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St. Louis, MO: Warren H. Green, Inc, 1990. Paperback. Good. 8vo. 177 pp. Glossy paper wraps printed with red and black illustration. Faint discoloration to edges and some peeling to glossy coating. Bumping to spine ends. Small (appx 1 inch) oil stain to bottom edge of rear wrapper, affecting last 20 pp of text. Damp stain to text block edge upper fore corner, not affecting interior. Text somewhat yellowed at places, otherwise clean. Binding tight and sturdy.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1909. Red quarter cloth w/ tan paper covered boards, black titling. Good/Fair. Smedley, W. T.. 8vo. [4] 84 pp. [4] w/4 b&w plates. Red quarter cloth w/ tan paper covered boards, black titling. In illustrated dustjacket. Chipping to dj edges, sunning to all panels, with 3/4 of the spine panel roughly removed and amateurishly repaired with tape. Sunning to red spine strip where pieces of jacket are missing. Light discoloration to endpapers.The story of Julia Bride first appeared in Harpers' Magazine March-April 1908. Bookplate of Arthur & Rosemary Mizener to fpd. Mizener was an acclaimed literary critic and author of the first biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Far Side of Paradise" Association copy.

New York: Random House, 1946. First Printing. 1/2 Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. 107 pp. First printing. Lacking jacket. Faint rubbing at spine ends and corners of boards. Former ownership inscription from Russell A. Peck, Jr. in ink to ffep. Otherwise clean and sound. No "least" on page 99. Signed in ink by Tony Award winning actress Judith Anderson on dedication page, dated November 1947.

Stuttgart: Julius Hoffmann, 1936. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 4to. 12 pp + 200 illustrations [4]. Printed pale blue paper boards backed in black cloth. Gold titling to spine, black calligraphic titling to front board. Corners bumped with some board exposure, rubbing to bottom edge. Slight bowing and soiling to boards. Text block lightly toned but very clean. With 200 illustrated examples of calligraphy and handwriting from European masters of the 16th to 18th centuries.

[Saunderstown, RI]: Luella M. Johnson [Self Published], 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. 147 [2] pp. Pale blue printed paper wraps backed in black cloth. Some soiling and sunning to wraps, interior very clean. Front cover shows subtitle: "Letters from a daughter to her Mother," while the title page shows: "Letters from J.J.C. to L.M.J." A collection of personal letters from the author's daughter, Judith (nee Johnson) Catmur, while she and her family were living in India during the 1960's.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First Edition. Cloth Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Kent, Rockwell. Folio. 358 pp. Brown boards backed in gray cloth with gilt titling along spine. In clipped, glossy pictorial dust jacket. Faint scuffing to dj with light foxing on verso. Spine ends gently pushed. Otherwise clean and sound. First edition w/ errata slip laid-in. Edited with an introduction by Fridolph Johns, foreword by Jamie Wyeth.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover w/ dust jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 286 pp. Blue cloth backed boards with silver titling in pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Faint edgewear to jacket. Light rubbing along edges of boards. Inscribed in ink by Jones on half-title, "To Joseph & Abigail, Big heartful of thanks and joy to you both! Love, Bill T. Jones, 06/2000". Part memoir, part meditation, part performance, Jones charts his origins and development.

New York: Warner Books, 1980. Wraps. Good. 4to. Unpaginated. Perfect-bound illustrated wraps. Edgewear and creasing to front and rear wrappers, 1.75cm chip along spine strip. Light discoloration to endleaves. Photographs by Michael Crane. Psychedelic graphic science fiction novel from comic writer, Bruce Jones who often also wrote under the names Philip Roland and Bruce Elliot.

Los Angeles: The Dawn Horse Press, 1973. Wraps. Very Good +. 8vo. 364 pp. Black and white pictorial paper wraps. Light edge-wear. Clean interior, binding sound. Talks with Franklin Jones, AKA Bubba Free Jones, on the spiritual technique of the Saviors of Mankind.

London: Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, 1925. First Edition. Cloth. Good +. 12mo. 72 pp. Red cloth with black titling. Lacking dust jacket. Cloth faded, especially at spine. Large crease to front board. Interior lightly toned but clean. Inscribed by author in brown ink to ffep: "Dear Mrs. Thomas, I hope I shall take you with me through this little book. Faithfully [...?] Henry Arthur Jones April 25/25.

New York, N.Y.: George F. Jowett, 1943. Wraps. Near fine. 16mo. 9.5 cm x 14.5 cm. 47 pp. Tan stapled pamphlet w/ illustration and brown titling. Very light soiling along spine and front panel of cover. Otherwise fine. 2 copies listed in OCLC. Illustrated self-defense guide written by the (self-dubbed) World's Strongest Man.