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Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey - 1968: A season in the wilderness

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Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey - 1968

Desert Solitaire: A season in the wilderness

by Edward Abbey

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1968 stated 1st edition/1st state (only 5000 printed in the first run) Slight lean to spine. Internally NF condition with little evidence of handling other than one creased page. Light penciled value markings on top ffep. VG- dust jacket missing a few small chips and price-clipped now protected in an archival cover.
  • Bookseller Independent bookstores US (US)
  • Illustrator Peter Parnall
  • Format/Binding Brown Cloth over boards.
  • Book Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Jacket Condition Very Good-
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition 1st
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher McGraw Hill
  • Place of Publication NY
  • Date Published 1968
  • Size 8vo
  • Keywords Arches NM, Utah, Environmentalism. National Park Service
  • Size 8vo

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Girl with a Pearl Earring [First State, Signed]
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Girl with a Pearl Earring [First State, Signed]

by CHEVALIER, Tracy

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London: HarperCollins [Harper Collins], 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Impression (no further printings noted), in first state dust jacket, with 'earing' misspelled on back panel. Small 8vo: [6],248,[2]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt (still brilliant); pictorial dust jacket, priced £9.99. Signed by Chevalier on title page. Laid in is a ticket from the literature festival in Derby where the book was autographed. Fine (small decorative book plate to front fly-leaf) in about Fine jacket (tiny nick to base of spine panel). The author's second novel, which sold more than five million copies worldwide and was translated into 36 languages. Supposedly, a poster of Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring," hanging on Chevalier's bedroom wall for some 15 years, inspired this novel set in 17th century Delft. Chevalier was lying in bed gazing absent-mindedly at the poster when she fixed on the mysterious girl's expression (her half open mouth and expectant gaze) and… Read More
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A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine, exhibiting new and advantageous methods of propagating,...
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A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine, exhibiting new and advantageous methods of propagating, cultivating, and training that plant, so as to render it absolutely fruitful. Together with New Hints on the Formation of Vineyards in England.

by Speechly, William

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The second edition with additions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. London. [1805] G. Woodfall, Printer, Paternoster Row to verso of half title. Octavo. Half title, Title, xv, 300, (21), (bl.), (1), (1)pp. 6 folding engraved plates. Later half calf, marbled boards, spine in six compartments, leather label, gilt lettering, rules and embellishment. Minor corner chips to half-title. Short closed fold tear to Plate I. Toned with some light offsetting of plates, foxing/browning to index.
This edition has an additional plate to the 1790 edition, plus additional material. The plates are each dated September 1, 1805. Significant to the library of the vine. A handsome volume.
William Speechly (1723 – 1819), gardener to the Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. ODNB.
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On the Black Hill [Signed]
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On the Black Hill [Signed]

by CHATWIN, Bruce (1940-1989)

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Fine-. First Impression. 8vo: 248,[2]pp. Publisher's slate grey cloth, spine stamped in gilt, wraparound pictorial dust jacket, by Mon Mohan, unclipped and unpriced (one of the export copies Jonathan Cape issued; priced copies include the exception, "UK only"). Signed by Chatwin (without dedication) on title page. Presented the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1982 and the Whitbread First Novel of the Year Award (there is debate as to whether Chatwin's The Viceroy of Ouidah, a fictionalized account of an actual eighteenth-century Brazilian slave trader, published two year before On the Black Hill, should be considered fiction or nonfiction). Near Fine or better (spine tips bumped, stray spot or two to top and fore-edges, short, thin ink line to bottom edge of front cover); About Fine jacket (lightly nicked to one flap fold). Chatwin's first novel (and third book), "written in the tradition of Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence,… Read More
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Grand Reception of the Liquor Dealers, Brewers, and Bottlers Beneficial Association, of...

Grand Reception of the Liquor Dealers, Brewers, and Bottlers Beneficial Association, of Philadelphia, at the Academy of Music, February 2d., 1880

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Philadelphia, 1880. Champagne bottle-shaped die cut, (19 x 7 cm.), 12 pages, plus card cover. Chromolithograph illustrated wrappers, bound with a brass grommet. Decorative blue and white silk cord and tassel. The text outlines the Officer and Trustees, Conductors, The Programme (a series of Marches and Promenades, Quadrilles and Waltzes), Supper is served in the foyer. Fine.
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The Hungry Tiger of Oz
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The Hungry Tiger of Oz

by Thompson, Ruth Plumly

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Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1926. Book. Illus. by Neill, John R. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, first state with 12 full color plates coated on one side. Color pastedown on book cover. Pictorial endpapers illustrated in black and white. Two pages of advertisements at rear of book. Dustjacket is later state with "Ojo in Oz" listed as last title on rear flap of dustjacket. Dustjacket has been expertly repaired to near fine condition. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box..
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Girl with a Pearl Earring [First State, Signed]
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Girl with a Pearl Earring [First State, Signed]

by CHEVALIER, Tracy

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First Edition
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9780002258906
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0002258900
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London: HarperCollins [Harper Collins], 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Impression (no further printings noted), in first state dust jacket, with 'earing' misspelled on back panel. Small 8vo: [6],248,[2]pp. Publisher's French blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt (still brilliant); pictorial dust jacket, priced £9.99. Signed by Chevalier on title page. Laid in is a ticket from the literature festival in Derby where the book was autographed. Fine (small decorative book plate to front fly-leaf) in about Fine jacket (tiny nick to base of spine panel). The author's second novel, which sold more than five million copies worldwide and was translated into 36 languages. Supposedly, a poster of Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring," hanging on Chevalier's bedroom wall for some 15 years, inspired this novel set in 17th century Delft. Chevalier was lying in bed gazing absent-mindedly at the poster when she fixed on the mysterious girl's expression (her half open mouth and expectant gaze) and… Read More
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A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine, exhibiting new and advantageous methods of propagating,...
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A Treatise on the Culture of the Vine, exhibiting new and advantageous methods of propagating, cultivating, and training that plant, so as to render it absolutely fruitful. Together with New Hints on the Formation of Vineyards in England.

by Speechly, William

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Used - See item description
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The second edition with additions. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. London. [1805] G. Woodfall, Printer, Paternoster Row to verso of half title. Octavo. Half title, Title, xv, 300, (21), (bl.), (1), (1)pp. 6 folding engraved plates. Later half calf, marbled boards, spine in six compartments, leather label, gilt lettering, rules and embellishment. Minor corner chips to half-title. Short closed fold tear to Plate I. Toned with some light offsetting of plates, foxing/browning to index.
This edition has an additional plate to the 1790 edition, plus additional material. The plates are each dated September 1, 1805. Significant to the library of the vine. A handsome volume.
William Speechly (1723 – 1819), gardener to the Duke of Portland at Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. ODNB.
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On the Black Hill [Signed]
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On the Black Hill [Signed]

by CHATWIN, Bruce (1940-1989)

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Fine-. First Impression. 8vo: 248,[2]pp. Publisher's slate grey cloth, spine stamped in gilt, wraparound pictorial dust jacket, by Mon Mohan, unclipped and unpriced (one of the export copies Jonathan Cape issued; priced copies include the exception, "UK only"). Signed by Chatwin (without dedication) on title page. Presented the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 1982 and the Whitbread First Novel of the Year Award (there is debate as to whether Chatwin's The Viceroy of Ouidah, a fictionalized account of an actual eighteenth-century Brazilian slave trader, published two year before On the Black Hill, should be considered fiction or nonfiction). Near Fine or better (spine tips bumped, stray spot or two to top and fore-edges, short, thin ink line to bottom edge of front cover); About Fine jacket (lightly nicked to one flap fold). Chatwin's first novel (and third book), "written in the tradition of Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence,… Read More
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Grand Reception of the Liquor Dealers, Brewers, and Bottlers Beneficial Association, of...

Grand Reception of the Liquor Dealers, Brewers, and Bottlers Beneficial Association, of Philadelphia, at the Academy of Music, February 2d., 1880

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Philadelphia, 1880. Champagne bottle-shaped die cut, (19 x 7 cm.), 12 pages, plus card cover. Chromolithograph illustrated wrappers, bound with a brass grommet. Decorative blue and white silk cord and tassel. The text outlines the Officer and Trustees, Conductors, The Programme (a series of Marches and Promenades, Quadrilles and Waltzes), Supper is served in the foyer. Fine.
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The Hungry Tiger of Oz
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The Hungry Tiger of Oz

by Thompson, Ruth Plumly

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Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1926. Book. Illus. by Neill, John R. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, first state with 12 full color plates coated on one side. Color pastedown on book cover. Pictorial endpapers illustrated in black and white. Two pages of advertisements at rear of book. Dustjacket is later state with "Ojo in Oz" listed as last title on rear flap of dustjacket. Dustjacket has been expertly repaired to near fine condition. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box..
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

by Abbey, Edward

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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

by Abbey, Edward

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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

by Abbey, Edward

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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

by Abbey, Edward

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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

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Desert Solitaire

by Edward Abbey

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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

by Edward Abbey

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Desert Solitaire

Desert Solitaire

by Edward Abbey

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Desert Solitaire

Desert Solitaire

by Edward Abbey

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Desert Solitaire : A Season in the Wilderness
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Desert Solitaire : A Season in the Wilderness

by Abbey, Edward

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