Time Will Darken It
by William Maxwell
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948. Very Good/Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); [10],302pp. Dust jacket rather chipped, wrinkled, and worn with a number of small closed tears and a large loss to upper panel affecting text and illustration; overall a Very... Read More
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The Folded Leaf
by William Maxwell
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [8],310pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins with fairly extensive old tape repair to verso, spine panel a bit sunned; a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket overall.
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Empire for a Lady
by Alan Le May
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1937. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1937. First Edition. Octavo. 303 pages + 5 page preview of Deep Water Island. Illustrated dust jacket. Green cloth stamped in black. Maroon topstain. Unclipped dust jacket is chipped and worn with amateur tape repair to verso. Boards worn along edges... Read More
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Bug Eye
by Alan Le May
New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, 1931. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, 1931. First Edition with publisher's seal to copyright page. Octavo. 276 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Red cloth boards stamped in black. Unclipped dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with a couple short tears to spine; general rubbing and scuffing; a... Read More
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Winter Range
by Alan Le May
New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, 1932. Very Good. New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, 1932. First Edition, with publisher's logo to copyright. Octavo. 276 pp. Blue cloth stamped in black; blue topstain; illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket. Boards worn and bumped along edges with brief exposure; spine faded; staining to rear. Binding sound; interior unmarked; a Very... Read More
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Address to the Members of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
by Joseph Mayer
Liverpool: Thomas Brakell, 1867. Very Good. Liverpool; Thomas Brakell, 1867 [-1868]. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 14 ;14 ;20pp. Light wear, some foxing and dust soil. Very Good condition. Three bound pamphlets with identical titles of a regional archaeological society. Topics range from preservation of archaeological finds, future outlook of the field, and the impact of archaeology... Read More
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![A Poem Read by Surgeon Nathan Mayer October 11, 1894, at the Dedication of a Monument by the Sixteenth Connecticut Where They Fought at Antietam, September 17, 1862 [Cover title: Antietam: A Poem]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/465/566/1699566465.0.m.jpg)
A Poem Read by Surgeon Nathan Mayer October 11, 1894, at the Dedication of a Monument by the Sixteenth Connecticut Where They Fought at Antietam, September 17, 1862 [Cover title: Antietam: A Poem]
by Nathan Mayer
Hartford, CT: Press of The Case / Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1894. Very Good +. Hartford, CT: Press of The Case / Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1894. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm); publisher's light blue and cream decorative cloth stamped in gilt, bevelled edges; [30]pp. printed on rectos only; one photographic plate. Light wear and dust-soil, else Very... Read More
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![A Copy of a Letter written by a Jesuite to the Father-Rector at Brussels, Discovering their Designs upon England; and Their Judgment of the Temper thereof: With a Conjecture of the Success of the Parliament, Anno 1627 [drop title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/885/585/1630585885.0.m.jpg)
A Copy of a Letter written by a Jesuite to the Father-Rector at Brussels, Discovering their Designs upon England; and Their Judgment of the Temper thereof: With a Conjecture of the Success of the Parliament, Anno 1627 [drop title]
by [John Maynard]
London: s.i., 1679. Very Good. [London?]: N.P., [ca. 1679?] First Edition. Broadsheet (30cm.); 2pp. Moderate wear and toning to margins, some faint dust-soil, else a Very Good example. Published version of a forged letter purportedly intercepted from an English Jesuit to the father rector of Brussels in which the author delineates the ways in which secret members... Read More
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Open Season
by Archer Mayor
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. Very Good/Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo (21.5 cm); 319pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with $18.95 price intact; boards in gray and red with silver lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with some light rubbing and a few shallow closed tears along... Read More
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![Death of a Nurse [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/568/910/1690910568.0.m.jpg)
Death of a Nurse [Signed]
by Ed McBain
New York: Armchair Detective Library / Otto Penzler Books, 1994. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Armchair Detective Library / Otto Penzler Books, 1994. First Thus, with full numberline. Octavo (22.5cm); illustrated dust jacket with $22.00 price intact; boards in black leatherette with gilt lettering to spine; [xvi],184pp. Jacket lightly shelfworn with brief bumping at tail. Boards show a... Read More
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![The Heckler: An Inner Sanctum 87th Precinct Mystery [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/432/815/1721815432.0.m.jpg)
The Heckler: An Inner Sanctum 87th Precinct Mystery [Signed]
by Ed McBain
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in grey pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 253pp. Light wear and wrinkling to jacket margins with very shallow chipping at spine ends, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good and sound example. Signed by McBain... Read More
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![Squad Room [Signed Bookplate Laid-in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/501/498/1722498501.0.m.jpg)
Squad Room [Signed Bookplate Laid-in]
by Ed McBain
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First Edition, First Printing stated. Octavo (21 cm). Black topstain. Pictorial dust jacket with unclipped $3.50 price. Publisher's black paper over boards. 320 pp. Dust jacket repaired on verso with tape on top folds. Some rubbing and edge wear. Slight lean... Read More
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![[Albumen Photograph] Group of 9th US Cavalry Regiment Officers stationed at Fort Robinson in Crawford, Nebraska, including John Hanks Alexander](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/286/027/1552027286.0.m.jpg)
[Albumen Photograph] Group of 9th US Cavalry Regiment Officers stationed at Fort Robinson in Crawford, Nebraska, including John Hanks Alexander
by [John Hanks Alexander] C.C. McBride
Crawford, Nebraska: C.C. McBride, 1893. Very Good. Crawford, NE: C.C. McBride, [ca. 1893]. Original albumen photograph (16.75 x 21.5cm.) affixed to tan printed card mount (20 x 25 cm.). Light edgewear and toning to card mount; moderate fading to photograph; overall Very Good. Rare photograph featuring John Hanks Alexander, the second African-American to graduate from West... Read More
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Butcher Boy
by Patrick McCabe
London: Picador, 1992. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Picador, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (22 cm); 215pp. Boards full-bound in black cloth with green stamping to spine and kelly green endsheets, wrapped in publisher's spooky illustrated jacket with price intact (£14.99). Jacket generally scuffed and rubbed with minor creasing and toning to margins and previous owner... Read More
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![Carn [Signed Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/760/291/1668291760.0.m.jpg)
Carn [Signed Review Copy]
by Patrick McCabe
London: Aidan Ellis, 1989. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Aidan Ellis, 1989. First Edition. Octavo (22 cm); 252pp. Black cloth-bound boards with gilt stamping to spine in publisher's pictorial jacket with price intact (£11.50). Jacket gently scratched and scuffed with minor creases and bumps to margins. Board corners and spine ends bumped with minor scuffs to boards.... Read More
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Music on Clinton Street
by Pat McCabe
Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1986. Near Fine. Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1986. First Edition. Octavo; pictorial wrapper with cover designed by John Berkeley and book designed by Irish novelist and playwright, Dermot Bolger; 152pp. A Near Fine Copy. Patrick McCabe's first novel chronicling the clash of 1960s/70s rural Ireland with the influx of transatlantic culture (i.e. the... Read More
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Breakfast on Pluto
by Patrick McCabe
New York: Harper Flamingo, 1998. Very Good/Near Fine. New York: Harper Flamingo, 1998. First American Edition. Octavo; black boards stamped in copper-colored foil on spine; photo-illustrated dust jacket with $22.00 price intact; 202pp. Spine ends lightly bumped, binding is tight and pages, remainder mark to bottom edge of textblock, else a Very Good copy in Near Fine jacket. ... Read More
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Through These Doors: The Story of New England Congregational Church, Aurora, Illinois
by Gary L. McCann
Aurora, IL: Kelmscott Press, 2007. Very Good/Very Good. [Aurora, IL: Kelmscott Press, 2007.] First Edition. Square quarto (26cm.); publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xiii,[1],189pp.; color photographs throughout. Jacket lightly edgeworn and nudged at spine ends, with a spiral indentation running vertically along fore-edge at back. Small puncture to front of jacket with tiny corresponding dent to front... Read More
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![The Miernik Dossier [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/899/564/1699564899.0.m.jpg)
The Miernik Dossier [Signed]
by Charles McCarry
New York: Saturday Review Press, 1973. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1973. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards, bright red topstain, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($7.95), also retaining original promotional wrap-around band; [6],278pp. Jacket and wrap-around spine panels a bit sunned, else a Near Fine example. Signed by the author on title... Read More
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![The Miernik Dossier [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/709/568/1715568709.0.m.jpg)
The Miernik Dossier [Signed]
by Charles McCarry
New York: Saturday Review Press, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1973. First Edition. Signed by Charles McCarry with brief inscription to previous owner at front free endpaper. Octavo. 278 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $7.95 price present. Yellow and red boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed and creased with a few... Read More
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![The Miernik Dossier [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/771/706/1378706771.0.m.jpg)
The Miernik Dossier [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Charles McCarry
New York: Saturday Review Press, 1973. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1973. First Edition. Bookplate signed by McCarry loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 278 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with $7.95 price present. Yellow and red boards stamped in gilt. Red topstain. Dust jacket rubbed and worn along edges with a few shallow... Read More
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Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West
by Cormac McCarthy
New York: Random House, 1985. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1985. First Edition (stated), First Printing with numberline to 2 in keeping with RH's methods at the time. Octavo (21.5cm); [x],337pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $17.95 price intact; boards in red paper and darker red cloth with gilt lettering and red foil rules to spine; red... Read More
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The Groves of Academe: A Novel
by Mary McCarthy
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. Very Good -/Very Good -. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1952. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21cm); illustrated dust jacket with $3.50 price intact; blue boards with silver lettering and decoration; [x],302pp. Jacket shows a few chips, tears, and creases along edges, with prior owner's marker-colored paper slip affixed by tape... Read More
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Industrial Madness: Commercial Photography in Paris, 1848-1871
by Elizabeth Anne McCauley
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. Very Good/Very Good. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. First Edition. Large octavo. 448 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket creased along edges with a few shallow tears. Boards show mild shelfwear with a touch of fading and dust soiling. Binding... Read More
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Little Nemo in Slumberland
by Winsor McCay
New York: Cupples & Leon Co, 1909. Good. New York: Cupples & Leon Co., 1909. First Edition. Oblong quarto. 26 color plates printed recto only + black and white title page, complete. Color illustrations. Housed in recent custom binding with front wrapper mounted; lacking rear wrapper. Mounted front wrapper chipped and creased with long vertical tear.... Read More
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