Quentin Durward [3 Vols]
Quentin Durward [3 Vols]

by Scott, Sir Walter

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Complete in three volumes. About Good. Quarter tan paper with blue paper on the boards, generally toned and soiled, rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners, splitting at the top joint of Vol. I. Square, bound with some reading wear, old reinforcements at the joints, foxing throughout. One of Scott's Waverley novels, the story of an archer in the service of King Louis XI.

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Behind the Flying Saucers
Behind the Flying Saucers

by Scully, Frank

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Second Printing. Very Good in a Good jacket, clipped, soiled, bumped and with some tains, tape repairs at the edges. Red cloth, bumped at the head and foot of the spine, with dulled gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a forward lean, clean internally. Scully's work that theorizes the existence of magnetic propulsion and extraterrestrials. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.

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Behind the Flying Saucers
Behind the Flying Saucers

by Scully, Frank

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, clipped, generally rubbed and worn, creases, tears, and chips throughout. Blue cloth with blue ink lettering and designs on the boards. Square and firmly bound, ownership signature of Tom Benson on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Scully's work that theorizes the existence of magnetic propulsion and extraterrestrials. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.

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Vertigo
Vertigo

by Sebald, W.G.

London: Harvill Press, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Signed by Sebald on the title page. Very Good. Wraps rubbed at the edges, a few creases down the spine, bumped at the bottom edge of the front wrap. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, a few stains at the edges, clean internally. Sebald's novel of linked narratives that investigate "the vertiginous unreliability of memory," the first in the trilogy also including The Emigrants and The Rings of... Read More

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The Americanization of the Unconscious
The Americanization of the Unconscious

by Seeley, John

New York: Science House Inc, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($8.95), generally toned and rubbed, soiled at the front panel. Black cloth, bumped at the corners, gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Seeley's work that proposes to combine sociology and psychoanalysis for their mutual advancement.

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Native Encounters; A Look at Oklahoma UFO Sightings and Abduction Reports
Native Encounters; A Look at Oklahoma UFO Sightings and Abduction Reports

by Seifried, Richard D.; Carter, Michael S.

Oklahoma: M.S. Graphics, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Foreword by Seifried and Carter. Near Fine. Wraps lightly rubbed at the edges, a couple scratches at the front cover. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An illustrated history of UFO sightings in Oklahoma by the MUFON members. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.

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Folktales of Japan
Folktales of Japan

by Seki, Keigo

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Edited by Seki. Translated by Robert J. Adams. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (28s net), lightly bumped and soiled, some creases at the top edge. Orange cloth with white and black ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first volume in the "Folktales of the World" series, a collection of Japanese tales translated into English... Read More

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1066 and All That; A Memorable History of England
1066 and All That; A Memorable History of England

by Sellar, Walter Carruthers; Yeatman, Robert

London: Folio Society, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated by John Reynolds. Introduced by Ned Sherrin. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Brown cloth with black ink lettering and designs. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
The Invention of Hugo Cabret

by Selznick, Brian

New York: Scholastic Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($22.99), rubbed at the edges. Black boards, lightly bumped and pushed at the corners, with white ink lettering and designs on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Selznick's Caldecott Medal book in pictures of an orphan who lives in the walls of a Paris train station. Adapted into the 2011 Martin Scorsese film Hugo.

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The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism; Classical Political Economy the Empire of Free Trade and Imperialism 1750-1850
The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism; Classical Political Economy the Empire of Free Trade and Imperialism 1750-1850

by Semmel, Bernard

London: Cambridge University Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy with the publisher's slip laid-in. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, clipped, lightly toned. Blue-grey cloth with a blue ink panel and gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

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Zos-Kia; An Introductory Essay on the Art and Sorcery of Austin Osman Spare
Zos-Kia; An Introductory Essay on the Art and Sorcery of Austin Osman Spare

by Semple, Gavin W.

London: Fulgur, 1995. First Edition. Paperback. Fine/Fine. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket, faintly bumped. Plain brown wraps. Square and firmly bound, talisman and bookmark laind-in, clean internally. A revised and expanded edition of Semple's essay originally published in Starfire about Spare's system and art.

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Land Reform and Democracy
Land Reform and Democracy

by Senior, Clarence

Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($6.75), generally toned and soiled, rubbed at the edges. Blue cloth, rubbed at the bottom edge, with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A case study about the distribution of land among 30,000 peasant families in the Laguna region of Mexico.

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The Ophidic Essence; Seeking a Return to the Origin
The Ophidic Essence; Seeking a Return to the Origin

by Ophis Christos; Ordo Volucer Serpentis

[n.p.]: Fall of Man, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Limited to 300 copies. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A work with the stated purpose to "deny and reject existence, annihilating the desire for the superficial and momentary things, knowing how to separate them from what is real and eternal.

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The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back

by Dr. Seuss

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. About Very Good in a Good presumed later state jacket, unclipped (no price), generally rubbed and toned, split three inches from the top of the spine. Pictorial paper over the boards, lightly toned, pushed at the corners. Square, bound with some reading wear, name in pen and crayon on the half-title page, clean otherwise. Younger & Hirsch 11.

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The Book of Folly
The Book of Folly

by Sexton, Anne

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Limited to 500 copies signed by Sexton on the limitation page. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Quarter black cloth with red cloth on the boards. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, clean internally. A collection of thirty poems, three stories, and "Jesus Papers," described her most shocking and subversive work.

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Desert Flower
Desert Flower

by Sexton, Rex

Chicago: Gallery Book Store, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Limited to 270 copies, signed by Sexton inside the front cover. Very Good. Black tapes spine with white ink lettering affixed to the spine and front cover. Square and firmly bound, some warping to the pages, clean otherwise. An illustrated hard-boiled crime novel set in the Badlands from the award-winning writer and surrealist painter from Chicago.

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Harry's Game
Harry's Game

by Seymour, Gerald

New York: Random House, 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Very good. Advance reader copy. Near fine in the plain-colored wraps, toned on the spine edge with sparse spotting elsewhere. Square and firmly bound, clean page faces, some faint foxing to the outer edges. Seymour's first novel, one that was adapted into the 1982 ITV mini-series starring Ray Lonnen and Derek Thompson.

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UFOs and the Experience of the Sacred: Discovering Living Myths in Post-Modernity
UFOs and the Experience of the Sacred: Discovering Living Myths in Post-Modernity

by Shah, Dhwani

Dhwani Shah, 1996. First Edition. Unbound Sheets. Very Good. 77p., unbound. Very Good. Pages with some bumps and creases, stains at the title page, clean otherwise. Shah's thesis written under the supervision of Dr. Steven Walker and Dr. James Jones that examines a UFO group in Mercer County. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.

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Dying Cheek to Cheek; Murder in Hollywood's Heyday
Dying Cheek to Cheek; Murder in Hollywood's Heyday

by Shah, Diane K.

New York: Perfect Crime, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($18.50). Quarter grey cloth with grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

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The Secret Lore of Magic; Books of the Sorcerers
The Secret Lore of Magic; Books of the Sorcerers

by Shah, Idries

New York: The Citadel Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very Good in a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($5.00), lightly toned and soiled. Quarter purple-brown cloth with black boards, rubbed at the bottom edge. Square and firmly bound with a red topstain, former owner's bookplate inside the front board, some soiling at the edges, clean otherwise. A work containing the four books of the Secrets of Albertus Magnus, the Book of the Spirits, the Almadel,... Read More

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Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra

by Shakespeare, William; King, Ronald

[Guildford]: Circle Press Publications, 1979. First Edition. Unbound Sheets. Good. Designed and Produced by Ronald King. With Notes and an Introduction by Keith Please. Limited to 300 copies signed by King. Fine Sheets in a Fair portfolio, split along the left joint and with a tear at the bottom edge of the right. Clean sheets. A nice fine press illustrated edition of this Shakespeare tragedy.

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Shakespeare in America; An Anthology from the Revolution to Now
Shakespeare in America; An Anthology from the Revolution to Now

by [Shakespeare, William] Shapiro, James

New York: Library of America, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Edited by James Shapiro. Foreword by Bill Clinton. Good in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($35.00), some rippling on the front and back panels. Red cloth, soiled at the boards matching the rippling to the jacket. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

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Venus and Adonis
Venus and Adonis

by Shakespeare, William

Rochester: The Printing House of Leo Hart, 1931. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Limited to 1250 copies signed by Kent. Good in an about Very Good slipcase, sunning and soiling, some chips to the paper. Quarter red leather, some chipping and flaking, with silk on the boards, lightly soiled. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

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The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare [6 Vols]
The Complete Plays of William Shakespeare [6 Vols]

by Shakespeare, William

Norwalk: Heritage Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Introduction by James G. McManaway. Wood-engravings by John Farleigh. Complete in six volumes in the original slipcases and with the Sandglass pamphlets in "The Comedies" and "The Histories." Fine in Very Good slipcases, some rubbing and stains at the edges. Matching clothing bindings with brown ink panels on the spines. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

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God, Angels, and Men; An Answer to the Chariot of the Gods
God, Angels, and Men; An Answer to the Chariot of the Gods

by Shallieu, Frank

Southfield: C.L. Thornton, Publisher, 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps generally rubbed and lightly soiled. Square and firmly bound with two staples, clean internally. Shallieu's analysis of The Bible to explain the origin of life, countering the ancient aliens claims made by von Daniken. Seemingly scarce with no institutional holdings located in OCLC. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.

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