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Proszynski Media. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1787. Softcover. Very Good. Third edition. Small octavo. 155, [1] ad pp. Disbound or removed. Small Harvard Library stamp with release stamp dated in 1910. Small nicks and tears on last couple of leaves, a little toning, small chip on the corner of one leaf removing a couple of letters, very good or better. Old bookseller's description laid in.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing with textual errors present: page 60, line 16 "chatter"; page 119, line 22 "northern"; page 165, line 16 "it's"; page 205, lines 9-10 "sick in tired"; page 211, lines 7-8 "Union Street station." Publisher's dark green cloth binding with titles stamped in blind on upper board and in gilt on spine, lacking the scarce dust jacket. Near Fine with a very slight lean to the binding, gilt lettering on spine is oxidized to white and rubbed, pages lightly tanned with an occasional spot of foxing, otherwise a very fresh copy of this classic of 20th century literature.

London: Victor Gollancz LTD, 1954. First British Edition. Near Fine. Advance uncorrected proof of the first British edition. Bound in publisher's drab wraps with typed paper title label adhered to upper wrap with "uncorrected" rubber-stamped to front wrap and title page. Larry McMurtry's copy with his bookplate to the verso of the front cover. Near Fine with lean to binding, light toning and wear. Pages tanned and several hinges exposed throughout. Hughes' breakthrough second work in his popular series, rare in this format.

London: Hogarth Press, 1930. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. Small 8vo, original vellum backed cloth, marbled end-papers, d.w.. London: Hogarth Press, 1930. Limited First Edition.<br/> <br/> Number 83 of 250 signed copies. Fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper by Vanessa Bell. Preserved in a cloth clamshell case.<br/> <br/>

London: hogarth, 1921. First. hardcover. very good/very good. Woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. 16mo, cloth backed pictorial boards; light wear to corners & top of spine; back & front flyleaves browned. London: Hogarth Press, 1921. First Edition.<br/> <br/>

Rutland Press. As New. 1997. Paperback. 074805829X . – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - RARE, AS NEW, THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE, CLEAN, UNMARKED, AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - -- with a bonus offer-- .

Paris: Editions des Quartre Chemins, 1924. Both volumes #96 on Arches Vellum. Paperback. Good (Wraps are moderately toned/scuffed/smudged/bumped; glassine is moderately chipped at corners and edges; spines are moderately bumped; spine strips are peeling a bit at both ends; pages are unopened; textblock edges are tanned/bumped; some tissue guards are loose and bent; interior is lightly toned with occasional foxing/smudging.). White wraps with green and brown illustration, with glassine DJ; two volumes; unpaginated; pages are unopened; tissue guards; richly illustrated (some color). Text in French. Filled with absolutely gorgeous illustrations and facsimilies throughout. Volume I contains, "Un article et un portrait de Georges Auric par Jean Cocteau, un article de Louis Laloy, une page de la partition de Georges Auric et 23 dessins en couleurs de Georges Braque." Volume II has the subtitle, "Realisation Scenique.

London: [By Ihon Kingston: for Nicolas Englande], April, 1562. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH (first published in Italian in 1521). Although the title page gives a date of July 1560, the date on the colophon (leaf N4v of second part) reads April 1562. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in 19th c. treed calf (very discreetly re-backed, preserving the original spine, corners bumped with a little loss to the leather). The boards ruled with a single gold fillet, the spine tooled in gold and with a citron morocco label, gilt. A very fine copy with a few minor blemishes, a pale ink splatter on leaf O1, and some minor worming in the gutter, beginning as a small hole, then slightly entering the text (touching only a letter or two on each page) and diminishing again to a couple of small holes (see photographs for images.) Leaves G1 and G2 have been folded in to preserve the large woodcut illustration. With a correction slip pasted onto leaf A1 verso. The first part has an elaborate woodcut title page with scenes of warfare.… Read More

Henry Z Walck Inc, 1962. First American Edition. Hardcover. fine/very good+. Ocatvo. 8 1/4" x 5 1/2". 165pp. A very nice copy in a price clipped (at both edges) dust jacket. Ligtht wear at spine of jacket and at head and tail of spine.

Upton & Sons. hardcover. Very Good. 6x0x9. Order today-sent today with tracking number, M-F*. Attractive, with minor shelf-scuffing and lightly-bumped cover corners. All is clean and tight. We protect your purchase with damage-resistant double-layer bubble-wrap packaging where possible. Your purchase helps fund small charities in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana. *Our delivery standard: order received by 2PM Eastern US time goes out by 4:30 PM M-F.

London: Facsimile Editions, 1985. Limited edition. Hardcover. vg+ to fine. 1/500, plus 50 numbered I to L. Unnumbered certificate of authenticity from the Bodleian Library Oxford, signed by the publisher on printed page laid into commentary volume. Folio. 453 leafs (Bible), 97pp (Commentary volume). Original brown morocco goatskin with embossed ornamentation on cover, decor on back cover and edges. Embossed lettering on front cover of commentary volume and blind tooling on spine, housed in a built-in slip case with pull-lever. Both volumes with raised bands. Clamshell box in marine blue cloth with tan lettering on labels of spine, and blind-stamped, embossed lettering on cover. Inside lined with marine blue velvet. Leather clasp. The Bible is bound in original brown morocco goatskin box binding, blind-embossed on all six sides with handmade dies. All edges gilt with 23 carat gold leaf. The Kennicott Bible is the most lavishly illuminated Hebrew Bible to survive from medieval Spain and combines… Read More

Los Angeles: Self published, 1974. Second Edition. Softcover. vg. 1/2000. Small Quarto. Unpaginated. Original stiff cream wraps with light brown lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. Signed "Edward Ruscha" in blue ink on free front endpaper. Ruscha changed his signature to Ed Ruscha later in his career. Richly illustrated with 30 b/w full-page-, and 1 b/w double-page reproduction of captioned photographs showing aerial views of (mostly) empty parking lots around the city of Los Angeles. The photos were taken at Ed Ruscha's instructions by Art Alanis. The double-page photo depicts Santa Monica Blvd. from Roxbury to Wilshire. Represented are Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Fashion Square in Sherman Oaks, 1800 Avenue of the Stars in Century City, Universal studios, Dodger Stadium, Hollywood Bowl, among others. Other photos show the Pierce College in Woodland Hills, Fashion Square in Sherman Oaks, 1800 Avenue of the Stars in Century City, Universal Studios, the Dodgers Stadium, Hollywood… Read More

GB: R T Birchall - Preston 326 x 255 mm. Old half dark green leather and marbled boards. Spines heavily decorated in gold and (all) lettered "HAYDN - BOOK C". Leather title labels on front covers. All with the large armorial bookplate of Frederick A Heygate Lambert (with small Garratts Hall Library case label). PAGINATION ERRATIC THROUGHOUT but appear to be complete as issued. Salomon is in 7 sets of 16 pages whilst Hague is about 48 pages. All fairly clean, tight and sound BUT some offsetting throughout and some occasional damp and other marks. A good working set but perhaps not for the collector.. Hardback. Good.

First edition first printing of this horror novel. Made into the 1989 movie of the same name starring Dale Midkiff and Denise Crosby. SIGNED by Miko Hughes who played Gage Creed in the movie on the title page. "Now I want to play with you!" - Miko Hughes "Gage". Not clipped and has $15.95 price on dustjacket. Light edge wear. Earlier owners impression stamp on the half title page. In very good / near fine condition.

Arkano Books, 2012. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

National Historical Society. hardcover. Like New. 0x0x0. All 128 volumes appear to be new & unread

Midis gagnés. Poèmes. Six dessins de Henri Matisse. Tristan Tzara, Henri Matisse Illustrator. Éditions Denoel, 1939. First edition. One of the first 28 copies (25 + 3 H.C.) on Hollande Van Gelder, with an original drypoint, in frontispiece, numbered signed in pencil by Henri Matisse. Also signed in the justification by Tzara. Very rare edition, which includes six illustrations by Matisse to accompany Tzara poems.

Broadside (25 x 19 ½ in.). Trimmed with loss of border, closed tear extending from bottom edge, browning, mounted. A spectacular display piece.
Whitman designed this rare broadside to promote his works in bookstores. The broadside advertises four of the author's most recent publications, together with a biography of Whitman by his friend John Burroughs. Leaves of Grass was in its fifth edition by this date. Although the broadside was designed for bookstore displays, Whitman referred to it as a "show bill" in a note to W. D. O'Connor.
"Throughout his literary life, Walt Whitman (1819–1892) never forgot his roots in the printing trade and the years he spent as an apprentice with newspaper printers in Long Island and New York city. This broadside, which uses eight different type faces, was apparently designed by Whitman himself to help booksellers promote the five titles listed." (Grolier Club, Lasting Impressions, 2004).
A spectacular Whitman display piece.
Provenance: Walt Whitman Collection of Dr… Read More

Octavo (ca. 22x16 cm or 8x6.5 in). 3 pp. of text. Brown ink on yellowish laid paper. Fold marks, but overall a very good letter, written in a legible hand.An original autograph manuscript letter revealing economic and social struggles in the pioneer days of Nevada City (incorporated in 1856), California.Established in 1849, Nevada City swiftly rose to prominence during the gold rush era as thousands of fortune seekers flocked to the town in search of precious stones. However, as the gold reserves depleted over time, Nevada City faced a challenging job market with limited opportunities for newcomers.Written on 12 June 1854, the letter was written by a Nevada City pioneer, addressed to his sister, "Mrs. S. of K. Nelson. " In the text, the author candidly describes his impressions of the city, highlighting "a great deal of gambling and drinking " and the scarcity… Read More