![The Post Office Cat [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/826/605/1591605826.0.m.jpg)
The Post Office Cat [Inscribed and Signed]
by Gail E. Haley
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1976]. First Edition with full number line. Slim oblong quarto; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($6.95); 30pp.; color illus. throughout. Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page. Lovely children's book based on the true story... Read More
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![Modern Development of the Dry Fly: The New Dry Fly Patterns, The Manipulation of Dressing Them, and Practical Experiences of Their Use [Two volumes signed by Halford]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/559/978/1512978559.0.m.0.jpg)
Modern Development of the Dry Fly: The New Dry Fly Patterns, The Manipulation of Dressing Them, and Practical Experiences of Their Use [Two volumes signed by Halford]
by Frederic M. Halford
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1910. Very Good +. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1910. Edition De Luxe, one of 75 copies signed by Halford at title page of volume I, with an additional 50 copies published in the U.S. Two quarto volumes. Volume I with frontis portrait; 9 color plates of flies; 18 color samples; 16 photogravures.... Read More
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Judge Haliburton's Yankee Stories
by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston / G.B. Zeiber and Co, 1846. Very Good. Philadelphia: Linsday & Blakiston / G.B. Zeiber & Co., 1846. Two volumes in one; 12mo (19cm.); original color lithographic pictorial wrappers rather unfortunately reinforced with 20th century cloth tape and blue celluloid wrappers, typescript spine label; x,[11]-179,[1]; iv,5-192pp.; double frontispiece printed lithograph in blue and black.... Read More
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The Bubbles of Canada
by [Thomas Chandler Haliburton]
London: Richard Bentley, 1839. Very Good. London: Richard Bentley, 1839. First Edition. From the personal library of journalist, White House speechwriter, and language expert William Safire, but with no ownership marks or plates. Octavo; [4], 332 pp. Rebound in red cloth with blue leather spine label with lettering in gold. Small binders label for "J. B.... Read More
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Miscellanies...Viz. I. Advice to a Daughter. II. The Character of a Trimmer. III. The Anatomy of an Equivalent. IV. A Letter to a Dissenter. V. Cautions for Choice of Parliament Men. VI. A Rough Draught of a New Model at Sea. VII. Maxims of State, &c
by Lord Marquis of Halifax
London: W. Rogers / Benj. Tooke / D. Midwinter and T. Leigh, 1704. Very Good -. London: Printed for W. Rogers at the Sun against St. Dunstan's Church; Benj. Tooke at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street; and D. Midwinter and T. Leigh at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1704. Second Edition. Octavo (19cm.); contemporary paneled calf... Read More
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Corpus of Joe Bailey
by Oakley Hall
New York: Viking Press, 1953. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Viking Press, 1953. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket designed by Bill English, front flap clipped though retaining original price ($4.50); [6],479pp. Moderate wear to jacket and cloth extremities including a few tiny closed tears and chips to the former, jacket spine a shade toned,... Read More
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![Social Customs [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/352/688/1357688352.0.m.jpg)
Social Customs [Inscribed]
by Florence Howe Hall
Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1887. Very Good. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, [1887]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's blue decorative gilt-stamped cloth, top edge gilt; x,332pp. Extremities a bit scuffed, shallow loss at spine crown, spine cloth rather darkened, text block a bit soiled, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Inscribed on front free endpaper:... Read More
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Murder is My Business
by Brett Halliday
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1945. Very Good -/Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1945. First Edition with no additional printings listed, second state. Octavo (19.5cm); orange photo-illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; boards in orange cloth with black lettering and red badge logo; [viii],208pp. Jacket edgeworn with a few shallow tears and adjacent... Read More
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Call for Michael Shayne
by Brett Halliday
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1949. Very Good -/Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1949. First Edition. Small octavo (19.3cm); illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; green boards with white lettering and series badge; [viii],230pp. Jacket shows a 4" tear along rear joint fold, with a few more shallow chips and tears along edges,... Read More
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Michael Shayne's Long Chance
by Brett Halliday
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in red pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); [4],218pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few small closed tears with subsequent wrinkling, spine panel significantly sunned, corners tapped; a Very Good copy in a... Read More
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One Night With Nora
by Brett Halliday
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1953. Very Good-/Very Good-. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1953]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); [6],171pp. Moderate wear to board and jacket margins including small gouge to upper panel not touching text or illustration, faint damp stain to jacket spine foot, foxing to... Read More
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The Corpse Came Calling
by Brett Halliday
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1942. Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1942. First Edition. Octavo (19.3cm); publisher's mustard-orange cloth with black lettering and red badge logo; [viii],230pp. Missing dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with rubbing to corners and scattered soiling and smudging to surface; spine a shade darkened and lightly cocked, with nudging at head... Read More
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![Music for a Broken Piano [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/529/655/1699655529.0.m.jpg)
Music for a Broken Piano [Signed]
by James Baker Hall
New York: Fiction Collective, 1982. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Fiction Collective, 1982. First Edition. Signed by Hall with inscription to John, likely the publisher Jonathan Baumbach. Octavo. 164pp. Illustrated dust jacket; gray cloth boards stamped in black. Light edgewear and toning to unclipped dust jacket. Boards tight in binding; dust soiling to top edge, else... Read More
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![The Pawns of Fear [aka No Halo for Me]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/434/912/1600912434.0.m.jpg)
The Pawns of Fear [aka No Halo for Me]
by Jason Manor [pseud. of Oakley Hall]
New York: The Viking Press, 1955. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Viking Press, 1955. First Edition. Octavo; [vi],184pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.75 price intact; publisher's brown cloth with red and black lettering. Red topstain. Jacket is bright and crisp with some rubbing and creasing along edges, scuffs along folds, a few shallow tears and tugging at... Read More
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![[Promotional Card] April Fool's Comedy Dance](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/751/595/1703595751.0.m.jpg)
[Promotional Card] April Fool's Comedy Dance
by [Jazz]; Colored Night Hawks; Sevalen's Hall
Lyons, NY: Sevalen's Hall, 1933. Very Good +. Lyons, NY: Sevalen's Hall, 1933. Broadsheet palm card; printed promotional card (12.8x7.5cm) for an "April Fool's Comedy Dance" in the New York Hamlet, featuring the Colored Night Hawk's [sic] band; advertisements for Lyons Soda Spa to verso. Light rubbing and a couple smudges; Very Good or better. Drummer Boots... Read More
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![The Smiling Phoenix: Souther Humor from 1865-1914 [Inscribed to Worth Bingham]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/169/366/1279366169.0.m.jpg)
The Smiling Phoenix: Souther Humor from 1865-1914 [Inscribed to Worth Bingham]
by Wade Hall
Gainesville, Fla: University of Florida Press, 1965. Very Good/Very Good. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1965. First Edition. Signed by Wade Hall on front free endpaper to newspaper heir and reporter Worth Bingham with inscription, "For Mr. Worth Bingham / With my best wishes / Wade Hall / May, 1966." Quarto. 375 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with... Read More
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![Life and Public Services of Hon. Benjamin Harrison President of the U.S. with a Concise Biographical Sketch of Hon. Whitelaw Reid Ex-Minister to France [Salesman's Dummy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/933/825/1632825933.0.m.jpg)
Life and Public Services of Hon. Benjamin Harrison President of the U.S. with a Concise Biographical Sketch of Hon. Whitelaw Reid Ex-Minister to France [Salesman's Dummy]
by Lew Wallace; Murat Halstead
Edgewood Publishing Co, 1892. Good +. Edgewood Publishing Co., 1892. Salesman's dummy copy. Octavo (20 cm); mixed pagination + 2pp ads + 8 unused order sheets; illus. throughout; 29 plates including frontis. Boards full bound in brown cloth with gilt stamping. Green floral endsheets. Boards generally soiled, damp stained, and rubbed with rubbing, wear, and bumping to spine... Read More
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The Spaces of Reading - Object, Image, Word, Event
by Ann Hamilton
Chicago: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018. Very Good. [Chicago: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.] Folio (40.5cm); publisher's staple bound wrappers; [64]pp.; color photographic illus. throughout. Shallow wear and creasing to wrapper margins, faint ink rubbing to upper cover, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Documentation of a course taught... Read More
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![The Gift [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/133/760/1496760133.0.m.jpg)
The Gift [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Pete Hamill
New York: Random House, 1973. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition, stated. Octavo; publisher's two-toned cloth, red topstain, in decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($4.95); [8],83pp. Minor wear to jacket extremities including tiny closed tear at bottom margin of front panel not approaching text, light wrinkling, corners gently tapped else Near Fine in... Read More
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Hangover Square or the Man With Two Minds: A Story of Darkest Earl's Court in the Year 1939
by Patrick Hamilton
New York: Random House, 1942. Very Good. New York: Random House, 1942. First U.S. Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo. 308 pp. Gray cloth stamped in black and silver. Dark topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with brief exposure and some fraying; spine toned; faint staining along edges. Binding is sound. Toning to pages but pages otherwise... Read More
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![Tabloid City: A Novel [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/138/760/1496760138.0.m.jpg)
Tabloid City: A Novel [Signed]
by Pete Hamill
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011. Near Fine/Fine. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2011. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; [8],278pp. Jacket is clean and crisp; binding is sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the author on title page. The author's final novel, set in his native New... Read More
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![Tokyo Sketches: Short Stories [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/135/760/1496760135.0.m.jpg)
Tokyo Sketches: Short Stories [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Pete Hamill
Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1992. Near Fine/Near Fine. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1992. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Octavo; publisher's textured paper-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; [8],160pp. Textblock a shade toned, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy with publisher's promotional literature still laid in. Bookplate signed by the author also laid in. ... Read More
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Dracula Playbill
by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston [playwrights]; Edward Gorey [illus.]; Bram Stoker [auth.]
New York: Playbill Magazine / American Theater Press, 1977. Very Good. New York: Playbill Magazine / American Theater Press, 1977. First Edition. Staple-bound booklet (23cm); 88 unnumbered pages. Publisher’s Gorey-illustrated wrappers with yellow Playbill header at front panel and color advertisement at rear. Black and white and color photographs and illustrations throughout. Wraps bumped and toned with tears... Read More
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![Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America [Signed by Hamilton]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/251/172/1702172251.0.m.jpg)
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America [Signed by Hamilton]
by Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton
New York: Vintage Books / Random House, 1967. Very Good. New York: Vintage Books / Random House, [1967]. First Vintage Books Edition. 12mo; publisher's white card wrappers printed in black; xii,[4],198pp. Light wear to wrapper margins, textblock quite browned and brittle from inferior paper quality, contemporary ownership signature to title page; overall Very Good and sound. Signed by... Read More
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Hamilton's Mexican Handbook; A Complete Description of the Republic of Mexico..
by Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton
Boston: D. Lothrop & Co, 1883. Very Good. Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., 1883. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; [2],281,xiii,[8]pp.; twelve (12) leaves of plates, mostly views, pictorial ads bound in rear. Minor shelf wear, corners tapped, front hinge starting, contemporary ownership ex libris and pencil inscription to front pastedown and free endpaper, very occasional pencil... Read More
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