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Arthuriana Volume 23 Number 2 Summer 2013: Papers from the XXIII Triennial International Arthurian Society Conference University of Bristol, United Kingdom July 25-30. 2011 II Merlin, 2013
by Armstrong, Dorsey (Editor)
West Lafayette, IN: Scriptorium Press, 2013. Articles Include "The Arthurian Opera" and "Ruled by Merlin; Mirrors for Princess, Counseling Patterns and Malory's Tale of King Arthur". Occasional ink marginalia and underlining; Light edge-rubbing. 79p.. Wraps. Near Fine. 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Scholarly Periodical.
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SGD 13.25
Light in August
by Faulkner, William; Richard H. Rovere, Introduction
Modern Library, Random House. Fair in Good dust jacket. 1950. Hardcover. 0394600886 . 444 pages. Good reading copy. DJ in protective plastic, creases. Pages have some underlining and margin notes, hinge cracked. Modern Library No 88. Price of $1.45 on DJ. As Richard Rovere states " This is a book full of many things, among them a might compassion." ; .
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SGD 16.39
Portraits in Mixed Media
by Hays, H. R
Survivors Manual. Fair. 1978. Softcover. Clean text. Outer cover has soiling . Creases on the cover and page edges. Hays' poems reflect on social and political injustices. Includes poems such as The Case of the Moon Walker, The Retired American General, The Ideal Birthday Present, Gerry Ford, Survivor's Manual, Marianne Moore and more .
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SGD 8.19
Francois Villon : A Documented Survey
by Wyndham Lewis, D B
London: Sheed & Ward Ltd, 1945. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked black boards, well-foxed slightly dusty page edges and minor bumping to upper corners. Dusty dust jacket not price clipped or marked with sunned spine and small tears to upper rear edge and spine foot. Fold-out map of Paris in 1530 in excellent condition. 355pp. Biography of Francois Villon, French poet of the late Middle Ages who had many encounters with the law, was born in 1431 and...
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SGD 24.11
To the Finland Station: a Study in the Writing and Acting of History
by Wilson, Edmund
Doubleday Anchor. Good. 1940. Mass Market Paperback. Clean text, cover has some stains. 502 pages. Includes the Origins of Socialism; Michelet and the Middle Ages; Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels; Lenin, Trotsky, etc. Index .
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SGD 21.85
Gairm : An Raitheachan Gaidhlig : Spring 1975 - No 90
by MacThomais, Ruaraidh (editor)
Glasgow, Scotland: Gairm Publications, 1975. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 96pp. Gaelic magazine from a series which have features on literature, history, fashion, nature, music, politics, transport and travel etc. Most of text in Scottish Gaelic.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8.5 x 5.5 inches.
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SGD 12.49
Adventures in Reading
by Ross, Jacob M. ; Blanche Jennings Thompson; Evan Lodge
Harcourt, Brace. Fair. 1952. Hardcover. 686 pages. Good binding, margin notes, underlining. Stories by Elsie Singmaster, Dorothy Canfield, Saki, Pedro Alarcon; ballads, rhymes, lyrics, wit and nonsense; non-fiction adventure stories such as The South Pole by Thomas R. Henry, Ben Hogan by Red Smith; American Songs and Sketches; Novel - Great Expectations; H. L. Mencken on Discovering Books etc Illustrated. ; .
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SGD 9.22
Episotolas familiars de Don Antonio de Guevara, Obispo de Mondonedo, predicador, chronista, y del confejo del Emperador Don Carlos [ ]
by GUEVARA, Antonio De
Anveres: Jacobo Mevrcio, 1665. Limp Vellum. See Description. Small 8vo. 2 volumes in 1. Volume I. pp. 400, [6]. Vol. II. pp. 383, [7]. With separate title page to each volume. Bound in period vellum. Occasional faint miniscule underlining in an old hand and a couple short marginal notations; some marginal smudging / soiling; front and rear blank leaves are ragged and torn. Volume I: tiny hole in p. 271 (mostly between lines but partly obstructing a couple of letters); bottom corner tip clipped on p.399...
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SGD 648.71
The Wild Earth's Nobility: A Novel of the Old West
by Waters, Frank
NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1935. Author's ink signature on ffep. Dark yellow end pages, clean and tight textblock. Orange top page edges. Black cloth, surface-rubbed, with minor shelf wear to the edges/spine. Lacks dust jacket; 454p.. Signed by Author. Black Cloth. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.
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SGD 90.08
Later Auden
by Edward Mendelson
London: Faber and Faber, 1999. Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with light creasing to lower edge. 570pp. The history of the poems of W H Auden and of the events that went into them from the time he moved to America in 1939 until his death in Austria in 1973. His poems are also effectively his autobiography as he once said that 'anything of importance...
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SGD 34.45
Book and Magazine Collector : No 89 August 1991
by John Dean (editor)
London: Diamond Publishing Group Ltd, 1991. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with very slight tanning to pages and no bumping to corners. 147pp. This issue includes HG Wells, Jonathan Raban, Gerald Swan comics, Thomas Bewick, Curtis Warren, John Gardner, English ghost stories, Hugh Lofting, Doctor Dolittle.. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 8.25 x 6 inches.
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SGD 8.53
Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
by Service, Robert W
NY: Barse & Hopkins, 1916. Shaken at pages 112 & 113 but all pages are safely intact; Stamped fep, age toned, else textblock clean and tight; Bumped head and foot of the spine and board corners, minor edge wear, with rubbed back cover along the upper edge. 192p.. Green Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by Frontispiece. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.
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SGD 19.87
Robert Burns : Appreciations
by Lord Rosebery
Stirling: Eneas Mackay, 1912. Foxing to pages. No other marks or inscriptions. Minor creasing to corners and upper edge. Clean tight pages with marking to rear, tanned page edges and rubbing to some corners. 43pp. Large paper copy of two speeches - in Dumfries and Glasgow - by Lord Rosebery celebrating the life of poet and writer Robert Burns on the centenary of his death. With five photographs.. Soft Cover. Good. 9.75 x 7.25 inches.
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SGD 12.49
Clasicii Români Despre Scoala De Odinioara Pentru Clasele V-VIII
by Ene, Virgiliu
Editura Tineretului. Fair. Paperback. 205 pages. Romanian language. Includes: Radulescu, Neruzzi, Ghica, Creanga, Caragiale, Slavici, Vlahuta, St Delavrancea, Sadoveanu. Reading copy, Clean text, cover has heavy creases, one page is torn at the edge, binding has cracks at the spine .
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SGD 10.93
Ayesha The Return of "She"
by Haggard, H. Rider
London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited Undated; Blind-embossed seal on title/copyright page, age toned, otherwise textblock is clean and tight; Minor bumping to head and foot of spine; Unclipped, full-color dust jacket, chipped at the head of the spine, aged back cover, chipping to the corners, usual wear to the edges. 317p.. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good (in mylar). 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.
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SGD 33.12
Jane Eyre Notes
by Snodgrass, Mary Ellen
Cliffs Notes. Good. 1961. Paperback. 0822006723 . 92 pages. Note: this is the Cliff Notes study guide only. Clean inside, outside cover has former owner's name crossed out and marks around the title, light creases .
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SGD 6.83
My Hand and Seal
by Rosenbaum, Nathan
The Beechhurst Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. A collection of 79 sonnets. Pages and endpapers have some browning. Themes are Of Man's Fate and Of Man's Love .
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SGD 10.93
SARTRE Romantic Rationalist
by Murdoch, Iris; Erich Heller, General Editor
Yale University Press. Fair. 1959. Paperback. 114 pages. Clean inside, cover has creases, back cover has some stains, light edge tear; .
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SGD 7.51
Le Prophetes du passe.
by BARBEY D'AUREVILLY, Jules-Amedee
Paris: A. Bourdilliat, 1860. Second Edition. . Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. [4], 222. Half calf with marbled boards (some rubbing). Pages clean. Book plate on inside front cover. Name in pencil on front blank. Bookseller stamp near bottom edge of half-title. First published in 1851. The second edition contains a supplement concerning the correspondence of Joseph de Maistre. Barbey D'Aurevilly (1808-1889) flamboyant French decadent writer with strong Royalist and Catholic sentiments. He was...
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SGD 389.22
The American Mercury; Volume XXIII, Number 92, August, 1931
by Mencken, H. L. (edited by); Angoff, Charles (managing editor)
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Covers moderately edge-worn and chipped, else clean and tight textblock. pp. 385-512, including index.. Green Wraps. Good. Illus. by Photographs/Advertisements; Samuel E. Brown Cover Art. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Literary Periodical.
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SGD 11.91
O Pioneers! / the Song of the Lark / Alexander's Bridge: 3 Complete Novels
by Cather, Willa
Gramercy. Good in Good dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0517064936 . 523 pages. Clean, very good binding, red remainder mark on the side. Joseleen Wilson, introduction. ; .
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SGD 10.93
Salmagundi #63-64 Spring-Summer 1984 The Post-Modern Aura : the Act of Fiction in an Age of Inflation
by Newman, Charles
Skidmore College. Good. 1984. Softcover. Clean inside, cover scuffed, spine creased. Essays, fiction, poems by : Charles Newman, Ben Belitt, Rene Girard, Matthias; Stephen Sandy, Emily Grosholz, Michael Wreszin, Larry Nacman, Rudolf Arnheim. Essays include -- Rene Girard - The Extinction of Social Order; Michael Wreszin, On Arthur Schlesinger, Jr; Larry Nachman - A Post-Communist Intellectual .
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SGD 19.12
The "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound Little Sense
by Gilbert, W. S
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates No date of publication indicated. Previous owner's inked name/date on 3rd ffep, else clean and tight. All edges gilt. Blue cloth bookmark slipped in. Gilt lettering & decoration to binding. Shelf worn binding, moderate fraying to head and foot of spine, light fraying to corners and edges, scratch along spine on rear cover, light character soiling. 226pp.. Fifth Revised Edition. Illustrated Cloth. Very Good. Illus. by W. S. Gilbert. 12mo - over 6¾" -...
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SGD 66.92
Talking Drums: a Selection of Poems from Africe South of the Sahara
by Tadjo, Veronique (editor)
Bloomsbury. Good in Good dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 1582348138 . Clean, good binding, DJ in protective plastic. A collection of 75 poems from various writers, some of which are: Praise Song to King Shaka, The Lion Roars with Fearful Song, Quicksand, Dry Your Tears, Africa; City Johannesburg, etc ; Ex-Library; .
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SGD 11.95
Book and Magazine Collector : No 43 October 1987
by John Dean (editor)
London: Diamond Publishing Group Ltd, 1987. A very small number of classified section listings highlighted in pale pink. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with slighly tanned pages and no bumping to corners. 131pp. This issue includes early novels of Dick Francis, John Moore, rare book catalogues, Michael Frayn, Pevsner 'The Buildings of England', Edgar Rice Burroughs 'Tarzan' stories and George Macdonald's childrens...
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SGD 8.53