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New York: Dutton, 1952. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket. Bound in full sky-blue cloth. The spine is stamped in gilt. Octavo. 215pps. There is modest rubbing and bumping to the edges of the cloth and specks of dustspotting to both the front and rear panels. Also, there are very light touches of foxing to the endpapers. Otherwise clean, tights, square, and bright. No previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has shallow chipping at the head of the spine, a faint soilmark at the heel of the spine, and a couple of short closed tears. The original price (3.50) is intact. In all, a nice copy. ".In this delightful volume of Milne wit and wisdom the author's urbane humor bubbles and sparkles in a manner to bring hours of sheer enjoyment to his many admirers. Mr. Milne has here gathered together a fine and varied collection of subjects ranging from the family life of bath sponges to the Truth About Candida; from the naming of race horses to the relative intelligence of… Read More

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1955. Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Bound in full black cloth. The spine is stamped in silver and purple; the front panel in silver. Octavo. Green topstain. Red and white 'Missouri' endpapers. xi + 596pps. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The original dust jacket, glossy in a new mylar sleeve, has a slightly sunned spine, light edgewear, and a fully-closed puncture near the edge of the front panel; the original price (5.00) is intact. This is Volume 1 of Truman's memoirs and is a copy of the Special Kansas City Edition limited to 20,615 copies (as stated on the copyright page); the Kansas City Edition is referenced, as well, on the spine-panel of the dust jacket. Scarce in the notoriously fragile dust jacket.<br><br> Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine… Read More

Fine in full black leather. Both the spine and the decorative front panel are lushly stamped in gilt. Full-color pastedown on the front panel. All page-edges gilt. Brown moire silk endpapers with a matching ribbon bookmark. 479 pages. First Printing. This is an excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No previous ownership markings. There are a couple of faint and unobtrusive scratches to the gilt of the fore-edge, also there is a blank Easton Press bookplate affixed to the ffep. Includes a Foreword by Clint Eastwood. Purchase with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Satisfaction guaranteed or all costs you've incurred will be promptly refunded. Thanks for your interest in Nooks of Books. To assist with your decision, further photos can be emailed upon request. 42-T.

Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.: McSweeney's Books, 2002. In Fine condition. Gray boards quarterbound in black cloth. The spine is stamped in gray. Red endpapers. 371pps. No dustjacket, as issued. This is an excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. Absolutely no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. This is one of the scarce Stated First Edition copies, sold only on the author's website and preceding the trade edition. SIGNED by Eggers on the rear pastedown (copyright page) -- without further inscription, but with a one-of-a-kind drawing of a bird with human ears. (This drawing refers to the legend of The Jumping People, a South American tribe of bird-worshippers who tried to emulate the birds' flight by jumping off the cliffs, hoping that in time they would learn how to fly. These Jumping People, according to the novel, left a message on the cliff above their village, carved in stone, for the conquistadors to find. The Spaniards later translated this message as 'YOU… Read More

Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.: McSweeney's Books, 2002. In As New condition. Gray boards quarterbound in black cloth. The spine is stamped in gray. Red endpapers. Octavo. 371pps. No dustjacket, as issued. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. This is one of the scarce Stated First Edition copies, sold only on the author's website and preceding the trade edition. SIGNED by Eggers -- without further inscription -- on the rear pastedown (copyright page).<b><font color=#003366><br><br> "Everything within takes place after Jack died and before my Mom and I drowned in a burning ferry in the cool--tannin-tinted Guaviare River, in East-central Colombia with forty-two locals we hadn't yet met. It was a clear and eyeblue day, that day, as was the first day of this story, a few years ago in January, on Chicago's North Side, in the opulent shadow of Wrigley and with the wind coming low and searching… Read More