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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Flappers and Philosphers, 1959 Charles Scribner's. Short stories. Fitzgerald's first collection thus. Copyright page States G-5.70[H]. VG/VG Price-clipped original white and green Scribner's dust jacket with gold back panel. Turquoise cloth boards. USED. VG/VG. 5 5/8 X 8 1/4. 189 pages. HARD TO FIND. Summary: "By the Irish American Jazz Age novelist and short story writer regarded… Read more about this item

Bonney, Jo. 2000 First Edition, Theater Communications Group. EXTREME EXPOSURE, AN ANTHOLOGY OF PERFORMANCE TEXTS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. EXLIB. Softcover. 424 pages. 6 X 9. Good Condition/ None issued. Monologues, American; American Drama; 20th Century; Performance Art; United States. Artists included here are: Beatrice Herford, Jackie "Moms" Mabley, Ruth Draper, Lord Buckley, Brother Theodore, Lenny Bruce, Lilly Tomlin and… Read more about this item

Glasscock, C.B. The War Of The Copper Kings: Builders of Butte and Wolves Of Wall Street. 1935 Bobbs Merrill, Grosset & Dunlap reprint. WESTERN NON-FICTION. JOURNALISM. The story of the Wall Street Panic of 1907, fueled by Frederick Augustus Heinze of the Montana Ore Purchasing Co. USED. VG/NO DJ INCLUDED. 314 pages. 5 3/4 X 8 3/8.

Westcott, E.N. "E.N". Westcott's Famous Novel DAVID HARUM. Used. VG/VG Rare 1934 Original Fox Film Will Rogers Dust Jacket. Copyright 1898, D. Appleton And Company. 351 pages plus adverts. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾. Blue boards with black titling. Photographic still endpapers are intact at the hinge. Summary: "Romance Comedy Drama. The story of David Harum, a small-town banker, and… Read more about this item

Beebe, Lucius. Legends of the Comstock Lode. Paperback. 1954, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA. By Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg. First Edition Thus. USED. VG Condition/ None as issued. 82 pages, indexed. 6 X 9 1/8. Comstock Lode, California Gold Rush, Mining, History of California.

Beebe, Lucius. Comstock Commotion: The Story of The Territorial Enterprise and Virginia City News. Copyright 1954, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA. Used. VG Condition/ No DJ included. A nice copy. USED. 129 pages 6 ¼ X 9 5/8. California Gold Rush, Mining, Comstock Lode, Virginia City Nevada. Journalism. History of California. 19th Century.

Steig, William The Lonely Ones. Copyright 1942, First Edition. Duell Sloane and Pearce, NY. USED. VG/VG Original dust jacket. QUITE RARE THUS. Now protected in a mylar wrap. Cartoons by New Yorker Magazine contributor and author and illustrator of SHREK!, WILLIAM STEIG. 102 pages, 5 3/8 X 7 ¾.

Lenski, Lois. Strawberry Girl. Copyright 1945, by Lois Lenski. Stated 15th Printing Thus. Published by J.B. Lippincott. Illustrated by the author. EXLIB. VG Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Green boards. Gold titling and ornamentation. Green and red strawberry motif endpapers. 194 pages. 6 5/8 X 8 3/4. CHILDRENS BOOK. Summary: "Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer can hardly wait to start picking them. But… Read more about this item

Devol, George H. Forty Years A Gambler On The Mississippi. 1926 Henry Holt First Edition. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ is included. 5 1/4 X 7 5/8 288 Pages. Red boards with playing card emblem at center front. Spine states "Of The Mississippi" in error. Summary: In his "Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi" Devol recounts dozens of anecdotes… Read more about this item

0084LewisBabbittBlue BABBITT. BY SINCLAIR LEWIS. Used. No Dust Jacket is included if issued. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ No DJ Included. Harcourt, Brace & Company First Edition, Stated Fourth Printing Thus, November, 1922. Please see our photos. .5 1/8 X7 1/2. 401 pages plus adverts.

Bierce, Ambrose. In The Midst Of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. 1892 Chatto & Windus. London. Printed by Spottiswoode and Co. Used. VG Condition/ No DJ Included. Navy Blue Boards with Gilt titling and blindstamped floral ornamentation at center front panel. Titling on spine is still good. Used. Short stories of the American Civil War. Documentary. War Stories.… Read more about this item

Armer, Laura Adams: Waterless Mountain. Copyright 1931, 5th Printing Thus April 1932. Longmans, Green And Co. New York-Toronto. Used. Very Good Condition/ No DJ included. Brown and white pictorial endpapers are intact at the hinge. 212 pages, 7 1/4 X 9 1/4. Summary: "Younger Brother lives in a dry land, and he dreams of finding the wide water of the… Read more about this item

209LewisBabbittRed Sinclair Lewis. Babbitt. Copyright 1922. No other info appears on the copyright page. Harcourt Brace, NY. This is an undated Harbrace reprint edition, circa 1938 Printed from First Edition second issue plates with the correction of "Lyte" for "Purdy" on p. 49, line 4. USED. VG/Good-. Dark red boards and original maroon dust. Quite rare thus. 5 ¾ X… Read more about this item

172ScottReporter Scott, Jane: Barbara Owen: Girl Reporter. 1956, Avalon Books First Edition. WOMEN IN JOURNALISM. EXLIB. Good/Good original price-clipped blue dust jacket. 5 ¼ X 8 224 pages. A nice find. RARE.

Maddow, Rachel. BAG MAN. Hardcover, ISBN9780593136683. Publisher: Crown, New York, 2020 Used -AS NEW/AS NEW. First Edition. Hardcover. Book. True Crime. The scams, Audacious Cover-Up & Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House, VP Spiro Agnew. Written with Michael Yarvitz. Maddow is the MSNBC TV host and author of Blowout. True first edition, just out and quickly… Read more about this item

Blind Ambition. By Former White House Counsel John Dean. Simon and Schuster First Edition, 6th Impression thus. Used. VG Condition? Good price-clipped Dust Jacket. 415 pages, indexed. A VERY TIMELY TITLE. Summary: HISTORICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY. WATERGATE SCANDAL. "As White House counsel to Richard Nixon, a young John W. Dean was one of the primary players in the Watergate scandal—and ultimately became… Read more about this item

Jewett, Sarah Orne: The Country Of the Pointed Firs .Franklin Watts, ca 1986, A Keith Jennison Book. Large-Print Edition. RARE/SCARCE. EXLIB. VG Condition/ VG clear plastic dj. 8 ¾ x 11 3/8. 247 pages. Please see stock photo. Our copy is not stamped discard on the front cover and includes the RARE original white and green dust jacket for this… Read more about this item

McCloskey, Robert: MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS Publisher: The Viking Press, copyright 1941. Stated Fifth Printing Thus, May, 1944. Letterpress text and drawings in lithographic crayon on zinc, printed throughout in brown with title page lettered in green, pictorial endpapers. Beige cloth, lettered and pictorially stamped in green. Dust-jacket printed in green and brown, $2.00 price flap unclipped. Two green and… Read more about this item

Guedalla, Philip: "Conquistador " 1928 First Edition, Harper & Brothers. New York and London Used. VG/ No DJ included. Attractive red boards with gilt titling on front and spine. 5 7/8 X 8 7/8. 1928 First Edition Impression A-C on copyright page. 276 pages plus adverts.. HISTORICAL FICTION.

Vonnegut, Kurt. Jailbird. 1979. Delacorte Press/ Seymour Lawrence. First Edition. Used. Good+ Unclipped DJ. Back cover author photo. 245 pages, Indexed. Plot summary: "This thematically and narratively complex book tells the life story of Walter Starbuck, ex-socialist, ex-capitalist, and ex-con. Moving fluidly back and forth between past and present, incident and insight, irony and irony, the novel explores themes relating… Read more about this item