Prairie Nocturne
by Doig, Ivan
New York: Scribner, 2003. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Near Fine. Advance Reader's Copy. Near Fine. Blue wraps, toned at the spine, a few stray stains and marks. Square and firmly bound, publisher's informational sheet laid-in, clean internally.
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Guide du Voyageur a Moscou
by [Princes Dolgorouki]
Moscou: [n.p.], 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good. Brown boards, rubbed at the surface and edges with three loops at the right. Square, bound with some reading wear, marbled edges, clean internally. A french-language travel guide with a history of Moscow and its attractions, illustrated with photographs throughout.
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The Theory of Morality
by Donagan, Alan
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (no price), faded at the spine, generally rubbed at the surface and edges, a small closed tear at the top edge of the front panel. Orange cloth with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, signature of fellow University of Chicago professor Bernard O. Brown on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Donagan's work that "convincingly... Read More
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Philosophical Psychology
by Donceel, Rev. Joseph
New York: Fordham University, 1952. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Good. Wraps generally toned and rubbed, some creases at the corners and edges, pencil and pen notes on both covers. Square, bound with some reading wear, pencil notations throughout. An early coursebook by the professor emeritus out of Fordham University. According to the Introduction, this course was divided into five parts: life in general, its notion, origin and evolution; the life of plants and animals; the sentient life of... Read More
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Conversations with Nelson Algren
by Donohue, H.E.F.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($6.50), generally toned and soiled, bumped and rubbed. Green cloth with dulled gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a green topstain, clean internally. A chronological autobiography of Algren drawn through conversations with Donohue.
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Sacred Families; Three Novellas
by Donoso, Jose
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Translated by Andree Conrad. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($7.95), lightly toned and bumped. Quarter brown cloth with beige paper on the boards, gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, remaindered at the bottom edge, clean internally. Donoso's collection of three novellas that "launches his assault on the would-be-cosmopolitan tastemakers of the not-so-International Set in their Mediterranean playgrounds.... Read More
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PT 109: John F. Kennedy in World War II
by Donovan, Robert J.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1961. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fifth Printing. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($5.95), generally toned, bumped and with some creases and shallow chips at the edges. Quarter dark grey cloth with blue cloth on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. "In PT 109 we see a man assailed by hunger, heat, cold, discouragement and danger, and rising, without dramatics of posturing, to greatness." The story of Kennedy's experiences on his... Read More
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Hedylus
by H.D. [Hilda Doolittle]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Limited to 520 U.S. copies. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.50), generally toned, a chip at the foot of the spine. Quarter black cloth with patterned paper on the boards, rubbed at the bottom edge. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Doolittle's second novel, one in the vein of the Greek classics.
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On Mencken
by Dorsey, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Signed on the front endpaper by many of the contributors, including William Manchester, William Nolte, Malcolm Moos, John Dorsey, Alistair Cooke, Charles A. Fecher, and Carl Bode. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($15.00). Brown cloth, some stains throughout, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, pencil ticks next to the signatures and names on the recto of the leaf, clean otherwise. A... Read More
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The Peacock at Home and Other Poems
by Mrs. Dorset
Edinburgh: John Murray, 1809. Hardcover. Very Good. Apparent Second Edition. About Very Good. Green leather, rubbed and bumped at the edges and surface, spine label mostly missing. Square and firmly bound with marbled edges and endpapers, marred inside the front board, with a makeshift coat of arms and printed name pasted opposite the title page.
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The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos
by [Dos Passos, John] Ludington, Townsend
Boston: Gambit Incorporated, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Edited and with a biographical narrative by Townsend Ludington. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, unclipped ($12.50), faded and soiled at the spine. Quarter blue cloth with orange cloth on the boards. Square and firmly bound with a red topstain, clean internally.
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Adventures of a Young Man
by Dos Passos, John
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), generally toned, a few chips at the edges. Blue cloth, bumped at the corners, with red ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with a red topstain, clean internally. The first novel in Dos Passos's District of Columbia trilogy, a novel of disillusionment in American during the 1920s and 1930s.
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Midcentury; A Contemporary Chronicle
by Dos Passos, John
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($5.95), generally soiled, chipped at the edges. Beige cloth with red and blue ink panels and lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a pink topstain, clean internally. Dos Passos's final novel.
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First Encounter
by Dos Passos, John
New York: The Philosophical Library Inc. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), faded a shade at the spine, shipped at the corners and with a few short closed tears. Red cloth, pushed at the head and foot of the spine. Firmly bound with a red top stain, slight forward lean, clean internally. Dos Passos's narrative about the life and loves of frontline soldiers during World War I.
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Na Gira Do Exu: Invoking the Spirits of Brazilian Quimbanda
by dos Ventos, Mario
[n.p.]: Lulu Publishing, 2007. New Edition. Paperback. Fine. About Fine. Wraps faintly rubbed. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A presentation of more than 330 Pontos Cantados and over 150 Pontos Riscados for Exu and Pomba Gira.
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Experiments; A Miscellany
by Douglas, Norman
London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, a few small bumps at the edges. Red buckram, pushed at the top corners, with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, foxing on the edges, former owner's bookplate inside the front board, clean otherwise. A collection of thirteen shorter pieces from the author of South Wind.
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Some LImericks
by Douglas, Norman
Privately Printed, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited to 750 numbered copies. Very Good. Brown linen, generally stained and darkened, with brown ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. This copy includes the publisher's bi-fold "About: Some Limericks" that explains the origins of the project.
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The Bells of Agony
by Dourado, Autran
London: Peter Owen, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Translated and with an Introduction by John M. Parker. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (£12.95). Red boards, rubbed at the bottom edge, with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Dourado's reworking of Phaedra and Hippolytus to serve as an allegory for modern Brazil.
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The Voices of the Dead
by Dourado, Autran
London: Peter Owen, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Translated by John M. Parker. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (£6.95), rubbed at the spine, black marks on the back panel. Black boards, rubbed at the bottom edge, with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first of Dourado's work to be translated into English. A novel favorably compared to Faulkner's work, it tells the story of "characters dominated by conflicting... Read More
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Collected Poems 1974-2004
by Dove, Rita
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine second-issue dust jacket, unclipped ($39.95), bumped and with some creases at the edges. Quarter blue paper with green paper on the boards, lightly bumped. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Round the Red Lamp; Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
London: Methuen & Co, 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good. Red cloth, toned and soiled, bumped at the edges and corners. Bound with some reading wear and a forward lean, foxed at the edges and endpapers through the Preface, former owner's signature inside the front board. A collection of fictional stories that serve as Conan Doyle's peak into the "darker side" of medical life published at least in part to "shock [readers] into seriousness.
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The Wanderings of a Spiritualist
by Doyle, Arthur Conan
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good, lacking the jacket. Green cloth, worn at the edges and corners, with black ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square, bound with some reading wear, a tear to the title page and a chip to the bottom edge of the following leaf, clean otherwise. An illustrated account of Conan Doyle's travels with his thoughts on the supernatural and paranormal.
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Birds of Prey
by Drake, David
New York: Baen Books, 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Signed by Drake on a label affixed to the half-title. Very Good. Wraps rubbed and lightly bumped, a faint crease down the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Drake's historical fantasy about one secret agent trying to save the falling Roman Empire.
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Children: The Challenge
by Dreikurs, Rudolf; Soltz, Vicki
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pierce, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Good in an about Good jacket, unclipped ($5.95), heavily rubbed, multiple creases and tears, split down most of the front flap fold. Blue cloth, mottled on the boards, rubbed at the bottom edge, with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square, bound with some reading wear, clean internally.
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