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New York: Charterhouse. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. John Armbruster Craig, a rising young earth diplomat, is sold into slavery on the forgotten planet of Kossar. Here, under the strange castle of Treghast, he finds the secret that may mean the end of man in the galaxy. Author's first full-length… Read more about this item

United States: Aperture. Good in Good dust jacket. 1982. Second Edition. Hardcover. 0893811025 . "First published in 1969, [this book] is the distillation of Minor White's work - a synthesis of word and image that demonstrates a profound sensitivity to the underlying meaning of life, to the acquisition of insight through the disciplined exercise of sight. … Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and briefly inscribed by author upon half-title page. "Here are four favorite Bemelmans books that have not been easily available recently. My War with the United States is his discovery of America in 1914. Small Beer is the… Read more about this item

New York: International Magazine Company. Poor. 1914. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Features: Harrison Fisher cover art entitled "Befriended" shows damsel holding dark grey cat; Article on German painter Leo Putz; The Fighting Legislator - James R. Mann represented the Second District of Chicago in Congress; Vivisection and Surgery - article on animal experimentation by Ella… Read more about this item

USA: Princeton University Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1974. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 0691062781 . "Features the work of Herbert W. Gleason, one of the great American landscape photographers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Gleason's fascination with the New England of Thoreau led him to trace the writer's journeys, including the travels… Read more about this item

Clinton, NJ: Amwell Press. Fine. 1983. Numbered Copy. Hardcover. Number 370 of 1,000 copies of this limited edition collection of essays signed by the author, publisher and President of the NSFL. "To the uninitiated, this whole affair of salmon fishing may seem exalted out of all proportion. They probably will never understand how so many… Read more about this item

USA: Terhune Sunnybank Memorial. Very Good. 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. "This wonderful facsimile scrapbook was inspired by genuine albums that were lovingly created by readers of Albert Payson Terhune in the past. Thanks to the hours these long-ago fans spent clipping and saving syndicated newspaper columns, magazine articles, and photographs, these otherwise ephemeral pieces of… Read more about this item

USA: Garland. Very Good. 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 0824091280 . "Over a thousand English-language items on the subject of Dracula and vampires in general are arranged in four sections: 1) fiction, including novels, anthologies, short stories, and comic books; 2) drama and media, covering plays, movies, television programs, recordings, and poetry; 3) nonfiction, covering works on… Read more about this item

USA: Crowell, 1938. Magazine. Illus. by Reid, Robert O. [Cover Art]; Sawyers, Martha; Beall, C.C.; McLeod, Ronald; Biggs, Geoffrey; Cooper, Mario; Roth, Ben; Lichty, George; Timmins, Harry L.; Coe, RolandBorgstedt, Douglas; Keate, Jeff; Green, George Hamilton; Gentry, Thurston; Hilton, Ned. Good. Magazine. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Feature article by Albert Einstein entitled "Why Do They… Read more about this item

New York: Macfadden Publications, Incorporated, 1939. Book. Illus. by Parks, Elise [cover]; Lewis, James; Singer, Malvin; Moore, Marthe; Tomaso, Rico; Berry, Phil. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 66 pages. Features: Charming cover art by Elise Parks depicts mother holding infant; Is The President [FDR] A Well Man? - A look at… Read more about this item

London: Robert Hale and Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1976. First British Edition. Hardcover. 0709154488 . "Eugene Arnprior is one of a few thousand survivors after an uncontrolled plague strikes Canada and the United States. His family becomes a modern Swiss Family Robinson in northern Quebec, then becomes a pawn in a dramatic confrontation… Read more about this item

USA: Archon Books. Good. 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 0208020713 . pp. xxiv, 289. "The most complete coverage possible of Kurt Vonnegut's literary career. Brings together all the published material both by and about Vonnegut from 1950 through 1985 in a manner which will answer the needs of scholars, critics, students, and book collectors." - Preface.… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 1931. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. pp. [2], 2-226. 19.5 x 13.5 cm. A book of short stories about World War I. Tenenbaum [1887-1961] was born in Poland and moved to the U.S. in 1920. An eminent physician and Zionist leader, he wrote… Read more about this item

Irvington, New York: Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1900. Book. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. This very special issue contains two items of major significance. Jack London's prize-winning "What Communities Lose by the Competitive System" appears here for the first time on pages 58-64. This is immediately followed by Part I of "The… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. Book. Good. Hardcover. Third Printing. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A prescient series of fictional letters, spanning sixteen months between 1932 and 1934, between a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco and his gentile business partner who has returned to Germany in the formative years of the Nazi regime. First published… Read more about this item

USA: The Pierre Louys Society, 1926. Book. Illus. by Tice, Clara. Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition - Numbered Copy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xv, [1], 327 pages. Includes all ten color illustrations of nymphs in various settings. Copy number 456 of 930 copies offered in this edition. Average wear to publisher's blue cloth decorated in… Read more about this item

London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1990. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. lxii, 161 pages. Text in French. Lengthy Introduction in English. In this enigmatic parable, death transforms Sartre's hero and heroine from vital participants in their respective situations into impotent onlookers. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A… Read more about this item

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House Book. Illus. by Taran, A.. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 294 pages. Text in English. A compilation of grim fictional tales centred on the 1800's poverty of Borislav, a small community in the western Ukraine where oil and paraffin were gruelingly mined by hand. Ivan Franko [1856-1916] was… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1986. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0395404258 . First printing of the American edition. "An accomplished novel so powerful as to shut out events in the real world, while answering forever the question of whether there is such a thing as a woman's novel." - Judith Rossner.… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1975. First English Printing. Hardcover. 0684142406 . 311 pages. First English printing of the 1973 French first edition. "A chilling novel about the end of the white world." - dust jacket. "The 'Brave New World' of the 70's. I am still haunted by the… Read more about this item