a superior copy in both condition and association. Near Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper. A small, slim clothbound volume of 47 pages. Roosevelt's own copy with a bookplate from the publisher on the front endpaper stating, "This is your editorial copy" with a publication date of 3 January 1938. Above the bookplate the First Lady has INSCRIBED and SIGNED the book to her daughter and son-in-law:...
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£5,059.38
The Witchery of Rita and Waiting for Tonti
by Robinson, Will H. (SIGNED)
Phoenix AZ: The Berryhill Co, 1919. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY WILL H. ROBINSON TO HIS BROTHER ON FFEP. 12mo, 71 pp. Bound green cloth spine over green printed boards. Minor edge wear; faint pencil marks rear endpapers; a very good copy.
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£80.95
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Aircraft Year Book 1921 [From Will D. (Billy) Parker's Library]
by Manufacturers Aircraft Association, Inc. (SIGNED By Will D. (Billy) Parker)
Boston: Small, Maynard & Co, 1921. First Edition. Hard Cover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY WILL D. (BILLY) PARKER. Legendary pioneer aviator Will D. (Billy) Parker's copy, with his bookplate and ownership inscription of front blank: "Capt. Billy Parker/H.M.R.F.C./Dewey Okla/1921" in pencil. Parker had just served Her Majesties Royal Flying Corps - the inscription shows his pride. His bookplate reads, "Billy Parker/A Pilot Since 1912/ Test Pilot/Aeronautical Engineer." Billy Parker (1899-1981), became known...
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£283.32
Broomsticks and Other Tales
by De La Mare, Walter (SIGNED)
London: Constable & Company, 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. SIGNED BY WALTER DE LA MARE ON COLOPHON without personalization. ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY DE LA MARE ON FFEP WITH 4 LINE POEM DATED CHRISTMAS 1925. LIMITED EDITION OF 278 COPIES. THIS IS No. 60. Beige cloth spine over blue boards, leather label on spine. A Very Good+ copy; internally fine; small chip to label on spine, not affecting title. Top cover corners bumped.
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£101.19
A Marianne Moore Reader
by Moore, Marianne (SIGNED)
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Large Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR ON FEP BY MARIANNE MOORE. With author's ink correction on page 199, as she was known to do, in other copies. A fine, brilliant copy in a handsome dust jacket, with light wear at extremities and some fading at spine, as usual. xviii, 301 pp.
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£283.32
THE ONLY PLACE WE LIVE
by Derleth, August (SIGNED)
Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1966. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUGUST DERLETH. ALSO SIGNED BY FRANK UTPATEL, THE ILLUSTRATOR. 48pp., bound in 1/4 brown cloth over patterned blue paper covered boards, spine gilt, a fine copy in unclipped, in nearly fine, clean bright dust jacket.
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£80.95
The Pitjantjatjara and Their Crafts
by Brokensha, Peter
Sydney: The Aboriginal Arts Board (Australia Council). 1975. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs and maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 72 pages. Contents include: The Pitjantjatjara and their Land; The Contact Period; The Departure; The Return; The Western Pitjantjatjara; The Contemporary Crafts of the Pitjantjatjara; The Growth and Importance of the Artifact Industry; Survival. . 1st Edition....
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£11.64
MARY KAY: You Can Have it All. Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur
by Ash, Mary Kay (SIGNED)
California: Prima Publishing, 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. xiv, 258 pp. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on FEP BY MARY KAY ASH. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
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£60.71
LOOKING FOR LUCK. POEMS
by KUMIN, Maxine
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the title page to the poet William Meredith and his partner "in celebration of/our friendship" and dated 1992. Laid in is a 1994 flyer announcing a Kumin reading and addressed to Meredith.
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£60.71
INFINITE RICHES. The Adventures of a Rare Book Dealer
by MAGEE, David (SIGNED). Introduction By Lawrence Clark Powell
New York: Paul S. Erikksson, Inc, 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY DAVID MAGEE WITH AUTOGRAPHED NOTE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE AUTHOR'S PERSONAL STATIONARY WITH HIS PRINTED LETTERHEAD. Bound in original gold cloth with black lettering. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. xiii, 274 pp.
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£101.19
A FRAGILE BEAUTY. John Nichols' Milagro County
by Nichols, John. (SIGNED) Foreword By Robert Redford
Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith, Inc./Peregrine Smith Books, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Quarto. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY JOHN NICHOLS ON HALF TITLE PAGE. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket. Armorial bookplate front pastedown. 146 pp.
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£101.19
