FICTION, LITERATURE, CLASSICS

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1975. 8vo. 382 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Very Good jacket. Black cloth spine, white endpapers. Dustjacket with light edge and corner wear, 1/2 inch closed tear and two small chips on back panel, in archival cover. Publishers slip laid in. ISBN 0316031216. #721.. ISBN: 0316031216. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. James Aldridge, Mockery in Arms, fiction, mystery, suspense, Kurds, Middle East , first edition, modern first, first American Edition. more information

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New York: Hurst & Company. 254 pgs. Good condition hardcover. Maroon cloth with decoration on front and spine. Gilt lettering to spine, edges of textblock are green. Cloth is rubbed a bit along edges. Generally clean and unmarked with uniform age toning to page edges. Fifty titles in the Alger Series for Boys are listed on the back of the title page. #1537.. Not Dated.. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Horatio Alger, Alger Series for Boys, Fiction, Juvenile, Childrens, Boys, Series. more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1877. 453pgs+adv. Very Good green cloth hardcover, red text block. This is the original hardcover 1877 Harper edition, not the modern reprint. Clean, sound and unmarked but for the neatly penned 1878 owner inscription of Harry Thurston Peck (see below) on the front free endpaper and the later owner blindstamp of Orlando D'Amato at the bottoms of the front endpaper, blank, title page, pgs 1 and 2. Light rubbing to cloth at edges and corners. An English commentary on the tragedies of Euripides, each section has an argument, outline of the play followed by linear references to passages in various acts and scenes, and with passages in ancient Geek with explanations and notes. The Rhesus is the only extant Greek drama whose plot is taken from the action of the tenth book of The Iliad. Euripides, however, places the scene in the Trojan camp. Contents: Notes on The Rhesus, Notes on The Medea, Notes on The Hippolytus, Notes on The Alcestis, Notes on the Heraclidae, Notes on The Supplices, Notes on the Troades, Scanning of the Preceding Plays. Personal copy of American classical scholar Harry Thurston Peck, professor of Ancient Languages at Columbia College, and editor-in-chief of various publications such as Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, International Cyclopedia and The Bookman. #2266.. First Edition. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - 5¾ Inches - 6 3/4 Inches Tall. Notes on Euripides, an Englishe Commentary on the Tragedies of Euripides, Charles Anthon, Euripides, Harper, Columbia, The Rhesus, Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, Heraclidae, Supplices, Scale, Verse, Iambic Trimeter Acatalectic, Trohaic Tetrameter Acatalectic, Anapaestic verse, Scanning, Meter, Metre, Greek Classics, Classical Studies, Epic Poetry, The Iliad, Troy, Greek Tragedy, Greek Literature, Ancient Greek, Language, Translation, Reference, Children of Hercules, Trojan Women, Suppliant Women, Ancient Theatre, Meter, Theatre of War, Anthon's Series, Classical studies. more information

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New York and Cleveland: Tom Doherty Associates Book, 1994. 8vo. 318 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Clean and unmarked. Yellow boards black with copper lettering at spine. Beautifully color illustrated endpapers. Jacket art by Darrell Sweet. A book in the Xanth series, Gloha, offspring of a goblin and a harpy, goes on a quest in search of truth, friendship and hopefully her one true love. ISBN 0312853904. #126.. ISBN: 0312853904. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Darrell Sweet. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall. Piers Anthony, Harpy Thyme, Harpy Time, Darrell Sweet, Xanth, first edition, science fiction, modern first, Fiction. more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers, NY. Copyright 1926., 1926. 12 mo. 37 pgs Very Good condition hardcover. Green cloth with paper title pieces on spine and front cover. Some edge chipping to paper of title on spine, not obtrusive to lettering. Very lightly foxed endpapers, with owner name on front endpaper, else clean, sound and unmarked. Introduction followed by 27 poems. #540.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. non-fiction, poetry, verse, first Edition, Animula Vagula, Leonard Bacon. more information

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New York: Random House, 1992. 8vo. 165 pgs. Fine hardcover in Very Good jacket. Black cloth hardbound, very clean and tight. Black dust jacket has some very light rubbing along bottom right front edge and a small punctured tear near bottom left near spine. A man and woman meet on an adult party line group and move on to an extensive private erotic fantasy. ISBN 0394589955. #873.. ISBN: 0394589955. Third Printing.. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vox, Nicholson Baker, Fiction, Erotica, Telephone Sex. more information

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New York: Random House, 1992. 8vo. 166 pgs. Near Fine Softcover in Near Fine brown paper sleeve. Book is clean, crisp, unmarked, SIGNED by author on title page. Wrapper has a trace of shallow crinklling to the fold on the right side, else pristine. This is the "Advanced Readers Edition" of the first edition. Sexually provocative. A man and woman meet on an adult party line group and move on to an extensive private erotic fantasy. ISBN 0679738819. #2315.. ISBN: 0679738819. Signed by Author. Advanced Readers Edition. Softcover, with paper Sleeve. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advanced Readers Edition. Vox, Nicholson Baker, Fiction, Erotica, Advanced Readers Copy, Adult Party Line,Telephone Sex. more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1959. vii. 591 pgs. Very Good+ condition hardcover, very clean and unmarked with minimal external wear or internal signs of use. There is a small 1/4 x 1/2 inch hole (paper defect?) pg 543-544, no text is missing or affected. The texts reproduced are sourced directly from the original manuscript or the best early edition with a minimum of editing. Biographical and critical headnotes include the significance of each author's work to his time period and concise bibliographies with important editions, monographs and articles. Foreword by Karl J. Holzknecht is followed by a lengthy introduction. Poets and Authors: George Chapman, Michael Drayton, Sir Henry Wotton, John Donne,Ben Jonson, Phineas Fletcher, Richard Corbet, Sir John Beaumont, Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Giles Fletcher, George Wither, William Browne, Robert Herrick, Henry King, Francis Quarles, George Herbert, Thomas Carew, Thomas Randolph, Sir WIlliam Davenant, Edmund Waller, John Milton, Sir John Suckling, William CArtwright, Richard Crashaw, John Cleveland, Sir John Denham, Richard Lovelace, Abraham Cowley, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan, Minor Poets Before 1660, Songs From Plays Before 1660, Samuel Butler, Charles Cotton, John Dryden, Thomas Traherne, Sir Charles Sedley, John Wilmot, Earle of Rochester, John Oldham, Minor Poets 1660-1700, Poets From Songbooks and Miscellanies, Songs From Plays 1660-1770, Index. #1847. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall. Seventeenth-Century English Poetry, Bald, Seventeenth Century, English, Literature, Poetry, Verse, Stuart, Tudor, Karl J. Holzknecht, 1600's, 1700's, Poets, Songs, Plays, Anthology, Harper English Literature Series, George Chapman, Michael Drayton, Sir Henry Wotton, John Donne,Ben Jonson, Phineas Fletcher, Richard Corbet, Sir John Beaumont, Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Giles Fletcher, George Wither, William Browne, Robert Herrick, Henry King, Francis Quarles, George Herbert, Thomas Carew, Thomas Randolph, Sir WIlliam Davenant, Edmund Waller, John Milton, Sir John Suckling, William CArtwright, Richard Crashaw, John Cleveland, Sir John Denham, Richard Lovelace, Abraham Cowley, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan, ballads, Samuel Butler, Charles Cotton, John Dryden, Thomas Traherne, Sir Charles Sedley, John Wilmot, Earle of Rochester, John Oldham, Minor Poets. more information

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New York: HarperCollins, 1996. 8vo.447 pgs. Fine Hardbound in Fine jacket, clean and unmarked with no discernable defects. A story about a wildlife photographer, Will Rabjohns, who has made his reputation photographing endangered species, and a fateful trip to the Arctic where a mystical encounter with a bear leaves him all but dead. A journey of self-discovery leads him back to AIDS-plagued San Francisco, New York, and the Scottish moors, where he penetrates the ultimate mystery, "The "Domus Mundi" and discovers the secret that links his destiny to that of all the innumerable creatures on the planet. ISBN 006017949X. #362.. ISBN: 006017949X. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Gene Mydlowski. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Clive Barker, Sacrament, Gene Mydlowski, fiction, science fiction, horror, fantasy, mysticism, first edition, Environmental Fiction, modern Firsts. more information

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New York: Delacorte Press, 1991. 8vo. 257 pgs. Near Fine condition hardcover in Very Good jacket. White boards, black spine with gold lettering, clean and unmarked. Light edgewear. Dust jacket has 1/4 inch closed tear at bottom spine corner, two tiny closed tears at top rear. Author of COYOTE. The fourth of the Carlotta Carlyle mysteries, set in Boston. Blues singer Deeillis comes back into Carlotta's life. ISBN 0385300131. #125.. ISBN: 0385300131. First Edition Nov. 1991. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Linda Barnes, Steel Guitar, Carlotta Carlyle, first edition, mystery, fiction, modern First. more information

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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1887. 325pgs. Very Good condition hardcover, blue cloth decorated with silver thistle design on front and spine. Spine darkened, edges slightly rubbed, a few faint red spots to front board. Internally clean and sound. A nineteenth century romance set in the Cumbria Lake District near the border of England and Scotland. By the author of Jan Vedder's Wife, A Daughter of Fife, The Bow of Osage Ribbon, The Squire of Sandal-Side. #2289.. Decorated Cloth Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - 5¾ Inches - 6 3/4 Inches Tall. A Border Shepherdess, Amelia E. Barr, Faith Harribee, Mosskirtle, Novel, Romance, Nineteenth Century, Christian, Catholic, Faith, Virtue, Graeme Castle, Piety, Twins, Lord Tilbert Graeme, Terres, Shepherdess, Jan Vedder's Wife, A Daughter of Fife, The Bow of Osage Ribbon, The Squire of Sandal-Side. more information

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New York: W.W. Norton Co., 1998. 8vo. 281 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, SIGNED by author on half-title page. Author's first novel. Removable "Autographed Copy" sticker on front cover. A young couple's world starts to unravel when their eighteen month old child is accidentally burned, and the report of an emergency room physician prompts the state to take temporary custody. ISBN 0393046257.#491.. ISBN: 0393046257. Signed by Author. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. fiction, Rachel Basch, Degrees of Love, first edition, modern first, signed, first First. more information

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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. 8vo. 483 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover. Blue cloth boards with pink title panel on spine. Gilt lettering to spine, slightly faded. FR colophon on copyright page. Very faint water spots to cloth of top front board. Owner bookplate on front endpaper, else clean and unmarked. Includes Stories of American History, Spanish Bayonet, Tales of Our Time, Fantasies and Prophesies. #497.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. non-fiction, classics, literature, Stephen Vincent Benet, short stories, Essays. more information

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New York and Cleveland: Random House., 1989. 8vo. 66 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket. Black cloth spine, maroon boards. Very shallow bump to upper corner. Winner of 1988 Walt Whitman Award. Author of "Pirate Jenny". ISBN 0394535369. # 591.. ISBN: 0394535369. First Edition/First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. poetry, non-fiction, Walt Whitman Award, first edition, modern First, April Bernard, Blackbird Bye Bye, Blackbird Bye-bye. more information

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London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1956. 48 pgs. Very Good condition softcover, pamphlet bound, paper wraps. Light tea colored spot to top edge of text block near spine, otherwise clean and unmarked with minimal wear. Sepia toned frontis portrait of the author. A biography and select bibliography, with an index of essays and stories. No. 33 in the bibliographical series of supplements to "British Book News" on Writers and Their Work. General Editor Bonamy Dobree. #1661.. Revised Edition.. Softbound Pb, Pamphlet Bound.. Very Good. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall. Virginia Woolf, Blackstone, Biography, Bibliography, British Book News, Writers and Their Work, Novelist, Critic, Fiction, Literature, Arts & Crafts Movement, Mrs. Dalloway, Lytton Strachey, Virginia Wolf. more information

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Roanoke, Va.: Lintel Press, 1988. 8 vo. 240 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover in Very Good jacket. Grey cloth, faint foxing to upper text block edge else clean and unmarked. Front endpaper SIGNED: "#55 of 200 Nancy Bogen". Dust jacket in protective cover with light edge and corner wear, small chip top spine and lightly soiled spot bottom rear panel. Author's first novel, first printing thus. First printed as a paperback by Twickenharm Press, 1980. A classic Greek tale with a satiric twist- a novel about the Trojan War from a modern woman's point of view. ISBN 093164221. #792.. ISBN: 0931642221. Signed by Author. First Hardcover Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Alan Henderson. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Clytaemnestra, Trojan War, Greek Classics, Women Studies, Books About Women, Women's Literature, Greek Mythology, Agamemnon, Troy, Fable, Klytaimnestra, Lore, Feminist, feminism, Fiction,, Nancy Bogen, Literature. more information

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New York and Cleveland: Tom Doherty Associates (TOR)/ St. Martin's Press., 1994. 8vo. 350 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. February 1994 First edition. Black boards and spine, gold lettering, clean and unmarked. Jacket illustration by Boris Vallejo. ISBN 0312854471. #147. ISBN: 031285447. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Boris Vallejo. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. fiction, Orion, Mars, science fiction, Boris Vallejo, Ben Bova, first edition , modern Firsts. more information

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Boston: Little, Brown and Co., Boston. 1963. First Edition., 1963. 8vo. 245 pgs. Very Good+ hardcover in Very Good jacket. Maroon cloth, illustrated frontis portrait. Dust jacket has several small closed tears and chips, with protective cover. Illus. with black and white plates. Biography of Sir Francis Bacon in five parts: Prologue, Lord Bacon's Reputation; An Elizabethan Eden 1561-1579; The Struggle to rise 1579-1613; Bacon Ascending 1613-1620; impeachment 1621; A Noble Five Years 1621-1626. #376.. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Francis Bacon, Scientist, Biography, non-fiction, History of science, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Sixteenth Century, Seventeenth Century, Queen Elizabeth, Elizabethan England, Lord Bacon, first Edition. more information

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New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1927. 8vo. 265 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover quarter bound in green buckrham cloth with green boards and matching title piece on spine. Stated First Edition. Slight darkening to spine at edges, wear to cloth of upper spine end. Paper over front hinge cracked, underlying binding remains intact. Clean and unmarked throughout. Jacket is present but in fragments, pieces are separated at the paper folds, held in place in a clear archival cover. With a refreshing attitude of "appreciative irreverence", a literary Friar's Roast of sorts, biographical commentaries and critiques are presented for William Shakespeare, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Thomas Hardy. Excerpt from the chapter on Walt Whitman: "Walt Whitman was the first of the literary exhibitionists whose cacaphonous incongruities and general echolalia are the distinguishing marks of what is regarded as poetry in aesthetic circles today". From the chapter on Edgar Allan Poe: "The high status of Edgar Allan Poe to-day [sic] seems to be largely another manifestation of that modern American delight in sin whereby the intelligentsia demonstrate their emancipation from the simple code of their rude forefathers. He is invested with the same glamour of sympathetic wickedness to which may be traced the benevolent smiles that greet all violations of the Eighteenth Amendment in cultivated and enlightened society". From the chapter on John Milton "In a sense his fame is even more inhumanly secure, his reputation more sacrosanct, because he liked biblical subjects in his moments of relaxation from the writing of those dreary political pamphlets which actually occupied the best years of his life and are as extinct as the conditions out of which they arose". Of Lord Byron, it was said that Byron "understood the rights of man, but he seems never to have heard of the rights of woman". In a remark to Lady Blessingham"I have not quite made up my mind that women have souls". Also mentioned is Harriet Beecher Stowe's efforts to vindicate Lady Byron after their marital separation and to bring to light Byron's incestuous affair with his half-sister. Of Shakespeare, the author writes: " He has no message for mankind and his humor is frequently so feeble that a bad burlesque show is brilliant in comparison...If he is irresistible it is because he is a musician of words so lovely that the English tongue is forever illuminated by his use of it".#1591.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall. Literary Blasphemies, Ernest Boyd, Literature, Criticism, Literary, Biography, Satire, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Lord Byron, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Books About Books, Authors, Writers, Literary Figures, scandals. more information

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New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 8vo. 110 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine red wrap-around sleeve, as issued. Told in the form of a journal, a chronicle of the protagonist's experiences as he deals with the suicide of a woman and the death from cancer of a close friend. Published from the original manuscript after the author's death. ISBN 0312262434.. ISBN: 0312262434. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, Posthumous, Richard Brautigan, Fiction, Literature, Modern First, First American Edition. more information

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New York: Dutton & Co., 1944. 8vo. 387 pgs. Very Good hardcover. Green cloth with black decorative on spine. Owner name on front endpaper. Text clean and unmarked. #381.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Wahington Irving, Van Wyck Brooks, non-fiction, biography, first Edition. more information

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New York and Cleveland: H.M. Caldwell Co.. 16mo. 185 pgs. Good to Very Good condition blue cloth hardcover, spine and front board decorated with gilt and a red and green floral design. Light general shelf wear and smudgy darkening to cloth, rubbing and fraying to spine ends. Interior clean and unmarked. Frontis portrait photograph of Rab [a mastiff]. Vintage dog stories, not dated, circa 1890-1900. Extracted from "Horae Subsecivae: Locke and Sydenham, with other Occasional Papers". Contains "Rab and His Friends", "Marjorie Fleming", "Jeems the Door-Keeper", "More of Our Dogs", "Plea for a Dog Home", " In Clear Dream and Solemn Vision", "A Jacobite Family". #1330.. Decorated Boards. Good to Very Good. 16mo - 5¾" - 6¾" Tall. Rab, Rab and His Friends, John Brown, Vintage dog Tale, Decorative Binding, Caldwell, Dog Stories, Dogs, Essays, Short Stories, Horae Subsecivae, Marjorie Fleming, Jeems, Victorian, Jeems the Door-Keeper, More of Our Dogs, Plea for a Dog Home, In Clear Dream and Solemn Vision, A Jacobite Family. more information

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New York and Boston: H.M. Caldwell Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. Unpaginated. An unusual pair of Good+ condition Victorian era poetry gift books, cloth hardcovers with gilt title decorations and pictorial designs on front boards and decorated endpapers. Scattered light foxing and smudging internally, and moderate rubbing to corners of both books. "Among the Trees" is in a bit rougher condition, with more external wear and interior and exterior soiling and spotting than "Thanatopsis". Owner name on front endpaper of "Among the Trees", spine cloth rubbed bare in spots along front gutter with scattered but faint dampstaining along some interior margins. Bindings of both books intact but shaken in a few places, hinges not cracked and underlying mesh holding well. Verse and engravings appear on each recto of both books. Beautifully executed illustrations designed and engraved by W.J. Linton and Harley after the artwork of William Blake, David Scott, Isaac Taylor and Jervis McEntee. #2318.. No Additional Printings Indicated. Decorated Boards. Good +. Illus. by W.J. Linton, David Scott, William Blake, Isaac Taylor, Harley, Jervis McEntee. 9x7 Inches. William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis, Among the Trees, Victorian, Gift Book, Illustrated, Poetry, Poems, Verse, Nature, Death, Comfort, Grief, Natural Order, Worship of Nature, Illustrated, Engravings, 1874. more information

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New York: Hyperion, 1996. 8vo. 297 pgs. Very Good hardcover in Very Good+ dust jacket, jacket is pristine but for a small 1/4 inch closed tear to top back panel, protected in removable archival cover. A gently read copy with very light overall shelf wear, wherein Dave Robicheaux comes to the aid of local politician Aaron Crown and gets entangled with a Mafia princess, a psychedelic guru, a psychopath and a former lover, now governor's wife. Settings include the New Orleans Garden District and Old Mexico. ISBN 0786861754. #588.. ISBN: 0786861754. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good+. Illus. by Victor Weaver, Dave Henderson. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. James Lee Burke, Dave Robicheau, Cadillac Jukebox, fiction, mystery, first edition, modern First. more information

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Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1998. 309 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean and and unmarked, very shallow bump (fold of edge) to lower spine, else fine. Dave Robicheaux gets a tip on a forty-year-old crucifixion of a prominent labor leader. ISBN 0385488424. #1745.. ISBN: 0385488424. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Honi Werner, Mario J. Pulice. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall. James Lee Burke, Louisiana, Bayou, Dave Robicheaux, New Iberia, FICTION MYSTERY DETECTIVE HARD BOILED. more information

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Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Hyperion Books, 1997. 288 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean, unmarked, pristine. James Lee Burke introduces a new series set in the American West. ISBN 0786862580. #1763. ISBN: 0786862580. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Victor Weaver, Dave Henderson. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall. James Lee Burke, Cimarron Rose, TEXAS FICTION LEGAL HOLLAND BILLY. more information

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New York and London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1907. xxviii.111pgs. Good condition green cloth hardcover, Fourth Edition 1907, Ex-Library with the usual marks and stamps, externally rubbed and shelfworn. Binding sound, text clean. Contains prefaces to the second, third and fourth editions. Contents: Editions, Translations, Etc, Analysis of Aristotles Poetics, List of Abbrevistions, Text and Translation of the Poetics, with English text on the righthand pages, original Greek with footnotes and references to Arabic and Syrian translations on the lefthand pages. #2292.. Fourth Edition. Cloth Hardcover. Good. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall. Ex-Library. Aristotle, Poetics, Butcher, Translation, the Poetics of Aristotle, Greek, Poetry, Rhetoric, Theory of Poetry, Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art, W.R. Hardie, Ancient Greek, Arabic, Criticism, Classics, Tragic Poetry, Epic Poetry, Tragedy. more information

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New York: Modern Library. Boni & Liveright, Inc. . 16mo. 410 pgs. Good to Very Good condition, flexible dark green leatherette boards, gilt lettering to spine and cover, Bernhard endpapers, owner name front endpaper. Small ink line on top of text block near spine. #291. . [nd]. Leatherette. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Samuel Butler, the Way of All Flesh, fiction, literature, classics, Modern Library, Leatherette. more information

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New York: The Modern Library. xii.250pgs. Very Good condition. Dark Green leatherette binding no. 4, Bernhard endpapers [circa 1925-1929] with gilt to spine. Light wear to edges, bottom spine edge frayed, spine slightly crinkled. Owner names on front blank. List of Modern Library titles after text. #1937.. Leatherette. Very Good. 16mo - 5¾ Inches - 6 3/4 Inches Tall. James Branch Cabell, Cream of the Jest, Harold Ward, Modern Library, Leatherette Binding. more information

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Chicago, Ill.: Shasta Publishers, 1951. 230pgs. Very Good tan cloth hardcover in Good to Very Good jacket. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. This is the second edition, following release of the R.K.O. motion picture "The Thing From Another World", set in Antarctica and starring James Arness as the alien creature. The movie was based on the title story "Who Goes There?". Jacket art by Malcolm Smith reflects the movie tie-in. Light rubbing to cloth on lower spine edge and bottom corners. Top edge of textblock colored green. Jacket has original price intact and paper is a bit rubbed along edges and corners, small chips at spine ends and corners, one inch closed tear at left bottom corner of front panel. Two smaller closed tears at top edge of rear panel. There are cellophane tape shadows on inner side of jacket at each upper corner. Tape no longer present, and jacket quite presentable, protected in clear archival cover. Internally clean and binding sound. Following an informative commentary in the introduction by the author, the stories in this anthology are: Who Goes There?, Blindness, Frictional Losses, Dead Knowledge, Elimination, Twilight and Night. #1971.. Signed by Author. Second Edition. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good/Good to Very Good. Illus. by Malcolm Smith. Small 8vo.. The Thing, John W. Campbell, The Thing From ANother World, Astounding Science-Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Fiction, Horror, Anthology, Twilight, Night, Elimination, Frictional Losses, Dead Knowledge, Blindness, Motion Picture, R.K.O., Malcolm Smith, Signed. more information

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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1939. 8vo. 485 pgs. Very Good hardcover. Illus. frontis. Cloth is tan, attractive coarse linen texture with green and brown title piece on spine. Owner name on front paste down. Small letter "B" stamped on front pastedown, bottom of title page and edges. Light foxing to endpapers, text clean and sound. Headmaster Timothy Hulme is in a serious quandry after the academy is willed one million dollars with the stipulation that Jewish, female, and local students must be winnowed out. Intertwined with the flavors of Vermont life and geography. By the author of "Understood Betsy" and "Fellow Captains" (as Dorothy Canfield Fisher, with co-author Sarah N. Cleghorn). #103. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth. Good to Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dorothy Canfield, Seasoned Timbet, NOISBN, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Understood Betsy, American Author, Vermont, Sarah Cleghorn, Robert Frost, fiction, literature, Anti-Semitism, Middle-aged Romance, Vermont, Vermonteers, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Womens Rights, Womens Issues, Discrimination,. more information

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San Francisco: North Point Press, 1986. 8vo. 178 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Green cloth hardbound. First edition. A motley cast of characters play out their foibles in the near vicinity of The Depot coffee shop. Set in a small town. ISBN 0865472211. #879.. ISBN: 0865472211. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fiction, Mystery, Don Carpenter, Modern First, The Dispossessed, First Edition, Novel. more information

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New York: Washington Square Press, 1960. vi.274 pgs. Very Good condition softcover vintage pb, clean and unmarked. Rubbing to covers at edges and corners, age-toning to page edges, binding sound, spine not creased. With 92 illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. Includes a biographical note on the author.[Lewis Carroll ia a pseudonym for C.L. Dodgson] #1715.. Softbound Pb. Very Good. Illus. by Sir John Tenniel. 16mo - 5¾ Inches - 6 3/4 Inches Tall. Alice in Wonderland, Snark, Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, C.L. Dodgson, Biography, Fiction, Childrens, Juvenile, Classics, Illustrated. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 1996. 462 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. First American Edition of a complete collection of Angela Carter's short stories from four books: Fireworks, The Bloody Chamber, Black Venus and American Ghosts and Old World Wonders. Introduction by Salman Rushdie. Among the stories: A young Lizzie Borden visits the circus, a pianist makes a Faustian pact in a Southern brothel, a student is taken on a ride through Hollywood's golden age, Alice is transmuted by a crazed fruit-grower in Prague, Mary Magdalene steps out of Renaissance canvases. ISBN 0805044620 #1785.. ISBN: 0805044620. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by John Westmark. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall. Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, Burning Your Boats, BRITISH IRISH FICTION Short Stories, Fireworks, The Bloody Chamber, Black Venus, American Ghosts and Old World Wonders. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Bantam Books., 1999. 8vo. 216 pgs. As New hardcover in As New jacket, clean and unmarked. The first fully illustrated tribute to Allen Ginsberg, the best-known American poet of the post-war generation, mother of the Beats, and walking embodiment of Western counterculture. ISBN 0767902785. #1487.. ISBN: 0767902785. First American Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo. Allen Ginsberg, Graham Caveney, BEAT GENERATION, Beats, Beat Poetry, GINSBERG ALLEN, Counterculture, POETS, BIOGRAPHY, AUTHORS, AMERICAN, BIOGRAPHY, Screaming with Joy, LITERARY CRITICISM POETRY. more information

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New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997. 8vo. 310 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Author's first novel. A story of recovery, memory and enlightenment as a young Chinese woman, after a mental breakdown and hospital sojourn, explores her past and the secrets in her extended Chinese family in order to come to terms with her hidden demons. ISBN 006018681X. #957.. ISBN: 006018681X. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Novel, First Edition, Modern First, First First, Fiction, Patricia Chao, Chinese Culture, Monkey King, the Monkey King. more information

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London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1953. 12mo. viii.337 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover in Good dust jacket. (No. 992 in Everyman's Library Series). Red cloth boards, decorated endpapers, gilt lettering on spine, minimal shelf wear to edges, clean and unmarked. Matching red-shaded jacket with general rubbing and wear to paper along edges and small chips at corners and spine ends, price-clipped. #1565.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Chaucer, Drama, Verse, English Literature, Everyman's Library, Troilus and Criseyde. more information

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New York: Random House, 1932. xix.309pgs. Very Good condition maroon cloth hardcover with black and gilt decorated title pieces on front board and spine. Not illustrated. Clean, sound and unmarked with light rubbing to cloth along spine edges and corners. Contents: Introduction, Proem, I. The Temple Door, II. The Attack, III. Surrender, IV. Charge and Countercharge, V. The Betrayal. #1978.. No Additional Printings Indicated. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - 6¾ - 7¾ Inches Tall. Chaucer, Troilus and Cressida, English Literature, Fiction, Classics, Poetry, Verse, Troilus and Criseyde, Romantic Poetry, Tragedy, Love Poem. more information

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New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1916. 153pgs. Very Good+ condition tan cloth hardcover, clean and unmarked, with sound binding, gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine. Slight edge and corner wear. A vintage book of essays and verse by two prolific Vermont writers, activators and educators. Sarah Cleghorn and Dorothy Canfield Fisher collaborated to produce this vintage but still relevant guide to achieving inner tranquility, self-realization and health. A small group of women meet periodically to share their personal strategies for dealing with life's difficulties. Their coping techniques include visualizations, affirmations and building a personal mental "bank account of strength" invested with happy memories and positive experiences. Other titles by these authors include "Nothing Ever Happens and How It Does" and "Understood Betsy". #2309.. First Edition. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good+. 12mo - 6¾ - 7¾ Inches Tall. Fellow Captains, Sarah Cleghorn, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Essays, Verse, Inner Growth, Strategies, Meditations, Self-help, Creative Visualization, Inner Tranquility, Stress, Coping, Self-Realization, Womens, Empowerment, Vermont, Robert Frost, Memory Palace, Nothing Ever Happens and How it Does, Understood Betsy, Women's Suffrage, Friendship,Vermont Authors. more information

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New York: Arcade Publishing, 1999. 593 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine dustjacket, clean and unmarked. First English Language Edition. Translated from the French by Steve Cox and Ros Schwartz. A story of healing as an ill little boy explores the many forms of religious faith while travelling with his aunt. He learns the tenets and philosophies of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Shinto, yoga, animism, voodoo and more. From the publisher: "This is a hugely enjoyable story about how and why people believe in their God, told with wit, clarity, and infectuious enthusiasm". By the author of "The Feminine and the Sacred", "Syncope: The Philosophy of Rapture", "Opera: The Undoing of Women", "Discoveries: Ghandi", "Edwina and Nehru", "Dona Gracia Nasi", "Claude Levi-Strauss", "Afrique Esclave", "Bleu Panique", "Adrienne Lecouvreur, ou, Le coeur transporte (Elle etait une fois)", "La Senora", "Por Amor a la India", "Desert Eves: An Indian Paradise ", "The Newly Born Woman", " El Viaje de Teo", "The Lives and Legends of Jacques Lacan". ISBN 1559704993. #1880. . ISBN: 1559704993. First North American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall. Theo's Odyssey, Catherine Clement, English, Theology, Spirituality, World Religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Shinto, yoga, Animism, Yogi, Sikh, Voodoo, FICTION. more information

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London: Dorling Kindersley, 1995. 4to.312 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Winner of the 1996 Hugo Award for Non-fiction. An informative, richly illustrated reference covering a diversity of multi-media sci-fi aspects including a chronology, bibliography of sci-fi literature, biographies of 19th and 20th century authors, historical contexts, themes associated with the chronology of the genre, pulps, classics, illustration trends, films and television. Winner of the 1996 Hugo Award for best non-fiction book. ISBN 0789401851. #834.. ISBN: 0789401851. First American Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Science Fiction, Reference, Illustration, John Clute, Encylopedia, Fantasy, Art, Illustrated, Chronology, Bibliography, Graphic Art, Genre Film, Sci-fi, Non-Fiction, History of Science Fiction, Hugo Award. more information

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New York: Pyramid Books , 1956. 190 pgs. Very Good condition vintage paperback. Slight rubbing to paper at spine edges and a shallow partial crease to front cover vertically along woman pictured, else externally pristine, square and tight. Text block edges are red. Internally clean and unmarked, paper uniformly age-toned. First four pages have a small 1/2 inch closed edge tear to right margin. Cover art by Bob Lavin. From the back cover: "The Vikes were in the saddle riding high-peddling forbidden pleasures, substituting drugs for cocktails, following a twisted path which would permit mankind to escape reality. And only one man stood between them and a world gone mad...". #1879.. Softcover, Pb. Very Good. Illus. by Bob Lavin. 12mo - 6¾ - 7¾ Inches Tall. Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Hunt Collins, S.a. Lombino, Ed McBain, Curt Cannon, Richard Marsten,ezra Hannon, John Abbott, Sci-fi, Futuristic, Vintage Paperback, Cults, Vikes, Pyramind, Science Fiction, Bob Lavin, Satire. more information

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New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1926. Very Good condition yellow cloth hardcover. A bit of light rubbing to cloth at edges and corners, bright and sound, owner name on front endpaper. Front board has black and white picture of a Scotch Terrier tipped in, matching the frontis portrait. Non paginated, about 66 pgs. Illustrated throughout with black and white illustrations and page decorations by the author. Classical rubaiyat style verse meets typical Scottie personality in this endearing memoriam to a beloved canine friend. #1962. First Edition. Decorated Cloth Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - 6¾ - 7¾ Inches Tall. The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Terrier, Dog, Dogs, Scotch Terrier, Rubaiyat, Sewell Collins, Scottie, Scotty, Dog Story, Memorial, in Memoriam, Illustrated, Verse, Poetry, Senator George Graham Vest. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little Brown & Company, 1998. 8vo. 326 pgs. As New hardcover in As New jacket. Clean, crisp, unmarked first edition. A literary novel centered arount Matthias, a librarian, his unsettled memories following World War II and his wife's mental illness, and a young woman interested in the library's extensive collection of letters by T.S. Eliot. Author's first novel. "An intricate and compelling tale of the way in which guilt and passion may quickly unravel the inner life of an orderly man." ISBN 0316158720 #1638.. ISBN: 0316158720. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - 7¾ - 9¾ Inches Tall. LIBRARIAN, Literary Novel, Poetry, T.S. Eliot, First Edition, FICTION. more information

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New York: Scribner, 1995. 8vo. 412 pgs. Near Fine condition hardcover in Near Fine dust jacket, clean, tight and unmarked, no rubs or tears. Dark grey cloth spine, light grey boards with copper lettering to spine and blue endpapers. Dr. Kay Scarpetta again meets Gault. ISBN 0684195984. #486.. ISBN: 0684195984. 4th Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. fiction, forensic, mystery , Kay Scarpetta, medical Fiction, Potter's Field, Potters Field, Forensics, Patricia Cornwell, Patricia Cornwall, Potter's Field, Potters Field, Body Farm, Forensic Anthropology,. more information

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New York: Scribner., 1995. 8vo.412 pgs. Near Fine condition hardcover in Near Fine jacket, clean, tight and and unmarked. No rubs or tears, minimal trace of shelfwear along upper edge. Dark grey cloth spine, light grey boards with copper lettering to spine and blue endpapers. Dr. Kay Scarpetta again meets Gault. ISBN 0684195984.#596.. ISBN: 0684195984. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. fiction, first edition, modern first, mystery, forensic novel, forensic Fiction, Kay Scarpetta, Gault, Forensics, Potters Field, Potter's Field, Patricia Cornwell, Patricia Cornwall, Body Farm, Forensic Anthropology. more information

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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1998. 8vo. 356 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket, clean, tight and unmarked. Maroon cloth spine, gilt lettering, maroon boards. No tears or rubs, minute trace of shelfwear along bottom edges. Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta mystery. A killer uses fire to mask his crimes and Kay's Nemesis Carrie Grethen is involved. ISBN 0399143947. #782.. ISBN: 0399143947. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fiction, Novel, Forensics, Forensic Fiction, Mystery, Kay Scarpetta, Point of Origin, Patricia Cornwall, Forensic Anthropology, Patricia Cornwell. more information

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Boston: Shambala, 1998. 8vo. 198 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, pristine condition. A magical journey through twelfth-century Provence in search of the spiritual power of perfect love. By the author of "A Mapmaker's Dream". ISBN 1570623392. #730.. ISBN: 1570623392. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. James Cowan, a Troubadour's Testament, FICTION, FIRST EDITION, MODERN FIRST, Provence, Marcebru, Mapmaker's Dream. more information

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Trade, 1999. 8vo. 350 pgs. Fine condition hardcover in Fine jacket, holographic cover art.This is the first edition of the author's first book, a medical suspense thriller woven around a plot to confer immortality on an elite group of government scientists. Wes Craven is also known for his work in the film industry, including A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Twilight Zone. ISBN 0684846608. #2154.. ISBN: 0684846608. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Wes Craven, First Edition, Fountain Society, FICTION HORROR MEDICAL SCIENTISTS. more information

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New York: Soho Press, 1998. 8vo. 312 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Clean, unmarked. Set in the mid 1900's in the Dominican side of the Haitian border. A novel of love, barabarism, persecution and endurance. ISBN 1569471266. #2103.. ISBN: 1569471266. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, Danticat, Literature, Novel, Haiti, Granta, Farming of Bones, Fiction,. more information

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