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Caldwell, Idaho 1969. Photos, 11.5x8.5", cloth, 343pp, v.g. in slipcase and original mailing box. ONE OF 950 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY JOHN HEMINGWAY. More
Caldwell, Idaho 1969. Photos, 11.5x8.5", cloth, 343pp, v.g. in slipcase and original mailing box. ONE OF 950 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY JOHN HEMINGWAY. More
Oxford University Press: London: Humphrey Milford, 1938. Hardcover. 10 x 6", vellum backed pattered boards, 88pp. Minor wear and cover soil else very good condition. Printed by John Johnson at OUP. "To those who were the young Egypt and the patriots of 1918 in proof of the sympathy of those..... More
The Crime Club/Doubleday Doran: Garden City, NY, 1942. Hardcover. 8 x 5.75", cloth, 297pp, covers rubbed, extremities bumped and worn, pp toned, in a rubbed, abraded, edge-worn/torn/chipped dustjacket with front cover and falp detached (but present). FIRST EDITION. SCARCE title. More
Crime Club/Doubleday, Doran: NY, 1940. Hardcover. Illus., 8 x 5.5", cloth, 333pp, covers quite worn, extremities bumped and fraying (especially bottom fore-corner of front cover), pp worn and toned with some finger soiling; probably an EX-LIBRARY copy with a big glue stain inside rear cover. SWAF. FIRST EDITION. SCARCE title;..... More
Consolidated Book Publ.: Chicago, IL, 1944. Illus., 8.75 x 6", pict stapled wraps, 95pp, covers a little worn, pp browned else a good, clean copy of this SCARCE anthology. Includes works by Alexander Woollcott, O. Henry, William Saroyan, etc. More
Milwaikie, OR 1992. Color plates by David Dorman, 10.5 x 6.5", boards, 72 pp, bottom of covers bumped else good, slightly worn and edge torn dw. FIRST EDITION, WITH ORIGINAL SKETCH SIGNED BY DORMAN. More
Grand Mal: (Forestdale, MA), (2012). 8 x 5", pict wraps, 185pp + publ. ads, a nice, clean, fresh copy. SCARCE. More
Subterranean Press: (Burton, MI), 2001. Hardcover. Illus. by Richard Kirk, 8.75 x 5.5", brown cloth, 129pp, minor bumping to bottom of spine else a nice, clean copy in a lightly edge-worn dustjacket. "SPECIAL SIGNED EDITION", LIMITED TO 1500 NUMBERED COPIES (this is #946), SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS, POPPY Z. BRITE..... More
Berkeley, CA, nd. 6 x 4.5, wraps, 136 pp, Covers a bit worn and creased with minor soiling and spotting. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES. Includes Kerouac's "Neal and the Three Stooges." More
Alfred A. Knopf: NY, 1949. 7.75 x 5.25, patterned boards, 271 pp, covers a bit rubbed and toned at edges, extremities worn, hinges loose, former owner's ink name and addresses inside front cover, contents toned, in worn and edge torn dust jacket. FIRST ED. More
G. Howard Watt: NY, 1930. Hardcover. Frontis portrait, 7.75 x 5", yellow cloth, 375pp, covers lightly rubbed, extremities bumped, soiled and lightly fraying, a few light spots to spine, pp toned (eps unevenly toned) in a rubbed, edge-worn/torn/chipped, spine-darkened lightly soiled dustjacket. FIRST EDITION (NAP). More
Published by Author: np (California?), (1937). Paperback. Photos, 10 x 8", pict stapled wraps, 28pp, extremities bumped, lower forecorners creased, covers rubbed and darkened with some soiling, first few pp spotted, contents good. "The pictures here presented are reproductions of photographs taken in the California desert." More
Panos Publications: (Westland, MI), (1976). Paperback. Illus., 8.25 x 5.5", glossy pict wraps, unpaginated, minor cover wear else a nice, clean copy of the FIRST PRINTING "August 1976", SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with Panos Publications business card stapled to half-title page. SCARCE. More
Charles Ewers: Boston. 1828. Extra title, 29 (of 30) copper plates, 8.5 x 5.25, full speckled calf, 472 pp, text block stained in upper right quadrant, scattered foxing and staining, top of fep cut, small name plate, somebody darkened spine and did some splashing to covers, a bit scuffed else..... More
J. Andrews: London, 1826. Hardcover. "Twenty-Four Plates, Designed and Etched by R. Dagley". 8.75 x 5.25", fresh new 3/4 black leather; marbled boards, 369pp, plates moderately foxed else an attractive volume. Wonderful skeleton death plates. More
(Ridgeway Press: Roseville, MI), (1992). Hardcover. 9 x 6", cloth, 165pp + publisher's list, very minor extremity wear, pp a little edge-toned, in a rubbed and soiled, lightly edge-worn dustjacket. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Pseudonym of Detroit news reporter R.J. King. Story involves a stolen Rembrandt, a ghost train, and a...... More
Edward Moxon: London, 1841. Hardcover. 9.25 x 6.25", half leather; marbled boards, 124pp in double columns, covers rubbed, extremities bumped and chipping, old bookseller label inside front cover ("P. Rolandi, Foreign Bookseller...London"), pp with light spotting/finger soiling but still a good copy. Second Edition. More
Brentano's: NY, (1926). Frontis portrait of "Robert"; illus., 8.25 x 5.5", gilt-dec black cloth, 292pp, covers worn, extremities bumped and fraying, some drip-stains to front cover and spine, hinges loose, ink name of former owner on front fly, pp toned, with a long, handwritten inscription "To My Own Beloved, Dear..... More
Phillips, Sampson and Co.: Boston, 1850. Hardcover. 7.5 x 5", embossed black cloth, 285pp + (2)pp ads, covers rubbed, extremities badly bumped and worn, spine ends chipped, still a decent copy of the FIRST EDITION, Second Issue. More
Hodder and Stoughton: London, nd. Hardcover. 7.5 x 5", blue/green cloth, 318pp, covers rubbed and soiled, extremities bumped and fraying, old bookseller label inside front cover (Foyle's in London), pp very browned and brittle. Pencil note inside states that this was from the estate of Frederic Dannay, one half of..... More
P.F. Collier & Son: NY, (1929). Hardcover. 7.5 x 5", black cloth, 329pp, covers rubbed and finger soiled, spine ends bumped, eps spotted, some soiling to foredge of textblock, in a rubbed, extremity-worn dustjacket. Reprint of the Crime Club/Doubleday, Doran edition, but SCARCE in dustjacket in any edition. More
F. Rodda: Penzance. 1897. 6 x 4.5, cloth, 94 pp, silver titled maroon cloth beveled boards, moderately worn and soiled, author's inscription dated xmas 1900, partially damaged by corner torn from front free endpaper, good. Second ed. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. More
Simon and Schuster: NY, 1928. Hardcover. 7.5 x 5", purple cloth, 262pp, covers a little rubbed, spine ends bumped, corners a little worn, pp toned, old yellow glue mark at top of front fly else a nicely preserved copy in a rubbed, edge-worn, darkened dustjacket with a small chip out..... More
Chatto & Windus: London, 1881. Paperback. 8.5 x 5.5", flexible cloth, 184pp + 32pp publisher's catalogue, covers a bit worn, toned and soiled, spine ends bumped and worn, missing front endpaper, edges toned, minor foxing to first few pp; SCARCE. More
Bowling Green State University Popular Press: Bowling Green, OH (1985). Illus, 9.25 x 6", cloth, 146 w/index, a bit yellowed, dw sunned & slight cigarette smoke odor. More