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The Coup [Signed bookplate laid in]
by John Updike
New York: Knopf, 1978. Very Good; Near Fine/Very Good; Near Fine. New York: Knopf, 1978. Stated First Edition. Octavo (22cm); 300pp. Publisher’s dust jacket with $8.95 pierce intact; boards bound in green cloth with gilt stamping to front panel and spine; yellow topstain. Dust jacket shows minor bumping to spine ends and toning to interior flaps; otherwise clean.... Read More
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Collected Poems 1953-1993 [Signed]
by John Updike
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Near Fine/Very Good +. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First Edition. Octavo (22 cm); xxiv; 387pp. Boards quarter bound in slate blue and grey cloth with silver stamping, wrapped in publisher's intact jacket ($27.50/ CAN $36.00). Red top stain and fore-edge deckled. Jacket gently bumped and toned at margins with toning... Read More
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The Coup [Limited Edition, Signed]
by John Updike
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Fine/Fine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First Edition, Limited to 350 copies of which this is no. 210. Octavo; publisher's two-toned cloth in pictorial dust jacket, black topstain, housed in original pictorial paper-covered slipcase; [16],298pp. A Fine copy. Signed by the author on limitation page.
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Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism [Signed]
by John Updike
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First Edition, stated. Octavo (22cm); xx,919pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $19.95 price intact; boards in blue cloth with gilt and silver lettering. Purple topstain. Jacket rubbed along edges with some bumping and curling along top. Boards bumped at top corners, with some fading... Read More
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The Witches of Eastwick [Signed bookplate laid in]
by John Updike
New York: Knopf, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Knopf, 1984. Stated First Trade Edition. Octavo (22cm); 311pp. Publisher’s illustrated dust jacket; boards bound in purple cloth with gilt stamping to front panel and spine; blue-grey topstain. Dust jacket shows minor bumping to spine ends; toning to interior flaps and verso edges. Boards bumped at spine ends and... Read More
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The Bone is Pointed
by Arthur W. Upfield
Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1947. Very Good. Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. First American Edition. Octavo. 288 pp. Black cloth boards stamped in red. No dust jacket. Boards worn along edges; scuffing and faint staining. Binding sound and interior unmarked;... Read More
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Battle Field and Prison Pen, or Through the War, and Thrice a Prisoner in Rebel Dungeons
by John W. Urban
[Philadelphia]: Edgewood Publishing Co, 1882. Good/No Jacket. [Philadelphia]: Edgewood Publishing Co., 1882. Edgewood reprint of the Hubbard Brothers edition. Octavo; xi, 484pp. 16 illustrations including frontis over 13 plates, all present (this edition printed without illustrations list, but checked against the Hubbard Brothers edition). Missing Chapter XVI (pages 485-6) from the Hubbard Edition (unsure if in error or... Read More
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International Jazz Festival in Warsaw - African American trumpeter
by Maciej Urbaniec
1973. Very Good. Text on poster: Jazz jamboree '73 // XVI Miȩdzynarodowy Festiwal Jazzowy // Warszawa // 25-28 października 1973 // 16th International Jazz Festival // Warsaw // October 25-28, 1973. Date: 1973. Height x width: 97cm x 67cm. Printing information:. lower left corner: WAG logo; lower right corner: RSW „Prasa-Książka-Ruch" PZGraf. w Łodź, Z. 1166/73, R-61 3691,... Read More
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Die Schriften des Uriel da Costa
by Uriel da Costa [i.e. Uriel Acosta]; Carl Gebhardt [ed.]
Amsterdam: Curis Societatis Spinozanae / Menno Hertzberger, 1922. Good +. Amsterdam: Curis Societatis Spinozanae / Menno Hertzberger, 1922. First Thus. Small quarto; later library cloth, excerpt of original wrapper mounted to upper cover, manuscript spine label; xl,285pp.; illus. throughout. Cloth rather toned, brief soil to upper cover, later (1959) ownership signature to front free endpaper and occasional pencil... Read More
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Battle Cry
by Leon Uris
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1953. Very Good/Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1953. First Edition. Octavo. 505pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.75 price intact. Navy cloth stamped in red. Dust jacket lightly worn along edges with a few nicks and creases; mild rippling and spotting to verso. Boards show light wear to edges; binding sound and... Read More
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Urs Fischer: Kir Royal
by Urs Fischer; Mirjam Varadnis [et al.]
Zürich: Kunsthaus Zürich and JRP Ringier Kunstverlag, 2004. Very Good/Very Good. Zürich: Kunsthaus Zürich and JRP Ringier Kunstverlag, 2004. First Edition. Quarto (28.5x24x1.5cm); 232 + viii pp, including chronology and bibliography. Color illustrations throughout. All text in parallel German and English. Photographic card covers over sewn gatherings. Apart from one faint shallow crease in the coating of... Read More
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Meditations pour les Retraites sur les Devoirs des Religieuses et de celles qui instruisent les jeunes filles
by [Ursulines]
Paris: Ch. Jean-Bapt. Delespine, 1742. Very Good. Paris: Chez Ch. Jean-Bapt. Delespine, Imp. Lib. ord. du Roy, rue S. Jacques, à la Victoire & au Palmier, 1742. 12mo; full contemporary calf, gilt-tooled spine with repeating floral and pinecone motifs, brown gilt-lettered spine label, marbled endpapers; [18],516,[14]pp.; woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Ex-Congregation de Notre Dame de Verdun with... Read More
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Farmers' Bulletin [Thirteen Issues Bound in One]
by U.S. Department of Agriculture; Jeff Langworthy; Helen Atwater; Maria Parloa, et al.
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1910. Very Good. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903-1910. First Edition. Octavo. Various paginations. Black and white illustrations. Maroon boards stamped in gilt. Marbled edges. Thirteen issues bound into one. Titles included are: Economical Use of Meat in the Home by C.F. Langworthy; Meats: Composition and Cooking by Chas. D. Woods; Bread... Read More
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Die Bedeutung der Ideenlehre fur die Platonische Politeia
by [Plato] Oswald Utermohlen
Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1967. Very Good. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1967. First Edition. Small, slim octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; 111pp. Spine a shade sunned, light dust-soil to top textblock edge, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound.
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Perníková Chaloupka
by Vaclav Ren; Jiri Trnka [illus.]
Praha: Nakladatelstvi Vysehrad, 1944. Very Good. Praha: Nakladatelstvi Vysehrad, 1944. First Edition. Slim quarto (23cm.); publisher's cream color-illustrated wrappers, French flaps; [40]pp.; color illus. throughout. Wrapper extremities slightly rubbed and rather toned, light soil, else Very Good, internally fine. Czech poet Václav Ren 's interpretation in verse of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel," lavishly... Read More
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![The Messenger [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/961/480/1601480961.0.m.jpg)
The Messenger [Signed]
by Jean Valentine
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979. First Edition. Signed by Jean Valentine with inscription, "to Ron, with best wishes, Jean Valentine April, 1983." Octavo. 67 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Tan and green boards stamped in black. Dust jacket lightly toned along edges; crease to rear flap; mild off-setting to... Read More
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Les Divers Essais sur Leonard de Vinci [Limited Edition]
by Paul Valery
Paris: Editions du Sagittaire, 1931. Very Good+. [Paris]: Editions du Sagittaire, 1931. First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies on Velin de Rives of which this is no. 829. Quarto; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [6],163pp.; facsimile annotations by the author printed in margins throughout. Light wear and dust-soil, else a Very Good or better example.
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![Poesie: Essais sur la poetique et le poete [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/458/106/1629106458.0.m.jpg)
Poesie: Essais sur la poetique et le poete [Limited Edition, Signed]
by Paul Valery
Paris: Collection Bertrand Guegan, 1928. Very Good+/Very Good. Paris: Collection Bertrand Guégan, 1928. First Edition, Limited to 300 copies on vélin Canson-Montgolfier of which this is no. 100. Quarto (25.5cm.,); publisher's grey card wrappers in original glassine; xvi,197pp.; eight leaves of eaux fortes by the author (collated complete). Glassine uniformly toned and chipped along margins, internally clean and... Read More
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Collected Poems, 1922-1938
by Mark Van Doren
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1939. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Henry Holt and Company, [1939]. First Trade Edition. Large octavo; publisher's cloth, brown topstain, in brown decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($3.50); xvi,384pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, corners bumped, contemporary bookseller ticket to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound.
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The Monkey and the Tiger: Two Chinese Detective Stories
by Robert van Gulik
London: Heinemann, 1965. Very Good/Very Good+. London: Heinemann, [1965]. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Paul Castell; vii,[1],143pp.; illus., pictorial endpapers. Light edge wear, minor spine lean, text block edges a bit foxed, toning to endpapers, else Very Good and sound. Two detective novellas featuring Judge Dee.
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![The Bagful of Dreams [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/289/647/1563647289.0.m.jpg)
The Bagful of Dreams [Limited Edition]
by Jack Vance
Columbia: Underwood / Miller, 1979. Very Good. Columbia: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Limited Edition (600 copies, unnumbered). Tall octavo (9.25" x 6"); [viii], 37pp. Illustrated blue paper wraps with black illustration and red. Covers are clean and crisp; spine a touch faded with a slight bump at head. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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The Black Bag
by Louis Joseph Vance
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1908. Very Good/Good. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1908. First Edition. Octavo (7.5" x 5"); [x], 441pp. Ten illustrations, including frontis with tissue guard. Illustrated dust jacket over publisher's red cloth with black and red lettering and illustration. Jacket tattered and chipped at edges, but with only a touch of interference with text; large crease across front panel with... Read More
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The Lone Wolf's Last Prowl
by Louis Joseph Vance
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1934. Very Good. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1934. First Edition, with no additional printings listed. Octavo; 223pp. Publisher's orange cloth with black lettering. Missing dust jacket. Boards bumped at spine ends, with a few stray scuffs and smudges to surface. Spine cocked, with a vertical crease to cloth. Light marginal thumbprinting to a few... Read More
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The Lone Wolf's Son
by Louis Joseph Vance
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1931. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1931. First Edition, with no subsequent printings listed. Octavo; 304pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price; boards in red cloth with black lettering. Jacket shows a few closed tears at edges and folds along with some adjacent rubbing and creases and some general toning / smudging... Read More
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Pictorial Receipt accomplished in manuscript
by Vandyke & Downing, Coach & Harness Makers
Philadelphia: Vandyke & Downing, 1836. Very Good. Philadelphia: Vandyke & Downing, 1836. Pictorial printed broadside (15.5x19.5cm.) accomplished in manuscript; top edge adorned with three small woodcut illustrations depicting two types of coaches and a pile of luggage. Small closed tear at top edge towards left-hand corner not approaching text, old paper remnants to verso from having been previously... Read More
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