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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1974. First Edition. 8vo. xviii + 432 pp. Very Good/Good. FFP inscription: "To Pamela Sherek Very best wishes Meryle Secrest." Signed by Author. First Edition. Pamela Sherek, née Boscawen, was the wife of Henry Sherek, famed theatrical impressario.
The Linhay on the Downs and Other Adventures in the Old and the New World (INSCRIBED) by HENRY WILLIAMSON - 1934
by HENRY WILLIAMSON
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The Linhay on the Downs and Other Adventures in the Old and the New World (INSCRIBED)
by HENRY WILLIAMSON
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Jonathan Cape, London, 1934. First Edition (first printing) - this copy inscribed and dated (1945) by the author on the front free endpaper. 8vo. 315pp. Blue-green buckram with gilt lettering to the spine. With a photographic frontispiece and seven photographs by the author. The text contains considerable pencilled alterations, including the crossing out of paragraphs and even whole chapters; plus some corrections in the margins, once in ink, but not in the author's hand. Buckram lightly marked and faded (especially at spine) as is common. With a tiny hole punched in spine. In marked, tanned and chipped non-price-clipped dust wrapper with a little loss to foot of spine panel.. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good.
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Between Me and Life, a Biography of Romaine Brooks
by Meryle Secrest
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The Place of Art in a University. A lecture. (INSCRIBED)
by HERBERT READ
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Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1931. Book. Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, this copy inscribed by the author to fellow art-critic W.B.Honey. 28pp. Card wrappers, a little faded and frayed at overlapping edges. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..
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Julien Benda and the New Humanism. (INSCRIBED)
by HERBERT READ.
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University of Washington Chapbooks, Seattle, 1930. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, this copy inscribed by the author to fellow distinguished art critic W.B.Honey. Small 8vo. 33pp. Card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper. In very crisp state. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..
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The Age of the Dragon. Poems 1930-1951. (INSCRIBED)
by JOHN LEHMANN
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Harcourt Brace, New York, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first printing of the first American edition - this copy inscribed by the author: "for Alan Smith with all good wishes from John Lehmann 1976". Slim 8vo. 137pp. Blue cloth, silver lettered and ruled at the spine. Covers just a little spotted in places. A bright copy in slightly tanned and rubbed dust wrapper. A two-page foreword by the author precedes eighty-one poems. The recipient of Lehmann's inscription, Alan Smith, was a noted English bookseller and bibliographer, compiler of the Poetry London checklist..
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Sundog
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N. Y.: E. P. Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, 1984. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, Limited. Fine, unread copy, lacking the slipcase. Aeg. # 71 of only 250 copies..
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The Place of Art in a University. A lecture. (INSCRIBED)
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Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1931. Book. Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, this copy inscribed by the author to fellow art-critic W.B.Honey. 28pp. Card wrappers, a little faded and frayed at overlapping edges. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..
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Julien Benda and the New Humanism. (INSCRIBED)
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University of Washington Chapbooks, Seattle, 1930. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition, this copy inscribed by the author to fellow distinguished art critic W.B.Honey. Small 8vo. 33pp. Card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper. In very crisp state. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]..
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The Age of the Dragon. Poems 1930-1951. (INSCRIBED)
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Harcourt Brace, New York, 1952. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. The first printing of the first American edition - this copy inscribed by the author: "for Alan Smith with all good wishes from John Lehmann 1976". Slim 8vo. 137pp. Blue cloth, silver lettered and ruled at the spine. Covers just a little spotted in places. A bright copy in slightly tanned and rubbed dust wrapper. A two-page foreword by the author precedes eighty-one poems. The recipient of Lehmann's inscription, Alan Smith, was a noted English bookseller and bibliographer, compiler of the Poetry London checklist..
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Don't Bet against Me!: Beating the Odds Against Breast Cancer and in Life (Association copy signed by Deanna Favre): Inscription by Deanna Favre
by Deanna Favre; Angela Elwell Hunt
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Like New/tight binding. No wear to dj. but scratched. Inscribed on Front End page "To Jim, God Bless!! (with a smiley underneath) Deanna Favre.
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Waldo. A novel. (SIGNED).
by PAUL THEROUX.
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The Bodley Head, London, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing) of Theroux's debut novel (which was preceded by the US edition). This copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 208pp. Purple cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A tiny smattering of foxing to the top edge and a single tiny blemish to the front free endpaper. Near fine in Yvonne Skargon-designed dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but fractionally marked and with a single lengthy closed tear to the front panel..
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The Linhay on the Downs and Other Adventures in the Old and the New World.
by HENRY WILLIAMSON
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Jonathan Cape, London, 1934. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 314pp. Full green buckram lettered in gold at the spine. With a frontispiece and seven captioned photographs, mostly taken by the author. Although prone to fading, the green buckram covers of this copy are exceptionally well preserved, although the backstrip exhibits some inevitable fading. A hint of very light spotting to the free endpapers and to the margins of a few preliminary and concluding leaves. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. Some fifty essays, reviews, studies and other short pieces, including a section devoted to Williamson's travels in North America..
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THE LINHAY ON THE DOWNS. And Other Adventures in the Old and the New World.
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CHELTENHAM, Victoria, Australia
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London, Jonathan Cape 1934.. 316pp. 8vo. Original cloth, backstrip and edges a little faded in foxed dustwrapper, with a few small pieces missing on backstrip and upper dustwrapper. Black and white frontispiece and plates. A very good copy.. First edition.
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The Linhay on The Downs and Other Adventures in the Old and the New World
by Henry Williamson
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London : Jonathan Cape, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Octavo. Type: Book 1st printing. DJ restored and shows wear with some small losses.
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The Linhay on the Downs and Other Adventures in the Old and the New World
by WILLIAMSON, Henry
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Sunnibng to the spine and edges of the boards, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a tiny spot and ink stroke on the front panel.
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The Linhay on the Downs and Other Adventures in the Old and the New World
by Henry Williamson
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London: Jonathan Cape , 1934. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Unnamed . The first edition of this charming work by Henry Williamson containing a miscellaneous of wildlife writings such as essays, reviews, and short pieces of writings. . The first trade edition of this excellent work by Henry Williamson. A remarkable miscellany of writings such as essays and short spieces, in which Williamson takes the reader with him across England and America. With various writings on walks alongside the riverbanks and sea-coasts of Devon, on Salisbury Plain, in London, in the Midlands, and in the Black Country; then across the Atlantic, in New York, Georgia and Florida, up into New England and Canada. He tells of the many places and people as well as animals such as turtles and alligators, with a freshness and vigour that makes this one of Williamson's outstanding works. With the unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven photographs in black and white. In the…
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Under Fire: An American Story
by North, Oliver L
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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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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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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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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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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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The Last Season (SIGNED) (FIRST EDITION): A Team In Search of Its Soul
by Phil Jackson
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SIGNED FIRST EDITION One of the most successful coaches in the history of professional basketball offers his own take on his turbulent 2003-2004 season with the Los Angeles Lakers, chronicling the difficulties faced by the team--difficult relationships, public feuds, the Kobe Bryant rape trial, contract disputes, and injuries--and their successful journey to the NBA finals.
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Grant Wood and Marvin Cone : Artists of an Era
by Hazel E. Brown
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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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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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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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