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Last Operas And Plays

Last Operas And Plays

by Gertrude Stein

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  • Fine
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Fine
Edition
First Edition ARC
Binding
Hardcover
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New York, Toronto: Rinehart And Company, 1949 A Fine + 8vo Hardcover, c.1949, First Edition, Advanced Review Copy with Publisher Review Card, including it's original $5.00 priced Dustjacket in Very Good Condition. Book displays minimal age, handling, or shelfwear. Boards, Spine, and Page Block are Fine. Spine is solid, as well as both hinges. All 310 pages are free of writing, and display minimal age. Rear Endpaper/Flypage show ghost of a laid in paper. Else Fine. Dustjacket is Very Good, showing only faint age and handling, with the spine displaying a shade of age. Jacket comes in a new Demco Mylar. A very rare book, in complete and solid condition, including it's Rinehart Review Card dated March 24 1949. Photo's are of the actual book.. First Edition ARC. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.
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1799 The Seasons James Thomson Leather Bound

1799 The Seasons James Thomson Leather Bound

by James Thomson

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  • good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Good
Edition
1799 Edition
Binding
Hardcover
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1799, Leather bound copy of "The Seasons" by James Thomson. It was printed in London by A. Strahan. It has illustrations before each season. The spine has 7 gold gilt bands with the title. There is a period flourish gift inscription on the front fly page. The upper and lower points are rubbed. The binding is solid. The pages are all evenly age toned. Beautiful vintage leather book.
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1865 Transactions Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society Leather Gibbs Pedigree
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1865 Transactions Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society Leather Gibbs Pedigree

by Exeter Architectural Society

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  • very good
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
1865 Edition
Binding
Hardcover
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an 1865, Professionaly bound in Hubbed Quarter Leather Binding, of "Transactions of the Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society" This came from an estate in Aiken, South Carolina. This contains the Pedigree of the Gibbs family and the spine of the leather has this in gold gilt. The original wraps of the Transactions is intact internally. This contains lots of woodblock prints and black and white plates. Title page states that this is Volume 1 Part II Second Series. These were not intended for general publication but a copy was furnished to each member whose subscription was not in arrears. It contains The Parish of Clyt S. George, Statue of S. Peter, Annual Report June 12, 1863, pedigree of the family Gibbs, A paper on Powderham Castle, mural decorations of the church of S. John Baptist, quarterly report December 1863, Quarterly report October 6, 1864, notes on the chuches of Jersey, treasurers account. There is a bookplate on the inside of a Lewis Gibbs. There is no writing. There is some foxing to a… Read More
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1966 Legend of Grizzly Adams Dillon 1st Ed 1st HBDJ

1966 Legend of Grizzly Adams Dillon 1st Ed 1st HBDJ

by Richard Dillon

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  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
Binding
Hardcover
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Knoxville, Tennessee
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A Very Good, First Edition, First Printing of "The Legend of Grizzly Adams" California's Greatest Mountain Man by Richard Dillon. The priced dust jacket has some light chipping at the head and the heel of the spine. Boards are clean. Square book. Points good. Internally, lightly read if at all. No writing.
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8 First Edition Alfred Duggan Review Copy Novels HBDJ's w/review cards
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8 First Edition Alfred Duggan Review Copy Novels HBDJ's w/review cards

by Alfred Duggan

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  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
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Up for sale is a Lot of 8 Alfred Duggan Review copies. All Hardcover's with Priced Dust Jacket. Most with review cards or letters laid in. One has some review notations on the back flypage. One has a very small previous owners address label on the first flypage
VINTAGE REVIEW COPIES
BY ALFRED DUGGAN
ALL ARE COWARD McCANN EXCEPT FOR THE 4 WHICH ARE STATED IN THE LIST
CONTAINED WITHIN THE SET:
"WINTER QUARTERS", 1956, HB, PRICED DUST JACKET WITH REVIEW CARD
"DEVIL'S BROOD," 1957, HB, PRICED DUST JACKET, REVIEW CARD LAID IN
1958, "THREE'S COMPANY, STATED AMERICAN FIRST EDITION, HB, WITH PRICED DUST JACKET
1961, "THE RIGHT LINE OF CERDIC" HAS PUBLISHER'S PHOTO OF THE AUTHOR LAID IN THE FRONT, HB, PRICED DUST JACKET, PANTHEON
1963, STATED FIRST PRINTING, "BESIEGER OF CITIES" HB, PRICED DUST JACKET
"THE CUNNING OF THE DOVE" 1960, PANTHEON BOOKS, HAS THE REVIEW LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER LAID IN, HB, WITH PRICED DUST JACKET
1960, "FAMILY FAVORITES" REVIEW CARD LAID IN THE FRONT, HB, WITH PRICED DU
"LORD… Read More
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Death In The Family James Agee True 1st Print, 1st Walking error HBDJ
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Death In The Family James Agee True 1st Print, 1st "Walking" error HBDJ

by James Agee

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  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
1st
Binding
Hardcover
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Knoxville, Tennessee
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TRUE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING
THE ERROR OF "WALKING" ON PAGE 80
HARDCOVER WITH PRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET
"DEATH IN THE FAMILY"
BY JAMES AGEE
McDOWELL OBOLENSKY
This is a square book. No writing. The dust jacket is protected in a Demco mylar
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Fourth International Congress of Biochemistry Vienna 1958 Carbohydrate Chemistry
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Fourth International Congress of Biochemistry Vienna 1958 Carbohydrate Chemistry

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  • Hardcover
Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
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HARDCOVER
"PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF BIOCHEMISTRY" VIENNA 1958
CARBOHYDRATE CHEMISTRY OF SUBSTANCE OF BIOLOGICAL INTEREST
VOLUME I, SYMPOSIUM I
VIENNA, 1-6 SEPTEMBER 1958
PERGAMON PRESS
This came from the Oak Ridge National Library. It has the errata slip taped to the inside front board. The errata is in Austrian but the book itself is in English
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Signed John De Lorean 1979 On a clear Day You Can See General Motors HBDJ Rare
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Signed John De Lorean 1979 On a clear Day You Can See General Motors HBDJ Rare: Signed by John De Lorean

by J.Patrick Wright

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  • Hardcover
  • Signed
Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
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** 1979**
RARE JOHN DE LOREAN SIGNED
HARDCOVER WITH PRICED DUST JACKET
"ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE GENERAL MOTORS"
JOHN Z. DE LOREAN'S LOOK INSIDE THE AUTOMOTIVE GIANT"
BY J. PATRICK WRIGHT
WRIGHT ENTERPRISES
Up for sale is a 1979, Rare Signed by John De Lorean, Hardcover with Priced Dust Jacket of "On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors" by J. Patrick Wright. It is signed by De Lorean to someone (Attorney Annie Shuttleworth) on the first free flypage. The book has no other writing. Clean pages. The boards are clean. Square binding. The priced dust jacket is protected in a new Demco mylar. Lower points have a bump. Clean page block.Upon leaving GM, DeLorean agreed to collaborate in writing a "tell all" book about his GM experience with J. Patrick Wright, a former Detroit Business Week bureau chief. Wright had covered the auto industry for 13 years. As the book project got underway in the mid-1970s, and Wright proceeded with the writing, DeLorean began his quest for a new automotive… Read More
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Rare Signed 1976 The Boo Pat Conroy 1st Ed 3rd Printing HBDJ
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Rare Signed 1976 The Boo Pat Conroy 1st Ed 3rd Printing HBDJ

by Pat Conroy

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
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Knoxville, Tennessee
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RARE
1996
SIGNED
"THE BOO"
BY PAT CONROY
HARDCOVER, WITH PRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET
FIRST EDITION, THIRD PRINTING
McCIt is signed by Conroy with an inscription on the title page. No other writing. The boards are very clean. Square binding. lure
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