It Walks By Night
by CARR, John Dickson
London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1936. First "Half Crown Books" printing. Octavo; red cloth hardcover; 319pp. Mild aging to text; light wear to cloth at spine ends; Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. First British "cheap" edition of Carr's first mystery novel, originally published in 1930.
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Most Secret
by CARR, John Dickson
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1964. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19cm). Purple paper over boards, titled in silver, in purple pictorial dust jacket; plain endpapers; 283pp; publisher's ads to jacket rear and rear flap. Sound and tight, gently rubbed, corners bumped, dust to edges of text block, not affecting interior, but front pastedown scuffed: Good or better. Jacket unclipped (priced... Read More
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Murder in the Dispensary
by CARR, Jolyon (pseud. of Edith Pargeter)
Hassocks, Sussex: Post Mortem Books / Ralph Spurrier, Publisher, 1999. Limited Edition. One of 350 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the publisher, this being copy no.14. Octavo (22.5cm); royal blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-311,[5]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. Reissue... Read More
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POETRY 1967
by Carroll, James
N.p.: N.p., circa 1967. First Edition. [43 pp.] Poetry chapbook, stapled printed wrappers. An interesting book, no place, publisher or edition given, the date is part of the title, the style circa 1967. Poems many about God, and presumably an early if not first book by the priest, novelist and columnist. Usually his first is considered TENDER OF WISHES... Read More
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General Custer and the Battle of the Washita: the Federal View
by CARROLL, John M. (ed); Georg W. Schneider-Wettengel, introd
Bryan, TX: Guidon Press, 1978. First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 255pp. Fine in lightly worn, Near Fine dustwrapper. Compilation of official documents, including Reports of the Secretary of War and other House and Senate docs pertaining to Custer's engagement at the Battle of the Washita River, aka The Washita Massacre (1868).
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Sleeping in Flame
by CARROLL, Jonathan
New York, 1989. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); gray cloth spine over paper-covered boards, with titling in metallic light green; dustjacket; [xiv],[1],2-273,[1]pp; illus. Near Fine, in the original dustjacket, unclipped (priced $17.95) with faint vertical crease on front flap and very mild toning to extremities; Near Fine. The award-winning fantasy author's second novel in The "Answered Prayers"... Read More
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Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
by CARROLL, Lewis [pseud. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]; John Tenniel, [illus.]
New York: Macmillan, 1872. First American Edition. First printing, with the misprint "wade" for "wabe," p.21. Rebound in brown cloth, titled in gold on spine; salmon endpapers; [xiv], 224pp; with fifty wood engravings by John Tenniel. A straight and sound copy, rebound, with minor edge wear, discoloration to fore-edge of front board, and small perforations to rear upper joint;... Read More
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The Lewis Carroll Picture Book: A Selection from the Unpublished Writings and Drawings of Lewis Carroll, Together with Reprints from Scarce and Unacknowledged Work
by CARROLL, Lewis; COLLINGWOOD, Stuart Dodgson (editor)
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1899. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo; crimson cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; top edge gilt; 375pp, [1]; illus. Contemporary owner's name to front endpaper, spine ends gently nudged, with lower rear corner gently tapped and light rubbing to joints and extremities; hinges perfectly sound; bright, Very... Read More
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Phantasmagoria And Other Poems
by CARROLL, Lewis [pseud. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]
London: Macmillan, 1869. First Edition. First Impression. First issue [No mention of Alice on title page; error (p.78 for p.87) present on contents page]. Octavo (17.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; device of the Crab Nebula in gold in the center of front board, Donati's comet with stars in gold on rear board; brown coated... Read More
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Les Grands-Péres Prodiges
by CARROUGES, Michel (pseud. of Louis Joseph Couturier)
[Paris]: Plon, 1957. Octavo (19.5cm); cloth-covered stiff paper boards with titling stamped in black and orange on spine and front cover; photographic endpapers; dustjacket; 310pp. Text in French. Light tanning to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, spine-faded, lightly tanned, with light soil and rubbing, and tiny tears and creases to extremities; Very Good. The French poet's science-fiction... Read More
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Irish Stories and Plays
by CARROLL, Paul Vincent
New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1958. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); one quarter white cloth, with black cloth sides, green titles on spine; orange and green dustwrapper; 3-278pp. Dustwrapper sunned, especially along spine; extremities chipped, with small tears and areas of minor material loss; shelf wear and soiling. Textblock edges foxed, preliminaries toned; publisher's comment card laid-in. Very Good in... Read More
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ODES
by Carroll, Paul
Chicago: Big Table, 1969. First edition. A Review copy with slip laid in of the poet's first collection. Long foldout poem "Ode to Severn Darden" intact. Trifle dusty, otherwise fine in like complete dust jacket. An unused copy of the uncommon hardcover issue. Carroll is probably best known for his co-editing the Chicago Review issue and subsequently founding BIG... Read More
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JOURNEY TO A KNOWN PLACE
by Carruth, Hayden
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1961. First edition. Cloth-backed gray boards; small 4to. 29 pp. One of 300 copies printed on Hayle paper by Harry Duncan and Kim Merker at Iowa City. With enclosed letter TLs on Carruth's Vermont Crow's Mark Press stationary dated 1968, answering a librarian's question re: another book as well as this volume which they are... Read More
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SCRAMBLED EGGS & WHISKEY: Poems 1991 - 1995
by Carruth, Hayden
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1996. First Edition. Uncorrected proof in yellow-gold printed wrappers. 102 pp. Publisher material laid in. This volume won the National Book Award. Near fine in wraps.
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THE BLOOMINGDALE PAPERS
by Carruth, Hayden
Athens: The Univ. of Georgia Press, 1975. First edition. Octavo; cloth; dustjacket; 77pp. There is a black mark (remainder?) on the top edge. The top edge has been thumbed a few too many times and the head of the spine has worn through to the board; the rest of the cloth shows very little wear. Dustwrapper has wear at... Read More
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RELUCTANTLY
by Carruth, Hayden
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1998. First edition. Uncorrected proof in red wrappers; two pages of pub material and review slip laid in. Light crease to back cover, otherwise about fine.
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WORKING PAPERS: Selected Essays and Reviews by Hayden Carruth
by Carruth, Hayden; Weissman, Judith (editor)
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1982. First edition. Cloth in dust jacket; large 8vo. Signed by the author on the title page. Sticker stain on front of jacket does not distract from nice copy, tight and complete. Nar fine in a near fine dust jacket. Scarce signed.
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DARK WORLD
by Carruth, Hayden
Santa Cruz: Kayak, 1974. First Edition. Stapled blue printed wrappers; 8vo. 40 pp. Inscribed briefly and signed "Hayden". Spine sunned, else fine.
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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
by Carruth, Hayden
New York: Harper & Row, 1982. First edition. An uncorrected proof with publisher material laid in. Light browning else fine in wraps.
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FOR YOU
by Carruth, Hayden
New York: New Directions, 1970. First edition. Cloth-backed patterned boards in dust jacket; 8vo. An important collection of five long poems including "The Asylum" and "North Winter". Printed simultaneously in Hard and soft covers. This hardcover in near fine condition in a fine dustjacket with a photo of the author on the back.
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BLEB ELEVEN
by Carruth, Hayden; Cid Corman et al.
New York: Haymarket Press, 1976. First Edition. Stapled wrappers; small 8vo. 50 pp. Poems by Corman, Carruth, Steve Richmond, David Ray, Stephen Kessler, Edouard Roditi and others. Spine soiled, but very good.
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DOCTOR JAZZ
by Carruth, Hayden
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2001. First edition. Uncorrected proof in illustrated wrappers. Short tear and resulting crease on the front cover, otherwise fine. With printed publicity sheet laid in.
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NORTH WINTER
by Carruth, Hayden
Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1964. First edition. Stapled signatures: an unbound advanced copy intended for submission to a book award, with attached note: "This book will be published in November, 1964. Since no bound copies are available to meet the November 1 deadline, this unbound copy is submitted." Two small chips, one on each side, and edges browned,... Read More
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NOTHING FOR TIGERS [Inscribed]
by Carruth, Hayden
New York: Macmillan, 1965. First edition. Octavo; blue cloth; dustjacket; 84pp. Inscribed "For Phyllis, best wishes (and signed) from Hayden" and dated in 1984. Some edgewear to binding. Dustwrapper clean and bright, with a only few tiny spots of wear at bottom corners. (As with all copies we have seen the corner - not price - is clipped.). ... Read More
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THE MYTHOLOGY OF DARK AND LIGHT [Signed]
by Carruth, Hayden
Syracuse: Tamarack Editions, 1982. First edition. Number 49 of 50 numbered copies signed by Carrot and Wand. No dustjacket as issued. A handsome production letterpress printed on Rives paper and bound in 1/4 cloth and (stunning) marbled boards, with original linoleum block prints by Alice Wand (who also made the paper used for the covers). Light wear to edges... Read More
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