Like a Lamb to Slaughter (Inscribed)
by Block, Lawrence
New York: Arbor House, 1984. First Edition. Fine/Fine. Octavo, 265 pages; first printing with complete number line. Dust jacket with $15.95 on front flap. INSCRIBED on title page: "For Arthur - / Best / Lawrence Block" - owner name and date on ffep.
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Writing the Novel. From Plot to Print (Inscribed)
by Block, Lawrence (SIGNED)
Cincinnati: Writer'sDigest Books, 1979. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/About Fine. Octavo. Octavo, 197 pages; publisher's gray cloth, printed in black; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $10.95 on front flap. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on ffep: "Best wishes - / Lawrence Block" - owner name and date.
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Deadly Honeymoon (Inscribed)
by Block, Lawrence
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Author's first hardcover book, INSCRIBED on the title page thus: "To Arthur - / Lawrence Block" Octavo, 189 pages; first printing, stated; small scuff to front panel of book and light wear to extremities. Price of $4.50 on front flap. Internally clean and bright.
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Threesome (Signed, Limited Copy and with Autograph Note Signed)
by Block, Lawrence
California & Michigan: A.S.A.P./ Subterranean Press, 1999. LIMITED EDITION. Hard Cover. Fine. octavo, 155 pages; red cloth printed in gilt, with pictorial label on front panel; as issued, without dust jacket. Number 56 of 300 copies, by Lawrence Block writing as Jill Emerson, with a new introduction by the author; front cover Illustration by Phil Parks, and signed... Read More
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Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man (Inscribed)
by Block, Lawrence
N.p.: Bernard Geis Associates, 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/About Fine. Octavo. octavo, 179 pages; INSCRIBED on the title page thus: "To Arthur - / Best, / Lawrence Block" - First printing stated. Pictorial dust jacket, with price of $5.95 on front flap; yellow on spine is faded.
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Ariel
by Block, Lawrence
New York: Arbor House, 1980. First Edition. Fine/Fine. octavo, 281 pages; number 267 of 500 copies SIGNED and inscribed to Arthur H. Parson, by the author on his limitation bookplate. Pictorial dust jacket, with price of $9.25 on front flap. A lovely copy, internally clean and bright.
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Untersuchungen Uber Das Kosmische System Des Platon, Mit Bezug Auf Hrn. Gruppe's Kosmische Systeme Der Griechen
by Bockh, August
Berlin: Verlag Von Veit & Comp, 1852. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. 152 pp. Bound in contemporary brown cloth. Neat owner name on title page. Top cover corners bumped. Scattered foxing. A very good copy.
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Prenzlau
by [Photographs: Travel Book]
Prenzlau: Verlag Von C. Vincent Buchhandlung. Hardcover. Fine. c. 1910. A Fine hardback in original red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration front cover. Twelve accordian fold photograhs of various scenes and edifaces at Prenzlau. oblong 12mo. (5" x 3 1/4").
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THE BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI
by Boulle, Pierre
New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc, 1954. Original Wraps. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Advance Review Copy. The magnificent story of a Colonel who built a perfect bridge--for the enemy. 224pp. Bound in original pale blue wrappers with typed paper label to upper wrap. Owner's name on verso of front cover, spine darkened. A very good copy of... Read More
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TRAVELS IN SPAIN. Two Volumes
by Chevalier De Bourgoanne
Dublin: By William Porter for P. Byrne and W. Jones, 1790. Full Leather. Very Good. Octavo. First Dublin Edition. TWO VOLUMES. Containing a new, accurate, and comprehensive view of the present state of that country to which are added copious extracts from the essays on Spain of M. Peyron, in two volumes translated from the French, half-titles, viii,... Read More
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Fred Rosenstock. A Legend in Books & Art
by Bower, Donald E.
N.p.: Northland Press, 1976. First Edition. Fine. Large octavo, 212 pages; number 94 of 250 copies, SIGNED by Bower and Rosenstock. Maroon cloth over marbled boards, with cloth-covered slipcase, printed in gilt. Forward by Frank Waters. Book and slipcase are fine.
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BOWLKER'S ART OF ANGLING, Greatly Enlarged and Imporoved; Containing Directions for Fly-Fishing, Trolling, Bottom-Fishing, Making Artificial Flies, &c. &c
by BOWLKER, Charles
Ludlow: Printed and Sold By Proctor and Jones; Sold Also By Longman, Rees, 1826. Full Leather. Very Good. 12mo. A very good copy bound in full leather with gilt lettering and decoration spine, gilt decoration covers, marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved frontispiece and in text illustrations. Owner bookplate front pastedown and inscription ffep. Cover edge wear. Binding tight,... Read More
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Death in the Fifth Position
by Box, Edgar (Pseudonym of Gore Vidal)
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1952. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. octavo, 221 pages; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $2.50 on front flap and small chip at head of rear panel. Owner name and town on FFEP.
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BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP
by BOYINGTON, Pappy (SIGNED)
Fresno: Wilson Press, Inc, 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good++. 17th Printing. SIGNED, INSCRIBED, AND DATED THUS ON HALF TITLE PAGE: "June 13, 1982 -/ to Ben Herrera - / With Black Sheep Greetings - / From - / Pappy Boyington." Bound in blue cloth with silver lettering on spine. Fine copy in a very good++ dust... Read More
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A New Frigorifick Experiment Shewing How a Considerable Degree of Cold May be Suddenly Produced Without the Help of Snow, Ice, Haile....at Any Time of Year
by BOYLE, Robert (After Robert Boyle)
London: The Royal Society of London, 1666. First Edition. Very Good. Octavo, pp. 255 - 262 of the Philosophical transactions, Number 15. This article is a supplement to Boyle's 1663 publication "New Experiments and Observations Touching Cold." This was published shortly after "Boyle's Law" (1662), stating that the volume of a gas varies inversely with pressure. Printed on... Read More
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TRENCHARD
by BOYLE, Andrew
London: Collins, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Bound in original blue pebbled cloth. In original blue, red, and white dust jacket. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Nice, clean, tight copy. 768 pp.
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THE SMOKING MOUNTAIN, Inscribed
by Boyle, Kay
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc, 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "KEEP ON BEING A POET, DEAR MAC CAREY" BY KAY BOYLE to actor Macdonald Carey on the title page, 273pp. Bound in gray cloth, spine lettering white; a very good copy in a very good dust jacket;... Read More
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Dandelion Wine
by Bradbury, Ray
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1988. Fine. Joseph Mugnaini. octavo, 269 pages; publisher's red full-leather binding, decorated in gilt; all edges gilt. Silk moire end papers, silk bookmark. Publisher's "Collector's Notes" and Easton bookplate (unused) laid in. A lovely production of Bradbury's first book.
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S IS FOR SPACE
by Bradbury, Ray
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, 1966. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. Stated first edition on copyright page. Bound in original blue cloth with red S and white lettering spine. Dust jacket price clipped. Mild dust jacket edge wear. A nice collectable copy. 238 pp.
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A PLEASURE TO BURN: Fahrenheit 451 Stories
by Bradbury, Ray. Edited By Donn Albright and Jon Eller
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2010. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. A fine tight unread copy in a fine dust jacket. 300 pp. A nice collectable copy.
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I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC!
by Bradbury, Ray
New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 1969. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. Bound in original blue cloth with silver lettering spine and front cover. Near fine copy with mild fading of cloth at spine ends and head of front cover, in a near fine dust jacket with light crease to rear flap... Read More
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The Martian Chronicles (Signed)
by Bradbury, Ray
Norfolk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1989. Fine. Joseph Mugnaini. large octavo, 309 pages; publisher's full red leather binding, decorated in gilt. Signed by the author on a front end paper. Publisher's "Collector's Notes" and bookplate laid in. As new.
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Who is Ayn Rand
by Branden, Nathaniel
New York: Random House, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. vi, 239 pp. A fine copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket.
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Mark Twain Son of Missouri
by Brashear, Minnie M. (Mark Twain)
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. 294 pages. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket, with small loss at spine ends and a short closed tear on front spine fold.
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Evangelische Zeugnisse Der Wahrheit (Protestant Testimonies of Truth)
by Brastberger, Immanuel Gottlob
Germany (Kirchheim Unter Teck): Johann Franz Schwarz, 1855. Full-Leather. Very Good. Quarto. 1103 pages; title page in red and black. Bound in contemporary blind-stamped sheepskin; original metal clasps are lacking. Previous owner's names and dates on paste-downs and rear end paper; original metal clasps are lacking; internally clean and bright. A very good copy.
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