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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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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Crib Death
by Stanford, Frank
[Tucson]: Ironwood Press, 1978. First edition. Near Fine in original printed wraps, with just a touch of rubbing to spine ends and small chip to upper front corner. Internally a crisp, unmarked copy. The first posthumously published work of the author. An increasingly scarce example of Stanford's maturing work, cut short by his suicide at 29. Crib Death,... Read More
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In Darkest Africa (Signed limited edition)
by Stanley, Henry M.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First edition. Near Fine. One of 250 deluxe large-paper copies signed by Henry Morton Stanley. The American issue, published in the same year and using the same sheets as the English issue. Publisher's half dark brown morocco over vellum with gilt lettering and flag emblem. Two volumes, quarto. xv, [1], 529, [1];... Read More
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Fairies I Have Met. Illustrated in Colour by Edmund Dulac
by Stawell, Mrs. Rudolph; Edmund Dulac (illustrator)
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1910. First 're-issue' edition. First published 1907). Publisher's deep blue cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt. Early ink inscription on front free endpaper. Octavo (7 5/8 x 6 inches; 194 x 153 mm). 117, [1, blank], [1, printer's slug], [1, blank] pp. Eight color plates printed on glossy paper with... Read More
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Danebury: or The Power of Friendship. A Tale with Two Odes. By a Young Lady
by [Steele, Mary]
Bristol: W. Pine, 1779. First edition. Very Good +. Quarto. 32 pp. Complete, with the scarce half-tile. Rebound in nineteenth-century-style modern marbled paper wrappers. A bit of foxing to a few leaves, but remarkably clean and attractive overall. A Very Good+ copy of one of the author’s few published works. Date from Timothy Whelan and Julia B. Griffin’s... Read More
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The Red Pony (Signed Limited Edition)
by Steinbeck, John
New York: Covici Friedi Publishers, 1937. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. One of 699 signed copies, this one unnumbered. A Fine copy of the book in excellent condition externally and internally. Slight bowing to front board, but in all bright, clean and unmarked. In a Near Fine slipcase with just a hint of shelfwear. Lacking the original glassine. ... Read More
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The Grapes of Wrath
by Steinbeck, John
New York: Viking Press, 1939. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. A few spots to the topstain, otherwise a bright, fresh copy. First issue dust jacket retains the original price and "First Edition" slug on the front flap. Slight toning to the spine and a little rubbing at the spine ends.... Read More
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In Dubious Battle (Signed limited edition)
by Steinbeck, John
New York: Covici Friedi, 1936. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. Number 31 of 99 copies of the signed limited edition. This copy Fine and unread in the original glassine jacket and publisher’s slipcase. Glassine also Nearly Fine condition with a small tear at the lower, rear corner, publisher’s slipcase Near Fine with a small nick to the lower corner... Read More
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Nothing So Monstrous
by Steinbeck, John
New York: Pynson Printers, 1936. First edition. First separate edition, printed for presentation, but without an information inked in at the limitation page. Publisher's quarter cloth over marbled paper boards. A Near Fine copy, with faint sunning to spine and small split to cloth to the front joint near the crown; gentle bumps to corners. Internally fresh and unread.... Read More
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Snow Crash (Signed first trade edition)
by Stephenson, Neal
New York: Bantam Books, 1992. First trade edition. Near Fine. A Near Fine copy signed by Neal Stephenson on the title-page. First trade paperback with complete number line (9 to 1) on copyright page. Some toning to edges of pages, as usual, but an attractive copy overall. "Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the... Read More
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Treasure Island
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1883. First edition. Very Good. Octavo: viii, 292, [8 pgs. advertisements correctly dated "5R-10.83" for the first printing]. Frontispiece map of Treasure Island printed in four colors lacking the original tissue guard. This copy has these additional points sometimes cited for priority: "dead man's chest" is not capitalized on pgs. 2 and 7;... Read More
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Kidnapped
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1886. First edition. Very Good +. A Very Good+ copy, bound in the publisher's green cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Spine a trifle rolled and the spine ends and corners a bit pushed. Inner hinges professionally repaired. Black coated end-papers, folding map as frontis. Contemporary ownership inscription on the half-title, otherwise... Read More
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The Master of Ballantrae
by Stevenson, Robert Louis
London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1889. First edition. Near Fine. First issue with 20 pages of ads at the rear, dated July, 1889. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth stamped in black on the front and rear panels, and black and gilt on the spine. A Near Fine copy of the book in remarkably bright, fresh cloth.... Read More
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Contraception (Birth Control). Its Theory, History and Practice. A Manual for the Medical and Legal Professions
by Stopes, Marie Carmichael
London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Limited, 1923. First edition. Very Good +/Very Good +. Octavo. xxiii, [1], 418, [2] pp. Complete with four plates. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt. Binding is very bright and clean aside from small smudge to upper board. Toning to endpapers at gutter. Neat contemporary underlining to a few leaves. In the... Read More
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Too Many Cooks
by Stout, Rex
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. Second printing. Fine/Near Fine. A very sharp, Fine copy of the book with the last twelve leaves, the recipes, printed on fine blue paper stock. In a bright dust jacket with a few short tears and color added to the spine ends and corners, but a very attractive example nonetheless. "Second Large... Read More
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A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Boston: John P. Jewett & Co, 1853. First edition. First issue. Brown publishers cloth with bright gilt to spine and blind decorations to boards.Yellow endpapers. Near Fine, with some sunning to spine and rubbing to front board and extremities. Minor scuffing to front pastedown and small closed tear to the title along the lower gutter not affecting text; but... Read More
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![The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe [with] Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe (in 17 vols)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/899/297/1339297899.0.m.jpg)
The Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe [with] Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe (in 17 vols)
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher. [Annie Fields]
Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897. First Thus. Riverside Edition in seventeen octavo volumes (7 3/8 x 4 15/16 inches: 188 x 127 mm.) occupying approvimately 24 inches (61 cm.) of shelf space. Contemporary three-quarter olive green, pebble-grain morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt. Spines with five raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered in compartments, marbled endpapers, tope... Read More
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The Works of Sir John Suckling. Containing his Poems, Letter and Plays
by Suckling, John
London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1709. Early edition. Bound in full polished calf by J. Larkins, rebacked in cloth with much of the leather spine laid down. All edges stained yellow. Marbled end papers. Measuring 190 x 115mm and collating complete with the engraved frontis portrait of Sir John Suckling: [8], 376 (with page 355 misnumbered 335). Ownership signature... Read More
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The Convert
by [Suffrage] [Reproductive Rights] Robins, Elizabeth
London: Methuen, 1907. First UK edition. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board. Measuring 185 x 125mm and collating complete including publisher's catalogue to rear: [4], 359, [1, blank], 40. Sunning and staining to spine, with some rippling to rear board; hinges starting but holding well. Early ownership inscription of Halstow Rd. School to front... Read More
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![Equal Rights for Women. A Speech by George William Curtis. Woman's Suffrage Tracts No. 2. [with:] Universal Suffrage. Female Suffrage](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/330/471/1681471330.0.m.jpg)
Equal Rights for Women. A Speech by George William Curtis. Woman's Suffrage Tracts No. 2. [with:] Universal Suffrage. Female Suffrage
by [Suffrage] Curtis, George William
Boston [and] Philadelphia: C.K. Whipple [and] J.P. Lippincott & Co, 1869. Mixed editions. Fine. Second edition of Equal Rights for Women. A Speech by George William Curtis (Boston: C.K. Whipple, 1869) – though the first edition as part of the Woman's Suffrage Tracts series – bound with the first edition of the anonymously-published Universal Suffrage. Female Suffrage (Philadelphia:... Read More
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Wonderland Avenue. A True Rock 'n' Roll Saga (Presentation Copy)
by Sugerman, Danny
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1989. Second printing. Near Fine/Near Fine. Extraordinary presentation copy signed and inscribed by the ex Doors manager and Jim Morrison confidant Danny Sugerman to film director Oliver Stone, who went on to make his own annotations and markings as preparation for his 1991 film The Doors. Original white publisher's binding with... Read More
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Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds (in parts)
by Surtees, Robert Smith. John Leech and Hablot K. Brown (illustrators)
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1865. First edition. Third issue (with Part I's title, Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, in solid lettering), in the original twelve monthly parts, May 1864-April 1865. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in; 223 x 144 mm).Collating vi, [2], 391, [1], with twenty-four hand-colored steel-engraved plates, two to each volume, heightened with gum arabic. The illustrations... Read More
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Plain or Ringlets? (in parts)
by Surtees, Robert Smith. John Leech (illustrator)
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1860. First edition. Thirteen parts bound in twelve. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 11/16 inches; 223 x 145 mm.). Publisher's original red-brown pictorial wrappers. With the bookplates of H. Bradley Martin and Fitz Eugene Dixon. Hand-colored etched vignette title and twelve hand-colored plates. Black and white wood engravings throughout. Bound without the 12-page catalogue at... Read More
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