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Amsterdam: Van Holkema & Warendorf, 1938. Hardcover. Good. 263, [1] p.: illustrations, map; 25 cm. White cloth with color title and illustration on spine and front cover. Grey endpapers. Part of the publisher's series: De Goede Kameraad: Bibliotheek voor Jongens en Meisjes. No date of publication; WorldCat states 1938. The adventures of two boys in Canada. Entirely in Dutch. Very scarce. In Good Condition: slightly cocked; cover is rubbed; spine is sunned; front free endpaper is slightly scraped; occasional light foxing; otherwise, clean and tight.
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100 Dagen Avontuur; door J.P. van Snellenberg; geillustreerd door Van Looy
by Snellenberg, J.P. van; Looy, Rein van
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100 Fathoms Under [A Rick Brant Electronic Adventure Story]
by Blaine, John [Goodwin, Harold L.]
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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1958. Hardcover. Near Fine/good +. [2], 209 p.: map of Kwangara Island; 19 cm. Red cover with black spine and cover titles. "A Rick Brant Electronic Adventure" -- on front cover. Map of Spindrift Island on endpapers. Top page edges red. Illustrated dust jacket in mylar cover. Series list on front flap goes through 13 titles; series list on p. [2] goes through 14 titles. List of Tom Corbett, Spapce Cadet, Adventure Stories on back flap. List of Ken Holt Mysteries by Bruce Campbell on back section of the dust jacket. The 13th and 14th titles in this series were published in 1958. Former owner's name on first blank page. Book is in Near Fine Condition: former owner's name; otherwise, clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Good+ Condition: loss at tail of spine; minor loss at head of spine with closed 2-cm. tears; discoloration along back flap fold; colors are bright.
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44 Irish Short Stories: An Anthology of Irish Short Fiction from Yeats to Frank O'Connor; Edited by Devin A. Garrity
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Old Greenwich, Conn: Devin-Adair Co, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/very good -. Fifth Printing. x, [2], 500 p.; 24 cm. Dark green cover with gilt-stamped spine title. Green illustrated dust jacket. Contains short stories by 33 Irish authors, including James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, James Stephens, Oscar Wilde, Mary Lavin, Lord Dunsany, and Donagh MacDonagh. Book is in Very Good Condition: pages are browning (as is typical of this book); clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Very Good- Condition: edges rubbed; 1 closed tear of 1 cm. from lower edge of front section and 1 from lower edge of back section; clean and bright.
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Absent Friends [playscript]
by Ayckbourn, Alan
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New York: Claire Nichtern Productions, 1975. Paperback. Near Fine. [104] leaves; 29 cm. Screwbound green duplicating service wrapper with gilt wrapper title and typed paper label taped on spine. In clear acetate cover. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. "#168" written in ink at upper edge of title page. In pencil on title page: "a few changes"; "65" [crossed out]; and "1975" [crossed out]. The changes consist of several cuts and possible cuts, and several small corrections and changes in dialogue. Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson starred in the North American premier in 1976 and in the Kennedy Centre production in 1977, both produced by Claire Nichtern. The planned Broadway opening later in 1977 did not happen. In Near Fine Condition: edges are slightly rubbed; pages are clean and solid.
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Adam Bede by George Eliot
by Eliot, George
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New York: John W. Lovell Co, 1882. Hardcover. Good. 484 p.; 19 cm. Maroon cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. No date of publication. The title page shows the publisher on Vesey St., his location from 1882 to 1890. In Good Condition: edges rubbed; loss at ends of spine; pages are browning, but clean and solid.
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Adrienne; Or, The Secret of a Life: New and Original Drama in Three Acts [De Witt's Acting Plays, no. 75]
by Leslie, Henry
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New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1882. Paperback. Very Good -. 36, [4] p.: plans; 20 cm. Off-white wrapper. Publisher's advertisements on wrappers and on 4 unpaginated pages following text. No date of publication. Although the imprint is "Robert M. De Witt," which should not have been used after he died in 1877, the series listing goes up to no. 317, which was published around 1882. Scarce. In Very Good- Condition: wrapper stained along spine and on back wrapper; pages are clean and tight.
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The Adventures of Count d'Orveau: A Romance
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Philadelphia, Pa: G.M. & W. Snider, 1832. Fair. [4], 180 p.; 20 cm. Original brown cloth spine and plain green paper over boards. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper: Nathaniel P. ???. "The principal occurrences related in the following pages, are here re-modelled from a work of fancy, bearing another name, and first published in England, more than thirty years ago. The objectionable passages are expunged, and the narrative extended, by the addition of a considerable portion of original matter ..."--Advertisement, p. [3]. Checklist Amer. Imprints, 10831. Not in Wright, Amer. Fiction, 1774-1850. Extremely scarce 19th-entury novel by an anonymous American writer. In Poor Condition: modern brown cloth spine repair; front free endpaper detached but present; pp. 61-62 bound after p. 64; incomplete: lacking pages 51-58, 72-76, and 81-84; foxing throughout; some marginal finger soiling.
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Adventures of Baron Munchausen
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New York: Sharlee Company, 1933. Paperback. Very Good -. 64 p.; 20 cm. Paperback with illustration of an early 20th-century Baron Munchausen and price of $0.10 on both front and back. Wrapper title: Baron Munchausen Stories. Original author: Rudolf Eric Raspe. No date of publication. The year 1933 is assigned by WorldCat. Contains 29 tales based on the 7th English edition of 1793. Possibly the only book ever published by Sharlee Company. In Very Good- Condition: edges are rubbed; wrapper is lightly soiled; chip out of lower edge of back wrapper next to spine; pages are clean and tight.
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The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane: Translated from the French of Le Sage, by T. Smollett, M.D.; Embellished with Five Hundred Engravings after Designs by Gigoux
by Le Sage, Alain René
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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854. Hardcover. Good +. Gigoux, Jean. vi, [3], 6-764 p.: frontispiece and 13 leaves of plates, all with blue tissue guards: many in-text illustrations; 22 cm. Contemporary half polished calf with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled title in second compartment, and decoration in remainder of compartments. All page edges marbled with matching marbled endpapers. Engraved initial letters. Gift inscription on blank leaf following front free endpaper dated 1858. Former owner's name at head of title page: Elizabeth Fry. In Good+ Condition: front board detached but present; edges and boards are rubbed; clean and bright.
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The Adventures of Wesley Jackson
by Saroyan, William
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1946. Hardcover. Near Fine. [4], 285 p.; 21 cm. Blue cloth with gilt-on red spine title. No dust jacket. Stated First Edition. In Near Fine Condition: cover is lightly rubbed; clean and tight.
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Against the Season
by Rule, Jane
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New York: McCall Publishing Co, 1971. Hardcover. Fine. [6], 218 p.; 22 cm. Green cloth spine with gilt spine title; pink paper over boards with gilt decoration on front. No dust jacket. In this novel by author Jane Rule, best known for her first novel, Desert of the Heart, she addresses love, death, and birth. In Fine Condition: clean and tight.
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The Age of Innocence
by Wharton, Edith
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New York: Twentieth Century Library; Book-of-the-Month Club, 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. [6], 353, [7] p.: portrait of the author; 24 cm. Green cloth with gilt-on-black spine title and color paste-down on front cover (reproduction of a painting by Childe Hassam). Dark blue endpapers. A very attractive edition of one of Wharton's most popular books. In Near Fine Condition: spine is slightly faded; otherwise, clean and tight.
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Agriculture Reader No. 4; edited by Jeremy Schmall & Justin Taylor; drawings by Scott Teplin; art direction & design by Amy Mees
by Schmall, Jeremy; Taylor, Justin, editors
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New York: X-iing Books, 2010. Paperback. Near Fine -. 128 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with orange cover; illustration runs continuously across the covers. Title in silver on front cover and in silver printed in a mirror image on the back cover. Agriculture Reader is an arts annual founded in 2006. This volume contains works by Mary Jo Bang, Mark Bibbins, Evan Commander, Joshua Cohen, Douglas Crase, Jordan Davis, Benjamin De Casseres, Dan Elkind, Dan Hoy, Elaine Kahn, Noelle Kocot, Ben Lerner, Gary Lutz, Peter Markus, Chris Martin, Anthony McCann, Amy McDaniel, Mike McDonough, Ben Mirov, Gene Morgan, Jesse Nathan, Alec Niedenthal, Greg Purcell, Zachary Schomburg, Andrei Sen-Senkov, Peter Jay Shippy, Bianca Stone, and Eva Talmadge. Scarce. In Near Fine- Condition: small scrape in lower right-hand corner of front cover;cover is very lightly soiled; otherwise, clean and bright.
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Ain't Gonna Be The Same Fool Twice: A Novel [Advance Reader's Copy from Uncorrected Proofs]
by Sinclair, April
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New York: Hyperion, 1996. Paperback. Near Fine. 332 p.; 21 cm. Paperback with color illustrated front cover. Advance Reader's Copy from Uncorrected Proofs. Back cover gives anticipated publication date as January 1996 and the marketing strategy. The sequel to the author's debut novel, Coffee Will Make You Black; Stevie returns from college and sets out to explore San Francisco in 1975 -- free love, war protests, hot tubs, and women's consciousness-raising groups. ISBN: 0-7868-6069-3. In Near Fine- Condition: slightly cocked; back cover lightly sunned along spine; otherwise, clean and solid.
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Alfred Hitchcock's Haunted Houseful; Illustrated by Fred Banbery
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New York: Random House, 1061. Hardcover. Very Good +. [2], iv, [2], 208 p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Hardback with illustrated cover. Illustrated endpaper. Small printed bookplate of former owner on front fixed endpaper. Contents: Let's Haunt a House by Manly Wade Wellman -- The Wastwych Secret by Constance Savery -- Jimmy Takes Vanishing Lessons by Walter R. Brooks -- The Mystery of Rabbit Run by Jack Bechdolt -- The forgotten Island by Elizabeth Coatsworth -- The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall by John Kendrick Bangs -- The Red-Headed League by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Treasure in the Cave by Mark twain -- The Mystery in Four-and-a-Half Street by Donald and Louise Peattie. In Very Good+ Condition: edges slightly rubbed; slightly cocked; clean and tight.
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An Alien Heat: Volume One of a Trilogy "The Dancers at the End of Time"
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New York: Harper & Row, 1972. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. [12], 147, [1] p.; 22 cm. Green paper over boards with white spine title. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Mark Rubin and Irving Freeman. "Book Club Edition"--on front flap. "Harper Science Fiction"--at tail of spine on dust jacket. Former owner's stamp on front free endpaper. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and bright. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: edges lightly rubbed; clean and bright.
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All Charley's Fault: An Original Farce in Two Acts
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Boston: Walter H. Baker & Co, 1905. Paperback. Good. 50, [2] p.; 19 cm. Brown wrapper printed in black. "Baker's Edition of Plays" -- on front wrapper. Publisher's advertisements for a variety of plays on final 2 pages; for plays by A. W. Pinero inside front and back wrappers; and for the William Warren Edition of Plays on back wrapper. Anthony E. Wills (1879-1912) was the author of several popular plays in the early 20th century; three short films were based on his plays in 1913 and 1914. This part was used by an actor who played the role of Harry Dodsworth and retains various related pencil marks. Scarce. In Good Condition: wrapper is separating at spine; wrapper is detached from text block; a few pages corners creased; pencil marks as described above; otherwise, clean and solid.
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All in the Racket; with an introduction by Arthur Garfield Hays
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New York: Charles Boni Paper Books, 1930. Paperback. Near Fine -. "All in the Racket was written by William E. Weeks ... the facts and the story are his, its style, however, is the result of the collaboration of Mr. Weeks and Edwin Seaver." 221, [3] p.; 19 cm. Paperback with continuous cover design by Vera Black. Illustrated endpapers with flying-books design. First edition. The Rockwell Kent-designed emblem of Charles Boni Paper Books on the title page. This was the 12th in that strikingly designed series of modern works in paperback begun in 1929; in 1930, after 16 titles had been issued, the subscription requirement was dropped and the series was renamed Bonibooks, published by Albert and Charles Boni. Subscription information on unpaginated pages following text. The author, an attorney, was inspired to write this "rattling good story" as "a scathing criticism of our legal system." -- Introduction. In Near Fine- Condition: ends of spine slightly rubbed; shadow…
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Alpha Centauri -- or Die! // Legend of Lost Earth
by Brackett, Leigh // Wallis, G. McDonald
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New York: Ace Books, 1963. Very Good. 121, [2], 133 p.; 16 cm. Paperback printed in dos-a-dos style, containing two science fiction novels, each with its own front cover illustration and pagination, the pages starting at opposite ends of the book. Two pages of publisher's advertisements follows Alpha Centauri -- or Die! Ace F-187. An Ace double novel containing the first book publication of Brackett's Alpha Centauri -- or Die! (which combined her earlier short stories The Ark of Mars and Teleportress of Alpha C) and the complete text of Wallis' Legend of Lost Earth. Geraldine McDonald Wallis also published and acted under the names Hope Campbell and Virginia Hughes. In Very Good Condition: edges very slightly rubbed; covers and spine lightly creased; pages are clean. As is typical of inexpensively produced pulp fiction of the period, it should be handled with care. Opening of the book could cause the glue to crack and pages to detach.
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Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen
by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
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Essen, Germany: Magic Bookworld, 2016. Paperback. Fine. [2], 218, [4] p.; 20 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Entirely in German. In Fine Condition: clean and bright.
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