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Complete Books of Henry James, The: The Authoritative and Definitive Edition

by- james, Henry (Leon Edel and Lyall H. Powers, editors)

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 633 pages. Edited with introductions and notes by Leon Edel and Lyall H. Powers. Illustrated with 8 pages of b/w plates. Light blue-green endpapers. pages 283 - 291 have small bump on top edge near right corner. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Black cloth with gilt decoration on front and gilt lettering on spine. Corners lightly bumped. B/W pictorial dust jacket with green lettering, light shelfwear.

Record # 40073


 
Price: $31.00
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Critical Game, The

by- Macy, John

New York , Boni and Liveright, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's signature front fly leaf.

Record # 302062


 
Price: $15.00
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Voice of The Irish, The

by- Kelly, Blanche Mary

Hard Back . NY, Sheed and Ward, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping and spine of dust jacket discolored. Previous owner's inscription.

Record # 201004


 
Price: $25.00
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"Most Women..."

by- Waugh, Alec

Hardcover. London, Cassell, 1st , 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Cover shows some wear, internally there is some foxing and there are few small stains. Black & white woodcuts by Lynd Ward. former bookdealer's stamp front paste-down, previous owner's bookplate front end paper. Hardbound, no dust jacket.

Record # 109355


 
Price: $31.00
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$1,000,000 Bank-Note and Other New Stories, The

by- Twain, Mark (Ed. by Shelly Fisher Fishkin)

NY , Oxford University Press , 1st thus, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The Oxford Mark Twain, hardcover. Facsimile reproduction of the first American Edition. Introduction by Malcolm Bradbury, afterword by James D. Wilson. One of 29 volumes in the series. Like new in dust jacket.

Record # 510708


 
Price: $31.00
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$30,000 Bequest and Other Stories, The

by- Twain, Mark (Ed. by Shelly Fisher Fishkin)

NY , Oxford University Press , 1st thus, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The Oxford Mark Twain, hardcover. Facsimile reproduction of the first American Edition. Introduction by Frederick Busch, afterword by Judith Yaross Lee. One of 29 volumes in the series. Like new in dust jacket.

Record # 510714


 
Price: $31.00
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'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?': Joyce Carol Oates

by- Showalter, Elaine

Softcover. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 165 pages, slight corner wear and foxing on edges, otherwise, very clean and tight.

Record # 455988


 
Price: $15.00
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( Francois Villon ) - Ballades - French and English

by- N/A

Hardcover. London, Allan Wingate, 1st UK, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, INSCRIBED BY DEUTSCH on front fly leaf . Selected by Andre Deutsch & Mervyn Savill. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chips.

Record # 58264


 
Price: $50.00
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120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings, The

by- de Sade, Marquis

New York, Grove Press , Reprint, no date, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 799 pages. A reprint of the original 1966 Edition. Introduction by Simone de Beauvoir & Pierre Klossowski.

Record # 302715


 
Price: $25.00
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1920 Diary

by- Babel, Isaac

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2nd printing, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 126 pages. Light wear, scuffing to dust jacket. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 453649


 
Price: $10.00
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3 American Moralists - Mailer Bellow Trilling

by- Scott, Jr., Nathan A.

Notre Dame, University Press of Notre Dame, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 230 pages. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket spine faded.

Record # 206924


 
Price: $15.00
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3 Books - Body Rags, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words, the Past

by- Kinnell, Galway

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st collected, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY KINNELL.

Record # 127247


 
Price: $100.00
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A Century of Science and Other Essays

by- Fiske, John

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 477 pages. Top edge gilt. Cover has light edgewear. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping.

Record # 206800


 
Price: $25.00
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A Cloak of Light: Writing My Life

by- Morris, Wright

Hardcover. New York, 1st thus, January 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Previous price sticker on front fly leaf. Covers slightly warped. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 452314


 
Price: $13.00
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A Common Room - Essays 1954-1987

by- Price, Reynolds

Paperback. New York, Athenuem, 1st wraps, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 405 pages. Paperback.

Record # 207605


 
Price: $15.00
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A Conscious Stillness: Two Naturalists on Thoreau's Rivers

by- Teale, Edwin Way

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf, illustrations throughout. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456850


 
Price: $38.00
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A Death With Dignity - When the Chinese Came

by- Wheeler Snow, Lois

New York, Random House , reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 148 pages. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 204257


 
Price: $15.00
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A decade of euphoria: Western literature in post-Stalin Russia, 1954-64

by- Friedberg, Maurice

Hardcover. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 371 pages. Light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 453592


 
Price: $23.00
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A Dirty Hand - The Literary Notebooks of Winfield Townley Scott

by- Scott, Winfield Townley

Austin, TX, Univ. of Texas, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Foreward by Merle Armitage. 161 pages. Dust jacket with light soil.

Record # 62411


 
Price: $23.00
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A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures

by- Bradlee, Ben

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 514 pages, b&w photographs.

Record # 450947


 
Price: $10.00
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A Guide to the Russian Texts of Tolstoi's War and Peace

by- Lehrman, Edgar

Ann Arbor, MI, Ardis Publishers, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages. White paperback with Turqoise title and image of Tolstoy on cover. Gives brief summaries and translations of Russian words and phrases in War and Peace. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Record # 501576


 
Price: $19.00
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A History of Spanish Literature

by- Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James

New York, Appleton, rep, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 423 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper.

Record # 204549


 
Price: $15.00
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A Life of John Keats

by- Hewlett, Dorothy

Hardcover. New York , Barnes and Noble, Inc., 2nd, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 408 pages. Minor edge wear to dust jacket. Maps on front and rear endpapers and flyleaf. Includes 21 B&W illustrations. Internally clean.

Record # 809198


 
Price: $15.00
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A Literary Agent Takes you Inside The Barnum-Cinderella World of Publishing

by- Jackinson, Alex

Hardcover. NY, Impact Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, dust jacket light wear, otherwise very clean. 353 pgs.

Record # 108605


 
Price: $19.00
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A Map of Misreading

by- Bloom, Harold

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 206 pages. Blue cloth w/ gilt lettering on spine. Beige dust jacket w/ faded spine and minor edgewear. Previous owner's name/date on front flyleaf. Cut-out newspaper article (review of the book) tucked into endpapers.

Record # 803801


 
Price: $63.00
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A Rumor of War

by- Caputo, Philip

Softcover. 1st thus, November 15, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 356 pages. Light edge wear to wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 452322


 
Price: $31.00
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A Schiller Symposium

by- Willson (ed), A. Leslie

Austin, University Press of Texas, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 132 pages. Dust jacket has a closed tear.

Record # 207777


 
Price: $31.00
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A Selected Bibliography of Slavic Linguistics - Volume I

by- Stankiewicz, Edward and Dean S. Worth

Paris, Mouton, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 315 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper.

Record # 206042


 
Price: $19.00
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A Terrible Beauty Is Born - The Irish - Troubles 1912-1922

by- O'Conner, Ulick

Hard Back . London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st UK, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos, and illustrations.

Record # 201000


 
Price: $38.00
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A Traveller in Romance: Uncollected Writings 1901 - 1964

by- Maugham, W. Somerset

Hardcover. New York, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456764


 
Price: $23.00
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