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LES MISERABLES
by HUGO, Victor
- Condition
- Used - Minor browning to gutters. Near Fine in a Good only slipcase with the top edge mostly detached
- Published
- 1938
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$375.00
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Hardcover. Minor browning to gutters. Near Fine in a Good only slipcase with the top edge mostly detached. Lynd Ward. Five quarto (7-1/4" x 10-1/2") volumes bound in black Irish linen with rust-colored, gilt-lettered cloth spine labels. The translation by Lascelles Wraxall authorized by the author. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. Copy #65… Read more about this item Item Price
$375.00
IN COLD BLOOD
by CAPOTE, Truman
- Condition
- Used - Owner name and address in ink on front pastedown. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1965)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$93.80
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New York: Random House, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name and address in ink on front pastedown. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper . First Printing of Capote's classic true crime tale and basis for a film.
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$93.80
SHOW BOAT
by FERBER, Edna
- Condition
- Used - Spine a bit darkened with a very short closed tear at the top. Very Good, lacking as usual the slipcase
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1926
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$812.50
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Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine a bit darkened with a very short closed tear at the top. Very Good, lacking as usual the slipcase. Copy #64 of only 201 numbered and SIGNED copies of perhaps Ferber's best-known book, published a year after her Pulitzer-Prize winning SO BIG. Source for the musical and… Read more about this item Item Price
$812.50
MR. AND MRS. BRIDGE
by (CONNELL, Evan S., Jr.) JHABVALA, Ruth Prawer
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- [1989]
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- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$562.50
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Los Angeles: Creative Artists Agency, Inc., [1989]. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. Three-hole punched sheets (8-1/2" x 11") bound with brads in CAA printed white covers. SIGNED by Connell on the title page. First Draft screenplay based on Connell's novels MR. BRIDGE and MRS. BRIDGE. The 1990 Merchant-Ivory motion picture starred married couple Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.… Read more about this item Item Price
$562.50
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE
by CARVER, Raymond (William HEYEN)
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1981
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$231.30
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper. First Printing of Carver's second major collection of short fiction and his first book to go into further printings. Included is the story "Why Don't You Dance?," basis for the 2010 Will Ferrell film EVERYTHING MUST GO. This copy with an… Read more about this item Item Price
$231.30
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
by LEROUX, Gaston
- Condition
- Used - Fine in an attractive binding
- Edition
- First British Edition
- Published
- (1911)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$6,250.00
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London: Mills & Boon, Limited, (1911). First British Edition. Hardcover. Fine in an attractive binding. Recent full black morocco leather by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with onlay of mask to front cover, silver lettering to spine and front cover after the original, Japanese endpapers, and all edges silvered; housed in a felt-lined black cloth slipcase; vi, 392, 31, (1)… Read more about this item Item Price
$6,250.00
SILAS MARNER: THE WEAVER OF RAVELOE
by ELIOT, George
- Condition
- Used - Rear hinge with paper split but binding firm, early owner name at top of half-title page; tear along rear joint and small tears
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1861
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$812.50
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Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Rear hinge with paper split but binding firm, early owner name at top of half-title page; tear along rear joint and small tears to spine tips, cloth a bit darkened. Very Good. Publisher's cinnamon cloth: Carter's A binding with 16-page Blackwood catalog and 4-page Carlyle catalog bound… Read more about this item Item Price
$812.50
SIGNED FIRST DAY COVER Honoring Ernest Hemingway
by CONDON, Richard
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Published
- 17 July 1989
- Binding
- Document
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$43.80
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Key West, 17 July 1989. Document. Fine. Attractive First Day Cover with an image and stamp of Hemingway postmarked in Key West SIGNED by the American political novelist, author of THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and many other novels.
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$43.80
FIRES. ESSAYS POEMS STORIES
by CARVER, Raymond
- Condition
- Used - Fine in original glassine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1983
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$750.00
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Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in original glassine. Copy #179 of 250 numbered copies in red boards SIGNED by Carver of this superb collection containing the title essay as well as his essay "On Writing," along with 50 poems and 7 stories, including "So Much Water So Close to Home," which figured prominently in… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
by YATES, Richard
- Condition
- Used - Just about Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with the spine tanned but in this case much less severely than typically found
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1961)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$1,250.00
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Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1961). First Edition. Hardcover. Just about Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with the spine tanned but in this case much less severely than typically found. Advance Copy in plain printed white dustwrapper with praise from the publisher on the front and rear panels, including a blurb by Alfred Kazin. Yates's powerful… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,250.00
WILDLIFE
by FORD, Richard
- Condition
- Used - Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1990)
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$125.00
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New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Ford's fourth novel, this is a Second Printing but is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page to a close associate, likely an editor: "For Betty [Beth?],/with love [?] [?]/adieu. We'll see each/other again, God knows/when. From your/admirer, of course/Richard."… Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH. A True Story
by CROWE, Cameron
- Condition
- Used - Slight soiling to topped bulked text edge. About Fine in a Fine, bright white dustwrapper. Scarce in this condition
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1981)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$1,250.00
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New York: Simon & Schuster, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight soiling to topped bulked text edge. About Fine in a Fine, bright white dustwrapper. Scarce in this condition. Cloth-backed boards in the first issue dustwrapper. Author's first book, made into a popular film with the screenplay also written by Crowe and starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,250.00
ADULTERY & OTHER CHOICES
by DUBUS, Andre
- Condition
- Used - Fine in a Fine dustwrapper, lovely copy
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1977
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$437.50
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Boston: David R. Godine, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper, lovely copy. His fourth book, a wonderful collection of stories including "Killings," the basis for the critically acclaimed film IN THE BEDROOM. The title novella was also one of three stories that formed the basis for the film, WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE. Advance Review… Read more about this item Item Price
$437.50
LES MISERABLES
by HUGO, Victor
- Condition
- Used - Contents clean. The text block of the first volume is completely detached from the covers with the front hinge of the third volu
- Edition
- First Illustrated Edition
- Published
- 1887
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$562.50
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London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1887. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Contents clean. The text block of the first volume is completely detached from the covers with the front hinge of the third volume badly cracked; the second volume with rippling to the pages caused by an old waterstain; Light rubbing to the covers, paper spine labels… Read more about this item Item Price
$562.50
THE RAZOR'S EDGE
by MAUGHAM, W. Somerset
- Condition
- Used - Attractive bookplate on the front pastedown with slight offsetting to the front endpaper which has two small skimmed marks. A ti
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1944
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$3,125.00
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Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Attractive bookplate on the front pastedown with slight offsetting to the front endpaper which has two small skimmed marks. A tight, clean copy, the spine evenly sunned with the black leather spine label intact with strong gilt lettering. Near Fine, without the glassine but with a Good slipcase, intact with splits.… Read more about this item Item Price
$3,125.00
SHOW BOAT
by FERBER, Edna
- Condition
- Used - Bookplate on the front free endpaper; a little soiling to the spine. Still Near Fine in an intact, Very Good slipcase with some
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1926
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$812.50
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Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front free endpaper; a little soiling to the spine. Still Near Fine in an intact, Very Good slipcase with some splitting at the top edge. Copy #76 of only 201 numbered and SIGNED copies of perhaps Ferber's best-known book, published a year after her Pulitzer-Prize… Read more about this item Item Price
$812.50
IN COLD BLOOD
by CAPOTE, Truman
- Condition
- Used - Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase with a bit of sunning along the edges
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1965)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$2,500.00
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New York: Random House, (1965). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase with a bit of sunning along the edges. Copy #78 of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by the author.
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$2,500.00
SIDDHARTHA. EINE INDISCHE DICHTUNG
by HESSE, Herman
- Condition
- Used - A Fine, bright copy beautifully bound
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1922
- Binding
- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$6,250.00
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Berlin: S. Fischer, 1922. First Edition. Wraps. A Fine, bright copy beautifully bound. Thin octavo (5-3/4" x 8-3/4") bound in recent full rust morocco with gilt lettering on the front cover and on the spine label, retaining the publisher's heavy tan wraps with brown lettering on the front cover and blank on the rear; [1-8], 9-146, [-147], [1,… Read more about this item Item Price
$6,250.00
SIDDHARTHA. EINE INDISCHE DICHTUNG
by HESSE, Herman
- Condition
- Used - Owner name of George Goetz dated 1939 on the front endpaper well above Hesse's inscription with a small stain at the bottom corn
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1922
- Binding
- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$12,500.00
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Berlin: S. Fischer, 1922. First Edition. Wraps. Owner name of George Goetz dated 1939 on the front endpaper well above Hesse's inscription with a small stain at the bottom corner well below Hesse's inscription. A few marginal pencil notations, likely by Goetz. Some aging to the paper but at least Very Good and very scarce when signed. Thin… Read more about this item Item Price
$12,500.00
WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE and FIRES. ESSAYS POEMS STORIES
by CARVER, Raymond
- Condition
- Fine, both housed in a specially made stiff, archival paper case
- Edition
- First Vintage Books Edition
- Published
- (March 1982) and (March 1984)
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$562.50
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New York: Vintage Books, (March 1982) and (March 1984). First Vintage Books Edition. Paperback. Fine, both housed in a specially made stiff, archival paper case. First Paperback printings of both books, each copy INSCRIBED "For Bert(?)" and SIGNED by the author "Ray Carver/Sacramento" on the half-title pages, the first title also dated "2-24-87."
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$562.50
