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Near Fine, Beautiful Collectible Copyno dj as issued. Gold edged pages. Illustrated cloth cover with gold gilt Harp in center front. Rare, Highly Collectible. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first edition of first book published. 1839Published by Hurst and Co. New YorkOne of the 5 members of the group Fireside Poets.His debut book of poetry. The bulk of it is translations though he also included 9 original poems and 7 poems he wrote as a teenager. Voices of the Night, Hymn to the night, A psalm of life, The reaper and the flowers, The light of stars, Footsteps of Angels, Flowers, The Beleagured City, Midnight mass for the dying year.Earlier Poems,: An April Day, Autumn, Woods in Winter, Hymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem, Sunrise on the Hills, The Spirit of Poetry, Burial of the Minnisink

Little Brown and Company, 1933 Book. Illus. by Leroy Baldridge. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Very Good ++ to Near Fine orange boards, black blind stamped titles and design to front boards and spine. Interior tight, with slight discoloration at inner binding. Personal dedication and signature by Margaret, whom the book is dedicated to. ("To a dear friend Margaret Hatch...") And then Margaret signed, "Presented to Dorothy Clendenin on her thirty-eighth birthday with the gope that she will enjoy this and many more worthwhile books. Margaret (Hatch). Dust Jacket is bumped and chipped along edges.Stated 6th printing on the front of the DJ. Price of $3.00 inside DJ. Pearl Buck is quoted on the front of the dust jacket, "Undoubtedly one of the most delightful books of personal experience that has yet been written about China.".

1952: Little Brown Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. VG/Good Blue hardback with red titles on spine. No marks, clean tight edition. Date on title page, 1952. Dj has colorful crime scene. Chipping and small tears along the edges and at the top and bottom of spine. Made into 1954 film, "Pushover" starring Fred McMurray and Kim Novak..

Doubleday 1951, VG+/ Believed to be Hemmerling's copy, as the signature is across 2 pages. Hemmerling was a notable Louisianna Folk Artist who inscribed " A good woman is a crown to her husband and the joy of her children an she will fat their bones and be their delight". And also, "More things are wrought by prayer than dreamed". Gray boards in VG ++ condition with a small dent mid spine and normal bumping to corners from shelf wear. Hemmerling's signature inside front cover (in pen) as well as back of first page (in pencil) Black & white phots adorn the inside of cover depicting scenes from her performances. There is also a 25 cent mark in red on on of the photos. The dj is in good +condition. It shows considerable wear and bumping and few tears along spine and corners. Remarkable photos on front and back. Great DJ! Autobiography documenting encounters with other black vaudeville greats including Jim Crow. A powerful personal testament!

Little Brown and Company, 1948 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Same date to copyright and title pages: 1948. Light blue boards faded at spine in spots and along edges also damp stains. Interior of the book is i very good condition, clean tight, no marks. The DJ shows some browning due to sun (?) but overall is in very good condtiion with minor chipping to edges. Made into a movie of the same name. By some readers The Loved One will be regarded as one of the most perfect short novels published in many years; squeamish readers, on the other hand, who dislike the gruesome are here by warned away from this fierce, passionate and haunting love story of a young British poet named Dennis Barlow and a young American crematorium cosmetician named Aimee Thanatogenos. .

Made the " top ten books to have" list for 1940's decade . And the top 100 ever written! A must for any and all collections!
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1945. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4. First American BCE. Waugh's seventh novel
1945 stated on full title page. Copyright dates: 1944, 1945, by Evelyn Waugh. Book printed and bound by Kingsport Press, Inc. Kingsport Tenn.

Garden City, NY: Sun Dial Press, 1949 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. VG/none Light brown board with detailed blind stamp of Rampart Street (a historic ave located in New Orleans) on front cover. Dark brown titles to spine. Small water stain on first fly leaf, light rubbing to edges, otherwise clean, tight, no marks. No DJ. A dramatic powerful novel of love and thwarted passions set against the dark and violent back ground of the bloody Civil War border disputes..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Stated 1st Edition, first printing. The green hardcover boards with blue title designs, spine, hinges, and 540 pages are secure and in fine condition. Straight and square with sharp corners. slight shelf wear at base of spine. Gracing the cover is a beautiful tribal design of a hunter, and the negative image of six cave painted hands run up the spine. There are three separate sections of photographs, with over 48 pages of photos total, and hundreds more illustrations and diagrams. Wendt has compiled and begins to discuss the philosophies and perspectives of discovers, scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, dreamers, and visionaries on our roots as a species, melding evolutionary and psychospiritual development into an astute commentary. Printed at the Riverside Press in Cambridge. Translated from German by James Cleugh. Printed in England as "I Looked For Adam"..

Doubleday, 1954 Book. Illus. by Helen S. Hamilton. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. NF/NF. Beautiful 1954 copy of a classic youth series. Over 70 illustrations in 2 colors. DJ has price of $1.50. Tight, clean copy, PO's signature, date..

Harper & Row, 1967 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. This copy of The Eighth Day may be of different origins than the dust jacket. The book states, "FIRST EDITION", the dj states " book of the month club selection. NF/ VG. Light blue buckram boards with dark blue at spine. Gilt titles to spine. PO's signature and date (April 14, 1967) otherwise a clean, tight copy. DJ has chipping and small tear to top and bottom of spine. National Book Award Winner by a Pulitzer Prize winning author. Murder in a coal mining town in Illinois, in 1902..

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1930 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Same date to copyright and title pages, 1930. States date of first printing, February 1930. Second Printing, February 1930. Light grey/ off white boards in VG condition, with fading to off white on the top front cover. Titles in gilt on spine and front cover, front cover showing and imprint of the profile of the woman of Andros sitiing in a chair. The imprint is dark orange. The interior of the book is clean and tight. DJ is in good condition. The DJ is in 3 pieces and placed on the inside of the covers. In contrast to Mr. Wilder's earlier novels, the characters of The Woman of Andros are simple village dwellers. The book is a study in the inner life of a few characters passing trough circumstances that are common to domestic life in all times and places. .

New YOrk: A.L. Burt Company, 1904 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Same Date, 1904. VG/none Green Boards with B&W illustration pasted on the front cover of a Victorian Woman helping a 17th century soldier who has just fallen. Slight wear at top of spine and edges. Illustrated. Beautiful condition. Tight, clean, no marks other that PO's signature in pencil. Romance of Virginia in the 17th Century. April 1926, became the first recipient of the William Dean Howell's MEdal for Distinction in fiction from the America Academy of Art & Letters..

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. VG/Good. Hard cover book is in very good ++++ condition. Slightly bumped at corners, Orange/brown covers with yellow titles to spine and cover. Tight , clean edition. No marks. Appears unopened. Colorful dust jacket has multiple small tears along edges. "The reader will find himself living among lust Englishmen and women who were well aware of good food, good drink,ad pleasurable living. They were an adventurous, hard-headed group, united in their campaign for freedom of worship. With them the reader will go through their term of exile in Holland, their long and troubled voyage from Old Europe to new America, and their hazardous period of settling on a strange, bleak coast. With the keen, humorous, analytical eye of the first rate modern scholar and the chaste and limitless style of the first rate modern writing man, Mr. Willison has produced a realistic picture of these men and women who so often have been… Read More

Harper & Row 1964, Stated First. VG/VG Bright green boards with gilt titles. DJ has chips along edges, spine and corners, author's name on spine is partially whited out. Po's stamp on upper corner of first page and bottom of book. No other marks, clean. B&W photos of villagers. Map of Taiwan on back end papers. This is the amazing story of Lillian Dickson, a small, human dynamo of a woman who is achieving astounding results from her work among the natives of the mysterious island of Formosa. Upon arrival in 1927 she found that leprosy, headhunting, tuberculosis, the selling of little girls into prostitution and government corruption were all being taken for granted. She looked at the sea of suffering and said, "I'm going to take out my bucketfull".

Simon & Schuster, 1955 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. NF/VG BCE. Grey cloth boards, like new, with red stencil of man in hat and suit on front right cover, red titles to spine. DJ has B&W photo of Sloan Wilson on the back, man in hat and suit on the front cover and spine. Interior of book clean and tight, like new. As a BCE, this book weighs nearly 2/3 of what the first edition, fifth printing Man In The Grey Flannel Suit, that I have. It also states "book club Edition" on the inside lower flap of DJ. It appears to have been printed in 1955 and is from the same publisher as the First Edition.The book itself, other than being lighter, does not show any other indications of being a BCE. .

Simon & Schuster, 1955 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Same date to copyright and title pages. Stated 5th printing. Front top of DJ also states" FIFTH PRINTING . Book is in VG -NF condition, tight, clean, square. Dark Grey (almost black) boards with an inlay stencil of the man in the grey flannel suit and hat. Bound in half red cloth over the dark grey boards. Scarce, rare DJ in very good condition. Chipped along edges and corners, small tears at top and bottom of spine. Long tear (repaired with tape long ago... on back of DJ. NOT price clipped, price of $3.50 on bottom inside of DJ. . National Best Seller made into Award Winning film.

Doubleday New York 1947 First Edition. Near FIne/none . Like New Condition with no DJ as issued. Dark Burgundy boards with blue and gilt titles and illustrations to spine. Corners ever so slightly bumped. No marks, clean copy. BEAUTIFUL copy . Would make a great gift.

New York: Scribner's, 1929 Book. Near Fine, no dust jacket. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Same date, 1929, on title and copyright pages with Scribner's seal on copyright page. ("scarce"). Interior of book is in near fine condition. Clean, tight, no marks. Navy cloth with gilt titles.Tiny nicks along spine. No DJ. Pg 308, line 26 lower "g" in greek. Pg. 506, line 23 missing "t" in stationed. .

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Co, 1985 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. NF/VG Blue boards with darker blue at and along spine. Siver titles at spine with mutiple stars above and below the title. No marks, stains, smells, etc. Clean, tight edition. Inside Outside sweeps through more than sixty years, from the pre-war, pre-atomic innocence of the twenties and thirties to the turbulent immediate past. Scenes of rollicking family humor and show-business comedy alternate with sudden tragedy, with the spectacle of a fallen president and with the explosion of war. A bittersweet first love, relived after forty years, and a tense secret wartime mission between Washington and Jerusalem call forth the author's renowned storytelling gift. .

New York: Doubleday, 1951 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Same Date, 1951, on title and copyright pages. Very Good ++ copy/ no dust jacket. Tight, clean copy. Bright royal blue boards. Silver title on spine a bit faded in spots. Average bumping to spine and edges from shelf ware Drawing of anchor on spine, in silver. .