The Pigeon Shoot
by Crumley, James
Santa Barbara: Neville, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 350 copies signed by Crumley on the limitation page. Fine. Orange cloth with red ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The screenplay for Crumley's never-filmed movie set to star Mexican star Don Emilio Fernandez.
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Silent Invasion; The Shocking Discoveries of a UFO Researcher
by Crystall, Ellen
New York: Paragon House, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed on the front endpaper by Crystall. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($19.95), bumped at the edges, toned at the flaps. Quarter green paper with grey paper on the boards. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. Crystall's account of her work in Pine Bush, NY and her pursuit to film craft and alien visitors. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.... Read More
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Collected Poems
by Cullen, Countee
New York: Library of America, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Edited by Major Jackson. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($24.95). Purple boards with white ink lettering and designs. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Color
by Cullen, Countee
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Drawings by Charles Cullen. Tenth Printing. Very Good in a Good jacket, clipped, generally faded and soiled, chipped at the edges. Black cloth, lightly bumped, with pastedown labels on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, lengthy gift inscription on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. An early printing of Cullen's first collection of poetry, an important work of the Harlem Renaissance and seemingly scarce in... Read More
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The Pursuit of Signs; Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction
by Culler, Jonathan
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Wraps lightly toned and rubbed at the edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of Culler's essays that investigate "the possibilities of a semiotics of literature," touching on the theories of Jauss, Fish, Riffaterre, and Bloom.
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Astra and Flondrix; An Erotic Fairytale
by Cullen, Seamus
New York: Pocket Books, 1979. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps rubbed at the edges, a crease at the bottom-right corner of the front wrap. Square and firmly bound, a few stains at the edges, clean internally. The story of a young and innocent couple who faced "a fight which pitted them against superscience, magic, human evil, and, worst of all, the demonic determination of the fiercest Beasat Beneath.
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i: Six Nonlectures
by Cummings, E.E.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Second Printing. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), former owner's name written underneath the price, a chip at the top edge, lightly rubbed at the folds. Black cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of Cummings's six Charles Eliot Norton "nonlectures" delivered at Harvard during the autumn of 1952 and spring of 1953.
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The Shadow Girl
by Cummings, Ray
London: Gerald G. Swan, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (5/- net), lightly rubbed and soiled. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, former owner's stamp on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Cummings's novel about two scientists who travel to a time machine tower and "become involved in a dark and murderous conflict as the machine races from age to age.... Read More
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Murder at the Schoolhouse
by Cunningham, A.B.
New York: Dutton, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy with publisher's slip laid-in, also with a contemporary newspaper review presumably from the owner of this copy. Near Fine in an about Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.00), toned at the flaps and back panel. Blue buckram with black ink lettering on the spine and front board. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, full-page illustrated bookplate on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. A fast-paced detective novel... Read More
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The Collected Fanzines of Philip J. Currie FWBK and ERBivore
by Currie, Philip J.
[n.p.]: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Inscribed on the title page by Currie to ERB collector Joan Bledig. Fine. Spiral bound with clean pages. Printed as a souvenir of the annual Dum-Dum in 2013. A collection of Currie's contributions to various fanzines.
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Kid Andrew Cody & Julie Sparrow
by Curtis, Tony
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Curtis to New American Library marketing executive Maryann Palumbo with an additional TLS from Curtis laid in. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($8.95), lightly toned and rubbed, a few small bumps and closed tears. Quarter black buckram, lightly rubbed, with yellow paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, Palumbo's bookplate inside the front board, clean otherwise. Curtis's "free-wheeling, uninhibited... Read More
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Switch Bitch
by Dahl, Roald
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($5.95), toned and with a crease at the front flap. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, orange top stain, front hinge a bit over-opened, clean internally. A collection of four long stories from the famed novelist and children's author.
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Han Solo's at Star's End
by Daley, Brian
New York: Ballantine Books, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($8.95). Quarter blue cloth with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, remaindered at the bottom edge, clean otherwise. The first volume in the Han Solo Adventure trilogy.
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Killer.app
by D'Amato, Barbara
New York: Forge, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by D'Amato on the title page. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($22.95). Black paper on the boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first book in her Figeroa and Bennis series, "a nerve-jangling police thriller that races along the cutting edge of today's computer technology.
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Socialist Revolution No. 12
by Dancis, Bruce
San Francisco: Agenda Publishing, 1972. Paperback. Very Good. About Very Good. Wraps rubbed at the edges, toned at the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's sticker on the Contents page, a few instances of marginalia, clean otherwise. Featured here are essays on the relationship between day care and capitalism, Antonio Gramsci's prison notebooks, the concept of the weekend, and corporate fetishism.
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Enter Sir John
by Dane, Clemence; Simpson, Helen
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), faded at the spine, rubbed and with a few small closed tears at the spine. Yellow buckram, bumped at the top edge, blue ink on the spine and front board. Square, bound with light reading wear, clean internally. Adapted into the 1930 Alfred Hitchcock film Murder and the 1931 Alfred Hitchcock film Mary.
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Yellow Fog
by Daniels, Les
West Kingston: Donald M. Grant, Publisher Inc, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Illustrated by Frank Villano. Limited to 800 copies signed by Daniels and Villano. Near Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($30.00). Green cloth, bumpd at the top-right corner. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Daniels's nove that turns the traditional Victorian vampire story inside-out.
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The Black Castle; A Novel of the Macabre
by Daniels, Les
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Signed by Daniels on a label affixed to the front endpaper. Near Fine in an about Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($8.95), toned at the spine. Black cloth, bumped at the bottom corners, with teal ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Daniels's horror novel of two brothers, one a vampire the other a man of God, "a macabre tale of relentless suspense. ... Read More
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
by Danticat, Edwidge
New York: Soho Press, Inc, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Danticat on the title page. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($20.00). Quarter blue cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Danticat's debut novel of a Haitian girl's coming-of-age.
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England's Constable; The Life and Letters of John Constable
by Darracott, Joseph
London: Folio Society, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase, lightly rubbed. Grey cloth with a black ink panel and pictorial pastedown on the front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex [2 Vols]
by Darwin, Charles
London: John Murray, 1871. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First issue of Volume I, second issue of Volume II. Complete in two volumes. Good. Green cloth, generally rubbed and soiled at the surface and edges. Both volumes bound with forward leans, hinges reinforced, chipped half-title of Volume I restored with paper backing, foxing throughout. Darwin's influential work that furthers his theories about evolution and natural selection. In fact, the first issue of this book features Darwin's first use of... Read More
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Joyleg
by Davidson, Avram; Moore, Ward
New York: Walker and Company, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($5.95), lightly toned. Red cloth with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collaborative satirical novel about an immortal pensioner in Appalachia.
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Flying Saucers: An Analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14
by Davidson, Dr. Leon
Clarksburg: Saucerian Books, 1970. Fourth Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 154p. Near Fine. Blue wraps, lightly bumped at the corners, toned and soiled at the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Davidson's work that reprints and analyzes the titular Project Blue Book report among other Air Force and CIA documents. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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Holmes of the Movies; The Screen Career of Sherlock Holmes
by Davies, David Stuart
New York: Bramhall House, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Foreword by Peter Cushing. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($12.50), generally toned and rubbed, a few creases. Quarter grey buckram with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Fifth Business
by Davies, Robertson
New York: Viking Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Very Good in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($6.95), lightly bumped at the edges, Doubleday price sticker on the back panel. Quarter brown cloth with yellow paper on the boards, some red splotches. Square and firmly bound with a soiled yellow topstain, clean internally. The first novel in Davies's acclaimed Deptford Trilogy.
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