A Book of Princeton Verse 1916
by Noyes, Alfred (ed.); Wilson, Edmund
London: Princeton University Press, 1916. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Octavo, original green cloth, printed in gilt; a fine copy, with no markings of any kind. Edmund Wilson's first book appearance.
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The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker
by O'Brien, Liam
New York: Random House, 1954. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/About Fine. 12mo, top edges stained rust; a fine copy, in a near fine dust jacket with red on spine fading.
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THE WIND AT MY BACK. The Life and Times of Pat O'Brien
by O'brien, Pat (SIGNED)
New York: Doubleday and Company, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY PAT O'BRIEN ON FEP without personalization. A Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. A lovely copy. 331 pp.
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PAL JOEY
by O'Hara, John
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. 195pp. Bound in black cloth, spine lettering gilt, in unclipped dust jacket, with browning at spine ends. Neat owner name ffep, bookplate front pastedown. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
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THE FARMERS HOTEL
by O'HARA, John
New York: Random House, 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good++. Octavo. First Printing. A fine copy bound in blue cloth with top edge stained blue. In a very good++ dust jacket. Octavo, 153 pp.
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Sermons and Soda-Water
by O'Hara, John (SIGNED)
New York: Random House, 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Octavo. First printing (stated), SIGNED BY JOHN O'HARA ON A TIPPED-IN LEAF VOLUME ONE. Octavo. THREE VOLUMES. A complete set, fine in a fine publisher's slipcase. Volume I, The Girl on the Baggage Truck; Volume II, Imagine Kissing Pete; Volume III, We're Friends Again. All are fine tight... Read More
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TEN NORTH FREDERICK
by O'HARA, John
New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good+/Very Good+. Octavo. Review Copy. Very good+ dust jacket over wrappers with newspaper clippings tipped-in ffep and verso of front cover. Front dust jacket flap with $3.95 price and 11/55. Dust Jacket by Sam Sugar. 408 pp. National Book Award Winner 1956.
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Illustrations To Nicholas Nickleby
by Onwhyn, T. (Dickens)
n.p., n.d. (London: J. Newman, c. 1847). Very Good+. T. Onwhyn. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 5/8"), unbound. Thirty-two (of 40) engraved plates from Onwhyn's original drawings. Some are signed in the plate by T. Onwhyn, and some are signed by Peter Palette. Very good to fine, with light foxing on the portrait of Nicholas Nickleby.
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MR. MOGO MOUSE [In Original Box)
by Ort, Jane
Joliet, IL: P.F. Volland & Co, 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. 12mo (6" x 7 1/2"). Volland "Sunny Book" series, IN ORIGINAL BOX; 39 pages, (1)pp. ad for Sunny Books; bound in 1/4 black cloth over color illustrated paper covered boards, color pictorial endpapers. Previous owner's name on the dedication page; housed in its original color... Read More
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Nineteen Eighty-four
by Orwell, George
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992. Fine. Frank Kelly Freas. octavo, 314 pages; publisher's black full-leather binding, decorated in gilt. All edges gilt, silk bookmark. Publisher's "Collector's Notes" and Easton bookplate (unused) is laid in. As new.
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Animal Farm
by Orwell, George
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992. Near Fine. Frank Kelly Freas. octavo, 118 pages; publisher's red full-leather decorated in gilt. All edges gilt, silk bookmark. Publisher's "Collector's Notes" and Easton bookplate (unused) is laid in. A lovely copy.
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Politics and the English Language
by Orwell, George
London: Penguin Books, 2013. Fine. 12mo, 24[2] pages, original gray printed wrappers. Internally clean and bright; Professor Richard Dale's copy, with his name stamp on first leaf. Professor Dale was an author, scholar on world affairs, especially South Africa, and he delivered many lectures before the United Nations.
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THE HOLY BIBLE, Containing the Old and New Testaments, with Arguments to the Different Books; and Moral and Theological Observations, Illustrating Each Chapter, and Shewing the Use and Improvement to be Made of it
by Ostervald, Rev. Mr. Jean F.
Edinburgh: Colin MacFarquhar (printer, Old testatment) William Darling, Printer, ( New Testament), 1776. Half-Leather. Very Good-. Folio. No pagination, bound in contemporary blind stamped calf with early joint repairs; all edges and endpapers marbled, front blank repaired near gutter; some internal soiling, older paper repair to lower corners of the first and last several leaves; 3 leaves with... Read More
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THE THOUSAND AND FIRST NIGHT
by OVERTON, Grant (SIGNED to Joseph Conrad)
New York: George H. Doran, 1924. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED "TO JOSEPH CONRAD, GREAT MASTER, WITH ADMIRATION IN THE EXTREME" AND DATED 10 JANUARY 1924 BY GRANT OVERTON. Conrad (Dec. 3, 1857 - Aug. 3, 1924) is considered to be one of the greatest novelists to write in the English... Read More
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THE ROSE ANNUAL FOR 1922-1933
by Page, Courtney (editor)
Croydon; 1922-1933: The Croydon Advertiser/The National Rose Society. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. 12 volumes, each volume approx. 250-300 pages including several advertisements at the rear, illustrated throughout with color and black and white photo illustrations; bound in green cloth decorated in blind, lettering black. The National Rose Society was founded in December of 1876. The membership is... Read More
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Mark Twain's Letters. Two Volumes
by Paine, Albert Bigelow
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1917. First Edition. Half-Leather. Very Good. Octavo. TWO VOLUMES. Bound in contemporary 3/4 blue leather with raised bands and gilt panels on spine. Expert repair to one hinge, marbled end papers.
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GOING ROGUE. An American Life
by PALIN, Sarah (SIGNED)
New York: Harper Collins, 2009. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY SARAH PALIN ON HALF TITLE PAGE without personaliation. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 413 pp.
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Laguna Heat (Inscribed)
by Parker, T. Jefferson
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. 342 pages; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $15.95 on front flap. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on the title page to mystery collector Arthur H. Parson thus: "To / Arthur - / Truly an honor to be on your shelf. / T. Jefferson Parker"... Read More
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Ceremony. A Spencer Novel
by Parker, Robert B. (SIGNED)
New York: Delacorte Press, 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY ROBERT B. PARKER without personalization. 182 pp. Dust jacket with price of $12.95 on front flap. Small check marks by some titles on author's list of books page.
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The Judas Goat (Signed)
by Parker, Robert B.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/About Fine. Octavo. 181 pages; SIGNED by the author on title page. Dust jacket with price of $7.95 on front flap. First printing, with full number line on copyright page; owner name and date on FFEP.
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THE GODWULF MANUSCRIPT
by Parker, Robert B. (SIGNED)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE BY ROBERT B. PARKER. A near fine copy with armorial bookplate ffep in a near fine dust jacket. Author's first book. 186 pp. A very nice copy.
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THE PROGRAMME AND RULES OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION (BOLSHEVIKS)
by [Communist Party]
Moscow: Co-Operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in The USSR, 1932. Very Good+. Very Good+ in original printed wrappers with minimal age toning, small scuff to front wrap. 12mo. 62 pp.
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ETUDES SUR LES MODES D'ACCROISSEMENT DES CRISTAUX ET SUR LES CAUSES DES VARIATIONS DE LEURS FORMES SECONDAIRES In Annales De Chimie et De Physique, Troisieme Series, Tome XLIX, 1857 Pp. 5-31
by PASTEUR, L. [Louis]
Paris: Victor Masson, 1857. Hard Cover. Very Good++. Offered is a Very Good++ hardback ex-library Volume XLIX of Annales de Chimie et de Physique in maroon buckram binding with gilt lettering spine. Library stamp and number in ink ffep. No other library markings. 8vo. Noted in DSB Vol. 10 p. 411 as one of Pasteur's most important papers... Read More
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ANIMALCULES INFUSOIRES VIVANT SANS GAZ OXYGENE LIBRE ET DETERMINANT DE FERMENTATIONS and MEMOIRE SUR LES CORPUSCULES ORGANISES QUI EXISTENT EN SUSPENSION DANS L'ATMOSPHERE and EXPERIENCES ET VUES NOUVELLES SUR LA NATURE DES FERMENTATIONS In Comptes Rendus
by PASTEUR, L. [Louis]
Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1861. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Offered is a Very Good+ complete hardback Comptus Rendus Vol. LII, 1861, with articles located at pp. 344-347, pp. 1142-1143, and pp. 1260-1264 bound in contemporary black buckram spine and marbled paper boards with gilt lettering on red leather spine labels. Marbled endpapers. Minimal scuff spine label. Mild cover edge wear.... Read More
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The Teeth of the Lion
by PATCHEN, Kenneth
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1942. First Edition. Near Fine/About Fine. octavo, unpaginated; oatmeal dust jacket, printed in orange and green, $1.00 price on front flap. A lovely copy, internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind; light off-setting from dust jacket flap to end papers. Dust jacket with just a hint of wear at extremities.
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