The End of Beauty
by Jorie Graham
New York: Ecco Press, 1987. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Ecco Press, 1987. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); illustrated dust jacket with $16.50 price intact; blindstamped green boards with beige cloth spine and green lettering; [x],99pp. Jacket lightly shelfworn with faint toning along top edge. Boards sturdy and square. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the... Read More
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Dinner to the Honourable George S. Graham by the Bench and Bar of Philadelphia, Tuesday Evening, February 28th, 1899. The Stratford
by [George S. Graham]
Philadelphia: Press of M.D. Wood Printing Company, 1899. Very Good -. Philadelphia: Press of M.D. Wood Printing Company, 1899. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's red textured paper-covered boards, upper cover lettered and ruled in gilt, all edges gilt; 63pp. Extremities a bit scuffed, evidence of glue residue to front endpapers from previously removed materials, rear hinge cracked but... Read More
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The Walking Stick [Inscribed and Signed]
by Winston Graham
London: Collins, 1967. Very Good/Very Good. London: Collins, 1967. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in photo-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket; 318pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including long closed tear to upper panel neatly tape-repaired on verso, light dust-soil to rear panel and textblock margins, final gathering of leaves only partly opened, else a Very Good, sound copy overall.... Read More
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The Last Call of Mourning
by Charles L. Grant
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1979. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 179 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $7.95 price intact. Gray boards stamped in yellow; review slip laid in. Jacket lightly rubbed along edges; faint vertical rippling; light spotting to verso. Boards show light shelfwear; mild... Read More
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The Grave [Signed]
by Charles L. Grant
New York: Fawcett Popular Library, 1981. Very Good. New York: Fawcett Popular Library, 1981. First Edition with full number line; 12mo; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 223pp. Light edge wear to wrapper margins, textblock uniformly toned due to inferior paper quality, else Very Good and sound. Signed by the author on title page. The fourth installment in... Read More
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The Great Metropolis
by [James Grant]
New York: Saunders and Otley, 1837. Very Good. New York: Saunders and Otley, 1837. Third Edition. Two volumes in one; 12mo; publisher's blue-green floral-patterned cloth, printed paper spine label; xi,[1],337,[1],360pp. Cloth a bit scuffed at extremities, spine label browned, occasional foxing throughout, contemporary Ohio bookseller ticket to front pastedown, else Very Good and sound in attractive American publisher's... Read More
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Cara Roma [Two Volume Set]
by Miss [Maria] Grant
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1885. Very Good. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1885. Copyright Edition. Two volumes; small octavos (16cm.); contemporary three-quarter gilt-tooled parchment over scarlet cloth, elaborate gilt spines with red morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers; 287, 303pp. Parchment and textblock edges a bit dust-soiled, light foxing to textblock, slightly later (1902) ownership signature to Vol. II front flyleaf, else... Read More
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The Knave of Hearts: A Fairy Story
by Robert Grant
Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1886. Very Good. Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1886. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt,; [2],198,23pp.; vignettes in text. Cloth a bit rubbed, especially at spine ends, spine a bi cocked, some light soil, else Very Good overall. A fantastical tale of a young college graduate, the "Knave of... Read More
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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant [Two volume set]
by Ulysses S. Grant
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. Very Good. New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885-1886. First Edition, shoulder strap edition. Two large octavo volumes. Green cloth with gilt medallions to fronts and backs and gilt lettering. 584pp. & 647pp. All maps, illustrations, and foldouts present including frontispieces with tissue guards; floral endpapers. Boards lightly worn... Read More
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Seven Days in New Crete: A Novel
by Robert Graves
London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1949. Very Good/Very Good. London: Cassell & Company Ltd, 1949. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (9/6); [6],281pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, rather long tear at spine crown neatly tape-repaired on verso, light dust-soil to rear jacket panel, else a Very Good, straight and sound copy.... Read More
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Sergeant Lamb's America
by Robert Graves
New York: Random House, 1940. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1940. First American Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket, gray topstain, map endpapers; xiii,[1],380pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few closed tears to rear panel touching text without loss of meaning, brief foxing to jacket verso, front flap... Read More
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Collected Poems (1914-26)
by Robert Graves
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. Very Good/Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First Edition. 12mo (19 cm); 217pp. Boards full bound in maroon cloth with paper labels to front and spine, wrapped in tan, printed, and unclipped publisher's dust jacket ($2.50). Jacket overall toned, most significantly darkened at spine and spine mostly... Read More
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America's Siberian Adventure 1918-1920
by William S. Graves
New York: Peter Smith, 1941. Very Good. New York: Peter Smith, 1941. Reprint. Octavo. 361 pp. Black and white photographs. Blue cloth with spine lettered in black. No dust jacket. Boards show very light wear to edges and joints with some general smudging. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper and heavy underlining and... Read More
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Sung Porcelain and Stoneware
by Basil Gray
London: Faber and Faber, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. London: Faber and Faber, 1984. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth, grey-green topstain, in green photo-illustrated dust jacket; 205pp.; photographic illus. throughout, some in color. Moderate shelf wear to jacket and board margins, light dust-soil, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Generously-illustrated examination of stoneware from the Chinese... Read More
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Murder in Millennium VI: A Future Mystery
by Curme Gray
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1951. Very Good/Very Good. Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1951. First Edition, stated. Octavo; 249pp. Illustrated black dust jacket with original $3.00 price intact; bound in off-white cloth with reddish-brown lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed along edges with a few very shallow chips and tears at folds and spine ends and toning to verso. Boards are square... Read More
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![The Fidelity of Ministers to Themselves, and to the flock of God, consider'd and enforced. A sermon preach'd at the ordination of Thaddeus Maccarty to the pastoral office over the Church of Christ in Kingston (in the County of Plimouth) Nov. 3. 1742. Published at the desire of the Church there [Half title: Mr. Gray's Sermon at the Ordination of Mr. Maccarty] [Inscribed by Maccarty]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/923/158/1527158923.0.m.jpg)
The Fidelity of Ministers to Themselves, and to the flock of God, consider'd and enforced. A sermon preach'd at the ordination of Thaddeus Maccarty to the pastoral office over the Church of Christ in Kingston (in the County of Plimouth) Nov. 3. 1742. Published at the desire of the Church there [Half title: Mr. Gray's Sermon at the Ordination of Mr. Maccarty] [Inscribed by Maccarty]
by Ellis Gray
Boston: G. Rogers for M. Dennis, 1742. Very Good. Boston: Printed by G. Rogers for M. Dennis near Scarlet's Wharff, 1742. First Edition. Octavo (18cm.); removed, all edges stained blue; 40pp. ([A]4 B-E4, collated and complete with half title); decorative initials, head- and tail-pieces. Brief contemporary manuscript marginalia to half title partly trimmed, occasional contemporary manuscript corrections throughout... Read More
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Bus Ride to Justice: Changing the System by the System [Signed and Inscribed]
by Fred Gray
Montgomery, AL: Black Belt Press, 1995. Very Good +/Very Good +. Montgomery, AL: Black Belt Press, 1995. Stated Second Printing. Octavo (22cm); 400pp. Publisher’s pictorial dust jacket with $25.00 price intact; boards quarter-bound in grey cloth and red wax cloth with white stamping to spine. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Dust jacket bumped at spine ends; otherwise clean. Boards likewise... Read More
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![The Romantic Era: La Calotipia in Italia 1845-1860. Reverendo Calvert Richard Jones 1804-1877, Reverendo George Wilson Bridges 1788-1863, William Robert Baker di Bayfordbury 1810-1896. Il lavoro di tre fotografi inglesi svolto in Italia nel 1846-1860, usando il procedimento per Calotipia [Talbotipia] [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/444/127/1542127444.0.m.jpg)
The Romantic Era: La Calotipia in Italia 1845-1860. Reverendo Calvert Richard Jones 1804-1877, Reverendo George Wilson Bridges 1788-1863, William Robert Baker di Bayfordbury 1810-1896. Il lavoro di tre fotografi inglesi svolto in Italia nel 1846-1860, usando il procedimento per Calotipia [Talbotipia] [Signed]
by Robert E. Lassam; Michael Gray
Firenze: Museo di Storia della Fotografia / Fratelli Alinari, 1988. Very Good +/Very Good. Firenze: Museo di Storia della Fotografia / Fratelli Alinari, 1988. First Edition. Signed by Robert Lassam to photo-historia Larry Schaaf at front free endpaper. Quarto. 96 pp. Photographs throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Maroon boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket worn along edges... Read More
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Les Oeuvres Diverses de M. de G*** [Two Volume Set]
by [Jean-Baptiste Willart de Grecourt]
Amsterdam: Pierre Moriter, 1746. Very Good. Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Mortier, Libraire, sur la Bourse, a l'Envie, 1746. Nouvelle Edition. Four volumes bound in two; 12mos; full contemporary calf, gilt spines in six compartments, all edges red, marbled endpapers; bound without final blank at end of Vol. I, else collated complete; title pages printed in red and black, woodcut... Read More
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Report on Military Telegraph Lines in Porto Rico
by Brig. Gen. A. W. Greely
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1900. Very Good +. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1900. Disbound octavo (22 cm); 100pp. Fold-out map at rear (42cm x 110 cm). Pages lightly toned with cleaner line at gutter edge on title page. Spine shows glue remnants from binding. Edges marbled and lightly nudged and bumped with minor foxing to last... Read More
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Concluding: A Novel
by Henry Green
New York: Viking Press, 1950. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Viking Press, 1950. First American Edition (19cm); publisher's two-toned cloth in blue dust jacket lettered in white retaining original price ($3.00); 254pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, spine panel a bit faded, corners bumped, else Very Good and sound. Novel first published in the U.K. in 1948,... Read More
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This Body the Earth
by Paul Green
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1935. Near Fine/Very Good+. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); viii,422pp. Very light edge wear, dust jacket spine panel toned, brief foxing to cloth margins, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy. Scarce novel of... Read More
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The Highland Call: A Symphonic Play of American History in Two Acts
by Paul Green
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941. Very Good/Very Good. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); xix,[3],280pp.; eight leaves of photographic plates, music in rear. Moderate chipping and wear to jacket margins, contemporary ownership ex libris to front pastedown; Very Good, bright... Read More
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![The Merchant Schooners: A Portrait of a Vanished Industry, Being a Survey in Two Volumes of the History of the Small Fore-and-Aft Rigged Sailing Ships of England and Wales in the Years 1870-1940, With Something of Their Previous History and Subsequent Fate [Two Volumes Complete]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/749/919/1357919749.0.m.jpg)
The Merchant Schooners: A Portrait of a Vanished Industry, Being a Survey in Two Volumes of the History of the Small Fore-and-Aft Rigged Sailing Ships of England and Wales in the Years 1870-1940, With Something of Their Previous History and Subsequent Fate [Two Volumes Complete]
by Basil Greenhill
New York: Augustus M. Kelley, Publishers, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1968. New and Revised Edition. Two octavo volumes. 264 p.; 259 p. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Photographic blue and red dust jackets. Black boards stamped in gilt. Dust jackets are creased and rubbed along edges, more heavily at spine... Read More
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Four Sketchbooks and a Table of Useful Information [Signed by Griffith]
by Bill Griffith; Art Spiegelman; Spain [Rodriguez]; Justin Green
San Francisco: Apex Novelties, 1973. Very Good. San Francisco: Apex Novelties, 1973. First Edition. Signed by Bill Griffith without inscription on first page below printed name. Digest-sized chapbook; [24]pp. Illustrated card covers, saddle-stapled. Covers are clean and crisp with very faint rubbing at corners. Small sticker shadow inside front cover, with a small patch of toning... Read More
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