Service Record of an Artilleryman
by L.V. Jacks
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. 303 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in red. Dust jacket heavily chipped along edges and folds with loss to top of spine and top edge of rear panel. Boards shelfworn and bumped with general scuffing and tear... Read More
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![The Diehard [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/165/170/1655170165.0.m.jpg)
The Diehard [Signed]
by Jon A. Jackson
New York: Random House, 1977. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Random House, 1977. First Edition. Octavo (22 cm); 217pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($6.95). Boards quarter bound in black and khaki paper with blind and silver stamping. Jacket toned with bumping, rubbing, and minor creasing at margins as well as minor scuffing and... Read More
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Collection of Five Stereoviews by W.H. Jackson & Co., Photographers
by W.H. [William Henry] Jackson
Denver, CO: W.H. Jackson & Co, 1880. Very Good. Denver, CO: W.H. Jackson & Co., n.d., ca. 1880s. Collection of five albumen photograph stereoviews taken by the Denver-based photography studio of William Henry Jackson (1843-1942). Light wear and soil to margins, though images are both of excellent quality and in excellent condition. Collection of photographs taken... Read More
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A Treatise on the Fevers of Jamaica, With Some Observations on the Intermitting Fever of America
by Robert Jackson
Philadelphia: Robert Campbell, 1795. Very Good. Philadelphia: Robert Campbell, 1795. First American Edition. 12mo; full modern blind-paneled calf, red gilt spine label, new endpapers; xi,[1],276,19,[5]pp. (collated complete, retaining half title page and four pages of publisher's ads). Textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good, sound copy in sturdy new binding. First work published by the young... Read More
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
New York: The Viking Press, 1962. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First Edition. Octavo. 214 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with "$3.95" price present. Purple and cream boards; red topstain. Dust jacket rubbed and toned along edges with a few minor nicks; chip to front spine fold; mild rubbing to rear. Boards lightly rubbed at... Read More
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![James Watt [Inscribed by the Author]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/724/032/1722032724.0.m.jpg)
James Watt [Inscribed by the Author]
by William Jacks
Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1901. Very Good. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1901. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm); publisher's maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xii,[4],215pp.; frontispiece, eight leaves of plates. Moderate shelf wear, spine a bit cocked and cloth a shade sunned, endpapers toned; Very Good and sound overall. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper, "Prof. J.D.... Read More
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![The Houses of Iszm [Limited Edition Presentation Copy, Signed by Jack Vance]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/038/880/1483880038.0.m.jpg)
The Houses of Iszm [Limited Edition Presentation Copy, Signed by Jack Vance]
by Jack Vance; Chris Miller [illus.]
San Francisco, CA / Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1983. Near Fine/Near Fine. San Francisco, CA / Columbia, PA: Underwood-Miller, 1983. Limited Edition of 220 copies signed by Vance, this being one of 20 stamped "Presentation Copy". Octavo. 127 pp. Frontispiece by Miller. Illustrated dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket gently rubbed along edges with... Read More
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Green Magic: The Fantasy Realms of Jack Vance
by Jack Vance; George Barr [illus.]; C.L. Healy [illus.]
San Francisco, CA / Columbia, PA: Underwood / Miller, 1979. Very Good +/Very Good. San Francisco, CA / Columbia, PA: Underwood / Miller, 1979. First Edition. Tall octavo. 274 pp. Color frontis by Barr; black and white illustration by Healy. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in green. Unclipped dust jacket lightly worn and toned along edges... Read More
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![Spider Island: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Four [Limited Edition, Signed by Williamson]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/766/591/1490591766.0.m.jpg)
Spider Island: The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume Four [Limited Edition, Signed by Williamson]
by Jack Williamson; Edward Bryant [fwd.]
Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2002. Very Good +/Very Good +. Royal Oak, MI: Haffner Press, 2002. Limited Edition of 100 copies signed by Jack Williamson, this being #79. Large octavo. 589 pp. Photographic frontispiece. Illustrated dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Dust jacket gently rubbed along edges. Boards... Read More
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![Introduction to Field Artillery Ordnance 1861-1865 [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/908/415/1548415908.0.m.jpg)
Introduction to Field Artillery Ordnance 1861-1865 [Limited Edition, Signed]
by Jack W. Melton, Jr.; Lawrence E. Pawl
Kennesaw, GA: Kennesaw Mountain Press, 1994. Near Fine. Kennesaw, GA: Kennesaw Mountain Press, 1994. Limited Edition of 250 copies, this being #219. Signed by Lawrence Pawl "All the best" but without personalization at front free endpaper. Quarto. 280 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Black leatherette boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. ... Read More
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Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra; With an Appendix Containing Vieta's "Introduction to the Analytical Art
by Jacob Klein and Francois Viete; Eva Brann and J. Winfree Smith [trans.]
Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1968. Very Good -. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1968. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's red cloth, black spine titling; xv,[1],360pp. Minor shelf wear, spine rather sunned, extensive marginalia and underlining to early leaves, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper. A Very Good reading copy overall.
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![The Complete Jacob Lawrence (2 Vols) - Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence [with] Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999), A Catalogue Raisonne [Signed Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/542/637/1697637542.0.m.jpg)
The Complete Jacob Lawrence (2 Vols) - Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence [with] Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999), A Catalogue Raisonne [Signed Limited Edition]
by Jacob Lawrence; Peter Nesbett & Michelle DuBois [eds.]
Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2000. Very Good +/Very Good +. Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, 2000. Limited Edition of 250 signed copies, this being number 203. Two quarto volumes (30cm); illustrated dust jackets over red and blue cloth boards with black lettering; 285pp, 343pp; color illus. throughout; housed in publisher's slipcase. Jackets are... Read More
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![The [Motorcycle] Art of Scott Jacobs [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/760/382/1722382760.0.m.jpg)
The [Motorcycle] Art of Scott Jacobs [Inscribed and Signed]
by Scott Jacobs
Allenwood, NJ: Airbrush Action, 2001. Very Good/Very Good. [Allenwood, NJ: Airbrush Action, 2001.] First Edition. Quarto (31cm); publisher's boards in unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; 119pp.; full color photographic illus. throughout. Dust jacket and board margins rubbed and a bit wrinkled, corners and spine ends bumped, old price sticker to rear jacket panel; overall About Very Good, internally clean... Read More
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![Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International [Signed by Derrida]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/014/314/1717314014.0.m.jpg)
Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International [Signed by Derrida]
by Jacques Derrida; Peggy Kamuf [trans.]; Bernd Magnus and Stephen Cullenberg [intro.]
New York: Routledge, 2004. Very Good. New York: Routledge, 2004. Reprint. Signed by Jacques Derrida with brief inscription at half title. Octavo; 198pp. Paperback. Wear and smudging to wraps; curling to corners; binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy.
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Tovarich
by Jacques Deval; Robert E. Sherwood [adapt.]
New York: Random House, 1937. Very Good +/Good. New York: Random House, 1937. First US Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 159pp. Boards in black cloth with gilt stamping to spine wrapped in gilt price-clipped jacket. Jacket overall scuffed, rubbed, bumped and creased with minor closed tears to margins and minor loss to head of spine. Tape repair to back... Read More
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The Conditions of Freedom: Essays in Political Philosophy
by Harry V. Jaffa
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. Very Good +/Very Good +. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. 280 pp. Printed dust jacket. Light green cloth with spine lettered in purple. Dust jacket toned along spine with rubbing to edges. Boards show mild shelfwear; binding sound; off-setting to endpapers, else unmarked; Very Good or... Read More
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![Scars Make Your Body More Interesting [Signed Lettered Edition w/ drawing]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/198/565/1699565198.0.m.jpg)
Scars Make Your Body More Interesting [Signed Lettered Edition w/ drawing]
by Sherril Jaffe
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. Very Good/Very Good. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. Deluxe Limited Edition of 26 lettered copies with an original drawing tipped-in, of which this is letter I. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's acetate jacket over printed paper-covered boards; 179pp. Acetate jacket crisp with a bit of dust-soiling. Boards sturdy and square. Binding sound and... Read More
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Grand Master of Adventure: The Drawings of J. Allen St. John
by J. Allen St. John [illus.]; J. David Spurlock [ed.]
Somerset, NJ: Vanguard Productions, 2005. Near Fine/Near Fine. Somerset, NJ: Vanguard Productions, 2005. Deluxe, Slipcased, Hardcover Limited Edition of 500 copies. Quarto. 176 pp. + 16 pp. "Collector's Edition Portfolio." Black and white illustrations throughout, with the added illustrations in the portfolio unique to this edition. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Publisher's black slipcase lettered... Read More
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![The Best American Essays 1995 [Signed by Kincaid]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/384/732/1699732384.0.m.jpg)
The Best American Essays 1995 [Signed by Kincaid]
by Jamaica Kincaid [ed.]; Robert Atwan [series ed.]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995. Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Octavo (21cm); publisher's card wrappers; xv,[3],263pp. Wrapper margins a bit worn and dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Signed by Kincaid on title page.
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![Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend [Two Typed Letters Signed laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/345/936/1522936345.0.m.jpg)
Stonewall Jackson: The Man, The Soldier, The Legend [Two Typed Letters Signed laid in]
by James I. Robertson, Jr.
New York: Macmillan Publishing USA / Simon & Schuster Macmillan / Prentice Hall International, 1997. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Macmillan Publishing USA / Simon & Schuster Macmillan / Prentice Hall International, 1997. Fourth Printing. Large octavo. 950 pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Beige and black boards with spine lettered in gilt. Two... Read More
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
by James Agee; Walker Evans [photo.]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. First Edition. Octavo. 471pp. 31 black and white photographs bound at front of volume. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $3.50 price present. Black cloth stamped in silver. Dust jacket chipped and worn along edges with extensive neat but amateur tape mending to verso; old dampstaining to spine;... Read More
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families
by James Agee; Walker Evans [photo.]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. First Edition. Octavo. 471 pp. 31 black and white photographs bound at front of volume. Black cloth stamped in silver. Lacks dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with brief exposure and minor fraying to extremities and joints; additional small nick to front board with a small... Read More
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
by James Boswell; Roger Ingpen [ed.]
New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1909. Very Good. New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1909. New Edition. Two volumes; quarto (25.5cm.); publisher's half linen over blue paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilt; xxxii,576; xv,[1],[577]-1172pp.; photogravure frontispieces and ten leaves of plates (tissue guards), additional illus. throughout text, many full-paged. General shelf wear, spines both rather toned,... Read More
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnsoniana (Five Volumes)
by James Boswell; Hester Thrale Piozzi; Richard Cumberland; Thomas Percy; Thomas Campbell; Joshua Reynolds; Fanny Burney [as Mme d'Arblay]; Alexander Napier [ed.]; Robina Napier [ed.]
London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. Very Good. London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. First Edition Thus. Octavo; Vol I lv + 583pp; Vol II xi + 570pp; Vol III xi + 568pp; Vol IV xv + 469pp; Vol V xiii + 432pp. Fifty-three engravings of portraits, dwellings, locales, manuscripts, and signatures dispersed throughout the five volumes; two-color... Read More
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Four Years on the Firing Line
by James Cooper Nisbet; Bell Irvin Wiley [ed.]
Jackson: McCowat-Mercer Press, 1963. Very Good/Good. Jackson: McCowat-Mercer Press, 1963. First Thus. Octavo; xxi, 267pp. Illus at front. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.00 price intact; bound in sea-green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket chipped at spine ends and shallowly along edges. Front flap nearly separated and rear flap halfway so, but both still intact. Boards faded... Read More
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