The Compleat Enchanter; The Magical Misadventures of Harold Shea
by de Camp, L. Sprague; Pratt, Fletcher
Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, Inc, 1975. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, lightly rubbed. Yellow boards with green ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a few spots of foxing at the endpapers, clean otherwise. An omnibus that collects The Incomplete Enchanter and The Castle of Iron.
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Footprints on Sand; A Literary Sampler
by de Camp, L. Sprague and Catherine Crook
Chicago: Advent: Publishers, Inc, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Illustrated by C.H. Burnett. Near Fine in Fine jacket, unclipped (no price). Purple cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Firmly bound with a forward lean, clean internally. This copy comes from the collection of Advent co-founder Jon Stopa.
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The Carnelian Cube
by de Camp, L. Sprague; Pratt, Fletcher
New York: Gnome Press, Inc, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), generally toned, soiled at the spine and panels, chipped at the edges and folds. Grey cloth, toned at the spine, oddly rubbed at the fore-edges, red ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, ownership stamp of fellow science fiction writer Chad Oliver on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. A humorous fantasy novel of parallel universes accessed through... Read More
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Lest Darkness Fall
by de Camp, L. Sprague
New York: Galaxy Publishing Corp. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Very Good. Galaxy Science Fiction Novel No. 24. Very Good. Wraps rubbed and bumped at the edges. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally.
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Phantoms and Fancies
by de Camp, L. Sprague
Baltimore: The Mirage Press, Ltd, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Edited by de Camp. Illustrated by Tim Kirk. Fine in an about Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($5.00), faded a shade at the spine. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of de Camp's poetry.
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Mencken & Shaw
by De Casseres, Benjamin
New York: Silas Newton, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), stained at the front. Blue cloth, lightly faded, with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a blue top stain, clean internally. A work of literary criticism focusing on H.L. Mencken and George Bernard Shaw.
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Picture Personalities: The Emergence of the Star System in America
by deCordova, Richard
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by DeCordova to film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum opposite the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), faintly toned. Pale blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. deCordova's film history about the changes to the "conventions of stardom" between 1907 and the early 1920s.
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And Never Been Kissed
by Dee, Sylvia
New York: Macmillan, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, clipped at the bottom corner but priced ($2.75) at the top, faded on the panels, generally rubbed on the surface and at the edges. Brown buckram, lightly bumped at the head and foot of the spine, with gilt lettering and decorations. Square and firmly bound, a quite clean copy. A novel that seemingly has no relation to the 1999 film starring Drew Barrymore... Read More
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The Hero in Hemingway's Short Stories
by DeFalco, Joseph
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good. Third Printing. Ex-library with Chicago Public Library stamps. Very Good. Rebound in orange cloth, soiled on the boards, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, pocket and card at the front, stamps on the copyright page, clean otherwise.
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Audrey Rose
by De Felitta, Frank
New York: Warner Books, 1976. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 89 100. Good. Wraps rubbed, a crease at the top spine fold and down the spine. Firmly bound with a slightly concave spine, clean internally. The movie tie-in edition for the 1977 Robert Wise-directed film starring Marsha Mason and Anthony Hopkins.
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Conjunctio: A Graphic Grimmoire
by Defenestrate-Bascule, Orryelle
London: Fulgur Limited, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Limited to 640 copies in red cloth. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped (£25.00). Red cloth with silver and gold gilt lettering and designs on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The artist's book that "presents mirrored pairs of Sacred Twins and Divine Lovers from various cultural pantheons coupled on facing pages.
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Robinson Crusoe
by Defoe, Daniel
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1976. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrations by Edward A. Wilson. Introduction by J. Cuthbert Hadden. Near Fine. Dark blue leather, scuffed at the top edges, with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound with gilt edges, sewn-in bookmark, and with the original laid-in receipt and unused bookplate. Published as part of the 100 Greatest Books series.
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A Journal of the Plague Year
by Defoe, Daniel
New York: Penguin Books, 2003. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Near Fine. Edited, and with an Introduction and Notes by Cynthia Wall. Near Fine. A crease in the back wrap. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Robinson Crusoe
by Defoe, Daniel
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [n.d.]. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint Edition. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, generally toned, a few small chips and longer tears. Grey buckram, some soiling, with black ink lettering and designs. Square, bound with some reading wear, toned at the endpapers. A nice reprint scarcely found in this jacket.
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A Night in the Luxembourg
by de Gourmont, Remy
New York: Modern Library, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Introduction by Arthur Ransome. Binding Style 4. Good, lacking the jacket. Green leatherette, rubbed at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, bookseller ticket on the front endpaper, a few faint creases to the upper-right corner of the pages, clean otherwise.
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A Virgin Heart
by de Gourmont, Remy
New York: Modern Library, 1925. Hardcover. Good. Binding Style 4. Good, lacking the jacket. Brown leatherette, rubbed and faded at the edges and corners. Square, bound with some reading wear, toned pages, clean otherwise.
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Sally in Black Bondage
by De Granamour, A.
San Diego: Greenleaf Classics, Inc, 1969. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Greenleaf Classic GC407. Introduction by Daniel Gregory, PhD. Very Good, wraps lightly soiled, rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Bound with a slight forward lean, two faint creases down the spine, clean internally. A Paris-set sex trafficking sleaze novel about a red-haired white virgin forced into sex work by a Black woman and her daughter.
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Machiavelli in Hell
by de Grazia, Sebastian
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Second Printing. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, lightly bumped, a few spots of soiling. Cream cloth with a black ink panel and gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the author of The Prince.
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La Belle O'Morphi
by de Heriz, Patrick
The Golden Cockerel Press, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrations by Francois Boucher. Limited to 750 copies. Very Good. Red and blue cloth on the boards, rubbed at the edges and joints, gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square, bound with some reading wear, gilt top edge, former owner's bookplate inside the front board, clean otherwise.
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Basic French Cooking
by Deighton, Len
London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Inscribed by Deighton on the title page. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (£4.95), lightly soiled throughout, foxed at the flaps. Green buckram, lightly rubbed at the bottom edge, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square, slightly shaken, bound with some reading wear, stains at the edges, clean internally. A revised version of "Ou est le garlic?" in which Deighton as "selected,... Read More
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Four Issues of The Entheogen Review 1995-1996; A Quarterly Ethnobotanical Update
by DeKorne, Jim
El Rito: Jim DeKorne, 1996. Staplebound. Near Fine. Consisting of Vol. 4, Nos. 2-4; Vol. 5, No. 1. Near Fine. Firmly bound with two staples, pages lightly bumped. A nice collection of this newsletter "for current data about the use of psychotropic plants." These issues include many articles about manufacture and use in addition to a few articles about alien entities. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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Edward Albee: Planned Wilderness; Interview, Essays, and Bibliography
by De la Fuente, Patricia
Edinburg: Pan American University School of Humanities, 1980. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Living Author Series No. 3. Very Good. Wraps faded at and near the spine, bumped at the corners, blindstamped at the front. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An interview transcript compiled with critical essays on Albee's works.
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Starboard Wine; More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
by Delany, Samuel R.
Pleasantville: Dragon Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Delany on the half-title. Very Good. Black cloth, lightly rubbed, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, lacking the errata sheet, clean internally. A collection of eleven essays and three letters about science fiction in general as well as authors like Robert Heinlein, Thomas Disch, and Joanna Russ.
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The Einstein Intersection
by Delany, Samuel R.
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1986. Hardcover. Fine. Fine. Brown leather with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound with gilt edges, sewn-in bookmark, and with the original laid-in receipt, unused bookplate, and Collector's Note. Part of the Masterpieces of Science Fiction series.
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Starboard Wine; More Notes on the Language of Science Fiction
by Delany, Samuel R.
Pleasantville: Dragon Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Association Copy. Inscribed by Delany to his correspondent and editor Mog Decarnin. Very Good. Black cloth, lightly rubbed, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, errata sheet laid-in, some foxing at the endpapers and preliminaries, clean otherwise. A collection of eleven essays and three letters about science fiction in general as well as authors like Robert Heinlein, Thomas Disch, and Joanna Russ. ... Read More
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