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Cokkils
by Sydney Goodsir Smith
Yellow card covers with title and illustration in red. Nine poems by Sydney Goodsir Smith and printed in a limited edition of 220 of which this is number 210. A very good, tight, bright copy with no inscriptions.
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£15.00
![Second Generation [Signed bookplate laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/367/510/1454510367.0.b.jpg)
Second Generation [Signed bookplate laid in]
by Howard Fast
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. First edition with complete number line. Bookplate signed by author loosely laid in. Octavo; 441 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $10.95 price present; book bound in black cloth on spine with gilt lettering and red paper over boards. Dust jacket is bright with light rubbing and edgewear, 2" long closed tear on recto. No chips. Slight lean to boards but binding is sound. Edges lightly foxed. Pages clean...
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$50.00
A Serpents Egg
by Birley, Julia
London: Geoffrey Bles. 1966. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. 223 pages. The story of the tragic gulf beween a well-laid plan and its realisation, and of the subtle changes that power effects on indivduals' characters. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$20.00
The Crooked Staircase
by Dean Koontz
A Jane Hawk Novel. Original cover price at $28.00.
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$5.99
![Cislo: revue pro umeni a kritiku. 1 kveten, rocnik I. [Number: The Art and Criticm Review. Issue 1, No. I.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/102/954/1384954102.0.b.jpg)
Cislo: revue pro umeni a kritiku. 1 kveten, rocnik I. [Number: The Art and Criticm Review. Issue 1, No. I.]
by Šajtar, Drahomír
[Prague-Ostrava]: Slezská literárni skupina, 1946. First edition. In original wrappers. Loose, as issued. With 5 plates and 2 full-page illustrations. Minor tears on wrapper, at extremities. Untrimmed. Inside clean. In very good condition.. First edition. In original wrappers. Loose, as issued. With 5 plates and 2 full-page illustrations. 32, 32 p., 5 plates. The only issue of Čislo, a Silesian, illustrated art periodical. Originally proposed as a bimonthly, but only the first issue of this...
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$1041.20
The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
by Aldous Huxley
"Two complete novels in which Huxley explores the mind's remote frontiers and the unmapped areas of human consciousness"This 1963 printing was the first printing of the book by Harper Colophon. The book is clean, tight, good binding. There is some minor wear on the cover and a crease on the bottom front corner, and 5 former dog eared pages.Overall the book is in good sound condition. It will be mailed from Portland OR on the same or next day after an order is received. Of course, the book may be returned...
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$45.00
Brothers Of No Kin And Other Stories
by Conrad Richter
New York: Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, Inc, 1924. Very Good +. New York: Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, Inc., 1924. First Edition. Octavo. 340 pp. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Lacks dust jacket. Touch of rubbing to extremities and binding sound. Bookseller ticket to rear pastedown and pages otherwise unmarked. Author's first book.
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$75.00
ENSAIOS POETICOS - AS ÉPOCAS DA NATUREZA.
by SANTOS. (João António dos)
Hard Cover. por… Secretario da câmara Municipal de Lisboa. Precedidos da Biographia do A[utor], escripta por ele próprio, e de uma breve introducção. Imprensa de Candido Antonio da Silva Carvalho. Lisboa. 1836. Junto com: AS ÉPOCAS DA NATUREZA, Obra do Conde de Buffon, trasladadas em linguagem portugueza por Jooão António dos Santos, Secretario da Camara Municipal de Lisboa, Socio da Sociedade Promotora da Industria, e Ex-Bybliothecario, e Redactor do mesmo Instituto. Imprensa de Candido...
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€80.00
BATTLES OF THE BRITISH NAVY; FROM A.D. 1000 TO 1840.
by ALLEN, JOSEPH
Volumes One xviii + 524 pp. + engraved frontis portrait, engraved title page, 10 other engraved portraits and fold out charts. Original green cloth with gilt decoration and titles. Rebacked with original spine and front and back cover laid on. A very good copy with tight pages and binding.
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A$25.00
Women's Suffrage : A Short History of a Great Movement. The People's Books
by Fawcett, Millicent Garrett
London: T. C. & E. C. Jack N.d. [1912]. 12mo. First Edition. 94, (2) pp. Original pictorial green cloth with black lettering to front board & spine. A few marks to boards, minor rubbing to spine and extremities. Foxing to endpapers, and a smudge to title, and but otherwise internally clean. Two-page publisher's list at rear dated February 1912. Number 47 in The People's Books. Fawcett had long been active throughout her life to advance the rights of women, becoming president of the...
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£500.00
The Raging Tide: or, The Black Doll's Imbroglio
by Edward Gorey
New York: Beaufort Book Publishers / A Peter Weed Book, 1987. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Beaufort Book Publishers / A Peter Weed Book, 1987. First Beaufort Edition, stated. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. Black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with $9.95 price present. Illustrated boards with matching illustrations. Dust jacket rubbed along edges with a few short, closed tears and some general toning. Boards lightly shelfworn and bottom corners bumped. Binding is sound and...
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$85.00
Trasfigurazioni. Musica per orchestra. Orchestra of the Hungarian Radio and Television
by [Szöllösy, Andras] Szőllősy, András; Lehel, György
Budapest: Hungaroton (SLPX 11 733), 1975. First edition. Association copy, inscribed by Szőllősy to György Rába. Vinyl, LP. Bumped at corners, otherwise in fine condition.. With the original cover, designed by Szilárd Molnár.. With the original cover, designed by Szilárd Molnár. First edition. Association copy, inscribed by Szőllősy to György Rába. Vinyl, LP. Szőllősy's vinyl inscribed to the Hungarian poet, György Rába (1924-2011). András Szőllősy (Szöllösy; 1921-2007) was a...
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$1041.20
![Luigi of Catanzaro [Signed Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/977/061/1471061977.0.b.jpg)
Luigi of Catanzaro [Signed Limited Edition]
by Louis Golding
London: E. Archer, 1926. Very Good. London: E. Archer, 1926. Limited First Edition. Signed by the author and numbered 56 of 100 copies. Privately printed. Quarto (10" x 7.5"); 21, [1] pp. Pages uncut along top edges throughout. Paper wraps with black lettering. Covers a bit edgeworn with some flight soiling and smudging to surface. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Privately printed first book appearance. The story was meant to be included in The Doomington Wanderer (Gollancz, 1934) but was...
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$550.00
Observations Upon the Bird Life of Death Valley & A Distributional Summation of the Ornithology of Lower California
by Joseph Grinnell
Here are two scientific volumes on the bird-life of Death Valley and "lower California" by Jospeh Grinnell, field biologist and zoologist at U. C. Berkeley. He developed what is known today as "The Grinnell System" of field observation and note-taking that is the used widely. These two books together are a rare chance to own two original Grinnell publications. Softcovers are soiled and frayed along the edges with a couple of minor tears on the edges of "A Distributional Summation. . . " Some pages are...
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$30.00
A Singing Wind
by James Stephens
MacMillan, 1968 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition.
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$12.00
Paper Lantern: Love Stories, Signed
by Dybek, Stuart
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. Hardcover. New/New. 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches with 207 pages. First Edition. First printing with full number line.. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. This is a NEW book. Multiple copies available.
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$45.00
![Aranysziget. Simon Andor versei. Ladányi Imre metszetei. [Golden Island.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/903/341/1374341903.0.b.jpg)
Aranysziget. Simon Andor versei. Ladányi Imre metszetei. [Golden Island.]
by Simon, Andor; [illustrated by:] Imre, Ladányi
[Budapest]: Bartha Miklós Társaság kiadás, 1928. First edition. The eleven loose leaves are housed in publisher's illustrated folder. First leaf with brown stains. Folder reinforced at joints. Overall in very good condition.. First edition. The eleven loose leaves are housed in publisher's illustrated folder. 11 leaves. First edition of Simon's five avant-garde poems, each illustrated with an expressionist woodcut by Imre Ladányi. Scarce book of poems by Andor Simon (1901-1986), the Hungarian...
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$911.20
Ten Plus One
by Ed McBain
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1963. 1st/1st. VG/VG. First Edition. Stated First Printing. Book has a slight slant, else, tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean unmarred black and red boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket is unclipped ($3.50) and with rubbing to front and back panels and light shelf wear. Protected in a new Brodart mylar cover.
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$65.00
![[Smierc Miasta.]Śmierć Miasta. Pamietniki -- 1939-1945. Opracował Jerzy Waldorff. [Death of a City. Diary of --. Edited by Jerzy Waldorff.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/794/523/1359523794.0.b.1.jpg)
[Smierc Miasta.]Śmierć Miasta. Pamietniki -- 1939-1945. Opracował Jerzy Waldorff. [Death of a City. Diary of --. Edited by Jerzy Waldorff.]
by [Szpilman, Wladyslaw] Szpilman, Władysław
Warszawa (Warsaw): Spóldzelnia Wydawnicza, 1946. First edition. In original illustrated cover, designed by Maria Hiszpańska(-Neumann). Slightly chipped at edges, otherwise in good condition.. First edition. In original illustrated cover, designed by Maria Hiszpańska(-Neumann). 204, (4) p. Władysław "Władek" Szpilman (1911-2000) was a Polish-Jewish pianist, composer and memoirist. He became world-famous by Roman Polanski's Oscar-winner film, "The Pianist" (2002) which is based on this memoir...
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$1821.20
Flies In Amber
by Pardoe, Miss [Julia Pardoe]
London: William Shoberl 1850. 8vo. 3 vols. xi, 315; [vii], 316; [vii], 313 pp. Red half calf binding over red boards, ribbed spine with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers. All edges gilt, which are very bright and clear. From Victorian poet, novellist, historian and traveller Julia Pardoe. A little wear to joints and board edges, especially at corners and spine. Binding firm. Some foxing to title pages and very occassionally throughout, but generally internally clean. . Very Good. Half Morocco. First...
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£750.00
Lichens from the Old Rock
by Jessie M Saxby
Bevelled edged boards covered in blue cloth with gilt illustration to front board. 188 pages. Shelf wear to extremities otherwise a very good copy of a scarce title.
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£95.00
Ferdinand Richardt: Drawings of America, 1855-1859
by Melinda Young Stuart and Paul D. Schweizer (Curators)
Published 2007, catalog of an exhibition at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, NY, February 11 - April 15, 2007. Paperback, 9" x 11", 40pp. Cover as shown with this listing has French flaps. Your purchase helps our small public library. pi (AR)
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$500.00
![The New Birth of Christianity: Why Religion Persists In A Scientific Age [Inscribed to William Safire]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/026/365/1279365026.0.b.jpg)
The New Birth of Christianity: Why Religion Persists In A Scientific Age [Inscribed to William Safire]
by Richard A. Nenneman
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper San Francisco, a Division of Harper Collins Publishers, 1992. First Edition. Quarto; 198 pages. Signed by author on front free endpaper to author and Presidential Speechwriter William Safire with inscription, "To Bill Safire, a superb / fellow wordsmith - / Richard A. Nenneman." Unclipped dust jacket shows a few minor scuffs towards front top edge, and is lightly creased at top of spine. Purple boards in...
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$50.00
The Barefoot Saint
by Stephen Vincent Benet
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1929. Very Good +/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1929. Limited Edition of 367 copies, this being # 307. 12mo. 72 pages. Glassine dust jacket. Yellow boards stamped in brown. Chemise with paper title label to end panel. Housed in custom-made slipcase. Boards show light wear to extremities. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Glassine wrapper is creased with a couple shallow chips along bottom edges. Chemise is...
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$90.00
![Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century. Selections from the Helen Kornblum Collection [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/512/620/1418620512.0.b.0.jpg)
Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century. Selections from the Helen Kornblum Collection [Signed]
by Helen Kornblum; Olivia Lahs-Gonzales; [et al.]
Saint Louis and New York: The Saint Louis Art Museum and D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, 1997. Very Good. Saint Louis and New York: The Saint Louis Art Museum and D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, 1997. First Edition. Signed and inscribed on half title by Helen Kornblum to Brenda Richardson, former Chief Curator of the Baltimore Museum of Art: "7-04 / Brenda-It was wonderful to meet you in Santa Fe. I hope you enjoy 'Defining Eye.' Warmly, Helen." Quarto (30.5x23x1.5cm); 157pp, including...
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$65.00
