Mosquitoes
by William Faulkner
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. Good. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First Edition, First Printing (3047 copies printed). Octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth, blue decorative endpapers; [2],349pp. Ex-Deep River (CT) Public Library with their contemporary rubber-stamp and shelf number to title page and evidence of removed bookplate to pastedowns, otherwise free of institutional markings, boards rather... Read More
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Collected Stories of William Faulkner
by William Faulkner
New York: Random House, 1950. Very Good. New York: Random House, 1950. First Printing, stated. Octavo; [vi], 900pp. Gray cloth with blue title squares and gilt lettering to spine. Blue-gray topstain. Missing dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with light bumping at corners, nudging / tugging at spine ends, and some toning along edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. ... Read More
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Collected Stories of William Faulkner
by William Faulkner
New York: Random House, 1950. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1950. First Edition, first state with all points. Octavo; [vi], 900pp. Printed dust jacket with $4.75 price intact. Gray cloth with blue title squares and gilt lettering to spine; blue-gray topstain; spine reads "The Collected Stories" and title page printed in blue and black. ... Read More
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Selected Short Stories
by William Faulkner
New York: Modern Library, 1960. Very Good+/Good+. New York: Modern Library, [1960]. First Modern Library Edition, Stated First Printing. 12mo; publisher's cloth, black topstain, in blue and brown decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($1.95); [6],306,[8]pp. Jacket margins rather chipped and worn with small losses at spine ends, closed tear at bottom edge of upper panel briefly touching... Read More
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Idyll in the Desert [Signed Limited Edition]
by William Faulkner
New York: Random House, 1931. Very Good. New York: Random House, 1931. Limited Edition of 400 copies, of which this is number 81, signed by Faulkner on colophon at back. Octavo (22.5cm); 17pp. Red marbled paper-covered boards with white title card to front. Boards rubbed on edges and spine. Slight bump to bottom edge of spine.... Read More
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Sartoris
by William Faulkner
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. First Edition with no additional printings listed. Octavo; 380pp. Printed red and black dust jacket, repaired. Black cloth stamped in red; top edge stained red. Price clipped dust jacket faded along spine, showing extensive professional repairs with color in-filling along... Read More
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The Town
by William Faulkner
London: Chatto & Windus, 1957. Very Good +/Very Good. London: Chatto & Windus, 1957. First UK Edition. Octavo. 319 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with 16s net price intact. Red boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket lightly chipped along edges, tears to folds and top edge of rear flap with some tape mending to each. Boards show... Read More
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Sanctuary
by William Faulkner
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. First Edition. Octavo; 380pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; minor professional restoration. Light gray cloth over magenta paper-covered boards; black topstain; geometric maroon patterned endpapers. Housed in custom-made clamshell case with cloth title labels. ... Read More
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Go Down, Moses
by William Faulkner
New York: Random House, 1942. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1942. First Edition in first state dust jacket with eight titles to rear jacket panel beginning with "Storm." Octavo. 383 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt and red; red topstain. Price-clipped dust jacket chipped along edges with general creasing and rubbing.... Read More
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Mosquitoes
by William Faulkner
New York: Liveright Publishing Company, 1933. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Liveright Publishing Company, [ca. 1933]. Second Edition with 1927 on copyright page, and "New Edition" and $3.00 price on front flap. Octavo. 349 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in orange. Dust jacket lightly chipped and toned along edges with general smudging and rubbing.... Read More
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Young Dr. Kildare
by Max Brand [pseud. Frederick Schiller Faust]
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1941. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1941. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth, yellow topstain, in yellow pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); [8],237pp. Moderate wear to jacket extremities including a few shallow chips and closed tears occasionally touching text without loss of meaning, spine panel toned,... Read More
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17 Black Artists
by Elton C. Fax
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1971. Very Good -/Very Good -. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); illustrated dust jacket with $7.95 price intact; boards in orange cloth with red lettering to spine; xiv,306pp; photos. Jacket rubbed with shallow chips and tears at corners and spine ends; general scuffs and smudges to... Read More
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Land [Review Copy] [Bookplate Signed and Inscribed by Fowles Laid in]
by Fay Godwin; John Fowles [essay]; Ian Jeffrey [intro.]
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985. Very Good +/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985. First Edition. Square quarto; publisher's cloth in tan photo-illustrated dust jacket; xxxii,127pp.; chiefly black and white photographs. Corners and spine ends bumped, else Very Good or better. Review copy with slip laid in. Bookplate inscribed and signed by Fowles in 1996 additionally... Read More
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Land [Signed by Godwin and Fowles]
by Fay Godwin; John Fowles [essay]; Ian Jeffrey [intro.]
London: Heinemann, 1985. Very Good/Very Good. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1985. Limited First Edition of 1000 copies printed on Parilux paper, according to colophon at rear, numbered 190/920 in pencil. Signed by Fay Godwin and John Fowles at title page. Oblong octavo. 127 pp. Black and white photographs throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Gray-green boards lettered in gilt. ... Read More
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Muzzling The Tiger
by John W. Fay
New York: Murray Hill Publishers, Inc, 1924. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Murray Hill Publishers Inc., 1924. First Edition. Octavo; 390pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3 price on spine. Book in tiger-print orange and black cloth-covered boards. Jacket is chipped and rubbed along edges. Large chip to back panel. Spine ends of book are nudged and edges lightly... Read More
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Condensed Novels; And Other Papers
by F. Bret Harte; Frank Bellew [illus.]
New York: G.W. Carleton & Company, 1857. Very Good. New York: G.W. Carleton & Company, 1857. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine; x,[11]-307,[1],6pp.; frontispiece, five leaves of plates. Light scuffing to cloth margins, some soiling and fading to spine with a small chip at crown, gilt rather dulled, plates evenly toned, scattered foxing to textblock, erased... Read More
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Rameses the Great; or, Egypt 3300 years ago
by F. De Lanoye [trans.]
New York: Charles Scribner and Company, 1870. Good+. New York: Charles Scribner and Company, 1870. First American Edition. Small octavo; publisher's red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 296,10pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout, many full-paged. Rather extensive biopredation along joints, cloth rather toned and soiled, contemporary manuscript prize inscription on front free endpaper addressed to Maggie A. Moore, "1st Prize for History."... Read More
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Bambi: A Life in the Woods
by Felix Salten; Kurt Wiese [illus.]; John Galsworthy [fwd.]; Whittaker Chambers [trans.]
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1928. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1928. First U.S. Edition, dated July 1928. Octavo (20.5cm); 290 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout by Kurt Wiese. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact. Green boards stamped in gilt; yellow topstain; illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket shows a few shallow chips... Read More
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Terry Fox: Metaphorical Instruments [Signed and warmly inscribed]
by Terry Fox; Zdenek Felix
Essen and Berlin: Museum Folkwang and daadgalerie, 1982. Very Good. Essen and Berlin: Museum Folkwang and daadgalerie, 1982. First Edition. Signed and warmly inscribed. Small Quarto (26x21x1cm); 100pp, including exhibition and performance lists and chronology. Photographic illustrations in B&W and document reproductions throughout. Text in both German and English. Inscription: "For Brenda and Carol with all best... Read More
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A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe, in 1817: with notes taken during a tour through Le Perche, Normandy, Bretagne, Poitou, Anjou, Le Bocage, Touraine, Orleanois, and the environs of Paris
by W.D. Fellowes
London: William Stockdale, 1818. Very Good. London: William Stockade, 1818. First Edition. Octavo; near contemporary full straight-grained scarlet gilt-tooled morocco, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; xii,[2],188pp.; fourteen leaves of plates including twelve aquatints, additional engraved text vignette on p. 75. Leather a bit scuffed at margins and along spine edges, spine darkened, else a Very Good, internally clean... Read More
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The Land of Little Rain: A Story of Hopi Indian Children
by Muriel H. Fellows
Chicago: The John C. Winston Co, 1936. Very Good/Very Good. Chicago: The John C. Winston Co., 1936. First Edition. Octavo; 121pp. Illustrations throughout: 22 full-page full-color; 8 full-page B&W; mixture of full-color and B&W head-pieces, tail-pieces, illustrated glossary, and Hopi motifs throughout. Full-color pictorial dust jacket. Five-color cloth binding with Hope textile motif on both front... Read More
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The Wonderful Cookie and Other Stories
by [Susan Fenimore Cooper]
Akron, OH: Werner Company, 1899. Good. Akron, OH: Werner Company, 1899. Slim octavo; publisher's cream pictorial cloth stamped in grey, black, and yellow; [30,7(ads)]pp.; four leaves of plates. Cloth rubbed and dust-soiled with significant spotting to sizing; still, Good overall, internally near fine. "Collection" of two stories for children, the first (though unattributed) by Susan Fenimore... Read More
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The Memory of War: Poems 1968-1982 [Signed]
by James Fenton
Edinburgh: The Salamander Press, 1982. Very Good +/Very Good. Edinburgh: The Salamander Press, 1982. First Edition. Signed by Fenton on title page without inscription. Tall octavo. 93 pp. Printed dust jacket. Red boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed along edges with some creasing and a couple very short closed tears. Touch of red bleeding... Read More
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A Raw Youth [Two volume set, signed by Eichenberg]
by Feodor [Fyodor] Dostoevsky; Constance Garnett [trans.]; Konstantin Mochulsky [intro.]; Fritz Eichenberg [illus.]
Verona: Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Stamperia Valdonega, 1974. Near Fine/Very Good. Verona: Printed for the Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Stamperia Valdonega, 1974. Limited Edition of 2000 copies signed by Fritz Eichenberg, this being #1950. Two quarto volumes. Eighteen full-page wood engravings. Glassine dust jackets. Bound in fine-textured... Read More
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Giant
by Edna Ferber
London: Victor Gollancz, 1952. Very Good/Very Good. London: Victor Gollancz, 1952. First British Edition. Octavo (18.9cm); yellow dust jacket with 12/6 net price intact; boards in red cloth with gilt lettering; 384pp. Jacket chipped at folds, with some general smudging and toning to surface and a bit heavier darkening and foxing down spine; tape reinforcement over spine ends... Read More
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