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Berkeley, Howell-North Books, 1966, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. The story of Thaddeus Lowe, balloonist, inventor, and railway builder, photo-illustrated, endpapers with a balloon view of rebel forts and camps at Yorktown, VA sketched from Lowe's balloon at the elevation of 1,000 feet, Review Copy with a review slip, this copy Inscribed by the author in the year of publication to David Belch, then head of public relations for the San Francisco Public Library. Slight lean to book, jacket with age-toning, else a very nice copy.
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Above the Civil War.
by Block, Eugene B.
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Action at Aquila.
by Allen, Hervey.
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NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1943), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. A-28, just the 28th title issued in this important series, "a romance of the Civil War," with a note about the author at the end, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, scarce, stamp of the official headquarters of the 41st Special Service Unit to title page. Very good.
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The Acts of King Arthur And His Noble Knights.
by Steinbeck, John.
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NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Advance copy, an uncorrected proof, edited by Chase Horton, these tales are Steinbeck's attempt to render Malory "into modern English," the importance to Steinbeck and his literature of the Morte d'Arthur cannot be over-stated, as he writes in his introduction, "I think my sense of right and wrong...and any thought I may have had against the oppressor and for the oppressed, came from this book," this copy is especially important because it was one of two copies sent to novelist John Gardner, author of such novels as Grendel and The Resurrection, Gardner also wrote The Complete Works of the Gawain Poet, The Alliterative Morte Arthure, and other "olde English" books, this copy includes Gardner's pencil marks, underlining, and bracketting of sections as well as a list on the front cover of possible places of publication for blurbs and/or reviews, this was originally obtained from Susan Thornton who was Gardner's fiancee at the time…
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The Acts of King Arthur And His Noble Knights.
by Steinbeck, John.
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London, Heinemann, 1976, first British edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Edited by Chase Horton, these tales are Steinbeck's attempt to render Malory "into modern English," Steinbeck's "translations" are based on the Winchester manuscript of Thomas Malory and other sources, the importance to Steinbeck and his literature of the Morte d'Arthur cannot be over-stated, as he writes in his introduction, "I think my sense of right and wrong...and any thought I may have had against the oppressor and for the oppressed, came from this book," Morrow 286. Very good plus.
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The Acts of King Arthur And His Noble Knights.
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NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Advance copy, an uncorrected proof, edited by Chase Horton, these tales are Steinbeck's attempt to render Malory "into modern English," the importance to Steinbeck and his literature of the Morte d'Arthur cannot be over-stated, as he writes in his introduction, "I think my sense of right and wrong...and any thought I may have had against the oppressor and for the oppressed, came from this book," this copy is especially important because it was one of two copies sent to novelist John Gardner, author of such novels as Grendel and The Resurrection, Gardner also wrote The Complete Works of the Gawain Poet, The Alliterative Morte Arthure, and other "olde English" books, this copy was sent to Gardner by the New York Times in order to write a review which the Times published, laid in loosely is the slip from the Times asking for an 800-word review, this was originally obtained from Susan Thornton who was Gardner's fiance at the time of…
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Adobe Walls.
by Burnett, W. R.
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NY, Knopf, 1953, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. A novel of the last Apache uprising, jacket painting by William F. Koch, film source. Nearly fine.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
by Twain, Mark.
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Norwalk, Easton Press, 1981, first edition thus.. Full leather, AEG, gilt designs, hubbed spine, moire endpapers, ribbon place marker, illustrated by Richard Sparks, including the color frontispiece portrait of the author. Fine.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
by Twain, Mark.
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NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1944), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. C-76 in this important series, a classic American novel, with a note about the author at the end, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is one of the very scarce D-Day ASE books. Very good plus.
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After-Dinner Story.
by Irish, William.
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NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. S-20 in this important series, a collection of six horror and mystery stories, including the title story, Rear Window, and Marihuana, William Irish is the pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good.
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Afterword to John Steinbeck's Flight By Wallace Stegner.
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n.p. (Covelo), n.p. (Yolla Bolly Press), n.d. (1984), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. This is the first separate printing of Stegner's afterword to the Steinbeck short story which had been produced by the Yolla Bolly Press in 1984 as a beautiful signed/limited edition illustrated by Karin Wikstrom, according to Yolla Bolly Press co-publisher, Carolyn Robertson, this separate printing was made from over-run sheets that were later bound with printed wrappers by the Yolla Bolly Press to be used as small presentations to eminent visitors and the like, it even includes the (unsigned) limitation page, this afterword also includes one of the six woodblock illustrations used in the published book, not recorded by Colberg. Fine.
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Airport.
by Hailey, Arthur.
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Garden City, Doubleday, 1968, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. This copy Inscribed by Hailey to David Belch, head of public relations for the San Francisco Public Library, in the year of publication, additionally, this is a Review Copy with a review slip, source for the Burt Lancaster film. Fine in a very good plus jacket.
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Alaska Land of Tomorrow.
by Herron, Edward A.
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NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 1278 in this important series, a study when it was not yet a state, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is in the very scarce upright/vertical format. General wear, spine seam split, else very good.
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Alaska Land of Tomorrow.
by Herron, Edward A.
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NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1947), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 1278 in this important series, a study when it was not yet a state, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is in the very scarce upright/vertical format. General wear, chip to lower right hand corner of front cover, else very good.
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All At Once You Love Her.
by Rodgers, Richard and Hammerstein, Oscar.
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NY, Williamson Music, 1955, first edition.. Sheet music, one of six songs from Pipe Dream, the Broadway musical adaptation of John Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday, this item wasn't in the Goldstone collection, but see Goldstone & Payne E20. Minor use.
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All The Little Live Things.
by Stegner, Wallace.
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NY, Viking, 1967, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. A very under-rated book, Colberg A19.1.a, Signed by Stegner, winner of the gold medal from the Commonwealth Club for 1967. Near fine in a very good jacket.
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America America.
by Kazan, Elia.
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London, Collins, 1963, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Author's First Book, introduction by S. N. Behrman, rear jacket panel with a blurb by John Steinbeck, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine in a very good plus jacket.
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America America.
by Kazan, Elia.
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NY, Stein & Day, 1962, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Author's First Book, Review Copy with Review slip, includes front jacket panel blurbs by James Baldwin, Archibald MacLeish, Harold Clurman, Robert F. Kennedy, and John Steinbeck, Kazan directed both Steinbeck's Viva Zapata! and East of Eden, not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow. Fine.
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America and the Americans.
by Steinbeck, John.
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Boston, Saturday Evening Post, July-August 1976, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. Page 114, text reprinted from the July 2, 1966 Saturday Evening Post, this is its Bicentennial issue, as such it includes a pull-out portfolio of Norman Rockwell illustrations as well as contributions by Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Charles Lindbergh, Thomas Edison, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, etc. Very good.
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The American Identity.
by Baskett, Sam S. and Strandness, Theodore B. (editors).
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Boston, D. C. Heath, 1962, first edition, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Includes John Steinbeck's The Leader of the People, introduction and text pages 83-94, text from The Red Pony, also includes Steinbeck's Life in the Machine Age, introduction and text, pages 415-422, text from The Grapes of Wrath, and Steinbeck's Hunger in a Land of Plenty, text and introduction pages 487-490, text from The Grapes of Wrath (one of the intercalary chapters), not recorded by Goldstone & Payne or Morrow, also includes Joaquin Miller, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Jack London, Sinclair Lewis, and Wallace Stegner, who offers The Making of Paths which he has Signed. Ink name, fine.
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American Ideals and Other Essays.
by Roosevelt, Theodore.
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NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1903, early printing.. Gray cloth with gilt rules and with author, title, and publisher in gilt, TEG, front edge rough-trimmed, includes a biographical sketch by Gen. Francis Vinton Greene, this copy Inscribed by Roosevelt ("Lyman L. Pierce Esq./with regards of/Theodore Roosevelt"), Pierce was considered to be the originator of the fund-raising campaign and was widely regarded as one of the country's foremost philanthropic fund raisers, he conducted the first ever capital campaign for the YMCA raising more than $60 million in the early 1900s. Minor wear and marks to spine, else fine.
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