The Beauty and the Beast (MinaLima)
by De Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot
New York: Harper Design, 2017. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 6x1x9. MinaLima. New. Still in shrink wrap. An exceptional copy. 2017 Hard Cover. 208 pp. A beautiful and unique gift edition - for adults and kids alike - of The Beauty and the Beast, reimagined by award-winning design studio MinaLima. MinaLima, the design studio behind the graphics for the... Read More
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The Chinese Secret Service
by Deacon, Richard
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9x6x1. First edition. Lacks jacket, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1974 Hard Cover. 523 pp. A history of Chinese espionage from 500 B.C. to the present day, illustrated with reproductions of black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Includes supplementary... Read More
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Constantinople. in Two Volumes
by De Amicis, Edmondo; Lansdale, Maria Hornor
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co, 1896. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Gilbo, W.H. Includes publisher's red cloth jackets with gilt titles. Frontispiece of first volume loose but included, jacket spines a bit faded, a few minor blemishes to boards. 1896 Hard Cover. 303; 309 pp. 8vo. Cream cloth, gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations, top edges... Read More
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Dolly Madison: The Nation's Hostess [Dolley]
by Dean, Elizabeth Lippincott
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co, 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8x5x1. First edition. Lacks jacket. Minimal loss of gilt from spine titles, otherwise an excellent copy. 1928 Hard Cover. 250 pp. Images of the President's Palace at White House on endpapers, black-and-white frontispiece and plates. Dolley Todd Madison (nee Payne; May 20, 1768 ... Read More
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Pete the Cat Saves Christmas
by Dean, James; Litwin, Eric
New York: Harper, 2019. Reprint. Large Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8x0x11. Dean, James. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. 2019 Large Hardcover. 'Twas the day before Christmas and Santa was ill. In the cold winter wind he had caught a bad chill. Will Christmas be canceled? Will it come to that? "Never!" cried Santa. "Let's call Pete the Cat!" In this... Read More
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Lord of the Three in One: The Spread of a Cult in Southeast China
by Dean, Kenneth
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. Top edge faintly foxed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1998 Hard Cover. xii, 406 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations. Lin Zhao'en (1517-1598) set out to popularize Confucianism by combining Confucian studies with Daoist inner alchemical techniques and Buddhist... Read More
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Nothing Can Bring Back the Hour
by Dean, Pamela
New York: iUniverse, Inc, 2011. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x1x8. Jacket edges lightly worn. 2011 Hard Cover. xi, 484 pp. On a warm summer evening in the late 1960s, as Samantha DeSantis walks home from an impromptu softball game, she spots a bike in the distance. She watches as the rider picks up speed, drawing nearer. It's... Read More
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Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 245)
by de Balzac, Honore; Brown, E.K.; Walter, Dorothea; Watkins, John
New York: The Modern Library, 1950. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 7x4x1. 1963-66 printing of Toledano 245.1, binding/jacket style 11l with blank verso, $1.95 jacket price, grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Former library copy with usual marks, though none on exterior of jacket. 1950 Hard Cover. lxxxi, 343 pp. Translated from the French by C.K. Scott Moncrieff, with A Study... Read More
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America Day by Day
by De Beauvoir, Simone; Cosman, Carol; Brinkley, Douglas
Berkeley / Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1999. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 7x1x9. First American edition. Top corner of front free endpaper clipped. 1999 Hard Cover. xviii, 390 pp. Translated by Carol Cosman. Here is the ultimate American road book, one with a perspective unlike that of any other. In January 1947 Simone... Read More
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Birds Without Wings: A Novel
by De Bernieres, Louis
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 104x22x152. First American edition. Jacket spine head bumped. 2004 Hard Cover. 553 pp. In his first novel since Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The... Read More
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Busted Valentines and Other Dark Delights
by De Blase, Frank
Lutz, Flordia: Down & Out Books, 2014. Trade Paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. An exceptional copy. 2014 Trade Paperback. 155 pp. 13 sordid and salacious tales of hustlers, lovers and losers, killers and thrillers carousing in a charade of lust, love, luck, and murder… where shifty, shady types clamor to survive, when no way out seems to be the only... Read More
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Graphic Design: History in the Writing, 1983-2011
by De Bondt, Sara; de Smet, Catherine; Aynsley, Jeremy; Baker, Steve; Blauvelt, Andrew; Carey, Piers; Chastanet, Francois; Chou, Wen Huei; Crisp, Denise Gonzalez; Donnelly, Brian; Drucker, Johanna; Heller, Steven; Hollis, Richard; Kinross, Robin; Lupton, Ell
London: Occasional Papers, 2012. Large Softcover. Very Good. 8x1x11. Single spine crease. 2012 Large Softcover. 303 pp. Tracing the history of graphic design over the past 30 years, this dense and informative reader presents a large selection of essays which address the origins and purposes of the field. Originally intended to accompany a May 2011 conference in London,... Read More
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The Industrial Resources, Statistics, &c. of the United States, and More Particularly of the Southern and Western States, Volumes 1 & 2 of 3 (Reprints of Economic Classics)
by DeBow, J.D.B
New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1965. Facsimile. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 1965 facsimile of 1854 third edition. No jacket. Minor general wear. 464; 560 pp. Volumes 1 and 2 of three. The Industrial Resources, Statistics, &c. of the United States, and More Particularly of the Southern and Western States: Embracing a View of Their Commerce, Agriculture, Manufactures,... Read More
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Keya Das's Second Act
by Deb, Sopan
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2022. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. An exceptional copy. 2022 Hard Cover. Shantanu Das is living in the shadows of his past. In his fifties, he finds himself isolated from his traditional Bengali community after a devastating divorce from his wife, Chaitali; he hasn't spoken to his eldest... Read More
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The Compleat Enchanter: The Magical Misadventures of Harold Shea
by De Camp, L. Sprague; Pratt, Fletcher
Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, Inc, 1975. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8x5x1. Stone, D.K. Book club edition, gutter code I 50. Minimal wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1975 Hard Cover. 341 pp. D.K. Stone jacket art. Originally published in two separate parts entitled The Incomplete Enchanter... Read More
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Fulminations: Caustic, Capricious & Cosmic
by DeCasseres, Benjamin; Slaughter, Kevin I
Monee, Illinois: Underworld Amusements, 2020. Reissue. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x0x9. Signed by author. Minor wear to corners. 2020 Trade Paperback. 352, [2] pp. This single volume contains all the bombastic essays and visionary observations that were originally published in four different volumes of this mirthful and wry imp's writing. From his first book of essays Chameleon: Being... Read More
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Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha, in Two Volumes (Borzoi Classics)
by De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel; Ormsby, John; Woodberry, George Edward
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Limited edition, #41 of 3000 sets. Spines a bit toned, boards faintly soiled. Bindings tight, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1926 Hard Cover. 682 pp. Translated by John Ormbsy, with an introduction by George Edward Woodberry. Cervantes wrote that the first chapters were taken... Read More
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The Adventures of Don Quixote
by De Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel
London: Collector's Library, 2007. First Thus. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 10x6x2. Dore, Gustave. First thus. An exceptional copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2007 Large Hardcover. 796 pp. 12 x 9 1/2. The classic comedy about a senile nobleman who becomes a knight errant, accompanied with gorgeous illustrations reproduced from engravings by Gustave... Read More
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Freud, Dora, and Vienna, 1900
by Decker, Hannah S
New York: The Free Press, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Top edge of jacket rubbed and bumped. 1991 Hard Cover. xii, 299 pp. Evaluating the psychoanalytic encounter of Sigmund Freud and Dora, an emotionally troubled adolescent suffering from hysteria, Hannah S. Decker places the treatment of Dora into a larger social and... Read More
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Alaska and the Airplane: A Century of Flight
by Decker, Julie; Kinney, Jeremy
Salenstein, Switzerland: Braun Publishing, 2013. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 9x0x9. Long, Eric F. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2013 Large Hardcover. 128 pp. Color and black-and-white photographs throughout, maps on endpapers. Alaskans were introduced to the airplane as early as 1913, when town officials in Fairbanks invited stunt flyers James and Lilly Martin... Read More
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The Nature and Use of Ritual for Spiritual Attainment, Based on the Seven Key Christian Documents (Llewellyn's Spiritual Perspective Series)
by de Coppens, Peter Roche
St. Paul, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications, 1985. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 7x5x0. First edition - a paperback original. An excellent copy. 1985 Trade Paperback. vii, 229 pp. The basic aim of this book is to render explicit the essence of this process of bio-psycho-spiritual transformation in terms of our own indigenous Spiritual Tradition, which we can find... Read More
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Cherishing This Heritage: The Centennial History of the State University College at Brockport, New York
by Dedman, W. Wayne
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 0x0x0. Jacket edges lightly rubbed. Ink name on frontispiece recto. 1969 Hard Cover. xiv, 317 pp. Endpapers depict illustration of Brockport University College then and now. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Traces the record of the college and the village from the early 1800s to the present.
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The House of Adventure
by Deeping, Warwick
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fair. Third printing. Eleanor Foster Lansing's copy, with her name in pencil on front endpaper (relative of U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing. These were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him).... Read More
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Three Perfect Peaches: A French Folktale Retold by The Wild Washerwomen Storytellers
by DeFelice, Cynthia; DeMarsh, Mary
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1995. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 10x0x9. Trivas, Irene. Signed by author. First edition. Inscribed and signed by both authors on title page ('To Meghan, a perfectly peachy reader! Love, Mary DeMarsh, Cynthia DeFelice, 1997'). An excellent copy. 1995 Large Hardcover. 199 pp. The king offers his daughter's hand in marriage... Read More
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The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner. From the Original in Words of One Syllable
by [Defoe, Daniel]; Schwacofer, Mary A
New York: A.L. Burt, 1895. Hard Cover. Fair. 0x0x0. Some loss to spine head and to spine base, hinges broken, first few pages loose but included. 1895 Hard Cover. 96 pp. "Crusoe (the family name corrupted from the German name "Kreutznaer") set sail from Kingston upon Hull on a sea voyage in August 1651, against the wishes of... Read More
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