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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing. (Full number line on final page. Later Caldecott Medal sticker to dust jacket.) Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket with sunned spine, toned back panel, lightly rubbed. Winner of the 1991 Caldecott Medal.
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Black and White
by Macaulay, David
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Against the American Grain: Essays on the Effects of Mass Culture
by Macdonald, Dwight
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New York: Random House, 1962. Hardcover. Signed by Dwight Macdonald on first blank page in blue ink, inscribed "For Richard Nolard [sp?], to / add to his Bartlett 260 / library he so kindly let / me use last term, from / Dwight Macdonald/ East Hampton, N.Y. , June 1971." First edition, fourth printing. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth. Very Good,a little foxed and musty, in Very Good dust jacket, a bit toned and stained, price-clipped. A collection of excellent essays on popular culture including the often-derided "Masscult & Midcult" by the late fearsome radical critic, writer, and editor of Politics and Partisan Review.
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Sir Gibbie: A Novel
by MacDonald, George
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New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1879. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition, cloth issue. (Apparently issued alongside a more common wrappered issue. Shaberman 64.) 210, (6) pp. Original dark purple cloth with gilt spine lettering. Very Good+ condition. Faint tidemark on upper corner of terminals. Former owner's bookplate on front paste down. Light, easily-erasable pencil inscription on first blank page from 1904 detailing this copy's ownership history; owner's small stamp on page facing title page. Small slit to paste down along gutter. Text clean. A nice copy that presents well.
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Adela Cathcart
by MacDonald, George
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Boston: Loring, Publisher, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First American edition. (Shaberman 17; he was uncertain about date. Apparently some copies also have tissue-guarded author frontispiece and ads at rear. This one doesn't; priority unknown.) 423 pp. Original brick red cloth with gilt lettering. Good condition with cloth thoroughly mottled with age, frayed at head and tail, spine lettering rubbed. Front hinge splitting at edges, still intact, though. Tiny contemporary owner inscription on front flyleaf. Light occasional internal foxing.
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A Collection of Reviews
by Macdonald, Ross
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Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1979. First edition. First edition. Signed by Ross Macdonald on the rear colophon, copy #145 of 350 numbered signed copies. xvi, 67, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's boards with red cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine, small bump to bottom corner. Essays on literature in history by the acclaimed Canadian-born crime author also known as Kenneth Millar.
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The Chill
by MacDonald, Ross
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author and signed under his real name, Kenneth Millar on the front free endpaper "For Stretch with admiration and affection, Ken". Stretch was a Santa Barbara neighbor of the author. Bound in publisher's blue boards over red cloth spine, red top-stain. Near Fine with light fading across the top edge of boards, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear, light fading to the spine panel and a short closed tear.
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The Neon Jungle
by MacDonald, John
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New York: Fawcett Publications, Inc, 1953. First Edition. First edition. 174, [2] pp. Bound in illustrated publisher's wraps. Very Good with rubbing along edges, creasing at gutters, two tiny stains to fore edge. A noir paperback original by an acclaimed American crime writer.
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Area of Suspicion
by MacDonald, John D.
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New York: Dell Publishing, 1954. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Title page inscribed to former owner by author and signed, dated June 16, 1979. First edition. 254, (2, ads) pp. Paperback original. A Good+ copy with rolled spine, some creasing and rubbing to covers. The early pulp titles of MacDonald are uncommon signed.
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Alec Forbes of Howglen
by MacDonald, George
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London: Hurst & Blackett, 1867. First THUS. Hardcover. Signed by George MacDonald on half title, inscribed to George Bogue. First one-volume edition. (With correct printer info of J. Childs and Son. Shaberman 20.) 440, (4)pp. Original green cloth with gilt spine stamping, front blindstamped. Good+ with a cocked spine, cloth worn and a bit frayed along edges, exposed tips, some foxing and thumbing, hinges very tender. Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll called this novel "very enjoyable, and the character of Annie Anderson is one of the most delightful I have ever met with in fiction." A scarce signed work by the Scottish Victorian novelist who helped create the genre of fantasy.
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The Dark Tunnel
by [Macdonald, Ross] Millar, Kenneth
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New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1944. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first impression. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with offsetting to endsheets, foxing to endsheets and textblock edge, but otherwise bright and clean. In a rich, vibrantly colored example of the dust jacket with small chips to corners and spine ends, a chip at the bottom left corner of the front panel and a short closed tear to the top rear spine joint, else Fine. Unsophisticated and unclipped, a superior copy. A WWII espionage thriller. Critics were amazed by the skillfulness and poise that it displayed for being a debut novel. The author would go on to write the Lew Archer crime novels under the pen name Ross Macdonald.
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Motto for Murder
by Mace, Merlda
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New York: Julian Messner Inc, 1943. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 213 pp. Publisher's orange cloth with black lettering on spine. A Near Fine copy with former owner's bookplate on paste down, tiny bump to back board but very clean and sharp, in a Near Fine dust jacket with light shelf wear, faint penciled checkmark to spine, hint of foxing but unfaded and attractive. An oft-reprinted mystery described on the front flap as "A tale of hatred that had smoldered over the long years until it no longer could be controlled.
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The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light
by Machen, Arthur; Aubrey Beardsley [Illustrations]
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London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1894. First edition. First edition. [vi], 168, 16 pp. Bound in publisher's dark cloth with white stamping on front and rear boards, gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with light shelf wear, old bookseller's catalogue entry pasted onto paste down, typical offsetting to endpapers. An attractive copy. The Great God Pan is an enduringly popular Gothic horror novella, quite scandalous in its time for its comparatively frank depictions of sexuality. It would inspire Bram Stoker's Dracula, Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror, and works by Clark Ashton Smith and Stephen King.
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Muchado: Number 1
by Macinnes, David A.
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Baltimore, MD: Published by the Author for FAPA, [nd]. Very Good. ca. 1945. A one-shot fanzine published for a FAPA mailing. Very Good. Toning, horizontal crease to center and light staining to rear sheet.
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Kotan. Two issues: Volume 1, Number 1. September 1948 (and) Volume 1, Number 2. December 1948
by Mack, Gordon [Editor]; Joe (XJ) Kennedy and Lin Carter [Contributors]
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Lake Arthur, LA: Olympic Press, 1948. Very Good. Two issues: Volume 1, Number 1. September 1948 and Volume 1, Number 2. December 1948. Original side-stapled mimeographed sheets. Very Good with toning and light wear. An early science fiction fanzine with contributions from Joe Kennedy and Lin Carter. A rare set.
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Kotan: Volume 1, Number 1. September 1948
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Lake Arthur, LA: Olympic Press, 1948. Very Good. Volume 1, Number 1. September 1948. Original side-stapled mimeographed sheets. Very Good with toning and light wear. An early science fiction fanzine.
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by Mack, Gordon [Editor]; Joe (XJ) Kennedy and Lin Carter [Contributors]
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Lake Arthur, LA: Olympic Press, 1948. Very Good. Two issues: Volume 1, Number 1. September 1948 and Volume 1, Number 2. December 1948. Original side-stapled mimeographed sheets. Very Good with toning and light wear. A science fiction fanzine with contributions from Joe (XJ) Kennedy and Lin Carter.
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
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London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, 1852. Second Edition. Second edition. viii, 303, [1]; viii, 324, [4, ads] pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth, elaborately blindstamped with gilt-stamped spines, gilt topstain, yellow endpapers with publisher's ads. Complete in two volumes. Very Good+, lightly worn at head and tail, slightly bumped corners, rubbing to endpapers, stain and tiny tear to front board of second volume, a little foxing to text. Former owner's name written on title page of first vol. in ink. Bookseller's emboss to rear endpaper. A very nice, unsophisticated set.A classic study of human behavior covering hundreds of years of panics, fads, fallacies, mobs, and crazes in society and markets. The first profusely illustrated edition.
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Voyages from Montreal, on the River St. Laurence, through the Continent of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans; In the Years 1789 and 1793. With a Preliminary Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Fur Trade of that Country
by Mackenzie, Alexander
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London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1801. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition. [iv], viii, cxxxii, 412, [2, errata] pp., complete with half title, engraved frontis portrait and all three engraved folding maps (one of which is hand-colored). Later calf lettered and ruled in gilt with black label over marbled paper boards. Very Good+ with typical transfer from maps to facing pages and within folded maps, closed tears in all three maps (each isolated to a single panel) along with a little foxing and staining. Toned contents. Scattered ink corrections to text, checkmarks on errata sheet at rear. Marbled paper rubbed and chipped along edges. The famous Scottish explorer's account of two Canadian expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage.
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Septet for the End of Time
by Mackey, Nathaniel
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Santa Cruz: Boneset, 1983. First edition. First edition. Signed by Nathaniel Mackey on the title page, inscribed to poet Tom Orange. Staplebound wraps. Near Fine with sunning along spine, very slight bump to corners. The award-winning poet's rare second chapbook. Includes eight poems.
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Four for Trane
by Mackey, Nathaniel
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Los Angeles: Golemics, 1978. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Nathaniel Mackey on the blank page following the title page, inscribed to former owner. [16] pp. Tall stapled wraps. Very Good with light stain to front wrap, sunning to wraps. Nice shape overall. The National Book Award-winning poet and novelist's first chapbook, featuring four poems for famous saxophonist and jazz composer John Coltrane. One of only 250 copies printed, but especially rare signed.
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