![The Harder They Fall: A Novel [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/310/562/1699562310.0.m.jpg)
The Harder They Fall: A Novel [Inscribed and Signed]
by Budd Schulberg
New York: Random House, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, [1947]. First Edition, Stated First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); [6],343pp. Moderate shallow chipping to jacket margins, short horizontal closed tear with small hole to spine panel not approaching text, spine panel significantly toned, else a Very... Read More
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Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
by Joseph Schumpeter
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1947. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1947. Second, Revised Edition. Octavo. 411pp. Printed dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket chipped and creased with several tears, longest along top third of front flap. Shelfwear to boards. Binding sound and pages a bit toned but unmarked;... Read More
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Monetary Statistics of the United States: Estimates, Sources, Methods
by Milton Friedman; Anna Jacobson Schwartz
New York: National Bureau of Economic Research / Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1970. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research / Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1970. First Edition. Large octavo (24 cm); 629pp. Salmon cloth-backed boards with maroon stamping to spine wrapped in publisher's red dust jacket with price intact ($15.00). Spine... Read More
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The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein's Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis
by Elaine Sciolino
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1991. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1991. First Edition. Inscribed by author to William Safire on front free endpaper. Inscription reads, "To Bill - / A friend, mentor + role model - / Your down-to-earth approach to life + work is an / inspiration.... Read More
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![This Dame for Hire [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/034/011/1412011034.0.m.jpg)
This Dame for Hire [Signed]
by Sandra Scoppettone
New York: Ballantine Books, 2005. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Ballantine Books, 2005. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author without inscription in purple pen on half title. Octavo; [viii], 253pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $21.95 price intact; book in black boards with copper lettering to spine. Jacket is crisp with very light signs of... Read More
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The Wave
by Evelyn Scott
New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. 625 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gray; dark topstain. Dust jacket shows moderate chipping to edges with general rubbing and smudging. Boards with light shelfwear; binding sound; pages unmarked; a Very Good copy.... Read More
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The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922. Second Printing with publisher's seal to copyright page, and ads bound in rear for the 12th printing of "This Side of Paradise" and 5th printing of "Flappers and Philosophers." Octavo; publisher's green buckram, upper cover lettered in blind, gilt-lettered spine; [10],449,[3]pp. Moderate wear to... Read More
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![The Raj Quartet [The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, The Division of the Spoils]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/860/870/1671870860.0.m.jpg)
The Raj Quartet [The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, The Division of the Spoils]
by Paul Scott
London: Heinemann, 1966. Very Good/Very Good. London: Heinemann, 1966-1975. First Editions, First Printings. Four volumes; thick octavos; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jackets all retaining original prices. Moderate wear and toning to jacket margins, the heaviest wear to "The Day of the Scorpion," which has two closed tears to upper jacket panel with crude external tape repair, "The... Read More
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The Mathematical Work of John Wallis, D.D., F.R.S. (1616-1703)
by [John Wallis] J.F. Scott
London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd, 1938. Very Good. London: Taylor and Francis, Ltd., 1938. First Edition. Octavo; blue cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt; 240pp. Frontis; no dust jacket. Light edgewear and scuffing; spine faded and gilt rubbed. Binding sound; bookplates to preliminaries; mild spotting and toning to endpapers, else unmarked; a Very Good and sound copy.... Read More
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The United States Gazetteer: Containing an Authentic Description of the Several States Their Situation, Extent Boundaries, Soil, Produce, Climate, Population, Trade, and Manufactures. Together with the Extent Boundaries and Population of the Respective Counties. Also, an Exact Account of the Cities, Towns, Harbours, Rivers, Bays, Lakes, Mountains, &c
by Joseph Scott
Philadelphia: F. and R. Bailey, 1793. Very Good -. Philadelphia: Printed by F. and R. Bailey, at Yorick's-Head, No. 116, High Street, 1793. First Edition. 12mo (17cm.); full contemporary calf, remnants only of red spine label; vi,[294]pp. (text collated complete); 18 (of 19) engraved folding map plates. Lacking endpapers and large folding frontispiece map of the United States,... Read More
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![A New Universal Etymological English Dictionary [Scott-Bailey Dictionary]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/385/990/1455990385.0.m.jpg)
A New Universal Etymological English Dictionary [Scott-Bailey Dictionary]
by Nathaniel Bailey; Joseph Nicol Scott
London: T. Osborne and J. Shipton; J. Hodges; R. Baldwin; W. Johnston and J. Ward, 1755. Very Good. London: T. Osborne and J. Shipton; J. Hodges; R. Baldwin; W. Johnston and J. Ward, 1755. Folio (16.25" x 10"); [xviii, 1080]. Engraved frontis and 11 plates, all present. Modern full leather with blind and gilt tooling; red leather title... Read More
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The Jewel in the Crown
by Paul Scott
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1966. Very Good/Very Good. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1966. First American Edition. Octavo (24cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards, orange-red topstain, in white pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [10],462pp. Dust jacket rather toned especially along spine panel, old ink price to front flap, spine a bit cocked, a few shallow bumps to board... Read More
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![The Waverley Novels [Twenty-four volume set with] Ivanhoe, Heart of Mid-Lothian, Bride of Lammermoor, et al.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/824/831/1582831824.0.m.jpg)
The Waverley Novels [Twenty-four volume set with] Ivanhoe, Heart of Mid-Lothian, Bride of Lammermoor, et al.
by Sir Walter Scott
New York: Lovell, Coryell & Company, 1880. Very Good +. New York: Lovell, Coryell & Company, [ca. 1880s]. Reprints. Twenty-four volume set. Octavos. Frontis to each volume. Uniformly bound in maroon quarter calf over marbled boards with five raised bands and gilt decoration to spine; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Spines sunned, general scuffing, and light wear to... Read More
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet. In Ten Volumes
by Sir Walter Scott
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co, 1821. Very Good. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1821. Ten octavo volumes. Frontis portrait to volume I and title page vignettes to all volumes. Contemporary black leather binding decorated in gilt; four raised bands; gilt decoration to turn-ins; brown endpapers. Boards worn along edges with brief exposure. Bindings are sound. Pages... Read More
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![The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution, in Nine Volumes [9 Volume set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/180/318/1717318180.0.m.jpg)
The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution, in Nine Volumes [9 Volume set]
by Sir Walter Scott
Edinburgh: Printed by Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, London and Cadell & Co., Edinburgh, 1827. Very Good. Edniburgh: Printed by Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, London and Cadell & Co., Edinburgh, 1827. First Edition. Nine small octavo volumes; a complete set. Bound in full calf with five raised... Read More
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![The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution [Two Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/538/081/1579081538.0.m.jpg)
The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French. With a Preliminary View of the French Revolution [Two Volume Set]
by [Walter Scott]
Exeter, MA: J. & B. Williams, 1828. Very Good. Exeter, MA: J. & B. Williams, 1828. Two volumes; octavos; contemporary gilt-tooled calf, gilt spines with black spine labels, all edges marbled; xvi,[19]-494; xii,[13]-414,lxivpp.; engraved portrait frontispiece at head of Vol. I, text printed in double columns. Leather rather dried, spines darkened, uneven dampstaining along bottom margins of both... Read More
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Woodstock; or The Cavalier, a Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-One (Volume 1)
by Walter Scott
Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826. Very Good. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826. First American Edition. Volume 1 only of a two-volume edition. Octavo; 283pp (ending with Chapter 18). Contemporary marbled boards and leather spine with gilt lettering. Speckled textblock edges. Panel edges and spine crown, foot, and edges chafed. Joints solid with hinges... Read More
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![...Sorry, Wrong Number [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/056/006/1675006056.0.m.jpg)
...Sorry, Wrong Number [Review Copy]
by Allan Ullman; Lucille Fletcher [screenplay]
New York: Random House, 1948. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Random House, 1948. First edition. Octavo (20cm); black boards with red and gilt titling, red topstain; pictorial dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; 184pp. Board and spine edges are bumped, some wear to top edge and toning throughout textblock, foxing and light toning to verso of dust... Read More
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On the Reproductive Organs and the Venereal
by John M. Scudder
Cincinnati: Wilstach, Baldwin & Co, 1876. Good. Cincinnati: Wilstach, Baldwin & Co., 1876. Later Printing of the 1873 Edition. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"); xvi, [17]-393p. Six color plates. Full leather with black title card and gilt lettering. Covers heavily chipped and frayed at spine ends, with a good but of scuffing and smudging to leather and along edges.... Read More
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Investment Counsel
by Scudder, Stevens & Clark
Boston: Scudder, Stevens & Clark, 1929. Very Good. Boston: Scudder, Stevens & Clark, 1929. Seventh Edition, Revised. Small octavo. 47, [3]pp. Two charts. Gray cloth over blue paper-covered boards with paper title label; no dust jacket. Light wear to edges with mild soiling. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy of a scarce publication, published just... Read More
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![The School Bag [Limited Edition, signed by the editors]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/813/323/1700323813.0.m.jpg)
The School Bag [Limited Edition, signed by the editors]
by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes [eds.]
London: Faber and Faber, 1997. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Faber and Faber, 1997. First Edition, Limited Issue of 300 copies of which this is no. 170. Octavo; publisher's blue and yellow cloth boards with black and gilt stamping to spine, blue endpapers, housed in original acetate dust jacket and paper-covered slipcase; 590pp. A couple smudges to acetate; boards tight in binding;... Read More
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Apician Morsels; or, Tales of the Table, Kitchen, and Larder: Containing a New and Improved Code of Eatics; Select Epicurean Precepts; Nutritive Maxims, Reflections, Anecdotes, &c. Illustrating the Veritable Science of the Mouth which Includes the Art of Never Breakfasting at Home, and Always Dining Abroad
by Dick Humelbergius Secundus
New York: J. & J. Harper, 1829. Very Good. New York: J. & J. Harper, 1829. First American Edition. Octavo; 212pp + 8pp of publisher's prospectuses. Two engraved humorous frontispieces—the Roman Senate contemplating a turbot, and Mr. Eatingtown being obsequious—which are repeated as illustrations later in the text. Original paper boards with cloth spine and printed spine label.... Read More
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![Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/884/614/1700614884.0.m.jpg)
Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays [Inscribed and Signed]
by David Sedaris
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's two-toned boards in unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; [8],196pp. Moderate shelf wear to jacket and board margins, spine panel bit faded, brief glue residue to upper cover from removed price sticker, another old price sticker... Read More
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The Encounter
by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
New York: The Century Co, 1914. Very Good. New York: The Century Co., 1914. First Edition. Octavo. 387 pp. + advertisements. Green cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Light edgewear; corners bumped; minor scuffing. Binding is sound. Brentano's sticker to rear pastedown and touch of spotting to interior; else unmarked and legible throughout; Very Good.
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Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosexual Desire
by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. First Edition. Octavo. 244 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket shows light wear to edges with a few minor nicks; general smudging and scuffing. Boards with mild shelfwear and spine ends nudged. Binding sound. Ownership inscription to front... Read More
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