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LOST LIGHT
by Michael Connelly
[MICHAEL CONNELLY]. LOST LIGHT. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA., 2003. First Edition, First printing. True first edition with full number line. Condition: Near Fine. Appears unread, pages are clean, bright and binding tight. Dust jacket is unclipped with light scuffs to front, micro closed-tear to top of jacket and shelf wear. Signed and dated by author Michael Connelly on the title page. This is the ninth Harry Bosch detective novel, this story involves the movie industry.Modern first hardboiled...
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$34.95
Ghosts. The New York Trilogy Volume 2.
by AUSTER, Paul
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1986. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Navy cloth. As New. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The second book in the New York Trilogy.
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$295.00
The Unnamable
by Beckett, Samuel
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1958. Very Good+ condition in a Good only dust jacket (see photos). Scarce clothbound edition, especially so in jacket. Clean, square, and tight. Sharp corners. The jacket has several tiny chips, two creases, and four tears, of which two are nearly 4 inches long. However the jacket is still quite attractive and presents well in its Brodart clear-plastic sleeve (removed for photos). NOT price clipped ($3.50). NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and crisp....
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$295.00
A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety.
by CARTER, Jimmy
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015. Signed by Jimmy Carter on the title page. First edition / First printing. Blue paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.
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$280.00
Porgy: A play in four acts
by HEYWARD, Dorothy and HEYWARD, Du Bose
London: Ernest Benn, Limited, 1929. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxi, [iii], 203, [1]. Original brown cloth, orange lettering to spine. Chip and wear to head of spine, bruising and wear to bottom extremities, blotching to lower board. Top edge dusty, fore-edge a little spotted. Feps lightly toned, pushing to bottom corner of a couple of early signatures, short closed tears to top edges of pp. 89-104, reaching 2cm at pp. 103-4, text unaffected. Else, pleasingly clean and tidy. Very good. Unusual in the...
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$62.80
THE BATTY BOOK THE TRUE HISTORY OF A BUSH BABY
by CATHERINE G FOSTER
LONDON : COUNTRY LIFE , 1949 Beige Cloth boards with burgundy blocked titles to spine and front, 210 x 170 mm approx. 76 pp. Illustrated title + numerous unspecified charming pencil sketches and line drawings by the author. First Edition 1949. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Very Good (Book- mild foxing spots to end papers, else Near Fine with no previous owner name or insc. Dust Jacket- a little sunned around spine, mild general...
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$22.61
BATTLE OF ANGELS
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee
Murray, UT: Pharos, Spring 1945. First Edition. softcover. Small stain on front cover near spine; upper corner of text bumped. Still a Fine, bright copy, rather uncommon in this condition. Pharos: Numbers 1 & 2. Playwright's first play and first book, a double number of this periodical in original pale blue-gray wraps with yapped edges printed in red.
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$500.00
The Girl who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
by Stieg Larsson
An exceptional quality copy of this first edition, first impression, with the full 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 number-line. Unread, unclipped, and with no bumps, marks or inscriptions. Please see photos to appreciate the quality. There are cheaper copies available but not of this quality and collectability. Rare in this condition, and generously-priced, it would make a great addition to a Stieg Larsson collection.
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$20.10
CAVENDER'S HOUSE
by ROBINSON, E. A
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Some sunning to covers. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Copy #99 of 500 SIGNED by the poet on the limitation page. In addition Robinson has written four lines from the poem's beginning on the half-title page and SIGNED the book again: "He stood by the same door that he had closed/Twelve years ago, and waited; and again/He closed the door, slowly and silently,/And was himself a part of darkness there/E. A. Robinson." Bookplate on front...
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$312.50
DAYS
by ROBISON, Mary
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Uncorrected proof in red printed wraps of this acclaimed first collection of short stories.
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$25.00
5 DETROITS
by LEVINE, Philip
n.p.: Unicorn Press, (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Copy #32 of only 50 numbered copies bound in cloth and SIGNED by the poet on the colophon page. Contains the first publication in a book of "They Feed They Lion."
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$437.50
Japan. An Attempt at Interpretation
by Hearn, Lafcadio
New York: Macmillan, 1904. Hardcover. Very good. Hearn, son of a Greek mother and Irish father, was born in Greece and became a Japanese citizen after marrying Koizumi Setsuko, the daughter of a prominent family. In 1895, he took the name Koizumi Yakumo (Eight Clouds). This work is his introduction to Japan of the Meiji era, and describes the transition from feudal to a more modern society. 8vo, color frontispiece, v, 541pp, teg, ads (2). Original gilt and black stamped tan cloth, with gilt title and...
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$600.00
Sources of Strength. Signed full signature: Jimmy Carter.
by CARTER, Jimmy
New York: Times Books, 1997. Signed on the front-free end-paper by President Carter with his full name: Jimmy Carter. First edition / First printing. Tan paper spine, light beige paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy.
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$300.00
The Malcontenta
by Maitland, Barry
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1995. 348 pages. Scarce.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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$39.22
The Troubled Air (First Edition)
by Shaw, Irwin
New York: Random House, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Beige cloth over boards, title and decorations stamped onto upper board and spine, top edge stained black, 8vo (8-1/4 inches tall), pp. 418, black endpapers, stated first printing. Price-clipped DJ is lightly soiled with edge wear and chips, small creases and tears. Shaw's second novel, preceded by The Young Lions.
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$25.87
La Lingua E IL Tempo
by Sergio Romano
Number 311 from a numbered edition of 1,000. Text in Italian. White wraps in dust jacket. In very good condition, clean and unmarked. Signed with initials by author on title page. "Omaggio dell'autore" card loosely inlaid.
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$30.00
The Fair Young Phoenix (first edition with wrapper)
by Edith Pargeter
PARGETER, Edith (Ellis Peters)The Fair Young Phoenix (first edition with wrapper)Heinemann 1948 First edition 1st impression. Hardback with jacket. Red board with black title plate. Small half moon shaped piece out on base of front board. Jacket chipped and tattered on edges, piece out on spine head and bottom RH corner. Now in archive sleeve. See scan. End papers tanned. Internally clean and sound. No inscriptions. Prompt, secure UK dispatch. Pargeter's eighth book. It is very unusual to find this...
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$314.02
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods.
by ECO, Umberto
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. Signed on the title page by Umberto Eco. First edition / First printing. Green paper spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.
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$350.00
BUTTERFLY STORIES signed 1st with DRAWING
by WILLIAM VOLLMANN
A FINE FIRST EDITION IN DUST JACKET. SIGNED WITH DRAWING
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$75.00
Blackeyes
by Dennis Potter
Faber, London, 1988. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Very good plus, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover, faint crease along top edge.Author of the play and television series The Singing Detective, Potter's novel Blackeyes is a stunning literary mystery set in the London fashion world.
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$5.14
THE UNADULTERATED CAT
by TERRY PRATCHETT
LONDON: VICTOR GOLLANCZ, 1989 Illustrated laminated card covers (Paperback) 245 x 170 mm approx. 96 pp black and white cartoons by Gray Jolliffe. First printing 1989. A Victor Gollancz Paperback Original. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG (Book- mild general shelf wear/ soiling to covers, no previous owner name or insc. Binding sound with no other notable defects).
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$6.28
WAR AND THE FUTURE ITALY, FRANCE AND BRITAIN AT WAR
by H.G.WELLS
LONDON: CASSELL AND COMPANY, 1917 Publisher's brown cloth boards with gilt titles to spine and blind blocked to front board205 x 145 mm approx.[iv] + 298 pp + 2 of publisher's adverts. First Edition 1st printing 1917. The authors thoughts, observations and reflections on the conflagration which was consuming Europe at the time and what the future may hold. Poor (Book - Spine sunned with fraying to head, titles dulled and boards generally soiled. Front end paper cracked- mull and sewing holding...
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$6.28
Water Music
by Boyle, T. Coraghessan
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1981. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. The author's first novel, with the pictorial dj, protected by mylar, very good condition. 8vo, 437pp. Internally sml black felt pen mark at top edge, o/w very good +.
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$75.00
George's Marvellous Medicine
by Dahl, Roald
First edition, first impression. Featuring illustrations by Quentin Blake.
Original blue cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. Bump to bottom corner of upper board, else near fine in a near fine and unclipped dust jacket with some fading to spine panel, minimal evidence of edge wear and a small area of light staining to bottom of spine panel verso. An excellent example.
Original blue cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. Bump to bottom corner of upper board, else near fine in a near fine and unclipped dust jacket with some fading to spine panel, minimal evidence of edge wear and a small area of light staining to bottom of spine panel verso. An excellent example.
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$357.99
JOCK OF THE BUSHVELD.
by FITZPATRICK. SIR PERCY
Longmans, Green & Co. London. 1907. FIRST EDITION. First printing. Large 8vo. (8.5 x 6.4 inches). Colour frontis, 22 full page mono plates and hundreds of small engraved vignettes to the margins of the text pages, all by E. Caldwell. This is the scarce first issue with the margin drawings of a dung beetle pushing his load with his front legs rather than his back on pages 65, 337 and 457. These were changed in later issues. Some feint offsetting to the blank endpapers and a few pages with some minor...
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$1,570.12
