Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
by Bierce, Ambrose
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1971. Hardcover. Fine. Edited and with an Introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson. Illustrated by Paul Landacre. Near Fine. Blue leather, faintly rubbed at the bottom corners, with gilt lettering and designs. Square and firmly bound with gilt edges, sewn-in bookmark, clean internally.
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Death Is an Early Riser
by Bigelow, John Mason
New York: Scribner's, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned, rubbed at the edges. Blue-green buckram, toned at the gutter, with blue lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a dark blue top stain, former owner's information inside the front board, toned endpapers, clean otherwise. Bigelow's first and only mystery novel, one involving the murder of an artist in New... Read More
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The Trap
by Billany, Dan
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (10s 6d net), generally toned. Beige cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's signature on the front endpaper, some foxing at the fore-edge and endpapers, clean otherwise. Billany's novel of a young man's "early years in Cornwall, of the hard times which her family endured between the wars," published here without any... Read More
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The Eagle and the Lion; The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations
by Bill, James A.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (no price), bumped and rubbed at the edges, a few shallow chips and tears. Black cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a few stains at the edges, clean internally. Bill's history of the declining relationship between Iran and the United States from the 1940s through the Iran-Contra affair.
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First Poems
by Birkin, Vera
Nottingham: Henry B. Saxton, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Inscribed by Birkin on the front endpaper. Good, lacking the jacket. Quarter brown cloth, chipped at the foot, with blue paper on the boards and a rubbed pastedown on the spine. Square, bound with some reading wear, toned at the endpapers, clean otherwise. Birkin's first collection of poetry, one of which ("Romney Marsh") was collected into Ventures in Verse and praised by J.E.G. de Montmorency for its evocation of... Read More
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Marcus Aurelius; A Biography
by Birley, Anthony
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987. Revised Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped (no price), bumped at the edges. Red cloth, pushed at the corners, with gilt lettering on the spine. Squaer and firmly bound, foxed at the edges, clean otherwise. A revised edition of the standard Aurelius biography published two decades earlier.
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The Crow: A Murder of Crows
by Bischoff, David; Brite, Poppy Z.; Williamson, Chet
New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inspired by the series created by James O'Barr. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), faintly rubbed and bumped at the edges. Black paper with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a few faint stains at the edges, clean internally. An omnibus featuring Quoth the Crow, The Lazarus Heart, and Clash by Night.
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Hawaiian Life of the Pre-European Period
by Bishop, Marcia Brown
Salem: Peabody Museum of Salem, 1940. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Wraps faded at the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An account of pre-European Hawaiian life with special attention paid to their houses, fisheries, sports, instruments, and plates.
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Transfigurations
by Bishop, Michael
New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation | G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. With an illustrated bookplate signed by Bishop laid-in. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($10.95), soiled at the front panel as if text from another jacket transferred onto the flap, soiled at the back panel. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Bishop's novelization of his Nebula Award-nominated novella "Death and Designation Among the... Read More
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
by Black, Campbell
New York: Ballantine Books, 1984. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Black paper on the boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a stain at the top edge, clean otherwise. The novelization of the first Indiana Jones film.
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Informal Logic: The First International Symposium
by Blair, J. Anthony; Johnson, Ralph H.
Inverness: Edgepress, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Good. Wraps toned and soiled, creases at the top spine fold and down the spine edge. Square, bound with some reading wear, former owner's signature on the half-title, clean otherwise. A collection of papers presented at the symposium, featuring writing from Kahane, Douglas Walton, John Woods, Peter Minkus, Robert Binkley, Alex Michalos, Thomas Tomko, Robert Ennis, and Michael Scriven.
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The Atlas Paradox
by Blake, Olivie
New York: Tor, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($27.99), faintly bumped at the top edge. Black paper on the boards with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The sequel to The Atlas Six.
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Which Way to Mecca, Jack
by Blatty, William Peter
New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Blatty on the title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.95), generally rubbed and soiled, a few shallow chips at the edges and folds. Quarter red cloth with beige paper on the boards, a spot of rubbing at the top-right corner. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first novel from the author of The Exorcist, a humorous adventure inspired by... Read More
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The Tale That Wags the God
by Blish, James
Chicago: Advent:Publishers Inc, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Edited by Cy Chauvin. Introduction by John Foyster. Bibliography by Judith L. Blish. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), faintly rubbed at the edges. Grey cloth, bumped at the corners, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A posthumous collection of Blish's previously unpublished literary criticism and autobiographical writings. This copy comes from the collection of John Stopa, one of the... Read More
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Black Easter; Or Faust Aleph-Null
by Blish, James
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Gutter Code J21. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.95), generally toned. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a forward lean, clean internally. Blish's dark fantasy about demons summoned to earth to wreak havoc. Together with The Day After Judgment, this work forms the second part of Blish's After Such Knowledge trilogy.
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Once Around the Bloch; An Unauthorized Autobiography
by Bloch, Robert
New York: Tor, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. With a bookplate with the title and a Virgil Finlay illustration signed by Bloch laid-in. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($22.95). Black cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Psycho House
by Bloch, Robert
New York: Tor, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Bloch on the title page. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($16.95). Black cloth with bronze gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The third and final of Bloch's novels about Norman Bates and the Bates Motel.
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Out of My Head
by Bloch, Robert
Cambridge: The NESFA Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Limited to 800 copies. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Green cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collction of Bloch's writing about science fiction and fandom.
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A Stab in the Dark
by Block, Lawrence
New York: Telemachus Press, 2012. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Signed by Block on the title page. Fine. Squre and firmly bound, clean internally. A nice signed paperback re-issue edition of Block's fourth Scudder novel.
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The Burglar in the Closet
by Block, Lawrence
New York: Random House, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Signed by Block on the title page. Near Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($6.95), lightly rubbed. Quarter black buckram with grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, remaindered at the bottom edge, clean otherwise. The second book in Block's Bernie Rhodenbarr series.
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Le colpe dei padri
by Block, Lawrence
Rome: Fanucci Editore, 2005. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Signed by Block on the title page. Translated by Nicoletta Brazzelli. Fine. Wraps wraped in plastic. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An Italian translation of Block's novel Sins of the Father.
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Spider, Spin Me a Web: Lawrence Block on Writing Fiction
by Block, Lawrence
Cincinnati: Reader's Digest Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Block on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($16.95). Quarter red buckram with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Block's five-part work on the writing and publishing process.
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Telling Lies for Fun and Profit; A Manual for Fiction Writers
by Block, Lawrence
New York: Arbor House, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Block on the front endpaper page. Introudction by Brian Garfield. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($13.95). Quarter black cloth with grey paper on the boards, some foxing. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges and at the endpapers, clean otherwise. A how-to guide for fiction writing from one of the most prolific crime writers of the late 20th century.
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Afterthoughts
by Block, Lawrence
New York: The Mysterious Bookshop, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Signed by Block on the title page. Fine. Brown buckram with silver gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Published as part of Penzler's "Contemporary Crime Classics" series.
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The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep
by Block, Lawrence
New York: The Armchair Detective Library, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 26 signed and numbered copies. Fine, complete in the issued slipcase. Red buckram with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board, with a pictorial paste-down on the front. Square and firmly bond, clean internally. Originally published in 1966, this is the first Evan Tanner novel.
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