The Salt Eaters
by Bambara, Toni Cade
New York: Random House, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Bambara on the half-title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($9.95). Quarter red cloth with black paper on the boards, gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Bambara's debut novel, one that "explores the narcissistic qualities of despair and... Read More
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[Fashion Drawing Portfolio]
by Bangham, Edith
[Columbus], [n.d.]. Unbound. Good. A collection of early 20th-century fashion drawings from Edith Bangham of Madison, Wisconsin. Plates 1-4, 6-7, 9-17, 19-25 with 10 unnumbered plates, two of fabric. 32 plates total: 18 black-and-white, 14 in color. Seemingly the work of a fashion class with plates titled "Dress Adapted to Stout Figure" (with pencil notation "you do not... Read More
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A Song of Stone
by Banks, Iain M.
London: Abacus, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (£16.99), bumped at the top-right corner. Black cloth, bumped at the top-right corner, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Consider Phlebas
by Banks, Iain M.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($18.95), generally toned, some shallow chips at the edges. Blue boards, pushed at the head and foot of the spine, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, some stains at the edges, remaindered at the... Read More
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Raise: Essays Since 1965
by Baraka, Imamu Amiri
New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.95), lightly rubbed at the back panel. Quarter yellow buckram with grey paper on the board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A nice collection of Baraka's political and cultural writing.
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The Pastons; A Family in the Wars of the Roses
by Barber, Richard
London: Folio Society, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Edited by Richard Barber. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Grey cloth with red ink and gilt lettering and designs on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound with a red topstain, clean internally.
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The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince
by Barber, Richard
London: Folio Society, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second Printing. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Red cloth with black ink and silver gilt lettering and designs, some rubbing. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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The Great and Secret Show
by Barker, Clive
New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Barker on the the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($19.95), faintly bumped at the edges. Quarter black cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first book in Barker's proposed Books of the Art trilogy, which... Read More
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Collection of Eighteen Issues of Gray Barker's Newsletter and Catalog
by Barker, Gray
Jane Lew: Saucerian Press, Inc, 1980. Folded Sheets. Good. Consisting of Newsletter Nos. 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 21; Catalog Nos. FY, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 17b, 18, 20/21. Good to Very Good. Toned newspaper print with some brittle sections, wear along folding lines, some with address labels, generally clean internally. A nice selection... Read More
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Ryder
by Barnes, Djuna
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. With illustrations by Barnes. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($10.95), foxed at the edges, a few small chips and short tears. Quarter grey cloth with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges, former owner's information on the front endpaper,... Read More
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Staring at the Sun
by Barnes, Julian
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($15.95), chipped at the edges, lightly soiled throughout. Quarter purple cloth with white paper on the boards, toned at the top edge. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Barnes's novel about a woman's life spanning the 1920s to... Read More
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The Snake Tattoo
by Barnes, Linda
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($17.95), toned at the flaps. Quarter black cloth with green paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound with lightly toned pages, clean otherwise. The second Carlotta Carlyle mystery.
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Assassin and Other Stories
by Barnes, Steven
Deerfield: ISFiC Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Introduction by Larry Niven. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($30.00). Maroon cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Barnes's novel together with four short stories and a previously unpublished teleplay.
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Peter Pan
by Barrie, J.M.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Compiled by Cooper Edens. Fourth Printing. Near Fine in a Fine jacket unclipped ($19.95), faintly bumped at the top edge. Pictorial boards, bumped at the top-right corner. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Barrie's original story featuring illustrations from Bedford, Flora White, Alice Woodward, Mabel Lucie Atwell, Arthur Rackham, and... Read More
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Peter Pan
by Barrie, J.M.
Philadelphia: Beehive Books, 2020. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrations by Brecht Evens. Introduction by Maria Tatar. Complete in the publisher's original book, some surface rubbing and soiling. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Pictorial boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Published as part of Beehive's series of illuminated classic works.
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Great Days
by Barthelme, Donald
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($7.95) with faint surface rubbing. Yellow cloth with red ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, clean internally. Barthelme's collection that features the related dialogues "The Crisis," "The Apology," "The New... Read More
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Guilty Pleasures
by Barthelme, Donald
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($7.95), some toning, bumped and with some creases at the top edge. Yellow cloth with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a black top stain, clean internally. Barthelme's first book of nonfiction, a collection... Read More
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UFO "Abductees" and "Contactees:" Psychopathology or Fantasy-Prone
by Bartholomew, Robert E.; Basterfield, Keith; Howard, George S.
[Whitehall]: [Self-Published], 1990. Unbound Sheets. Very Good. 33p., rectos only, unbound, with an ALS from Bartholomew to Tom Benson. Very Good. Leaves lightly toned, some handling wear, holograph correction to the title page, clean otherwise. Bartholomew, Basterfield, and Howard's study that investigates the connection between people reporting alien contact and clinical "fantasy-prone personalities." This report was eventually published... Read More
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Platte River
by Bass, Rick
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Bass on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($19.95). Quarter grey cloth with grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of three novellas set in Montana.
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Sea Gods; A Japanese Fantasy in Five Parts
by Baumgartl, I.
Chicago: Kroch's Bookstore Inc, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Limited to 500 copies. Illustrations by Gertrude S. Ruben. Near Fine in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally soiled, bumped and with some tears and chips at the edges. Beige cloth with ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly... Read More
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by Baum, L. Frank
Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Second State in the C binding. Thirteen-line colophon without a box, no box on p. 2, "low wail of" on p. 14, illustration on p. 34 without the two blots on the moon, "pieces" on p. 81, illustration on p. 92 without the pink shading. "While The Woodman"... Read More
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Atlas
by Baxter, Glen
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Baxter on the title page. Very Good. Glossy orange laminated boards. Square and firmly bound, a few pages with dampstains on the top edge, clean otherwise. The first U.S. edition of the first book of the beloved English artist.
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Oh, Shoot!; Confessions of an Agitated Sportsman
by Beach, Rex
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Presumed first edition with F-V on the copyright page. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), rubbed and soiled at the surface and edges, a closed tear the lower third of the back panel. Orange buckram with gilt and brown ink lettering and designs on the... Read More
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Tamsin
by Beagle, Peter S.
New York: ROC, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Beagle on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($21.95). Quarter blue paper with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Beagle's novel of a ghost haunting an English estate and a girl's quest to help the ghost find peace. In his... Read More
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The American Leviathan
by Beard, Charles A. and William
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good in a Good jacket, clipped but still priced ($5.00), generally rubbed and bumped, a long closed tear to the front panel, some shallow chips at the edges, some tape repairs on the verso. Black cloth, pushed at the spine, a tear at the head of the spine,... Read More
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