Original Photo Album of Eighty-Six Albumen Views of Egypt
by Gabriel Lekegian and Zangaki Brothers
Cairo: Lekegian and Zangaki, 1880. Very Good-. [Cairo]: Gabriel Lekegian and Zangaki Brothers, n.d., ca. 1880s. Large oblong folio (25x34cm.); original brown cloth album with binder's ticket of the Parisian establishment Anc. Mon. Martinet to front pastedown; [50]ll. thick blue card stock filled nearly to completion with eighty-six (86) albumen photographs (mostly 20.5x27cm or the inverse) captioned in image. Album... Read More
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Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories
by Brothers Grimm; Kay Nielsen [illus.]
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1992. Very Good +. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1992. Large octavo. 276 pages. 12 color plates by Nielsen. Full green leather with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on covers and spine. All edges gilt; yellow satin ribbon. A touch of wear to extremities and corners slightly bumped. Gilt edges of... Read More
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Two Discourses of the Objects, Pleasures, and Advantages, I. Of Science: II. Of Political Science, bound with Dialogues on Instinct; with Analytical View of the Researches of Fossil Osteology
by Henry Lord Brougham
London: Chalres Knight, 1846. Very Good. London: Charles Knight, 1864, 1844. First Editions. 24mo; 197pp, 272pp. Two volumes bound together in brown cloth-covered boards with brown leather spine and corner tips and gilt lettering/tooling to spine. Red staining to page edges. Boards bumped at corners with some fading and smudging to cloth and a few scuffs to leather.... Read More
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The A.E.F. with General Pershing and the American Forces [Signed]
by Heywood Broun
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1918. Very Good. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1918. Second Printing with "2" to final page of text. Signed by Heywood Broun with brief inscription to previous owner at front free endpaper. Octavo. 298pp. + 3pp publisher's advertisements. Green cloth stamped in gilt; dark topstain. No dust jacket. Boards show light... Read More
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Mrs. Murphy's Underpants
by Fredric Brown
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1963. Fine/Very Good+. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1963. First Edition (19.5cm); publisher's cloth in blue and green pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 185pp. Light shelf wear and rubbing to upper jacket panel, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. One of the better Brown titles with the quaint tagline "Who... Read More
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We All Killed Grandma
by Fredric Brown
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1952. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1952. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket by J. Hyde Barnum retaining original price ($2.50); 224pp. Very minor wear to jacket extremities including a few small chips and closed tears, else a Near Fine copy in Very... Read More
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Mostly Murder: Eighteen Stories
by Fredric Brown
New York: EP Dutton & Co Inc / Guilt Edged Mystery, 1953. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: EP Dutton & Co Inc / Guilt Edged Mystery, 1953. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 247 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in red. Dust jacket shows $2.50 price though portion of bottom clipped; spine sunned; light edgewear; staining to... Read More
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Homicide House: Mr Pinkerton Returns
by David Frome [pseud. Zenith Jones Brown]
New York: Rinehart & Company, 1950. Very Good/Good. New York: Rinehart & Company, 1950. First Edition, with encircled R on copyright. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); 243pp. Dust jacket significantly worn with substantial splitting along flap folds, old tape repairs to verso, a number of shallow chips and small paper flaws along... Read More
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Wave High the Banner
by Dee Brown
Philadelphia: MacRae-Smith, 1942. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: MacRae-Smith, 1942. First Edition. Octavo (21.3 cm); viii,[9]-367pp. Full color illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact. Boards full bound in a light tan, thick-weave cloth and a green stamped image on front cover; spine includes title, author, and publisher in stamped green as well. Dust cover is slightly discolored at... Read More
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The Murderers
by Fredric Brown
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1961. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1961. First Edition Stated. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.95); 185pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few short closed tears with subsequent creasing across bottom inch of front jacket panel, corners nudged, else Very... Read More
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One for the Road
by Fredric Brown
New York: E.P. Dutton and Co, 1958. Very Good-/Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1958. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket by Arthur Hawkins, Jr.; 189pp. Dust jacket significantly worn with long tear at top edge of upper panel touching text, front flap separated, price effaced, textbook badly browned due to inferior paper... Read More
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The Five-Day Nightmare
by Fredric Brown
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1962. Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1962. First Edition Stated. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's rose paper-covered boards, blue spine titling; 157pp. Light shelf wear, spine and upper cover sunned, slight spine lean, else Very Good and sound, albeit lacking dust jacket.
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The Fabulous Clipjoint [Signed]
by Fredric Brown
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1947. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1947. First Edition, stated. Octavo; 224pp. Illustrated dust jacket; blue cloth boards stamped in gray. Dust jacket chipped with several tears and adjacent creasing along edges; tape mending to verso. Boards slightly crushed at spine ends; shelfwear. Prior owner's initials on front free... Read More
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The Shaggy Dog and Other Murders
by Fredric Brown
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1963. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1963. First Edition Stated. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's boards in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket illustrated by Arthur Hawkins; 188pp. Moderate wear and scattered soil to dust jacket, one-inch closed tear at top edge of upper panel slightly touching text; overall a Near Fine... Read More
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The Fabulous Clipjoint
by Fredric Brown
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1947. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); 224pp. Moderate wear to dust jacket and cloth margins including small chip at jacket spine crown and closed tear at top edge of upper jacket panel... Read More
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Whispering Death
by Fredric Brown
Missoula: Dennis McMillan Publications, 1989. Very Good +/Very Good +. Missoula: Dennis McMillan Publications, 1989. Limited First Edition, numbered 99 of 450 copies on limitation statement at front. Small octavo (19.5cm); [iv],201pp. Illustrated dust jacket; boards in purple cloth with silver lettering and gun decoration. Jacket is clean and crisp with very light rubbing along top edge. Boards... Read More
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Happy Ending: Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps Volume 16 [Limited Edition]
by Fredric Brown
Missoula, MT: Dennis McMillan Publications, 1990. Fine/Fine. [Missoula, MT: Dennis McMillan Publications], 1990. First Edition, Limited to 450 copies of which this is no. 126. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's cloth in glossy pictorial dust jacket; 230pp. Fine condition.
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The Pickled Punks: Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps Volume 19 [Limited Edition]
by Fredric Brown
Hilo, HI: Dennis McMillan Publications, 1991. Fine/Fine. [Hilo, HI: Dennis McMillan Publications], 1991. First Edition, Limited to 450 copies of which this is no. 390. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 226pp. Fine condition.
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Return of Tharn [Signed and Inscribed]
by Howard Browne
Providence: The Grandon Company, 1956. Very Good -. Providence: The Grandon Company, 1956. First Edition, in first state binding. Octavo (21cm); publisher's green cloth with darker green spine and gilt lettering; 253pp. Missing jacket. Boards rubbed along bottom edge and corners; spine bumped along joints and ends. Superficial dampstaining to top edge of textblock near spine. Pastedowns toned.... Read More
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Warrior of the Dawn: The Adventures of Tharn [Signed and Inscribed]
by Howard Browne
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1943. Good/Fair. Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1943. First Edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with inscription "For Walter Albert, with my best wishes, Howard Browne, 6/21/91." Octavo; 286pp. Price-clipped illustrated dust jacket with $1.00 stamp to front flap; book in red cloth with gilt lettering. Large dampstain affecting jacket, boards,... Read More
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The Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2 Volumes)
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
New York: C.S. Francis & Co, 1850. Very Good. New York: C.S. Francis & Co., 1850. First American Edition. Two octavo volumes (7.5" x 5"); xxiv, 25-312pp +8 ads; [xvi]- 300pp +8 ads. Blindstamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Boards edgeworn with bumping and a couple tiny tears to spine ends, along with some general smudges... Read More
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![On Fire: A Personal Account of Life and Death and Choices [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/860/085/1410085860.0.m.jpg)
On Fire: A Personal Account of Life and Death and Choices [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Larry Brown
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1994. Very Good/Very Good. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1994. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Bookplate signed by Brown loosely laid in at front. Octavo; ix, [x], 182pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $17.95 price intact; book in yellow paper-covered boards with red cloth spine and gilt lettering. Jacket lightly shelfworn with a shallow crease... Read More
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The Bahamas Murder Case
by Leslie Ford [pseud. Zenith Jones Brown]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; [8],188pp. General edge wear to jacket and board extremities including a few tiny closed tears to the former, rear jacket panel a bit toned and dust-soiled, spine rather cocked, else Very Good,... Read More
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Mose Skinner's Grand World's Jubilee and Humstrum Convulsion
by Mose Skinner [pseud. James E. Brown]
Boston: Published by the New England News Company / Printed by Warren Richardson, 1872. Very Good. Boston: Published by the New England News Company / Printed by Warren Richardson, 1872. First Edition. Octavo; 24pp. Illustrated sewn wrappers. Edgewear, staining, and spotting to wraps; binding sound; interior unmarked; Very Good. Scarce follow-up to Brown's 1869 bit of... Read More
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Piotr Uklański: Biało-Czerwona [White and Red]
by Piotr Uklański; Gavin Brown
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2008. Near Fine. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2008. First Edition. Large Octavo (28.5x23x2cm); 151pp. Profusely illustrated with art reproductions and documentary photographs throughout. Solidarność-red cloth with white spine lettering. Heraldic crowned eagle of Poland stamped in blind on front panel. Text printed on heavy, ivory, wove paper with red paginations. Binding and... Read More
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