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St. Louis: Sigma Publishing Co., 1891. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. About fine but for prev. owner name dated 1893, minor wear to extremities, and a bit of fraying at head and heel of spine. A very tight, clean copy. SCARCE..
Words and Their Meanings by Huxley, Aldous - 1940
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Words and Their Meanings
by Huxley, Aldous
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Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1940. Book. Near Fine. Stapled Wraps. Unknown Edition ( Proof ? ). Fine but for minor toning to peripheries of the card wraps, and light traces of superficial insect damage to the back cover around the edges, and along bottom edge of front cover.This is visible, but not obtrusive. Internally fine. See photos.( which exaggerate the toning ). Perhaps a proof copy ? of the limited first edition of 100 copies. This is not signed. Scarce..
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- Publisher The Ward Ritchie Press
- Place of Publication Los Angeles
- Date Published 1940
- Keywords Philosophy Language Cultural Studies
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Homer in Chios
by Snider, Denton
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The Stone Angel
by Laurence, Margaret
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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1964. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for prev. owner inscription on ffep., in jacket with chips at head and heel of spine ( not affecting title lettering), and a lateral closed tear across the spine, 2 inches down from top. This tear has vertical creases that run up to spine top, and a small scrape, that obliterates the second R in Margaret. Still a very presentable copy. This is the first state binding..
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The Acrobats
by Richler, Mordecai
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1954. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for a few spots on top edge of text block, and offsetting to endpapers from jacket flaps. The price-clipped jacket shows a little wear at spine crown and heel, ( slight loss at crown ), and minor soiling to white back panel. A very bright copy, without the usual toning to the jacket spine. Author's first book..
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Lady Anna
by Trollope, Anthony
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Toronto: Hunter, Rose and Company, 1874. Book. Good +. Hardcover. First Canadian Edition. Very good but for very heavily sunned spine and periphery of back cover, with wear to extremities, and some soil. Slightly cocked, but still sound. A scarce edition..
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A Little Stone
by Bowles, Paul
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London: John Lehman, 1950. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for toning to fore edges, and prev. owner insc. on rear free endpaper. Jacket has a little wear at extremities, esp. spine tips. No chips or tears. First state of the first edition..
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Homer in Chios
by Snider, Denton
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St. Louis: Sigma Publishing Co., 1891. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. About fine but for prev. owner name dated 1893, minor wear to extremities, and a bit of fraying at head and heel of spine. A very tight, clean copy. SCARCE..
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The Stone Angel
by Laurence, Margaret
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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1964. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for prev. owner inscription on ffep., in jacket with chips at head and heel of spine ( not affecting title lettering), and a lateral closed tear across the spine, 2 inches down from top. This tear has vertical creases that run up to spine top, and a small scrape, that obliterates the second R in Margaret. Still a very presentable copy. This is the first state binding..
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The Acrobats
by Richler, Mordecai
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1954. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for a few spots on top edge of text block, and offsetting to endpapers from jacket flaps. The price-clipped jacket shows a little wear at spine crown and heel, ( slight loss at crown ), and minor soiling to white back panel. A very bright copy, without the usual toning to the jacket spine. Author's first book..
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Lady Anna
by Trollope, Anthony
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Toronto: Hunter, Rose and Company, 1874. Book. Good +. Hardcover. First Canadian Edition. Very good but for very heavily sunned spine and periphery of back cover, with wear to extremities, and some soil. Slightly cocked, but still sound. A scarce edition..
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A Little Stone
by Bowles, Paul
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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London: John Lehman, 1950. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for toning to fore edges, and prev. owner insc. on rear free endpaper. Jacket has a little wear at extremities, esp. spine tips. No chips or tears. First state of the first edition..
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Words and Their Meanings
by Aldous Huxley
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- 9781939125453 / 1939125456
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Hardback. New. A private printed, limited edition facsimile of Aldous Huxley's 1940 essay on the significance and power of words.
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Words and Their Meanings
by Huxley, Aldous (Author)
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Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
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Boydell and Brewer, 2019. Hardcover. New. 40 pages. 9.29x6.30x0.39 inches.
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WORDS and THEIR MEANINGS
by Huxley, Aldous
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- Very Good- with no dust jacket; Decorative paper over boards, new blk cloth spine, toned cover and slightly to endsheets; owner
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Gainesville, Florida, United States
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CA: Ward Ritchie Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket; Decorative paper over boards, new blk . cloth spine, toned cover and slightly to endsheets; owners name on fep; no . additional publication dates noted; No other marks or writing, clean tight . binding; NOT ex-library. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Has authors facsimile signature on title page ; ; 28 pages .
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Words and Their Meanings
by HUXLEY, Aldous
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- near fine
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- Near Fine
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1940. Second Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Alvin Lustig (dust jacket). 8vo. Pp. 36. Light gray laid paper covered boards, titles stamped in black on the cover and spine: bookplate of Dr. Elmer Belt, edges very lightly spotted/soiled. In the Alvin Lustig illustrated dust jacket printed red and black on light gray laid paper that has three short, closed tears. Please see photos. A fresh copy. Former owner Elmer Belt was an renowned urologist perhaps best known today for his a pioneering work in sex-change surgery. Addressed to educators, an essay on the moral discipline of language use. Lustig's design evoking facets or folds was created with letterpress decorations. In Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig, authors Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger cite the "abstract configuration of shapes, referring to the inherent complexities found in systems of writing and their organizational syntax."Referenced on pp. 36 and 40 in Born…
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Words and Their Meanings - SIGNED copy
by HUXLEY, Aldous
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin, 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Alvin Lustig. 8vo. Pp. 28. Lustig decorations in red on the title and p. 7. Light gray laid paper-covered boards, Lustig illustration printed in red and dark gray on the front board, titles in dark gray on the spine: boards and leaves a tad age-toned. In the Lustig illustrated dust jacket printed red and dark gray on light gray laid paper: Spine sunned, age-toned, short, closed tears at the spine head and top edge. Please see photos. Signed by Huxley beneath the colophon. One of "100 copies specially printed for Jake Zeitlin May 1940" at the Ward Ritchie Press. Addressed to educators, an essay on the moral discipline of language use. Lustig's design evoking facets or folds was created with letterpress decorations. In Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig, authors Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger cite the "stark juxtaposition of the author's signature, isolated for greater effect, and an…
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Words and Their Meanings.
by Huxley, Aldous
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Los Angeles: Jake Zeitlin, 1940. Signed limited edition, one of 100 numbered examples. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Aldous Huxley and additionally by the publisher, "To my constant friend James Blake from Jake." Near fine in a very good dust jacket. This is Huxley's smallest limited edition, rare and desirable. An argument as timely as it is timeless, Aldous Huxley's Words and Their Meanings argues the significance and power of words. A less well-known work originally published by The Ward Ritchie Press in 1940, Huxley's essay arrived at the end of the Great Depression and coincided with U.S. entry into WWII, a time when global relations were heavily impacted by the craft and manipulation of language. Words and Their Meanings was selected as one of the Western Books of 1940.
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Saint Monkey (INSCRIBED) (FIRST)
by Townsend, Jacinda
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- 9780393080049 / 0393080048
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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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Bloody Sunrise
by Spillane, Mickey
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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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Gold
by Eugene O'Neill
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Centreville, Virginia, United States
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First edition. Spine ends lightly rubbed, spine has small nick, small reddish stain to front cover and rear cover, otherwise very good or better. Lacks dust jacket.
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A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
by Cohen, Leonard
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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.
by Sempe
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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
by Jennifer Egan
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Tomball, Texas, United States
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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
by POWELL, Anthony (1905-2000)
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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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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Palmares
by Jones, Gayl
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Temecula, California, United States
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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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Christopher Blake
by Hart, Moss
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Temecula, California, United States
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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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Men Die
by Humes, H.L. (Harold Louis)
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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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New York: Random House, 1959. Book. Illus. by Sam March (dust jacket design). Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Small octavo. Humes's second novel, following 'The Underground City,' both of which led to his being considered by Esquire magazine as having the same promise as two obscure guys named Updike and Styron (whoever they are). Anyway, he met a guy named Leary who introduced him to a little substance known as LSD, and after seriously indulging his fondness for the hallucinogen he became a trifle paranoid and a bit delusional, which pretty much ended his writing career. Humes was co-founder (with Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton) of The Paris Review. He died of prostate cancer in 1992. Black cloth w/gilt lettering, 184 pages. Mildly cocked, light general wear, in price-clipped dust jacket w/light rubbing, light edgewear, creases to fore-edges of both flaps..
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