THE ROMANY STAIN. Limited Edition
by Morley, Christopher (SIGNED). Illustrated By Walter Jack Duncan
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1926. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover. Very Good+. SIGNED BY CHRISTOPHER MORLEY ON COLOPHONE PAGE without personalization. LIMITED TO 365 COPIES. THIS IS No. 38. Illustrated with pen drawings by Walter Jack Duncan. Bound in black cloth spine and patterned paper covered boards, printed paper spine label, top edge gilt. Very good+... Read More
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Human Being, A Story
by Morley, Christopher (SIGNED)
New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY CHRISTOPHER MORLEY ON TITLE PAGE without personlization. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, with very light edge wear. 350 pp.
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The Man Who Made Friends with Himself (Presentation Edition, Not for Sale)
by Morley, Christopher
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1949. First Edition. Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 275 pages, dust jacket with price of $3.00 on front flap. Printed on verso of half title: "Memo For This Private Edition / The publishers have wished to print a few hundred advance copies....." Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.
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PARNASSUS ON WHEELS (Inscribed Association Copy)
by Morley, Christopher (SIGNED)
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1919. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED TO RAYMOND E. RUBICAM AND DATED BY CHRISTOPHER MORLEY ON FFEP. Raymond E. Rubicam was an American advertising pioneer who co-established the Young & Rubicam Advertising Co., 190pp., bound in 1/4 green cloth over gray paper covered boards lettered in dark green, spine gilt;... Read More
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A HISTORY OF BRITISH BIRDS
by Morris, Rev. F.O.
Leeds; (nd But Ca.1860): D. Banks. Hard Cover. Very Good. Small Octavo. Four volumes in eight (lacking vol. 8) 155 hand-colored plates in total, bound in green blind stamped cloth, spines lettered in gilt, pale yellow coated endpapers. Neat owner's stamped name and name plate on FEP of each volume; text and plates are all free from foxing.... Read More
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LITTLE SCARLET
by Mosley, Walter (SIGNED)
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE BY WALTER MOSLEY. Inscribed to bookseller Charles Parkhurst with his armorial bookplate laid-in. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 306 pp.
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A Red Death
by Mosley, Walter (SIGNED)
New York: W. W. Norton, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. 284 pages; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $18.95 on front flap. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on title page to mystery collector Arthur H. Parson. The second Easy Rawlins mystery. A fine, unread copy.
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HISTORY OF THE UNITED NETHERLANDS; from the Death of William the Silent to the Synod of Dort. Two Volumes Only, of Four
by Motley, John Lothrop
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1861. Half-Leather. Very Good+. Octavo. A full view of the English-Dutch struggle against Spain, and of the origin and destruction of the Spanish Armada. In two volumes (of 4 volumes), 532pp., 563pp., illustrated, bound in half brown polished calf over marbled paper covered boards, contrasting brown leather labels gilt with four compartments decorated... Read More
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Murder A La Mode (Inscribed)
by Moyes, Patricia
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. First Edition. Fine/About Fine. octavo, 223 pages; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $3.75 on front flap. INSCRIBED to mystery collector Arthur H. Parson on the title page: "For Arthur Parson, / with every good wish - / Patricia Moyes" - First edition, stated.
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A Color Notation. An Illustrated System Defining All Colors & Their Relations By Measured Scales of Hue, Value and Chroma. Made In Solid Paint for the Accompanying COLOR ATLAS (not present)
by Munsell, A. H.
Boston: Geo. H. Ellis Co, 1913. Near Fine. Octavo, 113[1] pages; brown boards, cloth covered spine. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Illustrated in color and in black and white. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.
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1860 Map of Basingstoke England. Geological Survey of Great Britain
by Murchison, Sir R. I.
J Wyld, 1860. Unbound. Very Good. Engraved at the Drawing Room in the Tower, under the direction of Col. Mudge; 1860. Colored map, mounted on linen (35" x 27"). Sold by J. Wyld, Charing Cross East, with his label in the margin and on the contemporary cloth covered slipcase; map and slipcase are very good.
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MARTIN'S NATURAL HISTORY
by Myers, Sarah A.
New York: Blakeman & Mason, 1862. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Hand-colored frontispiece, 464 (1)pp., First Series translated from the 35th German edition containing 262 hand colored illustrations; bound in original blind stamped brown cloth depicting various animals, pictorial gilt spine. Light wear ar extremities; neat owner name on FEP;a very good copy.
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Address Book, with Four Angels in Silver Bas-Relief on Front Panel
by N/A
England: Whitehall Silver & Plate Co. Fine. Address book, with 4 angels in silver bas-relief on front panel; binding is black full leather; 16mo, (4 3/4" x 3 1/4"), 104 pages, alphabetical tabs. Silver Makers Marks show Whitehill Silver & Plate Co., 1989 - 2004., Sheffield. No entries, no markings of any kind; fine. Perhaps the most beautiful... Read More
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Despair
by Nabokov, Vladimir
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966. First British Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. 255 pages, the first British edition from the second Russian translation. A fine copy, in a very good dust jacket, with price of 25s on front flap.
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Jan Smuts. Memoirs of the Boer War
by Nattrass, Gail (ed.) & Spies, S. B. (ed.)
Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 1994. First Edition. Fine/Fine. octavo, 242 pages; publisher's brown cloth, spine printed in beige. Pictorial dust jacket. Internally clean and bright. Professor Richard Dale's copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown. Professor Dale was an author, international authority on South Africa and delivered lectures before the United Nations.
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The Robber Kitten with Twenty-two Illustrations By John Rea Neill
by NEILL, John R. (Illustrator)
Philadelphia (1902): Henry Altemus Company. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. 16mo, 94(2) pages; publisher's green pictorial cloth, printed in red, white and brown. Original pictorial dust jacket with small loss at spine ends and minor soiling. Peach pictorial end papers, printed in orange. Illustrated in color and black and white.
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General Eisenhower on the Military Churchill
by Nelson, James (ed.); Cooke, Alistair
New York: W. W. Norton, 1970. First Edition. Fine/About Fine. octavo, 96 pages. price of $4.95 on front flap. Contains the text of Alistair Cook interviewing Eisenhower at Gettysburg. Illustrated with numerous black and white photos. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.
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A FRAGILE BEAUTY. John Nichols' Milagro County
by Nichols, John. (SIGNED) Foreword By Robert Redford
Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith, Inc./Peregrine Smith Books, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Quarto. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY JOHN NICHOLS ON HALF TITLE PAGE. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket. Armorial bookplate front pastedown. 146 pp.
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THE STERILE CUCKOO
by Nichols, John
New York: David McKay Co, 1965. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. ADVANCE PROOF COPY. Author's first book. 210 pp. Bound in blue wrappers printed in red. A lovely copy.
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The Mote in God's Eye
by Niven, Larry and Pournelle, Jerry
N.p.: SFBC (Science Fiction Book Club), 2005. Fine/Fine. octavo, 523 pages; volume 23 in the SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection. As new.
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Impact 20 (Signed, Limited, with Drawing)
by Nolan, William F.
Pennsylvania: Edge Books, 2002. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. #PC of 350 copies, signed by William F. Nolan and Gary Braunbeck on the limitation page. With a drawing by Mr. Nolan on the FFEP. Introduction and Afterword by Ray Bradbury. Preface by Gary A. Braunbeck. As new.
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Logan: A Trilogy
by NOLAN, William F and George Clayton Johnson (SIGNED)
Baltimore: MacLay & Associates, Inc, 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. 384 pages; Signed and with a drawing on ffep, inscribed "To Arthur! / Cheers!" - dated Feb. 18, 1995.
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J.-M. Nattier, Peintre De La Cour De Louis XV
by Nolhac, Pierre De
Paris: Goupil & Co.; Manzi Joyant & Co, 1905. Full-Leather. Near Fine. folio (12 3/4" x 10"), #162 of 425 copies, bound by Durvand, blue full leather, generously and magnificently decorated in gilt; silken end papers; 24 plates (4 in color). Original blue wrappers bound in. A beautiful copy, visually striking.
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STORIES OF THE ISLAND WORLD
by Nordhoff, Charles
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. Frontispiece, 315pp., 4pp. publisher's ads. Bound in blue embossed cloth, spine lettering gilt, yellow endpapers, illustrated in black and white. A very good copy. Nordhoff was an American journalist and author of several books. He was the grandfather of the famed Charles Bernard Nordhoff, co-author... Read More
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Wizards' Worlds (Signed First Edition)
by NORTON, Andre
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1989. First Edition. Fine. Patricia Davis. octavo, 500 pages; publisher's brown full-leather binding, decorated in gilt; all edges gilt. Signed by the author on a front end paper. Silk moire end papers, silk bookmark.
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