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Dean, Nicholas.
Snow Squall: The Last American Clipper Ship.
Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House, 2001. Hard Cover. First Edition. Signed by Author. First Printing. Clean, crisp copy in mylar cover. Signed by author on title page. Fine / Fine.
[Book #16375]
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Derleth, August.
The Mask of Cthulhu.
Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1958. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. 201 pp. Dust jacket clean, crisp, and in mylar cover. Interior tight and clean, previous owner's name stamped on the first free endpaper in addition to the date "Feb. 1966". A gorgeous copy of this important work of horror/fantasy by August Derleth who, more than anyone, kept the work of H. P. Lovecraft alive after his early death. Fine / Fine.
[Book #23343]
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Dixon, Franklin W.
The Tower Treasure.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1927. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. Red cloth covered boards with titling in gold and black to front cover board, black titling to spine. Slight leand to title block, minor bumping to corners and light sunning to spine. First Printing as indicated by a complete "t" in "talking" on p. 31, the first three titles in the series listed in verso of title page. Very light gift inscription in ink on first free endpaper. Rear free endpaper missing. All advertisements included at rear that indicate first printing. Very Good.
[Book #22944]
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Duff, James H.; Wyeth, Andrew; Hoving, Thomas; Kirstein, Lincoln.
An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art.
Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, 1987. Hard Cover. First Edition. Clean and crisp. Dust Jacket has minor bumping, in mylar cover. Fine / Very Good.
[Book #14294]
Price: $40.00
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Dumas, Jean-Baptiste.
Memoire sur les Ethers Composes; Memoire sur la loi des Substitutions et la Theorie des Types; Recherches sur le Veritable Poids Atomique du Carbone; Relatives a l'Action du Chlore sur l'Alcool loi des Substitutions.
Paris: 1838, 1840. Hardcover. First Edition. Unusual to find a collection of of Dumas' work from a scientific journal of the period compiled in one volume. 4to. Blue cloth covered boards with gold embossed titling to spine and titled "Recherches de Chimie Organique". Four extracts from proceedings published by L'Academie des Sciences in Paris. Papers are of two different sizes but have been bound in one uniform binding. The titles are as follows: "Memoire sur les Ethers Composes" published by L'Academie in 1838, Volume XV, pp 457-494. "Memoire sur la loi des Substitutions et la Theorie des Types" published by L'Academie in 1840, Volume X, pp 147-207, Dumas dissertation on pp. 149-178. "Recherches sur le Veritable Poids Atomique du Carbone" published by L'Academie in 1840, Volume XI, pp 991-1020, "Reserches de Chimie Organique, Relatives a l'Action du Chlore sur l'Alcool loi des Substitions ou Metalepsie" published by L'Academie in 1838, Volume XV, pp 519-556. Very light toning to paper from age, some pages uncut at head of text block. Very Good.
[Book #24578]
Price: $1,200.00
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Dunbar, Paul Laurence; Howells, W. D. (Introduction).
Lyrics of Lowly Life.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1897. Hardcover. First Edition. In his short life, Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) broke many barriers and became one of the first African American poets to earn national distinction nationally. Dunbar wrote conventional verse as well as in dialect, this was his third book. 208 pp. 12mo. Green cloth covered boards with green embossed design on cover board, quite sinuous, and gold embossed titling tp spine. Scuffing to boards from age, sunning to spine, small worm holes at hinge, more pronounced at front and rear pastedowns. Front and rear boards beginning to separate from text block, but still tight overall. Frontispiece photograph laid in with tissue guard still intact. Good.
[Book #24608]
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E.B.W. (White, E. B.).
The Lady is Cold.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1929. Hard Cover. First Edition. E. B. White's first commercially published book. Stunning example of an elusive title. First Printing. 95 pp. Blue and gray decorated boards over a black cloth spine. Wonderful first issue cover illustration of the statue in front of The Plaza Hotel. Clean and crisp with the slightest of wear to upper right corner of the front board. Gold embossed titling to spine. Previous owner's name and address handwritten in ink on first free endpaper. Fine.
[Book #2528]
Price: $275.00
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Eisenhower, Dwight D.
The White House Years: Mandate for Change, 1953-1956; Waging Peace, 1956-1961 (2 Volumes).
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1963. Hard Cover. Limited. Signed by Author. Both volumes in exceptional condition with original clear mylar dust jacket. Light olive cloth covered boards with Presidential Seal embossed in gold on cover boards, titled in gold on spine within a larger, darker olive green title block. Front endpapers of Volume I are illustrated with a map of the United States, rear endpapers a map of Africa, Europe, the then-Soviet Union, and Asia. Front endpapers of Volume II are illustrated with a map of the World, rear endpapers also a map of the World but from a different perspective and delineating the many United States alliances. Each volume is crisp and clean within and appears to never have been read. Each volume signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower in black ink on tipped in page preceding the title page, facing the limitation page. Volume I is copy #557 of 1,434; Volume II is copy #245 of 1,434. There were a total of 1,500 copies of each volume printed. Each volume comes in its original, paper covered slipcase; both in Very Good condition with minor scuffing from shelf wear. Photographs gladly provided. Fine / Fine.
[Book #20224]
Price: $3,000.00
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Eliot, George.
George Eliot's Works (24 Volumes).
Boston, MA: Estes and Lauriat, 1893. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Rosehill Limited Edition. Brown cloth covered boards. Paper labels to spines that have darkened slightly with age. Clean within. Very Good.
[Book #20683]
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Eliot, T.S.
THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK.
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing, "Ihad" p. 7, next to last line. 135 pp. Denim blue cover has bright gilt on spine. Touches of edgewear and corner bumping. Yellow dj w/red diagonal title band on front is unclipped. Spine lightly sunned. Dj chipped at upper edge, unclipped. It has a tape mend inside at head of spine. "A play in verse at once witty and wise." Gallup A 64a. Very Good / Very Good.
[Book #7785]
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Eliot, T.S.
SWEENEY AGONISTES. FRAGMENTS OF AN ARISTOPHANIC MELODRAMA.
London: Faber and Faber, 1932. Hardcover. First Edition. 31 pp. Blue cover lettered in red on spine. There is a small chip at head of spine - less than 1/2 inch. Eps and prelims are marked as if by tape at corners with rust-colored stains. Price-clipped yellow dj a bit soiled with the same type of marks, chipped at bit at spine head. First Printing. First State Dust Jacket. Gallup A 23. Very Good / Very Good.
[Book #7857]
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Elliott, Elizabeth.
Burn All Night: New and Selected Poems.
Spencertown, NY: Athena Books/Golden Hill Press, 1998. Trade Paperback. First Edition. First Printing. Clean, crisp copy. Brand new. Fine.
[Book #21934]
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Elliott, Elizabeth.
Winter Ferry: Poems.
Tavernier, FL: Winter Press, 2008. Trade Paperback. First Edition. Clean, crisp copy. CD of author reading her works included. As New.
[Book #19018]
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Etnier, Elizabeth.
On Gilbert Head: Maine Days.
Boston, MA: Little Brown and Company, 1937. Hard Cover. First Edition. Elizabeth Jay Etnier Hollins (1911-1991) was married to artist Stephen Etnier (1903-1984) during the time chronicled in this book about their life on Gilbert Head, a small island off the Maine coast. Second Printing. 272 pp. Light blue cloth covered boards wear at bottom corners, lgiht bumping to all four corners, considerable sunning to spine. Previous owner's name on first free endpaper. Clean within. Very Good.
[Book #19542]
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Eugenides, Jeffrey.
The Marriage Plot.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. Hard Cover. First Edition. Signed by Author. First Printing. Clean, crisp copy in custom brown cloth with the titling of the cover of the dust jacket reproduced on the slipcase on front panel and spine. Part of Powell's Books INDIEspensable program, signed by author on a tipped in page. Fine / Fine.
[Book #23022]
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Evelyn, John; Keynes, Geoffrey (Editor).
Directions for the Gardiner at Says-Court But Which May be of Use for Other Gardens.
England: Nonesuch Press, 1932. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing of Nonesuch Press Edition. Orange dust jacket with decorative border and title on front and spine. Considerable chipping and wear to edges, losses at corners, in mylar cover. Cover boards covered in marbled paper, with the same paper being used as endpapers. Paper beginning to chip along cover boards hinges, but still tight and intact. Copy #44 of 625 produced for the English Market, 175 copies were also produced for the American market and distributed by Random House. Designed by Francis Meynell and printed in the types of Janson on Van Gelder paper by the Ernest Ingham at the Fanfare Press. Very Good / Good.
[Book #19396]
Price: $225.00
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Fabbri, Cora.
LYRICS.
New York: Harper & Bros. 1892. Gray Paper Over Boards. First Edition. 162 pp. Cover is stamped with gilt frame around gilt title and author. Silver gray cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Slight creases to spine ends. Head of text block gilded, deckled edge. Gift inscription to Nina T. Burnham on first free endpaper signed by Alessandro Fabbri, probably the youngest brother of the poet and dated 1915. Decorative title page printing in black and red. Contents clean, bright, and tight. A lovely book in wonderful condition. Very Good.
[Book #8280]
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Faulkner, William.
The Town.
New York, NY: Random House, 1957. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. Slight chipping to dust jacket at edges, small tear at top of spine, top of rear panel, minor age toning on inside edge, in mylar cover. Misprint on p. 327 where line 8 is reprinted at line 10, dust jacket has 5/57 date on bottom of front panel. The second volume of the Snopes Trilogy. Fine / Very Good.
[Book #17072]
Price: $175.00
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Finis & Co.
A Catalog of Selected Magic. Catalog of E-Z Magic (No. 16).
Waterloo, Iowa: Finis & Co. 1953, 1954. Wraps. First Edition. 27, [4], 64 pp. Illustrated. 2 catalogs (1953 and 1954) in one wrapper, a salmon color-stapled cover. One signature (pp. 9-20) in first booklet is detached. Second booklet (64 pp) is printed in blue ink. Lists many props for magicians' tricks. Very Good.
[Book #6341]
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Fogazzaro, Antonio.
The Woman (Malombra).
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1907. Hard Cover. First Edition. First American Edition. Cream colored boards with greent titling. Minor soiling to cover boards, some sunning to spine. Very Good.
[Book #18588]
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Forestier, J. C. N.
Bagatelle et Ses Jardins.
Paris: Librairie Agricole de la Maison Rustique, n.d. Wraps. As. Early 20th century. 114 pp. Red paper wraps with a faun and a woman in a whimsical predicament in front of a large jardiniere. Light scuffing to covers, now in mylar cover. Interior has age toning due to the quality of the paper, some water stains. Illustrated with both black & white drawings and photographs, folding plan at rear of Le Jardin de Bagatelle. Good.
[Book #25103]
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Franzen, Jonathan.
Freedom.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Fine / Fine.
[Book #21945]
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Friedman, Thomas L.
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005. Hard Cover. First Edition. First Printing. With rare First State Dust Jacket with ships sailing off the edge of the world, in mylar cover. Small chips at edges of dust jacket, slight yellowing from sunning, book has a minor lean. Very Good / Very Good.
[Book #16937]
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Fuess, Claude Moore.
Stanley King of Amherst.
New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1955. Hard Cover. First Edition. Rips, tears and losses to dust jacket, in mylar cover. Clean and crisp within with no markings. Fine / Good.
[Book #16949]
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Gandhi, Mahatma.
Mahatma Gandhi: His Own Story.
New York, NY: The MacMillan Company, 1931. Hard Cover. First Edition. First American Edition. Fifth Printing. Slight bumping to corners, fraying at top of spine, titling has faded but is still readable. Good.
[Book #14529]
Price: $25.00
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