![Women and Thomas Harrow [Inscribed and Signed to Admiral Allan Rockwell McCann]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/313/246/1679246313.0.m.jpg)
Women and Thomas Harrow [Inscribed and Signed to Admiral Allan Rockwell McCann]
by John P. Marquand
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1958. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1958. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($4.75); [10],497pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, faint damp stain along bottom edge of upper panel not affecting text, cloth a bit spotted, else a Very Good, bright and sound... Read More
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![Melville Goodwin, USA [Inscribed and Signed to Allan and Kathryne McCann]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/320/112/1602112320.0.m.jpg)
Melville Goodwin, USA [Inscribed and Signed to Allan and Kathryne McCann]
by John P. Marquand
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. Second Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($3.75); [10],596pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, red portion of spine panel a bit faded, dark stain along spine edge of rear panel (not affecting cloth), some dust-soil and foxing... Read More
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The Late George Apley: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir
by John P. Marquand
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1937. Very Good/Very Good -. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1937. First Edition, First Issue (per Ahearn) with "Lovely Pearl" on p. 19. Octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); vi,354pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including long closed tear to upper panel touching the "G" in... Read More
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![Point of No Return [Signed Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/125/008/1676008125.0.m.jpg)
Point of No Return [Signed Limited Edition]
by John P. Marquand
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1949. Very Good +/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1949. First Limited Edition of 600 copies, signed by the author. Octavo (21 cm); 559pp. Boards full bound in sage green cloth with gilt stamping, wrapped in publisher's pictorial dust jacket. Red top stain. Jacket rubbed, scuffed, toned, and chipped with tape to... Read More
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![So Little Time [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/029/100/1602100029.0.m.jpg)
So Little Time [Signed]
by John P. Marquand
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1943. First Edition, stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.75); [10],594pp. Moderate shelf wear to jacket margins, corners tapped, else Very Good and sound. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's... Read More
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![B.F.'s Daughter [Signed and inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/978/992/1675992978.0.m.jpg)
B.F.'s Daughter [Signed and inscribed]
by John P. Marquand
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. Very Good +/Very Good +. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21 cm); 439pp. Boards full bound in tan cloth with teal and gilt stamping and decoration wrapped in publisher's clipped pictorial jacket. Fore-edge deckled. Jacket scuffed, toned, and lightly soiled with minor chips to extremities and spine... Read More
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Carter and Other People
by Don Marquis
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1921. Very Good/Very Good. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1921. First Edition with (1) on final leaf of text. Octavo; publisher's cloth in green and white photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($1.75); v,[3],311pp. Moderate wear to jacket with a few closed tears over folds, small patch of paper repair at... Read More
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
New York: Harper & Row, 1970. Very Good. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. First Edition Stated with no number line to final page. Octavo (8.5" x 5.75"); [viii], 422p. Missing jacket. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering. Boards show mild shelfwear with a few bumps and superficial scratches. Mild lean but binding sound. Page edges foxed, but... Read More
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Leaf Storm and Other Stories
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
New York: Bard / Avon, 1972. First Paperback Edition. Very Good. New York: Bard/Avon, 1975. Stated First Bard Printing. First Thus in illustrated wrappers. Dampstain near crown, bleeding slightly over to top of text block. Spine shows a faint crease and some spotting, but is straight and unbroken. Pages toned as expected but unmarked. Binding is sound. ... Read More
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![Vivir para contarla [Signed] [English title: Living to tell the tale]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/928/566/1699566928.0.m.jpg)
Vivir para contarla [Signed] [English title: Living to tell the tale]
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nueva York: Alfred Knopf, 2003. Near Fine/Near Fine. Nueva York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Fourth Printing thus. Signed by Gabriel Garcia Marquez with brief inscription at title page. Thick octavo; 573pp. Text in original Spanish. Photo-illustrated dust jacket; maroon boards stamped in gilt. Mild creasing to edges of unclipped dust jacket; light shelfwear to boards; binding sound and... Read More
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Mountains and Molehills, or Recollections of a Burnt Journal
by Frank Marryat
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1855. Very Good +. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1855. First US Edition. Octavo (20 cm); 393pp. Twenty-six (26) illustrations, including frontis, collated complete. Boards full bound in brown cloth with gilt stamping to spine and blind stamped decoration overall. Light yellow endsheets. Board corners and spine ends bumped and lightly... Read More
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![Through America [Inscribed from author]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/707/990/1673990707.0.m.jpg)
Through America [Inscribed from author]
by W. G. Marshall
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1881. Very Good. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1881. Second Edition. Large octavo (23 cm); 424pp+36ads. Black and white illus. throughout. Boards full bound in red cloth with gilt pictorial stamping. Black endsheets. Boards generally scuffed and dust soiled with bumping to edges and corners and minor loss to... Read More
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![Journal Volume I [All Published?]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/701/517/1572517701.0.m.jpg)
Journal Volume I [All Published?]
by Neil Marshall
N.p.: s.i., 2002. Very Good-. N.p.: s.i., n.d. but ca. 2002. Quarto; original white printed card wrappers; 165pp. Wrappers rather dust-soiled, top fore-edge corner of upper wrapper dog-eared, spine foot slightly chewed, else a Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Promotional postcard to Marshall's 2002 Gel Paintings show at Long Fine Art laid in. ... Read More
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The Nursing Home Murder
by Ngaio Marsh
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. Near Fine/Very Good+. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. First US Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 286pp. Boards in olive green cloth with silver and red stamping to spine, wrapped in publisher's intact pictorial jacket ($5.95). Jacket gently scuffed and rubbed with minor creases and closed tears to margins. Spine sunned and verso... Read More
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![Tooth Drawings [Manuscript Student Sketchbook]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/897/871/1689871897.0.m.jpg)
Tooth Drawings [Manuscript Student Sketchbook]
by Sandy Marsh
United States, 1970. Very Good. United States: n.d., ca. 1970s. Quarto (29cm); blue card post-bound binder with typescript label to upper cover; [8]ll. of clear plastic sleeves containing sixteen leaves of yellow grid paper featuring eighty original pencil sketches of human teeth captioned in manuscript ink. Moderate wear from handling, else Very Good. Detailed compilation of pencil... Read More
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Miscellaneous Pieces of Antient English Poesie. Viz. The Troublesome Raigne of King John, Written by Shakespeare, Extant in no Edition of his Writings. The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image, and certain Satyres. By John Marston. The Scourge of Villanie. By the same. All printed before the Year 1600
by William Shakespeare; John Marson
London: Printed by Robert Horsefield, at the Crown in Ludgate-Street, 1764. Very Good. London: Printed by Robert Horsefield, at the Crown in Ludgate-Street, 1764. First Edition. 12mo. (13) 10-234 pp.; lacks front free endpaper. Bound in quarter calf over marbled boards. Chip with loss to top of spine; splits along joints; edgewear with brief exposure; general scuffing and... Read More
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The Transformation of Nomadic Society in the Arab East
by Martha Mundy and Basim Musallam [eds.]
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Fine/Very Good. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [2000]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; xi,[1],249pp.; illus. Small closed tear at top edge of upper jacket panel, spine panel a bit sunned, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy.
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The Best American Short Stories 1947
by Martha Foley [ed.]; Truman Capote, Elizabeth Hardwick, Wallace Stegner et al. [contribs.]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); 528pp. Publisher's yellow cloth with blue lettering. Boards show mild shelfwear with spotting to spine. Binding sound. Contents pages chipped along edges with several tape-mended tears, though pages otherwise unmarked and legible throughout.
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Uffizio della Settimana Santa
by [Antonio] Martini
Napoli [Naples]: Nella Tipografia di Angelo Trani, 1814. Very Good. Napoli [Naples]: Nella Tipografia di Angelo Trani, 1814. "Prima edizione napoletana." Octavo; full contemporary elaborately gilt-tooled crimson morocco with "N.A." on both covers within gilt floral border, green gilt-lettered spine label, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; 588pp.; text printed in double columns. Leather a bit scuffed along margins,... Read More
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An Oz Sketchbook
by Dick Martin
Kinderhook, IL: The International Wizard of Oz Club, Inc, 1988. Very Good +. Kinderhook, IL: The International Wizard of Oz Club, Inc., 1988. First Edition. Large octavo. Unpaginated. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated stapled wraps. Light edgewear to covers. Binding is sound and pages clean and unmarked.
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![Five Boyhoods [Signed by Updike]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/858/975/1714975858.0.m.jpg)
Five Boyhoods [Signed by Updike]
by Martin Levin; Howard Lindsay, Harry Golden, Walt Kelly, William K. Zinsser, and John Updike [contrs.]
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1962. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket designed by Robert Flynn retaining original price ($3.95); ix,[7],198pp.; five leaves of halftone photographic plates. Moderate wear to jacket margins, closed tear mid-spine panel, corners bumped, dark soil spot affecting... Read More
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The Hour And The Man: An Historical Romance
by Harriet Martineau
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886. Very Good. London: Cassell & Company, Limited, [1886]. Reprint. Octavo. 328 pp. + advertisements. Blue cloth stamped in gilt; floral endpapers. Light wear to edges; corners bumped; spine ends nudged. Binding sound. Contemporary gift inscription dated 1888 to front flyleaf; interior else unmarked. A Very Good copy of the English abolitionist's novel... Read More
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A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Martin Luther King, Jr.; James Melvin Washington [ed.]
San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986. Near Fine/Very Good. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1986. First Edition stated with full number line. Thick octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; xxvi,676pp. Rear jacket panel yellowed, else a Very Good to Near Fine example of this monumental compilation.
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Strength to Love
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1963. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 146 pp. Printed dust jacket with $3.50 price intact. Black and gray boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket shows some rubbing and scuffing, heavier to rear. Boards shelfworn with a touch of fading along top... Read More
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Letter from Birmingham City Jail
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, 1963. Very Good. Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, 1963. Third Printing. Octavo; 15pp. Stapled pictorial wrappers. A few nicks to edges of wraps with faint spotting to rear; curling to corners; 1" split along bottom edge of spine, but binding otherwise sound and interior unmarked. Still a Very Good copy. One of... Read More
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