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Boston: Brown Taggard, & Chase, 1860. Hardcover. Very Good. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. 255pp. Stamped cloth, gilt lettering, folding map of Boston bound-in. Covers are faded and very lightly rubbed, text is age-toned and clean. Owner wrote many weather entries on memoranda pages. Folding map has slight edge stain and is in otherwise sound condition. Many ads and much information.
Frederick Ashton; A Choreographer and His Ballets by Dominic, ,Zoë and Gilbert. John Selwyn - 1971
by Dominic, ,Zoë and Gilbert. John Selwyn
Frederick Ashton; A Choreographer and His Ballets
by Dominic, ,Zoë and Gilbert. John Selwyn
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London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, 1971. Signed/Limited . Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 256pp. White cloth boards, gilt letteriing to spine. Book is in near fine condition in publisher's original mylar jacket. SPECIAL EDITION limited to 110 copies SIGNED by Ashton, this being copy No. 87. Original slipcase is very lightly worn. A very scarce edition. A New York Times biographical article is laid-in.98
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- ISBN 10 0245505717
- ISBN 13 9780245505713
- Publisher George G. Harrap & Company Limited
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1971
- Size 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall
- Keywords Ballet Choreography "Royal Ballet
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The Boston Almanac for the Year 1860. Number XXV
by Damrell & Moore, and George Coolidge
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Mail and Passenger Streamships of the Nineteenth Century; The Macpherson Collection with Iconographical and Historical Notes
by Parker, Captain H. and Bowen, Frank C.
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- Used - Very Good
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xxvii, 324pp, 16 color illustrations, 170 black and white illustrations. Tan buckram, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, rough-cut edges. Cover is clean and unworn, endpapers lightly foxed, a very occasional spot in margins, contents are overall very clean and sound, binding is tight, some pages still unopened. A very nice copy of a handsome publication. Dust jacket is heavily soiled, chipped and missing a large piece from rear panel.
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The Phrenological Organs : The Phrenological Character : Together with the Maelstroom Wreck: The Pyramids: A Colluquy in the Clouds: The Bridal Flounces: And Some Other Occasional Poems, and Prose Writings
by Goodrich, Jesse W.
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Worcester, MA: Jesse W. Goodrich, 1855. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Alice Farber. 48pp. Red blind-stamped cloth, gilt title lettering, frontispiece engraved portrait with tissue-guard, INSCRIBED by AUTHOR. Very light wear and tiny split to rear joint, contents are clean. Inscription on front pastedown reads : "Hon. Amasa Walker from his friend the Author." Walker was a U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. An early publication on the study of phrenology.
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François Villon
by Lewis, D.B. Wyndham
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- Poor
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New York and Hartford: Coward-McCann, Inc. And Edwin V. Mitchell, Inc., 1928. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 407pp. Brown embossed boards, gilt lettering to cover and spine. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front free endpaper. Book is clean and unworn, mild toning to contents, former owner's name on front pastedown. Unclipped dust jacket is missing large piece from head of spine with some loss of text, edges chipped, archival tape repair, front panel and spine darkened. Preface by Hilaire Belloc.
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Alice au pays des merveilles
by Carroll, Lewis
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Milan: Gruppo Editorriale Fabbri, 1981. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Maraja. 56pp. Pictorial boards. Très bon état. Near fine book with delightful illustratins by Maraja. Text inf French. Texte en français.
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The Boston Almanac for the Year 1860. Number XXV
by Damrell & Moore, and George Coolidge
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Boston: Brown Taggard, & Chase, 1860. Hardcover. Very Good. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. 255pp. Stamped cloth, gilt lettering, folding map of Boston bound-in. Covers are faded and very lightly rubbed, text is age-toned and clean. Owner wrote many weather entries on memoranda pages. Folding map has slight edge stain and is in otherwise sound condition. Many ads and much information.
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Mail and Passenger Streamships of the Nineteenth Century; The Macpherson Collection with Iconographical and Historical Notes
by Parker, Captain H. and Bowen, Frank C.
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- Used - Very Good
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xxvii, 324pp, 16 color illustrations, 170 black and white illustrations. Tan buckram, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, rough-cut edges. Cover is clean and unworn, endpapers lightly foxed, a very occasional spot in margins, contents are overall very clean and sound, binding is tight, some pages still unopened. A very nice copy of a handsome publication. Dust jacket is heavily soiled, chipped and missing a large piece from rear panel.
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The Phrenological Organs : The Phrenological Character : Together with the Maelstroom Wreck: The Pyramids: A Colluquy in the Clouds: The Bridal Flounces: And Some Other Occasional Poems, and Prose Writings
by Goodrich, Jesse W.
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- Used - Very Good
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Worcester, MA: Jesse W. Goodrich, 1855. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Alice Farber. 48pp. Red blind-stamped cloth, gilt title lettering, frontispiece engraved portrait with tissue-guard, INSCRIBED by AUTHOR. Very light wear and tiny split to rear joint, contents are clean. Inscription on front pastedown reads : "Hon. Amasa Walker from his friend the Author." Walker was a U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. An early publication on the study of phrenology.
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Rootabaga Pigeons
by Sandburg, Carl
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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1923. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Maud and Miska Petersham. 218pp. Blue cloth, yellow lettering and decoration, inscribed and SIGNED by author on front free endpaper. Light wear to cover, contents lightly age-toned, spots in a few scattered margins. Black and white illustrations throughout by Maud and Miska Petersham.
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François Villon
by Lewis, D.B. Wyndham
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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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New York and Hartford: Coward-McCann, Inc. And Edwin V. Mitchell, Inc., 1928. First American Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 407pp. Brown embossed boards, gilt lettering to cover and spine. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front free endpaper. Book is clean and unworn, mild toning to contents, former owner's name on front pastedown. Unclipped dust jacket is missing large piece from head of spine with some loss of text, edges chipped, archival tape repair, front panel and spine darkened. Preface by Hilaire Belloc.
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Under Fire: An American Story
by North, Oliver L
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- ISBN 13
- 9780060183349
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- 0060183349
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Harpercollins, 1991. First edition, as stated, first printing . Hardcover. Fine/near fine. r. 446 pp. This is a rare first edition copy signed by both Oliver North and William Novak. North's inscription, "Margo and Sam, all the best," appears in blue ink on the half title page with North's signature and the date "3 Nov 91" and Novak's signature in black ink. Dust jacket slightly wrinkled at top of spine. Free USPS tracking with every US order. Ships from MA.
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A New History of Japanese Cinema: A Century of Narrative Film
by Standish, Isolde
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- ISBN 13
- 9780826417909
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- 0826417906
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New York: Continuum, 2006. 8vo size trade paperback with black and white photo illustrated cover; 414 pages From back: "Cinema, which first arrived in Japan in 1896 with the Kinetoscope prototype, came at the very time that Japan was transforming its economic base and society into that of a major international power. The first cinema, the Asakusa Denikikan, was opened in Tokyo in 1903 and within 13 years 300 cinemas had sprung up throughout the country... (The author) focuses on the historical development of Japanese film, illustrated by a series of typical Japanese film posters. She details an industry and an art form shaped by the competing and merging forces of traditional culture and of economic and technological innovation." Edgewear, creases to bottom and bottom and top corners of front cover, soil on bottom and light soil to outside pages. We note pencilled underlining on at least 29 pages and pencilled marginalia on at least three pages and four creased page corners. Quotes…
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Old Bones
by Elkins, Aaron J
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- 9780892962624
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- 0892962623
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New York, NY, U. S. A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. New York, NY, U. S. A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. Fine in Near Fine jacket Signed by Author A Gideon Oliver Mystery, SIGNED on title pg. Edgar Award winner best mystery npc 197pp. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition
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Hurrah for My New Free Country (INSCRIBED BY EDITORS) (FIRST EDITION)
by Leon Charles Fouquet
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- 9780806122557
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- 0806122552
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1990 (INSCRIBED BY THE EDITORS) "Best wishes to Frances McLaughlin fellow member of the writers guild" Rosalie Davis Mathilde Ruggles (Collette) Hurrah for My New Free Country covers a wide span of events, from the settlement of Kansas in the late 1860s (which included Indian wars and the near-extermination of the buffalo), to the Oklahoma land rush, to the peaceful growth of the area around Chandler, Oklahoma, in the early 1900s." Book: clean and unmarked - pages are crisp/white DJ: minimal shelfwear - colors are vibrant
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Starting With Flags : Forty-Three Drawings
by Parker, Kingsley
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New York: Private Printing. Fine with no dust jacket. 1976. Limited Signed Edition. Softcover. The artist's abstract and quite varied series of 43 drawings of flags, all printed monochrome on the recto of pages. Kingsley Parker has been exhibiting and represented by galleries since the mid-1970s and has a work in the collection of the Museum Of Modern Art in New York, NY. The artist is quite active with new works. Signed in ink "K. Parker/1976 ©" in the front matter where Parker explains his motivation for drawing the series of abstract flags. Copy 158 of a limited edition of 600, numbered in the colophon. Approximately 44 pages, unpaginated. Printed on fine, machine-made paper in brown wraps. The title and a flag drawing are framed on the front cover. In absolutely clean, Fine condition. ; Drawings; Square 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 44 pages; Signed by Artist .
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Dead in Dixie
by Charlaine Harris
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- ISBN 13
- 9780739434710
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- 0739434713
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New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2003. Z2 - A Science Fiction Book Club Omnibus Edition hardcover book SIGNED by the Charlaine Harris in as new condition in as new dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead. 8.5"x5.75", 612 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club (BCE/BOMC).
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Songs From Appledore
by Oscar Laighton
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RARE. Collectible: 1916. Signed by the author. Cambridge MA: University Press. Very Good. Hardcover. Light soil to green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped title, author's name, and design. A bright solid, book - 27 pages; Inside covers are sunned. Pages clean and bright. Frontspiece. "View from Mrs. Thaxter's Garden Gate. 29 illustrations. Small book: 7" x 5"
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Grant Wood and Marvin Cone : Artists of an Era
by Hazel E. Brown
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- 9780813817750
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- 0813817757
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Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Flat signed and dated by author on FFEP and Inscribed by author to a friend on half-title page. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine except for author's inscription and signature. Spine straight and tight. Jacket shows light rubbing, light chipping at spine head, and light reading wear to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xi + 150 pages. illus. A reflection of the relationships of two artists -- Grant Wood (1891-1942) and Marvin Cone (1891-1965) -- with the community of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A loving biography by a woman who knew them both. Laid-in are two letters to the editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette; one from Woods' sister, and another from a friend of Woods and the author.
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The Lace Reader
by Barry, Brunonia
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- ISBN 13
- 9780979159305
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- 097915930X
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True FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated). "Flap Jacket Press trade paperback edition / First Printing July 2007" on copyright page. This small run printing precedes the hardback edition. NEW. Cover Clean, no wear, no tears, no spine creases, protected in Brodart cover. Text Clean, no marks. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. Books are Carefully Packed in a Box and Shipped Daily with Delivery Confirmation from Dry, Smoke-Free shop. Complete Satisfaction Guaranteed. B103
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I Curse the River of Time (Signed, Limited UK Edition)
by Petterson, Per
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- 9781846553004
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- 1846553008
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SIGNED, FIRST UK LIMITED EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated, complete number line to 1) Harvill Secker, London, 2010. NEW, Unread. Author's Signature, no inscription, on a bookplate attached to the first chapter page. Note on bookplate reads "This edition of I Curse the River of Time, signed by the author, is limited to 1,000 copies". Dust Jacket Bright in Brodart protective cover, Clean, no wear, no tears, not price clipped (£12.99). Text Clean, no marks. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. Not book club. Fast shipping from Dry, Smoke-Free home. Email Confirmation with Tracking Number. International ships Air Mail.
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