French Warships in the Age of Sail 1626-1786: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
by Rif Winfield; Stephen S. Roberts
Yorkshire, UK: Seaforth Publishing, 2017. Very Good/Very Good. Yorkshire, UK: Seaforth Publishing, 2017. First Edition. Quarto; 438pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket; brown boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket worn along edges with a few short tears and creasing. Boards show light wear to edges; binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good.
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French Warships in the Age of Sail 1786-1861: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates
by Rif Winfield; Stephen S. Roberts
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2015. Very Good/Very Good. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2015. First American Edition. Quarto; 464pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket; brown cloth boards stamped in gilt. Light wear and creasing to edges of dust jacket. Boards shelfworn; binding sound; pages unmarked; Very Good and sound.
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Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868
by Robert T. Singer et al.
Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1998. Near Fine. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1998. First Edition (published simultaneously with First Edition in cloth). Quarto (31x29x3.5cm); 480pp, including bibliography and index. Approximately 400 color images, including the 281 catalogued items. Pictorial card wraps with generous French flaps. Catalog of the 1998-99 exhibit at the National Gallery... Read More
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![Tiger Flower [Inscribed and Signed by Vavra]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/865/259/1598259865.0.m.jpg)
Tiger Flower [Inscribed and Signed by Vavra]
by Robert Vavra; Fleur Cowles [illus.]; Yehudi Menuhin [pref.]
London: Collins, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. London: Collins, 1968. First Edition. Slim quarto; publisher's simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (25s); [48]pp.; full color illus. throughout, several leaves with circular die-cuts. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few tiny chips and short closed tears, verso lightly foxed, corners tapped, else a Very Good,... Read More
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![Housekeeping [Uncorrected Proof Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/540/561/1699561540.0.m.jpg)
Housekeeping [Uncorrected Proof Copy]
by Marilynne Robinson
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. Very Good +. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980. Uncorrected Proof. Octavo paperback (21cm); 194pp. Publisher’s salmon wraps with black lettering. Wrapping curled at fore-edge and torn at top left corner of front panel. Spine toned and worn with small bump at middle. Binding sound. Textblock and endsheets lightly toned; interior pages... Read More
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![Gallows View: An Inspector Banks Mystery [Advance Reader's Edition] [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/876/561/1608561876.0.m.jpg)
Gallows View: An Inspector Banks Mystery [Advance Reader's Edition] [Signed]
by Peter Robinson
Markham, Ontario, Canada: Viking, 1987. Very Good +. Markham, Ontario, Canada: Viking, 1987. "Special Advance Reader's Edition." Octavo; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [10],225pp. Light shelf wear, brief soil spot to textblock fore-edge not bleeding into text, else Very Good and sound. Signed by the author on title page. The author's first book and the first detective novel... Read More
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![Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories [Limited Edition, Signed with original tipped in typescript leaf]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/307/610/1418610307.0.m.jpg)
Not Safe After Dark & Other Stories [Limited Edition, Signed with original tipped in typescript leaf]
by Peter Robinson
Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 1998. Fine/Near Fine. Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 1998. First Edition (stated, with full numberline). Limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 184. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [2],227pp. "Signed by the Author" sticker on front jacket panel, else Fine. Special limited edition, signed... Read More
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![Past Reason Hated: An Inspector Banks Mystery [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/124/236/1609236124.0.m.jpg)
Past Reason Hated: An Inspector Banks Mystery [Signed]
by Peter Robinson
Toronto: Viking, 1991. Near Fine/Very Good +. Toronto: Viking, 1991. First Canadian Edition, with full numberline. Quarto (23.2 cm), 338pp. Teal publisher's dust jacket. Black cloth bound boards with gilt stamping on spine. Dust jacket has some minor scratches and wear and is lightly sunned on the spine. Board corners sharp with minor bumping to the front top... Read More
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![In a Dry Season [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/016/512/1608512016.0.m.jpg)
In a Dry Season [Signed]
by Peter Robinson
Toronto: Viking, 1999. Very Good/Very Good. Toronto: Viking, 1999. First Canadian Edition with full numberline. Octavo (23.5cm); [x],405pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $32.00 price intact; boards in dark green and black cloth with dark green lettering to spine. Jacket lightly shelfworn with some nudging and rubbing at head of spine. Boards sturdy and square, also with light nudging... Read More
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![Caedmon's Song [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/022/512/1608512022.0.m.jpg)
Caedmon's Song [Signed]
by Peter Robinson
Toronto: Viking, 1990. Very Good/Very Good. Toronto: Viking, 1990. First Canadian Edition with full numberline. Octavo (23.5cm); [viii],247pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $24.95 price intact; boards in blue-gray and red cloth with blue-gray lettering to spine. Jacket a bit shelfworn with rubbing and light creasing at spine ends and some faint dust-soiling to surface. Boards are square with... Read More
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The Medbury Fort Murder
by George Limnelius [pseud. Lewis George Robinson]
Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. Very Good. Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's black cloth stamped in red; [8],311pp. Binding rather crudely recased, light shelf wear, spine a bit cocked and cloth faded, small white soil spot to front cover, else Very... Read More
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![The Man Who Died Twice [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/218/974/1714974218.0.m.jpg)
The Man Who Died Twice [Signed]
by Edwin Arlington Robinson
New York: Macmillan Company, 1924. Near Fine. New York: Macmillan Company, 1924. First Edition. Large, slim octavo (26cm); publisher's black cloth over grey boards, grey printed paper labels to upper cover and spine, in original paper-covered slipcase; [8],79pp. Slipcase quite chipped and worn at margins, contemporary ex libris to front pastedown and Brentano's bookseller ticket to rear pastedown,... Read More
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Bill the Minder
by W. Heath Robinson
New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1912. Very Good. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1912. First American Edition. Large octavo; publisher's olive green gilt-stamped cloth, color pictorial paste-on to upper cover; xiv,[2],254pp.; color frontispiece, fifteen leaves of plates, half-tone text illus. throughout. Moderate shelf wear to cloth margins, spine a shade faded; overall a Very Good, internally... Read More
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Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage. Volume 1: Margery Allingham to John D. MacDonald
by Robin W. Winks [ed.]; Maureen Corrigan [ed.]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons / Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1998. Very Good +. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons / Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1998. First Edition. Quarto. 631 pp. Illustrated boards. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Volume One only of a two volume set, part of the Scribner Writers Series. Light wear to joints... Read More
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Montserrat: Play in Two Acts
by Lillian Hellman; Emmanuel Robles
New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1950. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1950. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.25); photographic frontispiece. Light shelf wear and toning to jacket margins including a few minute chips, minor dust-soil, else a Near Fine copy in a Very Good... Read More
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![Bone Modification [with] Abstracts from the First International Conference on Bone Modification [Lawrence E. Aten's copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/964/504/1496504964.0.m.jpg)
Bone Modification [with] Abstracts from the First International Conference on Bone Modification [Lawrence E. Aten's copy]
by Robson Bonnichsen; Marcella H. Sorg [eds.]
Orono: Center for the Study of the First Americans, 1989. Very Good/Very Good. Orono: Center for the Study of the First Americans, 1989. First Edition. Quarto (11.25" x 8.75"); xi; 535pp. Photos and charts throughout. Illustrated dust jacket; bound in blue buckram with white lettering to spine. Jacket shows an inch closed tear at top front, with light... Read More
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Ransom!
by Arthur Somers Roche
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1918. Very Good. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1918. Later printing without publisher's colophon to copyright page. Octavo. 312 pp. Apricot cloth stamped in black. Pictorial endpapers. Lacks dust jacket. Light edgewear to boards with some spotting and smudging. Binding is sound. Pages unmarked.
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Principes et Questions de Morale Naturelle, destinés à servir de supplément et de correctif aux Œuvres morales de la Rochefoucauld
by François de la Rochefoucauld
Paris: Delance et Lesueur, 1804. Very Good. Paris: Delance et Lesueur, 1804. Nouvelle Édition. 12mo; full contemporary tree calf, gilt spine with two red onlays, marbled endpapers; [4],301pp. Boards a bit scuffed with brief exposure at corners, a few late leaves with closed horizontal tear mid-fore-edge touching text without loss of sense, else a Very Good copy in... Read More
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Maximes
by La Rochefoucauld
London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902. Very Good+. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902. 12mo (16.5cm.); full contemporary black gilt-tooled morocco by Matchard's, spine in six compartments, top edge gilt; [4],209pp. Just a hint of wear, textblock very lightly foxed, later ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else a Very Good or better example in an attractive fine binding.
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A Second Folding Cigar
by Roger Erickson [ed.]
Brooklyn, NY: Folding Cigar Press, 1980. Very Good. Brooklyn, NY: Folding Cigar Press, 1980. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); publisher's cloth tape over yellow pictorial card wrappers; [20]ll. printed on rectos only. Light wear and soil to wrappers, else a Very Good copy of this uncommon zine.
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The First Folding Cigar
by Roger Erickson [ed.]
Brooklyn, NY: Folding Cigar Press, 1978. Very Good. [Brooklyn, NY]: [Folding Cigar Press], [1978]. First Edition. Slim oblong quarto (21.5x28cm); publisher's cloth tape over yellow pictorial card wrappers; [38]pp.; illustrations throughout, some in color. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, else a Very Good and sound example of the inaugural issue of this rare artist's zine. Publication information... Read More
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The Fourth Folding Cigar
by Roger Erickson [ed.]
Brooklyn, NY: Folding Cigar Press, 1985. Very Good. Brooklyn, NY: Folding Cigar Press, 1985. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm); publisher's white photo-illustrated card wrappers; [120]pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear to margins, else a Very Good and sound copy of this uncommon art and poetry periodical.
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History of the Town of Paris and the Valley of the Sauquoit; Pioneers and Early Settlers; Merchants, Mechanics and Manufacturers; Soldiers of the Revolution; Veterans of 1812; Boys in Blue of the Great Rebellion..
by Henry C. Rogers
Utica, NY: White & Floyd, Printers, Corner Broad and John Streets, 1881. Very Good. Utica, NY: White & Floyd, Printers, Corner Broad and John Streets, 1881. First Edition. Octavo. 398 pp. + iv pp. contents bound at rear. Frontis; black and white illustrations. Brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. Boards show moderate wear and fraying along edges... Read More
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White Velvet
by Sax Rohmer
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Later Printing. Octavo; [vi], 337pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; book in yellow cloth with black lettering and illustration to spine. Jacket shows a number of shallow chips and tears along edges and spine ends, with tape repair to... Read More
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The Golden Scorpion Omnibus
by Sax Rohmer
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1938. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1920 [but 1938]. Omnibus Edition. Octavo; [vi], 385pp. Illustrated dust jacket over purple boards with yellow lettering and design. Jacket edgeworn with a few shallow tears, scuffing down folds, and some foxing to back panel. Boards are square and sturdy, with light fading to... Read More
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