THE UNINHABITED: SELECTED POEMS OF ANDRE DU BOUCHET
by AUSTER, Paul (Translator)
(New York): Living Hand 7, (1976). First Edition. Printed wraps. Fine. Printed wraps. With a three-page introduction by Auster. One of 500 numbered copies.
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HAND TO MOUTH. A CHRONICLE OF EARLY FAILURE
by AUSTER, Paul
New York: Holt, (1997). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Advance Reader's Copy in pictorial wraps replicating the dustwrapper. Auster's memoir of his early days of writing along with three of his plays, his baseball novel (originally published as a paperback under the name of Paul Benjamin), and the rules of a baseball game he invented. INSCRIBED "For Darlene" and... Read More
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EARLY AMERICAN MEDICAL IMPRINTS 1668 - 1820
by AUSTIN, Robert B
Washington DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961. First Edition. Softcover. Bookplate of former bookseller F. Thomas Heller tipped to front inside cover. Tears to front cover. Good. Printed wrappers; x, 240 pages.
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A VOYAGE ROUND GREAT BRITAIN, UNDERTAKEN IN THE SUMMER OF THE YEAR 1813, AND COMMENCING FROM THE LAND'S-END, CORNWALL ... WITH A SERIES OF VIEWS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE CHARACTER AND PROMINENT FEATURES OF THE COAST
by AYTON, Richard
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814-1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents with occasional light foxing (primarily to text leaves facing plates but slightly affecting a few plates) and some offsetting from plates, else clean. All bindings quite solid and attractive, some light rubbing or scuffing to some hinges and edges or corners, one volume with small tear at... Read More
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WORKS
by BACHELLER, Irving
New York: Various publishers. First Editions and reprints. Hardcover. Two or three volumes with pages roughly opened resulting in a few tears. A bit of light wear and rubbing to corners and spine tips, but a Near Fine, bright set in an attractive binding. A collection of 9 books by Bacheller, some signed and some first editions, all... Read More
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![THE ESSAYES [ESSAYS] OR COUNSELS CIVILL & MORALL OF FRANCIS BACON BARON OF VERULAM VISCOUNT SAINT ALBAN](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/779/333/250333779.0.m.jpg)
THE ESSAYES [ESSAYS] OR COUNSELS CIVILL & MORALL OF FRANCIS BACON BARON OF VERULAM VISCOUNT SAINT ALBAN
by BACON, Francis
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and about Fine clamshell box. Folio (8-3/4" x 13") bound in half buckram and lovely gold-decorated boards. Introduction by Christopher Morley, note by A. S. W. Rosenbach. Copy #834 of 1100, one of the smaller limitations of the time for the press, designed by Bruce Rogers who has... Read More
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THE FAMOUS HISTORIE OF FRYER BACON. CONTAINING THE WONDERFULL THINGS THAT HE DID IN HIS LIFE. ALSO THE MANNER OF HIS DEATH. WITH THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF THE TWO CONJURERS BUNGYE AND VANDERMAST. VERY PLEASANT AND DELIGHTFULL TO BE READ
by [BACON, Fryer]
[Edinburgh]: (Otto Schulze & Co.), n.d. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Some soiling to spine and edges; internally clean. Very Good. Quarto (9-1/4" x 11-3/4") in cloth-backed boards. The third in the series of Early English Prose Romances, attractively illustrated by Harold Nelson. One of only 500 copies.
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FRIER BACON HIS DISCOVERY OF THE MIRACLES OF ART, NATURE, AND MAGICK
by [BACON, Roger]
London: Simon Miller, 1659. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor foxing, pencil notes on endpapers; small chip to head of spine. Near Fine and very scarce. Small duodecimo (3-1/8" x 5-1/2") bound in early calf with gilt-ruled covers and gilt decoration and lettering on the spine; [xii], 51, [7 - ads] pages. First separate printing and First English Edition of... Read More
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ROOM TEMPERATURE
by BAKER, Nicholson
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Author's second book, a marvelous tour de force.
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THE MEZZANINE
by BAKER, Nicholson
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Author's first book.
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VOX
by BAKER, Nicholson
New York: Random House, (1992). First Edition. Decorated wraps. Fine in plain brown paper sleeve. Advance Reading Copy in decorated wraps of this unlikely bestseller about phone sex.
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THE MEZZANINE
by BAKER, Nicholson
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Very thin, light remainder stripe on bottom edge. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Author's first book.
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AFTER OUR WAR
by BALABAN, John
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Poet's first full-length book, with the Lamont Prize card laid in. Balaban is best known now for his translations into English of Vietnamese poetry.
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GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
by BALDWIN, James
Franklin Center, PA: Franklin Library, 1979. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Burt Silverman. Bound in full brown decorated leather. The First SIGNED Limited edition of Baldwin's first book with a previously unpublished introduction by the author. Illustrated by Burt Silverman. With the Notes from the Editor.
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RUNNING WILD
by BALLARD, J. G. [James Graham BALLARD]
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1988). First American Edition. wraps. Fine. Uncorrected proof in printed yellow wraps.
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THE DAY OF CREATION
by BALLARD, J. G. [James Graham BALLARD]
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1988). First American Edition. wraps. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof in light blue wraps by the author of CRASH.
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HELLO AMERICA
by BALLARD, J. G. [James Graham BALLARD]
London: Jonathan Cape, (1981). First Edition. wraps. Fine. Uncorrected proof in orange wraps decorated with the publisher's logo of an early science fiction title by the author of CRASH.
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OLD GORIOT
by BALZAC, Honore de
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Light rubbing to the spine. Very Good or better in a Very Good slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") in black morocco-backed marbled boards. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Francois Mauriac. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and... Read More
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OLD GORIOT
by BALZAC, Honore de
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Hardcover. Rubbed spot at the bottom of the spine. Very Good, lacking the slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") in black morocco-backed marbled boards. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Francois Mauriac. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations... Read More
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EUGENIE GRANDET
by BALZAC, Honore de
London: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Slight sunning to spine. About Fine in a Fine slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in full tan buckram with gold-stamped black leather labels. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Richard Aldington. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press.... Read More
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EUGENIE GRANDET
by BALZAC, Honore de
London: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a close to Fine slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in full tan buckram with gold-stamped black leather labels. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Richard Aldington. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations... Read More
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OLD GORIOT
by BALZAC, Honore de
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Hardcover. Fine in torn glassine in a Fine slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") in black morocco-backed marbled boards. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Francois Mauriac. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan hand-colored... Read More
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OLD GORIOT
by BALZAC, Honore de
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1948. Hardcover. Light wear. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") in black morocco-backed marbled boards. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Francois Mauriac. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan... Read More
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EUGENIE GRANDET
by BALZAC, Honore de
London: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Rene Ben Sussan. Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 10-1/2") bound in full tan buckram with gold-stamped black leather labels. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage with an introduction by Richard Aldington. Designed by Sir Francis Meynell and printed at the Curwen Press. Illustrations by Rene... Read More
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MR. MUNCHAUSEN. BEING A TRUE ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE RECENT ADVENTURES...
by BANGS, John Kendrick
Boston: Noyes, Platt & Company, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Early inscription mostly erased on the front endpaper. Light rubbing to cloth. Near Fine. Peter Newell. BAL 753: Second (Third?) printing. Cloth with an attractive color design by Peter Newell. Charmingly illustrated with 15 full-page color plates by Newell, creator of the even more charming THE HOLE BOOK. Early... Read More
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