Rhythmic Ramblings in Battle-Scarred Manassas
by Douglas Clark
Philadelphia: Harper & Brother Company, 1905. Very Good. [Philadelphia: Harper & Brother Company, 1905.] First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's grey pictorial card wrappers printed in dark blue; 26pp.; portrait frontispiece of Stonewall Jackson, five leaves of photographic plates. Light wear and toning to extremities, else Very Good and sound. Quite uncommon poetry collection.
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Childhood's End
by Arthur C. Clarke
New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. First Edition, cloth issue. Octavo. 214; [4]pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact. Red cloth boards stamped in black. Dust jacket shows a couple chips to spine ends; staining and mild wrinkling to rear panel and front fold, and sunning to spine. Boards with... Read More
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The Survivors of the Crossing
by Austin C. Clarke
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1964. Very Good +/Very Good. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1964. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in yellow pictorial dust jacket; [6],202pp. Minor shelf wear to jacket and board extremities, brief soil to rear jacket panel and front free endpaper, unobtrusive tape repair to jacket verso, else a Very Good, still quite attractive... Read More
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Descartes' Philosophy of Science
by [Descartes] Desmond M. Clarke
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982. Near Fine/Very Good. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, [1982]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white and purple pictorial dust jacket; xii,[2],249pp. Light wear, dust jacket very slightly wrinkled from exposure to damp, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the series... Read More
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The Chastity of Gloria Boyd
by Donald Henderson Clarke
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1932. Good. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1932. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); [vi],302pp. Publisher's red cloth with blue stamped lettering; blue topstain. Missing dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with scuffing to lettering and some rubbing to corners and joints. Spine quite cocked, with some fading and dulling down length and bumping to head and... Read More
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Thomas Simpson and His Times
by Frances Marguerite Clarke
New York: s.i., 1929. Very Good. New York: s.i., 1929. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; x,215pp.; frontispiece. Moderate rubbing along cloth margins, hairline crack to front hinge, contemporary gift inscription to title page and ownership signature to rear endpaper; later ownership ex libris of the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to front pastedown. Overall... Read More
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The Bitter Box
by Eleanor Clark
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1946. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1946. Stated First Edition. Octavo; [viii], 280pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; book in blue cloth with red and black to spine. Jacket shows a few chips and tears along edges, with a couple punctures over spine and some toning to back... Read More
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Little Towns
by Henriette Clarke
Philadelphia: Poetry Publishers, 1934. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: Poetry Publishers, 1934. First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on dedication page. Octavo (8.56" x 5.5"); 40p. Block print frontis. Illustrated dustjacket with original $2.00 price; book in brown cloth with white title cards to front and spine. Jacket shows a couple small chips at top corners and... Read More
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Tom Moore in Bermuda: A Bit of Literary Gossip
by J.C.L. Clark
Boston: Smith and McCance, 1909. Good. Boston: Smith and McCance, 1909. Second Edition. Octavo ;62pp. Vignette illustrations and plates with tissue guards, all present. Dark and light gray boards with paper spine label. Ex-Hagerstown Junior College Library with their usual markings, card pocket, and stickers. Boards rubbed at corners and spine ends with some fading along edges and... Read More
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Myth, Magic, and Mystery: One Hundred Years of American Children's Book Illustration
by Michael Patrick Hearn; Trinkett Clark; H. Nichols B. Clark
Boulder, CO: Robert Rinehart Publishers / Chrysler Museum of Art, 1996. Very Good +/Very Good. Boulder, CO: Robert Rinehart Publishers / Chrysler Museum of Art, 1996. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xii,242pp.; color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, most notably at jacket spine crown, spine very slightly cocked, else Very Good or better overall.... Read More
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The Rulers Highest Dignity, and the People's Truest Glory. A Sermon Preach'd in the Audience of His Excellency the Governour, the Honourable His Majesty's Council, and the Honourable House of Representatives, of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, May 30th. 1739. Being the Anniversary for the Election of His Majesty's Council for the Province
by Peter Clark
Boston: S. Kneeland, 1739. Very Good. Boston: Printed by S. Kneeland, Printer to the Honourable House of Representatives, 1739. First Edition. Octavo; modern stitched card wrappers, upper cover titled in calligraphic manuscript; [2],58,[2]pp. ([A]-H4, lacking half title page, else collated complete with final blank). Moderate foxing and faint dampstains to textblock, brief contemporary manuscript division equations scribbled on... Read More
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Oration Delivered Before the Municipal Authorities and Citizens of Providence, on the Eighty-Fourth Anniversary of American Independence, July 4, 1860
by Thomas M. Clark
Providence: Knowles, Anthony & Co, 1860. Very Good. Providence: Knowles, Anthony & Co., 1860. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's tan wrappers printed in triple rule; 32pp. Light wear and dust-soil to extremities, front wrapper and first few leaves slightly dog-eared at top fore-edge corner, else Very Good and sound. Fourth of July oration delivered by the Bishop of... Read More
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The City of Trembling Leaves
by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
New York: Random House, 1945. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1945. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (20.3 cm), [xii], 690pp. Illustrated publisher's dust jacket with price intact ($3.00) and author biography on the back. Boards full bound in light green cloth with stamping in gilt and teal on the spine. Dust jacket discolored on the... Read More
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Aetonian 1950 [Gonzaga High School Yearbook]
by [Gonzaga High School Senior Class]
Washington DC: H.G. Roebuck Company, 1950. Very Good. Washington DC: H.G. Roebuck Company, 1950. First Edition. Quarto (29cm); 156pp. Photographic boards with white text along spine; photographic endsheets. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Boards lightly bumped and scuffed, especially at corners. Binding sound. Textblock and endsheets toned; interior pages remain clean. Former owner’s name appears at first fixed endsheet; classmate... Read More
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The Georgics
by Claude Simon; Beryl and John Fletcher [trans.]
London: John Calder, 1989. Very Good/Very Good. London: John Calder, [1989]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in white pictorial dust jacket; 322pp. Light dust-soil to dust jacket, textblock uniformly toned due to inferior paper quality, slightly later ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Sweeping, multi-generational novel by the French Nobel Prize... Read More
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King Rat
by James Clavell
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. Good/Very Good -. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. First Edition, stated. Octavo (22 cm); publisher's green dust jacket with $5.75 price intact; boards in beige cloth with green lettering to spine; green topstain; [viii],406pp. Ex- Stephentown Memorial Library, with their stamp to title page, remnants of removed pocket to rear free... Read More
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The Three Faces of Eve [Jacket title: The 3 Faces of Eve]
by Corbett H. Thigpen & Hervey M. Cleckley
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1957. Very Good/Very Good. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1957. First Edition. Octavo. 309 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $4.50 price present. Green and blue boards stamped in silver and white. Dust jacket chipped and rubbed along edges with a few short tears. Boards edgeworn. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Overall... Read More
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Urgeschichtliche Religion: Die Religion der Stein-, Bronze-, und Eisenzeit
by Carl Clemen
Bonn: Ludwig Röhrscheid, 1932. Very Good. Bonn: Ludwig Röhrscheid, 1932. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo (24cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's tan printed wrappers; [2],140; [2],52pp.; Vol. II chiefly illus. General minor shelf wear and a hint of dust-soil, small chip at Vol. I spine crown, Vol. II slightly foxed, especially title page, else Very Good overall. Text entirely... Read More
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Punch, Brothers, Punch! and Other Sketches
by Mark Twain [pseud. Samuel Clemens]
New York: Slote, Woodman & Co, 1878. Very Good. New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., 1878. First Edition, Presumed Second Printing. 12mo (15 cm); orange-red pictorial wrappers; 140pp + 4 ads; one (1) full-page woodcut and multiple smaller throughout. Wraps creased, dust-soiled, and rubbed with wear to most corners and small loss to head and tail of spine. Damp staining... Read More
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The Night Before Christmas
by Clement C. Moore; Arthur Rackham [illus.]
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1931. Very Good/Very Good -. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., [1931]. First American Trade Edition. Octavo. 36 pp. 4 color plates, complete; numerous black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Green cloth boards with pictorial panel pasted to front; pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket shows some large chips to edges and along spine; spotting... Read More
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Sonetti di Cleobulo Paleofilo
by Cleobulo Paleofilo [pseud.]
Firenze [Florence]: Nella Stamperia Bonducciana, 1782. Very Good. Firenze [Florence]: Nella Stamperia Bonducciana, 1782. First Edition. Small octavo; contemporary mottled calf over marbled paper-covered boards, green and white gilt spine labels, all edges speckled red, marbled endpapers; 378pp.; woodcut title page device, initials, head- and tail-pieces. Darkened spine leather dried and starting to crack along joints, exposure at... Read More
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An Old Magic [Signed Limited Edition]
by Barbara Cleverly
Suffolk: Suffolk Press, 2003. Near Fine/Very Good +. Suffolk: Suffolk Press, 2003. Limited First Edition of 400 copies, of which this is number 40. Octavo (22.5 cm); [vi], 246pp. Illustrated dust jacket with price intact (£27.99). Boards in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket clean and crisp with very faint shelfwear. Boards are square and sharp,... Read More
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Three Score Years And Ten," Life-Long Memories Of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, And Other Parts Of The West
by Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve
Minneapolis, MN: Harrison & Smith, Printing House, 1888. Very Good. Minneapolis, MN: Harrison & Smith, Printing House, 1888. First Edition, second issue. Octavo. 176 pp. Frontis portrait. Green cloth boards decorated in black and gilt. Boards worn along edges and joints with soiling along fore-edge of front board. Binding is sound and, aside from some bookseller pencil... Read More
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Ragtime in Simla [Signed]
by Barbara Cleverly
Gladestry: Scorpion Press, 2002. Near Fine. Gladestry: Scorpion Press, 2002. Limited Edition of 80 copies, of which this is number 28. Octavo (22.2 cm), 287pp. Quarter bound in pink, green, white, and yellow marbled paper and black leather with gilt stamping on the spine. Cream endsheets. Leather at tail of spine has some minor rubbing. Corners remain sharp... Read More
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Motherwell: 100 Years
by Robert Motherwell; Jack Flam; Katy Rogers; Tim Clifford
Milan, Italy: Skira / Dedalus Foundation, 2015. Very Good +/Very Good +. Milan, Italy: Skira / Dedalus Foundation, 2015. First Edition. Quarto; 319pp. Illustrations and photographs throughout, mostly color. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Mild rubbing to edges of dust jacket. Boards show light shelfwear and a few stray smudges; white discoloration along bottom edge. Binding sound and pages unmarked;... Read More
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