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Price: $7.00
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons.: 1988
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 148
ISBN: 0399133682
Condition: Near Fine
8vo. 382 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Very Good+ jacket. Black boards and cloth, gold lettering, clean and unmarked. Black dust jacket, very slight edgewear, one closed 1/4 inch tear. Jacket illus. Don Brautigam. ISBN 0399133682. #148. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: New York, G.P.Putnam's Sons.: 1991
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 149
ISBN: 0399136118
Condition: Near Fine
8vo. 351pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket, clean and unmarked, with very slight shelfwear to upper spine edge at rear corners, no chips, tears, rubs or marks. Gray boards and endpapers, red cloth at spine, silver lettering. Jacket design and illus. by Ann Spinelli and Richard Hess. ISBN 0399136118. #149. View more info
By: Sanders, Lawrence; Lardo, Vincent
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Putnam Publishing Group, The: 2002
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 1428
ISBN: 0399146180
Condition: Fine
8vo. 340 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, clean and unmarked. Archy McNally deals with blackmail, murder and mayhem while directing a production of "Arsenic and Old Lace". ISBN 0399146180. #1428. View more info
By: Sharp, Paula
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, Hyperion: 1996
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 1281
ISBN: 0786861177
Condition: Fine
8vo. 404 pgs. Fine Hardcover in Near Fine jacket, SIGNED by author on title page. Book is clean, crisp, unmarked. Jacket has faint shallow wear to paper at spine ends, not rubbed or chipped. A thirty year segment in the life of a female judge, flavored by the pervasive effects of domestic violence in both her courtroom and her personal life. ISBN 0786861177. #1281. View more info
By: Shields, Jody
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., Little Brown & Company: 2000
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 1742
ISBN: 0316785644
Condition: Fine
311 pgs. Fine hardcover, clean and crisp, in Near Fine jacket. Tiny pinhead perforation to bottom left corner of jacket near spine edge, else fine. Set in Vienna in 1910, the murder of Freud's famous patient Dora is being investigated by the Inspector, newly trained in rationalist criminology. The author presents turn-of-the-century Vienna combined with aspects of forensics, criminolgy, food, botany, folklore, customs, perverse medical practices and subtle sexual secrets. ISBN 0316785644. #1742 View more info
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Rockefeller Center, New York, Pocket Books Incorporated: 1949
Edition: First Pocket Book Edition,First Printing
Seller ID: 2488
Condition: Good to Very Good
292 pgs. Good to Very Good condition vintage paperback. May 1949 first printing of first Pocket Book edition, with Gertrude the kangaroo logo design inside covers and red text block edges, #586 on spine. Binding sound, light rubbing along spine edges and margins, pages are clean and unmarked, with uniform age darkening along margins. A huge variety of stories, articles and poems in a tiny package by renowned writers and poets, this format was originally intended as a small take-along for a weekend holiday or the like. Table of Contents, Introduction by Philip Van Doren Stern, Valedictory by M... View more info
By: Stine, R.L.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, Warner Books.: 1995
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 154
ISBN: 0446519537
Condition: Near Fine
8vo. 390 pgs. Near Fine condition hardcover in near Fine jacket. Blue boards, black spine, gold lettering, clean and unmarked. Jacket by Tony Greco. Set on a small Pennsylvania college campus "Stine unleashes his mastery of the macabre on adult readers".ISBN 0446519537. #154. View more info
By: Sturgis, Matthew
Price: $26.00
Publisher: New York, Overlook Press.: 1999
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 805
ISBN: 087951910X
Condition: Fine
8vo. 404 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Grey boards, black cloth spine. Yellow decorative endpapers. Black and white illustrated dustjacket with portrait on front panel. Publishers release slip laid in. By his death in 1898 at the age of 28, Aubrey Beardsley had already become known as "a precocious line artist who redefined the limits of black-and-white art. His erotic, decadent illustrations for Oscar Wilde's 'Salome' and the famous journal 'The Yellow Book' set the tone of his style: by turns shocking, facetious and cruel." For this first full-length biography in over 20 year... View more info
Price: $28.00
Publisher: New Castle, DE, U.S.A., Oak Knoll Press: 2000
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 2131
ISBN: 0712346813
Condition: Fine
4to. 336 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket. Illustrated throughout. Contents: First Appearances of Important Books in the Artist Catalogues. Preface, Introduction: The Pre-Raphaelites and Published Graphic Art in Victorian England, The Artists and Their Works: Illustrations of the Major Pre-Raphaelites (C), The Artists and Their Works: Illustrations of the Pre-Raphaelite Associates (Burton, Collins, Collinson, Deverell, Holiday, Inchbold, Prinsep, Ruskin, Seddon, Smetham, Woolner]The Artists and Their Works: Illustrations in the Pre-Raphaelite Style (Clayton, Crane, DuMaurier, Houghton, Lawso... View more info
By: Taussig, F.W.
Price: $34.00
Publisher: New York and London, G.P. Putnam's Sons:
Edition: No Previous Printings Indicated
Seller ID: 2453
Condition: Very Good
vii. 269 pgs. Very Good condition brown cloth hardcover. This is an original 1888 vintage edition, not a modern reprint, covering the period 1789-1887. Light rubbing of cloth at edges and corners, spine ends frayed, first signature loose but holding, binding otherwise quite sound. Owner inscription on front blank F. Hulse, Aug. 1888, steamship, Shelter Island. Content Sections: Protection to Young Industries as Applied in the United States: I. The argument in general, II. Industrial History of the Colonies and of the United States Before 1808, III. The Cotton Manufacture: First factories, enor... View more info
By: Thomas, Alan G
Price: $16.00
Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1975
Edition: No Additional Printings Indicated
Seller ID: 1900
Condition: Near Fine
280pgs. Near Fine maroon cloth hardcover with red and gilt title pieces to spine and front board. Jacket is price-clipped, in Good to Very Good conditions with several moderate tears to front and rear edges of paper, jacket is protected in a clear archival removable cover. Very nicely and generously illustrated throughout with color plates, reproductions and photographs. Chapters: Preface, Manuscripts, Early Printing, Bookbinding, The Bible, Early Books in Hebrew, Herbals and Color-Plate Flower Books, English Books with Coloured Plates, Books on Architecture, The New World, Private Press Book... View more info
By: Thurber, James
Price: $16.00
Publisher: New York, Mysterious Press, NY. First Printing November 1991.: 1991
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 535
ISBN: 0892964502
Condition: Fine
8vo. xii. 208 pgs. Fine hardcover in Very Good + jacket. Edited by Robert Lopresti with a foreword by Donald E. Westlake. The author's ruminations on everyday villainy, some pieces appear for the first time in book form. ISBN 0892964502. #535. View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press.: 1995
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 581
ISBN: 0312130821
Condition: Fine
8vo. 196 pgs. Fine in Near Fine jacket. SIGNED and dated 10-20-95 by author on title page. Dustwrapper has slight trace of rubbing at corners. Publishers card laid in. Author's first novel. June 1995 first printing. Mystery and suspense follow the questionable acquisition of a legendary rare coin. ISBN 0312130821. #581. View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press.: 1995
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 2350
ISBN: 0312130821
Condition: Fine
8vo. 196 pgs. Fine in Near Fine jacket. SIGNED by author on title page. Dustwrapper has slight trace of rubbing along edges and corners. Publishers card laid in. Author's first novel. June 1995 first printing. Mystery and suspense follow the questionable acquisition of a legendary rare coin. ISBN 0312130821. #2350. View more info
By: Van Dyke, Henry
Price: $63.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1897
Edition: No Additional Printings Stated
Seller ID: 2577
Condition: Very Good
Unpaginated. Very Good condition, brwon cloth hardcover, gilt and black decoration to front and spine. Top edge gilt, fore edge and bottom pages are deckle edged, untrimmed. Illustrated frontis and 3 addional plates by Howard Pyle. Possiby ex private library, with several discrete stamps on front endpaper, table of illustrations page and reverse side of frontis plate, otherwise clean and unmarked. Each page is artfully deorated around the text with an intricate oak leaf motif. Very nice copy for the collector of van Dyke, decorated bindings and Howard Pyle illustrations. Book# 2577. View more info
By: Van Dyke, Henry.
Price: $33.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribners Sons: 1902
Edition: No Additional Printings Indicated
Seller ID: 1951
Condition: Very Good
299pgs. Very Good harcover, decorative binding signed MA, navy cloth with attractive decoration in gilt and green by Margaret Armstrong on front board and spine. Attractive period bookplate with the poem "If thou art borrowed by a friend..." and gift inscription [to Dr. Jno. S. Niles by his nephew Frank L. Niles) on front endpapers. Faint bookstore/druggist's shop stamp (Carbondale, PA) on bottom corner of rear endpaper. Clean, sound and otherwise unmarked. Publication date: October 1902. A series of nine short stories, iIllustrated with color plate artwork by these artists: R.J. Wegue... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Co.: 1963
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1329
Condition: Near Fine
8vo. 128 pgs. Near Fine condition hardcover in Very Good jacket. Book is clean and unmarked but for a faint erasure trace on front endpaper, minimal shelf wear. Jacket has a few tiny edge tears and smudges. Stated First Edition on copyright page. Illustrated throughout with engaging Thurber-esque drawings by the author. "Growing Wings contains a great deal of surprising information about the habits, instincts and behavior of birds, told in a way that subtly conveys their personality through a charming sense of caricature". Sections: the bird year, spring migration, territory, courtship... View more info
Price: $22.00
Publisher: New Jersey, Rutgers University Press: 1968
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2539
Condition: Near Fine
154pgs. Near Fined black cloth hardcover, gilt lettering to spine, brown endpapers, in Very Good jacket. Clean and unmarked, binding sound. Jacket with light edge wear consisting of rubbing at edges and corners and a small closed tear to top edge of back panel and slight age toning to paper. The author takes us through the steps, miss-steps and redirects during Poe's literary journey in his attempt to solve the mystery of the disappearance and murder of Marie Roget as first published contemporaneously and serially in Snowden's "Ladies Companion".#2539. View more info
By: Walter Pater [Lusius Apuleius]
Price: $24.00
Publisher: New York, The Heritage Press, Limited Editions Club: 1951
Edition: No Additional Printings Indicated
Seller ID: 2404
Condition: Near Fine
64 pgs. Near Fine condition cloth hardcover, gilt lettering to front and spine, clean, bright, unmarked. Rust colored cloth with matching text block edges. Very slight trace of rubbing to cloth at corners. Without slipcase or hourglass pamphlet. Illustrated frontis and five additional full page color illustrations by Edmund Dulac. Special edition by The Limited Editions Club for the George Macy Companys, Inc. Recounts the story as first set down by Lucius Apuleius in his "Transformations" (The Golden Ass), re-told by Walter Pater in his novel "Marius the Epicurean". The Prologu... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Atlantic Monthly Press: 1994
Edition: First Edition, Second Printing
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 2183
ISBN: 0871135647
Condition: Fine
8vo. 316 pgs. Fine condition hardcover in Near Fine Jacket with upper corners very slightly rubbed. SIGNED, inscribed and dated by author on title page: "Constance Warloe. June 29, 1994. Nhizoni-Walk in Beauty." First Edition stated on copyright page, with number line 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 . ISBN 0871135647. #2183. View more info
