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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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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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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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 Closing of the American Mind
by Bloom, Allan
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012. Paperback. Very Good. Foreword by Saul Bellow. Afterword by Andrew Ferguson. Second Printing. Very Good. Wraps bumped at the corners. Square, bound with some reading wear, clean internally.
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The Closing of the American Mind
by Bloom, Allan
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Inscribed by Bloom on one of the front endpapers. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($18.95), some scratches and small stains on the surface. Quarter white buckram with green paper on the boards, bumped at the corners, faded at the edges. Square, front hinge loose presumably from being signed, firmly bound otherwise, some stains at the top edge, clean internally. A true first printing... Read More
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James Wright: A Life in Poetry
by Blunk, Jonathan
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($40.00), faintly rubbed. Black paper on the boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Blunk's authorized biography of the celebrated American poet.
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Sleepers Joining Hands
by Bly, Robert
New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Second Printing. Inscribed with a drawing by Bly on the front endpaper. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, lightly soiled. Olive and cream cloth on the boards, gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Bly's follow-up to his National Book Award-winning collection The Light Around the Body. Here Bly "moves deeper into the spiritual terrain of America--exploring what it is in us that... Read More
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The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio [2 Vols]
by Boccaccio, Giovanni
London: Folio Society, 1969. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Translated by Richard Aldington with Aquatints by Buckland-Wright. Near Fine in a Very Good slicpase, a band of fading and a few creases to the paper. Brown cloth, some stains to the front board of Volume I. Square and firmly bound with green topstains, clean internally.
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The Decameron
by Boccaccio, John
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1980. Hardcover. Fine. Translated and with an Introduction by Edward Hutton. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. Fine. Red leather with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound with gilt edges and a sewn-in bookmark, with the unused and laid-in bookplate and original receipt, clean internally. Part of the 100 Greatest Books series.
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With William Burroughs; A Report from the Bunker
by Bockris, Victor
New York: Seaver Books, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed on the title page by Bockris. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, clipped, a few spots of rubbing. Quarter black cloth with black paper on the boards, some rubbing at the bottom edge. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Bockris's work providing Burroughs's thoughts on topics like writing, women, men, drugs, Hollywood, politics, among other topics.
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Pieces of Time; Peter Bogdanovich on the Movies
by Bogdanovich, Peter
New York: Arbor House / Esquire, 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Introduction by Harold Hayes. Second Printing. Signed by Bogdanovich on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($7.95), rubbed at the surface and edges, faded at the spine. Quarter white cloth with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of interviews, critiques, and opinions and impressions about topics ranging from Jerry Lewis and John Wayne to Bogdanovich's... Read More
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Kinsey Photographer Volume One: The Family Album and Other Early Work
by Bohn, Dave; Petschek, Rodolfo
San Francisco: Prism Editions, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. With contributions by Darius Jr. and Dorothea Kinsey. Very Good. Wraps bumped at the edges and corners. Bound with a slightly concave spine, some reading wear on the binding, clean internally. The first volume in the series that displays some of the forty-five hundred photographs the Kinsey's took of the Pacific Northwest in the early 20th century.
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UFO in Italia il periodo 1955-1972 Volume III
by Boncompagni, Solas; Lamperi, Fernando; Ricci, Roberto; Sani, Pier Luigi
Torino: UPIAR, 1990. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps bumped, a few faint stains. Firmly bound with a slight lean, clean internally. The third volume in the series tracking the modern UFO movement in Italy. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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Mr. Miller of the Times
by Bond, F. Fraser
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), generally toned, chipped at the corners and top edge. Red cloth, lightly pushed at the head and foot of the spine, with slightly dulled gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a few small stains at the edges, clean internally. A biography of Charles R. Miller, editor of the New York Times.
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Ether/Electricity and Its Manifestations: The Journal of Borderland Research Volume LVII Annual for 2001
by Borges, James
Eureka: Journal of Borderland Research, 2001. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Edited by James Borges. With the 2001 Catalog laid-in. Near Fine. Wraps bumped at the corners. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of articles by the likes of Richard Hull, Meade Layne, Vincent Gaddis, T. Townsend Brown, George van Tassel, among others. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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The Gold of the Tigers; Selected Later Poems
by Borges, Jorge Luis
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Translated by Alastair Reid. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($8.95), faded at the spine, a tear in the front panel. Quarter cream cloth with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A bi-lingual edition of Borges's later poems written during his years of increasing blindness.
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The Tempting of America
by Bork, Robert H.
New York: The Free Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($22.50), faded at the spine, toned at the back panel. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Bork's "clear and complete statement of his social and legal philosophy" written after his doomed Supreme Court nomination.
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The Tempting of America
by Bork, Robert H.
New York: The Free Press, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Bork's second wife, Mary Ellen, to Lura Lynn Ryan, the wife of Illinois governor George Ryan. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($22.50), faded at the spine, toned at the back panel. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Bork's "clear and complete statement of his social and legal philosophy" written after his doomed Supreme Court nomination. A unique association... Read More
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The Mermaids
by Boros, Eva
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.50), generally toned and soiled, bumped at the edges, a few short tears and shallow chips. Quarter yellow cloth with blue paper on the boards, rubbed at the edges. Firmly bound with a blue topstain, slight forward lean, clean internally. Boros's debut novel, a love story set in a sanitorium, described by Eudora Welty as a "sensitive,... Read More
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Response in the Living and Non-Living
by Bose, Jagadis Chunder
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. With illustrations. About Very Good, lacking the jacket. Black cloth on the boards, chipped at the head and foot of the spine, scuffed at the corners and back board. Square and firmly bound, former owner's information on the half-title, clean otherwise. Bose's work drawn from his various experiments that argues for a connection between inorganic and organic matter based on shared responses to stimuli.
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Astounding Science Fiction September 1942 Vol. XXX No. 1
by [Boucher, Anthony] Campbell Jr, John W.
New York: Street and Smith Publications, 1942. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps generally toned, a few lightly bumps, creases, and very shallow chips. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean. This issue features "Barrier" by Boucher as the cover story, and other writing by Lester del Rey, Lewis Padgett, Malcolm Jameson, Fredric Brown, and others.
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Corsage: A Bouquet of Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe
by Bourne, Michael [Rex Stout]
Bloomington: James A. Rock & Company, 1977. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Illustrated by Sid Wright. Limited to 1500 numbered paperbound copies. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. This work features the book publication of the Nero Wolfe novel Bitter End.
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After Piketty; The Agenda for Economics and Inequality
by Boushey, Heather; Delong, J. Bradford; Steinbaum, Marshall
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($35.00), faintly rubbed at the edges. Black cloth with orange ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a few small stains at the bottom edge, clean internally. A collection of essays that comment on Piketty's ideas put forth in his best-selling work Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
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Doctor Dealer; THe Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire
by Bowden, Mark
New York: Warner Books, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, clipped, lightly rubbed at the edges, creased throughout the surface. Quarter black cloth with purple paper on the boards, stains and mottling throughout. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the edges, clean internally. The first book by the author of Black Hawk Down, the story of Larry Lavin and his life from Phillips Exeter Academy to running a $60-million-a-year cocaine... Read More
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