S.R.O.
by Robert Deane Pharr
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1971. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1971. First Edition Stated. Thick octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($7.95); [6],569pp. Some moderate chipping and wear to jacket margins, rear free endpaper torn and wrinkled, otherwise contents clean and sound. An About Very Good example. ... Read More
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![The Overseers of the Poor of the City of Boston, To Their Constituents [Caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/786/901/1637901786.0.m.jpg)
The Overseers of the Poor of the City of Boston, To Their Constituents [Caption title]
by [Boston] [Philanthropy]
Boston: [s.i.], 1823. Very Good. [Boston]: [s.i.], 1823. First Edition. Octavo. 32 pp. Bound in plain wrappers with contemporary hand-written title label to front cover; somewhat later endpapers.Half-title to another publication bound in at end. Wraps chipped, sheets uniformly toned; mild spotting; name (signature?) of Benjamin French to title, brief marginalia, else legible throughout and Very Good. ... Read More
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Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son Philip Stanhope, Esq; Late Envoy Extraordinary at the Court of Dresden: Together with several other pieces on various subjects
by Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield; Eugenia Stanhope [publisher]
London: Eugenia Stanhope / J. Dodsley, 1774. Good+. London: Published by Eugenia Stanhope / Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall, 1774. First Edition, Second Issue with corrected "qui auroit" (Vol. I, p. 55, line 16). Two volumes; quartos (29.5cm.); 19th-century calf over marbled paper-covered boards, black gilt-lettered spine labels; vii,[1],568; [2],606,[2]pp. (lacking half title pages, otherwise collated complete... Read More
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![Poems on Several Occasions [WITH] The Splendid Shilling [WITH] Cyder. A Poem](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/666/214/1682214666.0.m.jpg)
Poems on Several Occasions [WITH] The Splendid Shilling [WITH] Cyder. A Poem
by John Philips
London: V.p., 1728. Very Good-. Three volume in one. Mixed Editions. 12mo (16cm); full contemporary gilt-ruled calf, unadorned spine in six compartments. Joints cracked but still holding at cords, margins rubbed, gilt quite dulled, a few scars to rear cover leather, old bookseller description and manuscript notes to front pastedown, contemporary ownership signature to title page of first... Read More
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Choice of Violence
by Hugh Pentecost [pseud. Judson Pentecost Philips]
New York: Dodd, Mead &Company, 1961. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead &Company, 1961. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth cover in red with the Red Badge Detective series logo in white, in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($2.95); 209pp. Foxing along the textblock fore-edge, light glue stain running from the head to the tail of the... Read More
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![They Were Seven (A Mystery) [Jacket title: They Were 7]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/487/866/1606866487.0.m.jpg)
They Were Seven (A Mystery) [Jacket title: They Were 7]
by Eden Phillpotts
New York: Macmillan Company, 1945. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Macmillan Company, 1945. First American Edition, First Printing Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in clipped pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); [6],371pp. Jacket chipped and worn along extremities with several tiny losses and ragged short closed tears with subsequent creasing, rear panel a bit dust-soiled, corners tapped,... Read More
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Address Unknown
by Eden Phillpotts
London: Hutchinson & Co, 1949. Very Good/Very Good. London: Hutchinson & Co., n.d. [1949]. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 219pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins (old tape repair to verso), textblock margins and dust jacket verso quite foxed, cloth spine lettering significantly dulled, foxing to endpapers and edges of textblock, else a Very... Read More
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![The Anniversary Murder [Alt. title: Physician Heal Thyself]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/585/111/1604111585.0.m.jpg)
The Anniversary Murder [Alt. title: Physician Heal Thyself]
by Eden Phillpotts
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1936. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1936. First American Edition (First Edition stated). Octavo; publisher's cloth, black topstain, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); 288pp. Jacket rather rubbed and worn with extensive old tape repair to verso, rear panel quite spotted and dust-soiled, cloth a... Read More
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Ghostwater
by Eden Phillpotts
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. Very Good -/Very Good. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (21cm); [vi],285pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; boards in red cloth with black lettering to spine. Chips and shallow tears along jacket edges, with a good bit of smudging / soiling to rear panel,... Read More
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Bred in the Bone
by Eden Phillpotts
New York: Macmillan Company, 1933. Very Good/Very Good +. New York: Macmillan Company, 1933. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth, yellow topstain, in yellow dust jacket printed in red and black retaining original price ($2.00); [10],278pp. Very light wear to jacket and cloth margins, spine slightly cocked, endpapers toned, else a Very Good or better copy.
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Flower of the Gods
by Eden Phillpotts
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1943. First Edition. Octavo; gray cloth boards stamped in black; pictorial price clipped dust jacket; 296pp. Board corners very lightly bumped with slight exposure on back fore-edge corner, bookseller label with date and initials in pen on rear paste down, soil spot at bottom... Read More
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![Polemic: A Journal of Contemporary Ideas, Vol. IV No. 1 Spring 1959 [with Typed Note Signed from Roy Lichtenstein]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/625/565/1699565625.0.m.jpg)
Polemic: A Journal of Contemporary Ideas, Vol. IV No. 1 Spring 1959 [with Typed Note Signed from Roy Lichtenstein]
by Phillip M. Kadis [ed.]; Roy Lichtenstein [cover]; Herman Hesse, Roger Zelazny et al. [contrib.]
Cleveland, OH: Case Western University, 1959. Very Good/Very Good. [Cleveland, OH]: Polemic Society of Western Reserve University [Case Western Reserve University], 1959. Magazine (25cm); 135pp. Lichtenstein’s woodcut dust jacket with wine text to front panel; stiff staple-bound wrappers. All ten woodcuts and relief etchings present. Jacket predictably bumped and toned, especially along spine, with surface-level scratches to front... Read More
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Sweethearts
by Jayne Anne Phillips
Carrboro: Truck Press, 1976. Very Good. Carrboro: Truck Press, 1976. Limited First Edition of 400 copies. Thin quarto (10.75" x ~6.75"); unpaginated. Photo-illustrated paper wraps. Covers lightly rubbed and curled at corners, with toning along edges and some light foxing at bottom front. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Author's first collection.
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The Poems of Phillis Wheatley [Signed and Inscribed by Mason]
by Phillis Wheatley; Julian D. Mason, Jr. [ed. & intro.]
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1966. Very Good. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (22.2cm); publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering; lx;113pp; portrait frontis and facsimiles. Missing dust jacket. Boards are square with a few faint scuffs and bumping at spine head. Binding sound and pages unmarked. ... Read More
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The Nursery
by Eden Phillpotts
London: William Heinemann, 1917. Very Good -. London: William Heinemann, 1917. First Edition. Octavo (19 cm); 300pp + 20ads. No dust wrapper. Full bound in plum cloth with black and blind stamping. Corners and spine ends bumped and worn with sunning to spine, scuffing to covers, and dust soiling overall. First free endsheet and flyleaf torn at gutter... Read More
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Yellow Sands: A Comedy in Three Acts
by Eden and Adelaide Phillpotts
London: Duckworth, 1926. Very Good/Good. London: Duckworth, 1926. First Edition. Small octavo; green boards stamped in black; yellow dust jacket with black titling; 143pp. Dust jacket neatly split along front spine edge with small loss at crown, dark dampstaining to dust jacket spine crown bleeding into both panels with brief paper remnants to cloth spine crown, light toning... Read More
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Brother Beast
by Eden Phillpotts
London: Martin Secker, 1928. Very Good +/Very Good. London: Martin Secker, 1928. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in tan decorative dust jacket; 81pp. Light wear and toning to jacket margins, rather dark offsetting from boards to jacket verso not visible externally, else a Very Good and sound copy overall. Uncommon poetry collection by the prolific... Read More
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![Fleuve Flaneur [Limited Edition, Signed by Waldman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/802/146/1605146802.0.m.jpg)
Fleuve Flaneur [Limited Edition, Signed by Waldman]
by Mary Kite; Anne Waldman; Dave Kite [photographs]
Boulder, CO: Erudite Fangs Editions, 2004. Very Good +. Boulder: Erudite Fangs Editions, 2004. Limited First Edition of 250 copies. Signed by Waldman without inscription on title page. Quarto (28cm); publisher's white photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers; [8],21pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Covers are clean and crisp with one crease at top corner running throughout. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. ... Read More
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![On Boxing [Inscribed and Signed by Oates]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/269/993/1703993269.0.m.jpg)
On Boxing [Inscribed and Signed by Oates]
by Joyce Carol Oates; John Ranard [photography]
Garden City, NY: Dolphin/Doubleday, 1987. Near Fine/Very Good+. Garden City, NY: Dolphin/Doubleday, 1987. First Edition Stated. Slim octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; [8],118pp. Very light dust-soil to dust jacket else Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by Oates on title page, "For Frank Keenan - with warm regards, and best wishes on your birthday -... Read More
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Vidal in Venice [Signed by Vidal]
by Gore Vidal; George Armstrong [ed.]; Tore Gill [photography]
New York: Summit Books / Antelope, 1985. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Summit Books in Association with Antelope, [1985]. First Edition. Small quarto (27cm); publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 160pp.; color photographs throughout. Moderate wear and soil to jacket and board margins, spine a bit cocked, corners bumped; overall About Very Good, internally clean and sound.... Read More
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![[Promotional fan] "I'm a Loretta Lynn fan"..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/393/055/1715055393.0.m.jpg)
[Promotional fan] "I'm a Loretta Lynn fan"..
by [Loretta Lynn] Decca Records; Les Leverett [photographer]
Nashville, TN: Covington Sales Co, 1960. Very Good. Nashville, TN: Covington Sales Co., [ca. 1960]. Original promotional paddle fan featuring an early Lynn promotional photograph by Les Leverett. Minor scuffs and smudges; burn mark to edge; Very Good. In 1960 Lynn signed with Decca and the first Loretta Lynn Fan Club was born. Lynn was very soon one... Read More
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Turk Islemeleri / The Turkish Embroidery
by Nurhayat Berker; Virginia Taylor-Saclioglu; Sami Guner [photography]
Ankara, Turkey: Yapi Kredi, 1991. Near Fine/Very Good. [Ankara, Turkey]: Yapi Kredi, [1991]. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 534pp.; full color photographic illus. Light shelf wear to jacket margins, spine sunned, else Very Good and sound.
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Tam O'Shanter
by Robert Burns; E.H. Miller [illus.]; Gardner [photography]
New York: W.J. Widdleton, 1868. Good. New York: W.J. Widdleton, 1868. First Thus. Slim quarto; publisher's decorative green cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; [6],20pp.; albumen photographic frontispiece and six (of seven) albumen plates. Cloth a bit rubbed at extremities, most notably at spine ends and corners which show some exposure, front and rear... Read More
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Picture Magazine Issue #9
by Don Owens [ed.]; Louis Carlos Bernal [cover photograph]
Los Angeles, CA: Picture Magazine, 1978. Very Good+. Los Angeles, CA: Picture Magazine, 1978. First Edition. Oversized folio (48cm); publisher's photo-illustrated staple bound card wrappers; [24]pp.; chiefly photographic illus., many full color. Light wear and curling to wrapper margins, else Very Good or better. "The photographs in this issue of Picture Magazine are a small sampling... Read More
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I Have a Kind of Fear: Confessions from the writings of white teachers and black students in city schools
by Richard Larson and James Olson [eds.]; Howard M. Berliant [photography]
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1969. Very Good/Very Good. Chicago: Quadrangle, [1969]. First Edition. Square quarto; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket; 139pp.; black and white photographic illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few small chips and closed tears, faint foxing to cloth, heavier foxing to top textblock edge, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper... Read More
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