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Black Sparrow Press: Santa Rosa, CA, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Robert Crumb. Folio. SIGNED BY ARTIST. Fine cream decorated cloth in red cloth slipcase. Number 36 of 175 numbered copies only, with 5 colour serigraphs, each signed by Robert Crumb.120 pp. Bukowski's last book, published three years after his death, in a nice edition in fine condition. The text is excerpts from his diaries, with entries focused on gambling, writing, aging, and everday life.
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The Adventures Of Superman
by George Lowther
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America: Random House, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7ľ - 9ľ" tall. Joe Shuster. 1st Printing 1 Copyright Date Is 1942, First Edition, First Printing. Red Cloth Over Boards With Red Lettering On A Blue Background And Blue Illustrations On The Front And The Spine. Illustrated Through Out With Black And Color Illustrations. Light Browning To The Front And Back Inside Covers. Shelf Wear To The Edges And To The Head And Toe Of The Spine Are Moderate, With Light Bumps To The Head And Toe Of The Spine, Light Browning To The Foredge And Bottom Page Edges. Dust Jacket, No Bent Flaps Nor Is It Price Clipped. Creases And Small Chips To The Head And Toe Of The Spine And To The Top Edge Of The Front Panel. For Edges Shows Some Wear. Dust Jacket Now In A Clear Cover.
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- Pages 215
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The Captain is Out to Lunch and The Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
by Bukowski, Charles
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Swallows and Amazons
by Ransome, Arthur
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's fugitive blue cloth which has unevenly faded to green, with titles stamped in gilt. Spine toned. Text block edge a bit stained, pages thumbed. Toning, creasing and former owner details in ink to preliminary pages. The first book in Arthur Ransome's series; scarce.
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Seven Little Australians
by Ethel S. Turner
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Ward, Lock and Bowden, London, 1894. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: A. J. Johnson. Hardcover. 240 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Ward, Lock and Bowden, London, 1894. Second Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition but dust jacket is not included. More specifically: Covers have superficial rubbing/wear. Edges of boards have moderate wear. Spine has minor lean. Edges of pages are reasonably browned. Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: This edition contains the Tettawonga narrative about how the Kookaburra got it's laugh. Due to the politics of the day this story and particularly its introduction regarding indigenous Australian attitudes and history. *** Illustrator: A. J. Johnson. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; 1001 Children's Books You Must Read; Inventory No: 19100001..
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What Happened At Midnight
by Dixon, Franklin W.
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NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. First edition, third printing (last page of ads is The Railroad Series) in second printing dust jacket. Published NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. 8vo., glossy frontis plate+iv+213pp., plus 6pp. publisher's ads. Series order of ads after the story: HB#1-11(Clock Ticked) / TS#1-35(Giant Magnet) / DS#1-11(Ocean Bottom) / RB#1-13(To The Rescue) / FR#1-30(Winning A Fortune) / RR#1-10(Train Wreckers). Red cloth with black shield on cover, block cover titles in gold outlined in black, black spine titles, blank white endpapers. Verso lists ten Hardy Boys titles to "What Happened At Midnight". Publisher's ad at rear lists eleven Hardy Boys titles to "While The Clock Ticked." Dust jacket lists 11 titles on flap, to "While The Clock...". Book is very good plus, clean, bright, unmarked, no inscriptions or toning, with light wear at the spine ends and top corners, small section of color fade to the cloth at the heel, where the dust jacket is…
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
by Kate Douglas Wiggin
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WIGGIN, Kate Douglas. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. 12mo, x 328pp. Green cloth pictorially stamped in light green, red, white and grey. A clean, bright copy, with slight rubbing to lower extremities and spine ends, front hinge mended, light discoloration to endpapers where exposed to dust jacket flaps, faint gouge to fore-edge with quarter-inch tear at edge of last five leaves. In original dust jacket (a few small chips and tears at edges, light sunning to spine and upper edge of flaps). Rare in dust jacket!First edition. The adventures of the irrepressible, passionate young Rebecca Rowena Randall of Sunnybrook Farm have enchanted readers for nearly 120 years. Mark Twain called the book, "beautiful and warm and satisfying," while Jack London wrote, "Rebecca won my heart." A classic turn-of-the-century American children's book and one of the first to feature a courageous and active young female protagonist.
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The Captain is Out to Lunch and The Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
by Bukowski, Charles
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Black Sparrow Press: Santa Rosa, CA, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Robert Crumb. Folio. SIGNED BY ARTIST. Fine cream decorated cloth in red cloth slipcase. Number 36 of 175 numbered copies only, with 5 colour serigraphs, each signed by Robert Crumb.120 pp. Bukowski's last book, published three years after his death, in a nice edition in fine condition. The text is excerpts from his diaries, with entries focused on gambling, writing, aging, and everday life.
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Swallows and Amazons
by Ransome, Arthur
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's fugitive blue cloth which has unevenly faded to green, with titles stamped in gilt. Spine toned. Text block edge a bit stained, pages thumbed. Toning, creasing and former owner details in ink to preliminary pages. The first book in Arthur Ransome's series; scarce.
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Seven Little Australians
by Ethel S. Turner
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Ward, Lock and Bowden, London, 1894. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: A. J. Johnson. Hardcover. 240 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Ward, Lock and Bowden, London, 1894. Second Edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition but dust jacket is not included. More specifically: Covers have superficial rubbing/wear. Edges of boards have moderate wear. Spine has minor lean. Edges of pages are reasonably browned. Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: This edition contains the Tettawonga narrative about how the Kookaburra got it's laugh. Due to the politics of the day this story and particularly its introduction regarding indigenous Australian attitudes and history. *** Illustrator: A. J. Johnson. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children & Young Adult; 1001 Children's Books You Must Read; Inventory No: 19100001..
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What Happened At Midnight
by Dixon, Franklin W.
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NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. First edition, third printing (last page of ads is The Railroad Series) in second printing dust jacket. Published NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. 8vo., glossy frontis plate+iv+213pp., plus 6pp. publisher's ads. Series order of ads after the story: HB#1-11(Clock Ticked) / TS#1-35(Giant Magnet) / DS#1-11(Ocean Bottom) / RB#1-13(To The Rescue) / FR#1-30(Winning A Fortune) / RR#1-10(Train Wreckers). Red cloth with black shield on cover, block cover titles in gold outlined in black, black spine titles, blank white endpapers. Verso lists ten Hardy Boys titles to "What Happened At Midnight". Publisher's ad at rear lists eleven Hardy Boys titles to "While The Clock Ticked." Dust jacket lists 11 titles on flap, to "While The Clock...". Book is very good plus, clean, bright, unmarked, no inscriptions or toning, with light wear at the spine ends and top corners, small section of color fade to the cloth at the heel, where the dust jacket is…
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The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, Book 7)
by Lewis, C. S
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The Bodley Head, 1956-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x0. Lewis, C.S. (Clive Staples) : The Last Battle. London : The Bodley Head, 1956. First impression. Size is octavo (8vo), 7.75"/20cm. Bound in publisher's blue cloth over boards, bright silver lettering imprinted on spine. DJ in light green w/black and white lettering (front) or white with black lettering (back); front also features a Pauline Baynes illustration in blue and brown of Lucy conferring with faun Tumnus. Blank endpapers/flyleaves; 184 numbered pp. Many Baynes illustrations in b&w (none in color)scattered through text.Condition notes: A highly collectible copy of this Narnia classic, seventh and last in the series (in Lewis' original, published, order). This is the rare 1956 British First edition/First Impression by The Bodley Head. Included is the original dustjacket -- not a reproduction, not price-clipped. Binding is slightly cocked off square,solid. DJ shows tanning and foxing from age…
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The Adventures of Superman.
by LOWTHER, George
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Bedford:: Applewood Books,. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 1557092281 . Based on the cartoon character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Color and black and white illustrations by Joe Shuster. Introduction by Roger Stern. A reprint of the 1942 Random House edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. .
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The Adventures of Superman
by George Lowther
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Applewood Books, 1995. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Celebrity. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In Like Jacket (As New) $17.95 on Flap. Rare Signed Copy"Noel Neill "Lois Lane" Beautiful Copy. Noel Neill Played Lois Lane On T.V..
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Adventures Of Superman
by Lowther, George
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Armed Services Editions. New York: Editions For The Armed Services. , 1942. 656 very good - fine at least, reading crease oblong paperback,
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Martin Luther King Jr: A Picture Story
by Margaret Boone -Jones
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Tarzan and the Forbidden City
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Vintage Whitman Publishing Company edition 1957. Hardcover, pictorial matte boards with original dust jacket. Overall condition is very good, dust jacket showing wear at top and bottom of spine and edges, but with bright colors. Dust jacket protected by a removable mylar cover. Slight bumped corners of boards. Pages are unmarked. Beautifully illustrated endpapers, with a slight separation from binding at front hinge. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
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Black boards with silver writing on spine; dings on top of front and back boards near corners. Top and bottom corners of front boards bumped; top and bottom of spine rumpled. Chip and wrinkles on top edge of front dust jacket; chip on corner of back dust jacket near fold to spine. Shelf wear on top and bottom of dust jacket spine; tight binding and pages still look in excellent condition. Cover price of $17.99 on front dust jacket flap, which has slight wrinkle at top of flap.Dutton First Edition; Thirty-First Printing as indicated by number line ending of "40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31" on copyright page. Signed by author on second interior page. Red cloud image with Target logo and advertising Bonus DVD from author with behind-the scenes looks at the movie.Green's second novel, which became his most famous one and has been made into a movie. Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.
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Doonesbury Classics
by Gary Trudeau
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Four trade paperback editions of classic Doonesbury cartoons. The slipcase has minor wear but the books themselves are Like New and possibly never opened! Original political satire
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Ragged Dick
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Loring, 1868. Hardcover. Fair. Loring, 1868. Fair. Probably not 1st state but a very early printing none the less. Points include publisher address 319, 4 boys on frontis, 3 full page illustrations, 296pp. Covers and spine are extremely rubbed, soiled and faded with a small tear in the cloth around the gutter. There is a gift inscription to the original owner, foxing and possibly some staining to contents. Hinges are barely attached and binding is broken but pages are still present and not completely detached.Loring
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Samuel The Seeker
by Sinclair, Upton
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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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The Sea Snake
by Meader, Stephen W
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NY: Harcourt Brace and World. Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly worn, front hinge cracked, owner . name on front fee endpaper.. 1943. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Navy illustrated cloth. Illustrated endpapers. "Barney Cannon, the sixteen-year-old son of a North Carolina fisherman- a German submarine- a Nazi agent posing as a wealthy sportsman and living on the North Carolina coast- a camouflaged German submarine base on an island off the Bahamas. These are the main ingredients of Mr. Meader's new book for boys, as swift, as breath-taking, and as convincing a story as he has ever written. It is handled with the same sure touch, the skill in narrative writing, and the originality and freshness of plot that characterize Mr. Meader's books".; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 255 pages .
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Fly By Night
by Frances Hardinge
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HARDINGE, Frances. Fly By Night. [NY]: HarperCollins [2005]. 8vo, [viii] 487pp. Color pictorial paper wrappers. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners, else a fine copy, with publisher's press release and comment reply card laid in.Advance Reader's Edition, being issued to reviewers in a very limited quantity prior to the release of the first printing. The first book by this celebrated and award-winning British author. Mosca Mye's father insisted on teaching her to read—even in a world where books are dangerous, regulated things. Eight years later, Quillam Mye died, leaving behind an orphaned daughter with an inauspicious name and an all-consuming hunger for words. Trapped for years in the care of her cruel Uncle Westerly and Aunt Briony, Mosca leaps at the opportunity for escape, though it comes in the form of the sneaky swindler Eponymous Clent. As she travels the land with Clent and her pet goose, Saracen, Mosca begins to discover complicated truths about the world she inhabits and the true… Read More
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Going To the Doctor (First Experiences Series)
by Fred Rogers
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Fred Rogers: First Experiences Book Series: Going To the Doctor (1986 1st Ed. 3rd Pr. Thus, G.P. Putnam)RARE in this first hardcover edition. Quite the find. Used. VG/VG condition unclipped dust jacket, printed price $12.95 Mr. Rogers appears on the back dj panel wearing a pale blue sweater. "In this book, real life photos are used to help young people feel more comfortable with interacting with other children and making new friends. A Note From Fred Rogers: A child's first visit with a pediatrician usually comes soon after birth. It may be months or even years later, though, that a child first shows fear about going to see a doctor. The worry of an injection or some other unfamiliar medical procedure can trigger that fear. It can also appear because another family member may be feeling medical anxieties. And, of course, new body awareness and needs for privacy develop naturally in children's early years, so all these feelings can make it very hard for them to let doctors investigate the workings of…
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The Sky and the Forest
by Forester, C.S
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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