Color
by Cullen, Countee
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Drawings by Charles Cullen. Tenth Printing. Very Good in a Good jacket, clipped, generally faded and soiled, chipped at the edges. Black cloth, lightly bumped, with pastedown labels on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, lengthy gift inscription on the front endpaper, clean otherwise.... Read More
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The Pursuit of Signs; Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction
by Culler, Jonathan
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Wraps lightly toned and rubbed at the edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of Culler's essays that investigate "the possibilities of a semiotics of literature," touching on the theories of Jauss, Fish, Riffaterre, and Bloom.
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Astra and Flondrix; An Erotic Fairytale
by Cullen, Seamus
New York: Pocket Books, 1979. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps rubbed at the edges, a crease at the bottom-right corner of the front wrap. Square and firmly bound, a few stains at the edges, clean internally. The story of a young and innocent couple who faced "a fight which pitted them against superscience,... Read More
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A Thought-Reader's Thoughts Being the Impressions and Confessions of Stuart Cumberland
by Cumberland, Stuart
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Fair. Blue cloth, rubbed and bumped, with ink rules and gilt lettering. Square, rear hinge cracked, many contemporaneous newspaper clippings pasted onto the endpapers. A memoir of the English mentalist.
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Is 5 [Five]
by cummings, ee
New York: Liveright, 1985. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Edited and with an Afterword by George James Firmage. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($14.95), faded at the spine. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A reissue of one of Cummings's early, long out-of-print works, typeset according to... Read More
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Poems 1923-1954
by cummings, e.e.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($6.75), faded at the spine, lightly rubbed at the surface, a few chips at the edges. Red cloth with dark red ink panels and silver gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound... Read More
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i: Six Nonlectures
by Cummings, E.E.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Second Printing. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), former owner's name written underneath the price, a chip at the top edge, lightly rubbed at the folds. Black cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of Cummings's six Charles Eliot... Read More
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The Shadow Girl
by Cummings, Ray
London: Gerald G. Swan, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (5/- net), lightly rubbed and soiled. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, former owner's stamp on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Cummings's novel about two scientists who travel to a... Read More
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Murder at the Schoolhouse
by Cunningham, A.B.
New York: Dutton, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy with publisher's slip laid-in, also with a contemporary newspaper review presumably from the owner of this copy. Near Fine in an about Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.00), toned at the flaps and back panel. Blue buckram with black ink lettering on the spine and front board.... Read More
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The Collected Fanzines of Philip J. Currie FWBK and ERBivore
by Currie, Philip J.
[n.p.]: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Inscribed on the title page by Currie to ERB collector Joan Bledig. Fine. Spiral bound with clean pages. Printed as a souvenir of the annual Dum-Dum in 2013. A collection of Currie's contributions to various fanzines.
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Kid Andrew Cody & Julie Sparrow
by Curtis, Tony
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Curtis to New American Library marketing executive Maryann Palumbo with an additional TLS from Curtis laid in. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($8.95), lightly toned and rubbed, a few small bumps and closed tears. Quarter black buckram, lightly rubbed, with... Read More
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Switch Bitch
by Dahl, Roald
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.95), toned and with a crease at the front flap. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, orange top stain, front hinge a bit over-opened, clean internally. A collection... Read More
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Han Solo's at Star's End
by Daley, Brian
New York: Ballantine Books, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($8.95). Quarter blue cloth with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, remaindered at the bottom edge, clean otherwise. The first volume in the Han Solo Adventure trilogy.
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order; Why Nations Succeed and Fail
by Dalio, Ray
New York: Avid Reader Press, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($35.00), bumped at the head of the spine. Black cloth, bumped at the head of the spine, with red and white ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Dalio's best-seller that "examines... Read More
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Socialist Revolution No. 12
by Dancis, Bruce
San Francisco: Agenda Publishing, 1972. Paperback. Very Good. About Very Good. Wraps rubbed at the edges, toned at the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's sticker on the Contents page, a few instances of marginalia, clean otherwise. Featured here are essays on the relationship between day care and capitalism, Antonio Gramsci's prison notebooks, the concept of the... Read More
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Enter Sir John
by Dane, Clemence; Simpson, Helen
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), faded at the spine, rubbed and with a few small closed tears at the spine. Yellow buckram, bumped at the top edge, blue ink on the spine and front board. Square, bound with light reading wear, clean... Read More
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England's Constable; The Life and Letters of John Constable
by Darracott, Joseph
London: Folio Society, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase, lightly rubbed. Grey cloth with a black ink panel and pictorial pastedown on the front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex [2 Vols]
by Darwin, Charles
London: John Murray, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First issue of Volume I, second issue of Volume II. Complete in two volumes. Good. Green cloth, generally rubbed and soiled at the surface and edges. Both volumes bound with forward leans, hinges reinforced, chipped half-title of Volume I restored with paper backing, foxing throughout. Darwin's influential work that furthers... Read More
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The Stubble Under the Cloven Hoof
by Das, C.V. Narasimha
Cuttack: Sahitya Samsad, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good in a Good jacket, roughly clipped, bumped at the edges with some tears and chips, jacket flaps pasted inside the boards. Square, bound with some reading wear, clean internally. Das's novel of Indian provincial life with "a pageant of gossips and busybodies found in every Indian village.
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The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction Fourteenth Series
by Davidson, Avram
Garden City: Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1965. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in an about Fine jacket, generally toned. Grey boards, bumped at the lower corners, with purple ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain,former owner's signature on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. This collection features stories from... Read More
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Flying Saucers: An Analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14
by Davidson, Dr. Leon
Clarksburg: Saucerian Books, 1970. Fourth Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 154p. Near Fine. Blue wraps, lightly bumped at the corners, toned and soiled at the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Davidson's work that reprints and analyzes the titular Project Blue Book report among other Air Force and CIA documents. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson. ... Read More
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A is for Ox; A Short History of the Alphabet
by Davies, Lyn
London: Folio Society, 2006. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Brown cloth with gilt and brown ink lettering and designs. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Fifth Business
by Davies, Robertson
New York: Viking Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Very Good in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($6.95), lightly bumped at the edges, Doubleday price sticker on the back panel. Quarter brown cloth with yellow paper on the boards, some red splotches. Square and firmly bound with a soiled yellow topstain, clean internally. The first novel in... Read More
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Inhuman Bondage; The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
by Davis, David Brion
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($30.00). Quarter black buckram with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Davis's comprehensive history of slavery, winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.
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Sketches for a Life of Wassilly
by Davis, Lydia
Barrytown: Station Hill, 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Signed by Davis on the title page. Very Good. Wraps generally toned and soiled, faintly rubbed at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Davis's story about "the doomed dreamer," favorably compared to the writing of Samuel Beckett.
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