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New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, (1963). First edition. Quarto (11.5" x 9"), 231 pages, profusely illustrated throughout from photographs, some in color. Publisher's maroon cloth-patterned paper over boards lettered in gilt on the spine & upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket.
One corner lightly bruised, otherwise very good or better in very good dust jacket with modest edge wear including a shallow loss at the top of the spine & a couple of short tears without loss.
Includes the iconic Bert Stern portfolio of Marilyn Monroe & John Stewart's fabulous photos of the female nude.

Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), May 31, 1862. Original manuscript document signed by S.G. Perkins, Captain 1st Vermont Cavalry, measuring 4.25 inches by 7.75 inches, approximately 67 words recorded in ink on laid paper. With brief cryptic annotations & stamped "Received" mark on the verso.
"Rec'd at Martinsburg, Va. May 31, 1862 of John Miller one gray mare five years old for the use in case of great emergency of Co. H 1st Vt. Cavalry by consent of Col. De Forest, 5th New York Cavalry commanding detachment.Lieut. Davids (?), AQM, Cav'y Brigade 
Dep't of Shenandoah will give a final receipt of this.
[Signed] S.G. Perkins, Cap't, 1st Vt. Cavalry."
Old folds, small losses (not affecting text), splits at folds without loss, soiled & foxed, otherwise Good.
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Washington, D.C.: January 16th, 1866, Brevet Brigadier General James A. Ekin to John Miller, Esq, at Martinsburgh (sic), Virginia, on partially printed Quartermaster General's Office letterhead completed in manuscript. Approximately… Read More

Leipzig, Paris, Bologna: The Albatross, Modern Continental Library Volume 389, (1938). "Copyright Edition, not to be introduced into the British Empire or the U.S.A." Duodecimo (7.25" x 4.5"), 252, & [4] pages. Publisher's printed & decorated stiff paper wraps in matching dust jacket.
Slight edge wear, lightly toned, previous owner's name & date in ink at the half title page, otherwise very good in like dust jacket, lightly rubbed, briefly browned at the spine, with a couple of nicks, short tears, & tiny losses at the folds & edges.
Quite possibly the first European edition. Uncommon in general, particularly in dust jacket.
"William Faulkner holds such a place in modern American literature that a new book by him is bound to awaken the interest of the discerning reader. The quality of his work depends largely on his power of evoking atmosphere, and this series of episodes of the American Civil War is all the more vivid in that Faulkner is himself descended from an old Southern family in which the… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, (1966). First edition. Octavo (8.25" x 5.75"), 223 pages. Publisher's gilt lettered gray/ blue cloth, in pictorial dust jacket.
Margins lightly sunned, otherwise fine in very good dust jacket with moderate edge wear including shallow losses at the spine extremities, minor creasing, & a couple of short, closed tears.
The last of Bowles's four novels which he characterized in 1968 as his best "because it's the best written. After all, what one writes for is to write well, to use the language well, to make the words tell the most they can, in the smallest number ..."

New York: Wehman Bros., "Handy Series, No. 52," 1920. 32mo (5" x 4"), 58 pages plus 6 unnumbered pages of illustrated advertisements. Publisher's pictorial, stapled paper wraps.
Back cover closely trimmed at the bottom edge, text toned, otherwise Very Good.