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Kelso of the Paragon: A Roger Kelso Adventure ---by James Dillon White by White, James Dillon ( Pen Name for Stanley White) - 1969

by White, James Dillon ( Pen Name for Stanley White)

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Kelso of the Paragon:  A Roger Kelso Adventure ---by James Dillon White by White, James Dillon ( Pen Name for Stanley White) - 1969

Kelso of the Paragon: A Roger Kelso Adventure ---by James Dillon White

by White, James Dillon ( Pen Name for Stanley White)

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London, England: London, UK: Hutchinson, 1969, 1st Edition, First Printing, 1969. ----------hardcover, a Very Good+ copy, upper corners are ever so slightly bumped, small mark on front blank endpaper, in a solid clean very Good dustjacket with with some flaking at tips, a bit of light soiling to the largely white rear panel, small sticker pull on spine, overall a pretty darn nice copy, the scarcest Kelso book, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate -generally withi 1/8 inch ---. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ ( see Description )/Very Good (see description). Illus. by Val Biro cover Art. 5.25w x 8h Inches. NOT Price Clipped.
  • Bookseller Leonard Shoup CA (CA)
  • Illustrator Val Biro cover Art
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good+ ( see Description )
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  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • ISBN 10 0090979508
  • ISBN 13 9780090979509
  • Publisher London, UK: Hutchinson, 1969, 1st Edition, First Printing
  • Place of Publication London, England
  • Date Published 1969
  • Keywords james Dillon White, Naval Fiction, Adventure, Kelso
  • Size 5.25w x 8h Inches

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Fromont Junior & Risler Senior

Fromont Junior & Risler Senior

by Daudet, Alphonse

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London: Hutchinson. Very Good- with no Dust Jacket. 1894. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. Translated by Edward Vizetelly and illustrated with eighty-eight wood engravings from original drawings by George Roux. Illustrated frontispiece, tissued. Dark blue boards with silver decorations, lettering, green blindstamping decoration. One of only 100 published by Hutchinson in this first English edition. Slant. ; Wood engraving; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 399 pages; 12414 .
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The Prodigal Parents, A Novel

The Prodigal Parents, A Novel

by Lewis, Sinclair [Harry] (1885-1951)

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[i-viii]+[1]+301+[302-04] pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt title and author's name on spine and embossed "SL" on cover in original jacket. (Pastore: 251) First state, limited to 10,000 copies with title page 1/4 inch shorter at bottom than surrounding leaves, corrected in later print run. Lewis had commented to several parties privately that Doubleday, Doran was putting too much focus on the Nobel Prize and too little on him. Word reached the publisher and the result was the addition of Lewis's initials to the olive branch motif on the cover of this and subsequent novels. The novel in an attack on the Communist left as a response the way It can't Happen Here was an attack on the totalitarian right; it deals with the "generation gap" and was soundly criticized by Lewis's former socialistic associates, Upton Sinclair, in particular, who vied the book as an apologia for middle-class values and mores, those same values and mores which Lewis had so well… Read More
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Quo Vadis

Quo Vadis

by Henryk Sienkiewicz

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Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1897. 515 pages. A Tale of the Time of Nero. Book is in remarkably good shape for being 116 years old. Clear titling on spine and front pictoral cover. Foxing slightly present on inside cover, binding, flyleafs disjoined.. Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by M. De Lipman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Classic.
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Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1898. 472 pages. Some wear inside cover....binding loose from first flyleaf, which is gone. Bookplate inside cover. Rest of book is in remarkably good shape for being 115 years old. Gilt titling on spine and front pictoral cover. . Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Hugh M. Eaton. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Classic.
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The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence

by Maugham, W. Somerset

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New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919. Early Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good - . In red cloth with gilt to spine. Early reprint in a smaller format and part of the Murray Hill Library from the 1920's. Light edgewear, mostly to spine ends and some tiny spots of loss to gilt on spine. Light tanning to endpapers. Jacket has 1 inch square piece missing to top of spine and has had tape repairs on inside of jacket to long split on spine at crease with front panel and corners. Some chipping to top edge of jacket, bottom of spine and corners with one small chip missing to middle of jacket spine and one to rear crease. Otherwise, a few short closed tears to jacket edges and another vertical split to spine crease at rear panel that has not been repaired with associated horizontal splits across spine.Scarce with jacket.
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Fromont Junior & Risler Senior

Fromont Junior & Risler Senior

by Daudet, Alphonse

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London: Hutchinson. Very Good- with no Dust Jacket. 1894. 1st English Edition. Hardcover. Translated by Edward Vizetelly and illustrated with eighty-eight wood engravings from original drawings by George Roux. Illustrated frontispiece, tissued. Dark blue boards with silver decorations, lettering, green blindstamping decoration. One of only 100 published by Hutchinson in this first English edition. Slant. ; Wood engraving; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 399 pages; 12414 .
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The Prodigal Parents, A Novel

The Prodigal Parents, A Novel

by Lewis, Sinclair [Harry] (1885-1951)

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[i-viii]+[1]+301+[302-04] pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt title and author's name on spine and embossed "SL" on cover in original jacket. (Pastore: 251) First state, limited to 10,000 copies with title page 1/4 inch shorter at bottom than surrounding leaves, corrected in later print run. Lewis had commented to several parties privately that Doubleday, Doran was putting too much focus on the Nobel Prize and too little on him. Word reached the publisher and the result was the addition of Lewis's initials to the olive branch motif on the cover of this and subsequent novels. The novel in an attack on the Communist left as a response the way It can't Happen Here was an attack on the totalitarian right; it deals with the "generation gap" and was soundly criticized by Lewis's former socialistic associates, Upton Sinclair, in particular, who vied the book as an apologia for middle-class values and mores, those same values and mores which Lewis had so well… Read More
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Quo Vadis

Quo Vadis

by Henryk Sienkiewicz

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Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1897. 515 pages. A Tale of the Time of Nero. Book is in remarkably good shape for being 116 years old. Clear titling on spine and front pictoral cover. Foxing slightly present on inside cover, binding, flyleafs disjoined.. Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by M. De Lipman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Classic.
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Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

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New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1898. 472 pages. Some wear inside cover....binding loose from first flyleaf, which is gone. Bookplate inside cover. Rest of book is in remarkably good shape for being 115 years old. Gilt titling on spine and front pictoral cover. . Original Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Hugh M. Eaton. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Classic.
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The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence

by Maugham, W. Somerset

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New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919. Early Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good - . In red cloth with gilt to spine. Early reprint in a smaller format and part of the Murray Hill Library from the 1920's. Light edgewear, mostly to spine ends and some tiny spots of loss to gilt on spine. Light tanning to endpapers. Jacket has 1 inch square piece missing to top of spine and has had tape repairs on inside of jacket to long split on spine at crease with front panel and corners. Some chipping to top edge of jacket, bottom of spine and corners with one small chip missing to middle of jacket spine and one to rear crease. Otherwise, a few short closed tears to jacket edges and another vertical split to spine crease at rear panel that has not been repaired with associated horizontal splits across spine.Scarce with jacket.
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Kelso of the Paragon:  A Roger Kelso Adventure ---by James Dillon White

Kelso of the Paragon: A Roger Kelso Adventure ---by James Dillon White

by White, James Dillon ( Pen Name for Stanley White)

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London, England: London, UK: Hutchinson, 1969, 1st Edition, First Printing, 1969. ------------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) --- hardcover, a solid Good ex library example in a bright Very Good dustjacket, usual library stamps and marks, no tape marks on boards, no library stickers on jacket, rear flap has a strip along edge of old tape darkening as does the verso of the rear board (rear flap was once taped to the verso of the board ), looks quite nice overall, the scarcest Kelso book, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good (see description)/Very Good (see description). Illus. by Val Biro cover Art. 5.25w x 8h Inches. NOT Price Clipped.
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Kelso of the Paragon:  A Roger Kelso Adventure ---by James Dillon White

Kelso of the Paragon: A Roger Kelso Adventure ---by James Dillon White

by White, James Dillon ( Pen Name for Stanley White)

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London, England: London, UK: Hutchinson, 1969, 1st Edition, First Printing, 1969. ------------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) --- hardcover, a Very Good+ example, upper corners are ever so slightly bumped, small mark on front blank endpaper, in a solid clean Good/Very Good dustjacket with with some flaking at tips, a bit of light soiling to the largely white rear panel, small sticker pull on spine, overall a pretty nice copy, the scarcest Kelso book, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate -generally withi 1/8 inch ---. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ ( see Description )/Very Good (see description). Illus. by Val Biro cover Art. 5.25w x 8h Inches. NOT Price Clipped.
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Gypsies

Gypsies

by Greenfeld, Howard

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9780517528426
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New York: Crown Publishers. An account of the Gypsy way of life, including its origins, history, traditions, customs, occupations, and the changes that modern living has occasioned. EX LIBRARY/USUAL MARKINGS. Profusely & WONDERFULLY illustrated w/photos, Introduction, Bibliography, Index, 111 clean, crisp & solid pp. Excellent Personal cpy/Reference! . Good. Hardcover. 1977.
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Kane & Abel
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Kane & Abel

by Jeffrey Archer

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New York, 1979. Book Club. Hardcover. Book Club/Has Jacket. Book is a book club edition. Quite a few closed tears, chips, and other signs of wear to the dust jacket. Some bumping to the boards at corners, edges and ends of the spine. Pages are clean.
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Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain

by Frazier, Charles

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9780871136794
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NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .
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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural
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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural

by Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945)

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228 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with quarter brown spine and dark green lettering to spine label and cover. First edition, first issue. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly chipped, spine heal rubbed, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts
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The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts

by Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945)

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209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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Red Pottage
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Red Pottage

by Cholmondeley, Mary

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Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the bible story of Esau.
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We Loved Them Once

by Rivers, Ronda

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NY: Vantage Press, 1954. Pages [135] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Tan boards, black lettering, clean, minor shelf wear. PO's name penned to endpaper. Set in 1950's America. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre

The Treasure Of Sierra Madre

by Traven, B

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Large-Print Edition
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9780786201006
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
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St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

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v+321 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First British edition. St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. He alternated dictating St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston but gradually lost interest in the former. The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf wear, hinges and spine heal moderately rubbed, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy.
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And Four To Go
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And Four To Go: A Nero Wolfe Foursome

by Rex Stout

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This book is in very good condition except for the dust jacket. It is in acceptable condition THe dust Jacket is worn, torn and fading. The previous owner's name is written at the top of the first page.Four Nero Wolfe novels in miniature, published in book form for the first time. Christmas Party, Easter Parade, Fourth of July Picnic and Murder is no Joke. There is a marking on the first page.
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