The Raymond Chandler Papers; Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959
by [Chandler, Raymond] Hiney, Tim; MacShane, Frank
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($25.00), bumped at the edges. Brown paper on the boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of Chandler's correspondence in which he discusses his dislike of James M. Cain's writing, his views on American life, among other topics, paired with his nonfiction writings.
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The Manuscript of The Secrets from Mount Shasta
by Chaney, Earlyne
Anaheim: Stockton Trade Press, Inc, 1981. Second Edition. Paperback. Fair. Published as part of Astara's Library of Mystical Classics. Fair. Wraps toned, bumped, soiled, and with a short tear at the top spine fold. Bound with a forward lean, first signature loosely laid in, clean otherwise. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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The Nemesis of American Business
by Chase, Stuart
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), toned at the spine, shallow chips at the top edge. Black cloth with red labels on the spine and front board. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, former owner's name on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Chase's Depression-era economic critique that calls for engineers and planned production to direct economic policy.
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The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian
by Chaudhuri, Nirad C.
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped (21s. net), heavily soiled and rubbed, chips at the head and foot of the spine, generally rubbed and bumped. Orange cloth with a black ink panel on the spine with gilt lettering and designs. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, faint top stain, clean internally. Chaudhuri's novel about post-Independence Indian, notably for that fact that he "played no part... Read More
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Altered States
by Chayefsky, Paddy
New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1978. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped (no price). Black and gold paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The basis for the surreal film of the same title.
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First Man (5 Vol. Set)
by Chazelle, Damien
Universal Pictures, 2018. First Edition. Paperback. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Red spines with pictorial wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of interviews, script excerpts, and criticism interspersed with movie stills. Here, the makers of the film discuss the purpose of the film, its sound design, cinematography, editing, and acting.
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The Wapshot Scandal
by Cheever, John
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.95) but repriced at $1.00 in red pen, some stains on the back panel. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The sequel to Cheever's National Book Award-winning The Wapshot Chronicle.
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The Wapshot Scandal
by Cheever, John
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($4.95), rubbed at the edges and back panel, chipped at the foot of the spine. Blue buckram with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The sequel to Cheever's National Book Award-winning The Wapshot Chronicle.
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The Wapshot Chronicle
by Cheever, John
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Early Printing. Good in a Good jacket, clipped, a few chips at and along the spine and edges. Quarter black cloth with green paper on the boards, some rubbing. Square and firmly bound, inscription on the front endpaper, foxed at the endpapers. Cheever's debut novel, the winner of the 1958 National Book Award, named to Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. ... Read More
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The Wapshot Chronicle
by Cheever, John
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957. Hardcover. Good/Good. Early Printing. Good in a Good jacket, clipped, generally rubbed and worn with multiple tears and chips. Quarter black buckram with green paper on the boards, gilt rubbed at the spine. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the top edge and endpapers. Cheever's debut novel, winner of the National Book Award.
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The Incredulity of Father Brown
by Chesterton, G.K.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, generally toned, chipped at the head and foot of the spine. Brown buckram, generally toned and soiled, bumped at the top corner, with black ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square, bound with light reading wear, writing inside the front board, clean otherwise. A collection of eight Father Brown detective stories, many of which were... Read More
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The Man Who Was Thursday
by Chesterton, G.K.
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped (no price). Blue cloth with blue ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Black in Selma; The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr.
by Chestnut, J.L.; Cass, Julia
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Publisher's compliments card laid-in, with handwriting presumably belonging to Jonathan Galassi. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($22.95), toned at the flaps. Quarter blue cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A biography of the Southern legal giant that also serves as a history of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Volume One)
by Child, Julia; Bertholle, Louisette; Beck, Simone
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Drawings by Sidonie Coryn. Fourteenth Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped ($10.00), generally toned and soiled, wrapped in an old mylar taped onto the boards. Patterned cloth on the boards, slightly pushed at the head and foot of the spine. Square and firmly bound with a red topstain, some stains from the adhesive on the endappers, remarkably clean otherwise. This book jumpstarted Child's career... Read More
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Reflections on Language
by Chomsky, Noam
New York: Pantheon, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Very Good in a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($10.00), toned, faintly bumped. Cream cloth with black ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, remaindered at the bottom edge, some foxing at the top edge, clean internally. In this book, Chomsky addresses the use in studying language through addressing Platonic questions and delving into psychology, philosophy, and linguistics.
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Five Complete Novels: The Murder at the Vicarage, Dead Man's Folly, Sad Cypress, Towards Zero, N or M.
by Christie, Agatha
New York: Avenel Books, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped ($30.75), toned, faintly bumped at the edges. Red boards, rubbed at the bottom edges, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with toned pages.
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Five Complete Miss Marple Novels: The Mirror Crack'd, A Caribbean Mystery, Nemesis, What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!, The Body in the Library
by Christie, Agatha
New York: Avenel Books, 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Later Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($34.75), faded a shade at the spine, bumped at the edges. Black boards, pushed at the head and foot of the spine, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise.
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Christie, Agatha
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1954. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket, unclipped (no price), faded a shade at the spine. Quarter red cloth with beige cloth on the boards, faintly bumped. Square and firmly bound with a brown topstain, clean internally. Christie's Hercule Poirot with a classic and controversial ending.
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The Murder at the Vicarage
by Christie, Agatha
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), lightly toned, chipped at the edges, a few creases on the front panel. Blue cloth, toned at the spine, frayed at the edges. Square, bound with some reading wear, former owner's name and stamp on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. The first full-length novel to feature Christie's amateur detective Miss Jane Marple.
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At Bertram's Hotel
by Christie, Agatha
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1966. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Second Printing. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, clipped, faded at the spine. Quarter red cloth with red-and-black patterned cloth on the boards. Square and firmly bound with a red topstain, clean internally. A Miss Marple mystery.
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Death on the Nile; A Hercule Poirot Mystery
by Christie, Agatha
New York: William Morrow, 2020. Paperback. Fine. Later Printing. Fine. Wraps faintly rubbed, sticker on the front cover. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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The Westmacott-Christie Reader; Six Novels by Agatha Christie writing under the name Mary Westmacott
by Christie, Agatha
New York: Arbor House, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Complete in a Very Good copy of the issued clipcase, some rubbing and stains. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped ($25), a stain at the spine, creased at the back flap. Quarter blue cloth with cream cloth on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first omnibus collection of Christie's romance novels.
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Kosmology; Luciferian Philosophy
by Christner, Jeremy
[n.p.]: Ixaxaar Occult Literature, 2005. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Near Fine. Wraps lightly scuffed. Square and firmly bound with two staples, clean internally. Christner's monography meant to spread the Luciferian philosophy to disrupt the paradigm spreading subservience to the Demiurge and primitive thought.
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The Dragon-Book of Essex: Grimorium Synomosia Draco'Taos; An Enchiridion of the Crooked Path, Being a Grammar of Quintessential Sorcery, Containing the Sacred Rites and Formulae Undertaken in the Mysteries of the Great Dragon, Transmitted through the Circles of the Four Watchers, Seen and Unseen
by Chumbley, Andrew D.
Xoanon Publishing, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 808 standard copies bound in red cloth. Near Fine. Red cloth with black ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, some soiling at the edges, clean internally. The second book in Chumbley's Trimagisterion trilogy.
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Khiazmos: A Book Without Pages
by Chumbley, Andrew D.
Xoanon, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Limited to 727 copies. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped (no price). Dark gray cloth with silver gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A primordial grimoire that uses "strategies of arcane, recursive and paradoxical exposition to illustrate eternal truths of magic.
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