The Weapon Makers
by van Vogt, A.E.
Providence: Hadley Publishing Company, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. About Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.00), lightly rubbed, faded a shade at the spine. Maroon boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's stamp inside the front board and on the front endpapers, clean otherwise. van Vogt's continuation of The Weapon... Read More
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Empire of the Atom
by van Vogt, A.E.
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1956. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, generally rubbed and soiled, some loss to the head and foot of the spine. Grey boards, rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners, some stains and foxing throughout. Square and firmly bound with a green top stain, clean internally. Van Vogt's... Read More
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Masters of Time
by van Vogt, A.E.
Reading: Fantasy Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.00), lightly rubbed at the back panel. Red cloth, bumped at the top corners, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Van Vogt's time travel novel about Dr. Lell and the titular Masters of Time... Read More
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The War of the End of the World
by Vargas Llosa, Mario
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Translated by Helen R. Lane. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($18.95), faded at the spine. Black cloth with yellow paper-covered boards. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges. Vargas Llosa's take on the backland uprisings in Brazil. Considered by many... Read More
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Fairy Song: A Gallery of Fairies, Sprites, and Nymphs
by Various
Columbus: SQP Inc, 2006. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps curled and bumped at the fore-edge. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first volume in the Fairy Song series, a collection of erotic drawings of fairies, sprites, and nymphs.
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Collection of 93 UFO Magazines UFO Universe, Far Out, ReVision, California UFO
by Various
Various: Various, 1990. Staplebound. Very Good. 59 UFO Magazine, 19 UFO Universe, 6 Far Out, 2 ReVision, and 7 California UFO; some duplicate copies. Good to Fine, generally Very Good with moderate handling wear, the most worn with some creases and rippling to the covers. A nice selection of magazines covering UFOs and related topics during the 1980s... Read More
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What She Wants Premiere Issue; For, by and about Women
by Various
Cleveland: She, 1973. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Good. Paper toned, some chips along the spine fold, pages curled at the bottom-right corner. The first issue of this feminist newspaper with a staff of entirely women. This issue features articles about NOW, recent films like Jaws and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, music from women like Joni Mitchell... Read More
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Steel Beach
by Varley, John
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Signed by Pohl. Introduction by James Gunn. Illustrations by Cameron Hamilton. Near Fine. Grey leather with gilt lettering and designs on the boards. Square and firmly bound with gilt edges, a scuff at the bottom edge, and a sewn-in bookmark, with the unusued and laid-in bookplate and original receipt.... Read More
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Hollywood's Dirtiest Secret; The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies
by Vaughan, Hunter
New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Clean wraps except for the barcode crossed off with a marker. Square and firmly bound, one stain on the title page, clean otherwise. A history of film from an environmental perspective.
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
by Veblen, Thorstein
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1994. Hardcover. Near Fine. Introduction by John Kenneth Galbraith. Near Fine. Green leather, scuffed at the raised bands on the spine, with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound with gilt edges and a sewn-in bookmark, with the unused and laid-in bookplate and original receipt, clean internally.
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Within the Law
by Veiller, Bayard; Dana, Marvin
New York: The H.K. Fly Company, 1913. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illustrated by W.C. Cooke. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($1.25 net on the spine), rubbed at the edges, creased through the spine, lightly soiled throughout. Red cloth, faintly pushed at the head and foot of the spine, with gilt lettering and... Read More
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Scientific Approach and First Results of Studies into Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena in France
by Velasco, J[ean].J[acques]
Los Angeles: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Signed by Velasco on the title page. [i-ii], 2-38. About Good. Pages with some stains, tears, and creases. Firmly bound with one staple. Velasco's paper that outlines Gepan's operating philosophy in terms of dealing with unidentified phenomena in a technical and scientific manner. Only one... Read More
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Little Novels of Sicily
by Verga, Giovanni
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Translated by D.H. Lawrence. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), generally toned and soiled, bumped and with shallow chips at the edges. Quarter brown cloth with grey paper on the boards, soiled and bumped. Square and firmly bound, some stains at the edges... Read More
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Mastro-Don Gesualdo
by Verga, Giovanni
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Translated and with an Introduction by Giovanni Cecchetti. Inscribed by Cecchetti on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), faintly rubbed. Red cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges, clean internally. A... Read More
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The Mysterious Island; Containing "Dropped from the Clouds," "Abandoned," "The Secret of the Island
by Verne, Jules
New York: R. Worthington, 1882. Hardcover. Very Good. Profusely illustrated. Good. Red publisher's binding, front board bent up at the top-right corner, generally rubbed. Square and firmly bound, personal library card inside the front board, stamp on the front endpaper, clean otherwise.
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Round the Moon; A Sequel to From the Earth to the Moon
by Verne, Jules
London: Richard Butterworth and Co, [n.d.]. Hardcover. Good. Good. Green cloth, rubbed, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with repaired hinges, front endpaper reattached but brittle.
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The Mysterious Document
by Verne, Jules
London: Richard Butterworth and Co, [n.d.]. Hardcover. Good. Good. Olive cloth with black ink lettering and green and orange ink designs on the spine and front board. Square, bound with some reading wear, lacking the front endpaper, hinges repaired.
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Wonderreizen Wonderlijke Avonturen van Een Chinees Gevolgd Door Muiterij aan boord de "Bounty
by Verne, Jules
Rotterdam: Jacs. G. Robbers, [n.d.]. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good. Blue publisher's binding, bumped at the corners, rubbed at the surface and edges, with gilt lettering and black ink designs on the spine and front board. Square, bound with some reading wear, front endpaper missing the right half, clean otherwise. Seemingly a Dutch translation of the "Extraordinary Voyages"... Read More
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From the Earth to the Moon and A Trip Around It
by Verne, Jules
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Robert Shore. Early Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, lightly rubbed and with a few creases at the corners. Green boards, lightly rubbed at the bottom edge, blue ink lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a forward lean, clean internally. Verne's works that anticipate the space... Read More
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Michael Strogoff, or The Courier of the Czar
by Verne, Jules
New York: A.L. Burt, Publisher, [n.d.]. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good. Green cloth, lightly worn at the edges, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square, mostly firmly bound but with a loose front hinge, gilt top edge, inscription on the front endpaper, clean otherwise.
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Meridiana: The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa
by Verne, Jules
New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co, 1874. Hardcover. Very Good. Translated from the French with numerous illustrations. Good. Green publisher's binding, generally bumped and rubbed, a few spots to the boards. Square, bound with some reading wear, soiled at the edges and margins. Part of Verne's series of Voyages Extraordinaires.
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Intercept But Don't Shoot: The True Story of the Flying Saucers
by Vesco, Renato
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Translated by D.D. Paige. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($8.50), bumped at the edges, a few spots of soiling. Green cloth with dulled gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, inscription on the half-title, clean otherwise. Vesco's examination of government documents... Read More
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Lincoln
by Vidal, Gore
New York: Random House, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Vidal on the half-title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($19.95). Brown cloth with gilt and bronze lettering and rules on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Vidal's historical novel of Lincoln's presidency, part of his Narratives of Empire series. ... Read More
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Burr; A Novel
by Vidal, Gore
New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Vidal on the title page. About Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped. Brown cloth, a few scratches, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a red topstain, clean internally. Vidal's National Book Award-nominated novel-as-memoir about Burr and "the... Read More
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Love, Anger, Madness
by Vieux-Chauvet, Marie
New York: Modern Library, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Translated by Rose-Myriam Rejouis. Introduction by Edwidge Danticat. Very Good in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($27.00), faintly rubbed. Quarter grey cloth with beige paper on the boards. Firmly bound with a backward spine lean, clean internally. The first English translation of Vieux-Chauvet's trilogy, "a scathing resonse to the... Read More
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