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Asteros Polyp
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Asteros Polyp

by Mazzucchelli, David

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New York: Pantheon Books. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2009. First Edition; Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Slight rub to spine tail. Faintest marring to the surface of the paper belly band.; This veteran cartoonist's first graphic novel is Asterios Polyp's "...search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions." It's his life presented in graphic fashion. The design and illustration reinforce and enhance, but never overwhelm the story that stands on its own as well-wrought fiction. Asterios Polyp is a middle-aged, barely successful architect, teacher, aesthete, and womanizer, whose New York City life falls apart. He moves to a small town where we follow the flowchart of his life, with side trips into philosophy, morality, religion, his identical twin Aristophanes who died at birth, and his self-examination. It's a deceptively simple story, a challenging read at times, and has a powerful ending. Author and illustrator David Mazzucchelli's… Read More
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The Brick Moon  : From the Papers of Captain Frederic Ingham
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The Brick Moon : From the Papers of Captain Frederic Ingham

by Hale, Edward Everett

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Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society. Fine with no dust jacket. 1971. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. The Near Fine slipcase has a faint mark at the tail of the spine edge. ; Early science fiction that imagines a human colonized brick and mortar satellite moon of the Earth. Satirical subtext throughout, based on personalities and society in Boston, MA. Originally serialized in The Atlantic in 1869 and 1870. Copy 712 of a limited edition of 1,950. Signed by the illustrator. Seventeen woodcuts printed in brown, directly from the blocks, by Michael McCurdy, prolific illustrator and founder of the Penmaen Press. Printed by Spiral Press on fine paper. Half dark linen with gilt image of a telescope, the remainder natural linen on boards. This is the later binding, the first being in quarter brown linen, no image, the remainder natural. Slipcase is clean, with sharp corners, and a clean, woodcut illustrated, title label that wraps around the spine edge. Signed by the illustrator. A clean… Read More
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Candide
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Candide

by Voltaire (François-Marie d’Arouet)

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New York: Random House. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1975. Facsimile; First Printing. Hardcover. Slipcase has slight wear to the corners at the opening, wear across the head end of the spine, and more wear and a short paper split at the tail end. Faint soil and an ink line on the bottom surface.; Written in 1762, Voltaire's classic Candide: or, Optimism is a satire featuring a young, French gentleman lurching through life, bemoaning his various ill fortunes, yet cheerfully optimistic about himself and living in "the best of all possible worlds." He discusses life and his own foibles, constantly, with his long-suffering companion and tutor Panglos. Witty and clever on the surface, the work is savage in its attacks on society, religion, the political establishment, and the philosophy of optimism. Those entrenched interests attacked Voltaire and Candide's content, earning him denouncement and scorn. This was in keeping with his life of abrading nearly all he encountered,… Read More
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History of Pendennis  : His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His  Greatest Enemy
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History of Pendennis : His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy

by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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Ipswich: Limited Editions Club. Fine with no dust jacket. 1961. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Hardcover. Slightest scuffing to bottom of slipcase.; Like much of Thackeray's work, Pendennis is a satire on the foibles of human nature and high society. Somewhat autobiographical, it reads like a farce with the frequently bewildered Pendennis climbing through London's upper crust from one doomed romance to another, gambling, and stumbling through social interaction. This author of Vanity Fair was able to take more time with this novel than the previous one and Pendennis was originally published in 20 periodical installments. This understated presentation by Limited Editions Club is in 2 slipcased volumes and is copy 817 of an edition of 1500. Signed on the colophon of Volume II by Charles W. Stewart who was commissioned to produce thirty illustrated plates in his characteristic ink and color wash. Stewart had a multi-faceted creative mind and was also a ballet dancer, costume… Read More
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The Nightclerk [Prof. Mark Schorer's Copy] : Being His Perfectly True  Confession
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The Nightclerk [Prof. Mark Schorer's Copy] : Being His Perfectly True Confession

by Schneck, Stephen

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New York, NY: Grove Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1965. Uncorrected Proof. Plastic comb binding. Overall wear from handling and slight abuse to cover edges. A bit of a wave to the text block. Top edges of covers are sunned. The review slip is worn at the edges.; An uncorrected proof copy of an "unusual" Grove Press book that begins in the middle of a sentence on page 7, this is a sarcastic, trashy, comic, vulgar, grotesque, and nonsensical work of humor that pushes a bit past the label of erotica. No mark of ownership, but this copy is from the library of Mark Schorer, Professor of English at University of California, Berkeley. Professor Schorer was an expert witness for the defense when Grove Press was proscecuted for obsenity in 1959 over their publishing of the authorized, unexpurgated edition of Lady Chatterly's Lover by D. H. Lawrence. Professor Schorer's testimony was essential in the court's establishment that the book had "redeeming social or… Read More
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Pig
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Pig

by Nuttall, Jeff

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London: Fulcrum Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1969. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Three short stories in Jeff Nuttall's 'cut up' style, written as if he had three piles of jagged, unrelated sentences that were put together with a sense of order. Reading like free verse compressed into prose, sometimes described as 'prose music,' assembling these piles resulted in the stories The Rain, The Train, and The Coast. Example: "George Gland, ritually, in deference to his being in the light, his weight against the water, his mounting inner density of indigestion and bladderpressure, soaped the minnow and smiled thin silibant against the doorstep -- water afternoon and tidal wattage." Copy 52 of a limited edition of 75. Numbered "52/75" and signed by the author, both on the limitation page. Preface by William S. Burroughs who appreciated Nuttall's avant-garde approach to poetry. An artistic polymath, Jeffrey Addison… Read More
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Sappho
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Sappho

by Daudet, Alphonse, [Majeska, illustrator]

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No Place Stated: The Golden Bough Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. The free endpapers have a slight curl, likely from the marbling process. Spine and joints slightly darker than the rest of the leather. Minor rubbing to the joints, cover paper abraded where it wraps under the tail edge of the rear board, corners bumped with wear through to the boards.; Daudet's novel of the personal failings and stumbling, lurching relationship of a young Southern French student Jean Gaussin and his older Parisian lover Fanny Legrand. Jean is troubled by Fanny's life of luxury from many profitable, personal relationships: an engineer, a poet, an engraver, and a sculptor who had her pose for his statue of Sappho. After their living in the country and his dalliance with a young woman, it all falls apart. In the end, Fanny leaves him with little but a letter and he's right to lament his "...broken, wasted life, all wrecked and tearful... From… Read More
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The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter

by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Cleveland: Fine Editions Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1946. Hardcover. The spine is sunned, but gilt lettering is strong and attractive. Nick at center of rear hinge. Wear and small spot to the edge of the spine head. 3/8" stray red ink mark at the head corner and tiny bump to the tail corner of the front cover. Slight offsetting to front endpaper. ; This classic work of American literature recounts the life of Hester Prynne in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s. Hester and a lover she refuses to name conceive a daughter, without being married, and Hester winds her way through a story of sin, guilt, societal recrimination, dignity, and redemption while raising her daughter Pearl. The scarlet letter is the letter "A,", in red, that she is forced to wear to brand her as an adulterer. One of the first mass-produced books in the United States, it remains a powerful statement about society, religion, and dignity. With an insightful Introduction of the work… Read More
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A Shabby Genteel Story

A Shabby Genteel Story

by Thackeray, William Makepeace

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New York: New York University Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1971. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. University library withdrawal stamp in ink on the front pastedown, library withdrawal stamp in ink to the head edge of the text block. Evidence of removal of a label at the upper left of front cover. Spine tail a bit rubbed. Lacks the dust jacket.; Thackeray's humorous farce that satirizes relationships and proper society: as applicable today, as then. This novel was never fully developed or completed, but ends at a logical point in the story. Includes the Author's brief explanation of why the work was left unfinished. Each chapter begins with an engraved cut illustration that functions as a dropped capital and incorporates the appropriate alphabetic letter. Various engraved cuts throughout. Text reproduced as-typeset in the 1879 edition by Smith, Elder & Co., London. Printed by The Scolar Press, Ltd., Menston, Yorkshire, England on laid, watermarked, Abby Mill paper.… Read More
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Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World (Gulliver's Travels)
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Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World (Gulliver's Travels)

by Swift, Jonathan

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Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, [England]: The Golden Cockerel Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1925. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Common to this edition, both volumes have a sun-darkened spine, and the cover cloth has overall soiling. Volume 1: The paper band has two scrapes and an area of abrasion with surface loss to the front, an area of abrasion loss to the back, minor chipping to edges, and the cloth has light reddish staining to the back. Volume II: The paper band has an area of abrasion with surface loss to the front, a scrape and an area of abrasion loss to the back, and minor chipping to edges.; One of the finest works of fiction in English literature, it's a once a fantastic, imagined voyage and a biting, on-target satire of English politics, customs, and society. The stupidity of war is illustrated by Lilliput going to war with Blefuscu in a dispute over which end of an egg should be broken. In this first-person narrative by Lemuel Gulliver, surgeon and sea… Read More
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The Two Drovers
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The Two Drovers

by Scott, Sir Walter

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Westwood, NJ: Kindle Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1971. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Common to this edition, the spine is quite sunned compared to the dark green half cloth, but gilt lettering remains bright. A pinpoint speck to the front cover's paper. The slipcase has minor wear to corners, the tail is bumped.; Sir Walter Scott's arguably best short story of the rough life of two cattle drivers in Scotland, privately printed in celebration of his bicentennial birthday. Copy 242 of an edition of 680 and signed on the colophon by Coleman O. Parsons who wrote an extensive Foreword for this edition. Frontispiece is a fanciful lion with spread claws, printed in red. The front pastedown bears a portrait of Scott, but I'm partial to the frontis, instead. Text block trimmed at the head edge. Printed by Meriden Gravure on Hale Paper's mould-made rag paper designed by F. T. Jackson and bearing a facsimile of Sir Walter Scott's signature of 1827. Bound by A.… Read More
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