Heechee Rendezvous (Signed)
by Pohl, Frederik
New York: Ballantine Books, Inc, 1984. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. first printing, with full number line; Inscribed on title page thus: "For Linda / Frederik Pohl" - laid in is a love note from Linda to "Jim" dated Christmas 2003. Price of $14.95 on front flap of dust jacket.
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THE RAPE OF THE LOCK: AN HEROI-COMICAL POEM. IN FIVE CANTOS and A KEY TO THE LOCK: OR, A TREATISE PROVING BEYOND ALL CONTRADICTION, THE DANGEROUS TENDENCY OF A LATE POEM, ENTITULED, THE RAPE OF THE LOCK, TO GOVERNMENT AND RELIGION
by Pope, Alexander. [Esdras Barnivelt]
London: Bernard Lintott, 1723. Hard Cover. Very Good-. Octavo. Sixth Edition Corrected and Fourth Edition. Esdras Barnivelt pseudonym of Alexander Pope. Two volumes bound together in contemporary full vellum. Engraved frontispiece and 5 engraved illustrations. A very good- copy with binding split at spine, boards and spine are intact. All pages intact.Title written in ink on spine. Previous... Read More
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The Works of Alexander Pope, in One Volume Complete with Notes By Dr. Warburton (with Gauffered edges)
by Pope, Alexander
London: Charles Daly, 1870. Full-Leather. Near Fine. 12mo. c. 1870. Full publisher's leather, decorated in blind; gauffered edges in gilt; marbled end papers. Illustrations on steel by eminent artists. 504 pages. A lovely copy.
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SHIP OF FOOLS
by Porter, Katherine Anne (SIGNED)
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY KATHERINE ANNE PORTER. Bound in yellow cloth lettered and decorated in red; a fine bright copy in unclipped near fine dust jacket. An outstanding fresh, bright copy of a book that became... Read More
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The Theory and Practice of African Politics
by Potholm, Christian P.
New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1979. First Edition. Very Good. octavo, 307 pages, original tan pictorial wrappers; Professor Richard Dale's copy, with his name stamp on half-title. Professor Dale was an author, expert on international politics, especially South Africa, and he delivered many lectures before the United Nations. Internally clean and bright.
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Boris Godounov
by Pouchkine, A.; Pushkin, Alexander
Paris: L'edition D'art H. Piazza, 1927. Original Wraps. Fine/Fine. Boris Zworykine. Original green printed wrappers, glassine dust jacket and brown paper covered slipcase; octavo, 133 pages; number 431 of 775 copies. Color illustrations by Zworykine. A fine copy.
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SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TO THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR 1885 -1886
by POWELL, J. W.
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Quarto. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering spine, gilt design front cover. A very good+ copy with small piece missing fron hinge. Hinges are intact and binding is tight. Previous owner name front paste down. Minimal cover edge wear. Short closed tear rfep. Includes 2... Read More
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Cornelius. A Business Affair in Three Transactions
by Priestley, J. B.
London: William Heinemann, Ltd, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/About Fine. 12mo. 103 pages; original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; unclipped dust jacket is near fine. A lovely copy, with small bookplate of Alfred Paul Bay, tipped-in.
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Lost Empires. Being Richard Herncastle's Account of His Life on the Variety Stage from November 1913 to August 1914, Together with a Prologue and Epilogue
by Priestley, J(ohn) B(oynton) (1894-1984)
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1965. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/About Fine. Large Octavo. 364 pages. Small book ticket of Alfred Paul Bay, tipped-in. A fine copy in a very handsome dust jacket, with price of $5.95 on front flap, Now quite scarce on the market.
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Thoughts in the Wilderness (Review Copy)
by Priestley, J(ohn) B(oynton) (1894-1984)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/About Fine. Octavo. A review copy, with publisher's slip laid in, showing publication date of April 2, 1958, in America. Bound in original gray cloth, spine lettering dark blue. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, with price of $4.00 on front flap.
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George Meredith
by Priestley, J(ohn) B(oynton) (1894-1984)
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. 12mo. First edition, from the English Men of Letters, New Series (edited by J. C. Squire); 204 pages. Publisher's gray cloth, spine lettered in black; printed dust jacket is price-clipped, wiht price stamped on front flap. Small bookplate of Alfred Paul Bay tipped-in;... Read More
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Faraway (1 of 25 copies)
by Priestley, J(ohn) B(oynton) (1894-1984)
London (1932): William Heinemann, Ltd. First Edition, One of 25 Copies. Full-Leather. Fine. Limited to the first print run of the first 25 copies, specially bound, finely in full green levant morocco, by Henry T. Wood, Ltd. with pictorial illustration on front panel, in gilt, blue, black and brown, depicting an island with palm trees and moon. Color... Read More
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Wonder Hero (Signed, limited)
by Priestley, J(ohn) B(oynton) (1894-1984)
London: William Heinemann, 1933. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine. Octavo. LIMITED TO 175 SIGNED COPIES. THIS IS No. 101. SIGNED BY JOHN BOYNTON PRIESTLEY ON LIMITATION PAGE without personalization. 321 pp. Bound in original green cloth lettered in gilt; a fine copy in acetate dust jacket, with green paper flaps, small loss at front and rear panels,... Read More
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The Doomsday Men
by Priestley, J(ohn) B(oynton) (1894-1984)
London: William Heinemann, Ltd, 1938. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/About Fine. Octavo. 312 pages. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, map end papers. In unclipped dust jacket, with small loss at head of spine. Quite a handsome copy, in a fragile dust jacket.
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The Prince of Pleasure (Signed)
by Priestley, J(ohn) B(oynton) (1894-1984)
London: The Arcadia Press, 1970. First Edition. Full-Leather. Fine. Bound by Zaehnsdorf of London. SIGNED BY JOHN BOYNTON PRIESTLEY ON COLOPHON PAGE without personalization. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 265 COPIES. THIS IS No. 89. Finely bound in full blue goatskin, with colored designs on front panel; spine with raised bands and lettered in gilt; inner gilt dentils, marbled... Read More
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They Walk in the City (Signed)
by Priestley, J(ohn) B(oynton) (1894-1984)
London: William Heinemann, 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo. SIGNED BY JOHN BOYNTON PRIESTLEY ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. 515 pp. Bound in original blue cloth, spine lettering gilt; small dimple in spine, dust jacket with light wear at spine ends, spine lightly darkened.
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Four in Hand
by Priestley, J(ohn) B(oynton) (1894-1984)
London: William Heinemann, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. 652 pages. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettering gilt. A fine copy in a very good unclipped dust jacket; small owner bookplate tipped-in.
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The Shakespeare Society's Papers. Four Volumes
by Shakespeare Society Publications
London (1844-49): The Shakespeare Society. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo, 4 volumes in the original brown blind stamped cloth, spine printed in gilt. The four volumes of the Shakespeare Society's occasional papers ("being contributions too short in themselves for separate publication"). A scarce and fascinating compendium of articles about Shakespeare and his contemporaries. A very good... Read More
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Traité de la sphère et du Calendrier; Par Rivard
by Puissant, M.
Paris: Bachelier, 1837. Half-Leather. Very Good. Octavo. Eighth edition, 253pp., 1 folding chart, 3 folding plates, several textural charts; bound in contemporary half straight-grained morocco over marbled paper covered baords, red morocco spine label gilt, spine ruled in gilt; light brown endpapers, all edges marbled. Small loss at spine head, neat owner's inscription in French to front free... Read More
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GALATEA
by Pullman, Philip
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1979. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. 287pp., bound in 1/4 white cloth over mustard paper covered boards spine lettering gilt. A fine copy in a very good unclipped pictorial dust jacket. A very nice copy.
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CHILDREN IS ALL
by PURDY, James (SIGNED)
New York: New Directions, 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY JAMES PURDY ON DEDICATION PAGE. 183 pp. A fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket with minimal edge wear and soiling.
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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. January Through December, 1965, 12 Issues
by Queen, Ellery (ed.); Stout, Rex; Gardner, Erle Stanley; Christie, Agatha; Chandler, Raymond; Sayers, Dorothy L.;
New York: Davis Publications, Inc, 1965. First Edition. Very Good+. Octavo, all 12 issues from 1965, January through December, with stories by Ellery Queen, Agatha Christie, Rex Stout, Erle Stanley Gardner and others. Very good to fine. Housed in 2 open end slipcases.
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The French Powder Mystery. A Problem in Deduction
by Queen, Ellery
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1930. First Edition. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, 316 pages; publisher's red cloth, printed in black; top edges stained red. Portion of dust jacket flap is affixed to front pastedown. A very good copy, internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind; small loss at foot of spine; light stain... Read More
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Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. June, 1950
by Queen, Ellery (ed.); Gardner, Erle Stanley
Toronto: Wilson Publishing Co, 1950. First Edition. Very Good+. Octavo, volume 15, #78, June, 1950. Containing a Lester Leith novelette by Erle Stanley Gardner. and stories by Edna St. Vincent Millay, and others. Excellent wrapper art by George Salter.
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The King is Dead
by Queen, Ellery
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1932. First Edition. Near Fine/About Fine. octavo, 250 pages; publisher's red cloth, printed in black. Pictorial dust jacket with price of $2.75 on front flap; red on spine faded. Owner name and date on ffep. Small check marks by several titles on author's list of books.
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