![Canopus in Argos: Archives [Five Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/643/658/1683658643.0.m.jpg)
Canopus in Argos: Archives [Five Volume Set]
by Doris Lessing
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979-1983. First U.S. Editions. Five volumes; octavos (24cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped dust jackets. Light shelf wear to jacket margins, Vol. I upper jacket panel lightly soiled and front free endpaper discreetly excised, else a Very Good and sound set overall. Complete... Read More
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![The Cleft [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/599/104/1685104599.0.m.jpg)
The Cleft [Signed]
by Doris Lessing
London: Fourth Estate, 2007. Near Fine/Very Good. London: Fourth Estate, 2007. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with £16.99 price intact; boards bound in black cloth with gilt stamping to spine; 260pp. Grey endsheets. Dust jacket shows minor bumping to top edge and minor abrasion from prior price sticker; minimal smudging and staining throughout. Boards clean;... Read More
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The Golden Notebook
by Doris Lessing
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. First U.S. Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo. 568 pp. Printed dust jacket with $5.95 price present. Yellow boards stamped in black. Red topstain and endpapers. Dust jacket chipped along edges with general rubbing and toning. Slight lean to boards, shelfwear, corners bumped,... Read More
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![Children of Violence [Four Volumes in Two] [Signed Bookplate Laid into Vol. 1/2]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/834/893/1689893834.0.m.jpg)
Children of Violence [Four Volumes in Two] [Signed Bookplate Laid into Vol. 1/2]
by Doris Lessing
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964, 1966. First Printings, stated. Four volumes in two; octavos (22cm.); publisher's boards in unclipped dust jackets; 605, 544pp. Light wear to board and jacket margins, brief tape repair to verso of spine ends of Vol. 1/2, corners bumped, else a Very Good, bright... Read More
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![Do Lord Remember Me: A Novel [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/808/073/1580073808.0.m.jpg)
Do Lord Remember Me: A Novel [Inscribed and Signed]
by Julius Lester
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1984]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in cream dust jacket retaining original price ($13.95); [10],210pp. Minute wear to jacket extremities, corners nudged, else a Near Fine copy. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper: "To Robin -- Best Wishes + sorry... Read More
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![Look Out, Whitey! Black Power's Gon' Get Your Mama! [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/625/656/1702656625.0.m.jpg)
Look Out, Whitey! Black Power's Gon' Get Your Mama! [Signed]
by Julius Lester
New York: The Dial Press, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Dial Press, 1968. Third Printing. Octavo (21cm); black and white dust jacket with $3.95 price intact; boards in black cloth with silver lettering to spine; xii,152pp. Jacket shows a couple shallow tears and creases, along with some general scuffing and smudging to surface and along folds;... Read More
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![Search for the New Land: History as Subjective Experience [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/678/284/1703284678.0.m.jpg)
Search for the New Land: History as Subjective Experience [Signed]
by Julius Lester
The Dial Press: New York, 1969. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: The Dial Press, 1969. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (21.4cm); illustrated dust jacket with $4.95 price intact; boards blindstamped tan cloth with silver lettering to spine; [x],194pp. Jacket edgeworn with chipping at front corners, a few shallow tears and creases along edges, and some general... Read More
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X-Men: X-Tinction Agenda
by [Marvel] Chris Claremont & Louis Simonson [writers]; Jon Bogdanove et al [pencilers]; Terry Austin et al [inkers]; Steve Buccellato et al [colorists]; L. Lois Buhalis et al. [letterers]
New York: Marvel Worldwide, Inc, 2011. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., 2011. First Thus, stated First Printing with full numberline. Tall octavo. 316, [12]pp. Color illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket and boards; black endpapers. Very light rubbing to edges of dust jacket. Boards tight in binding and interior unmarked. A Near Fine copy; collecting Uncanny... Read More
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![A. Merritt's Fantasy Magazine [Complete Run in Five Vols.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/755/603/1573603755.0.m.jpg)
A. Merritt's Fantasy Magazine [Complete Run in Five Vols.]
by Max Brand [as George Challis]; George Allan England; Jack Williamson; Jack Mann; Virgil Finlay [illus.]; Paul Calle [illus.]; H.R. Van Dongen [illus.]; Robert Silverberg [letter]
Kokomo, IN: Recreational Reading, 1950. Very Good. Kokomo, IN: Recreational Reading, 1949-1950. Five octavo volumes (9.25" x 7"); 130pp each. Pulp magazines. Illustrated paper wraps. Each volume with shallow chips and tears along edges, with a few larger chips to rear of Feb. issue (no loss of text), and some general light creasing and smudging to surfaces. October... Read More
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![Chekhov on the West Heath [Signed Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/865/793/1692793865.0.m.jpg)
Chekhov on the West Heath [Signed Limited Edition]
by Denise Levertov
Andes, NY: Woolmer / Brotherson Ltd, 1977. Very Good +. Andes, NY: Woolmer / Brotherson Ltd., 1977. Limited First Edition of 200 signed and numbered copies, of which this is number 166 (26 signed lettered copies not for sale and 400 unsigned copies for Cornell Library associates were issued simultaneously). Octavo (25.5cm); marbled dust jacket with paper title... Read More
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Defender of The Faith: William Jennings Bryan: The Last Decade, 1915-1925
by Lawrence W. Levine
New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, 1965. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. First Edition. Inscribed by author.on front free endpaper: "For Bill & Harriett, with all best wishes, Love, Larry." Octavo; ix + 385pp, including index. Photographic dust jacket with orange tint. Burgundy cloth with silver lettering on front panel and spine. Unclipped dust... Read More
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The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History
by Lawrence W. Levine
New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, 1993. Very Good. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. First Paperback Edition. Inscribed by author on half title: "For Bill & Harriett-With love-Larry." Octavo; xii + 372pp, including index. Coated, three-color, photographic card covers. Micro-peeling of coating at fore-edge of covers, front and back. Two inch vertical liquid stain, very narrow, at right... Read More
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Deathtrap: A Thriller in Two Acts
by Ira Levin
New York: Random House, 1979. Very Good +/Fine. New York: Random House, [1979]. First Edition with full number line. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($8.95); [12],112pp. Corners bumped, else a Near Fine copy. The American novelist and playwright's smash Broadway hit, described by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 2017 as... Read More
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Frankie and Johnnie: A Love Story
by Meyer Levin
New York: John Day Company, 1930. Very Good -. New York: John Day Company, 1930. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's orange gilt-embossed cloth, spine lettered in black; [4],212pp. Corners bumped, spine a bit cocked and cloth faded, hairline crack along front hinge, textblock toned; overall a Near Very Good, rather unlovely copy. The author's second novel, a... Read More
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$1200 a Year: A Comedy in Three Acts
by Edna Ferber and Newman Levy
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920. Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's brown cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black; [8],173pp. Moderate shelf wear to cloth margins, mostly at spine ends, top textblock edge and endpapers foxed, contemporary bookseller ticket (Hansell's of New Orleans) to rear... Read More
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![Topographical Dictionary of England Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, With Historical and Statistical Descriptions [Four Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/619/197/1570197619.0.m.jpg)
Topographical Dictionary of England Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, With Historical and Statistical Descriptions [Four Volume Set]
by Samuel Lewis
London: S. Lewis and Co, 1845. Very Good. London: S. Lewis and Co. 1845. Fifth Edition. Four volumes; large quartos; publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spines. All four volumes expertly recased with new endpapers, bumps to board margins and corners, spines uniformly sunned, else a Very Good, quite attractive set.
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Our Mr. Wrenn
by Sinclair Lewis
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1914. Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1914. First Edition with "M-N" code and "Published February 1914" to copyright page. Octavo. 254pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's gray cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. A few small nicks to spine; light wear to edges and joints; spine gilt dulled.... Read More
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The Collected Verse of Lewis Carroll
by Lewis Carroll [pseud. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]; John Francis McDermott [intro.]
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1929. Very Good/Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1929. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards, gilt printed paper labels to front cover and spine, pink price-clipped dust jacket lettered in blue; xxxviii,228pp. Chipping and short closed tears to jacket extremities including shallow loss at spine foot and larger... Read More
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![The Space Trilogy [with] Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra; and That Hideous Strength [Three volume set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/380/210/1669210380.0.m.jpg)
The Space Trilogy [with] Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra; and That Hideous Strength [Three volume set]
by C.S. Lewis
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943-1946. First American Editions. Three octavo volumes. 174; 238; 459pp. Illustrated dust jackets over cloth boards. Unclipped dust jackets edgeworn with a few short closed tears; That Hideous Strength with heavier wear with larger chip to base of spine and longer tears to top... Read More
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Weak Lungs; and How to Make Them Strong. Or, Diseases of the organs of the chest, with their home treatment by the movement cure
by Dio Lewis
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Very Good. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's plum blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, brown glazed endpapers; [2],vii,[8]-360pp.; illus. throughout. Cloth margins and spine sunned, gilt dulled, corners bumped, textblock toned, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Rare first edition of this highly-popular guide to building strong... Read More
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Our Digestion; or, My Jolly Friend's Secret
by Dio [Diocletian] Lewis
Philadelphia: Geo. MacLean, 1872. Very Good. Philadelphia: Geo. MacLean, 1872. First Edition. Octavo. 407pp. Four plates, complete. Red cloth boards decorated in black and gilt; brown endpapers; dark topstain. Light wear to edges; general scuffing; binding sound; tear to front free endpaper; ownership inscriptions, else unmarked. A Very Good copy of a scarce title from Lewis, an advocate... Read More
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The Island Within
by Ludwig Lewishohn
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. Very Good/Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. 350 pp. + publisher's advertisements. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt.; dark topstain; decorative endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket heavily with review stamp to front; chipped with several tears; toning to spine and general rubbing. Boards shelfworn with bumping to... Read More
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The Deep Ditch and the Narrow Pit
by Ida Lewis
New York: Pavilion Press, 1964. Very Good/Good. New York: Pavilion Press, 1964. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($4.95); 159pp. Dust jacket chipped and foxed with loss at top fore-edge corner of upper panel, dampstaining along bottom edge faintly bleeding into textblock, textblock margins quite foxed; overall a Good copy only... Read More
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A Discourse, Delivered in the Congregational Church at Bristol, on the Public Thanksgiving, November 26, A.D. 1812
by Isaac Lewis
Warren, RI: John F. Phillips, 1812. Very Good. Warren, RI: John F. Phillips, 1812. First Edition. Octavo; removed and bound with modern stitching; 18pp. Brief contemporary ink notes at head of title page, faint damp spots and foxing to textblock, else Very Good and sound. Rare Rhode Island sermon delivered during the War of 1812: "Although... Read More
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![The Vehement Flame: The Story of Stephen Escott [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/995/355/1580355995.0.m.jpg)
The Vehement Flame: The Story of Stephen Escott [Inscribed and Signed]
by Ludwig Lewisohn
New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1948. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, [1948]. First Edition with "FS" symbol on copyright page. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.75); viii,[2],243pp. Minor chipping and shelf wear to jacket extremities, top textblock edge a bit dust-soiled, corners bumped, pp. 6 & 7 heavily... Read More
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