![The Legend of Planet Surprise [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/050/440/1707440050.0.m.jpg)
The Legend of Planet Surprise [Signed and Inscribed]
by Tajima Shinji; T.M. Hoffman [trans.]; Makaminan Makagiansar [fwd.]
Tokyo: Baobab Books, 1988. Very Good/Very Good. Tokyo: Baobab Books, 1988. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); illustrated dust jacket; boards in matching illustrated cloth; 150pp; illus. throughout. Text in English. Jacket rubbed along top edge with a light crease to rear panel. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the... Read More
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Pembrokeshire
by Thomas Lloyd et al.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. Very Good+/Very Good. New Haven: Yale University Press, [1994]. First Edition. Thick, narrow octavo; publisher's leatherette in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 549pp.; thirty-two (32) leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos, many in color, maps throughout text. Minor wear to jacket extremiites from handling, brief bubbling to rear jacket panel lamination,... Read More
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Colt's New Service Revolver, "A Particularly Strong, Heavy Weapon
by Timothy J. Mullin; R. Blake Stevens [ed.]
Cobourg, Ontario, Canada: Collector Grade Publications Incorporated, 2009. Near Fine/Near Fine. Cobourg, Ontario, Canada: Collector Grade Publications Incorporated, 2009. First Edition. Quarto. 272pp. Color and b&w photographs and illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Maroon leatherette boards with spine stamped in gilt; illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges with a small patch of creasing to crown. Boards... Read More
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Johnny Appleseed and Other Poems
by Vachel Lindsay; George Richards [illus.]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. 144 pp. Three color plates; black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket with $1.75 price present. Green cloth stamped in gilt and black; illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket chipped with short tears along edges and rubbing to spine. Light shelfwear to... Read More
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![The Universal Songster or Museum of Mirth forming the Most Complete, Extensive, and Valuable Collection of Ancient and Modern Songs in the English Language... [Three Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/467/191/1297191467.0.m.jpg)
The Universal Songster or Museum of Mirth forming the Most Complete, Extensive, and Valuable Collection of Ancient and Modern Songs in the English Language... [Three Volume Set]
by [Various]; George Cruikshank [illus.]; Robert Cruikshank [illus.]
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1878. Very Good. London: George Routledge and Sons, [1878]. Three Volume Set. Octavos. 448 p.; 448p.; 448p. Humorous frontispiece to each volume, with additional frontispiece to volume 1. Black and white illustrations throughout. Bound in modern green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and new endpapers. Light soiling to spine. Worn and... Read More
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![The Eclogues and the Georgics [Signed by translator]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/183/708/1676708183.0.m.jpg)
The Eclogues and the Georgics [Signed by translator]
by Virgil; R.C. Trevelyan [trans.]
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944. Very Good +/Very Good. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944. First Edition. Slim octavo (20 cm); 118pp. Publisher's dust jacket with price intact wrapped around teal cloth-covered boards with gilt stamping to spine. Jacket water stained at margins and spine, lightly soiled and chipped. Board extremities bumped and rubbed with water staining to top... Read More
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![Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales [Signed by Hamilton]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/351/886/1694886351.0.m.jpg)
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales [Signed by Hamilton]
by Virginia Hamilton; Leo & Diane Dillon [illus.]
New York: The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc, 1995. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc., 1995. First Edition, stated First Printing with full numberline. Signed by Virginia Hamilton dated in the year of publication at title page. Quarto. 112; [2]pp. Color illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket with Laura... Read More
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Coaching Days and Coaching Ways
by W. Outram Tristram; Herbert Railton and Hugh Thomson [illus.]
London: Macmillan and Co, 1888. Very Good-. London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. First Edition. Large quarto; publisher's deluxe binding of three-quarter maroon morocco over cloth, gilt-tooled spine in six compartments, top edge gilt; xiii,[3],367pp.; frontispiece, extensively illustrated throughout. Binding recased with original spine leather laid down, new endpapers (binder's ticket to rear pastedown), leather a bit scuffed at... Read More
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Stanford Short Stories Nineteen Forty-Nine
by Wallace Stegner [ed.]; Evan Connell; Rhoda LeCoq; et al [contribs.]
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1949. Near Fine/Very Good +. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1949. First Edition. Octavo (22.2 cm), x, 165pp. Publisher’s orange and cream dust jacket intact with price ($3.00). Boards full bound in tan cloth with orange stamping on the spine. Dust jacket toned all over with creases, some rippling, minor tears and chips... Read More
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Specimen Days, Democratic Vistas, and Other Prose
by Walt Whitman; Louise Pound [ed.]
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, [1935]. First Thus. Small octavo; publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket, blue topstain; liii,[1],370pp.; portrait frontispiece. Moderate wear to jacket extremities, rear panel a bit dust-soiled, spine cocked, corners tapped, contemporary reader's pleasingly neat occasional marginalia throughout, though ownership... Read More
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Freddy and the Flying Saucer Plans
by Walter R. Brooks; Kurt Wiese [illus.]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00), red topstain, pictorial endpapers; [6],243pp.; illus. throughout. Minor shelf wear to jacket extremities including small closed tear at bottom margin of upper panel (old tape repair to verso),... Read More
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Turkoman Tribal Rugs
by Werner Loges; Raoul Tschebull [trans.]
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1980. Fine/Very Good+. London: George Allen & Unwin, [1980]. First Edition. Square quarto; publisher's cloth, map endpapers, in pictorial dust jacket; 204pp.; full color photographic illus. throughout. Very light wear to jacket spine crown, else a Near Fine example.
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The Philiosophy of Wilfrid Sellars: Queries and Extensions. Papers Deriving from and Related to a Workshop on the Philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1976
by [Wilfrid Sellars] Joseph C. Pitt [ed.]
Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1978. Near Fine/Very Good. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. 305pp. Printed dust jacket. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt. Light edgewear and toning to dust jacket. Boards show light shelfwear; binding sound; pages mildly toned but unmarked; Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket.
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Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Missouri in the Civil War
by William Garrett Piston and Thomas B. Sweeney; Carl Moneyhon and Bobby Roberts [eds.]
Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 2009. Very Good +/Very Good +. Fayetteville, AR: The University of Arkansas Press, 2009. First Edition. Quarto. 347pp. Photographs and illustrations throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt; yellow endpapers. Mild rubbing and surface scratching to jacket. Light shelfwear to boards and corners slightly bumped; a Very Good... Read More
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![Modern Tales of Horror [alt. title: Creeps By Night]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/443/383/1515383443.0.m.jpg)
Modern Tales of Horror [alt. title: Creeps By Night]
by [William Faulkner] Dashiell Hammett [ed.]
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1932. Very Good -/Very Good -. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1932. First U.K. Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's cloth in yellow dust jacket lettered in red and black; 448pp. General shelf wear, spine panel toned and ends chipped with minor loss of text, offsetting mid-panel from previously removed sticker, general soil, brief tape repair to... Read More
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![Titus Andronicus [Limited Letterpress Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/218/241/1700241218.0.m.jpg)
Titus Andronicus [Limited Letterpress Edition]
by William Shakespeare; Eugene M. Waith [ed.]
London: Folio Society / Oxford University Press, 2008. Near Fine. London: Folio Society / Oxford University Press, 2008. First "Letterpress Shakespeare" Edition, Limited to 3750 copies of which this is no. 134. Two volumes; folio and octavo; folio volume bound in three-quarter red Nigerian morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine; top edge gilt; silk ribbon; octavo volume... Read More
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![Provisions: Lost Prose [Limited Edition, Signed by Sebastian Matthews]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/360/243/1587243360.0.m.jpg)
Provisions: Lost Prose [Limited Edition, Signed by Sebastian Matthews]
by William Matthews; Sebastian Matthews [ed. & intro.]; Cris Cristofaro [illus.]
Winona, MN: Sutton Hoo Press, 2003. Near Fine. Winona, MN: Sutton Hoo Press, 2003. Limited Edition of approximately 200 copies. Signed by Sebastian Matthews, both the editor and the author's son, without inscription on full title. Octavo; 79pp. Two-color illustrations by Cristofaro throughout. Publisher's purple cloth with mounted illustration to front and paper spine label. Boards are clean... Read More
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![The Taming of the Shrew [Limited Letterpress Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/546/152/1700152546.0.m.jpg)
The Taming of the Shrew [Limited Letterpress Edition]
by William Shakespeare; H.J. Oliver [ed.]
London: Folio Society / Oxford University Press, 2010. Fine. London: Folio Society / Oxford University Press, 2010. First "Letterpress Shakespeare" Edition, Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 134. Two volumes; folio and octavo; folio volume bound in three-quarter green Nigerian morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine; top edge gilt; silk ribbon; octavo volume bound... Read More
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The Beast with Five Fingers: Twenty Tales of the Uncanny
by William Fryer Harvey; Maurice Richardson [ed.]
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1947. First American Edition. Octavo (20.8 cm), 218pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with movie tie-in photos on back panel and price intact ($2.50). Boards full bound in black cloth with blind stamping on front and gilt on spine. Fore edge deckled. Dust... Read More
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![Vathek: An Arabian Tale [Limited Edition, Signed by Angelo]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/775/266/1504266775.0.m.jpg)
Vathek: An Arabian Tale [Limited Edition, Signed by Angelo]
by William Beckford; Herbert Grimsditch [trans.]; Valenti Angelo [illus.]
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. Near Fine. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. First Thus, Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 1129. 12mo; publisher's full brown gilt-tooled morocco in paper-covered chemise and slipcase; xi,[1],135pp.; color illuminations throughout, text printed within elaborate border printed in blue, orange and yellow. Light soil to leather boards, remnants... Read More
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A Soviet Heretic: Essays
by Yevgeny Zamyatin; Mirra Ginsburg [ed.]
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. Very Good/Very Good. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1970]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket, yellow topstain; xix,[1],322pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout. Minor edge wear to jacket extremities, slightly later (1986) ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Very Good copy, internally clean and sound. Collected... Read More
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Double or Quits
by A.A. Fair [pseud. Erle Stanley Gardner]
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1941. Very Good. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1941. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey cloth with red titling, red topstain; [6],279pp. Moderate rubbing to cloth margins, light dust-soil, brief damp spots to top textblock edge, textblock a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Hardboiled crime novel featuring the detective... Read More
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Not That It Matters
by A.A. Milne
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1920. Very Good/Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1920. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in tan decorative dust jacket; viii,[2],233pp. Shallow chips and closed tears to jacket margins, none quite touching text, spine panel toned, endpapers foxed, else Very Good and sound. Collection of "essayettes" first published in... Read More
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![A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 16th & 17th Centuries [with] A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 18th Century [2 Vols]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/431/098/1564098431.0.m.jpg)
A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 16th & 17th Centuries [with] A History of Science, Technology, and Philosophy in the 18th Century [2 Vols]
by A. [Abraham] Wolf
New York: Macmillan Company, 1939. Very Good/Very Good (vol.1); Good (vol.2). New York: Macmillan Company, 1935, 1939. First American Editions from the British sheets. Thick octavos; publisher's cloth in printed dust jackets; Vol 1: 692pp, frontispiece, thirty-six (36) leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos, hundred of text illus. throughout; Vol 2: 813pp. frontispiece, sixty-six (66) leaves... Read More
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African Mirror - Volume 3, July 1980
by A. Adeyemi Smith [ed.]
New York: African Mirror, 1980. Very Good-. [New York: African Mirror, 1980.] First Edition. Quarto; publisher's photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers; 80pp.; illus. throughout, chiefly photographic. Wrappers rather wrinkled from handling, brief chipping at extremities, textblock uniformly toned, else a Good to Very Good copy overall. Headlining article Alhaj Malik Shabazz's "On Islam and Social Justice." Also includes coverage... Read More
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