![The Raphael Affair [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/704/886/1380886704.0.m.jpg)
The Raphael Affair [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Iain Pears
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1990. Very Good/Very Good. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1990. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Pears loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 191 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket is lightly worn along edges. Thin band of tape to jacket verso at center of spine. Boards show... Read More
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Going Foreign: A Volume of Information for Those About to Cruise Abroad in Small Yachts, With Specimen Voyages in Holland, Belgium and France
by Charles Pears
London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1933. Very Good/Very Good. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1933. First Edition. Octavo 22cm.); publisher's cloth in blue and white pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 224pp.; frontispiece, half-tone illus. and maps throughout. Light wear to jacket margins, spine panel toned, cloth unevenly darkened, contemporary bookseller ticket affixed to front free endpaper; a Very Good,... Read More
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The Raphael Affair [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Iain Pears
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1990. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers, 1990. First U.S. Edition. Bookplate signed by author loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 191 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Orange and yellow boards stamped in red. Unclipped dust jacket shows light edgewear with some general rubbing. Boards nudged at... Read More
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The Smoking Rector: An Illuminating Composition, true to fact and experience in real life and vital import in its striking contracts in relation to the spiritual and non-spiritual influence in individual life as affecting humanity as a whole
by Charles G. Pease
New York: Restoration Publishing Company, 1936. Very Good+. New York: Restoration Publishing Company, 1936. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's purple moiré cloth lettered in gilt; 232pp.; tipped in portrait plate on p. [8]. Spine toned, else Very Good or better. Anti-tobacco novel by the dentist and all-around crank, whose obituary title read: "Dr. C.G. Pease, 86, Noted... Read More
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The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English in Two Parts
by Pedro Carolino; Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens] [intro.]
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. Near Fine. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. First American Edition, wrapper issue. 12mo. 182 pp. Printed wraps. Touch of creasing and curling to corners. Binding sound. Faint spotting to endpapers, else unmarked; a remarkably well-preserved, Near Fine copy. Commonly known under the title, "English as She Is... Read More
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Rime di Adalsio Metoneo Pastore Arcade della Colonia Mariana
by Gio. Antonio di S. Anna [pseud. Orazio Pedrocchi]
Firenze [Florence]: Stamperia di S.A.R. / per Gio. Gaetano Tartini, 1738. Good. Firenze [Florence]: Stamperia di S.A.R. / per Gio. Gaetano Tartini, e Santi Franchi, 1738. First Edition. Quarto (21cm.); full contemporary parchment, manuscript spine titling; xix,[1],328pp.; woodcut device to title page, initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout. Ex-19th century library with their spine label and rubber-stamp to title... Read More
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![Oklahoma: A Guide to the Sooner State [Inscribed and Signed by Ruth]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/640/707/1716707640.0.m.jpg)
Oklahoma: A Guide to the Sooner State [Inscribed and Signed by Ruth]
by Kent Ruth and J. Eldon Peek
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957. Very Good+/Very Good. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, [1957]. Revised Edition, Second (1958) Printing. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth, map endpapers, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($5.95); xxxv,[1],532pp.; twenty-four leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Light shelf wear, spotting to upper jacket panel, else a Very... Read More
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The Elements of Chess; A treatise combining theory with practice, and comprising the whole of Philidor's games and explanatory notes, new modelled; and arranged upon an original plan
by [Francois-Andre Danican Philidor] [William Pelham]
Boston: Printed for W. Pelham, 1805. Good +. Boston: Printed for W. Pelham, 1805. First Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 186pp, collated incomplete. Missing frontis, pages 187-208, endsheets and flyleaves. Bound in cream and gray paper-covered boards. Pages uncut. Boards bumped and worn with cracking to both hinges and middle of spine. Generally soiled and scuffed. Binding cracked but... Read More
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![Relation Contenant l'Histoire de l'Academie Francoise [Lytton Strachey and Roger Senhouse's Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/085/643/1617643085.0.m.jpg)
Relation Contenant l'Histoire de l'Academie Francoise [Lytton Strachey and Roger Senhouse's Copy]
by [Lytton Strachey] [Paul Pelisson-Fontanier]
Paris: Louis Billaine, 1672. Very Good. Paris: Chez Louis Billaine, au second pillier de la grand'Salle du Palais, à la Palme, & au grand Cesar, 1672. 12mo (15.5cm); full 19th-century parchment, black gilt-tooled spine label, binder's tiny rubberstamp "Pierson" to front pastedown; [10],617pp. (lacking final blank, otherwise collated complete with added leaf Q11 loosely laid in as usual);... Read More
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Report of the Fourteenth Annual Convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Pennsylvania, held in Pittsburgh, Pa., October 10, 11 and 12, 1888
by Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh: Wm. G. Johnston & Co, 1888. Very Good-. Pittsburgh: Wm. G. Johnston & Co., 1888. Octavo; publisher's decorative wrappers; 170pp. Wrappers a bit worn, upper cover and spine faded from blue to grey, some chipping and brief biopredation to margins of wrappers and textblock though text remains unaffected. A Good to Very Good copy.
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![Death Is a Dirty Trick [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/485/793/1397793485.0.m.0.jpg)
Death Is a Dirty Trick [Inscribed and Signed]
by Judson Philips [a.k.a. Hugh Pentecost]
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1980. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1980. First Edition, with full numberline. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; [4],187pp. Light shelf wear and some dust-soil to jacket, spine panel a bit sunned, boards slightly scuffed at extremities, else Very Good and sound. With a humorous and... Read More
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![Ian Fleming's James Bond [Collecting Mystery Fiction #1] [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/794/139/1676139794.0.m.jpg)
Ian Fleming's James Bond [Collecting Mystery Fiction #1] [Limited Edition]
by Otto Penzler
New York: The Mysterious Bookshop, 1999. Very Good. New York: The Mysterious Bookshop, 1999. Limited First Edition of 250 unnumbered copies. Small octavo (19.2cm); [ii],34pp. Side-stapled gray paper wraps. Covers are crisp with faint shelfwear and a small price sticker on lower rear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. The first of The Mysterious Bookshop's Collecting... Read More
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![From Ghetto to Glory: The Story of Bob Gibson [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/920/655/1702655920.0.m.jpg)
From Ghetto to Glory: The Story of Bob Gibson [Signed]
by Bob Gibson; Phil Pepe
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1968. Second Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); photo-illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; boards in orange cloth with black lettering to spine; [vi],200pp; photos throughout. Jacket shelfworn with a couple shallow tears at spine ends, a scratch and some general smudging to rear panel, and a shallow waterspot to... Read More
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![The Second Coming [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/279/232/1579232279.0.m.jpg)
The Second Coming [Signed]
by Walker Percy
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. First Trade Edition. Signed by Walker Percy without inscription at title page. Octavo. 360 pp. Printed dust jacket. Red boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket worn with some light chipping along edges; creasing to front flap. Boards shelfworn; cloth at base of... Read More
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![The Second Coming [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/557/450/1571450557.0.m.jpg)
The Second Coming [Signed]
by Walker Percy
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. Near Fine. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. First Edition, Limited Issue of 450 copies signed by Walker Percy at colophon, this being #402. Octavo. 360 pp. Blue cloth boards stamped in dark red and gilt; pale blue endpapers. Housed in publisher's gray slipcase. Spine ends mildly nudged. Binding sound and pages... Read More
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La Maximo en lo Minimo: La Portentosa Imagen de Nuestra Senora de los Remedios, Conquistadora y Patrona de la Imperial Cuidad de Mexico, en donde escribia esta historia
by Ignacio Carrillo y Perez
Mexico: Per Don Mariano de Zuniga y Ontiveros, 1808. Very Good. Mexico: Per Don Mariano de Zuniga y Ontiveros, 1808. First Edition. Small quarto. [20]; 153; [11]pp. Engraving by Jose Maria Montes de Oca. Full calf binding with leather spine label. Worn along edges; brief exposure; chipping; split to bottom of front joint. Binding sound; a few marks... Read More
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Hamlet: As Performed by Edwin Booth
by William Shakespeare; Edwin Booth [performer]
New York: Baker & Godwin, 1866. Good +. New York: Baker & Godwin, 1866. First Thus. Octavo (23cm); publisher's buff pictorial wrappers; vi,[3]-40pp. (complete despite error in pagination); engraved frontispiece, pictorial title page repeating upper cover illustration, illus. throughout. Long tear along spine edge slightly affecting upper cover, spine ends rather chipped, especially along bottom third, contemporary price... Read More
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![The Analectic Magazine: Containing selections from foreign reviews and magazines, together with original miscellaneous compositions; and a naval chronicle [Vol. VI]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/994/287/1517287994.0.m.jpg)
The Analectic Magazine: Containing selections from foreign reviews and magazines, together with original miscellaneous compositions; and a naval chronicle [Vol. VI]
by [Americana - Periodicals]
Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, 1815. Good. Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, 1815. Six volumes bound in one; octavo; contemporary sheep over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],524,4(ads)pp.; three engraved frontispieces including two portraits, as well as added engraved title page, plus three portrait plates bound at head of separate issues, text illus. throughout. Boards rather scuffed, Ex-New Castle Library Company with their... Read More
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![Boy Crazy [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/850/424/1568424850.0.m.jpg)
Boy Crazy [Review Copy]
by Grace Perkins
New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1931. Good+. New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1931. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's yellow cloth, red titling to upper cover and spine, red topstain; 235pp. Cloth rather discolored, spine quite browned and ends starting to fray, corners tapped, else a Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Review copy with slip tipped... Read More
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Twenty-Four Discourses on Some of the Important and Interesting Truths, Duties, and Institutions of the Gospel, and the General Excellency of the Christian Religion..
by Nathan Perkins
Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1795. Very Good -. Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1795. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); full contemporary sheep, brown gilt spine label; ix,[10]-519,[1]pp. (collated complete). Leather scuffed and worn, small rectangular loss of leather mid-upper cover, top third of front free endpaper clipped, attractive contemporary library ex libris of the Ellsworth Library to front pastedown, else... Read More
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![American Expeditionary Forces Engineer Field Notes [with] Hand-drawn manuscript German plans for blowing up a bridge and street near Buzancy, France in 1918](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/189/550/1602550189.0.m.jpg)
American Expeditionary Forces Engineer Field Notes [with] Hand-drawn manuscript German plans for blowing up a bridge and street near Buzancy, France in 1918
by [World War I] [Meuse Argonne Offensive] [Military ephemera] Harry B. Per-Lee
Washington, DC / Washington Barracks: Reprinted by Central Map Reproduction Plant - Engineer School U.S. Army, 1918. Very Good. Washington, DC / Washington Barracks: Reprinted by Central Map Reproduction Plant - Engineer School U.S. Army, 1918. Reprint. Various paginations for each content section. Three ring binder housed in flexible leather boards. Light scuffing and edgewear; binding sound; pages... Read More
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![Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passe Avec des Moralitez [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/568/804/1582804568.0.m.jpg)
Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passe Avec des Moralitez [Limited Edition]
by Perrault; Jean Lebedeff [illus.]
Paris: Editions A. Tallone, 1944. Near Fine. Paris: Éditions A. Tallone, 1944. First Thus, Limited to 2025 copies of which this is no. 1428. Small oblong 24mo; publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers housed in original paper-covered chemise and slipcase; woodcut illus. throughout. A hint of wear to slipcase, else a Near Fine example.
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Contes des Fees
by Charles Perrault
Paris: J. Langlume / Theodore Lefevre, 1850. Very Good+. Paris: J. Langlumé / Théodore Lefèvre, n.d., ca. 1850s. Nouvelle Edition. 12mo; publisher's white paper-covered boards printed chromolithograph in four colors; viii,207pp.; engraved frontispiece and added title page, ten (10) leaves of plates, collated complete. Very light rubbing to board margins, spine a bit toned, else a Very Good... Read More
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Harangue Faicte de la Part de la Chambre Ecclésiastique, en celle du tiers Estat, sur l'Article du Serment
by Jacques Davy du Perron
Paris: Antoine Estiene, 1615. Very Good-. Paris: Par Antoine Estiene, Imprimeur du Roy, 1615. First Edition. Quarto (24cm.); later mustard paper-covered boards; [4],114,[2]pp.; printer's woodcut device to title page, initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout. Top half of spine starting to separate with small loss at spine crown, boards a bit unevenly toned and lightly damp stained, soil along... Read More
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The Franks, from their first appearance in history to the death of King Pepin
by Walter C. Perry
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857. Very Good. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (22cm); contemporary full red gilt-ruled calf, elaborate gilt spine in six compartments, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; xii,508pp. Leather a bit scuffed and rubbed at margins, brief soil to both boards, spine dulled, else Very Good... Read More
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