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Champaign, IL: Garrard Publishing Company, 1962 First edition. Ex-library copy with usual markings, remnants of former vinyl jacket still present. Edges and corners worn, jacket glued to front and rear boards with long tear on front near spine, lightly soiled. 80 pp. Illustrated by Anthony D'Adamo. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Fair. Illus. by D'Adamo, Anthony. Ex-Library. ... more information

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Boston: Little Brown, 2000 First edition, first printing. Very good in very good dust jacket. 325 pp. Based on an earlier novel, "Virgin" and includes scenes and characters from that book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1919 Ex-private library. Brown cloth, lettered in gilt on front and spine, paper library label on spine, spine darkened, extremities rubbed, small closed tear at head of spine, page edges toned, corners bumped. 321 pp. with tissue-guarded photographic portrait and 16 pp. of black and white photographic reproductions and maps.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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New York: Friday's Heroes Inc, 1973 First edition. Binding shelfworn with minor mildew stain, edges rubbed, stain on foreedge, jacket very rubbed with some chipping, yellowed. Written with Robert Sacchi. Foreward by Joey Adams. Inscribed "To ******, with best wishes, Willie Pep". 195 pp. Includes photographic illustrations.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. ... more information

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New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1942 Decorative cloth stained, worn and faded, has edgewear.Paper label on spine worn away in spots. Page edges brown. Inside, bright and clean. 41 pages of text with 192 plates. Special edition with hand-drawn decorative initials. Design and typography by A.P. Tedesco.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. ... more information

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New York: Knopf, 1997 First edition. Very good with very good dustjacket. 474 pp. Includes index and bibliography. Illustrated with 97 photographs. A fascinating portrait of one of our major literary figures.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941 First edition. xviii, 240 pp. Light green cloth binding with blue lettering on spine and cover, decoration of a bird in blue on front, jacket is price clipped, extremities rubbed, some chipping and closed tears at top. The Standard Book for Field Identification. With 48 pages of half-tone illustrations, 48 line cuts, and six pages in full color.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good Minus. ... more information

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Boston: Richardson , Lord & Holbrook and Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1831 By the Compilations of Murray, Scott, Enfield, Mylius, Thompson, Ewing, and Others. Full leather with red leather label, lettered in gilt. Leather lightly rubbed. Binding is tight, with foxing on endpapers and throughout. 276 pp. Previous owner's name, "Mary Lyman" on second free front endpaper in contemporary penmanship. Very slight splay to boards and minor crinkling to pages 1-33 or so. A very nice co... more information

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New York: Delacorte, 1992 First edition, first printing. Ex-library with usual stamps and markings in mylar jacket, flaps pasted down.. Back free endpaper torn out, but book is in tact. Good reading copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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Cleveland: World Syndicate Company xxiv, [21]-[217] pp. Original blue cloth, lettered in silver on spine, embossed silver square on front states "Children's Classics", top edge blue, extremities rubbed, some discoloration to front edges, else in Ver Good condition. Contents: Life of Poe by James Russell Lowell; The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall; The Gold Bug; The Purloined Letter; A Descent into the Maelstrom. Note: Table of Contents indicates the Death of Poe, by N.P. Willis shou... more information

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New York: Harmony, 1999 First edition, first printing. Back corner slightly bent, otherwise in excellent condition. 214 pp. Author's first book. The freaks of the suburban southwest wander through a wasteland of pop culture in the 12 stories that make up this collection. Characters, mostly from the lower-middle class, collect '70s TV kitsch, drink cheap beer, and meander around the half-deserted dystopias of failing housing developments. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7... more information

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New York: Ballantine, 1995 First Edition. NF/NF. A Medical suspense thriller. Author's first book.. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. ... more information

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New York: Random House, 1997 First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. 404 pp. From the author of The Hot Zone, a story of a secret counter terror operation, based on a scrupulously thorough inquiry into the history of biological weapons. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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Lawrence, Kansas: Kansas University Endowment Association, University of Kansas, 1976 788 pp. Binding lightly rubbed with small tear at tail of spine. Pages edges lightly foxed. Clean inside and out, no markings or underlining. May require additional shipping charges. Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... more information

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New York: Random House, 1997 First edition, first printing. VG/VG, slightly rubbed. 283 pp. With a new preface by the author.. First Random House Inc. Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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Cleveland. Ohio: World Publishing Company, 1943 Second printing. 304 pp. Drawings by Carol Johnson. Small closed tear at bottom of title page. Blue cloth with silver lettering, Forum Books logo in silver on cover, front has small circular stain on cover, edges rubbed, pages heavily toned, but not brittle. . First Edition. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Johnson, Carol. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... more information

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