Bunny Lake Is Missing
by Evelyn Piper [pseud. Merriam Modell]
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in black pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.95); [6],184pp. Light shelf wear to jacket and board margins, corners bumped, textblock lightly toned, else Very Good and sound. A Harper Novel of... Read More
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The Early Mapping of Hawai'i: Vol I Palapala-aina
by Gary L. Fitzpatrick; Riley M. Moffat
Honolulu: Editions Limited, 1986. Very Good/Very Good. Honolulu: Editions Limited, 1986. First Edition. Quarto. 160 pages. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Linen boards stamped in black. Map endpapers. Dust jacket is creased and rubbed along edges with some very small chips along bottom edge. Some light spotting to front and rear panels... Read More
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For Bread Alone: An Autobiography
by Mohamed Choukri; Paul Bowles [trans. & intro.]
London: Peter Owen, 1973. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Peter Owen, 1973. First UK Edition. Octavo; 151pp. Illustrated dust jacket over blue-gray cloth with silver lettering to spine. Intact dust jacket is scuffed and lightly shelfworn with a bit of wear to corners and a small closed tear to top margin of front panel. Board corners and... Read More
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![Look & Move On, Taped and Translated from the Moghrebi [Limited Edition, Signed by Mrabet and Bowles]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/676/286/1566286676.0.m.jpg)
Look & Move On, Taped and Translated from the Moghrebi [Limited Edition, Signed by Mrabet and Bowles]
by Mohammed Mrabet; Paul Bowles [trans.]
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. Very Good +/Very Good +. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition, Limited Issue of 250 copies signed by Mrabet and Bowles, this being #107. Octavo. 125 pp. Unprinted acetate dust jacket. Paper-covered boards with dark blue backstrip and paper title label to spine. Light rubbing to... Read More
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The Lemon
by Mohammed Mrabet; Paul Bowles [trans.]
London: Peter Owen, 1969. Very Good+/Very Good. London: Peter Owen, 1969. First English Edition. Octavo (19 cm); 181pp. Boards in black with gilt stamping to spine, wrapped in clipped pictorial jacket. Jacket generally scuffed and rubbed at margins with minor scratches to surface. Board corners and spine ends nudged; interior clean. A Very Good or better copy in... Read More
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![The Beach Cafe & The Voice, Taped and Translated from the Moghrebi [Limited Edition, Signed by Mrabet and Bowles]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/341/286/1566286341.0.m.jpg)
The Beach Cafe & The Voice, Taped and Translated from the Moghrebi [Limited Edition, Signed by Mrabet and Bowles]
by Mohammed Mrabet; Paul Bowles [trans.]
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. Very Good/Very Good. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. Limited First Edition of 200 numbered copies signed by Mrabet and Bowles on a tipped in lead following copyright page, this being #28. Octavo. 86 pp. Unprinted acetate dust jacket. Bound in light brown paper-covered boards printed in red, white, and... Read More
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The Concept of Intentionality
by Jitendra Nath Mohanty
St. Louis, MO: Warren H. Green, Inc, 1972. Very Good. St. Louis, MO: Warren H. Green, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Octavo. 213 pp. Beige boards stamped in red. No dust jacket. Light wear to boards, minor smudging to spine, boards bow at fore-edge. Binding is sound. Previous owner's signature to front free endpaper but pages otherwise unmarked. Overall... Read More
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Plays, by Moliere: The Man-Hater, The School for Husbands, The School for Wives, Love is the Best Doctor, and The Hypocondriac
by Moliere
Berwick: R. Taylor, 1771. Hardcover. Very Good. Berwick: R. Taylor, 1771. 16mo (6.75" x 4"); [ii], 68, 51, 74, 34, 87. Rebacked with contemporary calf to front and back boards and original endpapers retained. Corners bumped and worn, with some general scuffing and smudging to leather. Front hinge cracked after "Man-Hater" title page, with leaf separating from gutter... Read More
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Oeuvres Complètes de Molière (2 Vols)
by Molière; [Edmond] Geffroy and [Henri] Allouard [illus.]
Paris: Librairie Garnier Frères, 1890. Very Good. Paris: Librairie Garnier Frères, n.d. [ca. 1890]. Nouvelle Édition. Two volumes; small, thick octavos; contemporary crimson goat over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spines in six compartments, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, original front wrappers bound in; [4],viii,803; [4],823pp.; hand-colored engraved frontispieces and eight hand-colored plates. Boards a bit scuffed at extremities... Read More
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Œuvres de Molière [Mixed Edition]
by Molière; François Boucher [illus.]
Paris: Grangé / Duchesne / Poirion, 1753. Very Good. Paris: Grangé / Duchesne / Poirion, 1750-1753. Eight volumes; 12mo (14.5cm.); near-uniformly bound in mottled calf, gilt spines with tan or brown gilt-lettered onlays, all edges marbled save those of Vol. V (edges stained red); thirty-one engraved plates signed in image by Rococo painter F. Boucher. Light scuffing to... Read More
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The Ancient Child [Signed]
by N. Scott Momaday
New York: Doubleday, 1989. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Doubleday, [1989]. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in brown pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; 313pp. Dust jacket margins a bit rubbed, brief soil to verso not showing through to exterior, spine slightly cocked and ends bumped, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Signed by... Read More
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The Adventures of the Flat Animal
by Mongoose" [pseud.]; Edward Rose [illus.]
Boston: Four Seas Company Publishers, 1930. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Four Seas Company Publishers, [1930]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's boards in grey pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($1.50); vii,[1],76pp.; illus. throughout. Very light shelf wear to jacket and board margins including two tiny blemishes to bottom edge of rear cover, brief dust-soil, else a Very Good... Read More
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Shamanic Songs and Myths of Tuva
by Mongush B. Kenin-Lopsan; Mihaly Hoppal & Christiana Buckbee [eds.]
Budapest / Los Angeles: Akademiai Kiado / International Society for Trans-Oceanic Research, 1997. Very Good. Budapest / Los Angeles: Akademiai Kiado / International Society for Trans-Oceanic Research, 1997. First Edition. Octavo. 145 pp. + advertisements. Black and white plates, complete. Illustrated glossy boards. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Light general rubbing and edgewear. Binding is sound and... Read More
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What I Cannot Say / I Will Say
by Monica Ochtrup; Elizabeth Erickson [illus.]
[St. Paul, MN]: New Rivers Press, 1984. Fine. [St. Paul, MN]: New Rivers Press, 1984. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's green pictorial card wrappers; 76pp.; illus. throughout. A hint of shelf wear, else Fine. Minnesota Voices Project no. 22. Minnesota author's first poetry collection.
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![Escafeld Hangings [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/614/560/1699560614.0.m.jpg)
Escafeld Hangings [Inscribed and Signed]
by Geraldine Monk
Sheffield, England: West House Books, 2005. Fine. Sheffield, England: West House Books, 2005. First Edition. Octavo (24.5cm); publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers; 122pp.; CD recording of "Mary Through the Looking Glass" in envelope mounted to rear free endpaper. Just About Fine condition. Lengthily inscribed and signed by the author on half title page.
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Dictionnaire Raisonné, des Domaines et Droits Domaniaux (2 Vols)
by [Monsieur Bosquet, attr.]
Paris: Chez la Veuve Dutillet, 1775. Very Good. Paris: Chez la Veuve Dutillet, 1775. Nouvelle Édition, revue, corrigée, & augmentée par l'Auteur. Two volumes; quarto (26cm.); full contemporary mottled sheep, marbled spines in six compartments with red and tan onlays, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; [2],xxxviii,558; [2],602pp.; woodcut title page vignettes, head- and tail-pieces. Leather dried and scuffed,... Read More
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Action and Other Stories
by C.E. Montague
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. Good+/Good+. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); [8],289pp. Boards and jacket extremities darkened and rubbed with exposure along board margins, clear tape reinforcement to jacket verso, dark soil spots to rear jacket... Read More
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![The Book of Tobit and the History of Susanna [Limited Edition, With Extra Suite of Illustrations]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/643/974/1488974643.0.m.jpg)
The Book of Tobit and the History of Susanna [Limited Edition, With Extra Suite of Illustrations]
by Montague R. James [a.k.a. M.R. James] [intro.]; W. Russell Flint [illus.]
London: Haymarket Press, 1929. Fine. London: Haymarket Press, 1929. First Thus, Limited to 100 copies of which this is no. 66. Quarto; publisher's full limp parchment, front cover and spine lettered in gilt, yapp edges, white cloth ties, top edge gilt, housed in custom cloth slipcase; xvi,47pp.; tipped in color frontispiece, three leaves of tipped in plates, text... Read More
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Alsace et Ismenie, suivis du Temple de Gnide, et du Dialogue de Sylla
by Montesquieu
Paris: Favre / B.-Duchesne, 1795. Very Good. Paris: Chez Favre / B.-Duchesne, 1795. Nouvelle Édition. Small 12mo; full contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf, gilt spine, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; vi,140pp. (collated complete); steel engraved frontispiece. Leather a bit scuffed at margins, rubbing to spine onlay affecting gilt lettering, else Very Good, internally bright and sound. Updated... Read More
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Doomsday Morning
by C.L. Moore
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1957. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1957. First Edition, stated. Octavo; 216pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.95 price intact; book in dark blue cloth with red lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed along edges and over spine ends, with a couple shallow tears along top edge and some general light smudging... Read More
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![American Eloquence: A Collection of Speeches and Addresses, by the Most Eminent Orators of America; with Biographical Sketches and Illustrative Notes [Two volume set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/424/576/1565576424.0.m.jpg)
American Eloquence: A Collection of Speeches and Addresses, by the Most Eminent Orators of America; with Biographical Sketches and Illustrative Notes [Two volume set]
by Frank Moore
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1857. Very Good. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1857. First Edition. Two large octavo volumes. 576; 614 + 2 pp. advertisements. Black and white illustrations. Publisher's cloth with gilt stamping to spine; light yellow endpapers. Edges worn and corners bumped with chipping and minor fraying to extremities; spine sunned; amateur... Read More
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![Reminiscences and Thrilling Stories of the War by Returned Heroes Containing Vivid Accounts of Personal Experiences by Officers and Men [WITH] Salesman's Dummy [Two Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/664/043/1511043664.0.m.jpg)
Reminiscences and Thrilling Stories of the War by Returned Heroes Containing Vivid Accounts of Personal Experiences by Officers and Men [WITH] Salesman's Dummy [Two Volume Set]
by James Rankin Young; J. Hampton Moore
Chicago: Monroe Book Co. / C.W. Stanton Company, 1899. Very Good. Chicago: Monroe Book Co. / C.W. Stanton Company, 1899 / 1898. Presumed later state of this Trade Edition with Monroe Book Co. cancel stamp at foot of title page over faint abrasion, likely to remove the Stanton imprint. Two octavos (23.5cm.); publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in... Read More
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![A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany. With anecdotes relating to some eminent characters [Two Volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/879/447/1681447879.0.m.jpg)
A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany. With anecdotes relating to some eminent characters [Two Volumes]
by John Moore
Dublin: Wm. Wilson, 1786. Very Good. Dublin: Printed for Wm. Wilson Bookseller and Stationer, 1786. Two volumes; 12mos (17.5cm.); full contemporary calf, red and brown gilt spine labels; xiv,310; x,298,[2]pp. (collated complete); steel-engraved pictorial imprint to both volumes. Leather a bit dried and scuffed at margins, some brief soil, spines both darkened, occasional contemporary marginalia to Vol. II... Read More
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![Clinical Sonnets [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/918/727/1717727918.0.m.jpg)
Clinical Sonnets [Signed]
by Merrill Moore
New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc, 1949. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1949. First Edition, first printing. Octavo (22.5cm); 72pp. Publisher's red cloth with title in gilt. Original printed dust jacket with $2.50 price intact. Jacket toned with light rubbing to edges, small chip to crown of spine. Dampstaining to rear free endpaper and occasionally to... Read More
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![Alabama Wildman [Inscribed to Tom Verlaine]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/460/139/1586139460.0.m.jpg)
Alabama Wildman [Inscribed to Tom Verlaine]
by Thurston Moore
Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 2000. Very Good +. Sudbury, MA: Water Row Press, 2000. First Edition, one of 3000 copies printed. Signed by Thurston Moore to Television frontman Tom Verlaine with inscription, "To Tom / Atom Smasher / Rock On, Thurston 8 ' 2000." Octavo. 111 pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated boards. No dust jacket as... Read More
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