The Holly Tree Inn and A Christmas Tree
by Charles Dickens; George Alfred Williams [illus.]
New York: Baker & Taylor Company Publishers, 1907. Very Good. New York: Baker & Taylor Company Publishers, 1907. Large octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's decorative green cloth lettered in gilt, three color pictorial paper inlays to front cover, top edge gilt; xvii,[18]-139pp.; color frontispiece, nine leaves of plates including five in color or sepia tone, additional vignettes throughout. Light shelf... Read More
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Pictures from Italy
by Charles Dickens; Samuel Palmer [illus.]
London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846. Very Good. London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846. First Edition, matching all first edition issue points listed in Smith, Eckel, and Podeschi. Octavo. 269 [3]. Includes 2 pp. advertisements and half title preliminaries; four black and white illustrations by Palmer; advertisements to rear with twelfth, tenth, and twentieth editions of Dickens' Christmas... Read More
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Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
by Charles Dickens; George Cruikshank [illus.]
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. Very Good. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. New Edition, Complete. Octavo. 526 pp. 40 plates including frontispiece and engraved title page. Lacking half title. Bound in early 20th-century three quarter maroon morocco over cloth. Five raised bands; gilt lettering to spine; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Light edgewear to boards. Binding is... Read More
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Sketches by "Boz." Illustrative of Every-Day-Life and Every-Day-People
by Charles Dickens; George Cruikshank [illus.]
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, 1855. Very Good. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, ca. 1855. Later Edition, part of publisher's uniform edition set of Dickens' works. Octavo. 268 pages. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 19 additional black and white plates by Cruikshank, complete. Brown cloth with gilt decoration to spine. All edges speckled. Boards worn with exposure to extremities and... Read More
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![Cold Mountain: The Journey from Book to Film [Signed by Frazier]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/181/969/1594969181.0.m.jpg)
Cold Mountain: The Journey from Book to Film [Signed by Frazier]
by Charles Frazier [fwd]; Anthony Minghella [intro.]
New York: Newmarket Press, 2003. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Newmarket Press, 2003. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Signed by Frazier without inscription on full title. Quarto (11" x 9.25"); 192pp. Photos throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $30.00 price intact; blue paper-covered boards with off-white lettering to spine. Jacket shows a very shallow dampstain at tail of... Read More
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Nightlife: Vanity Fair's Intimate Guide to New York After Dark
by Charles G. Shaw; Raymond Bret-Koch [illus.]
New York: John Day Company, 1931. Very Good. New York: John Day Company, 1931. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's black cloth lettered in red with pictorial paste-on to upper cover, red topstain, pictorial endpapers; vi,182pp.; illus. throughout. Rubbing to spine ends and corners, else a Very Good, bright and sound example, remnants of dust jacket only laid in.... Read More
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![Passing the Three Gates: Interviews with Charles Johnson [Bookplate Signed by Johnson Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/546/873/1606873546.0.m.jpg)
Passing the Three Gates: Interviews with Charles Johnson [Bookplate Signed by Johnson Laid in]
by Charles Johnson; Jim McWilliams [ed.]
Seattle: University of Washington Press / V. Ethel Willis White Book, 2004. Near Fine/Fine. Seattle: University of Washington Press / V. Ethel Willis White Book, 2004. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Octavo; publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xxxii,335pp. Jacket clean and crisp with no significant signs of shelfwear. Boards sturdy and square. Binding is sound and... Read More
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The Evangel in Ebony
by Charles Leander Hill; George A. Singleton [intro.]
Boston: Meador Publishing Company, 1960. Very Good. Boston: Meador Publishing Company, 1960. First Edition. Octavo; maroon cloth stamped in gilt; no dust jacket; 151pp; frontis. Moderate wear and bumping to boards; gilt rubbed. Binding sound. Staining and smudging to endpapers and edges; chip to frontis; occasional blue underlining in pen to text, else unmarked. Still a Very Good... Read More
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![Elizabethan & Nova Scotian Music [Limited Edition, Signed by North and Freilicher]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/946/123/1696123946.0.m.jpg)
Elizabethan & Nova Scotian Music [Limited Edition, Signed by North and Freilicher]
by Charles North; Jane Freilicher [illus.]
New York: Adventures in Poetry / Poetry Project, 1974. Very Good+. New York: Adventures in Poetry / Poetry Project, 1974. First Edition, Limited to twenty-six lettered copies of which this is copy L. Quarto (28cm); pictorial staple bound wrappers; [68]pp. printed mimeograph from typescript; two leaves of halftone plates. Light toning to margins, brief oxidation along staples, else... Read More
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Human Universe and Other Essays
by Charles Olson; Donald Allen [ed.]; Robert LaVigne [illus.]
San Francisco: The Auerhahn Society, 1965. Very Good +. San Francisco: The Auerhahn Society, 1965. First Edition, Limited issue of 250 copies. Quarto; unpaginated. Author photograph; printed in red and black. Vellum spine stamped in gilt over illustrated boards featuring a woodcut design by LaVigne. Lacks dust jacket. Includes Olson's essay on Projective Verse. Mild rubbing to edges;... Read More
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Mayan Letters
by Charles Olson; Robert Creeley [ed.]
London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. London: Jonathan Cape, 1968. First U.K. Edition. 12mo; publisher's boards in terra-cotta dust jacket with U.S. price sticker cancel to front flap; 91pp.; illus. Light wear to jacket margins including a few small closed tears not approaching text, spine panel sunned, corners bumped; overall a Very Good and sound copy. ... Read More
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Contes de Ma Mere Loye: Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passe, et Contes en Vers, par Perrault avec des vignettes gravees sur bois par J.-L. Perrichon d'apres celles de l'edition originale (1697)
by Charles Perrault; J.-L. Perrichon [illus.]
Paris: Chez Claude Aveline, 1923. Very Good+. Paris: Chez Claude Aveline, 1923. First Thus, One of 35 copies printed on papier du Japon of which this is no. 2. Octavo; publisher's stiff brown pictorial card wrappers printed in black and red; xii,228pp.; one full-page woodcut illus. printed in black and grey, half-tone vignettes at the head of each... Read More
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The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
by Charles Perrault; Harry Clarke [illus.]; Thomas Bodkin [intro.]
New York: Dodge Publishing Co, 1922. Very Good. New York: Dodge Publishing Co., n.d. [ca. 1922]. No edition statement. Printed in Edinburgh by Turnbull & Spears. Quarto (10.25" x 7.75"); 157pp, [158-160]. Twenty-four illustrations -- 12 full color, including frontis, and 12 black and white, with black and white vignettes throughout. Publisher's blue cloth with white lettering and... Read More
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The Creative Process: Bulletin of the Interscience Research Institute, Vol. 2, no. 1, April, 1962
by Charles R. Kelley [ed.]
Stamford, CT: Interscience Research Institute, 1962. Very Good. Stamford, CT: Interscience Research Institute, 1962. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); publisher's cream staple bound wrappers; [2],53pp.; printed mimeograph from typescript. Wrappers rather soiled and unevenly toned, pen ownership signature Wakoski (tempting to say Diane) to upper cover; Very Good overall. Single issue of this uncommon bulletin "devoted to... Read More
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![Testimony [Hugh Seidman's Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/645/562/1699562645.0.m.jpg)
Testimony [Hugh Seidman's Copy]
by Charles Reznikoff; Kenneth Burke [intro.]
New York: Objectivist Press, 1934. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Objectivist Press, 1934. First Edition. Slim octavo (19.5cm); publisher's cloth in grey dust jacket printed in light blue retaining original price ($1); xvi,71pp. Moderate chips and small tears to jacket margins including small loss at spine foot, spine panel toned, corners bumped; overall Very Good, internally clean and... Read More
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Peg Woffington
by Charles Reade; Hugh Thomson [illus.]; Austin Dobson [intro.]
London: George Allen, 1899. Very Good. London: George Allen, 1899. Limited Edition of 200 Large Paper copies. Large octavo. 298 pp. Line drawings by Thomson throughout. Bound in half morocco over green cloth by Scroll Club of New York; six compartments and gilt decoration to spine; top edge gilt; green endpapers. Housed in custom-made slipcase. Light... Read More
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![The Evergreen Tales; or, Tales for the Ageless [with] The Ugly Duckling, The Sleeping Beauty, and Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves [Three volumes, two of which are signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/544/009/1575009544.0.m.jpg)
The Evergreen Tales; or, Tales for the Ageless [with] The Ugly Duckling, The Sleeping Beauty, and Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves [Three volumes, two of which are signed]
by Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen; Edward Ardizzone, Sylvain Sauvage, & Everett Gee Jackson [illus.]
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1949. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1949. Limited Edition of 2500 copies, these copies being #312. Ali Baba signed by Edward Ardizzone and Ugly Duckling signed by translator Jean Hersholt and illustrator Everett Gee Jackson at rear; Sleeping Beauty unsigned as issued. Three quarto volumes. Color illustrations. Glassine... Read More
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The Works of Charles Dickens... Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, American Notes
by Charles Dickens; George Cruikshank, John Leech, and H.K. Browne [illus.]
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1868. Very Good. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1868. Three volumes in one; octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's blue gilt- and blind-embossed pictorial cloth; [2],338,341,[1],104,[6]pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout, text printed in double columns. Cloth scuffed with brief exposure at corners, spine darkened, textblock toned, spotting to endpapers, else a Very Good, still quite... Read More
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![Black Men Speaking [Signed by Johnson]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/648/326/1593326648.0.m.jpg)
Black Men Speaking [Signed by Johnson]
by Charles Johnson and John McCloskey, Jr. [eds.]; Jacob Lawrence [illus.]
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. Near Fine/Near Fine. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997. First Edition, with number line ending in "1." Signed by Charles Johnson without inscription at title page. Octavo. 190 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Edges of jacket a trifle rubbed. Top edge of boards mildly faded... Read More
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![Laugh Literary and Man The Humping Guns [Complete Three Issue Set; Issue #3 signed by Cherry]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/084/568/1699568084.0.m.jpg)
Laugh Literary and Man The Humping Guns [Complete Three Issue Set; Issue #3 signed by Cherry]
by Charles Bukowski, Neeli Cherry [eds.]; Harold Norse, Steve Richmond [contrib. eds.]; Avri Ohana [illus.]
Los Angeles, CA: Laugh Literary, 1969. Very Good +. Los Angeles, CA: Laugh Literary, 1969. First Editions. Slim octavo side-stapled pamphlets in printed card wrappers, illus. throughout (21.5 cm). Issue #1 in yellow wrappers, 32pp; Issue #2 in orange and Issue #3 in light yellow, both unpaginated. All copies lightly sunned at margins, bumped and rubbed at extremities,... Read More
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![Villette [Two volume set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/310/680/1700680310.0.m.jpg)
Villette [Two volume set]
by Charlotte Bronte; Temple Scott [ed. and intro.]
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. Very Good +. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. Later printing of the Thornton Edition. Two octavo volumes; 422 & 406pp. Illustrations. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in half red calf with five raised bands and leather title labels to spine; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Light wear to edges; bumping to corners; spine a touch... Read More
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![View, Vol. I, no. 6, June, 1941 [View Poets: Folio 4 laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/878/678/1703678878.0.m.jpg)
View, Vol. I, no. 6, June, 1941 [View Poets: Folio 4 laid in]
by Charles Henri Ford [ed.]; Thomas Merton, Yves Tanguy, et al [contrs.]
New York: View, 1941. Near Fine. [New York]: View, 1941. First Edition. Tabloid format (38cm); 4pp.; illus. by French Surrealist artist Yves Tanguy to upper panel. Glue residue from previously-removed price sticker to upper panel, else a Near Fine and fresh copy. Laid in broadsheet "View Poets: Folio 4," which includes poems hailing from Chile, Japan, Scotland, the... Read More
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Sentimens Qu'il Faut Inspirer A Ceux Qui S'Engagent Dans La Profession Religieuse
by [Antoine-François Chartonnet]
Paris: Chez Jacques Estienne, rue S. Jacques, au coin de la rue de la Parcheminiere, a la Vertu, 1710. Very Good. Paris: Chez Jacques Estienne, rue S. Jacques, au coin de la rue de la Parcheminiere, a la Vertu, 1710. First Edition. 12mo. [xii], 250 pp., bound in alternating 8s and 4s, collated complete. Bound in full contemporary... Read More
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Meditations sur les plus importantes veritez chrétiennes, et sur les principaux devoirs de la vie religieuse pour les retraites de ceux qui ont embrasse cet état
by [Antoine-Francois Chartonnet]
Paris: Edme Couterot, 1697. Very Good. Paris: Chez Edme Couterot, rue S. Jacques, au bon Pasteur, 1697. Nouvelle Edition, revue & corrigée par l'Auteur. 12mo; full contemporary calf, gilt spine in six compartiments; [48],500pp. (collated complete); woodcut title page emblem, initials, head- and tail-pieces. Ex-Congregation de Notre Dame de Verdun with their rubber-stamp to title page, contemporary manuscript... Read More
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The Brighter Buccaneer
by Leslie Charteris
Garden City, N.Y.: The Crime Club; Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1933. Very Good. Garden City, N.Y.: The Crime Club; Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1933. First edition stated. Octavo (20cm); 301 pp. Black publisher's cloth, red topstain. Book is in very good condition with some rubbing to boards, coin-sized soil spot on back board. Front free endpaper... Read More
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