![Experiments [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/965/750/1600750965.0.m.jpg)
Experiments [Limited Edition, Signed]
by Norman Douglas
Florence: Privately Printed, 1925. Very Good/Very Good. [Florence]: Privately Printed, 1925. First Edition, Limited to 300 copies of which this is no. 291. Quarto; publisher's boards in peach printed dust jacket; [8],230pp. Light wear to jacket margins, some dust-soil along flap folds, brief dampspots at spine ends faint bleeding into textblock, very light foxing to endpapers, else a... Read More
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![Good-Bye to Western Culture: Some Footnotes on East and West [UK title: How About Europe?]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/012/102/1498102012.0.m.jpg)
Good-Bye to Western Culture: Some Footnotes on East and West [UK title: How About Europe?]
by Norman Douglas
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in yellow decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); [8],241pp. Jacket heavily restored with verso fully backed with wallpaper-like card stock and color touch-ups along extremities, spine panel toned and darkened with a few... Read More
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![Through the Ivory Gate [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/502/735/1695735502.0.m.jpg)
Through the Ivory Gate [Signed]
by Rita Dove
New York: Pantheon, 1992. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Pantheon, 1992. Stated First Edition. Octavo (21cm); 278pp. Publisher’s dust jacket with $21 price intact; black boards quarter-bound in brown cloth with gilt stamping to front panel and spine. Dust jacket ever-so-slightly bumped at corners and spine ends; some smudging throughout; ISBN sticker affixed to back panel. Boards clean... Read More
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Introduction to Lattice Dynamics
by Martin T. Dove
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Very Good. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. 258 pages. Black and white graphs/illustrations throughout. Illustrated white, blue, and green boards. Volume 4 in the Cambridge Topics in Mineral Physics and Chemistry series. Review slip laid in. Light wear to extremities. Binding is sound and pages are clean and... Read More
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![The Poet's World [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/427/684/1699684427.0.m.jpg)
The Poet's World [Inscribed and Signed]
by Rita Dove
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1995. Very Good. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1995. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers; 107pp.; halftone photographic illustrations. Wrappers a bit worn, upper cover creased, light dust-soil; Very Good and sound overall. Title page inscribed and signed, "To Lettie -- in the spirit -- Rita Dove / 4.5.95." Offered... Read More
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![Grace Notes: Poems [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/693/294/1610294693.0.m.jpg)
Grace Notes: Poems [Signed]
by Rita Dove
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1989. First Edition. Signed by Rita Dove at title page with inscription, "for Eunice, These few songs to add to the grander polyphony -- warmly, Rita Dove." Octavo. 73 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt and silver.... Read More
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Last Night the Nightingale
by Clifford Dowdey
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1962. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1962. First Edition. Octavo. 310 pages. In illustrated dust jacket with original "$4.50" price present. Beige boards with spine stamped in red. Dust jacket is worn at edges with some chipping to corners. Rubbed at hinges and some staining to rear panel.... Read More
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![The History of Henrico County [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/435/429/1610429435.0.m.jpg)
The History of Henrico County [Signed]
by Louis H. Manarin; Clifford Dowdey
Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1984. First Edition. Signed by Louis Manarin without inscription at title page. Octavo. 555 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Printed dust jacket. Red cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt; map endpapers. Tear to top of front fold, meandering to... Read More
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The Last Trumpet: Murder in a Mexican Bull Ring
by Todd Downing
Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1937. Very Good -. Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1937. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in red, red topstain; [12],275pp. General shelf wear including two small losses of cloth at spine crown, topstain a shade dulled and textblock lightly toned,... Read More
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The Doings of Raffles Haw
by A. Conan Doyle
London: Cassell & Company, 1892. Very Good. London: Cassell & Company, 1892. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt; viii,[9]-256,[8](ads)pp. Boards a bit scuffed at corners and spine ends, gilt of both spine and top edge quite dulled, textblock tanned and a bit brittle, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. ... Read More
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Hassan's Tower
by Margaret Drabble
Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, 1980. Fine. Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orphanos, [1980]. First Separate Edition, Limited to 330 copies of which this is no. 196. Slim octavo; publisher's tan decorative cloth elaborately embossed in gilt; [6],25pp. A Fine copy. Signed by the author on colophon in rear.
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![Children of the Wind [alt. title Hush-A-By Baby]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/629/921/1561921629.0.m.jpg)
Children of the Wind [alt. title Hush-A-By Baby]
by Burgess Drake
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1954. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1954. First U.S. Edition, stated First Impression. Octavo. 352 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.50 price intact; gray boards stamped in brown. Dust jacket shows light chipping and creasing to extremities and sunning to spine. Boards shelfworn, corners bumped, and spine ends nudged. Binding is... Read More
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![Code of Honor [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/760/232/1707232760.0.m.jpg)
Code of Honor [Signed and Inscribed]
by Lt. Colonel John A. Dramesi
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1975. Very Good/Very Good. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1975. Third Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); photo-illustrated dust jacket with $7.95 price intact; boards in red cloth with gilt lettering and rules to spine; 271pp. Jacket rubbed along edges with a few shallow closed tears and some creasing to flaps and a few... Read More
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![Dawn: A History of Myself [Limited Edition, Signed by Dreiser]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/628/081/1522081628.0.m.jpg)
Dawn: A History of Myself [Limited Edition, Signed by Dreiser]
by Theodore Dreiser
New York: Horace Liveright, Inc, 1931. Near Fine. New York: Horace Liveright, Inc., 1931. Limited Edition of 275 copies signed by Theodore Dreiser at limitation, this being #262. Large octavo. 589 pp. Black cloth with beveled edges stamped in gilt; gilt topstain. Housed in publisher's slipcase with title label to front. A couple minor scuffs to... Read More
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The Financier
by Theodore Dreiser
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1912. Good +. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1912. First Edition with letter code "K-M" (October 1912) on copyright page. Octavo; publisher's mottled blue decorative cloth stamped in dark blue and gilt; [4],779pp. Spine backing cleanly split down rear joint and separated from textblock but holding along front joint; spine otherwise... Read More
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The Crisis in Psychology
by Hans Driesch
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1925. Very Good-. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1925. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's green cloth, printed paper elements mounted to upper cover and spine, grey topstain; xvi,275pp. Ex-Memorial Library of Washington and Jefferson College with their internal markings, spine label removed though evidence remains, light shelf wear and toning, both hinges cracked but holding,... Read More
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A Catalogue of the Lords, Knights, and Gentleman that have compounded for their Estates
by Thomas Dring
London: Printed for Thomas Dring, at the signe of the George in Fleetstreet neare Cliffords Inne, 1655. Very Good. London: Printed for Thomas Dring, at the signe of the George in Fleetstreet neare Cliffords Inne, 1655. First Edition. Octavo. Unpaginated, collated and lacking only final blank leaf (L8). Contemporary calf boards; spine rebacked with five raised bands and... Read More
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![The Arabian Nights: The Book of The Thousand and One Night Volume I - VI [Six volume set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/569/188/1700188569.0.m.jpg)
The Arabian Nights: The Book of The Thousand and One Night Volume I - VI [Six volume set]
by Dr. J.C. Mardrus and Powys Mathers [trans.]; Marina Warner [intro.]; Kay Nielsen, Debra McFarlane et al. [illus.]
London: The Folio Society, 2003. Very Good +. London: The Folio Society, 2003. First Thus. Six large octavo volumes; color plates, each volume featuring a different illustrator. Blue-gray cloth boards decorated in gilt; light blue endpapers. Housed in publisher's two slipcase, the first with gilt lettering and Kay Nielsen illustration mounted to side panel. Mild shelfwear to boards;... Read More
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The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte
by Daphne du Maurier
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1960. Very Good/Very Good. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1960. First Edition. Octavo (22.2cm); 260pp. Illustrated dust jacket with 21/- net price intact; boards in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows a couple shallow chips at head of spine and a small tear with adjacent creasing at bottom front, with a bit... Read More
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Gerald: A Portrait
by Daphne du Maurier
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1934. Very Good -. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1934. First Edition. Octavo (22.2cm); 317pp. Photo frontis. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Dark topstain. Missing dust jacket. Boards show scattered scuffs and some brief soiling, with fairly heavy fading down and along spine and edges. Spine cocked. Topstain faded. Binding is sound... Read More
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Operation America: The Communist Conspiracy in Latin America
by Jules Dubois
New York: Walker and Company, 1963. Very Good. New York: Walker and Company, 1963. Later Printing. Signed by the author "To Senator B. Everett Jordan of North Carolina, with best wishes" on front free endpaper. Octavo; xvi, 361pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and blue rules to spine. Boards edgeworn with fraying to cloth at tail of spine,... Read More
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Color and Democracy: Colonies and Peace
by W.E.B. Du Bois [W.E. Burghardt DuBois]
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945. Later (1946) Printing. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in red price-clipped dust jacket; [8],143pp. Ex-library with manuscript shelf label taped to jacket and cloth spine feet, otherwise free of markings; dust jacket a bit chipped and rubbed along extremities with small loss... Read More
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![L'ymaigier Jean Lebedeff [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/413/043/1511043413.0.m.jpg)
L'ymaigier Jean Lebedeff [Limited Edition]
by [Ivan Lebedev] Jean-Paul Dubray
Paris: Chez l'auteur, 1939. Very Good. Paris: Chez l'auteur, 1939. First Edition, Limited to 500 copies printed on Rives, of which this is no. 369. Quarto; publisher's pictorial cream card wrappers printed in red and black; 105pp.; woodcut portrait frontispiece, illus. throughout. Foxing along wrapper extremities, else a Very Good copy. Short-title list of the Russian born artist's... Read More
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![Selected Stories [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/016/100/1573100016.0.m.jpg)
Selected Stories [Inscribed and Signed]
by Andre Dubus
Boston: David R. Godine, 1988. Very Good/Near Fine. Boston: David R. Godine, [1988]. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket x,[2],476pp. Heavy foxing to textblock margins slightly bleeding to endpapers, else a Very Good copy in Near Fine jacket. Inscribed and signed by the author on half title page and additionally signed on title... Read More
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Texte de la Coutume Générale de Normandie, des Placités, et du Réglement des Tutelles, mis en ordre
by [Jean-Baptiste Louis] Ducastel
Rouen: Louis Oursel, 1783. Very Good -. Rouen: Louis Oursel, 1783. First Edition. 12mo (17cm.); full contemporary sheep, gilt spine in six compartments with tan onlay, all edges stained red, marbled endpapers, half title present; [4],xxxii,411pp.; woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Boards quite rubbed at corners with some brief peeling and rather ugly exposure at bottom fore-edge corner of... Read More
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