The Wapshot Chronicle
by Cheever, John
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Early Printing. Good in a Good jacket, clipped, a few chips at and along the spine and edges. Quarter black cloth with green paper on the boards, some rubbing. Square and firmly bound, inscription on the front endpaper, foxed at the endpapers. Cheever's debut novel, the winner of the... Read More
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The Incredulity of Father Brown
by Chesterton, G.K.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, generally toned, chipped at the head and foot of the spine. Brown buckram, generally toned and soiled, bumped at the top corner, with black ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square, bound with light reading... Read More
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Black in Selma; The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr.
by Chestnut, J.L.; Cass, Julia
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Publisher's compliments card laid-in, with handwriting presumably belonging to Jonathan Galassi. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($22.95), toned at the flaps. Quarter blue cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A biography of the Southern legal giant that also serves... Read More
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Five Classic Murder Mysteries: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Secret Adversary, The Boomerang Clue, The Moving Finger, Death Comes as the End
by Christie, Agatha
New York: Avenel Books, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($49.75), toned at the spine, faintly bumped at the edges. Blue boards, faintly rubbed, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise.
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Five Complete Miss Marple Novels: The Mirror Crack'd, A Caribbean Mystery, Nemesis, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!, The Body in the Library
by Christie, Agatha
New York: Avenel Books, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later Printing. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($34.75) bumped at the edges. Black boards, rubbed at the bottom edge, pushed at the head and foot of the spine. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise.
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Five Complete Miss Marple Novels: The Mirror Crack'd, A Caribbean Mystery, Nemesis, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!, The Body in the Library
by Christie, Agatha
New York: Avenel Books, 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later Printing. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($34.75), toned at the spine, bumped at the edges. Blue boards, rubbed at the bottom edge, pushed at the head and foot of the spine. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise.
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The Murder at the Vicarage
by Christie, Agatha
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), lightly toned, chipped at the edges, a few creases on the front panel. Blue cloth, toned at the spine, frayed at the edges. Square, bound with some reading wear, former owner's name and stamp on the front endpaper, clean otherwise.... Read More
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Death on the Nile; A Hercule Poirot Mystery
by Christie, Agatha
New York: William Morrow, 2020. Paperback. Fine. Later Printing. Fine. Wraps faintly rubbed, sticker on the front cover. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Qutub also called The Point
by Chumbley, Andrew D.
Essex: Fulgur for Xoanon, 1995. First Edition. Leather-bound. Fine/Fine. With illustrations by Chumbley. Editorial Preface, Notes, and Text by Daniel A. Schulke. Limited to 36 copies with a cryptogram from Chumbley. Additionally inscribed my Chumbley opposite the limitation page. Fine in a Fine jacket in a Fine slipcase. Quarter morocco with blue cloth on the boards. Square and... Read More
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Azoetia: A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft; The Sethos Edition
by Chumbley, Andrew D.
Xoanon Publishing, 2002. First Edition. Leather-bound. Fine. Standard slipcased edition limited to 484 copies with a laid-in pamphlet "The Rite of Amethystine Light." Fine in a Near Fine slipcase, some minor fraying and thumb soiling. Black cloth, a bit of soiling near the head of the spine, with silver gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front... Read More
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Qutub also called The Point
by Chumbley, Andrew D.
Essex: Fulgur for Xoanon, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. With illustrations by Chumbley. Editorial Preface, Notes, and Text by Daniel A. Schulke. With a laid-in Talisman inscribed by Chumbley. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (no price). Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Though the limitation page states copies with... Read More
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Azoetia: A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft; The Sethos Edition
by Chumbley, Andrew D.
Xoanon Publishing, 2002. First Edition. Leather-bound. Fine. Deluxe slipcased edition limited to 44 copies inscribed by Chumbley and with an envelope containing a talisman. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase, some thumb soiling. Quarter goatskin leather, toned at the spine, with green cloth on the boards. Square and firmly bound with a sewn-in bookmark, clean internally. Chumbley's... Read More
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The Dragon-Book of Essex: Grimorium Synomosia Draco'Taos; An Enchiridion of the Crooked Path, Being a Grammar of Quintessential Sorcery, Containing the Sacred Rites and Formulae Undertaken in the Mysteries of the Great Dragon, Transmitted through the Circles of the Four Watchers, Seen and Unseen
by Chumbley, Andrew D.
Xoanon Publishing, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 808 standard copies bound in red cloth. Near Fine. Red cloth with black ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, some soiling at the edges, clean internally. The second book in Chumbley's Trimagisterion trilogy.
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Khiazmos: A Book Without Pages
by Chumbley, Andrew D.
Xoanon, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Limited to 727 copies. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped (no price). Dark gray cloth with silver gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A primordial grimoire that uses "strategies of arcane, recursive and paradoxical exposition to illustrate eternal truths of magic.... Read More
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The Satyr's Sermon
by Chumbley, Andrew D.
Xoanon Publishing, 2009. First Edition. Leather-bound. Fine. Deluxe Edition, limited to 111 copies in full leather with the Corpus Satyri and housed in the oaken box. Fine. Brown morocco leather, with two raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine, black ink illustration on the front cover. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of Chumbley's writings... Read More
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The Satyr's Sermon
by Chumbley, Andrew D.
Xoanon Publishing, 2009. First Edition. Leather-bound. Fine. Standard slipcased edition limited to 333 copies. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Quarter morocco with cloth on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of Chumbley's writings originally handwritten in 2004 for the Monadic Transmission series of grimoria.
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One: The Grimoire of the Golden Toad; A Mystery-text serving to reveal the Arcana of Sabatraxas being An exposition of the Antient Wicce-craft Initiation into the Mysteries of Toadmanship, known unto the Wise as "The Waters of the Moon
by Chumbley, Andrew D.
Xoanon, 2000. First Edition. Leather-bound. Fine. Limited to 77 copies, with the envelope containing toadskin and blackthorn and the second envelope containing the signed card and sigil. Fine. Black leather with silver gilt lettering and design on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. From the publisher's site, "It is the first full grimoire-text... Read More
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Azoetia: A Grimoire of the Sabbatic Craft; Being the complete textual recension of the Sethos Edition, also called The Book of the Magical Quintessence
by Chumbley, Andrew D.
Xoanon Publishing, 2015. Third Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Standard edition limited to 1000 copies. Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped (no price). Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, some soiling at the top edge, clean internally. Chumbley's grimoire in three parts: "an exposition of preliminary magico-aesthetic formulae with... Read More
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The Unrelenting Struggle
by Churchill, Winston S.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Compiled by Charles Eade. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, clipped, rubbed and bumped at the edges, a few small chips and closed tears. Red buckram, faded at the edges, with black ink panels and gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and... Read More
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The Temptation to Exist
by Cioran, E.M.
New York: Seaver Books, 1986. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Translated by Richard Howard. Introduction by Susan Sontag. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($17.95), yellowed at the flaps. Quarter blue cloth with grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A new edition of Cioran's underground classic about Western civilization, literature, and philosophy. ... Read More
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My Wicked Wicked Ways
by Cisneros, Sandra
Bloomington: Third Woman Press, 1987. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Signed by Cisneros on the title page. Near Fine. Wraps rubbed at the edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Cisneros's third book, her second collection of poetry, printed here with the original cover photo by Ruben Guzman.
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The Kingfisher
by Clampitt, Amy
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Clampitt on the half-title. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($11.95). Green cloth with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, a small red smudge on the bottom edge, clean internally. The debut poetry... Read More
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Imperial Earth
by Clarke, Arthur C.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($7.95), bumped at the edges. Quarter black cloth with orange paper on the boards. Firmly bound with a forward lean, clean internally. Clarke's science fiction novel of a diplomatic journey from Titan to Earth.
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Rama II and The Garden of Rama
by Clarke, Arthur C.; Lee, Gentry
New York: Bantam | Warner Books, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in Near Fine jackets, unclipped ($18.95 and $20.00), toned at the flaps, some pulling to the laminate. Quarter cloth with paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, a few spots of soiling at the edges, blindstamp on the front endpaper of Rama... Read More
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Anarchaos
by Clark, Curt
New York: Ace Books, 1967. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps rubbed and bumped at the edges. Square and firmly bound, pen writing on the first page, clean otherwise. Clark's interplanetary novel about a planet where "anarchy was the only law, where each man protected himself as best he could, and the weak were... Read More
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