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NY: W.J. Watt & Co, 1910. First edition, precedes publication of the English edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY: W.J. Watt & Co., 1910, first printing - "published May" on verso. 8vo., 314pp., illustrated by Will Grefe with a color frontis and four black and white plates. Black cloth with green and yellow block, pictorial color inset and gilt titles, tissue-guarded frontis. Beginning as the novella, The Gem Collector in 1909, The Intrusion of Jimmy was substantially revised and expanded for publication as a book, issued first in the U.S. The London edition appeared six months later (November 1910) as A Gentleman of Leisure. Fray to the cloth at crown and heel, tips bit rubbed, dulling to the spine titles, light soil along edges, mild moisture stain at lower corner of page block. Pages clean and bright, binding tight. Very good minus. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 8vo.
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NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1924. First edition. Hard cover in original pictorial cloth. Published NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1924. 4to., 9 1/4" x 12", 64 pages, illustrated with 6 full page color and 24 b/w plates. A surreal adventure, with dream-like illustrations. Red cloth with full color pictorial cover inset, ornamental alphabet endpapers. Shelfworn, with some loss to the upper rear board corner, minor soiling to the cloth, binding slightly shaken. Internally very good, pages clean and bright, illustrations sharp. Good plus. Scarce. . 1st. Hard. Good Plus/No Jacket. 4to.
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The Intrusion of Jimmy
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Dream Days
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London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1902. First edition thus. First illustrated edition, Maxfield Parrish (illustrator). Published London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1902, first printing. 8vo., 228pp. plus 5 pp. publishers ads. 10 full page plates by Parrish, printed in gravure, with texted tissue guards. Original olive green cloth with five-color pictorial cover design by Parrish, top edge gilting, pictorial endpapers, some pages uncut. Slight dulling to the spine titles, else near fine. An attractive example. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Parrish, Maxfield. 8vo.
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"The Town-Ho's Story" from MOBY DICK in HARPER'S MONTHLY. Volume III: June - November 1851
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NY: Harper & Brothers, 1852. First edition. Six issues of Harper's New Monthly Magazine (Volume III: June - November 1851) leather bound. Published NY: Harper & Brothers, 1852. 8vo., viii+864pp., illustrated throughout with engravings. The first appearance in print of any part of Moby Dick. Gilt tooled full leather, all edge gilting, yellow endpapers. Leather backstrip missing, covers intact, binding tight, stain darkening to area on front cover, stamp of Adriance Memorial Library on verso, no other markings. Good. Internally very good, pages clean, bright with minimal foxing. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.
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My Friend Flicka
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Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1941. Third printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1941. 8vo., 349pp. Red cloth with gilt spine titles, blind embossed cover design. Author's first book, made into a 1943 Hollywood film. Fading to the green top edge tinting, name in small hand on flyleaf. Very good plus, clean, pages and enpapers bright, in very good dust jacket with some loss at the folds and edges. Stated third printing on dust jacket flap, along with price of $2.50. . Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo.
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THE STRIKE OF A SEX and ZUGASSENT'S DISCOVERY, OR AFTER THE SEX STRUCK . (with author's preface). New and Revised Edition
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Chicago: Stockham Publishing Co, 1905. First combined edition. Original tan wrappers. Published Chicago: Stockham Publishing Co., 1905. 12mo. printed wrappers, 5" x 6 7/8", 119pp. printed on laid paper, plus 9pp. ads. Scarce feminist work for reproductive rights. Some closed tears to the rear cover, few spots to front cover. Clean, bright, very good plus. . 1st. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo.
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NY: W.J. Watt & Co, 1910. First edition, precedes publication of the English edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY: W.J. Watt & Co., 1910, first printing - "published May" on verso. 8vo., 314pp., illustrated by Will Grefe with a color frontis and four black and white plates. Black cloth with green and yellow block, pictorial color inset and gilt titles, tissue-guarded frontis. Beginning as the novella, The Gem Collector in 1909, The Intrusion of Jimmy was substantially revised and expanded for publication as a book, issued first in the U.S. The London edition appeared six months later (November 1910) as A Gentleman of Leisure. Fray to the cloth at crown and heel, tips bit rubbed, dulling to the spine titles, light soil along edges, mild moisture stain at lower corner of page block. Pages clean and bright, binding tight. Very good minus. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. 8vo.
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Dream Days
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London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1902. First edition thus. First illustrated edition, Maxfield Parrish (illustrator). Published London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1902, first printing. 8vo., 228pp. plus 5 pp. publishers ads. 10 full page plates by Parrish, printed in gravure, with texted tissue guards. Original olive green cloth with five-color pictorial cover design by Parrish, top edge gilting, pictorial endpapers, some pages uncut. Slight dulling to the spine titles, else near fine. An attractive example. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Parrish, Maxfield. 8vo.
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"The Town-Ho's Story" from MOBY DICK in HARPER'S MONTHLY. Volume III: June - November 1851
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NY: Harper & Brothers, 1852. First edition. Six issues of Harper's New Monthly Magazine (Volume III: June - November 1851) leather bound. Published NY: Harper & Brothers, 1852. 8vo., viii+864pp., illustrated throughout with engravings. The first appearance in print of any part of Moby Dick. Gilt tooled full leather, all edge gilting, yellow endpapers. Leather backstrip missing, covers intact, binding tight, stain darkening to area on front cover, stamp of Adriance Memorial Library on verso, no other markings. Good. Internally very good, pages clean, bright with minimal foxing. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.
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My Friend Flicka
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Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1941. Third printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1941. 8vo., 349pp. Red cloth with gilt spine titles, blind embossed cover design. Author's first book, made into a 1943 Hollywood film. Fading to the green top edge tinting, name in small hand on flyleaf. Very good plus, clean, pages and enpapers bright, in very good dust jacket with some loss at the folds and edges. Stated third printing on dust jacket flap, along with price of $2.50. . Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo.
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THE STRIKE OF A SEX and ZUGASSENT'S DISCOVERY, OR AFTER THE SEX STRUCK . (with author's preface). New and Revised Edition
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Chicago: Stockham Publishing Co, 1905. First combined edition. Original tan wrappers. Published Chicago: Stockham Publishing Co., 1905. 12mo. printed wrappers, 5" x 6 7/8", 119pp. printed on laid paper, plus 9pp. ads. Scarce feminist work for reproductive rights. Some closed tears to the rear cover, few spots to front cover. Clean, bright, very good plus. . 1st. Soft Cover. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo.
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THE QUOKS
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Published by W. & R. Chambers, 1925. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Price, Luxor. Very good condition with no wrapper. Stiff pictorial card covers. Large format. 6 wonderful colour plates and numerous b/w full- page drawings. Each text page surrounded by a decorative border. Highly imaginative and amusing! Heavily browned to spine and cover edges. Some rust showing through from staples beneath binding.Some creasing to cover corners. Some foxing and grubby marks. Small stain/damp mark to front cover. A few marks to endpapers and outer page edges. Last page has small amount of colouring to b/w illustrations. All plates present.
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The Quoks.
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1924. New York; Frederick A. Stokes Company. 1924. 4to. Original red cloth with large onlaid pictorial plate to upper board, pictorial alphabet endpapers; pp. [iv], 5-62 + [ii]; with 6 fine, and glorious, detailed coloured plates and a plethora of black-and-white images and decorations throughout; a near fine copy, both internally and externally, with a small bruise to top fore-corner of upper board and a small, and neat, gift inscription, dated 1931, to half-title. First U.S. edition. An extravagant fantasy, wonderfully produced: "Now you shall hear about the funny little Quoks and Uncle Billy and Bumpy who lived on Cookie Island and Daddy Spider and John Beetle and his son and the big Whale and the wonderful Quok bird and what happened to them all" (Preface). John Penry Hyde "Luxor" Price (1874-1950) was an American illustrator of only about half a dozen books who was born in Cardiff, Wales. Emigrating in 1893 he became personal secretary to James Gregory McLoughlin who was a…
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Bloody Sunrise
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1965 - First Edition stated - A Tiger Mann Mystery - "...for Tiger is told on his wedding day that he is needed for Operation Plato." - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - no previous owner markings - dj: vibrant colors with some rubbing to the black base and abstract sun - interesting black and white photo of Spillane on the back cover - a few chips repaired with archival tape - dj in protective mylar sleeve
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2014 - 1st ed stated ("1" in number line) - INSCRIBED - authors debut book - "Fourteen-year-old Audrey martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, knows she'll never get out of Kentucky - but when her fingers touch the pion keys, the whole church trembles." - book: very good (like new) - dj: very good (like new) - dj in protective mylar sleeve
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A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
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New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478
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Quelques Optimistes.
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Paris Editions Denoel, 1992, First Edition. paperback. First edition, Paris 1992, one of 3443 printed. -- Text (the cartoon captions) in FRENCH. -- Softcover, 8.3x10.8 inches, stiff cover with flaps. Condition: near fine (small surface scratch rear cover). -- Nice collectible example of Sempe's classic cartoon work, familiar to New Yorker readers. ISBN 220723861X
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Manhattan Beach
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First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with no visible flaws, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in page. A pristine copy of this novel from the Pulitzer winning author of "A Visit From the Good Squad". Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box.
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Two Novels by Anthony Powell. Venusberg. Agents & Patients
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New York: Periscope-Holliday, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine-. First American Edition of two early novels. 8vo: [4],328pp. Publisher's quarter-bound black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slate grey paper-covered boards; dust jacket, priced $4.75, replicating (separately, on front and back panels) Osbert Lancaster's illustrations for the original wrappers. Near Fine (top edge soiled and stained, gilt a bit faded, gift inscription on fly-leaf); about Fine jacket. Lilley A.10. First collected in 1952 by Rinehart for the Periscope Book Shop and Holliday Bookshop in New York; the unsold stock was reissued in 1965 by Little, Brown, Powell's then American publisher (our copy), with publisher's label pasted to jacket's spine panel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions…
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Christopher Blake
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Random House, 1947. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Book has some toning to the edges; one word previous owner's name to the front free endpaper. The unclipped jacket ($2.50) has light wear to the spine ends /corners and toning to the rear panel. A very good or better copy.
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Palmares
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Beacon Press, 2021. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Galleys. Fine in illustrated wraps. By the author of Corregidora.
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Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.
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