Robinson Jeffers: A Portrait
by Adamic, Louis. (jeffers, Robinson)
Covelo CA: Carolyn and James Robinson. The Yolla Bolly Press, 1983. First Edition - Limited. Hardcover. Very Good. With Publishers notification and posting. Foreword by Garth Sherwood Jeffers, and signed by him. Copy no. 203/265. In protective glassine wrapper. Fine copy.
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ADDAMS AND EVIL
by Addams, Chas (cartoons). Gibbs, Wolcott ( introduction)
NY: Random House, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The New Yorker's inimitable Addams cartoons of what begot the 1960's television series, The Addams Family, then a movie, and then a Broadway musical. An apparently unused copy. Near fine in near fine unclipped dw with one short closed tear bottom edge front panel. The collectible copy. ... Read More
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TAPESTRY BOOK COLLECTION PLUS UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT
by Adolph Cavallo, et al.
various 0. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. TAPESTRY BOOK COLLECTION PLUS UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT A collection of 81 major titles, plus 14 exhibition catalogs on tapestry, in all its features - historical, technical, artistic and cultural - assembled by an independent student of the form over 30 years. The collection includes all the major works of major tapestry scholars... Read More
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BROWNIES - HURRY!
by Adshead, Gladys. Ilsley, Velma (pictures by)
NY: Henry Z. Walck, Inc, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good -. Small 8vo, oblong, printed in brown ink, some colored pages with yellow and green, unpaginated. Minor spotting to endpapers and covers, dustjacket moderately soiled with moderate wear at corners and spine ends. Uncommon title in the Adshead Brownie series. No names or bookplates.
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Creative Research Bulletins: Factors Affecting the Performance of Advertisements
by Leo Burnett. (Advertising)
NY: Leo Burnett Company, Inc, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. Prepared by the Research Department of and publihsed by Leo Burnett, one of the largest and most influential of the "Madison Ave" advertising agencies of the 1960s. 24 bulletins, each 5-6 pages, running from July 1960 to Nov 1961 presenting research relating to all kinds of products like Volkswagons,... Read More
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THE PILGRIMAGE OF FESTUS
by Aiken, Conrad
NY: Knopf, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good +. Inscribed by Aiken in the ffe in black ink "For Mrs. John Pidgrin/ from Conrad Aiken/ October 17, 1926" Boards somewhat tanned, internals fine. Dustjacket chipped about edges, spine faded, small ink spot (not penetrating through to front cover) front pane. Contemporray clipping frm Boston Globe about Aiken at... Read More
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The Clerk's Journal Being the Diary of a Queer Man: An Undergraduate Poem together with A Brief Memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs ad T. S. Eliot
by Aiken, Conrad
NY Eakins Press 1971. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, #170 of 2000 unsigned copies. 4to. Fine in sl worn dw w/ closed tear front panel.
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THE CLERK'S JOURNAL Being the Diary of a Queer Man; an Undergraduate Poem Together With a Brief Memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs and T.S. Eliot
by Aiken, Conrad
NY: The Eakins Press, 1971. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Issued without Dustjacket. Signed by Aiken on colophon, limited to 300 copies, this number 57 (in Roman mumerals). As new copy in near fine slipcase.
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TURNS AND MOVIES AND OTHER TALES IN VERSE
by Aiken, Conrad
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+`/VG-. Aiken's second book, signed by him in black ink on ffe. 8vo, paper wrappers over stiff boards, 1000 copies printed. Paper covers have some loss about edges, spine slightly toned.
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THE HOUSE OF DUST
by Aiken, Conrad
Boston: The Four Seas Comnpany, 1920. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+/Lacking Dustjacket. Signed by Aiken on the ffe in blue ink and dated by him February 20, 1921. Light blue linen a tad faded/soiled about edges, lacking dustjacket.Internals fine.
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THE JIG OF FORSLIN
by Aiken, Conrad
Boston: The Four Seas Comnpany, 1916. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/VG+. Larthrop, Dorothy Pulis (Dustjacket art). First edition. Near fine copy, plainly signed by Aiken on the ffe (absent any ownership names or markings) in better than very good dustjacket that is moderately soiled, with a few minor chips about edges. Publisher price label on middle of spine.... Read More
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THE CHARNEL ROSE
by Aiken, Conrad
Boston: The Four Seas Comnpany, 1918. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/VG-. Aiken's fifth book. Signed and dated December 1919 by him on the ffe below which in different pen he has inscribed "For Gordon Canin / 1934" Bue linen, gilt titles, spine tad darkened internals fine, in dustjacket with obvious chips about edges and worn/soiled spine.
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BLUE VOYAGE
by Aiken, Conrad
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Issued without Dustjacket. First edition, limited 125 copies, this number 46, with publisher's numbered slip still laid in. Book fine, is slipcase with title pastedown, moderately chipped about edges.
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EARTH TRIUMPHANT
by Aiken, Conrad
New York: Macmillan, 1914. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+/Lacking Dustjacket. Aiken's first book, signed by him in black ink on the ffe "Reluctantly/ Conrad Aiken" Lacking dustjacket, minor soiling, edgewear, internals fine.
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The Charnel Rose
by Aiken, Conrad
Boston: The Four Seas Comnpany, 1918. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Lacking Dustjacket. Aiken's fifth book. Inscribed by him in pencil and dated 1919 on the ffe to Harvard chum Myron Williams. (See Conrad Aiken: Poet of White Horse Vale, page 118, by Edward Butscher.) Bue linen, gilt titles, spine tad darkened, lacking dustjacket, internals fine.
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Hylabder, C. J.
by Cruisers of the Air
NY: Macmillan, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good, reference copy of the original edition. Lending library bookplate on pastedown, spine a wee shaken, internals clean and unmarked, better than very good.
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WORK: A STORY OF EXPERIENCE
by Alcott, Louisa
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1873. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition of one of Alcott's lesser known and more uncommon titles. Publisher's decorated cloth, spine faded, edges worn, cocked binding, original endpapers, no names or bookplates. One signature near back of book partly springing. Custom rebinding candidate.
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THE COLONEL'S DAUGHTER
by Aldington, Richard
London: Chatto and Windus, 1931. First Edition - Limited. Hardcover. Very Good. #100 of 200 copies, signed by Aldington on limitation page. Green woven linen, moderaatley solied at spine, else near fine (an apparently unread copy).
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THE STORY OF A BAD BOY
by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. Frost, A.B. (illustrations)
London: Gay and Bird, 1894. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good +. First English edition of the American classic with new illustrations by A. B. Frost. Publisher's decorated cloth stamped with black devices and gilt titlles, gte. Solid binding. Collectible condition.
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Je N'Irai Plus Aux Nereides
by Alexandre, Paul. (Wheeler, Hugh Aka Patrick Quentin)
Editions Denoel, 1964. First Edition - Limited. 8vo. Near Fine. Small 8vo, paper wraps, original glassine, 176 pages. Affectionately inscribed (in French) to American playwright Hugh Wheeler (Sweeny Todd, A Little Night Music), screenwriter and mystery novelust know as Patrick Quentin) on the title page.
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TWO ALICE STATUES IN CENTRAL PARK (and) ALICE IN CENTRAL PARK - STATUES IN WONDERLAND (2 titles)
by (Alice in Wonderland). (Lewis Carroll, Charles Dodgson)
Wassaic NY: Fotobs Books, 2014. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Companion titles, both unused, with gift inscriptions.
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A PANORAMA OF THE PROGRESS OF HUMAN LIFE FASHIONABLY DISPLAYED ILLUSTRATING 'SHAKESPEARE'S AGES' AND EXHIBITING THE MANNERS, CHARACTER AND FIELD SPORTS OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE
by Alken, Henry Thomas. Schwerdt, C. F. G. R. (preface)
London: Privately Printed (by Waterlow & Sons) by the Author of 'Hunting Hawking Shooting', 1930. Limited Facsmile Edition, First Thus. Soft cover. Near Fine. Facsimile, reduced in size but proportioned, of the original illustrations of Henry Thomas Aiken (1784-1851) published by S. and F. Fuller in 1820 on rollers or mounted as a series of drawings. Alken is... Read More
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John Gray : A Kentucky Tale of the Olden Time
by Allan, James Lane
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1893. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. Near Fine. A near fine copy, decorated endapers, neat pon fly. frontispiece portrait of authro w/ tissue guard, 128 + 6 pub cat. BAL 457.
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The Colonel's Daughter
by Alldington, Richard
London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Dj. Spine faded. Corners and edges sharp. Number 100 of 210 copies. Signed by Aldington. Some darkening of top edge, front cover. No previous owner signatures or inscriptions. Text clean.
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Ghazal: Seven Poems
by Allen, Dexter
Wagon & Star Press West Los Angeles 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. Special ltd ed of 14 copies, this numbered XIII by Dexter Allen signed by him and illustrator Fritz Faiss. Almost as new. 8 vo in hand cut paper. In self wraps.
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