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Detective Duos
Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A. Oxford Univ Pr 1997 0195102142 / 9780195102147 Hardcover Like New Like New Jacket
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Poetry of the Woods: Passages from the Poets Descriptive of Forest Scenes. Elegantly Illustrated
Philadelphia E. H. Butler & Co. 1857 Full Leather Very Good
Book. xv + 128 pp. Poems by Longfellow, Shelley, Coleridge, Mrs. Hemans, Thomson, Cowper, Bryant, Keats, Wordsworth, Burns, Pope, etc. with a few steel engraved plates as well. Binding tight, leather has minor wear. Gilded front cover decoration bright. Five raised bands on spine. T.e.g. Minor soilage on edges of leaves entirely incident to paper stock used in book. Very good copy.
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42.00 USD
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Algren, Nelson The Man with the Golden Arm
Garden City, NY Doubleday & Company 1949 First Edition Fine Near Fine Jacket
Great novel about heroin addiction made into fine movie starring Frank Sinatra, Kim Novac and Eleanor Parker. DJ with some minor edgewear and the tiniest of chips in upper front. Light soiling of jacket is function of it being white. Now protected by mylar.
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165.00 USD
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Clay, John Cecil In Love's Garden: A Human Nature Book
Indianapolis Bobbs-Merrill Co. 1904 First Edition Decorated Cloth Good
4to - over 9¾. Book. Unpaginated, many lovely art nouveau style illustrations in color and black and white. A real period momento! Internally clean. Spine and pictorial boards with shelfwear, rubbing, minor loss of paper over board or rubbing along hinge gutter. Slight shake to book, with crack joint few pages in. Still an attractive, good copy overall.
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60.00 USD
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Cooper, James Fenimore Excursions in Switzerland
Paris Baudry's European Library 1836 Hardcover Good
Book. 8vo - over 7¾. xii, 323 pp. Organized as series of letters, 30 in all, which was a common structure for travel writing during the early 19th century. Here the already world famous American novelist -- the first to achieve such renown -- sets his acute eye on Switzerland, which was becoming one of the most popular countries on the Grand Tour by American and English travelers with the new found appreciation of the Alps and the development of mountain-climbing as a sport. Because of Cooper's observational skills, this work can be treated as a primary source for aspects of Swiss culture and society at the time, as it was a good supplement to the early travel guides, which this, strictly speaking, was not, for such travelers. Quarter calf over blue marbled boards. Rubbing and soilage to boards. Binding still tight. Marbled endpapers. Some light foxing and soilage but generally clean. A good copy.
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100.00 USD
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Doris Benardete, Editor Mark Twain Wit and Wisecracks
Mount Vernon, NY The Peter Pauper Press 1961 First Edition Hardcover Very Good Fair Jacket Jacket Henry R. Martin
Book. 8vo - over 7¾. 61 pp. A few light pencil marks. Otherwise fine. DJ has losses along lower edge, totaling a few square inches, and a smaller loss on top rear edge. Also some soiling.
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10.00 USD
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Dos Passos, John U.S.A. (3 Volume set)
Boston Houghton Mifflin and Company 1960 Cloth Very Good Very Good Jacket Reginald Marsh
Book. Attractive 3 volume set, with DJs. The 42nd Parallel, Nineteen Nineteen and The Big Money. DJs with some minor chipping but now protected with mylar.
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40.00 USD
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Harris, Joel Chandler Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, with an Introduction By Thomas Nelson Page
New York and London D. Appleton and Company 1920 Hardcover Good A. B. Frost and E. W. Kemble
Book. 4to - over 9¾. xxii, 265 pp. 12 full page illustrated plates. The Gift Edition, with (1) on final text page. With many text illustrations of Brer Rabbit, Brer Wolf and the whole cast. Every page of the stories themselves has decorative framing of branches forming smaller cameo compartments with different members of the cast shown in each such frame, and while the decoration repeats itself, there are several templates so there is variety from one page to the next. Green decorated cloth binding has a lot of soiling and dampstain. Wear along edges, corner. Some foxing in the preliminaries, but most text pages are clean. The binding is tight, with new endpapers inserted.
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Holley, Marietta (Josiah Allen's Wife) Samantha at the World's Fair
London and Toronto Funk and Wagnalls Companyu 1893 First Decorated Cloth Very Good De Grimm, Baron C.
8vo - over 7¾. Book. xi + 694 pp. Attractive blue cloth with Midway pavilion depicted in silver, along with fountain and columns, on front board, with ferris wheel on spine. Adventures of country couple at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. some shelfwear on boards, with a bit of soilage, and some frayed fabric at extremities. Tight binding. Occasional soilage on pages but mostly clean. Very good overall.
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30.00 USD
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Illuminated by M. F. Grindall; Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Flowers, A Poem
1872 FIrst Thus Full Morocco Very Good
Wonderful illuminated manuscript version of Longfellow's poem, "Flowers", with wonderful calligraphy, ornamental letter devices and stunning floral decoration of every leaf, also graced by butterflies, fireflies, and a castle perched on a mountain. With eight leaves of stiff card, bound in a full green morocco with blindstamped gilt decoration, roughly-speaking in the Cambridge style. Binding is by Holloway of Brighton (England), with his stamp to foot of front pastedown. The spine has raised bands and six compartments. Endpapers with moire silk effect. Some light foxing of the title leaf and of the tissue guards. Rubbing to extremities and other minor wear to the thick, sturdy leather binding.
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2500.00 USD
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