THE PLACE OF HONEYMOONS
by Macgrath, Harold
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merril Co, 1912. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. 378pp. Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller. Bound in green cloth lettered in gilt, small bump to one corner otherwise a near fine, bright copy in very good scenic pictorial dust jacket with only minor edge wear. A very handsome copy in very... Read More
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INFINITE RICHES. The Adventures of a Rare Book Dealer
by MAGEE, David (SIGNED). Introduction By Lawrence Clark Powell
New York: Paul S. Erikksson, Inc, 1973. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY DAVID MAGEE WITH AUTOGRAPHED NOTE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE AUTHOR'S PERSONAL STATIONARY WITH HIS PRINTED LETTERHEAD. Bound in original gold cloth with black lettering. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. xiii, 274 pp.
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THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, a Novel
by Mailer, Norman
New York; (1948): Rinehart & Co. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Fine. Octavo. With the Rinehart logo on copyright page, in a fine unclipped dust jacket with $4.00 price on flap. 721pp. bound in black boards, spine lettering white, only light shelf wear to top and bottom edges; near fine in a fine dust jacket.... Read More
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The Naked and the Dead
by Mailer, Norman
New York (1948): Rinehart & Co. First Edition. Fine/About Fine. Octavo, Rinehart logo on copyright, in a near fine dust jacket, with $4.00 price on front flap. Owner name on FEP. An excellent, fine copy, in a very near fine dust jacket.
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BARBARY SHORE
by MAILER, Norman
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. First Edition with Rinehart logo on copyright page. A near fine copy bound in black paper over boards with white lettering spine. In a very good+ dust jacket with mild edge wear. 312 pp.
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No Easy Walk to Freedom. Articles, Speeches, and Trial Addresses of Nelson Mandela
by Mandela, Nelson (First, Ruth, Ed.)
New York: Basic Books, Inc, 1965. First Edition. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. octavo, 189 pages; publisher's black cloth, spine printed in silver. Illustrated in black and white. Professor Richard Dale's copy, with his bookplate. Professor Dale was an author, scholar on South Africa politics and lecturer before the United Nations. Spine faded to gray. Internally clean and bright.... Read More
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THEY TELL NO TALES, Double Day Crime Club
by MANNING, Coles
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc, 1942. First Editon. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good-. Octavo. $2.00 on dust jacket front flap. Bound in blue cloth with red lettering spine and front cover. A very good+ copy with previous owner inscription ffep. In a very good- dust jacket with tape reinforcement verso of dust... Read More
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This Peace
by Mann, Thomas
New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 1938. First Edition. Fine/Very Good. octavo, 38 pages; with Knopf self-addressed review card laid in (blanks not filled-in. Price of 75c on front flap of dust jacket, with light fading at spine and fore-edge. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.
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THE BELOVED RETURNS Lotte in Weimar
by Mann, Thomas
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. 453pp., (5)pp., ads, bound in black cloth with author's initials stamped in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. A fine copy in a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with a small chip to lower edge of dust jacket. A very... Read More
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DEATH IN VENICE. A Norton Critical Edition. Instructors Desk Copy
by Mann, Thomas. Edited By Clayton Koelb
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994. Wrappers. Fine. Octavo. A New Translation, Backgrounds, and Contexts Criticism. "Instructor's Desk Copy" stamped in gilt rear wrapper. First Edition Thus. Fine copy in original color illustrated wrappers. viii, 237 pp. + Ads. Printed return postcard with W. W. Norton address laid-in.
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THE BELOVED RETURNS, Lotte in Weimar
by Mann, Thomas
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Printed Wrapper. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. ADVANCE REVIEW COPY, "sample copy" stamped on top page edge, 453pp., (5)pp. ads at rear. Translated from the German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Bound in printed wrappers, general light wear and darkening to spine and rear panel.
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Melanchthon the Quiet Reformer
by Manschreck, Clyde Leonard
Nashville (1958): Abington Press. First Edition. Fine/Very Good. Large octavo, 350 pages; neat owner name on FEP; dust jacket with price of $6 on front flap, spine fading, light wear at extremities.
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![Aircraft Year Book 1921 [From Will D. (Billy) Parker's Library]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/494/677/873677494.0.m.jpg)
Aircraft Year Book 1921 [From Will D. (Billy) Parker's Library]
by Manufacturers Aircraft Association, Inc. (SIGNED By Will D. (Billy) Parker)
Boston: Small, Maynard & Co, 1921. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY WILL D. (BILLY) PARKER. Legendary pioneer aviator Will D. (Billy) Parker's copy, with his bookplate and ownership inscription of front blank: "Capt. Billy Parker/H.M.R.F.C./Dewey Okla/1921" in pencil. Parker had just served Her Majesties Royal Flying Corps - the inscription shows his pride.... Read More
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OLLA PODRIDA. Three Volumes
by [Frederick Marryat]
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1840. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. THREE VOLUMES. Complete Set. By the author of "Peter Simple." Bound in brown cloth with original spines laid down, gilt lettering spines. Very good copies with inner hinges discreety repaired, spines faded, lscattered foxing, mild edge wear. vi, 310 pp., 362... Read More
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![The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief....First President of the United States, With Atlas [Presented in a Quarter Leather Box, with a Drawer for the atlas]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/030/840/1591840030.0.m.jpg)
The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief....First President of the United States, With Atlas [Presented in a Quarter Leather Box, with a Drawer for the atlas]
by Marshall, John
Philadelphia, 1804-07: C. P. Wayne. First Edition. Very Good+. first printing, five large octavo volumes, with frontis portrait in volume I, with the quarto Atlas, with 10 maps and 22 pages of subscribers names. All uniformly bound in excellent mid-twentieth Century green morocco over marbled boards; marbled end papers; top edges stained red. Atlas with light off-setting to... Read More
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Thin Air. A Yellowthread Street Mystery (Inscribed)
by Marshall, William
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978. First Edition. Near Fine/About Fine. Octavo, 186 pages; pictorial dust jacket with price of $6.95 on front flap. INSCRIBED on title page to mystery collector Arthur H. Parson, thus: "Arthur, / Very best wishes, / William Marshall / San Diego / '81" - lower boards slightly fading, owner name and date... Read More
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LOGARITHMOLOGIA: Or the Whole Doctrine of Logariths, Common and Logistical, in Theory and Practice
by Martin, Benjamin
London; (1740, 1739): For J. Hodges. Full-Leather. Very Good. Octavo. In three parts. xii, [1]246, (2)pp. publisher's ads; title page dated 1739 for the table or canon, 62(1), (1)pp. publisher's ad. (The last part has a separate title page, pagination and register, reading "Logarithmology." Part II. Containing a threefold table or canon of logarithms). Bound in contemporary blind... Read More
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THE PHILOSOPHICAL HISTORY AND MEMOIRS OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT PARIS
by Martyn, John and Ephraim Chambers (translated & abridged]
London: for John and Paul Knapton and John Nourse, 1742. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Very Good+. Small Octavo. An abridgment of all the papers relating to Natural Philosophy, which have been publish'd by the members of that illustrious society, from the year 1699 to 1720. With many curious observations relating to the natural history and anatomy of animals,... Read More
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DREAM LIFE: a Fable of the Seasons
by Marvel, Ik [Michell, Donald G.]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1851. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. Mixed issue, with six dots, not five before number 56 on p. v, but, with the word "world" in battered type for p. 150 in contents. The title leaf is not a cancel. 286pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard present, pale yellow endpapers, bound in original... Read More
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WITH THE LIVING VOICE An Address Given at the First General Meeting of the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse 24 October 1924
by Masefield, John
[William Heinemann, Cambridge], 1925. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Preceding the limited and hard bound copy. This copy bound in original tan wrappers printed in black, a fine copy in fine glassine wrapper housed in blue cloth slipcase with chemise.
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THE WIDOW IN THE BYE-STREET
by Masefield, John (SIGNED)
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1912. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. Small Octavo. First issue. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "THE LUCK WILL ALTER AND THE STAR WILL RISE" BY JOHN MASEFIELD ON FFEP without personalization. 97(1)p., (6)pp. ads at rear, bound in bright red cloth lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt; a very nice... Read More
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MINNIE MAYLOW'S STORY and Other Tales and Scenes
by Masefield, John (SIGNED)
New York: The Macmillan Co, 1931. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover. Fine. Tall Octavo. LIMITED EDITION OF 350 COPIES. THIS IS No. 268. SIGNED BY JOHN MASEFIELD ON COLOPHON without personalization. 194pp., bound in 1/4 black cloth over beige cloth with gilt lettering spine. Fine in very good publisher's slipcase.
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LINES ON THE TERCENTENARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY
by Masefield, John (SIGNED)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Good. Quarto. SIGNED BY JOHN MASEFIELD ON COLOPHON without personalization. LIMITED EDITION OF 250 SIGNED COPIES. THIS IS No. 25. With a 2 page letter written by a young boy of 16 in 1918 asking Mr. Masefield for his autograph as he collects autographs of... Read More
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MELLONEY HOLTSPUR or, the Pangs of Love
by Masefield, John (SIGNED)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+. Octavo. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 NUMBERED AND SIGNED COPIES THIS IS No.882. SIGNED BY JOHN MASEFIELD ON COLOPHON without personalization. 151pp., bound in 1/4 black cloth over gray paper covered boards with paper label lettered in black, spine letteing gilt. Minimal soil covers,... Read More
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MELLONEY HOLTSPUR or, the Pangs of Love
by Masefield, John (SIGNED)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good. Octavo. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 NUMBERED AND SIGNED COPIES THIS IS No.797. SIGNED BY JOHN MASEFIELD ON COLOPHON without personalization. 151pp., bound in 1/4 black cloth over gray paper covered boards with paper label lettered in black, spine letteing gilt; in dust jacket... Read More
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