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John Lane at The Sign of The Bodley Head. London. 1894. FIRST EDITION. One of just 50 large paper copies printed on hand made paper. Small 4to.(8.4 X 6.3 inches). Original buckram with gilt lettering to the spine. Attractive floral designs by Charles Shannon in gilt to the spine and both boards. Spine and hinge edges of boards cloth is darkened but the gilt is still bright. Fore and bottom page edges are untrimmed. Offsetting to the blank free endpapers otherwise a bright and clean copy throughout. --- Mason 365.
Bleak House, WITH CHECK SIGNED BY DICKENS by Dickens, Charles; Illustrated by H. K. Browne - 1853
by Dickens, Charles; Illustrated by H. K. Browne
Bleak House, WITH CHECK SIGNED BY DICKENS
by Dickens, Charles; Illustrated by H. K. Browne
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London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853. Engraved frontispiece and engraved title page, followed by printed title page, and 38 full-page engravings (40 total). by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz), xvi, 624 pages. First Edition, First Issue, in book format with part I, page 19, line 6 with "elgble" - part VII, page 209, line 23 with "chair" - part IX, page 275, line 22 with "counsinship." Bound in contemporary half polished calf over brown buckram, ornate gilt back with red morocco label, marbled end papers and edges, WITH CHECK SIGNED BY DICKENS inserted at verso of front end page via four slits in the page. The check is drawn on Messrs. Coutts & Company and made out in Dickens holograph to Wimbledon School in the amount of one hundred fifteen pounds, thirteen shillings, and six pence and dated Second September, 1862, embossed revenue stamp right. Likely the tuition for Henry Fielding Dickens, the eighth of Dicken's ten children, who would have been 13 in 1862 and attended Wimbledon School. The book is Near Fine, with recent professional restoration re-attaching front cover and refreshing boards, in new custom clamshell case 3/4 faux leather with spine lettered in gilt, small ink spot front end page, internally clean and bright. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone, basis for a 1920 British film and at least three TV mini series. A quite handsome copy, gift quality. . SIGNED. First Edition. Half Polished Calf. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE.
by WILDE. OSCAR
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The Shining
by King, Stephen
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Las Vegas , Nevada, United States
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1977. First printing of the stated first edition, first issue with the publisher's code "R49" printed in the gutter of p. 447; in original first issue dust jacket. Basis for the 1980 Stanley Kubrick adaptation starring Jack Nicholson. Book with light rubbing to spine ends and a tiny crimp to the bottom front corner, else in fine condition; dust jacket with faint toning to spine and flap margins, faint crimping to upper spine end, very faint crease to upper front corner, and light wear to extremities, primarily at the edge of bottom spine, else fine. an exceptional copy indeed.
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The Grapes of Wrath
by Steinbeck, John
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Las Vegas , Nevada, United States
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New York: Viking Press, 1939 First printing/first issue of the first edition; original beige cloth boards, in original first issue dust jacket. Book with mild toning primarily near gutters of the illustrated endpapers and faint rubbing to bottom boards, else in fine condition; dust jacket with a closed tear and diagonal crease to bottom front cover, soft diagonal crease to upper back flap, mild edge wear and shallow creasing, light paper loss to ends and corners, faint toning to spine, a few surface scratches to covers, and light rubbing, else fine. A well preserved collectible.
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The Witness Collection
by Chambers, Whittaker [Alger Hiss, Scott Nearing, Richard Nixon et al.]
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Rare books, documents, correspondence, and ephemera, 1964. Chambers, Whittaker: Witness: New York: Random House, 1952. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Original black boards and red top-stain and original dust jacket (not price-clipped). Faint toning to endpapers and spotting and dusting to page block; minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket, else near-fine. A bright and exceptional first printing of this notoriously brittle classic. Chambers, Whittaker: Cold Friday: New York: Random House, 1964. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Original blue cloth with gold titling to spine and green top-stain and original dust jacket (not price-clipped). Small abrasion to front free endpaper and minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket with small closed tear to top hinge, else near-fine, which is uncommon for this increasingly hard to find book. Chambers, Whittaker: Can You Hear Their Voices? A Short Story: New York: International Pamphlets, 1932. First edition. Stapled pamphlet. 5 x 7 inches, 31…
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[Coleridge, Samuel Taylor- First Edition, Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe] Christabel: Kubla Kahn, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep
by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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London: John Murray, 1816. First Edition. First Edition. Thin 8vo. Superbly bound in attractive full teal crushed levant with gilt ruling on edges of covers, spine with five raised bands and gilt ruled panels and stippled design work on bands, lettering and date, edges of boards with single gilt filet ruling, stamp-signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe on front dentelle. FIRST EDITION, containing the first printings of three of Coleridge's most celebrated poems. Half-title, no ads. Paul Francis Webster's copy (1907-1984), American lyricist (with his morocco bookplate). Also bookplate of Alfred Perlman, noted bibliophile and collector. Coleridge began writing "Christabel" as early as 1803. Coleridge composed "Kubla Khan" one night after he experienced an opium-influenced dream in 1797, but he was unable to complete it in the original plan, being interrupted by "a person from Porlock," causing him to forget the lines. He would read the poem periodically to the Wordsworths, Lord Byron, and other friends, and…
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The Works. (Two Complete Sets)
by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von; Schiller, Friedrich von
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Schenectady, New York, United States
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Boston: Francis A. Niccolls & Company, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Edition Magnifique limited to twenty-six lettered copies, this being G. Twenty-four volumes. Edited by Nathan Haskell Doyle. Full burgundy morocco, sides and spines elaborately decorated in gold with Art Noveau motifs, top edges gilt, others uncut, red and white morocco doublures decorated in gold, pearl silk moire endpapers. Frontispieces and plates in three states, one colored. Spines uniformly darkened, some wear to extremities, a few of the hinges a bit tender. Four volumes show small loss to the head of the spine; one has the cover partially detached. In all, two very elegant complete sets with matching letters. ; Octavo.
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Taps at Reveille
by Fitzgerald, F. Scott
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Las Vegas , Nevada, United States
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935 First printing of the first edition, first state with pages 349-352 uncancelled and the text unrevised on pages 350 and 351.One of only 5,100 copies printed.
Original dark bluish green cloth linen-grain cloth with blind single-rule border on front cover and with spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Pages 350.5-7 reads: 'he need not base himself on the adding machine-calculating machine-probability machine-St. Francis of Assis machine any longer.' And at 351.29-30 the text reads: '"Oh, catch it-oh, catch it and take it-oh, catch it," she sighed.'
In the original dust jacket by Doris Spiegel, with drawings of figures from the stories against an orange background on the front panel, $2.50 price on the front and rear flap. Light bump to bottom, back spine, light tanning to end papers, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with some age-toning and offsetting to spine and back cover, with professional conservation, primarily to edges… Read More
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Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems
by Walker, Alice; Jack Greenberg [Association]
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- 9780151770908 / 0151770905
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Las Vegas , Nevada, United States
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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973 First printing of the stated first edition. Presentation copy (signed and dated in year of publication on the half-title page) to famed civil rights lawyer and activist, Jack Greenberg (1924–2016): "For Jack Greenberg / long in the / Storm. / Sincerely, / Alice Walker / 2-26-73." Provenance: the personal copy of Jack Greenberg, consigned by his adopted son William Cole.Light rubbing to edge of boards, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with light toning to cover margins, light wear to spine ends, and light shelf wear.
Jack Greenberg was an American attorney and legal scholar. He was the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984, succeeding Thurgood Marshall.
Greenberg represented Martin Luther King Jr., but was best known for his role in litigating Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 civil rights case in which the high court rejected “separate but equal” public schools for blacks and… Read More
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[Coleridge, Samuel Taylor- First Edition, Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe] Christabel: Kubla Kahn, A Vision; The Pains of Sleep
by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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London: John Murray, 1816. First Edition. First Edition. Thin 8vo. Superbly bound in attractive full teal crushed levant with gilt ruling on edges of covers, spine with five raised bands and gilt ruled panels and stippled design work on bands, lettering and date, edges of boards with single gilt filet ruling, stamp-signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe on front dentelle. FIRST EDITION, containing the first printings of three of Coleridge's most celebrated poems. Half-title, no ads. Paul Francis Webster's copy (1907-1984), American lyricist (with his morocco bookplate). Also bookplate of Alfred Perlman, noted bibliophile and collector. Coleridge began writing "Christabel" as early as 1803. Coleridge composed "Kubla Khan" one night after he experienced an opium-influenced dream in 1797, but he was unable to complete it in the original plan, being interrupted by "a person from Porlock," causing him to forget the lines. He would read the poem periodically to the Wordsworths, Lord Byron, and other friends, and…
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Uncle Tom's Children
by Wright, Richard; Ernest Hemingway (Association)
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Las Vegas , Nevada, United States
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SGD 10,960.66
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New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers / A Story Press Book, 1938 Presentation copy from Richard Wright to Ernest Hemingway: "To Ernest Hemingway / From / Richard Wright." Stated second edition in married original dust jacket, first published with four novellas; two more were added when the book was reprinted in 1940. In Down by the Riverside, included in this collection, Wright transposes the Italian retreat at the Battle of Caporetto in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms to the American South. Richard Wright was known to be a great admirer of Ernest Hemingway, whom he once named as a modernist writer whose work should be read by aspiring black authors (Scruggs, Hemingway and the Black Renaissance, 58–59). Mild toning to margins of endpapers, light toning to page margins, spine ends gently crimped, and a light pale stain to bottom front cover, foot of spine, and just an inch to bottom back spine fold, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with professional restoration to extremities, mild…
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DOMBEY AND SON
by Dickens, Charles; illustrated by H.K. Browne
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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London: Chapman and Hall. Reprint. Leather. Very Good. Late 19th century printing. A Very Good copy. 8vo., xvi, 624 pp., illustrated with an engraved title page and plates. Bound in half brown leather and marbled paper over boards; title on spine in gilt. t.e.g. Light wear along the spine's joints. Previous owner's bookplate on a front end paper. An attractive copy.
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Dombey and Son. Carleton's New Illustrated Edition
by Dickens, Charles. illustrated By H. K. Browne [Phiz]
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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New York: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1877. Title page dated 1877. Single volume from Dickens' Works, no volume number on spine. Externally a bit worn but attractively bound in three quarter brown smooth leather over marbled boards, gilt spine lettering and decoration, marbled edges and endpapers, tissue protected frontis engraving, other engraved plates throughout, about 7.5 inches tall. Spine rubbed with some surface crackling from being dried out (has been archivally stabilized), other cover wear, rubbing to the extremities, hinges very lightly internally cracked and secure, text block firm, a couple of very tiny closed tears to top margins, pages mainly clean with a few instances of light finger soil to margins, name neatly written on the preliminary blank, no other markings.. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Dombey and Son
by Dickens, Charles ; illustrated by H. K. Browne
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Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Chapman & Hall, London, undated,, 1850-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library. Hardback/Hardcover. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable, colouring of page edges due to age. Same book just the 1867 Edition.
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The Personal History of David Copperfield [Hardcover] Charles Dickens; Illustrated by H. K. Browne
by Charles Dickens; Illustrated by H. K. Browne
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South Lyon, Michigan, United States
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Chapman & Hall. hardcover. Acceptable. 0x0x0. London, 1863. Three quarter green leather with marbled paper covered boards; edges worn, rear board detached but present; torn at crown along rear external hinge; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; marbled edges; bookplate on front pastedown; previous owner's name on first blank pages; illustrations in black and white; interior clean and unmarked; 624 pages.
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DOMBEY & SON
by CHARLES DICKENS. ILLUSTRATED BY H. K. BROWNE
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CHAPMAN & HALL, LONDON CIRCA 1870 HARDBACK VOLUME BOUND IN A 19th CENTURY HALF LEATHER BINDING, MARBLED BOARDS & PAGE EDGES, FRONTIS + EXTRA ILLUSTRATED TITLE PAGE, NUMEROUS FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES. SOME MINOR RUBBING TO EDGES OF SPINE & BOARDS, CORNERS BUMPED, NAME & DATE OF 1879 TO FRONT ENDPAPER, VERY ODD SPOT OF LIGHT FOXING MOSTLY TO ENDPAPER. OVERALL A VERY GOOD PLUS COPY WITH NONE OF THE USUAL HEAVY FOXING OR BROWNING TO PLATES & PAGES OFTEN FOUND IN EARLY DICKENS EDITIONS. A COLLECTABLE EARLY EDITION & BOUND IN AN ATTRACTIVE LEATHER BINDING. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP
by CHARLES DICKENS. ILLUSTRATED BY H. K. BROWNE, G. CATTERMOLE, D. MACLISE, ETC
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CHAPMAN & HALL, LONDON, 1871 HARDBACK VOLUME BOUND A 19TH CENTURY HALF LEATHER BINDING, MARBLED ENDPAPERS & PAGE EDGES, NUMEROUS BLACK & WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS AMONG TEXT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES WITH 6 + 533 PAGES. MINOR MARKS TO CLOTH BOARDS, SOME VERY OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING TO PAGES BUT HEAVIER TO ENDPAPERS. OVERALL A LOVELY COPY WITH GILT TO SPINE BRIGHT, BINDING TIGHT WITH MAJORITY OF PAGES CLEAN. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY APPLY FOR OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS ARE POSTED IN A STURDY BOOK BOX.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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DEALINGS WITH THE FIRM OF DOMBEY AND SON,: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. [Extra-illustrated].
by DICKENS, Charles; illustrated by BROWNE, H. K.:
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Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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London: Bradbury and Evans., 1848.. First edition. Octavo. Nicely bound in contemporary half purple-brown morocco over purple-brown pebble-grained cloth boards, the spine with six raised bands, ruled in gilt, and with titles in gilt. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and title page and 38 further plates by Halbot Knight Browne (aka 'Phiz'). Extra-illustrated with 12 additional plates by Browne depicting the principal characters of the novel (52 engraved plates in total). Two-line errata page bound in after the list of plates. Lacks half-title. A good copy, the binding square and firm with some marking to the boards and bumping to the corners. The contents with spotting to the plates (as commonly encountered), two plates with a small nick to the edge with neat old paper repairs to the verso, a 2.5cm hole to the bottom of one plate (between pp.564-5) with loss to the caption, 2cm clipped from the head of the printed title page (apparently to remove a previous owner's signature) and with…
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THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD
by DICKENS, Charles; illustrated by BROWNE, H. K.:
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London: Bradbury & Evans., 1850.. First edition, with first issue points including "screamed" remaining uncorrected on page 132 line 20 (later issues with "screwed"); the etched title page dated 1850; chapter XXVII begins on page 282 rather than page 283 as listed in the table of contents; p.16 line 1 and p. 225 line 22 both read "recal" rather than "recall"; p.19 line 39 reads "cha pter ; ut"; p.387 line 45 reads "coroboration" rather than "corroboration"; and p.472 line 37 has no closing of the quotation marks. Octavo. Handsomely bound for Henry Sotheran Ltd. in early twentieth-century half brown calf over red-brown linen boards, the spine with five raised bands and titles in gilt. Top edge gilt. Pale marbled endpapers. Illustrated with an etched frontispiece and vignette title page and 38 further etched plates by Halbot Knight Browne (aka 'Phiz'). Six-line errata page bound in after the list of plates. Lacking the half-title. A very good copy, the binding square and tight with a couple of faint…
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Dealings with the Firm of Dombey & Son
by Dickens, Charles, Illustrated by H.K. Browne
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Redding, Connecticut, United States
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London:: Bradbury & Evans,, 1848. Full Crushed Red Morocco. Fine. 8vo. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. 624pp. with the half-title and errata slip. First Issue: Cuttle's hook on his lieft hand in title page vignette; p.284, "Delight" instead of "Joy"; "Capatin" instead of "Captain" p.324, final line. Magnificently bound in full, red, crimson crushed red levant for Asprey. Gold vignette portrait of Dickens on front and gold facsimilie of his famous signature on rear. Spine in six compartments heavily tooled and lettered in gold; a.e.g. A gorgeous book.. Fine.
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Under Fire: An American Story
by North, Oliver L
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Millbury, Massachusetts, United States
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Harpercollins, 1991. First edition, as stated, first printing . Hardcover. Fine/near fine. r. 446 pp. This is a rare first edition copy signed by both Oliver North and William Novak. North's inscription, "Margo and Sam, all the best," appears in blue ink on the half title page with North's signature and the date "3 Nov 91" and Novak's signature in black ink. Dust jacket slightly wrinkled at top of spine. Free USPS tracking with every US order. Ships from MA.
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A New History of Japanese Cinema: A Century of Narrative Film
by Standish, Isolde
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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New York: Continuum, 2006. 8vo size trade paperback with black and white photo illustrated cover; 414 pages From back: "Cinema, which first arrived in Japan in 1896 with the Kinetoscope prototype, came at the very time that Japan was transforming its economic base and society into that of a major international power. The first cinema, the Asakusa Denikikan, was opened in Tokyo in 1903 and within 13 years 300 cinemas had sprung up throughout the country... (The author) focuses on the historical development of Japanese film, illustrated by a series of typical Japanese film posters. She details an industry and an art form shaped by the competing and merging forces of traditional culture and of economic and technological innovation." Edgewear, creases to bottom and bottom and top corners of front cover, soil on bottom and light soil to outside pages. We note pencilled underlining on at least 29 pages and pencilled marginalia on at least three pages and four creased page corners. Quotes…
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Old Bones
by Elkins, Aaron J
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- 9780892962624 / 0892962623
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Ellensburg, Washington, United States
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New York, NY, U. S. A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. New York, NY, U. S. A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. Fine in Near Fine jacket Signed by Author A Gideon Oliver Mystery, SIGNED on title pg. Edgar Award winner best mystery npc 197pp. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition
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Starting With Flags : Forty-Three Drawings
by Parker, Kingsley
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Williamsville, New York, United States
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SGD 20.68
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New York: Private Printing. Fine with no dust jacket. 1976. Limited Signed Edition. Softcover. The artist's abstract and quite varied series of 43 drawings of flags, all printed monochrome on the recto of pages. Kingsley Parker has been exhibiting and represented by galleries since the mid-1970s and has a work in the collection of the Museum Of Modern Art in New York, NY. The artist is quite active with new works. Signed in ink "K. Parker/1976 ©" in the front matter where Parker explains his motivation for drawing the series of abstract flags. Copy 158 of a limited edition of 600, numbered in the colophon. Approximately 44 pages, unpaginated. Printed on fine, machine-made paper in brown wraps. The title and a flag drawing are framed on the front cover. In absolutely clean, Fine condition. ; Drawings; Square 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 44 pages; Signed by Artist .
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Dead in Dixie
by Charlaine Harris
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- As New
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- As New
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780739434710 / 0739434713
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2003. Z2 - A Science Fiction Book Club Omnibus Edition hardcover book SIGNED by the Charlaine Harris in as new condition in as new dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead. 8.5"x5.75", 612 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club (BCE/BOMC).
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The Last Season (SIGNED) (FIRST EDITION): A Team In Search of Its Soul
by Phil Jackson
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- near fine
- Hardcover
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- first
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good+
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- First Edition
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781594200359 / 1594200351
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Tempe, Arizona, United States
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SGD 96.50SGD 28.95Save SGD 48.99!
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SIGNED FIRST EDITION One of the most successful coaches in the history of professional basketball offers his own take on his turbulent 2003-2004 season with the Los Angeles Lakers, chronicling the difficulties faced by the team--difficult relationships, public feuds, the Kobe Bryant rape trial, contract disputes, and injuries--and their successful journey to the NBA finals.
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Songs From Appledore
by Oscar Laighton
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Garland, Texas, United States
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RARE. Collectible: 1916. Signed by the author. Cambridge MA: University Press. Very Good. Hardcover. Light soil to green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped title, author's name, and design. A bright solid, book - 27 pages; Inside covers are sunned. Pages clean and bright. Frontspiece. "View from Mrs. Thaxter's Garden Gate. 29 illustrations. Small book: 7" x 5"
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Grant Wood and Marvin Cone : Artists of an Era
by Hazel E. Brown
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- near fine
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- Signed
- first
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780813817750 / 0813817757
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Arlington, Virginia, United States
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SGD 38.53
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Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Flat signed and dated by author on FFEP and Inscribed by author to a friend on half-title page. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine except for author's inscription and signature. Spine straight and tight. Jacket shows light rubbing, light chipping at spine head, and light reading wear to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xi + 150 pages. illus. A reflection of the relationships of two artists -- Grant Wood (1891-1942) and Marvin Cone (1891-1965) -- with the community of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A loving biography by a woman who knew them both. Laid-in are two letters to the editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette; one from Woods' sister, and another from a friend of Woods and the author.
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Maybe Tomorrow
by Roberta Fleetwood O'Keefe
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- Used - Very Good
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- No Jacket
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- Hardcover
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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Burnet, Texas: Nortex Press, 1978. CL5 - A hardcover book SIGNED by author on the front free endpaper in very good condition that is cocked, some scattered light scratches and rubbing, light tanning and shelf wear with no dust jacket. Brown covered boards with gilt lettering. 8.5"x5.5", 84 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The DOs and DON'Ts of Yesterday: Little Book of Early American Know-How
by Eric Sloane
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- Like New
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- Very Good
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- Hardcover
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Orange, Virginia, United States
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Illustrated with pen/ink images Sloane is known for. (2) books,a yellow and an orange (18x12cm) with gilt title on covers and spines. Paper title on dark red slipcase with signature of author. Slipcase has very minor wear to bottom fore edge.
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