![Black Alley [Signed Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/368/465/1668465368.0.m.jpg)
Black Alley [Signed Limited Edition]
by Mickey Spillane
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1996. Near Fine. Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1996. Signed Limited First Edition. Octavo (24 cm); 234pp. Boards bound in red bonded leather with gilt stamping and decoration. Page edges gilded. Blue marbled endsheets and red silk ribbon. Board corners and spine ends gently bumped. Minor scratches to page edges. Pages... Read More
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![See if He Wins [Author's Copy, Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/879/928/1357928879.0.m.jpg)
See if He Wins [Author's Copy, Inscribed and Signed]
by Richard Spong
New York: William Sloane Associates, 1949. Very Good/Fair at Best. New York: William Sloane Associates, 1949. First Edition. Stated First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket designed by Rafael Palacios; [8],273pp. Jacket significantly worn and chipped, spine entirely perished and crudely repaired with old brown paper, rear flap separated but present and laid in; boards a... Read More
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Hindu Culture and Personality: A Psycho-Analytic Study
by P. Spratt
Bombay: P.C. Manaktala and Sons Private Ltd, 1967. Very Good/Very Good. Bombay: P.C. Manaktala and Sons Private Ltd, 1967. Second Impression. Octavo; xii + 400pp, including appendices, bibliography, and index. Orange dust jacket over gray cloth-covered boards with gold stamped spine. Dust jacket shows minor soiling and spine chipping, unclipped with price of 32 rupees intact. Binding tight... Read More
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A Sermon Preached at the Anniversary Meeting of the Sons of Clergy-Men. In the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, Nov. vii. 1678
by Thomas Sprat
London: J. Macock, for Henry Brome, 1678. Good. London: Printed by J. Macock, for Henry Brome at the Gun, at the West-end of St. Pauls, 1678. First Edition. Octavo; removed; [4],47,[1]pp. (A2 B-G4, collated complete). Title page (serving as upper wrapper) separated with a few small losses to margins, none approaching text, textblock uniformly toned, most noticeably title... Read More
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The Sixth Commandment Friendly to Virtue, Honor and Politeness. A discourse, in consequence of the late duel, addressed to the North Congregational Society of Newburyport: August 5, 1804
by [Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr] Samuel Spring
Newburyport, MA: E.W. Allen / Thomas & Whipple, 1804. Very Good. Newburyport, MA: From the Press of E.W. Allen / for Sale at the Bookstore of Thomas & Whipple, 1804. First Edition. Octavo; removed, old remnants of spine leather; 28pp. ([A]4 B-C4 D2, collated and presumed complete); woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Brief soil to title page (serving as... Read More
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![Rulers of Darkness [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/778/527/1343527778.0.m.jpg)
Rulers of Darkness [Signed]
by Steven Spruill
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. Fine/Fine. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1995]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's boards in black pictorial dust jacket; [10],357pp. A hint of shelf wear, else Fine. Signed by the author on title page. Medical suspense-cum-vampire novel.
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![Heidi's Lehr- und Wanderjahre: eine geschichte für kinder und auch für solche, welche die kinder lieb haben [Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/840/718/1594718840.0.m.jpg)
Heidi's Lehr- und Wanderjahre: eine geschichte für kinder und auch für solche, welche die kinder lieb haben [Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning]
by [Johanna Spyri]
Gotha, Germany: Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1880. Very Good. Gotha, Germany: Friedrich Andreas Perthes, 1880. First Edition. Octavo. 240 pp. Green quarter cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Boards roughly worn along edges with exposure, tears, and fraying; general scuffing. Binding holding. Ownership inscriptions and scribbling to endpapers and ownership stamp to title. Creasing and light spotting to interior... Read More
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The Hindu Temple Traditions of Draksharama: The Shaivite Tradition
by M. Srinivas Chary
Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. Very Good. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2003. First Edition. Octavo. 268, [1] pp. Color photographs. Photo-illustrated boards. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Light rubbing and mild lean to boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Overall a Very Good copy Volume 25 in the publisher's Studies in Asian... Read More
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Generally Human Concerning Wine
by Margaret G. St. John
Ipswich, UK: East Anglian Magazine, Ltd, 1960. Very Good/Very Good. Ipswich, UK: East Anglican Magazine, Ltd., [ca. 1960]. First Edition. Octavo. 63 pp. Two color plates. Printed dust jacket. Dark blue boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket chipped and rubbed along edges. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good. Collection of... Read More
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De l'Influence des Passions sur le Bonheur des Individus et des Nations
by Madame de Stael-Holstein
Paris: Maradan, 1818. Very Good. Paris: Maradan, 1818. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's original pink wrappers reinforced with waste paper, printed paper spine label; [4],ii,380pp. Light spotting to wrapper, hairline splitting along joints, tiny loss at spine foot, foxing to textblock, else a Very Good, quite pleasing copy. Later edition of the epistolary giant's work of political philosophy, first... Read More
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Corinne, Ou L'Italie
by Madame [Germaine] de Staël
Paris: Librairie De Firmin Didot Freres, 1844. Good. Paris: Librairie de Firmin Didot Freres, 1844. 16mo; 495pp. Illustrated frontis with tissue guard. Marbled paper-covered boards with leather spine and corner tips with gilt lettering to spine. Boards worn down joints and rubbed away at corners, with chipping and exposure at spine ends and scuffing to front and back... Read More
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The World 52
by Staff of the Poetry Project [ed.]; Lyn Hejinian, Bernadette Mayer, Lydia Davis et al [contrs.]
New York: Poetry Project, 1996. Very Good. New York: Poetry Project, [1996]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); publisher's green photo-illustrated card wrappers; [6],120pp.; halftone photographic illus. Moderate wear and soil to wrapper margins, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Contributors include Ed Sanders, Lyn Hejinian, Bernadette Mayer, Lydia Davis, and many others.
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The World 51
by Staff of the Poetry Project [ed.]
New York: Poetry Project, 1995. Very Good. New York: Poetry Project, [1995]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 106pp. Wrappers rather soiled, else Very Good and sound. Contributors include Ron Padgett, Paul Beatty, Charles North, and many others.
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Bad Characters
by Jean Stafford
New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, 1964. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (21cm), [ix], 276pp. Color illustrated dust jacket with price intact and author's photograph on rear in black and white. Quarter bound with light red paper and brown cloth spine with yellow, blue, and red stamping... Read More
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![Die Philosophie des Rechts [Three Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/348/868/1570868348.0.m.jpg)
Die Philosophie des Rechts [Three Volume Set]
by Friedrich Julius Stahl
Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1963. Very Good +. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1963. Three volumes; publisher's gray leatherette, gilt-lettered spines, yellow topstains; text in German blackletter throughout. Light soil to spines, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpapers, else a Very Good or better set.
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![The World Invisible [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/263/918/1655918263.0.m.jpg)
The World Invisible [Inscribed and Signed]
by Walter Stahr
Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1954. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Christopher Publishing House, [1954]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white decorative dust jacket; 262pp. Light shelf wear, dust jacket and textblock margins dust-soiled, endpapers foxed, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper "To Swami Premananda / My very best wishes / Walter Stahr... Read More
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Imaginary Magnitude
by Stanisław Lem; Marc E. Heine [trans.]
San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, 1984. Very Good/Very Good-. San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, [1984]. First American Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; vi,[2],248pp. Dust jacket rather chipped and worn with smallish triangular loss at top edge of... Read More
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Hovering Over Baja
by Erle Stanley Gardner
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1961. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1961. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); publisher's cloth in green price-clipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; 240pp.; color photographic frontispiece, black and white photographs throughout. Jacket margins rather chipped and worn with old tape repair to verso, extensive foxing to flaps and jacket verso, boards... Read More
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![Kinsmen of the Dragon [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/193/560/1699560193.0.m.jpg)
Kinsmen of the Dragon [Signed]
by Stanley Mullen; Hannes Bok [jacket illus.]
Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1951. Very Good+/Very Good+. Chicago: Shasta Publishers, 1951. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21cm); 336pp. Hannes Bok-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket; bound in black cloth with red lettering. Jacket shows light rubbing at extremities and folds and a slightly sunned spine. Adhesive staining to verso of front cover. Boards nudged at corners and spine ends. A tear... Read More
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Murder By Inches
by Stanley Hopkins, Jr.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. Very Good/Very Good +. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. Later Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining $2.00 price; iv,284pp. Very light wear to jacket margins, corners bumped, bookseller ticket to rear pastedown, else a Very Good or better, superlative copy, uncommon in any printing. The... Read More
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![Oracle of Southern California [Cover title: S. Calif. Oracle], Vol. 1, no. 6, October, 1967](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/152/564/1699564152.0.m.jpg)
Oracle of Southern California [Cover title: S. Calif. Oracle], Vol. 1, no. 6, October, 1967
by Stan Russell [ed.]
Los Angeles, A.: Oracle of Southern California, 1967. Very Good+. Los Angeles, CA: Oracle of Southern California, 1967. First Edition. Tabloid format (38cm); color pictorial self-wrappers, disbound as issued; 31pp.; color illus. throughout. Newsprint unevenly toned, price cancel tipped to upper cover; Very Good or better without mail fold. Vibrant single issue of this offshoot of the... Read More
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![Oracle of Southern California [Cover title: S. Calif. Oracle], Vol. 1, no. 7, November, 1967 [Galactic Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/601/558/1699558601.0.m.jpg)
Oracle of Southern California [Cover title: S. Calif. Oracle], Vol. 1, no. 7, November, 1967 [Galactic Edition]
by Stan Russell [ed.]
Los Angeles, CA: Oracle of Southern California, 1967. Very Good+. Los Angeles, CA: Oracle of Southern California, 1967. First Edition. Tabloid format (38cm); color pictorial self-wrappers, disbound as issued; 23pp.; color illus. throughout. Newsprint toned else Very Good or better without mail fold. Vibrant single issue of this offshoot of the San Francisco Oracle edited by Allen... Read More
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![A Man Divided [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/952/567/1699567952.0.m.jpg)
A Man Divided [Signed]
by Olaf Stapledon
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1950. Very Good/Very Good. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1950. First Edition. Signed by Olaf Stapledon without inscription at title page. Octavo; 187pp. Printed dust jacket. Maroon boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket worn with some chipping to edges; general smudging and rubbing. Boards bumped along edges; binding sound; spotting to top... Read More
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The Nutcracker Suite from Walt Disney's Fantasia
by Walt Disney; Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky; Frederick Stark
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1940. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1940. First Edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket and boards. Boards stamped in black along spine. Price-clipped dust jacket rubbed and creased with some shallow chipping at corners, a few closed tears along edges, and a bit of fading to spine.... Read More
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Teatr Jana Kochanowskiego - Nude woman emerging from darkness
by Franciszek Starowieyski
1980. Very Good. Text on poster: Kobieta Plakacie 1905 w 1980 [Woman and Posters 1905-1980] // Kolekcja Floriana Zielińskiego [Florian Zielińskiego Collection] // Opole // Teatr Kochanowskiego. Date: 1980. Height x width: 96cm x 66.5cm (37.75" x 26.25"). Printing information: lower left corner: RSW „P-K-R" ZP Wr. 8470/80 5000 B1. Condition: No visual flaws. Starowieyski, among the... Read More
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