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New York: Walker and Company, 1970. First Hardcover Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First hardcover edition. Signed twice by the author; Signed in black marker on the front free endpaper and inscribed in blue ink on the half-title page to a former owner. Review copy with publisher's photocopied letter laid in. Very Good with toning to edges and bumping at corners and spine ends. Pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with the spine toned and bumped at the edges, rubbing and light creasing to the top edge of the front panel.
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I Am Legend
by Matheson, Richard
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I Capture the Castle
by Smith, Dodie
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London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. [iv], 338 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamping, red topstain. Very Good with slight foxing to edges, a few small stains to rear board, in Very Good dust jacket with worn head, chip at bottom corner of front panel, a few tiny stains with holes in them in back panel, tape reinforcements to verso, unclipped (9s6d). A serviceable copy of the British author's debut novel. She would later write The Hundred and One Dalmatians, which inspired an animated Disney film.
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I Capture the Castle
by Smith, Dodie
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London: William Heinemann LTD, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Publisher's blue cloth binding, with gilt stamping to spine. Very Good. Lightly dust soiled. Light shelf lean, spine cloth a bit faded, foxing to edge of page block. Previous owner gift inscription to front free end paper. Lavender top stain is vibrant. In a Very Good dust jacket with a bit of general wear, light edge wear, foxing to blank verso, and a vertical crease down the spine panel. A much nicer than average survival of this notoriously fragile dust jacket.
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I Capture the Castle
by Smith, Dodie
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Dodie Smith and inscribed by her to George Landy on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. Landy was a veteran of the film industry and writer of the 1931 film Sidewalks of New York. He also worked as a literary agent, and was married to the American dancer and actress Kathrine McGuire. Bound in publisher's original pale blue cloth with navy stamping. Near Fine with fading to cloth at spine and edges, news clipping taped to rear pastedown. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with toning at the spine and edges, light soiling, light edge wear with shallow chipping. The British author's first novel, written in California and first published in the US. Signed copies of the first printing are very scarce.
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The I Ching, or, Book of Changes (Bollingen Series XIX)
by Wilhelm, Richard; Baynes, Cary; Jung, Carl
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New York: Pantheon Books / Princeton University Press, 1950. First American Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, and first English language translation; first printing. Complete in two volumes, bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt, Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jackets with light wear and light soiling, in Very Good publisher's original black slipcase with light rubbing, light wear to the extremities.The very first English-language translation of the Chinese classic text The I Ching, attributed to Fu Xi. Baynes' English rendering of Wilhelm's German translation continues to be widely read today. With an introduction by eminent psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.
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The I Ching, or, Book of Changes (Bollingen Series XIX)
by Wilhelm, Richard; Baynes, Cary; Jung, Carl
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New York: Pantheon Books / Bollingen Series XIX, 1950. First American Edition. Near Fine. First American edition, and first English language translation; first printing. Complete in two volumes, bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt; lacking dust jackets and publisher's slipcase. Near Fine with light rubbing and wear to covers; previous owner name and address to front pastedown of Volume I. The very first English-language translation of the Chinese classic text The I Ching, attributed to Fu Xi. Baynes' English rendering of Wilhelm's German translation continues to be widely read today. With an introduction by eminent psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.
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The I Ching, or, Book of Changes (Bollingen Series XIX)
by Wilhelm, Richard [Translator]; Cary Baynes [Translator]; Carl Jung [Introduction]
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New York: Pantheon Books / Princeton University Press, 1950. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. Complete in two volumes, bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt, housed in publisher's slipcase. Fine, in Very Good+ dust jackets, spine panels dulled, scratched, and soiled; vol. I jacket worn along top edge. Near Fine slipcase.The very first English-language translation of the Chinese classic text The I Ching, attributed to Fu Xi. Baynes' English rendering of Wilhelm's German translation continues to be widely read today. With an introduction by eminent psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.
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[I Ching] A Translation of the Confucian [Yih King] or "The Classic of Change" with Notes and Appendix
by McClatchie, Rev. Canon [Translator]
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Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1876. First Edition in English. Near Fine. First edition in English of the classic ancient divination text, and one of the oldest books of the Chinese classics. xiii (vii -xiii of which are plates),[i],xvii,455, [i] (errata). Bound in mid-century three-quarter sienna morocco over marbled paper, top edges gilt. Near Fine with slight loss to marbles paper at top right corner of upper board, small loss to gilt and indent to rear pages at top of textblock near the gutter. Light toning and sporadic foxing to pages. "Shanghai, Nov. 1876" in light pencil to front fly, and owner's name in gilt to foot of spine. An ancient text with origins thought to range between the 10th and 4th centuries BC for the assembly in its current form. A type of divination using six random numbers arranged in hexagonal shapes which can then be looked up in the text. Studied and endlessly interpreted over the centuries, many have used the book symbolically, seeking guidance for…
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The I Ching, or, Book of Changes (Bollingen Series XIX)
by Wilhelm, Richard; Baynes, Cary; Jung, Carl
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New York: Pantheon Books / Princeton University Press, 1950. First American Edition. Fine/Very Good. First American edition, and first English language translation; first printing. Complete in two volumes, bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in gilt, Near Fine with light rubbing to cloth. In Near Fine unclipped dust jackets with light rubbing and light wear at the extremities and a tear to each with a tape repair made to the blindside. In publisher's black slipcase with paper label. A nice set. The very first English-language translation of the Chinese classic text The I Ching, attributed to Fu Xi. Baynes' English rendering of Wilhelm's German translation continues to be widely read today. With an introduction by eminent psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.
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I, Claudius
by Graves, Robert
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London: Arthur Barker, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First British Edition, First Printing. In Very Good condition, in a Good dust jacket with price of 8/- net intact. Light edge wear, light reading crease to backstrip. Small, previous owner name to front paste down. Fold-out map intact at rear. The dust jacket shows chipping, tears and creases to the spine ends and corners, two tiny paint splatters to the spine panel, and an interior split to the front flap fold; toning and a few light stains to the rear panel. Presents well in Mylar.
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I Lost It at the Movies
by Kael, Pauline
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Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1965. First Edition. Very Good. Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Signed by Pauline Kael on verso of front cover. 239 pp. Comb-bound wraps. Very Good, wraps worn and creased towards bottom edge, comb foot chipped, covers and contents toned. A rare advance format of the film reviewer's first book, covering 1954-1964, before she joined The New Yorker.
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I Married Adventure
by Johnson, Osa
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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1940. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, signed limited issue. Copy #41 of a limited 520 copies, signed by Osa Johnson and inscribed with "Best African Wishes." Bound in publisher's marble-affect cloth over red cloth spine, decorated in gilt, top edge gilt. Near Fine. Spine shows white soiling, light wear at ends, rubbing and dulling to gilt lettering. Pages toned. A charming love story and biography, in which Osa Johnson details her life and travels in Africa and the South Seas, alongside her husband, Martin Johnson.
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I, Me, Mine
by [The Beatles] Harrison, George
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Guildford, Surrey: Genesis Publications Limited, 1980. Signed Limited First Edition. Near Fine. Signed limited first edition. Copy number 1,321 of a limited 2,000 signed by George Harrison; from the collection of best-selling poet Rod McKuen with his personal emboss on two preliminary pages. In publisher's original half black leather over black cloth, all edges gilt, in original black cloth slipcase with paper title label to front panel. Near Fine with light wear, in a Near Fine slipcase. A lovely production, signed by the late Beatle.
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I, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister, and my brother... A Case of Parricide in the 19th Century
by Foucault, Michel [Editor]; Frank Jellinek [Translator]
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New York: Pantheon Books, 1975. First American Edition. First American edition. xiv, 288, [1] pp. Black cloth, front lettered in red, spine in gilt. Near Fine with a little foxing to edges in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with small closed tear near foot, light wear. A philosophical whodunit in 19th century France, assembled and edited by postmodern philosopher Michel Foucault.
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I, Robot
by Asimov, Isaac
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New York: Gnome Press, 1950. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing of this science fiction classic. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in black. Near Fine, with faint soiling to front board, faint scratches to rear, former owner bookplate to front pastedown and pages tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with lighter than usual fading to the spine, light rubbing to the extremities and a short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel. A lovely copy, in much nicer condition than normally found.
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I, Robot
by Asimov, Isaac
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New York: Gnome Press, 1950. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing of this science fiction classic. Signed by Isaac Asimov and inscribed to a former owner on the title page in the year of publication, "To Bill Offerkrantz which is funny enough all by itself 12/29/50 [signed] Isaac Asimov". Bound in publisher's original red cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with light edge wear and light fraying at crown, pages tanned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light wear to the extremities, spine fading, rubbing, soiling and wear; light staining to the blindside.
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I, Robot
by Asimov, Isaac
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New York: Gnome Press, 1950. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing of this science fiction classic. Bound in publisher's original red cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with toning to pages, in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with fading to the spine, edge wear, light bleeding to the rear panel, a partial splice to the surface of the front panel over the title and toning; foxing to the flaps and blindside.
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I Sought My Brother: An Afro-American Reunion
by Counter, S. Allen; David L. Evans; Alex Haley [Foreword]; [Stephen Jay Gould]
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Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Allen Counter and inscribed to biologist Stephen Jay Gould on front paste down, calling him "a great friend and colleague. I really enjoyed teaching Nat Sci 36 with you. Good reading and Warmest regards, [signed] Allen Counter." Dated 1982. First edition. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, spine panel a little sunned. Samuel Allen Counter (1944-2017) was an African American professor of neurology and founder of Harvard's Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. In this book he and engineer David Evans discuss meeting in the rainforest of Suriname, South America amongst the natives, also of African descent. This event was covered in a 1978 PBS TV documentary.
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I Speak of Freedom: A Statement of African Ideology
by Nkrumah, Kwame
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London: Mercury Books, 1962. Presentation copy signed by Kwame Nkrumah, the founding Prime Minister and President of Ghana, inscribed to his private secretary in blue ink on the front free endpaper, "To Erica with love from Kwame Nkrumah 16/12/65." xiv, [ii], 291 pp. Specially bound for Nkrumah by The Book Company in Wiltshire, UK in full black calf stamped in gilt and green with a small Ghanian flag to the spine. Second edition. Near Fine, very slight bowing to boards, tiny tear to dedication page. A rare signed specially-bound association copy from the American-educated Ghanian politician who was a key figure in the 1960s pan-African, anticolonial, and socialist world movements. Provenance: from the collection of Erica Powell (1921-2007), a white Englishwoman who became an unlikely participant and eyewitness to the shaping of modern Africa. In the early 1950s Powell became the secretary to Nkrumah in the British Gold Coast. In 1957 Ghana became the first African country to win independence. Powell…
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I, The Jury
by Spillane, Mickey
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New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. First edition stated, first printing. Fine, with a small, faint scuff to front cover, in a Near Fine un-clipped dust jacket, with light rubbing to extremities, light wear along the top edge, and the typical fading to the red print on the spine. A stunning copy, in much nicer shape than typically encountered, very bright and unusually fresh. The author's first novel, and his first to feature private investigator Mike Hammer.
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