Category: First Editions, Collectible

Mockery in Arms

By: Aldridge, James

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Co. : 1975

Seller ID: 721

ISBN-13: 9780316031219

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo. 382 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Very Good jacket. Black cloth spine, white endpapers. Dustjacket with light edge and corner wear, 1/2 inch closed tear and two small chips on back panel, in archival cover. Publishers slip laid in. ISBN 0316031216. #721.
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A Door Must Be Either Open or Shut. A Proverb.

By: Alfred De Musset

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, The Rodale Press : 1955

Seller ID: 1025

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 44 pgs. Very good hardcover with very good glassine jacket as issued. Printed in England at The Chiswick Press. Scarce. Printed translucent glassine jacket has a few small closed edge tears and tiny chips, slight age toning along edges, with British price on front flap. Bi-toned Illustration on front board, very slight fading to board and spine edges, light foxing to text block edges and endpapers. Internally clean and unmarked. #1025.
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Jagger. Unauthorized.

By: Anderson, Christopher

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press. : 1993

Seller ID: 354

ISBN: 038530825

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo. 440 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Very Good+ metallic jacket, clean and unmarked, binding tight, with minimal general shelf wear to dj, no chips, tears or marks. First Edition July 1993. Biography of Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. Illustrated with a center section of black and white photos. Based on years of research and countless interviews with family, friends, neighbors, lovers and fellow musicians. Insights include Jagger's bisexual history, marriages to Bianca Jagger and Jerry Hall, his affairs with Marianne Faithful, Carly Simon, Linda Rondstadt and sexual escapades with numerous ...
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Animula Vagula.

By: Bacon, Leonard

Price: $12.00

Seller ID: 541

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

12 mo. 37 pgs Very Good condition hardcover. Stated First Edition. Green cloth with paper title pieces on spine and front cover. Some edge chipping to paper of title on spine, not obtrusive to lettering. Very lightly foxed endpapers, with owner name on front endpaper, else clean, sound and unmarked. Introduction followed by 27 poems. Other works by this Pulitzer Prize winning poet include The Heroic Battles of Servia, The Cid, Ulug beg, Ph.D.s, Guinea-fowl and Other Poultry, Lost Buffalo and Other Poems, Sunderland Capture and Day of Fire. #541.
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Steel Guitar

By: Barnes, Linda

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press : 1991

Seller ID: 125

ISBN-13: 9780385300131

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo. 257 pgs. Near Fine condition hardcover in Very Good jacket. White boards, black spine with gold lettering, clean and unmarked. Light edgewear. Dust jacket has 1/4 inch closed tear at bottom spine corner, two tiny closed tears at top rear. Author of COYOTE. The fourth of the Carlotta Carlyle mysteries, set in Boston. Blues singer Dee Willis comes back into Carlotta's life. ISBN 0385300131. #125.
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Degrees of Love

By: Basch, Rachel.

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton Co. : 1998

Seller ID: 491

ISBN-13: 9780393046250

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

8vo. 281 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, SIGNED by author on half-title page. Author's first novel. Removable "Autographed Copy" sticker on front cover. A young couple's world starts to unravel when their eighteen month old child is accidentally burned, and the report of an emergency room physician prompts the state to take temporary custody. ISBN 0393046257.#491.
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The Unauthorized Anne Rice Companion

By: Beahm, George, Editor.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: MO, Andrews and McMeel, MO. 1996. First Edition. : 1996

Seller ID: 676

ISBN-13: 9780836210361

Binding: Softbound Pb

Condition: Fine

8vo. 246 pgs. Fine condition softcover. Black and white photographs throughout. An entralling biographical, bibliographical resource and reference guide. Thematically organised in five sections plus appendices: The Real World of Anne Rice, The Unreal World of Anne Rice, On Anne Rice, Chiaroscuro - Anne Rice and the Cinema and A Look at the Books. ISBN 0836210360. #676.
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BLACKBIRD BYE BYE.

By: Bernard, April

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York and Cleveland, Random House. : 1989

Seller ID: 591

ISBN: 0394535369

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

66 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket. Black cloth spine, maroon boards. Clean and unmarked. Very shallow bump to upper front corner. Faint wrinkle to upper edge of rear panel of dust jacket, no chips or tears. Complex and eclectic, this collection explores a wide range of characters " from gangsters to politicians, from artists to beggars to young lovers". The Staions of the Cross become "a contemporary journey in pain and doubt". Winner of The Academy of American Poets' 1988 Walt Whitman Award. Author of "Pirate Jenny". ISBN 0394535369. # 591.
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Image for Medicina Medica. Metaphysical Healing Methods in Late-antique and Medieval Manuscripts With Thirty Facsimile Plates. The Classics of Medicine Library.. With Booklet of Notes from the Editors included.

Medicina Medica. Metaphysical Healing Methods in Late-antique and Medieval Manuscripts With Thirty Facsimile Plates. The Classics of Medicine Library.. With Booklet of Notes from the Editors included.

By: Bierdermann, Hans

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Birmingham, Alabama, The Classics of Medicine Library, Gryphon Editions : 1986

Seller ID: 2587

ISBN-13: 9783201010771

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Fine

4to. 107 pgs. Very Fine condition black leather hardcover with gilt decoration and embossment to covers and spine with die-stamped 22k gold. All edges of textblock gilt. Gold marker ribbon bound into headband, marbled endpapers. Pristine condition of the privately printed English language edition translated from the German by Rosemarie Werba. [from the Austrian Edition, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1972). Included is a 23pg booklet of notes from the editors. Table of Contents: Introduction, Metaphysical Healing Theories, The Postulate of the Four Humours, The Tacuinum sanitatis, Magic...
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Cimarron Rose

By: Burke, James Lee

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., Hyperion Books : 1997

Seller ID: 1763

ISBN-13: 9780786862580

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

288 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean, unmarked, pristine. James Lee Burke introduces a new series set in the American West. ISBN 0786862580. #1763
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Screaming with Joy : The Life of Allen Ginsberg

By: Caveney, Graham

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Bantam Books. : 1999

Seller ID: 1487

ISBN-13: 9780767902786

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

8vo. 216 pgs. As New hardcover in As New jacket, clean and unmarked. Black and white cover art.The first fully illustrated tribute to Allen Ginsberg, the best-known American poet of the post-war generation, mother of the Beats, and walking embodiment of Western counterculture. ISBN 0767902785. #1487.
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Theo's Odyssey

By: Clement, Catherine. Translated By Steve Cox and Ros Schwartz.

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Arcade Publishing : 1999

Seller ID: 1880

ISBN-13: 9781559704991

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

593 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine dustjacket, clean and unmarked. First English Language Edition. Translated from the French by Steve Cox and Ros Schwartz. A story of healing as an ill little boy explores the many forms of religious faith while travelling with his aunt. He learns the tenets and philosophies of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Shinto, yoga, animism, voodoo and more. From the publisher: "This is a hugely enjoyable story about how and why people believe in their God, told with wit, clarity, and infectuious enthusiasm". By the author of "The Feminine a...
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The Archivist. A Novel.

By: Cooley, Martha

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Little Brown & Company : 1998

Seller ID: 1638

ISBN-13: 9780316158725

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

8vo. 326 pgs. As New hardcover in As New jacket. Clean, crisp, unmarked first edition. A literary novel centered arount Matthias, a librarian, his unsettled memories following World War II and his wife's mental illness, and a young woman interested in the library's extensive collection of letters by T.S. Eliot. Author's first novel. "An intricate and compelling tale of the way in which guilt and passion may quickly unravel the inner life of an orderly man." ISBN 0316158720 #1638.
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Point of Origin

By: Cornwell, Patricia

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons : 1998

Seller ID: 782

ISBN-13: 9780399143946

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo. 356 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket, clean, tight and unmarked. Maroon cloth spine, gilt lettering, maroon boards. No tears or rubs, minute trace of shelfwear along bottom edges. Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta mystery. A killer uses fire to mask his crimes and Kay's Nemesis Carrie Grethen is involved. ISBN 0399143947. #782.
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A Troubadour's Testament

By: Cowan, James.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Shambala : 1998

Seller ID: 730

ISBN-13: 9781570623394

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

8vo. 198 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, pristine condition. A magical journey through twelfth-century Provence in search of the spiritual power of perfect love. By the author of "A Mapmaker's Dream". ISBN 1570623392. #730.
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Fountain Society

By: Craven, Wes

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Simon & Schuster Trade : 1999

Seller ID: 2154

ISBN-13: 9780684846606

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

8vo. 350 pgs. Fine condition hardcover in Fine jacket, holographic cover art.This is the first edition of the author's first book, a medical suspense thriller woven around a plot to confer immortality on an elite group of government scientists. Wes Craven is also known for his work in the film industry, including A Nightmare on Elm Street and The Twilight Zone. ISBN 0684846608. #2154.
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Louis Pasteur. The Man and His Theories.

By: Cuny, Hilaire

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Paul S. Eriksson, Inc. : 1966

Seller ID: 1062

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good+

8vo. vi. 192 pgs. Very Good+ cloth hardcover in Very Good jacket. Cloth has slight rubbing to corners. Dust jacket exhibits overall light shelf wear, with light rubbing to paper at edges and corners. Otherwise, clean, sound and unmarked. The first sections of the book cover his nature, background and early career, followed by his more advanced contributions, the potentialites of his research and his last years. The remainder of the text is devoted to selected writings, notes, research topics, lectures and reflections, followed by a chronological outline of his life, a glossary, bibliography an...
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Edgar Allan Poe: A Bibliography of Criticism, 1827-1967 (Bibliographical Society Ser.)

By: Dameron, Lasley J., Cauthen, Irby B., Jr.

Price: $29.00

Publisher: Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A., University Press of Virginia : 1974

Seller ID: 2135

ISBN-13: 9780813904986

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

8vo. xvi. 386 pgs. Near Fine condition hardcover, as new. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front board. The prefrace by L.J. Dameron introduces the book as a guide to the scholarly and critical work on Poe covered up until 1968, the year first covered by the Poe Newsletter (aka Poe Studies) in its annual listings of Poe Criticism. All entries composed in English are annotated with few exceptions. Contents: Preface, Abbreviations, Checklist of Poe Criticism Composed in English 1827-1967, Checklist of Poe Criticism in Foreign Languages, 1827-1967, Index. #2135. ISBN 0813904986
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A Treasury of Stephen Foster

By: Deems Taylor, John Tasker Howard, Ray Lev, Dorothy Berliner Commins [Stephen Foster]

Price: $14.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1946

Seller ID: 2521

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good to Very Good

222 pgs. Good to Very Good hardcover, green boards, red cloth spine. General wear to cloth and boards at edges and corners, lettering to spine somewhat faded, rubbing to paper edges and shallow scuffing of boards. Binding sound, internally clean and unmarked. Contents: Foreword by Deems Taylor, Stephen Collins Foster by John Tasker Howard, Open Thy Lattice Love, Oh! Boys Carry Me 'Long, Hard Times Come Again No More, Ellen Bayne, Oh! Susanna, Away Down Souf, Lou'siana Belle, Old Uncle Ned, My Brudder Gum, Nelly Was a Lady, Oh! Lemuel!, Camptown Races, Angelina Baker, Nelly Bly, Ring De Banjo, ...
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Spy Line

By: Deighton, Len

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1989

Seller ID: 771

ISBN-13: 9780394551791

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo. 291 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket. Faint paper wrinkling to spine edges of dust jacket, jacket dated 12/89. Clean and bright throughout. Succeeds Spy Hook. British agent Bernard Samson is on the run from an arrest warrant issued by the Secret Servic naming him a traitor. ISBN 0394551796. #771.
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