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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989 First printing of the first edition. Signed by Susan Sontag directly on the front-free-endpage. Faint toning to top edge of boards and dust jacket spine, else fine, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.
Useful and Instructive Poetry by Carroll, Lewis; Derek Hudson [Introduction] - 1954
by Carroll, Lewis; Derek Hudson [Introduction]
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Useful and Instructive Poetry
by Carroll, Lewis; Derek Hudson [Introduction]
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London: Geoffrey Bles, Ltd., 1954 First printing of the first edition, pictorial cream cloth, decorated in gilt, and lettered in gilt, red and light green, in publisher's original, rare "transmatic" dust jacket, patented in 1930, complete with printed paper front flap and original price intact. Book with mild age-toning to spine and edge of boards, light soiling, upper corners lightly bumped, else fine; dust jacket with a couple chips and closed tears to bottom back cover, else fine.
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AIDS and Its Metaphors
by Sontag, Susan
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama: The Completion of the Clark Lectures Trinity College, Cambridge 1944
by Lewis, C. S.; Bonamy Dobree, Norman Davis, and F. P. Wilson [Editors]
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New York / Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1954. First printing of the first American edition, 669pp, with index. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with faint toning to spine and cover margins, a small slightly rubbed spot near lower back spine, and soft creasing to spine ends, else fine.
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The Dean's December
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New York: Harper & Row, 1982 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed and inscribed by Saul Bellow directly on the front-free endpage: "For A. Verezhemsky / with all good wishes / Saul Bellow"; additionally included, a handwritten postcard from Saul Bellow addressed to recipient laid-in. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with light wear to extremities and faint toning to spine, else fine.
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Doctor Brodie's Report
by Borges, Jorge Luis; Norman Thomas di Giovanni [Translator]
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New York: E. P. Dutton / Emece Editores, 1972 First printing of the stated first edition. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with a tiny scratch/nick to middle front cover and a couple tiny chips to crown of spine, else fine.
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Winter Garden
by Neruda, Pablo; William O'Daly [Translated from the Spanish]
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Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1986 First printing of the first edition, with Spanish/English text. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.
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Pablo Neruda: A New Decade (Poems 1958-1967)
by Neruda, Pablo; Ben Belitt [Introduction, Editor]; Belitt and Alastair Reid [Translated from the Spanish]
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New York: Grove Press, 1969 Stated first printing, first bilingual edition with Spanish/English text, review copy with publisher's slip laid-in. Spine ends gently softened, else book in fine condition; dust jacket in fine condition. An exceptional copy.
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Doctor Brodie's Report
by Borges, Jorge Luis; Norman Thomas di Giovanni [Translator]
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The Changes
by Morse, Samuel French; ; William Austin Kienbusch [Association]
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Denver: Alan Swallow, 1964 First printing of the first edition. Signed by Samuel French Morse directly on the title page; additionally, French wrote the following inscription on the front-free endpage: "For Bill Kienbusch / who is often / 'Colloquial as August when we're / here' / June 1965 / Sam" American artist, William Austin Kienbusch (1914-1980), a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton, was best known for his semi-abstract landscapes of Maine. Representations of his work are on exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.
Morse finished his inscription to Kienbusch using the first line of the last stanza from the concluding poem for this volume: "A Poem in Praise of Hancock Point," p.91. (The referenced poem was also included in Morse's, The Collected Poems, 1995.)
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The Rescued Year
by Stafford, William
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New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966 First printing of the stated first edition, first state with page listing author's books up front, printing information at rear, untrimmed fore-edge, and $3.95 list price to jacket flap. Signed directly on a bookplate by William Stafford and laid-in to the half-title page. Book with light rubbing to board edge, faint toning to pastedowns and a tiny bump/rub to bottom back corner, else in fine condition; dust jacket with some rubbing/wear to spine ends and corners, rubbing along spine folds and light toning to spine and folds, else fine.Stafford was the recipient of the National Book Award in 1963, a Shelley Memorial Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Western States Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry. In 1970, he was the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (U. S. Poet Laureate).
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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts
by Plath, Sylvia; Ted Hughes [Introduction]
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New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978 First printing of the stated first edition, preceded by the British edition. Spine ends gently crimped, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a short tear to bottom back spine fold, a tiny tear to upper front cover, tip of front corner rubbed, and light crimping/wear to spine ends, else fine.
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Useful And Instructive Poetry
by Lewis Carroll; Derek Hudson [introduction]
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New York: Macmillan Company. , 1954.. Very good example. . Edition: First printing stated., Binding: Printed paper boards. With publisher’s dust jacket in Mylar, corners clipped, printed price $2.50 struck through., Notes: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 – 1898), known as Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet, mathematician and photographer, widely known for his iconic children’s books, most notably being Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Through the Looking-Glass (1871) is its sequel., Size: 8vo.(195 x 130 mm), Illustration: Illustrated in black-and-white., Category: Book Literature;
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Bloody Sunrise
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1965 - First Edition stated - A Tiger Mann Mystery - "...for Tiger is told on his wedding day that he is needed for Operation Plato." - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - no previous owner markings - dj: vibrant colors with some rubbing to the black base and abstract sun - interesting black and white photo of Spillane on the back cover - a few chips repaired with archival tape - dj in protective mylar sleeve
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Saint Monkey (INSCRIBED) (FIRST)
by Townsend, Jacinda
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2014 - 1st ed stated ("1" in number line) - INSCRIBED - authors debut book - "Fourteen-year-old Audrey martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, knows she'll never get out of Kentucky - but when her fingers touch the pion keys, the whole church trembles." - book: very good (like new) - dj: very good (like new) - dj in protective mylar sleeve
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Gold
by Eugene O'Neill
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First edition. Spine ends lightly rubbed, spine has small nick, small reddish stain to front cover and rear cover, otherwise very good or better. Lacks dust jacket.
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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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Quelques Optimistes.
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Paris Editions Denoel, 1992, First Edition. paperback. First edition, Paris 1992, one of 3443 printed. -- Text (the cartoon captions) in FRENCH. -- Softcover, 8.3x10.8 inches, stiff cover with flaps. Condition: near fine (small surface scratch rear cover). -- Nice collectible example of Sempe's classic cartoon work, familiar to New Yorker readers. ISBN 220723861X
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Manhattan Beach
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First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with no visible flaws, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in page. A pristine copy of this novel from the Pulitzer winning author of "A Visit From the Good Squad". Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box.
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Two Novels by Anthony Powell. Venusberg. Agents & Patients
by POWELL, Anthony (1905-2000)
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New York: Periscope-Holliday, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine-. First American Edition of two early novels. 8vo: [4],328pp. Publisher's quarter-bound black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slate grey paper-covered boards; dust jacket, priced $4.75, replicating (separately, on front and back panels) Osbert Lancaster's illustrations for the original wrappers. Near Fine (top edge soiled and stained, gilt a bit faded, gift inscription on fly-leaf); about Fine jacket. Lilley A.10. First collected in 1952 by Rinehart for the Periscope Book Shop and Holliday Bookshop in New York; the unsold stock was reissued in 1965 by Little, Brown, Powell's then American publisher (our copy), with publisher's label pasted to jacket's spine panel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions…
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Palmares
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Beacon Press, 2021. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Galleys. Fine in illustrated wraps. By the author of Corregidora.
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Christopher Blake
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Random House, 1947. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Book has some toning to the edges; one word previous owner's name to the front free endpaper. The unclipped jacket ($2.50) has light wear to the spine ends /corners and toning to the rear panel. A very good or better copy.
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Men Die
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New York: Random House, 1959. Book. Illus. by Sam March (dust jacket design). Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. Small octavo. Humes's second novel, following 'The Underground City,' both of which led to his being considered by Esquire magazine as having the same promise as two obscure guys named Updike and Styron (whoever they are). Anyway, he met a guy named Leary who introduced him to a little substance known as LSD, and after seriously indulging his fondness for the hallucinogen he became a trifle paranoid and a bit delusional, which pretty much ended his writing career. Humes was co-founder (with Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton) of The Paris Review. He died of prostate cancer in 1992. Black cloth w/gilt lettering, 184 pages. Mildly cocked, light general wear, in price-clipped dust jacket w/light rubbing, light edgewear, creases to fore-edges of both flaps..
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