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Doomsters
by MACDONALD, Ross
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First edition. Octavo. [iv], 251, [1, note on the type, note on the author] pp. Printed paper over boards, dust jacket. Jacket with some light rubbing to top and bottom of spine and edges. Still, a fine copy of this well-known Lew Archer title. HBS 67410. $1,000.
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$1000.00
Find a Victim
by MACDONALD, John Ross
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First edition. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Small octavo. [vi], 215, [1, colophon] pp. Patterned paper over boards, original dust jacket. Some rubbing to jacket, very tiny chip on rear of jacket at top, with two small creases nearby, some rubbing to book. Still, near fine. HBS 67411. $3,000.
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$3000.00
Eleanor & Park
by Rowell, Rainbow
U. S. A.: St. Martin's Griffin. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2013. First Edition; Nineteenth Printing. Hardcover. 1250012570 . First edition/ 19th printing. Signed by author on title page. Book is Fine, in unread condition. Dust jacket is Fine. ; Signed by Author .
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$100.00
The Volcano Lover
by Susan Sontag
Stated First Printing. In fine, like new condition, clean and unmarked in a fine dust jacket with price intact. Signed by Susan Sontag on title page. *
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$75.00
Why be happy when you can be normal
by Winterson, Jeanette
New York: Grove, 2011. Hardcover. 230p., personal inscription signed by the author on title page, very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj.
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$30.00
Mourning the Death of Magic
by Boyd, Blanche McCrary
New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0025142704 . First edition/First printing. Signed by author on title page. Book is unread condition with minor shelf wear, and tanning of papers due to age. Dust jacket has a small closed tear, and a small crease on the front fly leaf. ; Signed by Author .
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$100.00
Catcher In The Rye
by SALINGER, J.D
Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1951. 1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. First edition, in first issue dust jacket. Octavo (7 11/16 x 5 1/4 inches; 196 x 135 mm). [8], [1]-277, [1, blank] pp. Publisher's full black cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Boards with some light glue residue to top and bottom edges. Glue residue from bookplate removal on front and back pastedown. Library stamps for "Beverly Book Shelves Rental Libraries" on front and back free endpapers as...
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$7500.00
Elmer Gantry
by LEWIS, Sinclair
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., Inc., [1927]. First edition, first issue binding (with "Cantry" spelled incorrectly on spine). With an inscription card tipped in on dedication page reading "-To Louis/Emerson, with/the greetings of/Sinclair Lewis." Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 189 x 133 mm). [viii], 1-432 pp. Original blue cloth. Front board and spine stamped and lettered in orange. Fore-edge uncut. Spine lightly rubbed. Some minor shelf wear to spine...
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$1250.00
The Bad One (Photoplay Edition)
by Farrow, John
New York: A. L. Burt Company, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Textured orange cloth over boards, title and decorations stamped onto top board and spine, 8vo (7-3/8 inches tall), pp. 266, [ads], 4 B&W movie stills. Volume with spine ends softened, top edge dusty and lightest of taps to both top corners. DJ with light soil, edge wear and shallow chips to fold edges, 2" closed tear to foot of front panel near spine fold. The first and only edition of this uncommon...
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CA$250.00
Player Piano
by Vonnegut, Kurt
London: Macmillan & Co., 1953 First UK edition, first printing. With laid-in bookplate signed by Vonnegut. Publisher's red cloth, with light toning to spine ends, a few tiny bumps to edges of rear board, a hint of soiling to spine ends, bottoms of boards, and edges of endpapers, and light foxing to text block edges; about very good clipped dust jacket, with light fading to spine, light soiling to panels and spine, front flap stamped with "Macmillan's Overseas Library," light wear to...
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$1500.00
Onán
by Arana, Aitor
San Sebastián, Spain: Hiria, n.d.. Paperback. 138p., text in Spanish, a few marginal notes, words written in pen (English translations) in the first three pages, otherwise good first editio trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Novel of gay adolescent sexuality.
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$20.00
What I Did Wrong a novel
by Weir, John
New York: Viking Press, 2006. Hardcover. 243p., remainder mark on bottom edge else a very good first edition, first printing stated in boards and unclipped dj. Second novel by the author. A gay English professor who lost a best friend and many others to the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s begins to question his certainty about his sexuality as he slips into middle age.
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$12.00
Selected Plays (of Tennessee Williams)
by Williams, Tennessee
Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1980. Book. Illus. by Tauss, Herbert. Near Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition.. Limited Edition. Illustrations by Herbert Tauss. This is an unsigned copy. Book is bound in full brown leather with gilt lettering and decorations. 565 pages, all edges gilt. There is spotting to the gilt on the top of the page block. See Photo. Priced accordingly. Maroon moire fabric endpapers. Silk page marker. Raised bands on the book's spine. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar...
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$20.00
Tarzan and the Ant Men
by BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co, 1924. First edition. Octavo. 346, [4], pp. Publisher's brown cloth, dark brown-stamped front board and spine, dust jacket. Jacket lightly rubbed at extremities with 1 small chip to top of front cover and a tiny bit of loss to bottom of spine. Otherwise, near fine. Heins. Zeuschner 532. HBS 67588. $3,500.
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$3500.00
You Only Live Twice
by FLEMING, Ian
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. London: Jonathan Cape, [1964]. First edition, first printing (with "First published 1964".) Small octavo (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 188 x 124 mm). 255, [1] pp. Original full black cloth-patterned paper over boards,. Top board blocked in gilt with Japanese characters (reading "you only live twice"). Spine lettered in silver with silver Cape logo at foot. Light brown wood-grain patterned endpapers. Small tape residue on endpapers. Some foxing to text block edge. Binding slightly...
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$1250.00
Believe It Or Not!
by RIPLEY, Robert L
London: Stanley Paul & Co. (1928) Ltd, 1929. London: Stanley Paul & Co. (1928) Ltd., [1929]. First London edition, first printing with no mention of later printing on verso of title-page. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 216 x 140 mm). [4], 9-189 pp. Complete. In publisher's dust jacket. This edition is very rare. We could find no copies of this London edition at auction in the past 50 years and only one copy at a library. Publisher's full green cloth. Front board and spine lettered in red ink. Previous...
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$1500.00
Tanar of Pellucidar
by BURROUGHS, Edgar Rice
New York: Metropolitan Books, 1930. Frontispiece by Paul F. Berdanier. New York: Metropolitan Books, [1930]. First edition of the third Pellucidar novel. Octavo. 312 pp. Frontispiece. Original bright blue cloth lettered in black on front cover and spine. Spine very slightly rubbed at extremities. Otherwise a fine copy. In the original color pictorial dust jacket by Paul F. Berdanier. First published as a six-part serial in The Blue Book Magazine, March-August 1929, with a front cover illustration on...
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$2250.00
Signed Photograph
by SANGER, Margaret
New York: Ira L. Hill, 1917. SANGER, Margaret. Margaret Sanger. An Autobiography. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1938]. First edition. Octavo (9 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches; 237 x 161 mm). [1]-504, [2] pp. With photographic frontispiece portrait. Title-page printed in black and blue. Original full blue cloth. Spine printed in orange and gilt, and lettered in gilt. Top edge brick red, others uncut. Some minor rubbing to boards. Overall about fine. Margaret Sanger is a woman's right's activist and a pioneer...
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$1500.00
Photographs 1920-1934 Paris
by RAY, Man
Hartford: James Thrall Soby, 1934. Harford Connecticut/ New York: James Thrall Soby/Random House, [1934]. First edition with the cancel title with the fictitious "second edition"statement. According to 101 Books, by Roth, the publisher "attempted to generate demand where none existed by suggesting the edition had sold out. copies with the original title page are exceedingly rare." Presentation copy, inscribed by Man Ray at the top of the Contents page: "To Corinne Chochem/ Cordially Man Ray 1948."...
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$7500.00
Hot Cargo
by Bennett, Nicki & Ariel Tachna
Frisco, TX: Dreamspinner Press, 2009. Paperback. 246p., fine first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps. Gay pirates! M/MRomance written by cisgender women.
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$15.00
Steppenwolf
by HESSE, Hermann
Berlin: S. Fischer, 1927. Der Steppenwolf. Berlin: S. Fischer, [1927]. First edition, in original first issuedust jacket (with bis.15 on front). Octavo (7 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches; 184 x 110 mm). [1]-64, [2, yellow wrapper], [34], [65]-289, [1, colophon], [2, blank] pp. with the separately paginated Tractat bound in with faux wrappers as required. Original pale blue linen cloth. Boards ruled in gilt. Front board with the initials "hh" in gilt. Spine with black panel, lettered and stamped in gilt. Middle...
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$7500.00
Viajes de Penelope
by Pita, Juana Rosa, preface by Reinaldo Arenas
Miami: Solar, 1980. Paperback. 89p., text in Spanish, preface by Arenas, good first edition trade paperback in lightly-worn and tone yellow printed wraps, head of spine a bit worn. Cuban American poet.
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$15.00
Meet Me at the Morgue
by MACDONALD, Ross
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Octavo. 212, [2], pp. Original yellow and red patterned paper over boards, dust jacket. Some rubbing and scuffing to jacket, a few tape repairs to verso. Very good. HBS 67413. $850.
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$850.00
Rogue Lawyer
by Grisham, John
London: Hodder & Stoughton. No inscriptions; the original, unclipped dust jacket is protected by a clear, removable cover. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 2015.
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£12.95
The Ugly American
by Lederer, William J.; Eugene Burdick
New York: Norton, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good +. 8vo, cloth-covered boards in dust jacket. Book has mild fading and bumping to extremities, while pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has shallow edgewear, including minor chipping to crown of spine, short tears to rear panel, and rubbing and creasing to edges. Sunning to spine and clipping to front flap. Dust jacket hoursed in archival dust jacket protector.
Item Price
$50.00
