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The Color Of Water
by James McBride
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother.The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in "orchestrated chaos"...
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Christ In Concrete
by Pietro Di Donato
An uncompromising yet beautiful portrait of the life of Italian immigrants on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1920s, Christ in Concrete is the story of a twelve-year-old boy who must support his family after his father's untimely death.
One L
by Scott Turow
"A wonderful book...it should be read by anyone who has ever contemplated going to law school. Or anyone who has ever worried about being human." -The New York Times It was a year of terrors and triumphs, of depressions and elations, of compulsive work, pitiless competition, and, finally, mass hysteria. It was Scott Turow's first year at the oldest, biggest, most esteemed center of legal education in the United States. Turow's experiences at Harvard Law School, where freshmen are dubbed One Ls, parallel...
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Filosofia della Pratica. Economica ed etica
by Croce, Benedetto
Bari: Gius, Laterza & Fig, 1909. Octavo xix, 418 pages. Index, bibliographic notes. FIRST EDITION. One of the most important Italian speculative texts of the twentieth century, the third volume of the author's Philosophy of the Spirit. "Alcuni capitoli della terza parte erano stati anticipati nella memoria: Riduzione della filosofia del diritto alla filosofia dell'economia, letta all'Accademia Pontaniana di Napoli ... 1907" In salmon colored wrappers; small chip from lower right corner of front panel,...
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€1,134.24
Chasing the Horizon
by Thomas Kinkade and Patrick Kinkade
Eugene, Oregon: Harvest House Publishers,1997. SIGNED. 1st/1st. F/NF. First Edition. First Printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed on a Book Tour 1991 bookplate by Thomas Kinkade, Patrick Kinkade, and William Thomas Kinkade II. On the preceding page, Patrick Kinkade has inscribed "To Stacy, God Bless" with a drawing of an open book and "Book Tour 1997" written beneath the drawing. Book is tight and square with solid hinges. Front top corner mildly bumped, else boards are clean and...
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€42.53
MIDPOINT and Other Poems - Inscribed Association Copy
by Updike, John (SIGNED)
New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Small Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY JOHN UPDIKE TO WILLIAM TARG. Inscribed by the author to bookseller, author and publisher William Targ, who also published The Godfather, among others. William Targ was editor and publisher at World Books and at Putnam. 98(1)pp. Bound in beige cloth lettered in gilt; fine in fine unclipped dust jacket.
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€283.56
![Selected Contemporary Artists of Australia 73 Artists [Inscribed & signed by Author]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/109/874/882874109.0.b.jpg)
Selected Contemporary Artists of Australia 73 Artists [Inscribed & signed by Author]
by Berry, Michael
Kunyung, Victoria: Krispin P/L. 2003. Oblong Quarto Size [approx 30.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Two business cards have been sticky-taped to pages 42 & 70. Inscribed by the author on title page. 148 pages. Looks at the works of 73 Australian artists. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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€18.53
OFFICIAL MEDIA GUIDE OF THE PGA TOUR 2002 (Tom Weiskopf's Copy)
by (SIGNED By Tom Weiskopf)
PGA Tour, 2002. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY TOM WEISKOPF ON FFEP. Tom Weiskopf's copy with his name in gilt on front cover. Inscribed to bookseller Charles Parkhurst with his armorial bookplate laid in. A near fine copy with top corners bumped.
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€118.15
Un Certain Sourire
by Sagan, Françoise [pseud of Francoise Quoirez]
Paris: Rene Juilliard, 1956. First Edition, Inscribed by the author on the half-title, "A Madame Germaine / Beaumont / en respcteux homage / Francoise Sagan". 8vo; 189pp; original wrappers printed in black with green lined border, corner of last page missing about 1/8 x 2", a bit browned else fine. Germaine Beaumont, the recipient of this book, was a novelist. Francoise Sagan (1935-), wrote BONJOUR TRISTESSE, her first novel when she was just nineteen. Her second novel, UN CERTAIN SOURIRE appeared in...
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€708.90
Napoleon
by Ludwig, Emil (SIGNED)
Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1925. First Edition (in German). Hard Cover. Fine. Octavo. True first edition. 695 pages; original navy blue cloth, printed in gilt. SIGNED AND DATED BY EMIL LUDWIG ON TITLE PAGE AND A 1942 NEWSPAPER ARTICLE ABOUT LUDWIG ALSO INSCRIBED AND LAID-IN. Bookplate of Frost collector Earle Bernheimer and 4 stamps with images of Napoleon and Josephine on the front pastedown and ffep. A fine copy in a contemporary quarter leather slipcase, with chemise.
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€378.08
Over the Teacups.
by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Inscribed)
First Edition. Presentation copy.Inscribed to Madison Cawein.Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. Original green cloth, gold-stamped. Boston and New York 1891. First Edition. Presentation copy inscribed on the front endpaper to the poet Madison Cawein, "Madison Cawein With the kind regards of Oliver Wendell Holmes Boston October 12th 1891". Also inscribed by Cawein.Madison Cawein's poetry extolled the fields and forests, springs and flowers of Kentucky. Joyce Kilmer adjudged him the greatest nature poet of his...
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€897.94
UNTIL THEY EAT STONES
by BRINES, Russell (SIGNED)
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1944. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY RUSSELL BRINES. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with chips and short closed tears. 340 pp.
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€85.07
Histoire de la Milice Canadienne-Française 1760-1897; Humblement dédiée à S.M. La Reine Victoria à l'occasion de son soixantième anniversaire de Règne par le Colonel et les Officiers du 85th Bataillon de la Milice Volontaire du Canada. Illustrée de portraits et de gravures originales
by SULTE, Benjamin
Montreal: Desbarats & Cie, 1897. First Edition. Good. [PRESENTATION COPY] Hardcover : pp. (7) 8-147 [2] (9, Advertisements) : photo portraits : floral printed e.p.s : red pebbled boards with borders in blind and top board lettered in gilt : presentation inscription on half title to "Major General Hutton, Commanding the Militia of Canada from A D Aubry, Lt Col, Com'dg' 85th Batt." : in a different hand "Ottowa '99". Corners bumped; head and tail of spine tender and abraded; some abrasions, marks, and...
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€308.90
Half of Paradise (Inscribed)
by Burke, James Lee
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition. Near Fine. Octavo, 312 pages, publisher's tan cloth, top edges stained tan (with faint remainder mark); pictorial dust jacket, with $4.95 on front flap, faint stain at top of rear panel. Inscribed on title page to booksellers Charles and Sandy Parkhurst: "To Chuck and Sandy, / All the best, / James Lee Burke" with Charles Parkhurst armorial bookplate laid in. A handsome copy, with staple holes at top of FEP.
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€756.16
The Spinning of a Dream The Story of John Shaw Neilson (Inscribed by Hugh Anderson)
by Anderson, Hugh & Blake, Les
Ascot Vale: Red Rooster Press. 1986. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. Light rubbing to spine edges. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. Inscribed by Hugh Anderson on the Title Page. 216 pages + Blibliography & Index.. Originally published in 1972. This edition limited to 750 copies. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Softcover.
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€11.12
![COLLECTOR'S SMALL ARCHIVE OF SIGNED BOOKS, CORRESPONDENCE, BROADSIDE, and EPHEMERA; [Including TYPED LETTER SIGNED, AUTOGRAPH POSTCARD SIGNED, and an inscribed copy of the very limited, true first edition of Gallagher's first book, PORTABLE KISSES, published in 1978 by Sea Pen Press]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/533/633/1386633533.0.b.jpg)
COLLECTOR'S SMALL ARCHIVE OF SIGNED BOOKS, CORRESPONDENCE, BROADSIDE, and EPHEMERA; [Including TYPED LETTER SIGNED, AUTOGRAPH POSTCARD SIGNED, and an inscribed copy of the very limited, true first edition of Gallagher's first book, PORTABLE KISSES, published in 1978 by Sea Pen Press]
by Gallagher, Tess; Raymond Carver
Various places: Various publishers, 1978 - 2007. Collection assembled by Allen K. Mears. Includes 2-page TLS from Gallagher with extensive handwritten portion and two enclosures; Autograph Postcard Signed from Gallagher; 4 books (2 are later printings) signed and/or inscribed by Gallagher; a broadside signed by Gallagher; a few items of ephemera related to Carver; correspondence with artist and publisher Suzanne Ferris of Sea Pen Press; and copies of Mears' own letters. TYPED LETTER SIGNED -- evidently...
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€708.90
America’s First Crusade.
by HOOVER, HERBERT
Presentation copy inscribed by Hoover to Stanford ProfessorFrontispiece. 8vo. Original cloth, in dust wrapper. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First Printing, with Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. Presentation copy inscribed by Hoover on the front endpaper, "To Prof. Eliot Jones (and Mrs. Jones) With the wishes for a Happy New Year (if any) Herbert Hoover." Eliot Jones, author of five books, was a professor at Stanford (Hoover's alma mater) for 35 years. Dust wrapper slightly chipped at...
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€708.90
FRINGE OF THE CLOUDS
by Livingston, Philip
London: Johnson, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good+. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "SINCERELY YOURS" BY PHILIP LIVINGSTON ON FFEP. Owner inscription above author's inscription. Very good+ copy with slight edge wear in a very good+ dust jacket with minimal edge wear. x, 254 pp.
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€70.89
The Double Anniversary: ’76 and ’63. A Fourth of July Address Delivered at Quincy, Mass
by Charles Francis Adams, Jr
8vo. Original printed wrappers, stitched. Boston: Wm. Parsons Lunt. 1869. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed on the cover, "John Bartlett with respect of C. F. A. Jr. " Charles Francis Adams, Jr. was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the 1st Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry on December 28, 1861. He fought with distinction during the Gettysburg Campaign, where his company was heavily engaged at the Battle of Aldie. On September 8, 1864 he was commissioned as the lieutenant colonel of the 5th...
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€165.41
LIVES AND DEATHS OF THE POETS AND NON-POETS
by Van Duyn, Mona (Anthony Hecht)
St. Louis: [Privately printed], 1991. First edition. Rare, privately printed book of poetry published for her friends after she had won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for NEAR CHANGES (1990) over Anthony Hecht's THE TRANSPARENT MAN. The final poem in the volume, "Long Stretch Minimalist Sonnet IXX (for Howard)," which is pasted to the blank opposing p.28, speaks directly to her win ("You were out of town/ for the smashing surprise:/ my head's heavy disguise/ in a Pulitzer crown ..."). INSCRIBED TO...
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€425.34
DRAWINGS
by Gibson, Charles Dana
New York: H. R. Russell and Son, 1894. First edition. INSCRIBED TO THE ARTIST DANIEL BEARD on the dedication page, "To Dan Beard whose advice and friendship is of the greatest value to his friend C. D. Gibson, Dec. 1894." Beard was an illustrator, author, youth leader and social reformer of whom Gibson wrote, in a tribute appearing in Boy's Life ("My Friend Dan Beard," Feb. 1925), "He was the first professional artist I ever came in contact with, personally. That was nearly fifty years ago.... I am...
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€1,181.50
Les Aventures d'Antoine Doinel
by FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT (Inscribed)
Les Aventures dAntoine Doinel. Les Quatre Cents Coups. LAmour à Vingt Ans. Baisers Volés. Domicile Conjugal.Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo. Original paper wrappers, in dust wrapper. Paris Mercure de France 1970. First Edition of Truffauts second book. Presentation copy inscribed by Truffaut, "Pour Mrs Ingrid Hjerting avec les hommages de François Truffaut."The book contains screenplays for the first four Antoine Doinel movies. Antoine Doinel, realized onscreen over a number of years by Jean-Pierre Leaud,...
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€1,417.80
A Shelf of Old Books
by Fields, Annie [Adams]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. First Edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the ffe, "To Mr. & Mrs. R. U. Johnson / with kindest regards / from Annie Fields. / Christmas 1894." 8vo; 216pp; brown gilt-stamped cloth, boards a bit bowed, tips and spine ends a bit rubbed, ex-libris of Robert Underwood Johnson on front pastedown, but generally very good+. Annie Fields (1834-1915), is cited in most references as an author, biographer, diarist, and literary hostess, wife of publisher...
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€1,134.24
Collected Stories. 1939-1976.
by Paul Bowles (Inscribed)
INSCRIBED BY BOWLES TO HIS PUBLISHERBOWLES, PAUL. Collected Stories. 1939-1976. Introduction by Gore Vidal. 8vo. Original decorated cloth-backed paper-covered boards; paper label on spine. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara 1979. First Edition. One of 5 presentation copies marked "5/5 JM" and signed by the publisher John Martin on the colophon page. This copy is a presentation copy from Bowles to Martin. "For John Martin who believes in making books beautiful. (You must come and have tea at the Beach...
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€2,363.00
Tales of Men and Ghosts
by Wharton, Edith
London: Macmillan, 1910. First edition, first printing, first English issue, inscribed by the author on the front blank, "L. Belugou / from his friend / Edith Wharton (with a flourish) Oct 26th 1910." 8vo; 438pp; + 8pp. ads, publisher's blue cloth blind and gilt stamped; ex-libris of Leon Belugou on front pastedown, endpapers a bit browned, spine a bit cocked, corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed. Leon Belugou (1865-1934) French scholar and journalist was, perhaps, her closest French friend....
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€2,835.60
Avedon Photographs: 1947 - 1977
by Richard Avedon
NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. INSCRIBED & DATED. 1st/1st. First edition, first printing. Book is bright and tight with sharp corners and unmarred original photographic laminated boards. Mild wrinkle to spine end. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate or marks and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. Inscribed on the front free endpaper "For Laurie, Avedon Dallas 1979." Printed acetate dust jacket is unclipped ($50.00) with yellowing to spine and front and one inch closed tear to top back. 162...
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€358.23
A Roomful of Hovings
by McPhee, John (SIGNED)
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good+. Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED, AND DATED BY JOHN McPHEE ON FEP. Small ink spot on fore-edges; very good+ in a very good+ dust jacket, with small chip on rear panel. 250 pp.
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€141.78
Angels
by Johnson, Denis (SIGNED)
New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 1983. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Author's first novel; an immaculate copy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON HALF-TITLE PAGE BY DENIS JOHNSON. Inscribed to bookseller Charles Parkhurst with his armorial bookplate laid-in. 209 pp. Price of $12.95 on front flap of dust jacket, first edition, stated.
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€373.35
