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London: Dennis Dobson, 1977 1977 First Edition. Near Fine in Very Good price intact dust jacket. A clean, totally unmarked and tightly bound copy. Pages crisp and fine. Hardcover of tan paper covered boards is lightly edge rubbed. Unclipped illustrated jacket, printed on orange paper, is overall clean, slight rubbing to back panel, spine a bit color faded. There is some edgewear: a short closed tear and associated crease at top of front panel and small creases along top of back panel. Jacket is in a clear archival protector. Binding and hinges firm and intact. Hans Keller (1919-85) renowned musicologist, music critic and individualist; inventor of Wordless Functional Analysis and perpetrator of the infamous 1961 'Piotr Zak' musical prank. In the Preface to this work Keller warns that 1984 quickly approaches. The best defense against an Orwellian world? "Thinkers of the World, Disunite!" Five essays and 12-pages of B&W sketches, "The Prague Sketchbook," by Milein… Read More

Random House Inc., 1937. 1937 First Edition with 1937 printed on title page. VERY GOOD in VERY GOOD- price intact dust jacket. A clean, unmarked and firmly bound copy. Superbly illustrated, including black and white line art as well as several full page color plates, and color cover art by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. Light marginal toning and a few scattered small spottings to pages, otherwise pages are fine. Endpapers clean and unmarked but toned along hinges. Bound in hardcover of cloth printed with color illustration wrapping across full front and back, spine titled in gilt within dark green panel. Cover has light edge rubbing but is clean, bright and colorful. Unclipped jacket, printed in art matching cover, is clean with $3.50 price intact on front flap. The jacket is uncommon in any condition; this is clean and colorful though very edgeworn with several shallow chips and tears, most heavily worn at spine ends and flap corners. Jacket is in a new clear protector. Binding is firm; hinges intact, spine… Read More

New York: Walker & Company, 1961. First Edition. "First published in the United States of America in 1961" stated on title page. NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD dust jacket. A crisp, clean, totally unmarked and firmly bound copy. Text pages fine. Gray cloth hardcover, black lettering on spine, is lightly toned at top edge but is otherwise fresh and unworn. Binding and hinges tight and intact. Jacket, designed by Ernest Sokolov, is clean and colorful; front flap price-clipped, lightly edge worn with 1-inch closed tear to rear panel. Jacket is in a clear archival protector. Scarce in such good condition. 5-1/2 x 8"; 208 pages.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1898. 1898 reprint (copyright 1895). VERY GOOD. A clean, well bound copy. The only marking a neatly penned owner name and date, March 24, 1899, to front free endpaper. Pages crisp and near fine. Bound in buff colored cloth hardcover, gilt titled front and spine and with silver and maroon clasp decoration wrapping from spine to rear and front boards as well as series logo stamped on front cover. Cover lightly toned along spine and edges but otherwise near fine. Binding and hinges firm and intact. 4-1/4 x 6"; 135 text pages plus 4 pages of publisher ads at rear.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo.

New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1967 1967. NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD dust jacket. A clean, unmarked, and firmly bound copy in dark red hardcover, gilt stamped on front and spine. Pages fine; cover is fresh and bright. Jacket is clean though slightly toned and shelf-rubbed; light edgewear, one short closed edge tear and a few scratches and one small tear to middle of spine. Binding and hinges tight and intact. A critical study of Alfonso X, el Sabio (Alfonso the Wise) asserts that he was the composer of some, possibly all, of the 'Cantigas de Sana Maria' as well as 'Cantigas Profanas.' No. 12 in the Twayne's World Author Series. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4"; 198 pages . Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

New York and London: The Co-operative Publication Society, Inc. Undated, circa 1890s-early 1900s. Volume 2 in "The Works of Washington Irving." A better than Good copy - internally very good, pages clean, totally unmarked in a clean but lightly 'bumped' hardcover of dark brown cloth with gilt spine titling, blind embossed decoration to front board. The cover is clean and only lightly worn but the front board has a several dentings or bumps. Binding and hinges intact. A very handy volume, well-printed and a pleasure to read. Contains Frontis illustration of the Alhambra. 5-1/2 x 8"; 571 pages. Hard Cover. Good +/No Jacket.

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1982. First Edition, First Printing. NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD+ price-intact jacket. A fresh, clean, totally unmarked and tightly bound copy in hardcover of cream-colored boards with red cloth spine. Dust jacket has some light surface rubs but is otherwise fine - no tears or chips, flaps unclipped. Jacket is in a clear protector. "A pleasure to read even if you never try to solve a single puzzle" says Martin Gardner in his Introduction. First editions of this quality are scarce. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2". x + 182 pages.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Fitting, Greer.

Tucson, AZ: Hats Off Books, 2000. 2000 Soft Cover. AUTHOR INSCRIBED on half-title page "For Anne, whose support has been an inspiration... James W. Thomson III." FINE. A crisp, clean, otherwise unmarked copy, firmly bound in illustrated, price intact, paper cover (artwork by the author). A well-written, quirky collection by "America's least-known, least beloved author. Mr. Thomson has been thrown out of such distinguished academic institutions as DePaul University, Amherst College and the University of Illinois...A former resident of Alaska" (from his author bio on back cover). 5-1/2 x 8-1/2"; 204 pages. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

New York: Riverhead Books/ Penguin Group, 2004. First Edition, First Printing with full number line. AUTHOR SIGNED on title page, in black felt-tip. FINE in FINE price intact dust jacket. A fresh, clean, totally unmarked copy tightly bound in sky blue hard cover, titled in sliver on spine and front. Jacket is in a clear archival protector. "As new." 6 x 9-1/4"; 343 pages. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940 1940, printing unstated. Very Good hardcover. A clean, unmarked and solidly bound copy in red cloth hardcover with gilt lettering and decoration front and spine. Cloth darkened along spine and gilt very dulled but cover remains clean and attractive.Pages clean and fine. Endpapers toned. Binding firm and straight, hinges strong. B/W illustrations by Robert Ball. 6-1/4 x 9-1/2"; x + 250 pages. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Ball, Robert.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1996 Stated First Edition and with full printing line. AUTHOR SIGNED on title page, in blue ballpoint. Near Fine in Very Good+ price intact dust jacket. A crisp, clean, otherwise unmarked and tightly bound copy. Pages fresh and fine. Gray and black hardcover, silver titled on spine, has small bump to top rear corner, otherwise fine. Unclipped jacket is clean, slightly edge rubbed, tiny tear and light creases to top rear corner. Jacket is in a clear archival protector. 6-1/4 x 9-1/2"; 325 pages. Signed by Author. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+.

London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1931. 1931. VERY GOOD, in partial dust jacket. Adventures of Apple (the redoubtable Crew Apple of Norfolk Broads fame) and his tried companion, Percival, by Anthony Armstrong (George Anthony Armstrong Willis), aka "A.A.", the popular British humorist well known for his contributions to Punch. A nicely preserved, clean copy of the first edition. In bright cover of red linen-weave paper over board, lettered in gold on spine and blind embossed on the front. The cover is bright and clean; corners are bumped; light age-toning along edges and lower half of spine . The book is solidly bound, but is moderately cocked (the spine leans). Only the front panel and front flap of the dust jacket survive (detached from each other) but the cover art of Rene Bull is preserved. In clear jacket protector. 4-1/4 x 6-3/4"; 120 text pp plus 8 ad pp at rear. Photos available.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Partial. 12mo.

London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., 1858. VERY GOOD. 1858 Bradbury, Agnew & Co.Editon. Subscription Edition: Printed for Subscribers from the plates of the Original Edition. "Subscription Edition" stamped on base of spine. Preface dated 1858 - no other date indicated. A clean, unmarked and unread copy - pages still uncut - with 13 full-page hand-colored steel engravings with tissue guards plus a hand-colored illus on title page; 19 full-page woodcuts, plus several woodcuts in text. Note that one of the color plates is placed as a Frontispiece rather than facing page 30 as called for in contents. Endpapers toned, rear endpaper especially dark, otherwise pages and plates are fine - hand coloring bright and unfaded. Bound in bright red cloth over beveled boards with decorative gilt and black stamping front and spine. Cover spine is faded, gilt dulled, but otherwise cover is clean and bright. Light edge wear, primarily to spine ends with short tears to base of spine, and a few areas of… Read More

Schwetschke und Sohn, 1841. Early collection of Fouque works, in German, bound into 2 volumes. Sturdy modern hardcover bindings (circa mid-twentieth century) of slate blue buckram, gilt titled on spines. Volume One contents: "Der Held des Nordens" in 3 parts (1841, Halle; Schwetschke und Sohn). "Der Zauberring" in 3 parts (1855, Braunsechweig; Schwetschke und Sohn). Volume Two contents: "Sintram und Seine Gefahrten" (1863, Braunsechweig; Schwetschke und Sohn); "Undine" (1841, Halle; Schwetschke und Sohn); "Novellen, Erzahlungen, Schauspiele und Gedichte" in 4 parts (1841, Halle; Schwetschke und Sohn). VERY GOOD. Books are clean and unmarked, excepting light pencil notation on first title page. Pages are very good, clean and complete with light to moderate foxing with occasional spottings to pages. Covers are clean and sharp, lightly shelf rubbed. Bindings and hinges tight, intact and straight. Page trim: 3-3/4 x 5-1/8". Hard Cover. Very… Read More

San Francisco: The Bohemian Club, 2005 2005. Edition Limited to 3,200 copies. NEAR FINE. A clean, totally unmarked and tightly bound copy. Text pages, printed in b/w with headings in red, are fresh and fine. Hardcover bound in red paper-covered boards with black spine lettering, black line art on front. Cover is near fine with a few tiny spottings to back cover, bottom spine end lightly creased. Binding is tight, hinges intact, boards and spine straight. B/W artwork on front cover, endpapers and 7 full page illustrations are by L. Krames. No jacket (presumably as issued). The 2005 Grove Play celebrates a remarkable Bohemian, Theodore Roosevelt, and presents a largely unknown historical event concerning Kaiser Wilhelm II. 6-1/4 x 9-1/4"; x + 90 pages. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

New York: Arcade Publishing, 2000. 2000 First Edition, First Printing. Publisher's announcement of the book laid in. NEAR FINE in NEAR FINE price intact dust jacket. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy. Pages fine. Hardcover has small bump tp top front corner, otherwise fresh and fine. Unclipped jacket has slight surface rub but not scuffs, soling, tears, chips or creases. Jacket is in a clear archival protector. Binding and hinges tight and straight, 6 x 9-1/2"; [vi] + 374 pages. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., 1937. 1937. RARE. Very Good+ in better than Good, price-intact, dust jacket. The only marking is a small penciled notation on front endpaper. Pages clean and fine. Bound in orange cloth hardcover with black stamping on front and spine. Slight rubbing and color fade along edges; small, faint spot on front cover, otherwise cover is fine. Dust jacket is clean and colorful - lightly rubbed, spine slightly toned, small chips to spine ends, flap corners. Inverse of jacket is toned along spine with short closed vertical tears along front spine fold. Jacket is in a clear archival protector. Binding firm - slight lean or slant to spine but hinges tight and intact. An unjustly forgotten work, likely because of the unfortunate title. This is a nicely written "autobiography" of a Fox Terrier, born during the years of the Nazi regime, who leaves Germany when he is sent as a Christmas gift to the United States. His first home in America is New England… Read More

New York: Stein and Day, 1963 VERY GOOD+ in VERY GOOD price intact dust jacket. A clean, totally unmarked and firmly bound copy. Pages are fresh and fine. Hardcover of yellow paper over boards with cinnamon colored cloth spine is very good - top edge of boards are spotted and discolored, foot of spine slightly discolored and rubbed with slight cloth fray - otherwise cover is clean and attractive. Unclipped jacket is clean, 3.95 price intact on front flap, slightly rubbed and toned along edges, slight spotting top flap edges. Jacket is in a clear protector. Binding firm, hinges tight, boards and spine straight. Green endpapers. 5-3/4 x 8-1/2"; 126 pages. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo.

Philadelphia: The Centaur Book Shop, 1924. 1924. No. 68 of the Large Paper Edition Limited to 85 copies (75 of which were offered for sale). Signed on limitation page by both Mencken and Fry. VERY GOOD. Internally Near Fine - faint smudge to top edge of title page, 2 leaves with faint soft crease to top corners - pages otherwise fine. Binding firm - short tear to top of front endpaper but hinge is firm. Black hardcover has gold title labels to spine and front board. Labels are rubbed and oxidized and type is obscured. Cover is shelf worn with white paper showing along edges, boards revealed at corners, spine ends chipped. Frontis caricature of Mencken. Foreword by Mencken, and 6 'blank' leaves at end of book for Future Collations. 6-1/4 x 9-1/4" ; 70 text pages. Signed by Authors. Numbered and Signed Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Slim 8vo.

Rocky Mount, NC: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, 1990. 1990 First Edition limited to 2,000 copies of which this is no. 168 (hand-numbered). Signed on the limitation page by Gurganus, who also inscribed the front free endpaper, in brown felt-tip, "For Amy, from her grateful reader, Allan. Love 1990 Chapel Hill, NC." The book was inscribed to the poet, Amy Clampitt. FINE. A fresh, otherwise unmarked copy. Pages crisp and fine, tightly bound in maroon cloth hardcover with gilt-stamping on spine and front cover. Cover is also pristine. "Blessed Assurance" is an extract from Gurganus's second novel, "White People" which was published in 1991. This edition is illustrated with 9 black & white full-page drawings by the author. Endpapers are illustrated. 6 x 8-3/4". [vi] + 86 pages.. Signed by Author. First Edition Limited. Hard Cover. Fine/Not Issued.