Novel with Cocaine
by Ageyev, M.
New York: E.P. Dutton Inc, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Translated and with an Introduction by Henry Heim. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($15.95). Quarter white cloth with cream paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, lightly soiled at the top edge, clean internally. Ageyev's previously forgotten novel about a young man's drug-fueled coming-of-age... Read More
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The Linden Affair
by Albrand, Martha
New York: Random House, 1956. Hardcover. Good/Near Fine. Second Printing. Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.00), lightly rubbed at the edges. Quarter blue cloth with grey paper on the boards. Bound with a forward lean, former owner's initials on the front endpaper, clean otherwise.
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Earthworks
by Aldiss, Brian W.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Aldiss on the title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.50), lighlty toned, soiled at the back panel. Grey cloth with black ink lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a forward lean, bookplate on the front endpaper, clean otherwise.... Read More
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Galactic Empires Volumes I and II
by Aldiss, Brian
New York: Avon, 1979. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Edited by Brian Aldiss. Good. Wraps generally rubbed, many creases, a few shallow chips on the bottom edge of Volume I. Square and firmly bound, some stains at the preliminaries, clean otherwise.
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Hell's Cartographers; Some Personal Histories of Science Fiction Writers
by Aldiss, Brian W.; Harrison, Harry
New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Edited by Aldiss and Harrison. Introduction by Aldiss. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($7.95). Quarter yellow cloth with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of autobiographical sketches by Robert Silverberg, Alfred Bester, Harry Harrison, Damon Knight, Frederik, Pohl, and... Read More
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Alexie, Sherman
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($21), faded at the spine, lightly rubbed at the edges. Blue cloth, bumped at the corners, with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's information written on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. The... Read More
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Ben Logan's Triumph
by Alger Jr., Horatio
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. About Very Good, no jacket. Beige cloth, lightly rubbed and soiled, with black, red, and blue ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square, bound with some reading wear, soiled at the edges and on the surface of a few pages, mostly clean.... Read More
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Ragged Dick; Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-blacks
by Alger Jr., Horatio
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine. Introduction by Michael Anesko. Fine. Dark blue leather with gilt lettering and designs on the boards. Square and firmly bound with gilt edges and a sewn-in bookmark, with the unusued and laid-in bookplate and original receipt.
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The Neon Wilderness
by Algren, Nelson
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Very Good in a Fair jacket, unclipped ($2.50), generally toned, larges chips and long tears throughout. Green cloth, unevenly faded, bumped at the corners, with brown ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a dark topstain, former owner's signature inside the front board,... Read More
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The Man With the Golden Arm [50th Anniversary Critical Edition]
by Algren, Nelson
New York: Seven Stories Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Edited by William Savage and Daniel Simon. Inscribed by Savage on the front endpaper. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($35.00), faintly rubbed and bumped. Black paper on the boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Algren's best-known work, the... Read More
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Chicago: City on the Make
by Algren, Nelson
Garden City: Doubleday, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($1.50), generally soiled, some chips and scuffs at the spinel. Quarter black buckram with gray cloth on the boards. Square and firmly bound with a dark topstain, clean internally. From the jacket: "Here is the story of the whole spectacular span, the... Read More
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The Man With the Golden Arm
by Algren, Nelson
Garden City: Doubleday, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), generally toned, rubbed and bumped at the edgs with some short tears and shallow chips. Beige cloth with red and green ink lettering and design on the spine edge. Square and firmly bound with a green top stain, former owner's signature... Read More
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Who Lost an American
by Algren, Nelson
New York: Macmillan Company, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Second Printing. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($5.95), toned, a chip at the foot of the spine. Quarter grey cloth, toned at the spine to match the chip, with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound with a red topstain, clean internally. A kind of travelogue... Read More
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The Clash of Fundamentalisms; Crusades, Jihads and Modernity
by Ali, Tariq
New York: Verso, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($22). Quarter white cloth with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Ali's work that frames the United States's wars in the Middle East after 9/11 as "a clash of fundamentalisms, religious versus imperial.
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A Time We Knew; Images of Yesterday in the Masque Homeland
by Allard, William Albert; Laxalt, Robert
Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed on the half-title by Allard to fellow photography Ray Lustig, with an additional signed Christmas card from the Allard's to the Lustigs. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), faded a shade on the spine, lightly bumped at the edges. Black cloth with silver gilt... Read More
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The Photographic Essay
by Allard, William Albert
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. By Erla Zwingle and Russell Hart. Introduction by Sean Callahan. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Allard to fellow photographer Ray Lustig, with a signed invitation to an Allard retrospective in Steamboat Springs. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($40.00), bumped at the head of the spine,... Read More
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Vanishing Breed; Photographs of the Cowboy and the West
by Allard, William Albert; McGuane, Thomas
Boston: The New York Graphic Society | Little, Brown & Co, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Allard to fellow photographer Ray Lustig, additionally signed on the half-title, also with a signed card featuring one of Allard's cowboy photographs, a handwritten wedding invitation illustrated with the same cowboy photograph, and another signed laid-in... Read More
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The Reluctant Hangman and Other Stories of Crime
by Allen, Grant
Boulder: The Aspen Press, 1973. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Original illustrations by Alfred Pearse and Signey Paget. Edited by Tom and Enid Schantz, who have inscribed this copy on the half-title. Near Fine. Wraps creased near the spine. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the top edge, clean internally. This chapbook collects three of Allen's stories, "The... Read More
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The Bakke Case and Affirmative Action
by Allen, Robert L.
Berkeley: National Committee to Overturn the Bakke Decision, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Good. With a laid-in folded leaf pamphlet "The Bakke Case and Education." Very Good. Wraps lightly toned and bumped, a red stain at the bottom of the front wrap. Firmly bound with two staples, clean internally. Allen's history of the Bakke case with discussion about institutional... Read More
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Slave Songs of the United States
by Allen, William Francis; et al.
New York: A. Simpson and Co, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Introduction by Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison. Inscribed by a Garrison family member on the half-title page. Good. Lighty Brown cloth, splitting along the front joint and with a tear across the spine, clean otherwise. Square and firmly bound with brown endpapers, clean internally.... Read More
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Flowers for the Judge
by Allingham, Margery
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped but with the price missing from an apparent sticker removal, generally rubbed and toned, chips and tears at the edges. Tan cloth, soiled and bumped at the corners. Bound with a forward lean and some reading wear. An Allingham murder... Read More
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Wells Fargo and Danger Station
by Allison, Sam
Racine: Whitman Publishing Company, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated by Robert L. Jenney. Authorized TV Edition. Very Good. Glossy board, lightly bumped and rubbed. Square and firmly bound, stained edges, toned and brittling paper.
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The Second Book of the Strange
by Editors of the World Almanac
Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Near Fine. Review copy with the slip and announcement letter laid-in. Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($16.95), toned wraps, bumped at the edges. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, missing the front endpaper, ownership signature of Tom Benson on the half-title, clean otherwise.... Read More
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How to Double the Performance of Your Car
by Almquist, Edgar
New York: Eugene Stevens, Inc, 1955. Paperback. Near Fine. Fifth Printing. With special material by Vince Lombardi. Near Fine. Wraps with a small crease at the lower-right corner on the front. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A layperson's guide to car modifications, including improving gas mileage, horsepower, and longevity.
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The March of Philosophy; A History and an Exposition
by Alpern, Henry
New York: The Dial Press, Inc, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, clipped (stamped 129), generally toned, rubbed, small tears and chips at the edges. Blue cloth, rubbed and with some fraying at the edges. Square, bound with some reading wear, toned endpapers, clean otherwise. The Harvard professor's history of philosophy written for a... Read More
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