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Pretexts - Reflections on Literature and Morality


Gide, Andre

Hardcover. NY, Meridan Books, 1st US, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Ed. by Justin O'Brien. Dj with light soil, spine fade. Previous owner's embossed stamp front end paper

Record # 54403


Price: $20.00 

 

Price and Reference Guide to Books Written by Edgar Rice Burroughs


Bergen Jr., James A.

Softcover. Beaverton OR, Golden Lion Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 214 pages, 300 b&w illustrations.

Record # 405929


Price: $25.00 

 

Pterodactyl Rose - Poems of Ecology


Heyen, William

Paperback. St. Louis, MO, Time Being Books , 1st wraps, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback.

Record # 302128


Price: $12.00 

 

Publishing Experience, The (SIGNED)


Canfield, Cass

Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 73 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Inscribed and signed on front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233498


Price: $19.00 

 

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books


Nafisi, Azar

Hardcover. New York, March 25, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 347 pages. Very good.

Record # 452248


Price: $8.00 

 

Recollections of Mr. James Lenox of New York and the Formation of His Library


Stevens, Henry

Hardcover. London, Henry Stevens & Son, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 211 pages, three-quarters white cloth with marbled boards. Illustrated with 3 engraved portraits with tissue guards. Frontispiece plate is loose, otherwise very good, clean and tight.

Record # 402744


Price: $50.00 

 

Reports of My Death


Shapiro, Karl

Hardcover. Algonquin Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 pages, with b&w photographs. Slight dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 455625


Price: $12.00 

 

Revisionary Interventions into the Americanist Canon


Pease, Donald E.

Softcover. Durham, N.C., Duke University Press Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 342 pages. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 459802


Price: $13.00 

 

Ribbons: The Gulf War - A Poem


Heyen, William

Paperback. St. Louis, MO, Time Being Books, 1st wraps, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback.

Record # 302129


Price: $12.00 

Rudyard Kipling in Vermont: Birthplace of the Jungle BooksMurray, Stuart
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Rudyard Kipling in Vermont: Birthplace of the Jungle Books


Murray, Stuart

Hardcover. Bennington, Vt., Past, 1st, September 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 198 pages, b&w photographs. Light stain on fore-edge. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 454445


Price: $18.00 

 

Russian Avant-garde Books, 1917-34


Compton, Susan

Hardcover. US, The British Library Publishing Division, 1st, 1992-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464558


Price: $23.00 

 

Sambo Sahib: The Story of Helen Bannerman author of 'Little Black Sambo'


Hay, Elizabeth

Hardcover. Totowa, NJ, Barnes & Noble, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Biography of the life of Helen Bannerman and her controversial books about "Little Black Sambo." 194 pages. In very good condition, clean and well-bound. Some rubbing to dust jacket. Includes b&w illustrations.

Record # 807633


Price: $35.00 

 

Scrambles Amongst the Alps


Whymper, Edward

Hardcover. Cleveland OH, Burrows Brothers, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 164 plus 75 pages. Down the Rhine by Lady Blanche Murphy is the 2nd part of the book. Contains black & white illustrations. Black & white frontispiece with tissue guard. Beveled edges. Soiling to covers. Light rubbing to edges. Corners a little bumped. Gilt edges. Bookseller's label on rear endpaper. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf.

Record # 801711


Price: $30.00 

 

Searching for Crusoe: A Journey Among the Last Real Islands


Clarke, Thurston

Hardcover. US, Ballantine Books, reprint, 2001-01-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 342 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466537


Price: $23.00 

 

Shelley: Two Volumes


White, Newman Ivey

Hardcover. New York, Octagon Books, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Complete two volume set, with illustrations, gilt title on spine on dark blue cloth board. Light foxing on edges, minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright.

Record # 457881


Price: $63.00 

 

Short Work of It: Selected Writing


Harris, Mark

Hardcover. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, slate-gray cloth w/ silver lettering on spine; maroon end papers; 246 pages. 29 articles, essays & stories; black dust jacket with some rubbing leaving a pattern. Flap unclipped with price sticker. Clean, no markings. Essays spanning nearly thirty years. One of his less common books, having been published by a university press that did a small first printing.

Record # 385


Price: $15.00 

 

Soundings - Encounters With Contemporary Books


Prescott, Peter S.

NY, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 331 pages. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped.

Record # 65728


Price: $15.00 

 

Synonyms and Antonyms - Or, Kindred Words and Their Opposites


Smith, C. J.

Hardcover. London, George Bell and Sons, Second Edition Revised, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 406 pages. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Light sunfade to spine edge. Previous owner's stamp to front endpaper. Light toning throughout. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751276


Price: $15.00 

 

Talks in a Library with Laurence Hutton - Recorded by Isabel Moore


Hutton, Laurence and Isabel Moore

Hardcover. New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 8th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 458 pages, b&w plates, blue-gray cloth with spine label, top edge gilt.

Record # 405906


Price: $19.00 

 

Telling Line, The: Essays on Fifteen Book Illustrators


Martin, Douglas

Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press, 1st U.S.A, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket spine lightly yellowed from shelf wear. Otherwise very clean inside and out. From the font flap: "The art of book illustration is too often overlooked, rarely getting the attention that it deserves. Art historians, students of children's literature, librarians, teachers, and general readers will be pleased to find that Douglas Martin helps to fill this void. In The Telling Line, he focuses on fifteen significant modern illustrators: their backgrounds, influences, and techniques."

Record # 30480


Price: $15.00 

The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan AgeLevine, Joseph M.
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The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age


Levine, Joseph M.

Softcover. US, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 428 pages. Softcover. Light normal age wear to covers.

Record # 2231079


Price: $23.00 

 

Thornton W. Burgess, Harrison Cady : a book, magazine, and newspaper bibliography


Dowhan, Michael W.

Hardcover. New York, N.Y., Carlton Press, rep, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460529


Price: $38.00 

 

Tolstoy: A Russian Life


Bartlett

Hardcover. London, Profile Books, 1st, November 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 544 pages, b&w illustrations. Slight edgewear and wrinkling to rear cover of dust jacket. Dog-ear to page 385, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 457855


Price: $44.00 

 

Travelogue Storybook of the Nineteenth Century, The


Haviland, Virginia

Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 70 pages, b&w illustrations. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851541


Price: $15.00 


  
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