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The Cleaner
by Brett Battles
New York: Delacorte Press, 2007. SIGNED. 1st/1st. NF/NF. First edition, first printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Brett Battles on the title page. The book is tight and square with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Spine head gently pushed. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Dust jacket is unclipped ($22.00) with light shelf wear. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. Author's debut novel.
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$45.00
The Best of Omni Science Fiction: Number 6
by Don Myrus (Editor)
Condition: Very good, light edge wear and corner bumps, bottom right spine has creasing, slight nicks at edges of rear cover.Includes contributors such as Harlan Ellison, Poul Anderson, William Gibson, Gene Wolfe, Spider Robinson, Orson Scott Card, Melisa Michaels, and many others. Art by Salvador Dali, Pete Turner, Marshall Arisman, Gottfried Helnwein, Rowena, Rene Magritte, and many more.
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$29.47
The White Witch
by Goudge, Elizabeth
London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket in clear protective wraps. Some loss to spine of dust jacket. 1958. First Edition. Blue hardback cloth cover. 210mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 414pp. .
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$70.76
The Great Rebellion
by MIERS, Earl Schenck
The World Publishing Company, 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. Dust wrapper worn and torn at the extremities, previous owner name on ffep, contents clean, bright and tight.
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$12.62
Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer Detective, and Other Stories
by Twain, Mark
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1896. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, first printing of Mark Twain's parody of adventure stories. 1896 on the title page, copyright page has four lines of text, no boxed ads. 410 pages. Two pages of ads in the back: Mark Twain's Joan of Arc; By Richard Harding Davis. Red covers with gilt stamped cornhusk on the front, blind stamp on the back cover. Spine has faded with the sun. Pages are bright and unmarked. Slight lean to the text block. BAL...
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$2,152.00
Wallis; Secret Lives of the Duchess of Windsor
by Higham, Charles
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1988. Slight bumping to edges of d/w. Previous owner's inscription and stamp. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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$16.41
Cranston: The Senator From California - Autographed by Alan Cranston
by Fowle, Eleanor
This is the biography of Alan Cranston, who was not only a United States Senator from California, but who was also an author, journalist, foreign correspondent, and who had the distinguished experience of being sued by Adolph Hitler for publishing an unauthorized version of Mein kampf. This book is autographed by Alan Cranston on the front endsheet, and also inscribed and autographed by Cranston on the title page.
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$25.00
German Expressionism: Art and Society
by Barron, Stephanie; Dube, Wolf-Dieter
Rizzoli, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This is a first edition copy of this comprehensive catalog of the expressionism in the early 1900s Germany, including the political changes and technological advancements that influenced the space. Dust jacket has some shelf-wear to the edges and the inside flaps. Otherwise pages are clean and unmarked.
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$100.00
Cursed be the Treasure
by Drake, H. B
New York: Macy-Masius, 1928. Weird fiction regarding smugglers' caves, a haunted house & an evil treasure. In "333". First edition (first printing). Hardcover, full olive cloth, yellow titling. Light wear, spine rumpled, spine ends frayed. Text clean; viii, 310 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo.
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$30.00
A Chain Of Thunder, A Novel Of The Siege Of Vicksburg - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Shaara, Jeff M
New York: Ballantine Publishing Group. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2013. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0345527402 . A Fine first printing of the first edition in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket, SIGNED by author Jeff Shaara directly on the title page; Continuing the series that began with A Blaze of Glory, A Chain of Thundercontinues the Civil War history. In Vicksburg, the vaunted “Gibraltar of the Confederacy, ” a siege for the ages will cement the reputation of one Union...
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$80.00
The Gay Deceiver
by Leslie, Peter
New York: Stein and Day, 1967. Campy British espionage thriller/satire - Leslie also wrote a number of Man From U.N.C.L.E. novels. First American edition, listing no later printings; hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, spine ends bumped, minor edgewear, hint of foxing to front endsheet; jacket also shows minor edgewear, faint interior foxing at the flap creases, $4.95 price intact, pop art design by Paul Omin. Text clean, no names or marks. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very...
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$100.00
The Cincinnati Red Stalkings
by Soos, Troy
New York: Kensington Books, 1998. Baseball player gets involved with murder involving an exhibition of artifacts from the 1869 Reds, just as the Chicago 'Black Sox' trial begins. First edition (first printing), INSCRIBED by the author on the title page - the inscribee is also listed in the printed acknowledgements on page [v]. Fifth in the author's 'Mickey Rawlings' series of baseball-themed mysteries. Light wear to book & jacket; minor bump to base of spine, else near fine. ....
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$30.00
Tell the West
by Jerzy Gliksman
A first-hand, harrowing account of one man's experiences as a laborer in the U.S.S.R. slave labor camps.
Boards are slightly soiled, spine ends bumped. No internal markings. Hinge is tight. No dust jacket.
All proceeds benefit The Friends of the San Anselmo Library. No Expedited shipping outside of the United States.
Boards are slightly soiled, spine ends bumped. No internal markings. Hinge is tight. No dust jacket.
All proceeds benefit The Friends of the San Anselmo Library. No Expedited shipping outside of the United States.
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$35.00
Golf Club Maker: Thomas Carruthers 1840-1924
by Tom Carruthers
Cualann Press, 2004. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Very Good Signed Copy - some shelf wear to the extremities otherwise looks unread
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$12.62
The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls (the Complete Series)
by Philip R. Davies, George J. Brooke, Phillip R. Callaway
1st Edition. 216 illustrations, 84 in colour. No marks or inscriptions.
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$16.41
All of Us Here and Other Poems
by Feldman, Irving
New York: Viking, 1986. Collection of modern poetry; the author's eighth book. SIGNED by the author on the title page. First edition (first printing), hardcover; quarter black cloth over grey boards, silver titling. Light wear to book & jacket. Text clean; viii, 81 pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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$50.00
Nabokov: The Man and His Work
by Dembo, L. S.; editor [Vladimir Nabokov]
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967. 12 essays on and a rare interview with Nabokov, most published slightly earlier as the Spring 1967 issue of Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, "intended to help provide a long overdue recognition of Nabokov's genius." Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the first edition (first printing), with same date on title and copyright pages. Light wear to book; jacket shows a few minor nicks & chips, light tanning to spine. Text clean; x,...
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$65.00
The Felicity of Epigones
by John, Derek
Egaeus Press, 2016. Collects "six tales of the decadent and supernatural", one previously unpublished, with seven b/w illustrations by Kluger. Second of the British small publisher's Keynote Edition series of pocket-sized collections of macabre tales, one of 275 printed. Delicate hardcover, as pictured; shows a bit of wear & rubbing, minor bumps to head of spine, minor scuffs; no jacket, as issued. Text clean, no names or marks; 188, [3] pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No...
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$95.00
Garden Party: Collected Writings 1979 - 1999
by Strong, Roy
Hardcover. 1st Edition As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Unclipped D/j protected by a clear removable sleeve. Red cloth boards with pages clean and tight. Fine quality paper. A near fine copy. This book may be collected at Port Fairy, Victoria.
A collection of Sir Roy Strong's articles on all aspects of gardens and gardening. A mixture of old and new, the articles offer lively insights and embrace a wide cultural perspective. From what is a garden?, Strong moves on to look at the art of gardening in... Read more about this item
A collection of Sir Roy Strong's articles on all aspects of gardens and gardening. A mixture of old and new, the articles offer lively insights and embrace a wide cultural perspective. From what is a garden?, Strong moves on to look at the art of gardening in... Read more about this item
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$32.82
The Eternal Journey
by Lundahl, Craig R. and Widdison, Harold A
This book presents an overview of near death experiences and what they may mean.
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$12.50
Don't Walk Down College Street
by Ted Ramsey
Ramshorn, 1985. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good. Good. corners bumped, very slight tanning around the edges of the pages otherwise contents clean, bright and tight.
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$31.59
Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession
by Terkel, Studs
New York: The New Press, 1992. Champion interviewer Terkel's examination of American race relations, discussing with people from many walks of life their views and feelings about prejudice, racism, and society. INSCRIBED by Terkel on the half-title page: "To Janet -- Here's to the delight of working with you. Peace, Grace and Beauty -- Studs Terkel". Hardcover in jacket as pictured; stated first edition (first printing) with full number line. Light wear to book, minor bumping to...
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$40.00
Black Bondage: A Novel of a Doomed Negro in Today's South
by Davis, Joseph A
New York: Exposition Press, 1959. Novel of a working-class Black man, son of a loveless marriage, whose innate anger, goaded by racism, leads to his downfall, despite heroic military service in World War Two. Davis, born & educated in South Carolina, Virginia and Washington, D.C., was a clergyman and Army Chaplain; this is (as far as we can determine) his only published novel, which, like those of many Black writers in the nascent civil rights era, failed to break through to wide acclaim. While some...
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$300.00
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Murakami, Haruki; Rubin, Jay
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition of Murakami's "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle", translated into English by Jay Rubin. Unclipped jacket ($25.95) with advance reviews beginning on the front flap and continuing on the back flap. Slight wear to upper and lower edges of both jacket and book. Interior is clean, bright and unmarked. See photos. [13], 6-611, [3] pp. 9.5 x 6.5
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$351.00
Call the Toff
by Creasey, John
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1953. Breezy crime novel starring aristocrat Richard Rollison; here visiting South Africa in search of a woman. First British edition (first printing). Red hardcover, black titling. Light wear to book; jacket shows light rubbing, minor fading to spine, light chips to head of spine, tiny tear to rear panel, minor stains. Text clean.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Duodecimo.
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$50.00
