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Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1999. Signed by Kurt Vonnegut on limitation page. Certificate signed by Kurt Vonnegut, Daniela Di Stefano and Publisher Roy S. Pfeil. First Limited edition / First printing. Number 405 of 1700 copies. Teal leather. Very fine. Certificate of Authenticity and A Note About Bagombo Snuff Box laid in.
THE WORKS OF BEN JOHNSON IN NINE VOLUMES, WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY, AND A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR BY W. GIFFORD, ESQ by Johnson, Ben. Gifford, W - 1816
by Johnson, Ben. Gifford, W
THE WORKS OF BEN JOHNSON IN NINE VOLUMES, WITH NOTES CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY, AND A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR BY W. GIFFORD, ESQ
by Johnson, Ben. Gifford, W
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London: Printed for G.and W. Nicol , 1816. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. <p>London: Printed for G.and W. Nicol , 1816. First edition thus. Very Good. London: Printed for G. and W. Nicol et al, 1816. Measurement 10 1/4"" x 1 1/4"" x 6 1/2"". Book condition: VERY GOOD. Original boards, 9 volume complete set. Elaborate gilt tooling on spine. Gilt top edge. Both Front and rear boards marbled paper. Spines with 5 raised bands, marbleized end papers. Some light yellowing of pages. Corners are bumped and worn. Shelf wear, top spine chipped away, some cracking to hinge. Previous owners book plate in all volumes. Volume 6 and 9: front cover detached from spine. The binding for all volumes is tight and strong, covers are all fragile, dry, showing wear and cracks along cover and spine. Volume one contains a sheet of paper that mentions an auction in 1937. Later purchased through William Doyle Galleries, c.1980. Set contains the book plate of Frederic Robert Halsey. Overall very good, leather with some chips at spine and extremities. All boards dry and fragile. Pages have slight ripple, possibly from moisture, but nothing major.This set of books comes from the great library of Frederick R. Halsey, Wall Street broker and bibliophile, the intermediary being George Smith, a dealer in rare books. In 1915 the library was purchased by H.E. Huntington (1850-1927) for a total of $750,000. See New York Times article below for more information:http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F60D1FFA355C13738DDDA80B94DA415B858DF1D3 <br /><br /></p>
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Bagombo Snuff Box.
by VONNEGUT, Kurt
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The Doings Of Raffles Haw
by Doyle, A. Conan
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London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited. Very Good. 1892. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 256 pages: 4.75 x 7.5 in.: 1: KB#011155: Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Boards are original Dark Blue with wear at corners and gilt lettering on spine. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright (except for endpapers being lightly age-darkened), tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "Raffles Haw is a millionaire, or billionaire, thanks to his possession of a secret which furnishes him with an inexhaustible supply of money. " and "The attempts by Raffles Haw, a rich eccentric, to help the poor only backfire, as his wealth brings out the worst in those around him." .
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The Tin Drum.
by GRASS, Gunter.
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New York: Pantheon, (1962). First U.S. edition / First printing. Red cloth. Fine in price-clipped jacket about fine. The author's first novel, and most famous work. This is a bright sparkling copy. The jacket is on a heavy stock with a thick varnish. Though price clipped, it is not to be confused with the lighter uncoated book club issue. Gunter Grass was the Winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Cape Cod. Two Volumes
by Thoreau, Henry David; with Illustrations from Sketches in Colors by Amelia M. Watson
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1896. Two volumes in publisher's original green cloth with Art Deco gilt decorations and lettering, top edge gilt, Near Fine, the spines a shade toned, rear end papers in both volumes with some browning, the Arts and Crafts bookplates of Clinton Larue Hare and Marea Fletcher Ritzinger Hare front paste downs. Clinton L. Hare was an early football coach at Butler University (1887-1889), Purdue (1890) and DePauw University (1891). A quite lovely set of this charmingly illustrated edition. . First Illustrated Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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The Exile of Capri
by Peyrefitte, Roger; Foreword by Jean Cocteau, Translated by Edward Hyams
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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New York: Fleet Publishing Corporation, 1965. Stated First Printing of the First American Edition, first published in France in 1959 as L'Exile de Capri, and first published in English in 1961 by Secker & Warburg, London. SCARCE in the American edition and in dust jacket. Very Good, green top stain dulled, slisht foxing at end papers and edges, in a Very Good dust jacket, front flap bottom corner price-clipped, light wear at edges. . First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Game, The ( this is Jack Londons Favorite of all of His Novels )
by Jack London, Light Tan & white endpapers show 2 men wrestling & cupid pulling boy, includes coloured frontispiece , illustrations & decorations by Henry Hutt & T. C. Lawrence
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LONG BEACH, California, United States
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MaCMILLAN, 1905, 1905. , Blue & White Decorated Cloth of snowy mountains & Sun & trees with some Edge rub & minor Corner Bump edges, , VG-, AS-IS, NOJACKET, 385 pgs, Small ding to spine cvr,HARDBACK NODJ, June 1905, stated 1st edition, 2nd issue ,VG-, interior Nice & Tight relatively Clean, Ever so slight Hinge Starting, VG, AS-IS, NODUSTJACKET,Octavo, Green decorated Cloth Boards with red, Lettered Cover with white & Brown, White & Gold Gilt Lettering on Spine, Minor Cover Rub, Wear, Scuff primarily corners & along Spine & with small external small Chips & Light Tears, Mild Fox, 182 pgs, Publishers Ads in Back, . First Edition. Hard Cover.
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A Lytell geste of Robin Hode with other ancient & modern ballads and songs relating to this celebrated yeoman to which is prefixed his history and character, grounded upon other documents than those made use of by his former biographer, "Mister Ritson.
by GUTCH, John Matthew
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Concord, Massachusetts, United States
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London: Longman. Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1847. First Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 2 volumes. Vol. I. pp. viii, xxxviii, [2], 391, [1]. Vol. II. pp. [4], vii, [1], xxii, [2], 447, [1]. Frontispiece in each volume. Wood engravings by F.W. Fairholt. Green cloth with gilt front cover image of Medieval knights. Some shelf wear and rubbing. Hinges and corner tips carefully repaired. Inner joints strengthened. Name and date (1858) written in an old hand on front fly leaf of each volume. Some foxing to frontispieces and title pages. Occasional mild marginal soiling on several pages. Otherwise a generally clean copy. An excellent source book of Robin Hood lore. Volume I contains J.M. Gutch's biography of Robin Hood; a printing of the Middle English ballad "The Lytell Geste of Robin Hode" accompanied by a modern English version; W. Hone's "Dissertation upon the Morris Dance and Maid Marian", taken from his "Year Book"; Francis Douce's "A…
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On The Road ( Being a Nice Stated Fourth Printing, March 1958, 1st Edition, of Best Work of Beat Literature, Authors 2nd Book ) Subculture of Fifties, American Youth Adrift in America , Front FOTO LASER COLOR Copy DJ Has Colored Abstract Design
by Jack Kerouac ,back Inner Flap DJ Photo of Author By William Eichel, DJ Design By Bill English with Blue Line & Red Line at Top & Bottom & From on the Road Also on Back of DJ, Front Inner Flap Facsimile DJ Has No Price , Front Blank Flyleafs +
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Viking Press,NY, 1958. HBDJ ,FOTO LASER COLOR Copy DJ, Stated Fourth Printing, March 1958, 1st Edition, NF-/GOOD, AS-IS, 8 vo, Black Cloth Hardboard Cover lettered in White on Spine & On Front Cvr, A truly near beautiful copy rarely encountered in this nearly superlative condition, The boards are straight and clean with no bumping, tears, shredding, very light soiling . The white lettering is bright and complete. Internally there is no writing, tears, soiling, foxing, or separation light wear FOX ,Front Blank Flyleafs + next 15 pgs small light top Edge Stain blank Margin, 310 PAGES, Foto copy of DJ light Rub wear , Publishers FadedRed Top Stain outer pgs edge, Light Cover Scuff, Tiny Cvr corner tears .Front FOTO LASER COLOR Copy DJ has Colored Abstract Design Block makes it Very Destinctive & Beat !! Front Blank Flyleafs + next 15 pgs small light top Edge Stain blank Margin. First Edition. Hard Cover.
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The Miscellaneous Works of Tim Bobbin Esq., containing his View of the Lancashire Dialect, With large Additions and Improvements; also, his Poem of The Flying Dragon, and The Man of Heaton; Together with other Whimsical Amusements in Prose and Verse
by Bobbin, Tim (John Collier)
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Manchester: J. Slack, 1818. Hardcover. 226pp. Full patterned calf stamped in gold on the front and the back panel, spine elaborately tooled in blind with black label lettered in gold affixed. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and nineteen inserted plates. With the armorial bookplate of Charles Napier Lawrence, Baron Lawrence of Kingsgate to front pastedown endpaper. Bound with Plebeian Politics, or the Principles and Practices of certain Mole-Eyed Maniacs Vulgarly Called Warrites. Printed and published by J. Slack, Manchester, 1818. 83pp. Frontispiece and six inserted plates. Mild edge wear else a fine copy. ; Octavo.
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Manticore.
by DAVIES, Robertson
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Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1972. Decorative label signed by Robertson Davies laid in. First edition / First printing. Bright orange cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket, with a short closed tear to the top front panel light creases, and wear primarily to the rear top corner of the spine. An exceptional copy of both the book and the fragile dust jacket. Second book in the Deptford Trilogy.
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Gypsies
by Greenfeld, Howard
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St. Charles, Michigan, United States
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New York: Crown Publishers. An account of the Gypsy way of life, including its origins, history, traditions, customs, occupations, and the changes that modern living has occasioned. EX LIBRARY/USUAL MARKINGS. Profusely & WONDERFULLY illustrated w/photos, Introduction, Bibliography, Index, 111 clean, crisp & solid pp. Excellent Personal cpy/Reference! . Good. Hardcover. 1977.
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Kane & Abel
by Jeffrey Archer
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Decatur, Indiana, United States
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New York, 1979. Book Club. Hardcover. Book Club/Has Jacket. Book is a book club edition. Quite a few closed tears, chips, and other signs of wear to the dust jacket. Some bumping to the boards at corners, edges and ends of the spine. Pages are clean.
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Cold Mountain
by Frazier, Charles
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NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .
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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural
by Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945)
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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228 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with quarter brown spine and dark green lettering to spine label and cover. First edition, first issue. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly chipped, spine heal rubbed, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts
by Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945)
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209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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Red Pottage
by Cholmondeley, Mary
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.
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We Loved Them Once
by Rivers, Ronda
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Piggott, Arkansas, United States
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NY: Vantage Press, 1954. Pages [135] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Tan boards, black lettering, clean, minor shelf wear. PO's name penned to endpaper. Set in 1950's America. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
by Traven, B
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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The Sky and the Forest
by Forester, C.S
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
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v+321 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First British edition. St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. He alternated dictating St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston but gradually lost interest in the former. The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf wear, hinges and spine heal moderately rubbed, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy.
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