Slan
by Vogt, A.E. van
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), generally toned and rubbed, scuffs at the front panel and spine. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, former owner's signature on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. The first book appearance of this work, originally published across four issues of Astounding Science Fiction in 1940.
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Remy de Gourmont Vu Par Son Medecin; Essai de Physilogie Litteraire
by Voivenel, Docteur Paul
Paris: Editions du Siecle. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Preface by Jean de Gourmont. Wood engravings by Suzanne de Gourmont. One of 10 copies printed Holland paper. Very Good. Half red buckram, faded at the spine, with marbled paper on the boards, rubbed at the edges, bowed together at the fore-edge. Square and firmly bound with marbled endpapers, wraps bound-in, clean otherwise.
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Candide
by Voltaire
New York: The Bennett Libraries Inc, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. With ten etchings by Clara Tice. Limited to 250 copies, this one out of series but still signed. Good. Red leather binding by Whitman Bennett, rubbed at the joints and edges. Square, bound with some reading wear, scuffed gilt top edge, hinges weak, bookplate inside the front board.
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Across the Space Frontier
by Von Braun, Wernher; et al.
New York: Viking Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Edited by Cornelius Ryan with contributions from Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley, Dr. Fred L. Whipple, Dr. Joseph Kaplan, Dr. Heinz Haber, and Oscar Schacter. With full-color illustrations by Chesley Bonestell, Fred Freeman, and Rolf Klep. Very Good in a Good dust jacket, unclipped ($3.95), generally soiled, bumped and with some chips and tape repairs at the top edge. Green cloth, unevenly toned, with silver gilt lettering and... Read More
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Chariots of the Gods?; Unsolved Mysteries of the Past
by Von Daniken, Erich
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1970. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Translated by Michael Heron. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($5.95), faded at the spine, with some stains and tears. Quarter red cloth with black paper on the boards, some shelfwear. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Von Daniken's entry into the ancient aliens canon, bringing together "a vast collection of curious facts" to demonstrate "how easily they can be fitted into our... Read More
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Miracles of the Gods; A New Look at the Supernatural
by von Daniken, Erich
New York: Delacorte Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Translated by Michael Heron. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($8.95), faded at the spine, toned at the flaps. Black cloth with silver and gold gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with an orange topstain, ownership signature of Tom Benson on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. von Daniken's work that explain the ways in which the astronaut gods continue to affect humanity.... Read More
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Gods from Outer Space; Return to the Stars or Evidence for the Impossible
by von Daniken, Erich
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Translated by Michael Heron. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($5.95), faded at the spine, rubbed and soiled at the surface and edges. Quarter black cloth with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, ownership signature of Tom Benson on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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Pathways to the Gods; The Stones of Kiribati
by von Daniken, Erich
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Translated by Michael Heron. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($16.95), generally toned and soiled, rubbed at the edges and folds. Quarter blue cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, soiled at the top edge, ownership inscription of Tom Benson on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. An ancient astronauts work focused on finding evidence in the Pacific islands. From the... Read More
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Arrival of the Gods; Revealing the Alien Landing Sites of Nazca
by von Daniken, Erich
Dorset: Element Books Limited, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Translated by Michael Heron. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (£14.99), bumped at the edges. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, some rubbing. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Here, von Daniken gives his explanation of the mysterious Nazca lines. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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The Gold of the Gods
by von Daniken, Erich
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Translated by Michael Heron. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($6.95), rubbed at the surface and edges. Yellow cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, faintly soiled at the top edge, clean internally. von Daniken's work that theorizes the settlers of earth were the losers of a "battle of the gods." From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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The Maltese Falcon to Body of Lies: Spies, Noirs, and Trust
by von Hallberg, Robert
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Inscribed by von Hallberg to film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum on the half-title. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. von Hallberg's examination of twenty-eight noir films that "sets out what audiences may understand about the representations of trust and commitment that noirs and spies propose.
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Best UFO Cases - Europe
by von Ludwiger, Illobrand
Las Vegas: National Institute for Discovery Science, 1998. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Forewords by John Schuessler, Bruce Maccabee, and Richard Haines. Very Good. Wraps bumped at the edges an corners. Square and firmly bound, some stains at the edges, pages lightly bumped at the corners, clean otherwise. This work provides a history of early UFO reports as well as more recent encounters with trace and photographic evidence. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
by Von Neumann, John; Morgenstern, Oskar
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($10.00), generally toned, chipped at the edges and with a few small closed tears. Brown cloth, rubbed and bumped at the corners, with a red ink panel and gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a burgundy top stain, clean internally. Published three years after the first edition, this edition includes "an Appendix containing an axiomatic derivation of... Read More
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Player Piano
by Vonnegut, Kurt
New York: Scribner's, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Near Fine. Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.00), toned at the spine and edges of the panels, a few small spots of soiling. Green cloth, faintly bumped, with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, soiled at the edges, front endpaper neatly removed, clean otherwise. Vonnegut's debut novel set after the Second Industrial Revolution where machines do much of what humans used to. An increasingly relevant... Read More
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Between Time and Timbuktu or Prometheus-5: A Space Fantasy
by Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
New York: Delacorte Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Good in a Very Good jacket, clipped, some rippling from moisture. Quarter black cloth with silver foil on the front board and black cloth on the back board, a spot of discoloration. Square and firmly bound, tidemarks on the endpapers, upper-right corners a bit stiff. The first printing of Vonnegut's experimental television script composed of bits and pieces of Vonnegut's previous writing.
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The Vonnegut Quartet: Player Piano; Breakfast of Champions; Wampeters, Fom and Granfalloons; Mother Night [Box Set]
by Vonnegut Jr., Kurt
New York: Dell Publishing Co. Inc, 1976. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Four volumes, complete in the issued slipcase. Very Good. Wraps with some wear at the edges, light creases down the spine. Square and firmly bound with blue edges, clean internally.
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Nostalgia for the Present
by Voznesensky, Andrei
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Voznesensky on the title page as well as Allen Ginsberg, Robert Bly, and Stanley Kunitz on the translators page. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($10.00), rubbed and toned. Quarter beige cloth with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of "new poems, and one classic, by the celebrated Russian poet." Voznesensky's influence is so profound that... Read More
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Strike the Father Dead
by Wain, John
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Wain on the front endpaper. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (18s net), lightly rubbed and soiled. Red cloth, faintly rubbed at the bottom edges, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Wain's novel about a young jazz pianist and his efforts to avoid the war while making it as a musician.
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Another Life
by Walcott, Derek
New York: Farrar, Straux & Giroux, 1973. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Noonday N 443. Very Good. Wraps generally rubbed, a small closed tear at the top edge of the front wrap, scar on the back from a sticker removal. Square, bound with some reading wear, remaindered at the bottom edge, clean internally. From the Nobel Prize winner, a collection of poems featuring the titular long narrative poem.
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The Temple of My Familiar
by Walker, Alice
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($19.95). Quarter green cloth with yellow paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Her Blue Body Everything We Know; Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete
by Walker, Alice
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.95). Quarter brown cloth with printed paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, lightly foxed at the top edge, clean internally. A collection of Walker's previous poetry together with new and unpublished work.
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Cherry
by Walker, Nico
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($26.95), soiled at the back panel. Black buckram with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Walker's debut novel about a war vet-turned banker robber, being adapted into a film by Anthony and Joe Russo and starring Tom Holland.
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The Ringer
by Wallace, Edgar
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), rubbed and the surface and edges, tidemark on the back panel. Black buckram with orange ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the top edge, clean internally. Wallace's thriller novel adapted multiple times to film, including a 1952 production directed by future James Bond director Guy Hamilton.
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The Second Lady
by Wallace, Irving
New York: New American Library, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Presentation copy inscribed by editor Maryann Palumbo on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($11.95), rubbed and bumped at the top edge. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, Palumbo's bookplate inside the front board, clean otherwise. Wallace's political thriller in which "sex becomes the ultimate secret weapon" to induce the U.S. president... Read More
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That Swedish Girl
by Wallace, Wolf
New York: Softcover Library, Inc, 1966. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Good. Wraps rubbed at the edges, creased at the top fold. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, initials on the first page, a few pages where the fore-edge coloring has bled onto the margins, clean otherwise. A work that answers the question "Do those Swedish girls make good wives, or are they only good for a night in bed?
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