ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD
by GRAY, Thomas (Agnes Miller PARKER)
London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Hardcover. Spine a little sunned otherwise Fine in a Fine slipcase. Agnes Miller Parker. Small quarto (7" x 10") bound in forest green buckram with a relief design stamped in silver on the front cover, 92 pages. Beautifully illustrated with 32 full-page wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker sketched in the very same... Read More
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ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD
by GRAY, Thomas (Agnes Miller PARKER)
London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Hardcover. Very slight foxing to endpapers. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. Agnes Miller Parker. Small quarto (7" x 10") bound in forest green buckram with a relief design stamped in silver on the front cover, 92 pages. Beautifully illustrated with 32 full-page wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker sketched in the very... Read More
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ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD
by GRAY, Thomas (Agnes Miller PARKER)
London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Hardcover. Very slight foxing to endpapers. Covers a little rubbed. Very Good to Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Agnes Miller Parker. Small quarto (7" x 10") bound in forest green buckram with a relief design on the front cover stamped in silver, 92 pages. Superbly illustrated with 32 full-page wood engravings by Agnes... Read More
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ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD
by GRAY, Thomas (Agnes Miller PARKER)
London: Limited Editions Club, 1938. Hardcover. Small tape stains to endpapers; spine a little sunned. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Agnes Miller Parker. Small quarto (7" x 10") bound in forest green buckram with a relief design stamped in silver on the front cover, 92 pages. Beautifully illustrated with 32 full-page wood engravings by Agnes Miller... Read More
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NOTHING
by GREEN, Henry
New York: The Viking Press, 1950. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a lightly worn, Very Good dustwrapper. A portrait of postwar society in London's Mayfair.
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KLONDIKE. THE CHICAGO RECORD'S BOOK FOR GOLD SEEKERS
by GREENWOOD, Rev. F. W. P. and EMERSON, G. B
Boston: Desmond Publishing Company, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Text fairly clean; ink stamp "Property Wild Goose Club, Not to be removed from premises" on front endpaper and first page of text. Covers quite rubbed, lettering on the spine completely gone. Still about Very Good. Thick octavo in publisher's decorated cloth; 555, [5] pages. A detailed guide for gold... Read More
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THE CLASSICAL READER; A selection of lessons in prose and verse. From the most esteemed English and American writers. Intended for the use of the higher classes in public and private seminaries
by GREENWOOD, Rev. F. W. P. and EMERSON, G. B
Boston: Lincoln, Edmands & Co., 1833. Third Edition. Hardcover. Library discard stamp on bulked text edges and front endpaper; frontispiece with some staining but text generally clean; binding solid. Very Good. Octavo in contemporary sheep leather with a gilt-lettered morocco spine label, 408 pages. Frontispiece illustration of George Washington taking leave of his comrades. The contributions are mostly... Read More
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IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC BOOKS: THE RICHARD GREEN LIBRARY. Tuesday 17 June 2008
by [GREEN, Richard]
New York: Christie's, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. About Fine. Pictorial cloth. Quarto; 400 pages with numerous illustrations, including many in color. A collection comprising six revolutionary centuries of scientific, mathematical, and philosophical thought.
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THE HISTORY OF OREGON AND CALIFORNIA, AND THE OTHER TERRITORIES ON THE NORTH-WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA...
by GREENHOW, Robert
Boston: Little & Brown, 1845. Second Edition. Wraps. Text block in three sections; map Very Good despite the long tear. Rare in original binding. Blue wraps, complete with half-title page; [20] 492 pages. Graff 1652; Howes G-389; New Howes G-386 "b": "Leading contemporary authority, well documented"; Sabin 28362. The important edition with Greenhow's answer to Falconer's Strictures. The... Read More
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PARROTS IN CAPTIVITY
by GREENE, W. T
London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. A few plates with light foxing in the margins and a bent corner here or there, some plates trimmed closer than others, but overall bright and clean and quite scarce in this format. A portfolio containing the title page and 79 lovely color xylographic plates (6-3/4" x 10") with... Read More
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TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)
by GREGG, Linda
10 December 1982. Letter. Normal creases from mailing. Near Fine. Short SIGNED letter thanking the recipient for a photograph which Gregg gave to Jack Gilbert. She also mentions seeing Galway Kinnell. With the hand-addressed envelope.
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to his son
by GREY, Zane
Roseburg, OR, 25 June 1935. Letter. Folds from mailing, still about Fine, with envelope. A fine two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED as "Dad" to his son Romer on colorful Zane Grey Camp stationery with envelope. In part: "I've been gone 10 days, and have received only one wire from home. No letters! Pyramid Lake was the bunk. It's all... Read More
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to his wife
by GREY, Zane
Long Key, FL, 29 Jan. 1912. Letter. Folds from mailing, still about Fine, with envelope. A one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED as "Doc" to his wife "Dolly" with fine content on Florida East Coast Hotel Co./Long Key Fishing Camp stationery with envelope. In full: "It sure is hunting my forgotten birthday! Let's see. I'll be 38. Gee! I feel... Read More
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to his wife
by GREY, Zane
New York, March 1908. Letter. Folds from mailing, still about Fine, with envelope. A three-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED as "Pearl" (Grey was born Pearl Zane Gray) to his wife "Dolly" on three sheets of illustrated New Grand Hotel stationery with envelope postmarked March 1908. Grey discusses his rotten position: "I'm afraid I can't have Outing publish my book... Read More
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LIFE OF MICHAEL ANGELO
by GRIMM, Herman
Boston: Little Brown and Co, 1906 & 1903. New Edition. Hardcover. Fine in close to Fine dustwrappers, an attractive set. Two volumes in publisher's attractively decorated maroon cloth retaining the original maroon cloth dustwrappers. Translated by Fanny Elizabeth Bunnett. With additions to the First Edition and illustrated with photogravures from works of art.
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DER ZAUNKONIG UND DER BAR
by GRIMM, Jacob and Wilhelm
[Providence, RI], [1961-62]. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor foxing to preliminaries. Near Fine. Ilse Buchert. Small thin folio (9-1/2" x 12-3/4") in decorated boards; [12] pages. Illustrated with a number of small black and red woodcuts scattered throughout the text. This version of Grimm's tale "The Kingbird and the Bear," a story of a humorous battle between the land... Read More
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THE ADVENTURES OF SIMPLICISSIMUS
by GRIMMELSHAUSEN, Johann von
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1981. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Fritz Eichenberg. Folio (9-1/2" x 12-1/2") bound in natural-color, blind-stamped coarse-weave linen imported from the Netherlands; 386 pages. Translated and introduced by John Spielman. Illustrated with 18 dramatic full-page wood-engravings and numerous wood-engraved vignettes by Fritz Eichenberg. One of 2000 numbered copies SIGNED by... Read More
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FORREST GUMP
by GROOM, Winston
[New York]: Doubleday, 2014. Commemorative Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Cloth in slipcase. Copy #305 of 500 SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. A reissue of this title made, of course, into the very popular film starring Tom Hanks. Includes a new introduction by Groom.
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LITTLE SUNNY STORIES
by GRUELLE, Johnny
Chicago: P. F. Volland Company, (1919). First Edition. Hardcover. About Fine. Johnny Gruelle. Charming little (6" x 7-1/4") children's book written and illustrated by the creator of the Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls. Bound in 3/4 dark green morocco leather and patterned boards with gilt-rules and a gilt-decorated and lettered spine, top edge gilt, matching patterned endpapers.... Read More
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FIGHTING TERMS
by GUNN, Thomm
New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1958. First American Edition. Wraps. Review label removed with small piece of cover with it. Very Good or better. Second state of the wrappers of this, Gunn's first book published in America, limited to 1500 copies.
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JACK STRAW'S CASTLE
by GUNN, Thom
(New York): Frank Hallman, 1975. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Of a total of 400 copies this is one of 300 copies in red wrappers printed in black (there were also 100 signed and numbered casebound copies). Though not called for, this copy is SIGNED by the poet on the title page.
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THE SPELL
by GUNN, Thom
Northants: All in 18, n.d. First Edition. Broadside. Neatly folded in half, otherwise Fine. A boldly illustrated 15" x 18" broadside poster of a poem by Gunn designed by Nina Carroll.
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COLLECTED POEMS
by GUNN, Thom
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994. First Edition. wraps. Slightly cocked. Near Fine. The rather uncommon Uncorrected Proof in printed red wraps.
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OLDEST LIVING CONFEDERATE WIDOW TELLS ALL
by GURGANUS, Allan
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Wraps. About Fine. Uncorrected Proof in printed wraps. Uncommon format of author's first trade book, more often seen as a signed proof in a slipcase. It's likely that there are numerous changes from this format, which has 737 pages, to the final published book which contained 718 pages.
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PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
by GURGANUS, Allan
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First Edition. Perfect bound. Fine with photocopied ads stapled to the inside of the front cover. Perfect bound with glassine front cover and black platic rear cover. The most uncommon state of the Uncorrected Proof in the form of 8-1/2" x 11" bound typed manuscript pages of this novel that had a... Read More
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