THE PURSUIT OF THE HOUSE BOAT
by Bangs, John Kendrick
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. 12mo. First issue, with 7 titles on page 208. Illustrated by Peter Newell and dedicated to Conan Doyle. 204pp.(4)pp. ads at rear. Being some further account of the divers doings of the associated shades, under the leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. Bound in tan pictorial... Read More
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THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS or, Mirth and Marvels
by Barham, R.H. / Thomas Ingoldsby
London; 1840-42 & 47: Richard Bentley and Son. First Edition. Full-Leather. Fine. 8vo. FIRST EDITION, first issue; the First, Second and Third Series, in three volumes, each with half-title and engraved title pages, humorously illustrated by George Cruikshank and John Leach and with a 2 portraits of the author, with the excessively rare blank page at 236 of... Read More
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THE BOLD DECEIT. Poems (Includes CD)
by BARNES, Richard (SIGNED)
Phoenix: Art of Thought Books, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. SIGNED BY RICHARD BARNES ON COLOPHON PAGE without personalization. LIMITED EDITION OF 100 COPIES. THIS IS No. 16. A Fine copy bound in red cloth with black lettering spine. Housed in Fine black cloth covered slipcase with paste-on black and white photographic illustration and gilt lettering. Unopened... Read More
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AN AFRICAN ELDORADO, the Belgian Congo
by Barns, T. Aleander
London: Methuen & Co. Ld, 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. 229pp. 8pp.+ ads. Introduction by Sir Louis Fran. Illustrated with 32 illustrations and 4 maps. Bound in brown cloth, upper board title in blind, spine gilt; very minor wear to spine ends, previous owner's book plate; a very good+ copy with facsinating photographs of the... Read More
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LES TRANSFORMATEURS D'ENERGIE
by Barres, Fernand, Eugene Bremaud and Adolphe Schoeller
Paris: Aristide Quillet, 1910. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Quarto. In two volumes. 221pp. text volume profusely illustrated in black and white, atlas volume containing 13 leaves of COLOR diagrams with MOVEABLE OVERLAYS mounted on stiff boards. Both volumes bound in original brown pictorial cloth lettered and decorated in blue, orange, gold, black and white; decorative endpapers; minor... Read More
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THE LEFT HAND OF GOD
by Barrett, William E. (SIGNED)
New York: Doubleday & Co, 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "WITH ALL BEST WISHES" BY WILLIAM E. BARRETT ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. 8vo. 275pp. Bound in black cloth, spine lettered in gilt rubbed. previous owners name to front pastedown, erasure mark to front free endpaper, A very... Read More
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The Music of Madness. Original Carbon Typescript. Published in Weird Tales
by Barrett, William E.
Soft Cover. Very Good+. Quarto; 14 pages, carbon typescript, with ALS: "This is the carbon copy / of the original manuscript / - the first story I ever / sold - Music of Madness / - Weird Tales - (signed) W. E. B." Staple bound in a black plastic folder. William E. Barrett (1900 - 1986). Author of... Read More
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La Mano Di Dio [The Left Hand of God]
by Barrett, William E. (SIGNED)
Milan: Edizioni Librarie Italiane, 1956. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. 419 pp. First Italian Edition. SIGNED AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM E. BARRETT TO HIS WIFE. Fine in a Near Fine Dust Jacket.
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The Empty Shrine (With Typed Letter Signed)
by Barrett, William E. (SIGNED)
New York: Doubleday and Company, 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED AND WARMLY INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM E. BARRETT ON FEP. SIGNED again on the half title. TLS laid in, on the author's letterhead. Dust jacket shows chipping at spine tips.
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Margaret Ogilvy. By Her Son
by Barrie, J. M.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1896. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. 204 pages, 4 pages of ads; original black cloth, with beveled edges; top edges gilt. Frontispiece of the author's mother, about whom the book was written. Expert repair to rear inner hinge. A near fine, bright copy.
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The Little Minister. Three Volumes
by Barrie, J. M.
London: Cassell & Co, 1891. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. First issue.Three volumes in original brown cloth; 232 pp, 239 pp., 232 pp. 16 pages of ads in volume I, dated 9/91. Travelling library labels expertly removed from front panels. With bookplate of Charles Philip Huntington 3rd Baronet front pastedowns. Internally clean and bright.... Read More
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Courage
by Barrie, J. M.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1922. Hard Cover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. First large paper edition. Bound in faux vellum with gilt lettering; unpaginated, top edges gilt, printed on heavy paper; unopened. A fine, brilliant unread copy.
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THE GREENWOOD HAT, Being a Memoir of James Anon 1885-1887; with a Tipped in Letter
by Barrie, J.M.
London: Peter Davies Limited, 1937. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. First edition after the limited edition of 50 copies in 1930 privately printed for friends. Contains a 2 page letter tipped in after p. 196, an inquiry pertaining to a photographic portrait of the daughter of author W.E. Henley. His daughter was the little... Read More
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WHEN A MAN'S SINGLE, A Tale of Literary Life
by Barrie, J.M.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1888. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Barrie's third book. Half-title with ad on verso of Barrie's "Auld Licht Idylls", 289pp., (2)pp. + Ads. Bound in dark blue cloth over beveled boards, spine lettered in gilt with single rule borders, green endpapers, top edge gilt, some toning to page edges. First... Read More
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Better Dead
by Barrie, J. M.
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1891. Hard Cover. Near Fine. First hardbound edition, original navy blue cloth; 12mo, 145 pages. First published in 1888 in softcover - that front cover design is now the frontispiece of this first hardcover edition. Black coated end papers. A near fine copy, showing light edge wear. Neat owner name on half title;... Read More
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SENTIMENTAL TOMMY the Story of His Childhood
by Barrie, J.M.
London: Cassell and Co., Ltd, 1896. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. First Issue, 452pp., 4.pp. ads, (16)pp.+ publisher's catalog. Bound in dark blue cloth, gilt lettering spine, and top edge gilt. A fine copy, housed in a custom morocco backed slipcase and chemise.
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Margaret Ogilvy. By Her Son
by Barrie, J. M. (From the Library of Estelle Doheny)
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1896. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. 204 pages, 4 pages of ads at rear. From the library of avid book collector and philanthropist Estelle Doheny (1875 - 1958) with her bookplate. Bound in original blue cloth with beveled edges, gilt lettering spine; frontispiece of the author's mother, about whom... Read More
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COME BACK, DOCTOR CALIGARI (In Original Red Publisher's Box with Paper Label)
by Barthelme, Donald
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. First Edition. Unbound Sheets. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Advance Preview Copy of the author's First Book. Comprising 37 unbound, quarto sheets laid-in the publisher's original red box, with printed white label. Text on rectos only. The first page is a publisher's letter from the publicity manager. Page 2 gives copyright and publication information.... Read More
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Kunstwerke Der Antike, Auktion XXII, 13 Mai 1961 - Bronzen, Keramik, Skulpturen, Goldschmuck, Bronzes, Ceramics, Skulptures, Antiques
by Munzen Und Medaillen A. G. Basel
Basel: Munzen Und Medaillen, 1961. Original Wraps. Very Good+. Quarto. Bound in original printed wrappers; 230 lots, catalogued and illustrated in black and white. Auction results is laid in, as well as a bid sheet and self-addressed envelope. A very good+ copy.
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Kunstwerke Der Antike, Auktion XXVI, 5 Oktober 1963 - Bronzen, Keramik, Skulpturen, Bronzes, Skulptures, Ceramics, Antiques
by Munzen Und Medaillen A. G. Basel
Basel: Munzen Und Medaillen, 1963. Original Wraps. Very Good. Quarto. Bound in original printed wrappers. 193 lots, catalogued and illustrated in black and white. Price estimates for this sale is laid in, as well as a bid sheet and self-addressed envelope. A very good copy.
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Autograph (signed Business card)
by Basie, Count [William James Basie]
Very Good. Verso of business card signed in blue ink thus: "To Alex / Count Basie" - an in person autograph, collected by Alexander Wright (on his own business card) Lead Skycap at Sky Harbor, who retired in 1998. Born William James Basie on August 21, 1904 in Red Bank, New Jersey, "Count" Basie became one of the... Read More
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Novum Testamentum. Juxta Exemplar Millianum
by Baskerville, John [Printer and typographer]
Oxford (Oxonii): Clarendon, 1763. Full-Leather. Very Good. Octavo. First Baskerville edition. 676 pages. Bound in contemporary full calf, black leather label on spine, lettered in gilt. Small loss at spine ends, hinges repaired; inner hinges strengthened; neat owner name on FEP; bookplate. Internally, very clean; a good looking, serviceable copy.
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Poetry of the Bells
by Batchelder, Samuel, Jr. (SIGNED)
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1858. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY SAMUEL BATCHELDER AND DATED November 4, 1866; original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind; 72 pages. Additionally, the author has printed his name on the contents page, to show authorship of a poem. Light browning to end papers, light age-toning to text;... Read More
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by Baum, L. Frank
Chicago and New York: Geo. M. Hill Co, 1900. First Edition. W. W. Denslow. Original pictorial cloth "C" binding, with publisher's imprint in red capital letters with serifs, at foot of spine; quarto. All second issue text points are present: ad on verso of FFEP is not enclosed in a box; page 14, line 1 with misprint corrected ".....low... Read More
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Dot and Tot of Merryland
by Baum, L. Frank
Chicago (1914): M. A. Donohue & Co. Very Good. quarto, 226 pages; SECOND BOBBS-MERRILL printing, with "Donahue" at foot of spine and Donahue imprint on title page. Publisher's gray-green pictorial cloth, printed in red and black; pictorial end papers. Internally clean and bright. Owner name and address in pencil on ffep. Bienvenue pp. 192 - 193.
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