The Stone Diaries (Signed first American edition)
by Shields, Carol
New York: Viking, 1994. First American edition. Fine/Fine. Following the London edition. Signed on the title-page and dated "3-23-94" by Carol Shields. Publisher's cream cloth spine over beige boards. A Fine copy in like unclipped dust jacket. Carol Shield's novel of motherhood, marriage, and grief, which chronicles the life of Daisy Goodwill Flett from birth to death,... Read More
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Frank Sinatra My Father (Inscribed by Frank)
by Sinatra, Nancy
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1985. First trade edition. Fine/Near Fine. A Fine copy of the book in a Near Fine dust jacket. Inscribed on the front end paper: "To Doreen Fondly Frank Sinatra 1985." Uncommon signed or inscribed by Frank. A daughter's insightful and honest portrait of a father who was and remains an American... Read More
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Researches into the History of Playing Cards: with Illustrations on the Origin of Printing and Engraving on Wood
by Singer, Samuel Weller
London: Printed by T. Bensley & Son for Robert Triphook, 1816. First edition. Limited edition, one of 250 copies for subscribers. Full red crushed morocco with gilt to spine and boards. Five raised bands. Dentelles gilt. Top edge brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Robert Hoe III (1839-1909) to front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Mary Macmillin Norton below.... Read More
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Charles I.
by Skelton, Sir John
London: Goupil & Co, 1898. First edition. Near Fine. Finely bound in full crushed morocco with five bands to spine and ornate gilt to spine and boards. All edges brightly gilt. Turn-ins gilt. Blue and brown morocco doublures. Silk moire endpapers. Number 378 of 500 copies printed on Japanese paper. Spine gently sunned; some bumping to corners. Front... Read More
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by Smith, Adam
London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1778. Second edition. Very Good. 2 volumes, quarto (282 × 225 mm), half title in volume 2 (as called for), bound without the final blanks in each volume: [8], 510; [8], 589, [1, blank]. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked, preserving original red morocco spine labels, plain endpapers. Engraved armorial bookplate of the... Read More
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To the Editors of The Emancipator, Boston
by Smith, Gerrit
[Peterboro, NY]: [N.P.], 1847. First edition. Broadside sheet measuring 12 x 7.75 inches and printed recto and verso. Later ink docketing to upper left corner. Faint toning along horizontal foldlines to verso (not apparent on recto) and minor chips to upper margin. A just about Fine copy of a scarce tract calling out the hypocrisy of contemporary media in... Read More
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The Negro -- Yesterday and Today
by Smith, Marjorie E. Wellborn
New York: Board of National Missions, 1932. First edition. Near Fine. 10 page pamphlet in self wrappers, stapled. Measures 4 x 9 inches. Faint offsetting to front and rear wrappers; pencilled annotations to pages 2-3 and 5-6. In all, a clean and pleasing copy of this scarce pamphlet documenting the movement toward a more fair and equal economic... Read More
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The Fairy Scales
by Smythe, Gladys. Catherina Patricchio (illustrator)
London: T.C. & E.C. Jack, Ltd, 1917. First edition. Publisher's cream cloth, front cover decoratively bordered and lettered in green and with color plate (the same as opposite p.76) pasted onto front cover. Spine lettered in green. Pictorial endpapers printed in green. Original tan dust jacket, similarly bordered and lettered in green and with same color plate pasted onto... Read More
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American Chivalry (Association Copy)
by [Social Reform] Wyman, Lillie Buffum Chace
Boston: W. B. Clarke Company, 1913. First edition. Very Good +. Green publisher's cloth binding with bright gilt to spine and front board. Scattered rubbing to front board; small scuff to rear board. Tight and square. Internally clean and unmarked, containing 19 portraits, and 2 facsimile letters from Wendell Phillips and Joseph Twichell respectively. This copy presented by... Read More
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Description of the Retreat, an Institution Near York
by [Social Activism] [Mental Health] [Neuro Diversity] Tuke, Samuel
York: W. Alexander, 1813. First octavo edition. Octavo (leaves 129 x 210 mm). There was also a quarto edition in 1813, generally described as a large-paper copy. Collating: xx, 227, [1 page errata]; complete including frontis and two folding plates. Contemporary calf rebacked to style with gilt and five raised bands to spine. Generally a bit shelfworn and rubbed,... Read More
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A Few Words on Behalf of the Loyal Women of the United States, by One of Themselves
by [Women in Wartime] [Caroline Kirkland] Loyal Publication Society
New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co Printers, 1863. First edition. Very Good +. Original paper wraps. 23 pages. Number 10 in a series of 17 pamphlets addressing the causes and outcomes of the Civil War. One of two variant printings with no priority assigned, this with page 23 beginning "attempt at corrupting." Some separation to the foot... Read More
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Constitution and Meeting Minutes
by [Women's Social History] Ladies of the Union Benevolent Society
Walesville [NY], 1854. Contemporary quarter roan over marbled boards. Spine and boards worn, with loss to foot of spine and evidence of label removal to front board. Internally foxed and soiled, but remaining legible throughout. Comprised of 53 handwritten pages in various hands. Documenting the founding of the women's group focused on local philanthropy, which allowed men entry only... Read More
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The Chase. A Poem
by Somerville, William
London: W. Bulmer and Co, 1796. First thus. Finely bound by Mansell in full tree calf with gilt and morocco to spine. All edges brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. A tall copy measuring 290 x 225mm and collating xv, [1, blank], vii, [1, blank], 126: complete including 13 wood engravings by Bewick. A lovely copy, with minimal rubbing along joints;... Read More
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The Constitution of the United States of America
by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son]
New Rochelle: The Peter Pauper Press, 1934. First thus. First Peter Pauper Press edition, one of 950 copies produced at the Walpole Printing Office in New Rochelle, New York. Finely bound by Riviere & Son (stamp-signed on upper flyleaf) in full dark blue polished calf with elaborate gilt spine, lavish gilt turn-ins, and blue marbled endpapers. 43 pp. Text... Read More
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The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900
by [Fine Binding - Riviere & Son]
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1912. Small octavo (6 9/16 x 4 3/16 inches; 167 x 106 mm.). [x], [1]-1084 pp. Printed on thin india paper. Bound by Rivière & Son ca. 1912 in full midnight blue morocco, covers elaborately stamped in gilt pointille in a wonderful floral design. Red morocco doublures with an elaborate gilt design, cream watered silk end... Read More
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Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
by Speke, John Hanning
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. First edition. Near Fine. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt figure. Octavo. xxxi, [1], 658, [34, ads] pp. Collating complete with twenty-seven plates (including frontisportrait of Speke) and the large fold-out map (445 x 570 mm) of Eastern Equatorial Africa tucked into the pocket beneath lower pastedown (as issued). Binding is... Read More
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The Voice at the Back Door (Inscribed first edition)
by Spencer, Elizabeth
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1956. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. Inscribed by Elizabeth Spencer on the title-page: "For Walter and Jane, all good wishes and hopes, Elizabeth Spencer, Chattanooga, 2 Apr '93." With a bookplate signed by Spencer laid in. Publisher's black-and-blue boards. Toning to endpapers and first and last couple leaves. Unclipped dust jacket... Read More
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The Works of Edmund Spenser (in 8 vols.)
by Spenser, Edmund
Oxford: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press…and Published for the Press by Basil Blackwell, 1932. First Thus. Very Good+. One of 375 numbered copies on Batchelor’s Shakespeare Head handmade paper (this copy being number 134), out of a total edition of 386 copies. Eight volumes, large octavo (11 3/16 x 7 1/8 inches; 285 x 194 mm.). Bound... Read More
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My Gun is Quick (Inscribed first edition)
by Spillane, Mickey
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1950. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. Inscribed on the upper flyleaf by Mickey Spillane. Publisher's brown cloth boards stamped in red. Small midcentury bookplate to upper pastedown. Some toning to edges of boards and to endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket bright and attractive overall despite some chipping to edges and corners. A... Read More
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I, the Jury
by Spillane, Mickey
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1947. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. Publisher's black boards titled in red. Small midcentury bookplate to upper pastedown. Bright and clean dust jacket with just a bit of crinkling to top edge. A Fine and attractive copy in Near Fine jacket. In his debut novel, Mickey Spillane introduces Mike Hammer, the hard-boiled... Read More
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An heiress grows into womanhood in a changing world, documenting five years of her life in the US and Europe
by [Diary] [Women's Social History] Catherine Harrison Squibb
US, Germany, 1911. Red cloth over card with gilt to front board. All edges stained read. Measuring 200 x 170mm and containing 186 handwritten pages across five years. Dried flowers and theatre program loosely inserted at front. Ownership signature and bookplate of Catherine Harrison Squibb to front pastedown and endpaper with signature of the same to rear endpaper. A... Read More
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The Woman Movement in America
by Squire, Belle
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1911. First edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding stamped in black to spine and front board. A just nearly Fine copy on account of some wear to the cloth near the foot of spine. Internally an exceptionally bright, fresh copy. Contemporary gift inscription to the front endpaper reads: "With love for Annie... Read More
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You
by Stanford, Frank
Fayetteville: Lost Roads, 1979. First edition. Near Fine. Near Fine in original printed wraps. Toning to spine and minor offsetting to edges of wraps. Internally fresh and unmarked. Scarce in collectible condition. The second posthumous publication of Stanford’s work (following Crib Death), published as Lost Roads Number 15. An increasingly scarce example of Stanford's maturing work, cut... Read More
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The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You
by Stanford, Frank
Fayetteville, AR: Mill Mountain Press / Lost Roads, No. 7-12, 1977. First edition. Near Fine. A Near Fine copy of this scarce and important work of modern poetry. Publisher's white pictorial wrappers reproducing a harrowing Vietnam War photograph. Some rubbing to back cover and an ink stain to inside of front cover (not visible from exterior). A very... Read More
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Field Talk
by Stanford, Frank
Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1975. First Edition. Fine. Tall trade paperbound volume of poems by the cult poet hero, Frank Stanford. Drawings by Ginny Crouch Stanford. 30 pages. A sharp, Fine copy in simple bound blue wrappers, lettered in red. The author's fourth collection and one of the more elusive books in his all too brief career. ... Read More
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