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New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1931. First U.S. edition. From the novelist best known for his Horatio Hornblower series, the story of a pugilist-poet who foregoes his medical studies only to take them up again on the verge of literary fame. Very good to near fine with few creases to head of spine, touch of rubbing to spine ends and gilt just slightly dulled. In dust jacket with professional repair. Exceedingly scarce.
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. by Kesey, Ken - (1962).
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New York:: Viking Press. (1962).. First edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. First issue, in the first issue dust jacket, SIGNED BY KESEY. A classic book made into a classic movie directed by Milos Foreman, starring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher and Danny DeVito. The story evolved from Kesey's time working as an orderly at a mental health facility in Menlo Park, California. Not only did he speak to the patients and witness the workings of the institution, he took psychoactive drugs as part of a project. Time Magazine named the book one of the 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. The book is bright and fine with just a few tiny spots on cloth; in an equally bright dust jacket with expert restoration to several small chips and tears. A sharp copy of the first-issue book in first-issue jacket. .
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New York: The Century Company, 1913. First edition, in first-issue or primary binding of smooth olive cloth. Good with spine lettering a little dulled and somewhat rubbed and rear hinge paper repair; in trimmed but otherwise very good dust jacket.
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London: Ward Lock & Co., 1903. First edition. Illustrated by Maurice Greiffenhagen. 8vo green cloth boards decorated in gilt and blind, color pictorial panel inset to front cover, 381 + 2 pages ads. Period ownership signature, endpapers a little darkened, otherwise very good or better with covers quite bright.
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New York: Beekman, (1954). First edition. A tale described by the author as "a little exercise in manic-depression" from which he cautions "the squeamish to keep their distance." 12mo gilt-stamped brick-red cloth boards; 44 pages. "Review Copy" handwritten in ink on front endpaper and Bertrand Smith bookseller stamp on pastedown. Endpapers slightly darkened at hinges otherwise bright and near fine in good or better dust jacket showing a few chips but without any loss to text. A scarce, strange little book dedicated "To Robinson Jeffers -- who makes poetry of doom." OCLC locates 5 copies in library holdings.
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New York: Signet, 1962. Mass Market Paperback. Good. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. spine and cover creasing, edge wear; 44th printing. Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties. This Penguin Classics edition includes a preface, never-before published illustrations by the author, and an introduction by Robert Faggen. Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's…
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2014 - 1st ed stated ("1" in number line) - INSCRIBED - authors debut book - "Fourteen-year-old Audrey martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, knows she'll never get out of Kentucky - but when her fingers touch the pion keys, the whole church trembles." - book: very good (like new) - dj: very good (like new) - dj in protective mylar sleeve
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Manhattan Beach
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Two Novels by Anthony Powell. Venusberg. Agents & Patients
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New York: Periscope-Holliday, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine-. First American Edition of two early novels. 8vo: [4],328pp. Publisher's quarter-bound black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slate grey paper-covered boards; dust jacket, priced $4.75, replicating (separately, on front and back panels) Osbert Lancaster's illustrations for the original wrappers. Near Fine (top edge soiled and stained, gilt a bit faded, gift inscription on fly-leaf); about Fine jacket. Lilley A.10. First collected in 1952 by Rinehart for the Periscope Book Shop and Holliday Bookshop in New York; the unsold stock was reissued in 1965 by Little, Brown, Powell's then American publisher (our copy), with publisher's label pasted to jacket's spine panel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions…
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Christopher Blake
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Random House, 1947. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Book has some toning to the edges; one word previous owner's name to the front free endpaper. The unclipped jacket ($2.50) has light wear to the spine ends /corners and toning to the rear panel. A very good or better copy.
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Palmares
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Beacon Press, 2021. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Galleys. Fine in illustrated wraps. By the author of Corregidora.
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The Polynesian Triangle
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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