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New York: The Museum of Primitive Art, 1965. Beige cloth over brown paper covered boards. Small 8vo. Color frontispiece, and illustrated with 134 b/w full-page plates. Sections on Africa, Oceana, North America, Mexico, Central & South America, and Peru. Fine in crisp and bright dust jacket, with 1" L-shaped tear to top edge front panel, and tiny crease front flap, otherwise Very Good+. VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON at left.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1883. Floral decorated gray-green cloth, gilt spine block. Floral illustrated endpapers. 16mo. 118pp. Cloth lightly worn at tips and spine ends, tanning to the free endpapers, else solid and Very Good+. TO VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON at left.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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London: Faber and Faber, 1954. Red cloth, spine brightly stamped in gilt. Small octavo. 311pp. Inscribed by the author: "Just for____/With love/On a special occassion/Dec. 11th, 1955/Peter." Slightly cocked, dusty top edges, wear to one corner, still Near Fine in price-clipped, Very Good dustjacket, with small tears, wear to edges, and dusty rear panel. A story of the author's childhood and teen years in the slums of Johannesburg and the country around it. VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON AT LEFT.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Viking, 1978. Tall 8vo., 108pp, including Index. Stunning, vibrantly colorful illustrations by David Goddard. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by David Goddard. more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1936. Blue cloth, color illustrated paper label to front. 42pp. Color frontispiece. Tight, bright and fine, but for mild spot of discoloration to crown of front cover, in very good, unclipped dust jacket, with small chip to rear edge, very tiny chips at corners.VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON at left.. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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New York: Knopf, 1935. Spine lightly tanned, light stains and faint foxing to cloth, otherwise clean, fresh and Very Good Plus in slightly rubbed and foxed, Good to Very Good dustwrapper, dampstained at rear. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. more information

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Boston: Little, Brown, 1974. Previous owner's name stamp on flyleaf, otherwise near fine in lightly worn very good+ dust jacket. VIEW IMAGE. 1st American Edition (stated). Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Noonday Press, 1955. Crisp and bright, near fine book with a drawing of the author by Marc Chagall. Slightly soiled dust jacket with ink marking and long vertical tear to spine which prior owner attempted to repair on verso with tape, thus good, but relatively presentable appearance housed in dust jacket protector. Translation by Tamara Kahana. IMAGE CLICK - ICON AT LEFT.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, n.d. (c.1958). Near fine book, price-clipped dust jacket with a few small tears, lightly used and very good. Translation by Bernard Isaacs. SEE IMAGE - CLICK ICON AT LEFT.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966. 8vo. 317pp. Index, plus small portfolio of photographs. Brown and blue cloth, stamped in gilt. A spot of sunning and foxing to top of cover edge, else crisp and near fine in torn, slightly chipped good plus dustjacket, internally mended and still attractive. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. Horizontal crease to spine crown, else tight, bright, clean and fine in bright, crisp and near fine, unclipped dustwrapper, missing very tiny paint chip at spine crown. Winner of the first National Book Award. VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON left of title.. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1934. First trade edition, after a limited edition of 550 copies. Red cloth, decorative paper label on spine. A solid, lightly used Near Fine copy in Very Good+, lightly soiled dustwrapper, light rubbing to vertical extremities. Basis for the 1936 John Ford movie with Katharine Hepburn and Fredric March. TO VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON at left.. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Macmillan, 1959. Winner of the Cock Robin Mystery Award. Corners lightly bumped, page tanning, else near fine in good to very good dust jacket, wih small triangular chip to bottom front corner, couple of tears and crease to rear. VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON at left.. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. Brown pebbled cloth, lettered in gilt, blue and gilt illustration on front. A lightly used Very Good to Fine copy, with pervious owner's bookplate on front flyleaf, pages lightly toned, no dustwrapper. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Huebsch, 1921. First issue with top edges stained yellow. A lightly used, Near Fine copy, with very mild internal tanning in the original dustwrapper, missing spine, detached at the folds, and chipped at edges. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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New York: McBride, 1925. Red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges brightly stained red. Near Fine in Very Good, lightly used, lightly soiled price clipped dustjacket Translated by Luba Hicks. Edited with introduction by Maxim Gorky. VIEW IMAGE. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Knopf, 1935. Covers lightly sunned and lightly soiled, two small stains to rear cover, still a solid, internally clean and bright very good copy in moderately worn, though still attractive good plus dust jacket. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. more information

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London: Seeley & Co., 1897. Maroon cloth, gilt stamped, edges beveled. T.e.g. Small 4to. 208pp. Illustrated with 8 plates under tissue-guard, 55 additional illustrations, index. Tiny puncture to front boards, lightly worn corners, touch of cloth fraying to head of spine, and a little foxing to plates, still a clean, solid Very Good Plus book. VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON left of title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Walker & Company, 1967. Blue cloth, spine stamped in silver. tall 8vo. 307pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs, diagrams and drawings. "High School Science Department" stamp on front flyleaf, glue remains on rear pastedown from possibly a bookplate, or pocket, else clean, tight and Near Fine in unclipped, Very Good dust jacket, with small chips to spine crown, some edge-wear and small tears--tape-mended. VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON left of title.. First Edition, Second Printing. Hard Cover. more information

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London: Heinemann, 1924. Full black cloth, with gold paper overlay on front illustrated in red and black, gold spine label lettered and lined in black. A Fine copy, but for tiny front cover stain, and minor flaking to edge of spine label in the rare, and extremely fragile black dust jacket, illustrated with identical gilt overlays found on the book. The jacket is badly chipped and partially detached-now in acetate protector--but remarkably the labels remain bright and complete. IMAGE available - Click picture icon left of title.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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London: Heinemann, 1956. With corrigenda slip tipped in at copyright page. Frontispiece photo of Dame Edith Evans. Pages very lightly tanned, else near fine in very good, or better lightly soiled dustwrapper, a very few small edge tears. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition. hardcover. more information

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New York: Wm. Morrow, 1935. Lightly used and Near Fine in Good+ unclipped dustwrapper, bright and attractive, but with long tear to rear panel--neatly repaired with clear tape--and with small chips at corners (affecting "Nat" of title at spine crown).. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Drawings by Laurian Jones. more information

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Harcourt, Brace, 1962. Review copy, with slip laid in. A near fine copy of the author's first book in very good, lightly worn, slightly soiled dust jacket. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition (stated). hardcover. more information

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New York: Rinehart & Co., 1947. Light sunning else about fine in very good, illustrated dust jacket, with some rubbing to vertical extremities, slight wear and few small tears. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition. hardcover. more information

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New York: William Godwin, 1940. First edition, this publisher. Oversize 8vo. 218pp, plus epilogue. Translated by J. Lewis May, Introduction by Andre Maurois, ribald, slightly erotic illustrations, color and bxw, by Jean de Bosschere. Very faintly sunned bottom edge, Near Fine in a Very Good, Willey Book Company dust jacket, lightly edge-worn, tiny tears and creasing at spine crown. VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON left of title.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Illus. by de Bosschere, Jean. more information

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Boston: Noyes, Platt, 1901. with copyright page listing Noyes, Platt & Company. Color illustrations by Peter Newell. A beautiful bright, tight and Very Close to Fine copy in crisp pictorial cloth, with tiny stain to front boards, bookstore blind stamp on title page, single nick to cloth at spine crown. VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON AT LEFT. First Edition, Later Issue. Hard Cover. Illus. by Peter Newell. more information

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New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1958. Very light tanning along inner hinge of endpapers, else Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper, lightly chipped spine crown. Author's second book. VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON AT LEFT. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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Boston: Little, Brown, 1953. A touch of foxing to the top edges, very faint ghost mark from removed tape to front and back covers where dust jacket was once attached, else near fine in attractive very good dust jacket with 1/4 inch tear to fold of rear flap, store sticker on front panel and removed tape stain top edge. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. more information

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Dallas: Pressworks, 1980. Limited edition. No. 9 of 350 numbered copies (plus 26 lettered copies). SIGNED by the author on Limitation Page at rear. Fine in cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards without dust jacket as issued, in mylar jacket. Illustrated with tipped-in collages by the author. IMAGE available - Click picture icon left of title.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Viking, 1972. Baskin's first children's book, created for his youngest son with the help of the entire family. Vibrantly Illustrated by Baskin with full-page drawings accompanying each letter. Small name/date top edge of front flyleaf, else lightly used and very close to Fine, in Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket, lightly tanned, and with four-inch tear at rear. VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON AT LEFT. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. Illus. by Leonard Baskin. more information

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New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1931. "Office File Copy" stamped on top edges, else about fine in attractive pictorial dust jacket, very good, better but for slight chipping along top edge of spine and front panel. View IMAGE - click ICON at left.. 1st American Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906. Slightly cocked, erasable name in pencil on front pastedown, Near Fine in brightly colored pictorial cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Frontispiece and plates illustrated by Clarence E. Underwoood. The author's second and most popular novel, a retelling of famous Yukon Tale. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965. Mimi Benzell Gould's copy, signed by her on front flyleaf. Ms. Benzell was a singer/performer and previously married to Morton Gould the composer. A near fine copy in like dust jacket, but for light stain to rear panel, which also has a couple of horizontal creases to lamination. Illustrated throughout with photographs. To VIEW IMAGE - click ICON at left.. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959. One of the first important examinations of the world of newspaper comics, political cartoons, magazine humor and animation. With nearly 400 illustrations covering comic art history to 1959. Introduction by Rube Goldberg. 4to. 387pp., index. Gentle bump to one corner, lightly worn and Very Good+ in Very Good, unclipped dustwrapper, a bit worn at extremities. SEE IMAGE. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. Illus. by Various. more information

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New York: Knopf, 1928. Mild sunning to spine, lightly rubbed, name on flyleaf, else tight, clean and very good to near fine in decorative cloth, no dust jacket. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Dodd, Mead, 1912. Spine slightly cocked, ink stain to bottom page edges, vertical crease to front flyleaf, an attractive and very good copy in rust-colored cloth with color illustration on front and lettering stamped in gilt on front and spine. Illustrations by John Rae. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by John Rae. more information

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New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1932. Black cloth, printed paper spine label. 8vo. 219pp + 1. Index. 32 Illustrations. Very mild slant, contemporary name attractively scripted on flyleaf, short endpaper crack near inner hinge, not affecting the binding, which is tight, book is fresh and very Near Fine in detached dustwrapper, missing spine panel and top of rear panel. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1946. Originally published in 1936 as ALL BRIDES ARE BEAUTIFUL, and filmed as FROM THIS DAY FORWARD starring Joan Fontaine. Mild stain to front cover, else fresh and Near fine in creased dust jacket missing bottom half of spine, with full page photo of Joan Fontaine on rear panel, and photo illustration on front of Fontaine and her co-star, Mark Stevens. VIEW IMAGE. First Thus. Hard Cover. more information

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New York: George H. Doran, 1913. Brown cloth spine, over brown papered boards, brightly lettered in gilt on front, a little less so on spine. 8vo. 110pp. + 2pp. of ads at rear. Bookplate of railroad lawyer, Winslow S. Pierce, on front pastedown. Minor toning and foxing to contents, tight and near fine in dustwrapper missing piece at and near spine crown, and detached along front spine fold. (In dustwrapper protector). VIEW IMAGE. 1st American Edition. hardcover. more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. Foxing to brown cloth, one-inch tear to bottom of front flyleaf, else very good+, crisply decorated in silver and green on front and spine. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Scribner's, 1958.. A touch of wear to cloth at spine ends, rear end papers lightly tanned from item laid in, else a solid, and very near fine copy of the author's first book, in a lovely, crisp dust jacket, very good plus, with shallow chips to spine crown, nicked at heel, unobtrusive, small closed tear mid-spine. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition. hardcover. more information

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New York: Knopf, 1941. Light toning to spine and gutters, tanning along inner hinges of end papers, and offsetting to front flyleaf from news clipping laid in, otherwise bright and Near Fine in Good (+) dust jacket, a bit worn at extremities, a few small chips and tears--one externally mended. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. more information

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Chicago: Shasta, 1953. The author's first book, and first winner of the Hugo Award for best Novel. Fine in near fine dustjacket. Includes a 3x5 card, with typed inscription to dustjacket designer, Martin Herbstman: Dear Martin: /We're tremendously pleased with/your work on THE DEMOLISHED MAN,/and want you to have this copy/of the finished book with our/compliments/Kindest regards,/ signed by Mel Korshak (Shasta's editor). Book is fine, dustjacket is near fine, with mild edgewear, three tiny fox marks to front panel and thumbnail-size soil mark to top edge front panel. VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON AT LEFT. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. more information

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London: John Murray, 1952. Decorated cloth. Fully illustrated, including drawings by John Piper. fold-out panorama of Cheltenham. Corners gently bumped, light off-setting from dust jacket to spine, tiny ink stain to fore-edges, gift inscription front flyleaf, else tight, bright and Very Good Plus in Very Good dust jacket, showing some edgewear along upper edge, toning to spine and fold of flaps, slight loss at crown, and one-inch tear to upper front joint. IMAGE AVAILABLE -- click icon left of title.. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover.

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San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1909. Green pictorial cloth, brightly stamped in gilt on front and spine. Mild sunning to spine and extremities, endpaper toning and gift inscription, dated 1910, on flyleaf, else a splendid, Near Fine copy; no dust jacket. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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New York: G. P. Putnam, 1899. with ads at rear headed by Anna Fuller. Decorative cloth. Covers slightly soiled and mildly stained at rear, gift inscription on flyleaf, small abrasion to front pastedown, else an overall solid, clean and Very Good copy. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition, First Issue. Hard Cover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1916. Blind-stamped decorated terra cotta cloth, lettered in white. 8vo. 193 + [1]pp. Illustrated by Will Grefe. Lettering rubbed, though still readable, rear cover stains and upper rear tip scuffed, former owner name and stamps to endpapers, tiny bookstore sticker front pastedown, still tight, clean and Very Good+, no dust jacket. VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON at left.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Grefe, Will. more information

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New York: Viking, 1972. Mild foxing, else Fine in Near Fine lightly used dust jacket, with tiny nick to spine crown, short scratch to rear panel. VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON at left.. First Edition. Hard Cover. more information

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New York: Stonehill Publishing, 1976. Small square 8vo. 106pp. Vibrant color illustrations of art decorated trucks. Lightly rubbed white covers, else Near Fine, with original price-sticker still on front panel. TO VIEW IMAGE - CLICK ICON at left.. First Edition (stated). Original Wraps. more information

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New York: Henry Holt., 1953. Covers lightly sunned, gift inscription in green ink on front end paper, otherwise crisp, fresh and near fine in good+ dust jacket, with some creased tears, and small chips to rear panel. The retelling of the famous legend in picture-and-caption form, whimsicaly illustrated by the author. VIEW IMAGE. First Edition (stated). hardcover. Illus. by R. O. Blechman. more information

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