[North Pomfret, VT]: Asphodel Editions, 2004.. Gilt cloth. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. Second edition, with occasional revisions, and most significantly, for the first time indexed by author and title. A fascinating account of one of the more colorful scoundrels of 20th century British publishing, accompanied by a checklist of the press's imprint (1924- 1971), ranging from important works by Montague Summers, and early works by Larkin, Amis, Fuller, Day Lewis, and other members of the WWII generat... (more information)

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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956.. Large octavo. Gilt cloth. First edition. Edited by DeLancey Ferguson and Marshall Waingrow. Top edge dust marked, front endsheets tanned, else very good in lightly edgeworn dust jacket, with a 2cm closed tear in the back panel. ... (more information)

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Detroit: Thorndile Nourse, 1882.. Quarto. Forest green cloth, decorated in black and gilt, a.e.g. Frontis and six plates engraved by various hands after drawings by G. Harvey and J. Nöel Paton. First Detroit edition of this popular, sentimental mini- classic of dog literature, first published in 1859. Crown of spine a bit worn, slight cracking to inner hinges and between a couple gatherings, otherwise a very good, bright copy. ... (more information)

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[Concord, MA: Will Bradley...the Sign of the Vine, ca. 1903].. Small octavo. Grey boards, printed label. Faint dust soiling to label and boards, otherwise a near fine copy. First edition in this format, designed set-up and decorated with rubricated title and initials in red by Bradley, the whole printed on handmade paper at the Heintzeman Press. One of four titles in similar format undertaken by Bradley in 1903. ... (more information)

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New York: Scribner, [1987].. Cloth and boards. First edition. Fine in dust jacket. ... (more information)

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New York: Knopf, 1990.. Printed yellow wrappers. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition. Lightly used from having been read, lower wrapper a bit soiled; good or better, with promo material stapled in. ... (more information)

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New York: Knopf, 1990.. Cloth. First edition, trade issue. A few small flecks on top edge, else about fine in dust jacket. ... (more information)

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New York: Knopf, 1971.. Cloth. First edition, trade issue. Fine in dust jacket. ... (more information)

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New York: Knopf, 1971.. Gilt red cloth. First edition, trade issue. Near fine in lightly rubbed and edgeworn dust jacket. ... (more information)

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New York: Knopf, 1971.. Cloth. First edition, trade issue. Inscribed and signed by the author. Edges a faintly dust marked, otherwise fine in dust jacket. ... (more information)

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London: William Heinemann Ltd., [1960].. xiv,[2],240pp. Printed wrappers. Black & white photographs. Preface by Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Bibliography. Index. Uncorrected page proofs. Wrappers and edges somewhat sunned, publication date on upper wrapper, surface snag to crown of spine, otherwise a good copy. ... (more information)

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[Washington, DC: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1924].. 7,[1]pp. Octavo. Printed self wrappers. A couple small rust marks to rear wrapper, else fine. First separate printing of this address, given by Johnson at the VI International Summer School of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Uncommon. ... (more information)

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London: Cape, [1973].. Gilt cloth. First edition of the author's first book. Small erasure mark in upper corner of free endsheet, else a fine copy in near fine dust jacket with a bit of the almost inevitable sunning to the spine panel. ... (more information)

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.. xvi,391,[1]pp. Gilt cloth. First Borzoi edition, and the third novel in the publisher's Trollope Series. Introduction by Ben Ray Redman. Designed by Dwiggins. A near fine copy in very good dust jacket with light sunning and a bit of rubbing at tips. ... (more information)

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New York: Farrar, [2001].. Pictorial wrappers. Advance reading copy of the first edition. Fine, with publisher's card laid in noting this copy was forwarded at the request of the author. ... (more information)

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[London]: Longmans, [1963].. Printed wrappers, paper label. Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition of the author's third book. Light soiling, with some small soiled spots on spine, but a very good copy. ... (more information)

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[London]: Longmans, [1963].. Gilt green cloth. First edition of the author's third book. Spine ends and a couple of fore-corners lightly bumped, some offset on front endsheets, else near very good in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. With Carl Van Vechten's pictorial bookplate. ... (more information)

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New York: Knopf, 1987.. Cloth and boards. First American edition. Review material laid in. Fine in dust jacket. ... (more information)

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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961.. Cloth. First edition of the critic's first solo clothbound publication, with his signed presentation inscription to Norman Holmes Pearson on the free endsheet. Smudge at crown of spine, top edge dusty, but a nice copy in lightly used and nicked dust jacket. ... (more information)

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Stamford: The Overbrook Press, 1939.. Small quarto. Gilt red cloth. Plates, facsimiles and folding plates. Hint of tanning from binding at endsheet gutters, else fine in glassine wrapper, and slightly dust toned slipcase. First edition. One of 650 copies printed. A landmark exhibition, being a selected survey of radical, dissident and utopian books, periodicals and ephemera originally published in America, from Thomas Paine to the 1920s, European works of significant influence upon American thought, and as ... (more information)

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