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NY, Pynson Printers, December 1936, first edition.. This hardcover with marbled boards and orange cloth spine is the first separate printing of the Junius Maltby story from Steinbeck's second book, The Pastures of Heaven, Goldstone & Payne A2f, see Morrow 16, issued here with a new title and an epilogue written especially for this book by Steinbeck, it is one of only 370 copies for presentation by a number of subscribers to be used as a Christmas gift, it includes pen and ink drawings by Donald McKay, this is a most interesting Association Copy made at the request of Rockwell Kent who has Signed his name on the presentation page where the requester's name was to have been inserted, Kent then added the word "himself" in the area where the presentee's name was to have been filled in, Kent was the "house" artist for the Pynson Printers, the book is also Signed by Elmer Adler, F. B. Adams, and John Winterich, Sally and Rockwell Kent's modest bookplate affixed to the front pastedown, now housed in Kent's…
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A Letter From John Steinbeck Explaining Why He Could Not Write An Introduction For This Book.
by Steinbeck, John
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n.p. (NY), Random House, 1964, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. A separate printing of this non-introduction that was in fact used as an introduction to a book by Ted Patrick entitled The Thinking Dog's Man, Steinbeck and Patrick were well-acquainted as he was the editor of "Holiday" magazine which often published Steinbeck, this promotional item a collection stopper, it is extremely scarce and seldom comes on the market, Goldstone & Payne A41a, Morrow 270. Vertical crease throughout, else fine.
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Nothing So Monstrous.
by Steinbeck, John.
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The Long Valley.
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NY, Viking, 1938, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Steinbeck's first book published by Viking, a short story collection of all-star stories that includes Flight which appears for the first time as well as such Steinbeck classics as The Chrysanthemums, The Snake, Breakfast, The Harness, Johnny Bear, and all portions of The Red Pony, Goldstone & Payne A11a, Morrow 90, this is one of 8,000 copies (as opposed to 50,000 copies for The Grapes of Wrath and more than 100,000 copies for East of Eden), the dust jacket is illustrated by Elmer Hader who also illustrated dust jackets for Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and The Winter of Our Discontent. While this copy has some of the inevitable age-darkening to the book spine, it is far less than usual and the book itself is quite tight, minor soiling to jacket, fine.
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Chapter Thirty-four From the Novel East of Eden.
by Steinbeck, John.
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Bronxville, privately printed, 1952, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. First separate printing of this chapter from Steinbeck's big, rambling flawed masterpiece, Steinbeck writes beautifully how there is only one story -- the struggle between good and evil, one of 125 copies printed on the hand-press by Valenti Angelo, bound in limp buff wrappers, this is variant 2 with the title page containing a red and black rectangular design of leafy and bare branches between the title and "PRIVATELY PRINTED 1952" with the limitation notice on page 10 (although the pages are unnumbered), the variants are believed to be trial copies, no priority has been determined, Goldstone & Payne A32d, not recorded by Morrow, this was John DePol's copy with his spare bookplate, DePol (1913-2004) was an artist and one of America's foremost printmakers and wood engravers, his prints can be found in the permanent collections of many libraries and museums, he contributed to publications by the Allen Press, Red Ozier Press,…
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The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows.
by Conrad, Joseph.
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London, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1920, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Original green cloth, it follows the American edition, but includes revisions not found in that edition, back jacket panel includes advertisements for other works by Conrad, Cagle A49b, Keating 133. Bit of age, else very nearly fine.
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Listening Woman.
by Hillerman, Tony.
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NY, Harper & Row, 1978, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Signed by Hillerman, this is a Joe Leaphorn mystery set in the northern Navajo reservation, Hieb bibliography A5a, it includes 22 original b&w drawings by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin, including one of Leaphorn, only a handful of these early Hillerman titles were so illustrated, very scarce thus. Lettering on the book's spine fading, as usual, else fine.
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Nothing So Monstrous.
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NY, Pynson Printers, December 1936, first edition.. This hardcover with marbled boards and orange cloth spine is the first separate printing of the Junius Maltby story from Steinbeck's second book, The Pastures of Heaven, Goldstone & Payne A2f, see Morrow 16, issued here with a new title and an epilogue written especially for this book by Steinbeck, it is one of only 370 copies for presentation by a number of subscribers to be used as a Christmas gift, it includes pen and ink drawings by Donald McKay, this is a most interesting Association Copy made at the request of Rockwell Kent who has Signed his name on the presentation page where the requester's name was to have been inserted, Kent then added the word "himself" in the area where the presentee's name was to have been filled in, Kent was the "house" artist for the Pynson Printers, the book is also Signed by Elmer Adler, F. B. Adams, and John Winterich, Sally and Rockwell Kent's modest bookplate affixed to the front pastedown, now housed in Kent's…
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The Long Valley.
by Steinbeck, John.
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NY, Viking, 1938, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Steinbeck's first book published by Viking, a short story collection of all-star stories that includes Flight which appears for the first time as well as such Steinbeck classics as The Chrysanthemums, The Snake, Breakfast, The Harness, Johnny Bear, and all portions of The Red Pony, Goldstone & Payne A11a, Morrow 90, this is one of 8,000 copies (as opposed to 50,000 copies for The Grapes of Wrath and more than 100,000 copies for East of Eden), the dust jacket is illustrated by Elmer Hader who also illustrated dust jackets for Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and The Winter of Our Discontent. While this copy has some of the inevitable age-darkening to the book spine, it is far less than usual and the book itself is quite tight, minor soiling to jacket, fine.
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Chapter Thirty-four From the Novel East of Eden.
by Steinbeck, John.
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Bronxville, privately printed, 1952, first edition, wrappers. Softcover.. First separate printing of this chapter from Steinbeck's big, rambling flawed masterpiece, Steinbeck writes beautifully how there is only one story -- the struggle between good and evil, one of 125 copies printed on the hand-press by Valenti Angelo, bound in limp buff wrappers, this is variant 2 with the title page containing a red and black rectangular design of leafy and bare branches between the title and "PRIVATELY PRINTED 1952" with the limitation notice on page 10 (although the pages are unnumbered), the variants are believed to be trial copies, no priority has been determined, Goldstone & Payne A32d, not recorded by Morrow, this was John DePol's copy with his spare bookplate, DePol (1913-2004) was an artist and one of America's foremost printmakers and wood engravers, his prints can be found in the permanent collections of many libraries and museums, he contributed to publications by the Allen Press, Red Ozier Press,…
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The New Journalism.
by Wolfe, Tom.
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NY, Harper & Row, 1973, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Wolfe first writes about the new journalism which is followed by an anthology of just that - new journalism by distinguished authors, the anthology is edited by Wolfe and E. W. Johnson, it includes selections by Truman Capote (from In Cold Blood), Terry Southern (Twirling at Ole Miss), Hunter S. Thompson (The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved), Norman Mailer (from Armies of the Night), Tom Wolfe (from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test), George Plimpton (from Paper Lion), and many others, this copy is Inscribed by Wolfe on the title page, Hunter S. Thompson has Signed his initials on page 174 of his contribution, Ralph Steadman has Inscribed and Signed the book on page 175 onto which he has contributed an original drawing. Near fine.
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Listening Woman.
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NY, Harper & Row, 1978, first edition, first printing, dust jacket. Hardcover.. Signed by Hillerman, this is a Joe Leaphorn mystery set in the northern Navajo reservation, Hieb bibliography A5a, it includes 22 original b&w drawings by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin, including one of Leaphorn, only a handful of these early Hillerman titles were so illustrated, very scarce thus. Lettering on the book's spine fading, as usual, else fine.
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A Letter from John Steinbeck Explaining Why He Could Not Write an Introduction for This Book
by John Steinbeck
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New York: Random House, 1964. 8 pp. Approx. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4". Printed orange wrappers with black ink, in original mailing envelope (which has a slight corner crease), both in fine condition. (Goldstone & Payne A41)Steinbeck's introduction to "The Thinking Dog's Man" by Ted Patrick, was issued separately in advance of the book as a promotional item; no copies were for sale. This copy once belonged to veteran Milwaukee bookseller Harry Schwartz (the mailing envelope bears his address). A fine, fresh copy in the original printed mailing envelope of this very scarce Steinbeck "A" item
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THE TIE MANS MIRACLE.
by Schnur, Steven
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New York: Morrow Junior Books., 1995. First edition.. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Stephen T. Johnson. Illustrated by Stephen T. Johnson. New York: Morrow Junior Books, (1995). First edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket. faint rumpling to the jacket, otherwise near fine. ISBN: 0688134645
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories
by Cohen, Leonard
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New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478
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The Sky and the Forest
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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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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 Man Who Lost His Head
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The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.
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Mr. Munchausen
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Mr. Munchausen .Used. Noyes, Platt & Company, Boston, 1901 First Edition. ILLUSTRATED BY PETER NEWELL, . artist/author of the "Hole Book" series. Used. Very Good / No DJ if originally issued. Front cover illustration in good shape. All colour plates present and affixed to the binding. No dust jacket is included if issued. Tight binding, gutters intact. Pages are fairly bright. A nice copy. Readers should get a Bangs out of it. 180 pages plus adverts.
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The Seven Dials Mystery (A Midnite Mystery)
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The Seven Dials Mystery (Midnight Mysteries) 1944 Books, Inc. Stated 1st. Pr. Thus) RARE IN THIS EDITION. By Agatha Christie. USED. Good-/ No DJ. Black boards, gold titling on spine. Light pop bottle rings mar front board. Original copyright by Dodd, Mead 1929. Loose last gather has been neatly taped in. A clean copy. Summary: "When Gerald Wade died, apparently from an overdose of sleeping draught seven clocks appeared on the mantelpiece. Who put them there and had they any connection with the night club in Seven Dials? This is the mystery that Bill Eversleigh and Bundle and two other young people set out to investigate...".
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