Peter and Wendy
by Barrie, J. M.; F. D. Bedford [Illustrations]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First Edition. Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. x, 267 pp., complete with 13 plates including illustrated title and frontispiece. Bound in publisher's green cloth elaborately stamped in gilt; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Near Fine with very light rubbing and toning to extremities and slight bumping to corners. Penciled ownership signature to front free endpaper, light toning and occasional smudging to contents; plates clean and bright. A fantastic copy of... Read More
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Peter and Wendy
by Barrie, J. M.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First British edition, first printing; undated on title page verso. vii, 267 pp. with 13 plates including title and frontis. Bound in publisher's olive green cloth elaborately stamped in gilt. Near Fine with heavy foxing to text block edges and margins throughout, light foxing to verso of plates, and marginal chip to lower corner of pp. 65/66; binding strong and square. In scarce Near Fine dust jacket with... Read More
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Peter and Wendy
by Barrie, J. M.; F.D. Bedford [Illustrations]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth elaborately stamped in gilt. Near Fine with slight toning to spine, extremities lightly bumped and small ink spot to lower joint. Bookseller ticket to front pastedown. In a Very Good original dust jacket with price of $1.50 at base of front panel, toned, with extremities frayed and a short closed tear to the top of the upper spine joint, a... Read More
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Peter and Wendy
by Barrie, J. M.; F.D. Bedford [Illustrations]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First American Edition. Very Good. First American edition, first printing. x, 267pp. with 13 illustrated plates. Bound in publisher's green cloth elaborately stamped in gilt, lacking the scarce dust jacket. Very Good with toning to spine, light fraying to ends, edges foxed with toning, soiling to cloth with softened corners. Dust soiling to top edge of text block, former owner's names and inscription at front free endpaper. A nice copy of this... Read More
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Quatrefoil: A Modern Novel
by Barr, James; [James W. Fugate]
New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1950. First edition. First edition, first printing. [vi], 373, [5] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with brown stamping, green topstain. Near Fine, light foxing to fore edge, in a Very Good dust jacket, foxed and a little worn along edges, price intact ($3.00). While today it is fairly obscure, Quatrefoil was the bestselling post-WWII gay novel in America, more so than Gore Vidal or Truman Capote's novels.
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The Philadelphia Story
by Barry, Philip
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1939. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth decorated in white, with blue topstain. Near Fine with some sunning to spine and edges, light dust-soiling to cloth. A rather pleasing former owner bookplate to front pastedown, pages toned, evidence of small bookseller label removed from rear pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with dunning to spine, light edge wear and toning; foxing to... Read More
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Bullshot Bully??!! [Los Angeles Gay Bar Flier]
by [Gay Bars]
[Los Angeles]: [Bullshot], 1978. Near Fine. Single sheet printed on recto only on Bullshot letterhead, with title reading "Bullshot Bully??!!" announcing a contest to select a "Bully" (or waiter) to serve at the new Los Angeles nightclub/disco gay bar. The event was emceed by gay and straight porn star, Jack Wrangler, who was considered an icon of the gay-liberation movement, and featured special guest Carl Bean, whose disco hit "Born This Way" has become a gay anthem. Near... Read More
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Come Back, Dr. Caligari
by Barthelme, Donald
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Signed by Barthelme, inscribed to Celia Simon and her partner on half title. [viii], 183 pp. Original purple cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with former owner's on front free endpaper, scratch to that page, in an unclipped dust jacket with small spine panel repair. The author's first collection of stories. Laid in is an original pencil portrait of Barthelme by an unknown artist... Read More
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Snow White
by Barthelme, Donald
New York: Atheneum, 1967. First edition. First edition, advance review copy with publisher's slip laid. Signed by Donald Barthelme on half title in blue ink. [viii], 181, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's off-white cloth with gray and red lettering. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket with a bit of soiling to rear panel and spine, unclipped, ink notation to front flap. The author's first novel.
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You and Your Surfboard
by Bartlett, Vernon; Maurice Bartlett
Rye, Sussex: Vernon Bartlett at Mermaid Cottage, 1953. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Staple-bound in publisher's textured cream colored wraps lettered in brown and black. 24 pp. Near Fine with soiling and wear to covers. Rusting to staples with light toning to contents. A charming how-to British surfing guide for beginners. The author, a politician and journalist, was forward thinking in telling his readers not to litter beaches, “You wouldn’t show yourself so unworthy of... Read More
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Conference Internationale de la Croix-Rouge [International Conference of the Red Cross]
by Barton, Clara, et al.
Geneva: Comite International de la Croix-Rouge, 1885. First Edition. Very Good. First edition of this early annual report of the International Red Cross. A presentation copy, signed by Clara Barton and warmly inscribed "To Senator Preston U. Plumb of Kansas, from a friend who honors him, Clara Barton, President of the American National Red Cross, Washington, DC, March 18, 1891." Plumb was a United States Senator, as well as an officer in the Union Army during the American... Read More
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A Story of the Red Cross
by Barton, Clara
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1904. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. A presentation copy signed by Clara Barton on the front free endpaper with a lengthy and warm inscription, "Will Mrs. Wersfall [?] accept this little volume as a sometimes reminder if the days we passed together and which to one at least, seem like distant glimpses of another i- and yet, we were the same, and will so remain, living, tender and true... Read More
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Drawings
by Basquiat, Jean-Michel
Zurich & New York: Edition Gallery Bruno Bischofberger and Edition Mary Boone Gallery, 1982. Limited First Edition. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Number 644 of a limited 1000 copies signed by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Unpaginated. Oblong format. Bound in publisher's gray cloth with black spine lettering. Near Fine with light foxing to textlbock edges and endsheets, mid-gutter slightly over opened, two vertical crease to rear endpaper. In a Fine unclipped dust jacket. A rare signed monograph from the late American... Read More
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
by Basquiat, Jean-Michel
Zurich: Edition Gallery Bruno Bischofberger, 1985. Limited First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Number 973 of a limited 1000 copies signed by Jean-Michel Basquiat. Bound in publisher's red cloth with spine lettered in black. Near Fine with light wear, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear, small closed tear to top edge of front panel mended with archival tissue on verso, and a little scratching and scuffing to rear panel and flap.... Read More
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Sophisms of the Protectionists (Economic Sophisms)
by Bastiat, Frederic
New York: American Free Trade League, 1870. First thus. First thus. xvi, 398 pp. Bound in publisher's gray wraps. Very Good or better, given the fragility of the wraps. Rear wrap torn near head with curling along top edge, rectangular chip to bottom edge, some soiling and curling to terminals as well. Contents clean and bright. A rare early American paperback edition of the French economist Frederic Bastiat's Sophismes économiques, best known in English as Economic Sophisms. Bastiat has... Read More
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The Nature of Love
by Bates H.E.
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1954. First American Edition. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Signed by H.E. Bates on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner in Paris, 1959. [vi], 217 pp. Publisher's slick navy cloth, spine lettered in white. Fine in Very Good dust jacket with rubbing, a little foxing, small closed tear to back panel. A collection of three novellas-- "The Grass God," "Dulcima," and "The Delicate Nature"-- by the prolific British author best-known for... Read More
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[The Flowers of Evil] Les Fleurs du mal
by Baudelaire, Charles; Georges Rochgrosse [Illustrator]
Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, A. Ferroud - F. Ferroud, Successor, 1910. Limited Edition. Near Fine. Deluxe limited edition of Baudelaire's most famous work, #8 of 80 copies printed on Japon paper. 292, [6] pp., publisher's prospectus bound in at rear. Illustrated with 27 illustrations drawn by Georges Rochgrosse and etched by Eugene Decisy, including handcolored vignette to title page, 20 full-page illustrations in three states, and 6 head-pieces in three states (three prints taken from the same block,... Read More
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[The Flowers of Evil] Les Fleurs du mal
by Baudelaire, Charles
Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing containing the six suppressed poems: "Les Bijoux", "Le Léthé", "A celle qui est trop gaie", "Lesbos", "Femmes damnées", and "Les Métamorphoses du vampire." With the following issue points: "Feurs" in the headline on pp. 31 and 108; with p. 45 misnumbered 44, and with the last word of the first line on p. 201 "captieux" instead of "capiteux." The first edition of Les Fleurs... Read More
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Les Paradis Artificiels: Opium and Haschisch
by Baudelaire, Charles
Paris: Poulet-Malassis et De Broise, 1860. First edition, first issue. First edition, first issue with the correct date of 1860 on the front wrapper. [iv], iv, 305 pp. Disbound gatherings of pages (typically 24 or so per gathering) with original wraps laid in, front wrap detached from spine and rear wrap, but complete. Other than the lack of a binding, this copy is in very nice shape with clean, bright contents. Spine and covers professionally reinforced. Faint spot of... Read More
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Les strategies fatales (Fatal Strategies)
by Baudrillard, Jean; [Max Gallo]
Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1983. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Jean Baudrillard on the front free endpaper, warmly inscribed to prolific French author and politician Max Gallo. 273, [13] pp. Illustrated wraps. In French. Very Good with creased spine, light wear. A turning point in the famous postmodern philosopher's oeuvre, in which he rebukes Western philosophy and logic and embraces the absurd.
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The Daring Twins
by Baum, L. Frank
Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co, 1911. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, binding state A. Signed by L. Frank Baum and briefly inscribed on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's ribbed blue cloth with pictorial stamping. Near Fine with light lean to spine, light wear to corners and spine ends. Light evidence of erased name on front free endpaper. The first of two books The Wizard of Oz author penned about the Daring children.
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The Scarecrow of Oz
by Baum, L. Frank
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1915. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with spine stamped in black and full color illustrated paper label to front cover, with in-text illustrations and 12 full-color plates inserted. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, light wear to spine ends with a short tear to the crown. Former owner name to ownership leaf, several hinges throughout just slightly over-opened and rear inner... Read More
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Mr. Woodchuck
by Baum, L. Frank; Bancroft, Laura (Pseudonym)
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. (Bienvenue and Schmidt p. 288.) 62 pp. Original tan cloth with red endpapers. Very Good with former owner's info on front free endpaper, front and rear hinges reinforced, light wear, some tiny pinholes to first six pages or so. A nice copy of a children's book in the Twinkle Tales series written by Oz-creator L. Frank Baum under a pseudonym.
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My Saturnian Lover
by Baxter, Marla [Connie Menger]
New York: Vantage Press, 1958. First edition. First edition, first printing of the UFO romance novella written by Constance Weber Menger under a pseudonym. [2], [4, photo insert], [3]-72 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow paper-covered boards lettered in black on the spine. Near Fine, previous owner signature and date '59 to front free endpaper, vintage bookseller ticket to title page. In a Very Good dust jacket, moderately rubbed, toned spine panel with splits along folds mended with archival tissue... Read More
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Principles of General Physiology
by Bayliss, William Maddock
London: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1915. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. xx, 850, 24 (ads) pp. Illustrated. Publisher's crimson cloth with black lettering to front board, gilt spine lettering. Very Good with small scratch to spine, faint stain to front board, pencil mark to rear board, foxing to edges, bookplate on paste down, brief note about book affixed to front free endpaper stating "I like the original edition best," a little foxing to prelims. Garrison & Morton,... Read More
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