Prisoner's Base. A Nero Wolfe Novel
by Stout, Rex
New York: The Viking Press, 1952. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 186 pages; dust jacket with $2.50 on front flap. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.
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The Broken Vase. A Tecumseh Fox Mystery
by Stout, Rex
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1941. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo, 275 pages, plus 4 pages of "Where There's A Will" at rear. Dust jacket is price-clipped, spine with slight fading; some scuffing and small loss at foot of spine. First printing with Farrar Rinehart logo on copyright page; small check marks by some titles on... Read More
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How Like A God (Inscribed By Author)
by Stout, Rex
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1929. First Edition. Very Good/Good. Octavo, 313 pages; publisher's purple cloth fading at edges; light wear at spine ends. Pictorial dust jacket, with $2.50 price on front flap. INSCRIBED on ffep thus: "December 19 - 1929 / To Elsie - with more love / probably than she wants - / Rex Stout" -... Read More
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TROUBLE IN TRIPLICATE. A Nero Wolfe Threesome
by Stout, Rex
New York: Viking Press, 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good-. Octavo. Bound in original yellow cloth with red lettering, top edge stained red. $2.50 price dust jacket front flap. A very good copy with ink check marks book list on frontis, off setting endpapers, minimal scattered foxing. In a very good- dust jacket... Read More
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CHAMPAGNE FOR ONE. A Nero Wolfe Novel
by Stout, Rex
New York: Viking Press, 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. First printing, a fine copy with small previous owner's ink stamp on ffep in a very near fine dust jacket with short closed tear; minimal edge wear. 184 pp. octavo. Price of $2.95 on front flap.
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The Golden Spiders. A Nero Wolfe Novel
by Stout, Rex
New York: The Viking Press, 1953. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. Octavo, 186 pages; dust jacket is price-clipped, with 1/4" chip at lower front panel; short closed tear with fold on rear panel of dust jacket and light wear at extremities.
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Black Orchids. A Nero Wolfe Double Mystery
by Stout, Rex
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1942. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. Octavo, 271 pages; publsiher's brick-colored cloth; first printing, with Farrar Rinehart logo on copyright page. Dust jacket with $2.00 on front flap, spine slightly faded. Light tape ghost off-set onto end papers, owner name and date on FFEP, bookplate; small check marks by some... Read More
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UNCLE SAM'S EMANCIPATION Earthly Care, a Heavenly Discipline; and Other Tales and Sketches
by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1853. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Half Leather. Very Good+. 12mo. Frontispiece, engraved title and regular title page, 160pp. (without ads) Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, red leather label gilt. Neat owner inscription ffep. Mild cover edge wear. Quite rare on the market; auction records show just one... Read More
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THE MAGIC GARDEN
by Stratton-Porter, Gene
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good+. Octavo. 271(1)pp. Bound in light green pictorial cloth accented in pink and olive green pictorial endpapers, text within green pictorial borders. A spot of soiling along rear joint,some dust soiling to top edge otherwise a very nice bright sharp cornered copy... Read More
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A Defence of Ignorance
by Strong, L. A. G. (SIGNED)
New York: House of Books Ltd, 1932. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. SIGNED BY L. A. G. STRONG ON COLOPHON without personalization. LIMITED EDITION OF 200 SIGNED COPIES. THIS IS No. 85. 12mo. Original blue-green cloth, and original glassine dust jacket. This is Number One of The Crown Octavos published by the House of Books, Ltd. Printed... Read More
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Mrs. Miniver
by Struther, Jan
New York (1940): Harcourt, Brace and Company. First Edition. Fine/Very Good. octavo, 288 pages. Dust jacket with $2.00 on front flap; half inch chip at top of front and rear panels; spine lightly faded. Source of the 1942 movie, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Neat owner inscription on ffep.
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We Came To Fight (48th Tank Bn.) Battle of the Rhine / Battle of Central Europe 1944-1945
by Studer, James N. (Editor)
Munich: R. Oldenbourg, 1945. First Edition. Very Good. octavo, illustrated in black and white, folding map. Original pictorial cloth binding, lightly soiled. Internally clean and bright. Published in Munich, just weeks after the Allies took control. Very good.
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JORROCKS' JAUNTS AND JOLLITIES. The Hunting, Shooting, Racing, Driving, Sailing, Eccentric and Extravagant Exploits of That Renowned Sporting Citizen, Mr. John Jorrocks
by Surtees, Robert Smith. Illustrated By Henry Alken
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1869. Full Leather. Near Fine. Octavo. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Full crushed olive morocco binding by Bayntun, spine compartments with gilt frames surrounding, gilt hunting devices, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. In a felt-lined green cloth slipcase. All 16 color illustrations including color frontispiece and color engraved title page... Read More
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They Came to Cordura
by Swarthout, Glendon
New York: Random House, 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Source of the movie starring Gary Cooper and Rita Hayworth. A fine, unused copy, in a very good dust jacket.
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The Tale of Balen
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
London: Chatto & Windus, 1896. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. 132(1), 32 pages of ads, dated March, 1896. Bound in original blue cloth. Very light wear at extremities, spine a little faded; very light foxing to preliminaries, faint marginal stain to final leaves of text. A very good copy.
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Autograph Letter Signed, in French, with 3 Caricature Drawings
by Swyncop, Philippe
N.p., 1927. Very Good+. (ALS), Octavo, 6 pages, to a friend "Christian." With three caricature drawings in the text - written in blue ink. Philippe Swyncop (1878 - 1949) was the older brother of Charles Swyncop, both were accomplished artists. Philippe lived in Spain for 12 years, produced valuable works in oil, watercolor and prints.
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The Bundeswehr and Western Security
by Szabo, Stephen F. Ed.)
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. First Edition. Fine/About Fine. octavo, 265 pages; publisher's green cloth, spine printed in gilt. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. Professor Richard Dale's copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown. Professor Dale was an author, international political science and delivered numerous lectures before the United Nations.
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The United States of America [Visual History of Nations series] Signed Lithograph
by Szyk, Arthur
New York: K. Bileski, 1947. First Edition. Fine. Szyk, Arthur. Heliochrome lithograph, SIGNED by Arthur Szyk and Arthur Jaffe, and Kasimir Bileski on the obverse. Image size is 12" x 10" - sheet size is 18" x 16". Arthur Szyk (1894 - 1951) is considered the greatest illuminator of the 20th Century. The London Times declared his artwork... Read More
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Kimono. A Pictorial Story of the Kimono
by Takasawa, Keiichi
Occupied Japan (1948): Japan Travel Bureau. First Edition. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Quarto, 40 pages; ribbon tied stiff pictorial wrappers, illustrated in color and black and white; price of 250 Yen on label on rear pastedown. Lacking the glassine dust jacket.
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The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007
by Tanner, William, Lt. Col.; Amis Kingsley
New York: The Viking Press, 1965. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. A fine copy in a handsome clipped dust jacket, with just two short closed tears.
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THE WORLD DOES MOVE
by Tarkington, Booth
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc, 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good+. Octavo. 294pp. Bound in 1/4 blue cloth over brown paper covered boards ruled in blue, spine lettering gilt, top edge yellow, a clean bright copy with previous owner's name and date, otherwise an attractive copy in unclipped dust jacket with... Read More
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CLAIRE AMBLER
by Tarkington, Booth
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc, 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good. Octavo. The first title issued under the new imprint of Doubleday, Doran & Co. and a top 10 best seller in 1928. 253pp. Bound in blue cloth, yellow paper labels lettered in black to upper board and spine, top edge... Read More
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MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE
by Tarkington, Booth
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1900. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. First Issue. 127(1)pp. Illustrated by C.D. Williams. Bound in red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, some fraying to spine ends and corners, overall a very good+ copy housed in red cloth chemise and red morocco backed slipcase.
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A JOURNEY TO MATECUMBE
by Taylor, Robert Lewis
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co, 1961. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. 424pp. Illustrated by Joseph Papin. bound in publisher's 1/4 black cloth over tan pictorial gilt paper covered boards, pictorial dust jacket, with short closed tear at head of front panel. A lovely copy of a Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel.
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Photo, Inscribed, 8" x 10", Black and White
by Temple, Shirley
1986. Very Good+. Shirley Temple (Black) was a leading child film star during the Great Depression. She was Hollywood's number one box office draw between 1935 and 1938. As an adult, she served her country as U. S. Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, as well as a diplomat for the United Nations. She was born on April 23,... Read More
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