EXECUTIVE POWER (Inscribed)
by FLYNN, Vince
New York: Atria Books, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY VINCE FLYNN. First Edition/First Printing. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 372 pp.
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The Mystery Hideout (Signed)
by Follett, Ken
New York (1990): Morrow Junior Books. First American Edition. Fine/Fine. Stephen Marchesi. octavo, 88 pages; publisher's black cloth spine over grey boards, red end papers; original pictorial dust jacket, with price of $12.95 on front flap. SIGNED by the author on title page. A beautiful copy.
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Football, Early: Program, West Virginia Vs. Marietta
by Early Football
Morgantown, 1919. Very Good. octavo, printed on gray card stock, a bi-fold sheet, 4 pages. Program shows the roster for each team, name, number, position and weight for each player as well as substitutes. Game time and place is shown on front: "Athletic Field, Morgantown / Saturday, September 27 / 1919. Very good, with fold across center. ... Read More
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Five Dissertations on Fever
by Fordyce, George, M.D., F.R.S.
Boston: Bradford & Read, 1815. First American Edition. Good. octavo, 442[2], original boards, leather spine with paper label. Uncut. Some off-setting and foxing in most of text. upper fore-corner of title page clipped (2 cm x 7 cm).
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HORNBLOWER AND THE HOTSPUR
by Forester, C.S.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. 344pp. Bound in light blue cloth, spine lettering gilt. A fine copy in a near fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket.
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Long Before Forty
by Forester, C. S.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1967. First American Edition. Fine/Fine. octavo, first American edition, stated. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. The manuscript for this autobiography of the author of the Horatio Hornblower series, was found in a safe deposit box, after the author's death. A lovely copy, internally clean and bright, with no markings... Read More
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THE SKY AND THE FOREST
by Forester, C.S.
London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. First issue, with period at end of page 210. 219pp. Bound in brick cloth. Fine in unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear and a few short tape mends to underside.
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CAPTAIN HORNBLOWER RN
by Forester, C.S.
London: MIchael Joseph, 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. A trilogy of stories comprising Hornblower and the Hotspur, The Happy Return and A Ship of the line. 608pp. Bound in blue cloth, spine lettering gilt. A fine copy in a near fine clipped pictorial dust jacket.
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The Life of Charles Dickens, with 500 Portraits, Facsimiles and Other Illustrations
by Forster, John
London: Chapman & Hall, 1911. Very Good+. large octavo, 2 volumes, publisher's original green cloth, spine decorated in gilt. Extra illustrated, with facsimilies of wrappers to Dickens major works. Collected, arranged and annotated by B. W. Matz. Frontispiece in each volume. The Memorial Edition; errata in volume I, following page xxxiv. The Self-Kenyon Starling copy, with their bookplates... Read More
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The United Nations in the World Political Economy. Macmillan International Political Economy Series
by Forsythe, David P. (ed.)
London: Macmillan, 1989. First Edition. Fine/About Fine. octavo, 239 pages; publisher's gray cloth, printed in gilt, original dust jacket. Professor Richard Dale's copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown. Professor Dale was an author, an expert on international politics, and he delivered many lectures before the United Nations.
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Rois De France. Original Manuscript
by Fort, Paul
Paris, 1930. Unbound. Near Fine. Paul Fort's original manuscript, neatly and beautifully written in ink; quarto, 79 leaves of heavy cream paper and laid loose into a green portfolio. Paul Fort drew much of his inspiration from the Middle Ages, and the aballad form that he used almost exclusively was taken from the same period. He filled some... Read More
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Livre D'Esperance, La Joie Francaise Vaincra Les Temps Sans Joie
by Fort, Paul (SIGNED)
Paris (c. 1932): Armand Jules Klein. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Dernier. Folio. Unpaginated, original pictorial wrappers, printed in black and green; Dernier portrait by Paul Fort. Number 11 of 300 copies printed for friends of the author. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY PAUL FORT TO MADAME CHRISTIAN SHRAM JUNIOR, with a warm 5 line inscription, in French. A near... Read More
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Rois De France
by Fort, Paul (SIGNED)
Paris: Armand Jules Klein, 1931. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Gino Severini. Folio. Number 49 of 200 copies. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY PAUL FORT TO MADAME CHRISTIAN SCHRAM JUNIOR, and with a 10 line holograph poem, initialed "P.F." and dated "Paris, Mai 1931." And with an excellent nine page autograph letter signed to the dedicatee of the book, from... Read More
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Contes De Ma Soeur l'Oie
by Fort, Paul (SIGNED)
Paris: Armand Jules Klein, 1931. Original Wraps. Very Good. Gino Severini. Folio. Original pictorial wrappers, printed in black and red. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY PAUL FORT TO MADAME CHRISTIAN SCHRAM JUNIOR, with a bound-in page stating: "Exemplaire de Madame Christian Schram Junior" also with a 10 line poem, initialed and dated "1932" my Mr. Fort. Number 35 of... Read More
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SUR LES VITESSES RELATIVES DE LA LUMIERE DANS L'AIR ET DANS L'EAU. In Annales De Chimie et De Physiques, Vol. 41, 1854, Pp. 129-164 (Foucault's Doctoral Dissertation)
by FOUCAULT, Leon
Paris: Victor Masson, 1854. Quarter Leather. Very Good++. Octavo. Offered is a very good++ entire Vol. 41 of Annales de Chimie et de Physique in nice quarter brown leather binding and marbled paper covered boards with raised bands spine, gilt lettering on black leather spine label. Light rubbing cover edges, scattered foxing. Complete with the foldout plate demonstrating... Read More
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Dead Cert (Signed)
by Francis, Dick
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962. First Edition. Octavo, 220 pages; Signed by the author on the title page. First edition stated. Ex Library, with library stamps on pastedowns and ffep; library card pocket on rear free end paper. Very good dust jacket, with price on front flap, blacked out. Otherwise, book and dust jacket are very good.... Read More
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Bolt (Inscribed)
by Francis, Dick
New York: G. P. Putnam, 1987. First American Edition. Fine/Fine. octavo, 318 pages; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $17.95 on front flap. INSCRIBED on half-title "Hi Arthur! / Dick Francis" - first printing with full number line on copyright page. Inscribed to mystery collector Arthur Parson.
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RISK
by Francis, Dick
New York: Harper & Row, 1977. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. Fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket with small closed tear and minimal edge wear. 240 pp.
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The Edge (Inscribed)
by Francis, Dick
New York: G. P. Putnam, 1989. First American Edition. Fine/Fine. octavo, 324 pages; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $18.95 on front flap. INSCRIBED on half-title "Hi Arthur! / Dick Francis" - first printing with full number line on copyright page. Inscribed to mystery collector Arthur Parson.
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Nerve (Signed)
by Francis, Dick
New York: Harper & Row, 1964. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 273 pages; first edition stated, with "B-O" on copyright. SIGNED on a bookplate, which is laid-in. Dust jacket is price clipped. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.
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Flashman. From the Flashman Papers 1839 - 1842
by Fraser, George Macdonald
New York & Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1969. First Edition. Fine/About Fine. octavo, 256 pages; pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped. Author's first book, First American edition and first World printing, stated.
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BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE. The International Psycho-Analytical Library No. 4
by Freud, Sigmund
London: International Psycho-Analytical Press, 1922. Hard Cover. Very Good++. A Very Good++ hardback First British Edition First Printing in original green cloth binding with gilt lettering spine and front cover. No mention of the Hogarth Press on title page. Mild cover edge wear. 8vo. 90 pp.
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Uber Psychoanalyse: Funf Vorlesungen Gehalten Zur 20jahrigen Grundungsfeier Der Clark University in Worcester MA, September 1909
by Freud, Sigmund
LEIPZIG: Franz Deuticke, 1916. Hard Cover. Fine. Third edition, octavo, 62 pages; the first edition was in 1910. Green cloth, gilt lettering on spine; Freud's very popular treatise on psychoanalysis. A fine copy.
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Psychopathologie Des Alltagslebens (uber Vergessen, Versprechen, Vergreifen, Aberglaube Und irrtum)
by Freud, Sigmund
Berlin: Verlag Von S. Karger, 1907. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Second revised edition; octavo, 132 pages; half black cloth over black and gold pebbled boards. Neat owner name on front pastedown; light wear at spine ends; a very good+ copy.
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Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy
by Friedrich, Carl J. and Brzezinski, Zbigniew K.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956. First Edition. Very Good. 12mo, 346 pages; original tan cloth, spine printed in black. No dust jacket, some pencil underlining. Professor Richard Dale's copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown. Professor Dale was an author, a scholar on international politics and he delivered many lectures before the United Nations.
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