Odd Fish: Being a Casual Selection of London Residents
by Stacy Aumonier and George Belcher
London: Wm. Heinemann, 1923. Very Good/Very Good. [London]: Wm. Heinemann, 1923. First Edition. Small, slim quarto; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; 77pp.; thirteen leaves of plates. Small chips to jacket margins, light soil and foxing to outer panels mostly along flap folds, brief tape repair to spine crown verso, light soil to boards, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Collection of humorous portraits of London types from the owner of a fish shop to... Read More
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Barolo to Valpolicella: The Wines of Northern Italy
by Nicolas Belfrage
London: Mitchell Beazley, 2004. Very Good/Very Good. [London]: Mitchell Beazley, [2004]. Fully Revised and Updated. Octavo; publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xvii,[1],356pp.; illus. throughout. Light shelfwear to jacket margins, spine panel a shade sunned, dampstaining and color bleed to jacket verso along bottom edge, very faintly affecting cloth of front board; corners tapped, textblock lightly finger-soiled, else a Very Good and sound copy.
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Christian Huygens and the Development of Science in the Seventeenth Century
by A.E. Bell
London: Edward Arnold & Co, 1950. Very Good +/Very Good. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1950. Second Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 220pp.; portrait frontispiece, text illus. Light wear and dust soil to jacket, ownership ex libris of the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to front pastedown; Very Good or better overall.
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![[Sammelband] Theron, Paulinus, and Aspasio [WITH] An Essay on the Nature and Glory of the Gospel of Jesus Christ](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/985/750/1517750985.0.l.jpg)
[Sammelband] Theron, Paulinus, and Aspasio [WITH] An Essay on the Nature and Glory of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
by Joseph Bellamy
Washington, PA: John Colerick, 1798. Very Good. First Colerick Editions. Two volumes bound in one; 12mo (19cm.); full contemporary tree calf, red gilt-lettered spine label. Corners softened, front free endpaper separated but present, textblock rather toned and a bit foxed, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else Very Good and sound. Contents as follows: 1. "Theron, Paulinus, and Aspasio. Or, Letters & Dialogues upon the nature of love to God, faith in Christ, assurance of a... Read More
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Archive of Correspondence from Iowa Poet Marvin Bell to Charles Simic
by [Charles Simic] Marvin Bell
Iowa City, IA et al., 1970. Very Good +. Iowa City, IA, Spain, Vermont, Tangier: 1970-1977. Archive of fourteen pieces of correspondence from the Iowa poet Marvin Bell (1937-2020) to the late Poet Laureate Charles Simic (1938-2023). Previous mail folds, some wrinkling, else Very Good or better. Collection is comprised of twelve typed letters signed and two autograph picture postcards. The correspondence is concentrated around 1970 to 1972 between the two up-and-coming poets. The first half... Read More
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![And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/774/176/1723176774.0.l.jpg)
And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice [Inscribed and Signed]
by Derrick Bell
New York: Basic Books, 1987. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Basic Books, [1987]. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (24cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; xii,288pp. Light shelf wear, dust jacket and textblock edges dust-soiled, front endpapers toned from exposure to (removed) news clipping, old red pencil price to front pastedown; overall Very Good, internally clean and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on half title page.
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![A Deadly Place to Stay [Dorothy Hughes' copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/029/313/1521313029.0.l.jpg)
A Deadly Place to Stay [Dorothy Hughes' copy]
by Josephine Bell
New York: Walker and Company, 1982. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Walker and Company, 1982. First Edition. Ownership signature of mystery writer Dorothy B. Hughes to title page. Octavo. 224 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket shows general rubbing and spine lightly sunned. Boards show light shelfwear and spine ends lightly nudged. Binding sound and pages unmarked.
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![Cumberland Parish: Lunenberg County, Virginia 1746-1816; Vestry Book 1746-1816 [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/635/952/1378952635.0.l.jpg)
Cumberland Parish: Lunenberg County, Virginia 1746-1816; Vestry Book 1746-1816 [Signed]
by Landon C. Bell
Richmond, VA: The William Byrd Press, Inc., Printers, 1930. Very Good +. Richmond, VA: The William Byrd Press, Inc., Printers, 1930. First Edition. Inscribed by Bell to Colonel Christopher B. Garnett on front free endpaper. Tall octavo. 633 pages. Fold-out map; black and white portrait. Navy cloth stamped in gilt. Light wear to extremities. Binding is sound. Pages toned but unmarked.
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![Two Poems [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/170/565/1699565170.0.l.jpg)
Two Poems [Limited Edition]
by Marvin Bell
Iowa City, IA: Hundred Pound Press, 1965. Very Good. Iowa City, IA: Hundred Pound Press, 1965. First Edition, Limited to 50 copies of which this is no. 37. Small, slim octavo (19.5cm); publisher's tan printed wrappers; [18]pp. Moderate wear to wrapper margins, brief soil to upper cover and faint sticker scar slightly affecting text, uneven toning to rear cover, stitching perished leaving textblock loose in binding. Good only. The late Poet Laureate of Iowa's first book, a... Read More
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![Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/009/559/1699559009.0.l.jpg)
Him With His Foot In His Mouth and Other Stories [Signed]
by Saul Bellow
New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Stated First Edition. Octavo (24cm); 294pp. Publisher's dust jacket with $15.95 price intact; boards bound in blue cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Dust jacket ever-so-slightly bumped. Boards likewise lightly bumped and a bit faded along top and bottom edge. Binding sound. Textblock and interior pages clean; endsheets a bit toned. Altogether Very Good or better. Signed without inscription by the... Read More
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The Victim
by Saul Bellow
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1947. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); publisher's blue dust jacket over black cloth with blue lettering to spine; [viii],294pp; blue topstain. Price-clipped jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges, with a fair bit of smudging and dust-soiling, and a few creases to surface; spine darkened with author's name largely faded away. Boards edgeworn with tugging and at spine ends and a few... Read More
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![More Die of Heartbreak [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/932/560/1699560932.0.l.jpg)
More Die of Heartbreak [Signed]
by Saul Bellow
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc, 1987. Very Good/Very Good. New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1987. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Octavo (24cm); publishe'rs gray dust jacket witih $17.00 price intact; maroon boards with light gray cloth spine and silver lettering; 335pp. Jacket lightly rubbed and bumped at corners and spine ends. Boards square with bumping at top corner and nudging to tail. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the author... Read More
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The Adventures of Augie March
by Saul Bellow
New York: Viking Press, 1953. Very Good +/Good. New York: Viking Press, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (22cm); 536pp. Publisher’s price-clipped dust jacket; boards bound in black and grey cloth with orange stamping. Dust jacket toned and smudged; edges rather bumped with tears and chips throughout. Chipping with loss at spine. Boards lightly bumped and faintly toned. Binding sound. Textblock and endsheets toned; interior pages clean. Previous owner’s bookplate at first fixed endsheet. A Very Good or... Read More
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Herzog
by Saul Bellow
New York: Viking Press, 1964. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Viking Press, 1964. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); 341pp. Publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with $5.75 price intact; boards bound in blue cloth with blindstamping at front panel and silver stamping at spine. Dust jacket lightly bumped; small green sticker at spine. Boards likewise bumped but otherwise clean. Binding sound. Textblock, and endsheets, and interior pages lightly toned. A Very Good or better copy of this National Book... Read More
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I Love You, I Love You, I Love You
by Ludwig Bemelmans
New York: Viking Press, 1942. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Viking Press, 1942. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth, pink topstain, pictorial endpapers, in pink pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); 207pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket margins quite rubbed and worn with some closed tears and small losses just slightly touching text, spine panel faded to almost white, perished tape repair to verso, corner tapped, endpapers toned, else a Very Good copy in a Good to Very Good copy... Read More
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Hansi
by Ludwig Bemelmans
New York: The Viking Press, 1934. Very Good. New York: The Viking Press, 1934. First Edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Bemelmans throughout. Illustrated boards. Lacks dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with general staining and scuffing. Binding sound. Mild spotting to interior; overall Very Good.
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The High World
by Ludwig Bemelmans
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth, illustrated endpapers, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.75); [10],113pp.; four color plates, two of them double-paged, as well as half-tone text illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins with brief spots of old tape repair to verso, margins a bit toned, else a Very Good copy in the uncommon dust jacket. Lovely children's book... Read More
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![The Donkey Inside [Signed and Inscribed with Original Illustration of a Donkey]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/755/559/1699559755.0.l.jpg)
The Donkey Inside [Signed and Inscribed with Original Illustration of a Donkey]
by Ludwig Bemelmans
New York: Viking Press, 1943. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Viking Press, 1943. Later Printing. Octavo (length” x width” if useful); 224pp. Publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; boards bound in jute-like cloth with red stamping to front panel and spine; illustrated brown endsheets and red stained edges. Four color illustration spreads throughout. Dust jacket bumped and scuffed; rear panel foxed; flaps toned. Boards a bit bumped and scuffed; spine sunned. Binding sound. Top edge of... Read More
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![A Short History of Valentinus Gentilis the Tritheist, Tryed, Condemned, and put to Death by the Protestant Reformed City and Church of Bern in Switzerland, for Asserting the Three Divine Persons of the Trinity, to be [Three Distinct, Eternal Spirits, &c.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/697/577/1630577697.0.l.jpg)
A Short History of Valentinus Gentilis the Tritheist, Tryed, Condemned, and put to Death by the Protestant Reformed City and Church of Bern in Switzerland, for Asserting the Three Divine Persons of the Trinity, to be [Three Distinct, Eternal Spirits, &c.]
by Benedictus Aretius; Robert South [trans.?]
London: E. Whitlock, 1696. Very Good. London: Printed, and Sold by E. Whitlock, near Stationers-Hall, 1696. First English Edition. Small octavo (17cm.); full contemporary speckled paneled calf, spine in five compartments; [16],134,[2]pp. (collated complete). Leather quite dried, especially at margins and spine with exposure at corners and top spine chord, textblock a bit toned and foxed, two early leaves with recent blue pencil underlining, 20th-century ex libris of the Hope Trust, Edinburgh, to front pastedown, else a Very... Read More
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Valiant is the Word for Carrie
by Barry Benefield
New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1935. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1935. First Edition. Octavo (19.7cm); typographic dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; boards in black cloth with gilt lettering; black topstain and pale blue endpapers; 292pp. Jacket shows a couple brief tears at folds and toning to spine. Boards lightly shelfworn with a couple stray scuffs to cloth and nudging at spine ends; spine lettering rubbing away at tail. Binding sound and... Read More
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Five Men and Pompey: A Series of Dramatic Portraits
by Stephen Vincent Benet
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1915. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1915. First Edition, First Issue. 12mo. 47 pages. Printed purple-gray dust jacket pasted into brown boards at spine, as issued, though now separated per notes below. Dust jacket lightly chipped at spine ends, toned along spine, and coloring of exterior has largely faded to gray. Dust jacket now detached from boards due to glue deterioration. Boards with some light chipping along fore... Read More
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They Burned the Books
by Stephen Vincent Benet
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1942. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1942. First Edition. Octavo. 25 pages. Plain blue paper dust jacket. Red boards stamped in black. Housed in black slipcase with title label to spine. Dust jacket is lightly worn along edges with toning to spine and around flaps. Boards show light edgewear and some general creasing. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase sound. An anti-Nazi radio-play... Read More
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The Great Magoo
by Ben Hecht; Gene Fowler; Herman Rosse [illus.]
New York: Covici-Friede / Van Rees Press, 1933. Very Good. New York: Covici Friede / Van Rees Press, 1933. First Edition. Octavo; black cloth boards stamped in green; 208pp; illustrated in color including a full-page illustration on title page. Very light scuffing to front board, spine ends slightly bumped, spine is cocked, dust soiling to text block edges, else pages are unmarked and binding is sound, a Very Good copy.
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![The Great Magoo [Signed and Inscribed by Fowler]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/720/766/1687766720.0.l.jpg)
The Great Magoo [Signed and Inscribed by Fowler]
by Ben Hecht; Gene Fowler; Herman Rosse [illus.]
New York: Covici-Friede / Van Rees Press, 1933. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Covici Friede / Van Rees Press, 1933. First Edition. Octavo; black cloth boards stamped in green; pictorial dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; 208pp; illustrated in color including a full-page illustration on title page. Boards are slightly worn with bumping to corners and spine ends, spine is a bit cocked, dust soiled top edge with toning throughout text block, otherwise pages are unmarked and binding... Read More
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![The Open Door and the Mandates System: A Study of Economic Equality Before and Since the Establishment of the Mandates System [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/943/416/1581416943.0.l.jpg)
The Open Door and the Mandates System: A Study of Economic Equality Before and Since the Establishment of the Mandates System [Signed]
by Benjamin Gerig; William E. Rappard [fwd.]
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1930. Very Good. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1930. First Edition. Signed by Benjamin Gerig with brief inscription to previous owner at front free endpaper. Octavo. 236 pp. + advertisements. Black and white charts and illustrations. Green cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Light shelfwear to boards, corners bumped, minor soiling. Binding is sound. Toning and mild foxing to edges of text block and endpapers; interior else unmarked. Very Good.... Read More
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