Old Chapel and the Parish in Clarke County, Virginia: A History from the Founding of Frederick Parish, 1738 to the Centenary of Christ Church, Millwood, 1932
by CHAMBERS, B. Duvall
Washington DC: [W. F. Roberts Company], 1932. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23.5cm). Red cloth titled in gilt; 290,[2]pp; 12 black and white halftone plates. Ink ownership inscription of Mrs. Alvin S. Thompson to f.f.e.p. A sound copy, spine faded, several small patches of superficial abrasion, rubbed at spine ends, joints, and corners, but internally clean: around Very Good.... Read More
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The Vestry Book and Register of Kingston Parish, Mathews County, Virginia (until May 1, 1791, Gloucester County) 1679-1796
by CHAMBERLAYNE, Churchill Gibson
Richmond: Privately Printed, 1929. First, Limited Edition. No. 392 of 500 hand-numbered numbered copies, signed by the editor at limitation statement. Octavo (24cm); textured brown cloth-covered boards with printed paper spine label; Octavo (24cm); textured brown cloth-covered boards with printed paper spine label; 161pp. Spine label very mildly tanned, else a very clean, unmarked copy, Near Fine. [55991]. ... Read More
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The Vestry Book and Register of Christ Church Parish, Middlesex County, Virginia, 1663-1767
by CHAMBERLAYNE, Churchill Gibson
Richmond: Old Dominion Press, 1927. First, Limited Edition. No. 3 of 500 hand-numbered numbered copies, signed by the editor at limitation statement. Octavo (24cm); textured brown cloth-covered boards with printed paper spine label; 378pp. Spine label rubbed and tanned, mild external wear; a tight, Very Good or better copy.
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The Vestry Book and Register of Bristol Parish, Virginia 1720-1789
by CHAMBERLAYNE, Churchill Gibson
Richmond: Privately Printed, 1898. First, Limited Edition. No. 11 of 500 hand-numbered numbered copies, initialed by the editor at limitation statement. Octavo (24cm); textured brown cloth-covered boards with printed paper spine label; vii,[1]-419pp. Includes list of subscribers. Tight, straight copy with some mild external rubbing and soil, spine label darkened and slightly chipped; Very Good. Text unopened. [56261]. ... Read More
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Piparsod, Un Village Indien
by [CHAMBARD, Jean-Luc]
Paris: Collection Regards Croisés / Ministère des relations extériures-Bureau d'animation culturelle, 1984. First Edition. Quarto (29.5cm x 21cm). White wrappers (softcover) with titling in black on cover; 80pp; photo illus. Near Fine copy; slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and tight. A 'film-book' documenting a film experiment of three films about Piparsod, a village in Madhya Pradesh, India... Read More
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Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature. A history, critical and biographical, of British authors from the earliest to the present times. In two volumes
by CHAMBERS, Robert [Robert Carruthers, ed]
London & Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers, N.d. [1858]. Second edition (revised). Two quarto volumes (26cm). Publisher's embossed cloth, titled in gilt, with gilt center medallion to each front board; xx,812; xv,816pp; illus. A straight, clean and well-preserved set, slightly foxed on text block edges and prelims, faint and scattered foxing to text; solidly Very Good. With the engraved... Read More
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Love and the Lieutenant
by CHAMBERS, Robert W.
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20cm); red cloth covered boards titled in gilt on the cover and spine; wrap-around pictorial dustjacket by Norman Price; 402pp.; spine ends gently pushed; faint dust to upper textblock; corners light light rubbed; Very Good+. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50) with chipping and short tears to the... Read More
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Secret Service Operator 13
by CHAMBERS, Robert W.
New York: Appleton-Century Cp, 1934. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; red cloth hardcover in dustjacket; 401pp. Faint wear and soil, with some bruises to board edges, still Very Good in the attractive and uncommon pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 at base of front flap), but with old kraft-paper reinforcements to verso, thus just Good, though the book presents well.... Read More
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The Coast of Intrigue
by CHAMBERS, Whitman
Cleveland: World Syndicate Publishing Company, [1928]. Octavo (19.5cm.); original blue cloth in bright pink pictorial dust jacket; 312pp. General wear to jacket extremities, including a few tiny chips and tears, spine sunned to white, some foxing to rear panel flap fold, textblock uniformly toned due to poor paper stock, else Very Good and sound. Reprint edition of this mystery... Read More
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Nouvelles Études sur les La Vérendrye et le Poste de L'Ouest
by CHAMPAGNE, Antoine
Québec: Les Presses de L'Université Laval, 1971. First Edition. Octavo. Printed card wrappers; 260pp. Mild external wear; internally clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good. Text in French.
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Text-Book of Intellectual Philosophy, for Schools and Colleges; containing an outline of the science, with an abstract of its history
by CHAMPLIN, J.T.
New York: American Book Company, [ca 1874]. New Edition, Remodeled." Octavo (20cm). Publisher's brown blind-stamped boards, lettered in gilt on spine; i-x, 11-314pp. Contemporary ownership stencil to endpapers; mild external wear; Very Good. Uncommon in commerce.
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TONGUE TO BOOT 2
by Champion, Miles (ed.); Rae Armantrout, et al.
London, Winter 1995. First Edition. One of 120 copies. 8.25" x 11.75"; In stapled yellow covers. Unpaginated (76 pp.). Contributions from Rae Armantrout, Kit Robinson, artist Susan Bee, among others. Scuffs to covers, corners bumped. Clean interior.
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Killer In The Rain
by CHANDLER, Raymond
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; blue cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 394pp. A few faint spots to top edge and front endpaper, else a tight, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.50), edgeworn, with a few closed tears and some foxing to verso; Very Good+.... Read More
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Chandler Before Marlowe: Raymond Chandler's Early Prose and Poetry, 1908-1912
by CHANDLER, Raymond (Matthew Bruccoli, ed)
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, [1973]. First, Limited Edition. Number 458 of 499 hand-numbered copies. Octavo (22cm); leather-backed boards in matching red leatherette slipcase and unprinted clear mylar jacket; 105pp. Fine in Near Fine slipcase.
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Playback
by CHANDLER, Raymond
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. First Edition. First impression. [precedes US Edition] Octavo (19cm.); red boards with silver stamped on spine; dustjacket; 208pp.; Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 12s. 6d.net); light edgewear; nicks along extremities, mostly at spine ends and flaps; tape repair to verso. Very Good+. Last Marlowe book before Chandler's death.
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![Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler [Uncorrected Proof copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/795/866/1673866795.0.m.jpg)
Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler [Uncorrected Proof copy]
by CHANDLER, Raymond (letters); Frank MacShane (editor)
New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. Uncorrected Proof copy, with publisher's promotional T.L.s. laid in, softcover. Octavo (22.5cm); blue paper wrappers; 483pp. Sunning to spine and cover edges, with light shelf-wear; Very Good. "These letters to correspondents all over the world--publishers, editors, other writers, fans of his work--are alive with Chandler's characteristic wit, skill and range of... Read More
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Five Sinister Characters
by CHANDLER, Raymond
New York: Avon Book Company, 1945. First Edition. First Printing. Digest-sized octavo (19.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers; 168pp. Modest external wear, spine gently sunned and a little rolled, with mild tanning to text, and a few faint creases to wrappers; Very Good. Digest collecting five short stories previously published in the pulp magazines: "Trouble Is My Business," "Pearls Are... Read More
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Pearls Are A Nuisance
by CHANDLER, Raymond
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (18.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [6],7-190,[2]pp. Modest wear and handling, some creasing to wrappers, with a few touch-ups in black on front wrapper extremities; contents clean; Very Good. Contains an introduction by Chandler, along with three short stories and an essay: "Pearls Are A Nuisance," "Finger Man," "The King In... Read More
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The Little Sister
by CHANDLER, Raymond
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First American Edition. First Printing, one of 12,500 copies. Octavo (21.5cm); first binding in red-orange cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],249,[1]pp. Hint of a lean, gentle sunning to spine ends, with some faint staining to lower margins ot pp.98-99; Very Good+ or better. Dustjacket is... Read More
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![Letters: Raymond Chandler and James M. Fox [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/585/149/1407149585.0.m.jpg)
Letters: Raymond Chandler and James M. Fox [Limited Edition, Signed]
by CHANDLER, Raymond and James M. Fox (letters); PEPPER, James (editor)
Santa Barbara: Neville + Yellin, 1978. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 350 numbered copies signed by Fox. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth, with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in silver on spine and front cover; x,66,[4]pp. Pinpoint wear to extremities, else Fine. A collection of correspondence between Raymond Chandler and James M. Fox, written between 1950-1956, which "provides... Read More
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The Big Sleep
by CHANDLER, Raymond
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First Edition. First Printing, one of 5,000 copies. Octavo (19cm); orange cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in blue on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-277,[3]pp. Light wear to joints and extremities, some rubbing to topstain, offsetting to endpapers, with rough erasure to an old inscription on front endpaper, and old... Read More
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![Song of Blue Moccasin [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/094/957/1276957094.0.m.jpg)
Song of Blue Moccasin [Signed]
by CHANDLER, Roy F.
Orwigsburg, PA: Bacon & Freeman, Publishers, 1989. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); black boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 226pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. A Fine, unread copy. Number 24 in Chandler's long-running Perry County series.
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![Tiff's Game: A Work of Fiction [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/992/956/1276956992.0.m.jpg)
Tiff's Game: A Work of Fiction [Signed]
by CHANDLER, Roy F.
Orwigsburg, PA: Bacon & Freeman, Publishers, 1991. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); black boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; [iv],247,[5]pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. A Fine, unread copy. Number 26 in Chandler's long-running Perry County series.
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![Chugger's Hunt: A Novel of Alaskan Adventure [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/878/100/1186100878.0.m.jpg)
Chugger's Hunt: A Novel of Alaskan Adventure [Signed]
by CHANDLER, Roy F.
Orwigsburg, PA: Bacon and Freeman Publishers, 1990. First Edition. One of 800 copies. Octavo; black boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 201pp. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. A Fine copy.
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![Shatto's Way. A Novel of Perry County, Pa. [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/888/112/1573112888.0.m.jpg)
Shatto's Way. A Novel of Perry County, Pa. [Signed]
by CHANDLER, Roy F.
Deer Lake: Bacon & Freeman Publishers, 1983. First, Limited Edition. Octavo; black boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 338,[1]pp. Hand-numbered on limitation page, no. 628 of 1000 copies, and signed by the author on the front endpaper. Prospectus laid in. Slight dusting to text block edges, else a fine, new-appearing copy. The 15th title... Read More
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