Black Easter; Or Faust Aleph-Null
by Blish, James
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Gutter Code J21. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.95), generally toned. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a forward lean, clean internally. Blish's dark fantasy about demons summoned to earth to wreak havoc. Together with The Day... Read More
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The Scarf
by Bloch, Robert
New York: Dial Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.50), toned at the edges and back panel. Brown cloth, bumped at the corners, with red ink panels and black ink rules and lettering on the spine. Square and firmy bound, former owner's stamp inside the front board and on... Read More
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The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep
by Block, Lawrence
New York: The Armchair Detective Library, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 26 signed and numbered copies. Fine, complete in the issued slipcase. Red buckram with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board, with a pictorial paste-down on the front. Square and firmly bond, clean internally. Originally published in 1966, this is the first... Read More
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Telling Lies for Fun and Profit; A Manual for Fiction Writers
by Block, Lawrence
New York: Arbor House, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Block on the front endpaper page. Introudction by Brian Garfield. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($13.95). Quarter black cloth with grey paper on the boards, some foxing. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges and at the endpapers, clean otherwise. A how-to guide... Read More
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A Stab in the Dark
by Block, Lawrence
New York: Telemachus Press, 2012. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Signed by Block on the title page. Fine. Squre and firmly bound, clean internally. A nice signed paperback re-issue edition of Block's fourth Scudder novel.
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Spider, Spin Me a Web: Lawrence Block on Writing Fiction
by Block, Lawrence
Cincinnati: Reader's Digest Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Block on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($16.95). Quarter red buckram with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Block's five-part work on the writing and publishing process.
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When the Sacred Ginmill Closes
by Block, Lawrence
New York: Arbor House, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Block on the title page. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($15.95). Quarter orange buckram with brown paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, lightly foxed at the edges and preliminaries, clean otherwise. Block's Matthew Scudder novel, winner of the Falcon and Anthony awards.... Read More
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Afterthoughts
by Block, Lawrence
New York: The Mysterious Bookshop, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Signed by Block on the title page. Fine. Brown buckram with silver gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Published as part of Penzler's "Contemporary Crime Classics" series.
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The Burglar in the Closet
by Block, Lawrence
New York: Random House, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Signed by Block on the title page. Near Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($6.95), lightly rubbed. Quarter black buckram with grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, remaindered at the bottom edge, clean otherwise. The second book in Block's Bernie Rhodenbarr series.
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Le colpe dei padri
by Block, Lawrence
Rome: Fanucci Editore, 2005. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Signed by Block on the title page. Translated by Nicoletta Brazzelli. Fine. Wraps wraped in plastic. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An Italian translation of Block's novel Sins of the Father.
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A Drop of the Hard Stuff
by Block, Lawrence
New York: Mulholland Books, 2011. Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. Fine. Signed by Block on the title page. Near Fine. Wraps creased near the spine, bumped at the corners, protected in plastic. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A later Matthew Scudder novel.
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A Long Line of Dead Men
by Block, Lawrence
New York: Telemachus Press, 2012. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Signed by Block on the title page. Fine. Squre and firmly bound, clean internally. A nice signed paperback re-issue edition of Block's second Scudder novel.
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The Canceled Czech
by Block, Lawrence
New York: The Armchair Detective Library, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 26 signed and numbered copies. Fine, complete in the issued slipcase. Red buckram with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board, with a pictorial paste-down on the front. Square and firmly bond, clean internally. Originally published in 1966, this is the second... Read More
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A Stab in the Dark
by Block, Lawrence
London: Robert Hale, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Near Fine. Signed by Block on the title page. Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price). Black boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Bound with reading wear and a forward lean, withdrawn stamp on the front endpaper, pen notations on the preliminaries. A fairly nice signed ex-library... Read More
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Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man
by Block, Lawrence
New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Block on the half-title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.95), faded at the spine, some rubbed and soiling on the surface. Quarter yellow cloth, a stain on the spine, with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean... Read More
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The Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling
by Block, Lawrence
New York: Random House, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Signed by Block on the title page. Near Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($7.95), lightly rubbed, creased near the price on the front flap. Quarter black paper with orange paper on the boards, faded at the top edge. Square and firmly bound, remaindered at the bottom... Read More
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Mona
by Block, Lawrence
Unity: Five Star, 1999. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine. Signed by Block on the title page. Fine. Pictorial boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A reprinting of Block's novel originally published by Fawcett in 1961.
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Civilian Saucer Intelligence News Letters, Meeting Notes, and Related Ephemera [40 Pieces]
by Bloecher, Ted; Mebane, Lex
New York: Palmer Publications, 1959. Paperback. Good. Photocopies, some copied from issues in the Gray Barker Collection in Clarksburg, WV, of CSI materials, including the first publication and related policy statements and information, 11 newsletters, 12 meeting minutes, a questionnaire for reporting UFO sightings, among others. Generally Very Good. Handling and shelfwear, a few stains. From the collection... Read More
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American Mythologies
by Blonsky, Marshall
New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Appreciation by Umberto Eco. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($30.00), faded at the spine, bumped at the edges. Red cloth, pushed at the spine edges, with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The semiotician's analysis of late-20th... Read More
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The Closing of the American Mind
by Bloom, Allan
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Inscribed by Bloom on one of the front endpapers. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($18.95), some scratches and small stains on the surface. Quarter white buckram with green paper on the boards, bumped at the corners, faded at the edges. Square, front hinge... Read More
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The Closing of the American Mind
by Bloom, Allan
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012. Paperback. Very Good. Foreword by Saul Bellow. Afterword by Andrew Ferguson. Second Printing. Very Good. Wraps bumped at the corners. Square, bound with some reading wear, clean internally.
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Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind
by Bloom, Harold
New York: Scribner, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.00). Quarter black paper with yellow paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, remaindered at the bottom edge, clean otherwise. Part of Bloom's five-part "Shakespeare's Personalities" series.
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Tiger Eyes
by Blume, Judy
New York: Bradbury Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($9.95), toned at the flaps, bumped at the edges. Quarter maroon cloth with yellow paper on the boards, lightly rubbed. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges, clean internally. Blume's young adult novel about a grieving teen girl... Read More
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Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs
by Blum, Ralph and Judy
New York: Bantam Books, 1974. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Inscribed on the title page by Ralph Blum. Very Good. Wraps lightly rubbed, creased at the corners and spine edge. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An illustrated collection of UFO sightings, including those at Pascagoula. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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James Wright: A Life in Poetry
by Blunk, Jonathan
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($40.00), faintly rubbed. Black paper on the boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Blunk's authorized biography of the celebrated American poet.
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