Omensetter's Luck
by Gass, William H.
New York: New American Library, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in an about Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.95), bumped at the bottom edge and head of spine, rubbed on the back panel. Black cloth with blue paper on the boards, a touch of fading at the top edge. Square and firmly bound with a faint green... Read More
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Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife
by Gass, William H.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.95), bumped and with some short tears and shallow chips at the edges. Black cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine, a thin strip of fading at the top edge. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The... Read More
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The Future of the Race
by Gates, Henry Louis; West, Cornel
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($21.00), lightly rubbed. Black paper on the boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collaboration between the two noted thinkers in which they re-examine W.E.B. DuBois's intellectual legacy while addressing... Read More
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Here Comes the Bandwagon
by Gates, H.L.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.00), toned at the spine, bumped at the head and foot of the spine, a small closed tear at the front panel. Blue buckram with orange ink and gilt lettering and designs. Square and firmly bound with... Read More
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Scales of the Serpent; 22 Typhonian Meditations
by Gauntlett, Edward
New York: Von Zos, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Standard Edition limited to 400 copies. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (no price). Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Gauntlett's work drawing from Kenneth Grant's Nightside of Eden, a collection of sigils "presented in a form intended to facilitate meditation... Read More
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One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances
by Gautier, Theophile
New York: Brentano's, 1899. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Translated by Lafcadio Hearn. About Very Good. Green cloth, bumped and with some spots of rubbing. Firmly bound with a forward lean, foxed throughout, gift inscription on the front endpaper. Hearn's first published work of translation.
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When We Were Animals
by Gaylord, Joshua
New York: Mulholland Books, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($26.00), rubbed at the edges. Qarter orange paper with yellow paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, remaindered at the top edge, clean otherwise. A small-town coming-of-age novel centering on destructive teenagers in America's heartland.
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Thought and Change
by Gellner, Ernest
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.00), generally toned and lightly soiled. Green buckram with black ink panels and lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a light green top stain, sticker and blacked out name on the front... Read More
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The Balcony
by Genet, Jean
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (10s 6d net), bumped at the edges. Orange cloth with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's signature on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Genet's work of absurdist theater taking... Read More
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Our Lady of the Flowers
by Genet, Jean
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. Foreword by Jean-Paul Sartre. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($6.95), bumped and soiled at the edges. Green cloth, a strip of fading at the top edge, with blue ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's... Read More
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The Blacks
by Genet, Jean
London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (10s 6d net), bumped at the edges, toned at the spine and back panel. Black cloth with gilt ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's signature on the front endpaper, foxed... Read More
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The Jessup Dimension
by Genzlinger, Anna Lykins
Clarksburg: Saucerian Press, 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps lightly rubbed, toned at the spine and edges. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, ownership signature of Tom Benson on the first page, clean otherwise. Here, Genzlinger questions the death by suicide of M.K. Jessup, arguing he could have been the victim of hypnotic or... Read More
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Protection or Free Trade; An Examination of the Tariff Question with Especial Regard to the Interests of Labor
by George, Henry
New York: Henry George & Co, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good. Red cloth, generally rubbed, some scuffs and stains, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a tidemark at the bottom-right corner of the text block, clean internally. The economist's work in which he "endeavored to determine whether protection or free trade better accords... Read More
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Her Unwelcome Husband
by George, W.L.
New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), lightly toned and rubbed. Grey boards with green ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A work about an unhappy marriage from the author praised by George Orwell.
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The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie
by Gerald, Michael C.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (no price), generally toned and soiled, some shallow chips and short tears at the edges. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, some foxing at the edges, clean internally. Gerald's exploration of Christie's... Read More
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Police Personnel Management
by Germann, A.C.
Springfield: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second Printing. Foreword by O.W. Wilson. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), lightly rubbed and bumped at the edges. Blue buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's stamp on the endpapers and with a pocket at the rear.... Read More
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UFOSearch: Premonitions of the Future Parts I-IV; Special for Mr. William P. LaParl
by Germann, Val
Columbia: UFOSearch, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. With a handwritten letter from William LaParl, for whom the report was written, to Tom Benson. 49p. Very Good. Blue folder with some edgewear. All pages firmly bound into the folder with brads. A photocopy of Germann's report in four parts--The Arnold Case, The Ruppelt Chronology, The Keyhoe Scenario, and The Manchurian... Read More
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Cats in Crime and Others
by Germeshausen, Anna Louise
Culver City: Luther Norris, 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Foreword by Robert Bloch. Illustrated by Frank Utpatel. Limited to 300 copies. Fine. Clean wraps. Firmly bound with two staples, clean internally.
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Ralph 124C 41+
by Gernsback, Hugo
New York: Frederick Fell, Inc, 1950. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Foreword by Fletcher Pratt and Lee De Forest. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket, clipped, generally rubbed at the edges, a few small chips and tears. Grey cloth, bumped at the spine edges, small stain on the front board, red ink lettering on the... Read More
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Plot Outline Parts One and Two of The Ultimate Secret
by Gersten, Peter A.
[n.p.]: Peter A. Gersten, 1996. First Edition. Brad-bound. Very Good. 40p. Very Good. Brad-bound in a black folder with a clear plastic cover, the bottom inch of the spine on the folder missing. All pages firmly bound, some minor handling wear. Gersten's plot treatment combining UFO fact and fiction and many real popular figures in the field. In... Read More
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Reason and Morality
by Gewirth, Alan
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. About Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), rubbed at the edges and spine, a crease and small closed tear at the top-right corner of the front panel. Blue cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, stamped "promotion library/do not... Read More
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The Meeting Places of the Colors
by Gibbs, Barbara
West Branch: Cummington Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited to two hundred and eighty copies. Near Fine in the publisher's binding, sparse rubbing to the cloth. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of twenty-nine poems hand-printed on Arches Text Laid paper with four plates from calligraphic drawings by Ulfert Wilke.
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The Prophet
by Gibran, Kahlil
New York: Knopf, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine. Kahlil Gibran. Gift edition in the issued slipcase with a few spots of surface rubbing to the pastedown. Near Fine. White buckram with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Gibran's classic collection, published here with twelve illustrations by the author.
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I Always Wanted to Be Somebody
by Gibson, Althea
New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Edited by Ed Fitzgerald. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($3.50), generally soiled and rubbed, with some creases and tears, a chip at the head of the spine. Quarter blue cloth with black cloth on the boards, some rubbing at the edges. Square and... Read More
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The Miracle Worker
by Gibson, William
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), worn at the edges with some chips and closed tears, some stains on the panels. Patterned paper on the boards, rubbed at the foot of the spine and bottom fore-edge. Square and firmly bound with a yellow top stain,... Read More
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