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To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

first edition first printing (Hogarth Press 1927) hardcover with a partial dust jacket (missing backstrip); no prior owner marks; little age tone to text pages, offsetting to preliminary pages and end papers; sound binding; cloth cover has a little rub to…

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$6,750.00

The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

first edition (copyright 1949) later printing (September, 1953) hardcover in dust jacket; no prior owner marks; little age tone to text pages; sound binding; clean cloth cover bright gilt titling; little compression at spine ends; dust jacket edge wear: f…

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$2,500.95

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

first edition first printing hardcover (The World Publishing Company, 1969); no dust jacket; prior owner title page corner; text has no prior owner marks but some pages have age tone, light soil; binding shaken but no loose pages; glazed illustrated board…

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$2,300.95

Flight To Arras by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

SIGNED: limited edition illustrated hardcover (Reynal and Hitchcock 1942)) No. 472 of 500 copies Signed by both the author and illustrator on the limitation page; no dust jacket issued; no slipcase; no prior owner marks; minimal age tone; tight bind; 1/4 …

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$2,005.95

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

first edition first printing (first state points all present) hardcover in dust jacket (Covici Friede, 1937); prior owner name front paste-down corner, text unmarked; little age tone; tight bind; clean cloth cover, vivid titling; minimal cover corner bump…

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$2,000.95

Le Petit Prince (French Language edition) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

second printing French language hardcover in first state dust jacket (Reynal and Hitchcock, 1943); no prior owner marks; little age tone to text pages, darkening, offsetting to paste-downs; tight bind; clean cloth cover vivid titling; dj has darkening al…

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$1,795.95

A Field Guide To The Birds by Roger Tory Peterson

first edition second state hardcover; no dust jacket; some soil to one blank sheet and offsetting to edges of end papers, otherwise the book is unmarked; little age tone; sound binding; pebbled cover has rub and bump to corners and spine ends, bright titl…

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$1,550.95

The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang

SIGNED: first edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket (John Day/Reynal and Hitchcock, 1937) Signed by Lin Yutang on the front free end page; no prior owner marks; little age tone; tight bind; clean cloth cover bright gilt titling; short tear to cl…

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$1,500.95

Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone by J. K. Rowling

first American edition first printing hardcover in first issue dust jacket (Scholastic Press 1998); prior owner front free end page corner, text unmarked; tight bind; 1/4 cloth cover has rub wear at spine ends and at corners (card stock visible), bright g…

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$1,495.95

The Compleat Goggler by Guy Gilpatric

first edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket (Dodd Mead, 1938); prior owner book plate front paste-down, prior owner small label half title page; front free end page has been removed; illustrated text unmarked; little age tone; binding sound but …

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$1,400.95

Fate Is The Hunter by Ernest K. Gann

SIGNED: first edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket signed by Ernest K. Gann on the front free end paper; text unmarked; minimal age tone; sound binding; cloth cover has thin edge fade, bright gilt titling; dj has some rub to panels and edge wea…

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$1,265.95

Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell

first American edition first printing hardcover in variant blue dust jacket (Harcourt Brace 1949); no prior owner marks; minimal age tone; tight bind; clean cloth cover vivid titling; little rub at corner tips and spine ends; dj has slight sunning to spin…

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$1,250.95

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

first edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket; prior owner front free end paper corner, text unmarked; minimal age tone; tight bind; 1/4 cloth cover has a spot of soil front panel, little fade along spine, little rub at corner tips, bright gilt ti…

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$1,057.95

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature by Erich Auerbach, Willard Trask

First English language edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket (Princeton 1953) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Erich Auerbach front free end page; two text chapters show pencil margin brackets were erased; age tone to text pages, offsetting to end papers…

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$775.95

No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

first American edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket (New Directions 1958); prior owner front free end page corner, small price tag shadow front paste-down corner; text unmarked; minimal age tone; light dust top text block edge; tight bind; clea…

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$525.95