The Philanthropist; Or, A Good Twenty-Five Cents Worth of Political Love Powder, for Honest Adamites and Jeffersonians
by Mason Locke Weems
Dumfries, VA: [n.p.], 1799. Very Good. Dumfries, VA: s.i., 1799. Octavo; recent grey card wrappers; [2],30 pp. Touch of spotting to title page; overall very good. Scarce pamphlet from Parson Weems, the source of many apocryphal anecdotes about George Washington (such as the tale of the cherry tree) and the author of the first biography of George Washington in... Read More
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Careful, He Might Hear You
by Sumner Locke Elliott
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Harper & Row, 1963. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket designed by Ellen Raskin retaining original price ($4.95); [6],339pp. Light shelf wear to jacket margins, small patch of fading at jacket spine foot, brief soil to front flap and top textblock edge,... Read More
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Killing the Goose
by Frances and Richard Lockridge
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1944. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1944. First edition stated. Octavo (19.5cm); 254 pp. Publisher's blue cloth binding with unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket in very good condition with edgewear and rubbing, some small chips at crown and foot of spine. Previous owner repaired tears on rear panel of jacket with... Read More
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Murder Within Murder: A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery
by Frances and Richard Lockridge
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1946. Near Fine/Very Good-. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1946]. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in black price-clipped pictorial dust jacket; 240pp. Moderate chipping and wear to jacket margins including loss at spine crown not quite touching text, brief pencil note on front jacket flap verso; overall a Near Fine copy in About Very... Read More
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The Dishonest Murderer
by Frances and Richard Lockridge
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1949. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1949. First Edition stated. Octavo (19cm); 223 pp. Green publisher's cloth with unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket is in very good condition with some minor rubbing and edge wear. Title on jacket spine is faded. Book is in very good condition, some rubbing... Read More
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Voyage Into Violence: A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery
by Frances and Richard Lockridge
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1956. Very Good/Very Good. J.B. Lippincott Company, [1956]. First Edition Stated. Octavo (22cm); publisher's boards, bright red topstain, in pictorial dust jacket by Arthur Hawkins retaining original price ($2.50); 191pp. Light wear and soil to dust jacket, red spine titling a bit faded, board margins slightly rubbed, else Very Good and sound. Issued as... Read More
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The Golden Man
by Frances and Richard Lockridge
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960. First edition stated. Octavo (19.5cm), 224 pp. Publisher's boards with pictorial dust jacket. Jacket is in very good condition with some rubbing and edge wear. Glue residue to both pastedowns. Small paper scar on front free endpaper from removed label. Pages toned, but clean and... Read More
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Quest of the Bogeyman
by Frances and Richard Lockridge
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1964. First Edition, stated. Octavo (19.25cm); illustrated dust jacket with $3.50 price intact; publisher's green boards with black lettering; 192pp. Jacket is crisp overall, with moderate scuffing to front panel and smudging to rear. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends with some toning along... Read More
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Death of an Angel: A Mr. and Mrs. North Mystery
by Frances and Richard Lockridge
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1955. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, [1955]. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's boards, yellow topstain, in blue pictorial price-clipped dust jacket by Robert Crowther; 192pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, brief dark spotting to board margins, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the Main Line Mystery series.
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A Key To Death
by Frances and Richard Lockridge
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1954. Very Good/Very Good -. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1954. First edition stated. Octavo (22 cm.); 224 pp. Bright yellow publisher's boards with unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Blue topstain. Dust jacket in good to very good condition with some rubbing and small chips at crown and foot of spine. Small puncture on... Read More
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Untidy Murder: A Mr. & Mrs. North Mystery
by Frances and Richard Lockridge
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1947. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); 254pp. Light shelf wear to jacket margins, corners tapped, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy.
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Murder Out Of Turn
by Frances and Richard Lockridge
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1941. Very Good/Good +. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1941. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm). Purple publisher's cloth binding with pictorial dust jacket and $2.00 price intact. Illustrated map endpapers. 294pp. Dust jacket heavily rubbed along edges with chips to top and bottom of spine and lower front panel; some... Read More
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Murder and Blueberry Pie
by Frances and Richard Lockridge
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1959. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1959. First edition stated. Octavo (22cm); Publisher's boards with unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 192pp. Dust jacket is in very good condition with some light rubbing and edge wear, bottom edge of spine chipped. Binding is in very good condition. Boards are clean and bright with only... Read More
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Death of a Tall Man
by Frances and Richard Lockridge
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1946. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1946. First edition stated. Octavo (19.5cm); 247 pp. Publisher's cloth binding with unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket is in very good condition with some minor edge wear and rubbing. Previous dealer's price written in faint pencil on top corner of DJ flap. Small... Read More
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Death Takes A Bow
by Frances and Richard Lockridge
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1943. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1943. First edition, first printing stated. Octavo (19cm); 276 pp. Publisher's cloth with unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket in very good condition with minor rubbing and edge wear. Some small chips to crown of spine. Book is in very good condition with very slight lean... Read More
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Preach No More [Signed and Inscribed]
by Richard Lockridge
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1971. Very Good -/Very Good. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1971. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21cm); illustrated dust jacket with $4.95 price intact; boards in patterned burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine; 186pp. Jacket a bit shelfworn, with some general scuffs and smudges to surface. Boards rubbed along bottom edge and extremities; spine cocked and nudged... Read More
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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism [Signed]
by James W. Loewen
New York: The New Press, 2005. Near Fine/Very Good +. New York: The New Press, 2005. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); 562pp. Publisher’s pictorial dust jacket with $29.95 price intact; boards quarter-bound in grey and blue cloth with silver stamping to spine; dark grey endsheets. 16pp insert of historic black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Dust jacket bumped and scuffed. Boards... Read More
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle: Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts
by Hugh Lofting
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1921. Good. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1920 [1921 Seventh Printing]. Octavo; publisher's orange pictorial cloth, color pictorial element mounted to upper cover; x,[2],180pp.; color pictorial endpapers, full-page illus. throughout. Boards rather worn and textblock crudely glued to binding, faint discoloration to margins and spine, hinges slightly cracked, contemporary gift inscription... Read More
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Howard University: The First Hundred Years, 1867-1967
by Rayford W. Logan
New York: New York University Press / Howard University, 1969. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: New York University Press Issued Under the Auspices of Howard University, 1969. First Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's cloth, photo-illustrated endpapers, dark blue topstain, in dust jacket retaining original price ($10.00); xviii,658pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins including small loss at... Read More
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The Negro's Faith in America [Inscribed and Signed]
by Spencer Logan
New York: Macmillan Company, 1946. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Macmillan Company, 1946. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in decorative price-clipped dust jacket; vi,[2],88pp. Chips and small closed tears to jacket margins never quite touching text, spine panel a bit sunned, offsetting to front endpapers and a few interior leaves from exposure to removed news clippings;... Read More
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Old School Ties
by William Trevor; Magnus Lohkamp
London: Lemon Tree Press, 1976. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Lemon Tree Press, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. 146 pp. Black and white illustrations (ties) by Lohkamp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket price-clipped though with publisher's sticker affixed to front flap; lightly rubbed along edges. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding is... Read More
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Frère d'Empereur: Le Duc de Morny et la Société du Second Empire d'après des papiers de famille et les archives du Ministère de l'Intérieur
by Frédéric Loliée
Paris: Émile-Paul, 1909. Very Good+. Paris: Émile-Paul, 1909. Cinquième Édition. Octavo (21cm.); recent calf over original cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],x,366pp.; 22 leaves of illus. including photographs. Light wear, small chip to spine crown, text block uniformly toned, else Very Good and sound overall. Biography of the French statesman the Duc de Morny (1811-1865).
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Au Jardin des Gemmes [Limited Edition]
by Léonard Rosenthal; Léon Carré, illus
Paris: L'Édition d'Art H. Piazza, 1924. Very Good. Paris: L'Édition d'Art H. Piazza, [1924]. Limited Edition of 2250 copies of which this is no. DLXXXIX [589], presented in manuscript to Madame J. de Lailhacar. Quarto (30.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial card wrappers embossed in pale green and gilt; 158pp.; 12 mounted plates printed offset in color, captioned tissue guards,... Read More
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War of the Classes
by Jack London
London: Mills & Boon, 1905. Good/Very Good -. London: Mills & Boon, [1905 but ca. 1918]. 12mo; publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 217pp. General shelf wear to jacket and board extremities, including a number of small chips and closed tears to the former with old tape repair to verso, uniformly dust-soiled, boards foxed along upper margins,... Read More
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The Rim of the Unknown
by Frank B. Long
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1972. Very Good/Very Good. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1972. First Edition. 3650 copies printed (3500 stated). Illustrated dust jacket over black buckram with gilt lettering to spine. Price-clipped jacket is clean and crisp, with some rubbing along top edge, bumping at head of spine, and light toning to back panel. Boards are sturdy and... Read More
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