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Detective Duos

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford Univ Pr: 1997

Seller ID: 000042

ISBN: 0195102142

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

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Detective Duos

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A., Oxford Univ Pr: 1997

Seller ID: 000243

ISBN: 0195102142

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Like New

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A List of Holiday Books. Harper & Brothers. Christmas 1902.

By: N/A

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1902

Seller ID: 005758

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

4to. 25 by 17 cm. 40 pp., wraps. Many pages devoted to illustrations from books listed, including an ad for Peter Newell's "Through the Looking-Glass". Harper published many popular or important authors of the day besides Carroll, of course, including Woodrow Wilson, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Charles Reade, Richard Harding Davis, Richard Le Gallienne, etc. Minor chipping of the wraps and the corner of a few leaves. Moderate soiling of the cover.
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Broadside advertisement for radical novel of 1890s: "Waiting for the Signal. The Great Political Novel. Literary Sensation of the Age" Novel by Henry O. Morris

By: N/A

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Chicago, Schulte Publishing Co.: 1897

Seller ID: 006338

Binding: NA

Condition: Near Fine

Broadside measures 43.5 by 26.5 cm, and is printed on one side. Distinctive in the promotion is the use of alleged "Unfavorable Comments" from Eastern plutocrats such as Henry Flagler, who was a real person -- a founder of Standard Oil, and later probably the most significant developer of the east coast of Florida, and specifically, St. Augustine and Palm Beach. Broadside folds into a small envelope, included here.
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A Walk on the Wild Side

By: Algren, Nelson

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar , Straus & Cudahy: 1956

Seller ID: 001430

Condition: Good plus

8vo, no DJ. Soiling of boards and spine, with cut along gutter of spine paper. Clean inside, and thus better than a reading copy.
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Angel on the Roof: The Stories of Russell Banks

By: Banks, Russell

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., Harpercollins: 2000

Seller ID: 000240

ISBN: 0060173963

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Book. This is new and unused, but note slight ding to top of rear board with tiny effect on DJ.
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Mr. Sammler's Planet

By: Bellow, Saul

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1970

Seller ID: 003397

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

DJ with chips and closed tears, but mostly intact.
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Excursions in Switzerland

By: Cooper, James Fenimore

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Paris, Baudry's European Library: 1836

Seller ID: 000917

Binding: Quarter Calf

Condition: Good

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 so...
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Mark Twain Wit and Wisecracks

By: Doris Benardete, Editor

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Mount Vernon, NY, The Peter Pauper Press: 1961

Seller ID: 000898

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

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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Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, with an Introduction By Thomas Nelson Page

By: Harris, Joel Chandler

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York and London, D. Appleton and Company: 1920

Seller ID: 000991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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, ...
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Plain Language from Truthful James. The Heathen Chinee . . .

By: Harte, Bret. Joseph Hull, illustrator

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Chicago, Western News Company: 1870

Seller ID: 003246

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Very Good

Uncommon to find in the hand-colored version. 8vo. 22.5 by 18 cm. Nine hand-colored plates of light narrative verse of card players avenging themselves on a Chinese cheat. Obviously politically incorrect as it plays into negative stereotypes and distrust of the Chinese who first came to the American West in numbers to build the transcontinental railroad. All plates are first printing except 6, which is the second state. BAL 7246. In this copy the separately issued cards have been mounted onto a light card stock and bound in full blue morocco. The binding is rubbed along the joints, som...
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"Out of the East": Reveries and Studies in New Japan

By: Hearn, Lafcadio

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin and Company: 1895

Seller ID: 000210

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

8vo - over 7¾. Book. 341 pp. VG. Tight, clean inside. Some sunning to spine.
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Memoir from Antproof Case: A Novel

By: Helprin, Mark

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., Harvest Books: 1995

Seller ID: 000636

ISBN: 0151000972

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Author's signature on title page.
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Tales of a Traveller (2 volumes)

By: Irving, Washington

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam Sons: 1895

Seller ID: 000624

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Fine

8vo. Buckthorned edition, with lovely gilt and green decorated buckram boards and spine. 25 plates, some photogravure, others by artists such as Arthur Rackham and Allan Barraud. Text pages set off with elaborate borders, and stories begin with small text illustration as well. A very small amount of foxing affecting a minimum of pages, an inked inscription on blank page of vol 2, otherwise fine or near fine.
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Knickerbocker's History of New York: A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty

By: Irving, Washington (Diedrich Knickerbocker). Illustrated by Parrish, Maxfield

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, R. H. Russell: 1903

Seller ID: 003557

Binding: Hardcover (Paper pastedown on cover)

Condition: Very Good

Folio, 32 by 24 cm. xxxi, [4], 299 pp. Eight Parrish plates. Printed by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston. Spine slightly darkened and its lettering faded. Moderate wear to the cover elsewhere. Hinges repaired. Clean copy within.
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Knickerbocker's History of New York: A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty

By: Irving, Washington (Diedrich Knickerbocker). Illustrated by Parrish, Maxfield

Price: $450.00

Publisher: New York, R. H. Russell: 1900

Seller ID: 005778

Binding: Hardcover (Paper pastedown on cover)

Condition: Very Good

Folio, 32 by 24 cm. xxxi, [4], 299 pp. Eight Parrish plates. Printed by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston. A few speckles of white or color loss on the spine's cloth. Other light wear to the boards. Interior is tight and clean.
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A History of New-York, From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, . . . The Author's Revised Edition. Complete in One Volume

By: Irving, Washington [pseudonym: Diedrich Knickerbocker]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam & Company: 1857

Seller ID: 003627

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 19 by 13.5 cm. 454 pp. This was a volume issued as part of a set but the only indication that there was a set is on the half-title; it functions perfectly well as a standalone volume. Small cloth loss along front joint. Age toning to pages.
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Bracebridge Hall

By: Irving, Washington. Illustrator: Randolph Caldecott

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1882

Seller ID: 003628

Binding: Half Morocco, Marbled Boards

Condition: Fine

8vo. 19.5 by 13 cm. 284 pp. A lovely copy.
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The Mutiny of the Elsinore

By: London, Jack

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan Company: 1914

Seller ID: 000439

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good Plus

8vo. Lettering and picture of ship on front board clear, but with loss to the blue in particular. Spine lettering nearly completely rubbed out, with only faint impression. Minor soilage to yellow boards otherwise. Pages inside generally clean. Slightest looseness to front hinge, but book otherwise tight. Good or better overall.
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The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with Explanatory Notes, Portrait and Illustrations

By: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Warne & Co.: 1882

Seller ID: 000452

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Good Plus

8vo. xl + 630 pp. Full calf, with bright gilt stamp on front board of school emblem (prize book). Some scuffs on the board, spine has slight dryness, but decoration still bright. Moderate foxing in first few pages and final pages, otherwise, overwhelmingly clean. Moire marbled flypapers bright and attractive. Binding tight.
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Category: American Literature