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Andre Deutsch, London, 1958. HBDJ, 1958, Stated 1st Published British Edition on copyright pg, Stated 2nd Impression on Inner DJ flap btm , VG/VG-, AS-IS Pink Red Cloth Cover Gold Gilt small corner Bump, Cloth spine sunned & small lite stain on spine Cover, 310 pgs, Times Library LONDON copy stamped in back of book,Back hinge mildly starting, DJ is from 2nd impression with the authors photo on the rear flap of DJ & has slight soil back , BACK DJ LITE FOX STAINS, DJ Protected by clear Mylar, . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.
contributes to...'Twenty Five Cricket Stories'. i) Tom, Dick and Harry, ii) The Wire-Pullers, iii) The Lost Bowlers and iv) How Pillingshoot Scored by WODEHOUSE, P.G. [Pelham Grenville] (1881-1975)
by WODEHOUSE, P.G. [Pelham Grenville] (1881-1975)
contributes to...'Twenty Five Cricket Stories'. i) Tom, Dick and Harry, ii) The Wire-Pullers, iii) The Lost Bowlers and iv) How Pillingshoot Scored
by WODEHOUSE, P.G. [Pelham Grenville] (1881-1975)
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George Newnes Ltd., London, n.d. [1909]. FIRST (AND ONLY) EDITION, possibly withdrawn. Contains four Wodehouse stories, three of which are published for the first time in book form (How Pillingshoot Scored had already appeared in Tales of St.Austins, 1903). These Newnes-period Wodehouse stories were collected in this particularly scarce omnibus and the present example offered is the publisher's own file copy. We note only one other copy for sale (also through ourselves) and none have ever appeared at auction. The bibliographer McIlvaine mentions the title but does not provide a description. A companion volume Twenty Five Football Stories was also mooted by Newnes the following year, but again this has proved virtually impossible to locate. The sheer paucity of copies suggests that both these sporting volumes were printed in small numbers or may have been withdrawn. Whatever the circumstances, this remains an exceptionally rare book. 208pp. Small octavo. Bound in publisher's illustrated card covers stamped by publisher as the 'File' copy, later linen back, housed in collector's folding box. Some rubbing and wear to joints else very good indeed. McIlvaine E126/127.
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On The Road - A Novel ( with the authors photo on the rear Flap of DJ by Len Deighton & ORIGINAL PRICE Intact) Beige DJ shows 1 man floral Hawaiian Shirt & other in White T-shirt & Policeman standing, One of 3000 copies of the first British ed
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Little Dorrit
by Dickens, Charles
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London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Browne, H. K.. xiv, 625pp. Contemporary brown half calf, spine with five raised bands, gilt decorations and titles, marbled endpapers and marbled edges. Tissued frontispiece, engraved title, and thirty-eight plates by H. K. Browne (Phiz). First edition with the errata on page xiv; with "William" for "Frederick" on page 317 line 27; with "Rigaud" instead of "Blandois" from pages 469 to 473; and with signature BB2 misprinted as "B2" on page 371. With the bookplate of the Marchese di Calvatone Sommi Picenardi. Old bookstore label affixed on the front free endpaper. Leather shows some wear to spine ends and corners, light offsetting to some of the pages. Missing the errata slip. A very good copy. ; Octavo.
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Is Shakespeare Dead? From My Autobiography
by Mark Twain [PSUED Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
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149 pages with two frontispiece plates. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover and gilt head page ends in original jacket. (McBride page 233; Blanck:3509; Firsts volume 8, number 7/8 page 7) First American edition, second state with the publisher's note bound in after the title page.Twain was sincerely on the side of the Baconians in the Shakespeare-Bacon Controversy and he explains why in this essay. It also contains revealing autobiographical passages, and so is not without interest. Harper & Brothers was not eager to publish this volume, but they prepared a large edition, the size of which is unknown.Condition:Slight bump ant front edge with the Greenwood reference tipped in. Jacket chipped at edges with some loss to spine ends. Jacket first state. Slight bump ant front edge with the Greenwood reference tipped in. Jacket professionally restored by Octavaye Studios. A very good to fine copy with a very good but scarce jacket.
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Forty-three Days in an Open Boat in Harper's New Monthly Magazine December 1866
by Twain, Mark
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. Twain's first appearance in a national magazine. Light chipping to the edges, mild soiling and foxing to pages, spine is completely gone. A good+ copy. ; Octavo.
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Tylney Hall
by Hood, Thomas
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London: A.H.Baily and Co., 83 Cornhill, 1834. 1st Edition . Half leather. Very Good. First edition, octavo, three volumes; xx, 288; 311; 308pp. In contemporary half calf over marbled boards (with light wear only), spines divided into five compartments by double gilt fillets, gilt lettered titles and volume numbers to second and fourth compartments respectively, all page edges marbled, half titles present, small bookselller's and early ownership labels to front pastedowns, very minor loss to front pastedown of volume three probably through label removal, light creasing to first few pages of volume three, unobtrusive spotting to opening and closing leaves of each volume, overall a very good clean copy. Hood's only novel was published the same year as the abolition of slavery and is centered on Walter Tyrell, born in St.Kitts and raised in Georgian society by Sir Mark Tyrell with all the trials and tribulations of racial prejudice this brings. An attractive copy in uncommon first edition of this…
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Little Dorrit
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London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Browne, H. K.. xiv, 625pp. Contemporary brown half calf, spine with five raised bands, gilt decorations and titles, marbled endpapers and marbled edges. Tissued frontispiece, engraved title, and thirty-eight plates by H. K. Browne (Phiz). First edition with the errata on page xiv; with "William" for "Frederick" on page 317 line 27; with "Rigaud" instead of "Blandois" from pages 469 to 473; and with signature BB2 misprinted as "B2" on page 371. With the bookplate of the Marchese di Calvatone Sommi Picenardi. Old bookstore label affixed on the front free endpaper. Leather shows some wear to spine ends and corners, light offsetting to some of the pages. Missing the errata slip. A very good copy. ; Octavo.
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The Kite Runner - Signed
by Hosseini, Khaled
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Riverhead Books. Hardback. Fine/Fine. 1. 2003. Hardback. Fine. First Edition. First Print. Signature only by author on the title page in both Farsi and English. Authors first book. Basis for the movie with the same name. Very collectible copy, excellent addition to your collection. Dust jacket is protected with a Mylar cover. Books are packed and shipped in boxes.
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Forty-three Days in an Open Boat in Harper's New Monthly Magazine December 1866
by Twain, Mark
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. First Edition. Pictorial wrappers. Twain's first appearance in a national magazine. Light chipping to the edges, mild soiling and foxing to pages, spine is completely gone. A good+ copy. ; Octavo.
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The Exile No. 1
by Pound, Ezra Editor
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Dijon, France: Maurice Darantiere, 1927. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for mildest bumping to extremities, and slightly toned spine. Still in original glassine jacket which remains remarkably intact. An exceptional copy of this important publication. Contributions by Aldington, Hemingway, Hickok, Pound and Rodker..
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Oeuvres de Moliere
by MOLIERE
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1730 Works of MOLIERE French Literature Misanthrope School for Wives 8v SET"It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable."
― Molière
A fine eight-volume set of the works of Moliere. This 1753 set was published in Paris and includes works such as 'Tartuffe', 'School for Wives', and 'The Misanthrope'. This set is filled with 32 full-page engravings.
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MOLIERE
Oeuvres de Moliere
A Paris : Compagnie des Libraires, 1730.
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Vol. I. – Avertissement. Memoires sur la vie & les ouvrages de Moliere. L'etourdi. Le depit amoureux. Les precieuses ridicules.
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o Vol. II – Sganarelle. Dom Garcie. L'école des maris. Les facheux. L'école des femmes.
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Vol. III – La critique de l'ecole des femmes. L'inpromptu de Versailles. La princesse d'élide. Festes de Versailles, en 1664. Le mariage forcé, comédie. Le mariage… Read More
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Gypsies
by Greenfeld, Howard
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New York: Crown Publishers. An account of the Gypsy way of life, including its origins, history, traditions, customs, occupations, and the changes that modern living has occasioned. EX LIBRARY/USUAL MARKINGS. Profusely & WONDERFULLY illustrated w/photos, Introduction, Bibliography, Index, 111 clean, crisp & solid pp. Excellent Personal cpy/Reference! . Good. Hardcover. 1977.
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Kane & Abel
by Jeffrey Archer
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New York, 1979. Book Club. Hardcover. Book Club/Has Jacket. Book is a book club edition. Quite a few closed tears, chips, and other signs of wear to the dust jacket. Some bumping to the boards at corners, edges and ends of the spine. Pages are clean.
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Cold Mountain
by Frazier, Charles
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NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .
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The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts
by Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945)
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209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural
by Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945)
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228 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with quarter brown spine and dark green lettering to spine label and cover. First edition, first issue. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly chipped, spine heal rubbed, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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We Loved Them Once
by Rivers, Ronda
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NY: Vantage Press, 1954. Pages [135] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Tan boards, black lettering, clean, minor shelf wear. PO's name penned to endpaper. Set in 1950's America. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.
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St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
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v+321 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First British edition. St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. He alternated dictating St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston but gradually lost interest in the former. The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf wear, hinges and spine heal moderately rubbed, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy.
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And Four To Go: A Nero Wolfe Foursome
by Rex Stout
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This book is in very good condition except for the dust jacket. It is in acceptable condition THe dust Jacket is worn, torn and fading. The previous owner's name is written at the top of the first page.Four Nero Wolfe novels in miniature, published in book form for the first time. Christmas Party, Easter Parade, Fourth of July Picnic and Murder is no Joke. There is a marking on the first page.
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Dobrodruzstvi Toma Sawyera a Huckleberryho Finna.
by Twain, Mark; Jiri Hejna
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Praha: Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury SNKLHU, 1961, hardcover. Apparent first edition in Czech 1961, with the illustrations by Jiri Hejna, of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Translated into CZECH by Frantisk Gel. 393 pages. -- Hardcover. Good used condition (yellow cloth cover some soil) with very good minus dust jacket (spine sunned).
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THE NOTEBOOKS OF RAYMOND CHANDLER and ENGLISH SUMMER ~ A Gothic Romance
by CHANDLER, Raymond
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NY: Ecco Press, 1976. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1976. FIRST EDITION. AS NEW, bound in maroon cloth with gilt titles in orange and green dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. Breath of toning to jacket lapels, else FINE. Cover design by Samuel Antupit. Notes, musings, essays on writing and writers. Also, first publication in book form of English Summer ~ A Gothic Romance ~ . Illustrated by Edward Gorey. Edited, with a Foreword, by Frank MacShane.. First Edition, Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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