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Modern First Editions Books & Ephemera
Un Lun Dun
by China Mieville
Stated first edition with complete number line. In very good condition, clean and unmarked, in a very good dustjacket. Signed by China Mieville on title page. Included is ephemera announcing author event.
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$50.00
The Overstory.
by POWERS, Richard
New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2018. Signed by Richard Powers on a specially printed Overstory bookplate which has been laid into the book (not mounted). First edition / First printing. Brown paper spine, brown paper-covered boards. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket. Richard Powers' remarkable novel, which went quickly into later printings. It is a novel about trees and the natural world. Trees are living things whose lives are measured in centuries, but can be wiped out in days. It is also the...
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$950.00
Gorillas in the Mist
by Fossey, Dian
First UK edition, first impression. Original green cloth with lettering to spine in gilt. Slightest hint of very faint spotting to top edge, else fine in a fine dust jacket. A fantastic copy.
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£200.00
Efficiency expert, a poem
by Converse, Florence
New York: The John Day Company, 1934. Hardcover. 172p., first edition, minor edge wear else very good condition, inscribed and signed by Converse's lover Vida Scudder - "Margaret Heaton, this work of her comrade, and companion to be, from another companion, Vida D. Scudder, S.C.H.C." Converse, active for years in the Socialist movement, was the life long companion of Vida Scudder.
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$200.00
Red Dirt
by Ready, E, M
London: Head of Zeus. 2016. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket, signed by the author. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 323 pp .
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$25.00
I is for Innocent
by Sue Grafton
Macmillan, 1992. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Lovely clean and unmarked seemingly unread copy in unmarked dj. Pages are beginning to tan, but end papers remain bright. Spine is perhaps a little faded.
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£8.00
Presentation Piece
by Hacker, Marilyn
Viking, 1974. First edition, first printing. Trade paperback. a nearly fine copy. Inscribed and signed by Hacker on the title page. [118] pp.
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$25.00
The Last Thing to Burn
by Will Dean
Hodder & Stoughton, 2021. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Excellent clean and unmarked copy, probably unread, with no inscriptions. Unclipped jacket is bumped at top edge
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£8.00
Doting
by Green, Henry
London: Hogarth, 1952. First Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Boards are worn and bumped, spine is cracked and end papers are foxed with a WH Smith 'Day-by-day' service bookplate. First printing
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£8.00
The Stories of Stephen Dixon.
by DIXON, Stephen
New York: Henry Holt, 1994. Signed on the title page and dated 6.21.95 by Stephen Dixon. First edition / First printing. Gold cloth spine, gold paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.
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$100.00
BEVERLY An Autobiography
by Sills, Beverly (SIGNED) and Lawrence Linderman
New York: Bantam Books, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY BEVERLY SILLS ON FEP. 356pp. Bound n 1/4 black cloth over black paper covered boards stamped in gilt, spine lettering gilt. A fine copy in fine unclipped pictorial dust jacket.
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$125.00
The Grotto of Tiberius
by Frederick E Smith
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1961. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Book in bright boards with gold lettering is square and tight with no inscriptions. There is a red cross on corner of the front end paper, but pages are otherwise clean and unmarked and very good. The Val Biro jacket is worn around edges but has no tears or significant damage. The jacket is unclipped, but the price has been crossed through and new price written in ink.
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£15.00
Nocturnal Omissions: a tale of two poets
by Dillard, Gavin Geoffrey & Eric Norris
Alexander, AR: Sibling Rivalry Press, 2011. Paperback. 165p., very good first edition trade paperback original in pictorial wraps.
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$12.00
Spanky
by Fowler, Christopher
London: Warner Books, 1994. Paperback. 338p., good first edition trade paperback original, camp pictorial wraps and frosted glassine dj with minor wear and soiling. Gay horror fiction.
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$12.00
Widows' Adventures: A Novel
by Charles Dickinson
FIRST EDITION in dust jacket; SIGNED by the author on the FFEP. Both the book and dust jacket are in fine condition. No remainder mark; price intact on the front dust jacket flap.
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$27.99
The Once and Future spy
by Littell, Robert
Faber & Faber Limited, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Nice solid and square copy. Page edges toned with very minor bumping to jacket.
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£8.00
Into the Abyss
by Jules Verne
Arco, 1963. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Lovely clean and bright copy. Black boards with bright gold titles. No inscriptions. End papers a little foxed. Unclipped jacket is slightly tanned but has minimal signs of wear with no chips or tears or bumping. First thus. Publisher's slip giving publication date laid in.
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£15.00
THE JUNIPER TREE And Other Tales From Grimm. Translated by Lore Segal (With Four Tales Translated by Randall Jarrell). Pictures by Maurice Sendak. 2 Volumes in Slipcase
by Grimm, Brothers; translated by Lore Segal with four tales translated by Randall Jarrell
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. First edition. Hard covers in dust jackets and publishedr's slipcase. Published NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973, first printing. 8vo., 3322pp., full page plates by Sendak. Fine, crisp, bright in fine dust jackets and near fine slipcase. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Sendak, Maurice. 8vo.
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$250.00
Chango's fire; a novel
by Quiñonez, Ernesto
New York: Rayo, 2004. Hardcover. 272p., very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Novel set in Spanish Harlem by a Puerto Rican author.
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$15.00
Cinderella married, or how they lived happily ever after. A divertissement
by Mangan, Sherry
New York: A. & C. Boni, 1932. Hardcover. 306p., first edition, original cloth binding somewhat toned with general darkening to spine, front hinge cracked else good condition, inscribed in pencil "For Norman, with apologie [?] in that he expects better, but with thanks that he'll accept this, S Mangan," worn and soiled dj with a very darkened spine. Mangan, a one time editor of the literary magazine Pagany, was also a long term activist in the Trotskyist movement.
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$190.00
The Beaver Men: Spearheads of Empire (SIGNED)
by Sandoz, Mari
1964 First Edition copy, signed by the author. Beautiful condition. Straight, tight spine. Clear, unmarked, unstained pages. Original dust jacket present, price clipped with minor wear to top and bottom edges, mainly near spine. Colors still vibrant, slight fading on spine. Some slight rubbing as well. Medium brown cloth binding with embossed American Procession Series logo on front cover, Gold title on spine. Ex Libris sticker on inside front cover (see photo). Pages lightly, evenly aged. Signature is...
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$149.98
True at First Light
by Ernest Hemingway
Published by William Heinemann, London; 1999. 8vo. First edition, first impression. Condition: Fine/Fine.
Bound in original black cloth boards title in gilt to the spine. The binding is square and tight, and in excellent condition, with just a touch of bumping to the top of the spine. Inside, the pages are clean and bright and free from marks or blemishes, with just the slightest hint of toning.
The book is housed in its original dust jacket, which is in equally smart condition, vibrant and smart with... Read more about this item
Bound in original black cloth boards title in gilt to the spine. The binding is square and tight, and in excellent condition, with just a touch of bumping to the top of the spine. Inside, the pages are clean and bright and free from marks or blemishes, with just the slightest hint of toning.
The book is housed in its original dust jacket, which is in equally smart condition, vibrant and smart with... Read more about this item
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£15.00
Chicago: City On The Make
by Algren, Nelson
Garden City: Doubleday. 1951. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine but for slight sunning to top of spine and bookplate on front free endpaper, in vg dust jacket with chips and taped tears. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 92 pp .
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$35.00
The Redundancy of Courage
by Mo, Timothy
Chatto & Windus, 1991. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Lovely tight unmarked copy, pages beginning to tan. Dj bright and undamaged apart from slight shelf wear.
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£7.00
![[Islamic Architecture] [Moorish Houses and Gardens of Morocco] Le Jardin et la Maison Arabes au Maroc, avec 160 [sic] Dessins de Albert Laprade et 136 Planches en Heliogravure d'apres les Photographies de Lucien Vogel, Félix, Vve P.R. Schmitt, G. Fauré et Canu](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/707/663/1286663707.0.b.jpg)
[Islamic Architecture] [Moorish Houses and Gardens of Morocco] Le Jardin et la Maison Arabes au Maroc, avec 160 [sic] Dessins de Albert Laprade et 136 Planches en Heliogravure d'apres les Photographies de Lucien Vogel, Félix, Vve P.R. Schmitt, G. Fauré et Canu
by GALLOTTI, Jean (1881-1972); Albert Laprade (Illustrates); Lucien Vogel, 1886-1954 (Photographs)
Paris: Editions Albert Lévy, Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, 2, rue de l'Echelle, 1926. Quarter-Cloth. Near Fine+. First Edition, complete in two volumes, of this treatise on Moroccan domestic architecture, as interpreted by Gallotti and his collaborators. Text in French. Royal 8vo (250 x 193mm): viii,120,[8]x; 94,[8]pp, with 136 plates in heliogravure from photographs by Lucien Vogel and others and 157 line drawings by Albert Laprade. Publisher's saffron yellow percaline-backed paper-covered...
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$865.00
