The Lost King of Oz
by Ruth Plumly Thompson; L. Frank Baum [Royal Historian of Oz]; John R. Neill [illus.]
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1925. Good. Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1925. First Edition, Second State with broken "k" on p 193. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth, color pictorial paste-on to upper cover, pictorial endpapers; 280pp.; color frontispiece and eleven plates (collated complete), additional text illus. throughout. Boards rather scuffed at margins, tiny loss at top... Read More
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Pirates in Oz
by Ruth Plumly Thompson; L. Frank Baum [Royal Historian of Oz]; John R. Neill [illus.]
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1931. Very Good. Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1931. First Edition in binding variant A with spine imprint in boldface. Large octavo. 280 pp. 12 color plates, including frontis, complete; numerous black-and-white in-text illustrations throughout. Dark green cloth stamped in black with front cover paper label full color illustration. Illustrated endpapers,... Read More
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Heartstones [Signed]
by Ruth Rendell; George Underwood [illus.]; Frank Delaney [ed.]
London: Hutchinson, 1987. Near Fine/Very Good +. London: Hutchinson, 1987. First Edition. Slim octavo (24 cm); 67pp. Black and white illust. throughout. Boards quarter-bound in black and brown cloth with gilt stamping, wrapped in publisher's unclipped, illustrated dust jacket (£6.95). Camel endsheets. Jacket gently scuffed and rubbed with minor scratches. Board corners gently bumped with shelfwear. Pages clean.... Read More
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Lawton Kennedy, Printer
by Ruth Teiser; James D. Hart [fwd.]
Mountain View, CA: The Book Club of California, 1988. Near Fine/Very Good +. Mountain View, CA: The Book Club of California, 1988. First Edition, Limited Edition of 450 copies. Tall octavo. 107pp. Illustrations. Plain gray dust jacket. Blue cloth over gray paper-covered boards stamped in gilt and with paper title label to spine; decorative endpapers. Light edgewear to... Read More
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Cannibals and Other Poems [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed]
by John Ruyle
Berkeley: Pequod Press, 1983. Fine. Berkeley: Pequod Press, 1983. First Edition, Limited to 30 copies of which this is no. 17. Slim octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's batik cloth, paper spine label printed in red (faded to pink); 35pp. Fine condition. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper: "For Helen Lee -- I think most of... Read More
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![The Best of It: New and Selected Poems [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/466/659/1695659466.0.m.jpg)
The Best of It: New and Selected Poems [Signed]
by Kay Ryan
New York: Grove Press, 2010. Very Good/Near Fine. New York: Grove Press, 2010. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; xiv,[2],270pp. Corners bumped, else Near Fine. Signed and dated in year of publication by the author. Selected poems by the former United States Poet Laureate. Flyer for... Read More
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Voigtlander and I: In Pursuit of Shadow Catching. A Story of Fifty-Two Years Companionship with a Camera
by James F. Ryder
Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Printing & Publishing Co., The Imperial Press, 1902. Very Good -. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Printing & Publishing Co., The Imperial Press, 1902. First Edition. Octavo. 251 pp. + advertisements. Black and white photographs, illustrations, and facsimile reproductions. Beige boards stamped in black. No dust jacket. Boards heavily smudged and soiled; corners... Read More
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The Clue of the Artificial Eye
by J.S. Fletcher
New York: Hillman-Curl, Inc. / A Clue Club Mystery, 1939. Very Good. New York: Hillman-Curl, Inc. / A Clue Club Mystery, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. 271 pp. Light blue boards stamped in black. Dark topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with brief exposure, toning to spine, and some general spotting and scuffing. Binding is sound. Abrasion... Read More
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Murder in Four Degrees: Being Entry Number Two in the Case-Book of Ronald Camberwell
by J.S. Fletcher
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. First American Edition. Octavo. 268pp + ads and 8pp preview of third entry in the series. Red-orange boards stamped in gray; dark topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Boards bumped at top corners and worn along edges with brief exposure and minor fraying; fading and soiling... Read More
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Daniel Quayne: A Morality
by J.S. Fletcher
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: George H. Doran Company, [n.d. but 1926]. Presumed First American Edition with GHD initials on title page verso, though dust jacket lacks price. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket, grey topstain; 304pp. Jacket a bit chipped with a few small closed tears... Read More
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Magic Seeds [Signed]
by V.S. Naipaul
London: Picador, 2004. Very Good/Very Good +. London: Picador, 2004. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo (22.2cm); illustrated dust jacket with £16.99 price intact; boards in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. [vi],[294]pp. Jacket clean and crisp with a bit of rubbing along top front edge and flap. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding sound and pages... Read More
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The Living Novel: A Journey of Rediscovery
by V.S. Pritchett
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. First Edition, with no additional printings listed. Octavo; 252pp. Printed dust jacket over beige boards with red lettering to spine. Price-clipped dust jacket shows an inch closed tear at top back along joint, with shallow creasing and a few smaller tears along edges,... Read More
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![Il Volgo di Roma: Raccolta di Tradizioni e Costumanze Popolari [Vol. I only]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/373/949/1376949373.0.m.jpg)
Il Volgo di Roma: Raccolta di Tradizioni e Costumanze Popolari [Vol. I only]
by Francesco Sabatini
Roma: Ermanno Loescher & Co, 1890. Very Good. Roma: Ermanno Loescher & Co., 1890. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm.); contemporary half vellum over decorative textured boards, black gilt-lettered spine onlay, top edge stained red, decorative endpapers; 252pp.; illus. Light spotting to vellum, spine a bit toned, boards slightly bowed, endpapers and title page somewhat browned due to inferior paper... Read More
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The Trampling of the Lilies
by Rafael Sabatini
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. Very Good/Very Good -. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. "New Edition" (Second American Edition). Octavo; publisher's cloth in cream pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; xii,268pp. Jacket significantly restored with color touch-ups along extremities and verso backed in archival tissue, with evidence of prior shallow chips and tears along edges; minor scuffing to cloth margins,... Read More
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The Lost King
by Rafael Sabatini
London: Hutchinson & Co. Publishers Ltd, 1937. Very Good/Very Good. London: Hutchinson & Co. Publishers Ltd., 1937. First Edition with publisher's catalog dated "Autumn 1937"at rear. Octavo. 415 pp. +advertisements. Restored illustrated dust jacket (details below) with 8'6 net price to spine. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt. Jacket restored with archival backing and color touch-up along... Read More
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The Tavern Knight
by Rafael Sabatini
London: Grant Richards, 1904. Very Good. London: Grant Richards, 1904. First Edition. Octavo. 303 pp. + 16 pp. publisher's catalog. Blue cloth stamped in white, red, and black. 4 black and white illustrations, including frontispiece with tissue guard, complete. No dust jacket. Housed in custom-made slipcase. Boards have been repaired with tears filled and colored in at... Read More
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The Carolinian
by Rafael Sabatini
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1925. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1925. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 414 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; boards in black cloth with orange lettering to spine. Jacket restored by prior owner with full backing in archival tissue and evidence of prior repair over... Read More
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Bellarion the Fortunate
by Rafael Sabatini
London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), Ltd, 1926. Very Good/Very Good. London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), Ltd., 1926. First Edition, later issue with no additional printings listed, 7/6 net price to jacket, but lacking publisher's ads to rear. C. Morse-illustrated dust jacket. Red grain cloth lettered in black. Dust jacket heavily restored by prior owner with archival... Read More
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The Justice of the Duke
by Rafael Sabatini
London: Stanley Paul & Co, 1925. Very Good. London: Stanley Paul & Co., [ca. 1925?]. Fifth Printing. Octavo. 286 pp. + 32 pp. publisher's catalog. Gray cloth stamped in brown. No dust jacket. 4 page publisher's promotional pamphlet laid in with additional insert for Damned, which mentions an accompanying film adaptation. Boards worn and scuffed; spine a... Read More
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Record of Public Hearing Before Joint Committee on the Judiciary of the Massachusetts Legislature on the Resolution of Representative Alexander J. Cella Recommending Posthumous Pardon for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
by [Sacco and Vanzetti] Massachusetts General Court, Joint Committee on the Judiciary
Boston: Committee for the Vindication of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1959. Very Good. [Boston]: Committee for the Vindication of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1959. First Edition. Slim quarto; publisher's blue printed card wrappers; [6],168pp.; illus., text printed from typescript. Wrapper margins rather toned, errata slip glued in (glue perished), else a Very Good, clean and sound copy.
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Walter de la Mare and The Traveller: Wharton Lecture on English Poetry, British Academy, 1953
by V. Sackville-West
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Amen House, 1953. Very Good. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Amen House, 1953. Tall octavo; [23]-36pp. Printed gray paper wraps. Covers clean and crisp, with very faint toning along edges, light glue rippling along spine, and a small number in pencil at top back. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Vita Sackville-West's lecture on de... Read More
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![The Blind Owl [Buf-e Kur] [Signed by D.P. Costello]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/482/579/1690579482.0.m.jpg)
The Blind Owl [Buf-e Kur] [Signed by D.P. Costello]
by Sadegh Hedayat; D.P. Costello [trans.]; Nancy Esdaile [illus.]
London: John Calder, 1957. Very Good/Very Good. London: John Calder, 1957. First English Language Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); publisher’s cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (15s); 134pp.; black and white illustrations throughout. Chipping and a few tears to jacket, as is common with this title; mild shelfwear to boards; binding sound. Brief annotations to jacket and text,... Read More
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Sulla Educazione dei Figliuoli: Dialogo del Giacomo Sadoleto
by Jacopo Sadoleto
Pesaro: Annesio Nobili, 1834. Very Good. Pesaro: Annesio Nobili, 1834. Second Edition with corrections and additions. Small octavo (5.75" x 3.75"); xxx, 311p +2p indices. Many pages still uncut. Printed paper wraps. Back cover barely holding on at spine, with front torn 3.5" up. Corners bumped and creased with some toning and foxing. Spine backing rubbing away exposing... Read More
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Scandalmonger [Inscribed by William Safire to David Cornwell aka John le Carre]
by William Safire
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. First Edition. Signed by William Safire at title page with inscription to David Cornwell, better known by his pen name John le Carre, "For David, plus ça change. Bill Safire." Octavo. 496pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth-backed boards. Touch of rubbing to edges... Read More
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Sleeper Spy [Inscribed by William Safire to David Cornwell aka John le Carre]
by [John Le Carre] William Safire
New York: Random House, 1995. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Random House, 1995. First Edition. Signed by William Safire to John Le Carre with inscription, "For David to the master from the neophyte. Bill Safire." Octavo. 451pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth-backed boards stamped in gilt. Light rubbing to edges of jacket and boards; binding sound... Read More
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