The Road to Gandolfo
by Sheperd, Michael [Ludlum, Robert]
New York: The Dial Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Two of the three dust jackets present, missing the purple one. About Fine in about Fine dust jackets, unclipped ($7.95), a short tear at the bottom edge of the blue jacket. Orange boards with red ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a small circular stain at the top edge, clean internally. Ludlum's work about a decorated military veteran turning his attention on kidnapping the Pope.... Read More
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Critical Woodcuts
by Sherman, Stuart
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illustrated by Bertrand Zadig. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), generally toned, bumped and with some small chips at the edges. Green cloth with a tan paste-down label on the spine. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges, clean internally. A collection of literary criticism about the likes of Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Oscar Wilde, D.H. Lawrence, among others.
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Americans
by Sherman, Stuart P.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Early Printing. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned and rubbed, a few small chips and tears at the edges. Green buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A work about the American society and its literary tradition, with discussions of Whitman, Emerson, Mencken, Franklin, Jefferson, Carnegie, among others.
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
by Shevelove, Burt; Gelbart, Larry; Sondheim, Stephen
Garden City: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Book by Shevelove and Gelbart. Music and Lyrics by Sondheim. Illustrated with a drawing by Hirschfeld and photographs. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, lightly rubbed, faded at the spine. Red cloth with white ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a scuff inside the front board, clean otherwise. The first printing of the Tony Award-winning farcical musical based on the work... Read More
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The Young Men Are Coming!
by Shiel, M.P.
New York: Vanguard Press, Inc, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), generally toned, a few stains at the spine, rubbed and bumped at the edges, corners, and folds. Yellow cloth, soiled at the edges, with green ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a green topstain, toned at the endpapers, clean otherwise. Shiel's prescient novel about a future society obsessed with youth with fascism creeping... Read More
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Unto the Third Generation
by Shiel, M.P.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good. Brown cloth, rubbed and bumped, with gilt lettering and blue and green ink designs on the spine and front board. Square, hinges loose but not cracked, bound with some reading wear, gilt top edge, foxed at the preliminaries, clean otherwise. Shiel's mysterious adventure surrounding a hidden treasure of jewels.
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Berlin Diary; The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent
by Shirer, William L.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good dust jacket, unclipped ($3.00), generally toned and soiled, chipped at the corners, rubbed and scuffed at the folds. Red cloth, a few white stains, with silver gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a red topstain, soiled at the endpapers, clean otherwise. Shirer's day-to-day record of his time as a war correspondent during WWII.
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The Social Fabric of the Metropolis; Contributions of the Chicago School of Urban Sociology
by Short Jr., James F.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Edited and with an Introduction by Short. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped (no price but with part of an old sticker on the front panel), generally rubbed and soiled. Red cloth, bumped at the corners, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of essays serving as an introudction to the development of urban sociology. ... Read More
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Descartes' Bones
by Shorto, Russell
New York: Doubleday, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Shorto on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($26.00). Quarter beige buckram with burgundy paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Shorto's "historical detective story about the creation of the modern mind, with twists and turns leading up to the present day.
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Sherlock Holmes by Gas-Lamp
by Shreffler, Philip A.
New York: Fordham University Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Shreffler to BSI Paul Herbert. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($22.50), faded a shade at the spine. Yellow buckram with black ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, former owner's bookplate inside the front board, clean otherwise. A collection of writings from the first forty years of The Baker Street Journal, including works from T.S. Eliot, Vincent Starrett, Franklin Delano... Read More
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The Baker Street Journal Vol. 35, No. 4
by Shreffler, Philip A.
New York: The Baker Street Irregulars, 1985. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Fine. Yellow wraps. Firmly bound with two staples, clean internally. A collection of Sherlockian essay by the likes of Albert Rosenblatt, Peter Blau, Susan Rice, Gordon Speck, and others.
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On the Beach
by Shute, Nevil
New York: Morrow, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped ($3.95), rubbed and with shallow tips and short tears, toned at the back panel. Grey cloth with white ink lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. Shute's novel chronicling the aftermath of a nuclear war, or, as the jacket puts it, "a stirring, provocative story of nine climactic months in the lives of people... Read More
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Approach: Man in Life and Space Vol. 1 No. 1 through Vol. 2. No. 12 [Complete Run]
by Sievers, Edgar
Pretoria: Sagittarius Publishers, 1960. First Edition. Newsletter. Good. Twenty-seven issues: twenty-four volumes and three additional supplements ("A New Year's Message," "Man in Life and Space," and "George Adamski's World Lecture Tour"). Generally Good. Apparent photocopies, brown and red stains to many of the issues, all with a fair amount of shelf and handling wear, some manuscript corrections and marginalia. A proto-New Age publication with two tenets: "that man represents only one form in the multitude of Divine Creation,"... Read More
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The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner
by Sillitoe, Alan
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.50), lightly rubbed, a small poke near the bottom of the front panel. Quarter black buckram with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound with a blue top stain, clean internally. A collection of eight short stories, with the titular story being about an English reform school boy who "seizes a foolproof opportunity during the annual cross-country race to show... Read More
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Phoenix Feathers: A Collection of Mythical Monsters
by Silverberg, Barbara
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Edited by Barbara Silverberg. Illustrated with old prints. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($6.50), worn at the edges with some chips and short tears, some stains, scuffs, and holes at the surface. Orange cloth with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, soiled at the top edge, clean internally. A collection of writings about mythical beasts such as... Read More
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Dying Inside
by Silverberg, Robert
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Silverberg. Near Fine in an about Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($6.95), bumped and with some creases at the bottom of the front panel. Red paper on the boards with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Silverberg's Nebula-, Hugo-, and Locus-nominated novel about David Selig, who can read thoughts and feelings.
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To Live Again
by Silverberg, Robert
Garden City: Nelson Doubleday Inc, 1969. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, generally toned and rubbed, some stains on the panels. Blue boards, lightly mottled, bumped at the corners. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the top edge, clean internally.
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Lion Time in Timbuctoo
by Silverberg, Robert
Eugene: Axolotl Press Pulphouse Publishing, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Introduction by Karen Haber. Illustrated by Donna Gordon. Limited edition of 300 copies signed by Haber and Silverberg. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (no price). Blue cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The thirteenth work in the Pulphouse series.
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Chains of the Sea
by Silverberg, Robert
New York: Thomas Nelson Inc, 1973. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Edited, with an Introduction by Robert Silverberg. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, bumped and with some shallow chips and tears at the edges, faded at the spine. Blue boards with grey ink lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. A collection of three novellas by George Alec Effinger, Gardner Dozois, and Gordon Eklund. Dozois's title novella has... Read More
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The Stochastic Man
by Silverberg, Robert
New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($7.95), rubbed and bumped at the surface and edges. Quarter black cloth with blue cloth on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Silverberg's novel of a prediction expert gaining the power of second sight.
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The Giving Tree
by Silverstein, Shel
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1970. Hardcover. Good/good. Shel Silverstein. Later Printing. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($6.95), a small crease at the bottom corner of the front flap. Pictorial boards, faintly rubbed. Firmly bound with a very slight forward lean, clean internally.
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Strangers in the Universe
by Simak, Clifford
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, lightly rubbed, a few small closed tears and stains. Grey boards, a few stains, with black ink lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a forward lean, red top stain, stains at the edges, signature of science fiction author Chad Oliver on the front endpaper, clean internally. A collection of eleven human-centered science fiction tales from the Hugo... Read More
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All the Traps of Earth and Other Stories
by Simak, Clifford
Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc, 1962. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped, faintly rubbed. Grey boards with green and purple ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, clean internally.
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Cosmic Engineers
by Simak, Clifford D.
New York: Gnome Press, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped ($2.50), faintly rubbed, soiled at the back panel. Blue cloth with yellow ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, one creased leaf, clean otherwise. The first book publication for Simak's story originally serialized in Astounding.
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