All Men Are Enemies: A Romance
by Aldington, Richard
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1933. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 7x5x1. Kent, Rockwell. First U.S. edition, with fewer expurgations than the British edition. Jacket price clipped, jacket lightly toned with minor loss from corners and a couple light spots on spine, head and foot of spine beneath a bit faded. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1933 Hard Cover. vii, [1], 574 pp. 8vo. Woodcut frontispiece, headers,... Read More
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All Men Are Enemies: A Romance
by Aldington, Richard
Garden City, New York: The Sun Dial Press, 1933. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Kent, Rockwell. Reissue. Stain on jacket spine affecting only small portion of board corner beneath, minor loss from jacket corners, bottom corner of single leaf torn but complete (only affects a couple words of text). 1933 Hard Cover. vii, [1], 574 pp. 8vo. Woodcut frontispiece, headers, and jacket art by Rockwell Kent (the American edition was the first to feature these). A love story that... Read More
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All Men Are Enemies: A Romance
by Aldington, Richard
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1933. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 7x5x1. Kent, Rockwell. Reprint, with jacket stating 'third edition' on front flap. Some loss from jacket corners, cover spine head and foot faded, front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1933 Hard Cover. vii, [1], 574 pp. 8vo. Woodcut frontispiece, headers, and jacket art by Rockwell Kent (the American edition was the first to feature these). A love story that is a "triumphant affirmation... Read More
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Cryptozoic!
by Aldiss, Brian W
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1967. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Book club edition. Jacket front and reverse foxed. Boards and page ridges foxed. 1967 Hard Cover. 224 pp. He roamed through the dim reaches of the remote past and like a phantom, the Dark Woman haunted him at every turn. Was she a hallucination produced by the stresses of his bizarre existence' Or was she a ghost from a future more distant... Read More
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My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1937 (Dover Books on Chess)
by Alekhine, Alexander
New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1985. Reissue. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x1x8. Minor wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1985 Trade Paperback. xvi, 267, xii, [4], 285, [18] pp. 1985 reissue combining works first published in 1927 and 1937. World Champion from 1927-35 and again from 1937-46, Alexander Alekhine ranks as one of the four or five greatest players in chess history. Edward Lasker rates him the game's supreme inventive genius; Euwe... Read More
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Bad Girls Don't Die
by Alender, Katie
New York: Scholastic, 2010. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 7x5x1. Reprint. Faint edge wear. 2010 Trade Paperback. 346 pp. When Alexis's little sister Kasey becomes obsessed with an antique doll, Alexis thinks nothing of it. Kasey is a weird kid. Period. Alexis is considered weird, too, by the kids in her high school, by her parents, even by her own Goth friends. Things get weirder, though, when the old house they live in starts changing. Doors open and... Read More
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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
by Alexander, Caroline
New York: Viking, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Jacket spine base and bottom edge of rear board bumped. 2003 Hard Cover. 491 pp. Color and black-and-white plates. More than two centuries after Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this enthralling adventure has become obscured by the legend. Combining vivid characterization and deft storytelling, Caroline Alexander... Read More
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Moral Order and Progress: An Analysis of Ethical Conceptions (The English and Foreign Philosophical Library)
by Alexander, S. [Samuel]
London: Trubner & Co, 1889. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Spine toned, corners exposed, hinges weakening, sticker removal marks on front endpaper. 1889 Hard Cover. xxvi, 413, [8] pp. 8vo. Blue-grey cloth, gilt titles, navy blue decorations and borders. A study of moral philosophy by a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, exploring how the ethical behavior of individuals relates to social progress.
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets - An Oral History [Second Hand]
by Alexievich, Svetlana; Shayevich, Bela
New York, N.Y: Random House, 2016. 8th Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. 8th printing. Slight wear to top jacket edge, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2016 Hard Cover. 468 pp. Translated into English by Bela Shayevich. Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing "a new kind of literary genre," describing her work... Read More
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Walt Disney's African Lion
by Algar, James
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. First English Language Edition. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 0x0x0. Milotte, Alfred & Elma. First English language edition. Minimal wear to corners, spine lightly foxed, ink gift note on front endpaper. 1956 Large Hardcover. 74, [1] pp. Tipped in glossy photographic illustrations reproduced from scenes in the 1955 Disney / True-Life Adventure film of the same name. Photography by Alfred & Emma Milotte, who spent three years on location... Read More
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A Rolling Stone; or, The Adventures of a Wanderer
by Alger, Horatio, Jr
Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, 1902. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition. Spine titles rubbed away, some loss from top of yellow background on front board, front hinge weakening. 1902 Hard Cover. 294 pp. "An orphaned sixteen-year-old sets off on a circuit of adventure during which time he has experiences as a bootblack, detective, deckhand, champion whistler, Indian captive, boy philanthropist, and more. Aka: Wren Winter's Triumph.
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Slow and Sure; or, From the Street to the Shop (Tattered Tom Series)
by Alger, Horatio, Jr
Boston: Loring, Publisher, 1872. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. Spine toned, bookplate and ink name on front endpapers, hinges starting. 1872 Hard Cover. viii, 280, [2] pp. 8vo. Bennett 162. Original violet cloth, gilt spine titles, blind-stamped borders and decorations on boards, yellow endpapers. Engraved frontispiece, engraved series page precedes title page. One of many young adult 'rags to riches' stories written by the popular author during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ABOUT... Read More
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Digging for Gold: A Story of California
by Alger, Horatio, Jr
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1892. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition. First state (no ads for other New World series titles). Ink name on second blank, rear hinge starting. 1892 Hard Cover. iv, 352, 12 pp. A historical tale based on the California Gold Rush, with black-and-white illustrations.
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Is Anybody Listening? How World Leaders Ignored Prescient Warnings on the Middle East
by Al Habtoor, Khalaf Ahmad
Edinburgh: Akkadia Press, 2016. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 0x0x0. First edition. Minimal wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2016 Trade Paperback. xvii, 398 pp. This book highlights how this Armageddon in parts of the Middle East stems at least in part from moral and political failures by the West, and how world leaders enabled the likes of the militias and proxies of Iran, Daesh and the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Physiology des Passions, ou Nouvelle Doctrine des Sentimens Moraux
by Alibert, J.-L. [Jean-Louis]
Paris: Chez Bechet Jeune, Libraire, 1827. Second Edition. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Second edition, revised and enlarged (corrigee et augmentee). Spines repaired, boards lightly rubbed, faintly foxed throughout. 1827 Half-Leather. Complete in two volumes. xc, 384; [4], 552 pp. 8vo. Leather spines over marbled boards, marbled edges. 16 engraved plates. A work on the psychology of morals by a prominent physician best known for pioneering researches in dermatology (see several titles in Garrison-Morton).
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![The Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Translated into Blank Verse / La Divina Commedia: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso [Bilingual Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/081/294/1703294081.0.l.jpg)
The Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Translated into Blank Verse / La Divina Commedia: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso [Bilingual Edition]
by Alighieri, Dante; Biancolli, Louis
New York: Washington Square Press, 1966. Reissue. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9x5x1. Bennett, Harry. Includes publisher's slipcase, each volume includes original onion-skin jacket. 1 inch split to top slipcase seam, minor wear to corners, some loss from jacket spines, jackets a bit toned (as usual), owner bookplate on front endpaper of each volume. Bindings tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1966 Hard Cover. xiv, 188 pp. Dante's complete Divine Comedy (Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso) in English... Read More
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![The Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Translated into Blank Verse / La Divina Commedia: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso [Bilingual Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/590/412/1731412590.0.l.jpg)
The Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, Translated into Blank Verse / La Divina Commedia: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso [Bilingual Edition]
by Alighieri, Dante; Biancolli, Louis
New York: Washington Square Press, 1966. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 9x5x1. Bennett, Harry. Includes publisher's slipcase, lacks original onion-skin jackets. Spines slightly toned with minor smudge to base, top seam of slipcase split but still holding together nicely. Bindings tight and square, text clean, bright, and unmarked. 1966 Hard Cover. xiv, 188 pp. Dante's complete Divine Comedy (Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso) in English blank verse translation by Lawrence Grant White, with reproductions of engravings by Gustave Dore (these... Read More
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Inferno: The Divine Comedy I [Volume 1] (Penguin Clothbound Classics)
by Alighieri, Dante; Kirkpatrick, Robin
New York: Penguin Classics, 2010. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 7x5x1. Reprint. Brand new from publisher. 2010 Hard Cover. cix, 449 pp. Translated and edited by Robin Kirkpatrick, with an extensive introduction. Map of Italy circa 1300 and plan of Hell precede text. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Describing Dante's descent... Read More
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The Inferno from La Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri
by Alighieri, Dante; Cary, Henry Francis
New York: Printed by Richard W Ellis for Cheshire House, 1931. Limited Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. Blake, William. Limited edition, #363 of 1200 copies. Includes publisher's slipcase. Minor wear to book - light blemish on front panel, lightly rubbed along edges, spine faded, a couple tiny smudges on front flyleaf, owner bookplate on front endpaper. Slipcase rubbed with some loss along corners and a stain to the bottom corner. 1931 Full-Leather. 210 pp. Translated into English by... Read More
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At Gettysburg: What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle
by Alleman, Matilda "Tillie" Pierce
Columbia, South Carolina: Arcadia Press, 2017. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x8. Reprint. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2017 Trade Paperback. 65 pp. A touching and thrilling story of a young girl's experiences at the battle of Gettysburg, first published in 1889.
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Cooking with Grass: An Arresting Collection of Pot Dishes (Pop Books Series, Number 3)
by Allen, Ardis; Scott, Ramona
New York: Pop Books / Random House, 1971. Small Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x5x0. General light wear. 1971 Small Hard Cover. 60 pp. Despite the title, not a collection of recipes incorporating marijuana. All recipes serve four to six people and require no more than one hour to prepare.
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The Wonder Book of the Air
by Allen, C.B.; Lyman, Lauren D
Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, 1936. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 9x7x1. Small spot on bottom edge, ink stamp and pencil name and address on rear endpaper. 1936 Large Hardcover. xi, 339 pp. Monochrome photographs throughout. Includes: An Air Trip Across America; South America; Around the World; A World in Quest of Wings; Man Flies; Why an Airplane Flies; Early Flights; The Golden Age of Flying; Airships; The Air Explorers; The Heart of the Airplane; In the... Read More
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The Wonder Book of the Air
by Allen, C.B.; Lyman, Lauren D
Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, 1936. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 9x7x1. First edition. Gilt rubbed, front hinge loosening, ink name on front endpaper, smudges on front endpapers. 1936 Large Hardcover. xi, 339 pp. Includes: An Air Trip Across America; South America; Around the World; A World in Quest of Wings; Man Flies; Why an Airplane Flies; Early Flights; The Golden Age of Flying; Airships; The Air Explorers; The Heart of the Airplane; In the Pilot's... Read More
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Relatively Normal Secrets
by Allen, C.W
Sante Fe: Cinnabar Moth, 2021. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x8. An exceptional copy. 2021 Trade Paperback. Tuesday and Zed Furst are perfectly normal children with perfectly strange parents. Their father won't discuss his job, their mother never leaves the house without her guard dog, and the topic of the family tree is off limits.When a last minute "business trip" gets the adults out of the way, Zed and Tuesday decide to get to the bottom of things once... Read More
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The Secret Benefits of Invisibility
by Allen, C.W
Sante Fe: Cinnabar Moth, 2022. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x8. An exceptional copy. 2022 Trade Paperback. For Zed and Tuesday, adjusting to life in modern-meets-medieval Falinnheim means normal is relative. Lots of kids deal with moving, starting new schools, and doing chores. But normally, those schools aren't in underground bunkers full of secret agents, and the chore list doesn't involve herding dodos. The one thing that hasn't changed: all the adults treat them like they're invisible.
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