Tales of the Forgotten Founders
by Allen, C.W
Sante Fe: Cinnabar Moth, 2023. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x8. An exceptional copy. 2023 Trade Paperback. Zed and Tuesday ought to be living the good life. After all, it's not every day two kids take down an evil dictator and their mom gets put in charge of an entire dimension. But after moving into Falinnheim's palace, they learn that life as royalty isn't as carefree as they'd imagined.
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Anthony Adverse
by Allen, Hervey
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 5x3x0. McNab, Allan. First edition, first state (p. 352, line 6: Xaxier; p. 397, line 22: found found; p. 1086, line 18: blacksmith ship). Near fine book, with original jacket in good condition (unclipped, $3.00 list price on front flap). Jacket toned, minimal loss from jacket spine head, a few closed 1/2 inch tears along edges. 1933 Hard Cover. 1224 pp. 8vo. The novel which... Read More
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Bedford Village
by Allen, Hervey
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1944. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8x5x1. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minimal loss from corners, fore edge faintly foxed, front hinge just beginning to weaken, pages lightly toned. 1944 Hard Cover. 305 pp. Color frontispiece mirrors jacket art. Number 2 in series, by author of Anthony Adverse. "On the only road leading west over the mountains at Bedford there is a tavern, Pendergasses'. Here centers the local life of the... Read More
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Luscious Luncheons and Tasty Teas
by Allen, Ida Bailey
Minneapolis, Minnesota: The Buzza Company, 1930. Soft Cover. Very Good. 0x0x0. No publisher date. Wrappers lightly soiled, front corner creased. 1930 Soft Cover. 59 pp. Cookbook for luncheons and teas by well-know cook and author Ida Bailey Allen. Using a calendar style, recipes are given for each month of the year.
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Covered Bridges of the Northeast: The Complete Story in Words and Pictures
by Allen, Richard Sanders
Brattleboro: Stephen Greene Press, 1957. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Jacket price clipped, ink gift note. 1957 Hard Cover. 121 pp. Historical information and black-and-white photos of the covered bridges of New England.
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An Introduction to Arabic Literature
by Allen, Roger
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x0x9. 2nd printing. Minor cosmetic wear. 2000 Trade Paperback. xxi, 263 pp. Roger Allen provides a comprehensive introductory survey of literary texts in Arabic, from their unknown beginnings in the fifth century AD to the present day, and from Islam's sacred text, the Qur'an, to popular literature including The Arabian Nights and a wealth of poetry, narrative prose, drama and criticism. With extensive quotations in English translation,... Read More
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UFO's and the Paranormal are Normal
by Allen, Valerie
Bloomington, Indiana: Balboa Press, 2015. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x8. Signed by author. Signed by author on front flyleaf with inscription, "To Michael & Diane, Two very nice people." An exceptional copy. 2015 Trade Paperback. x, 63 pp. This little book will inform you about UFOs, aliens, and what they have to do with the Bible. It will make you think about the paranormal, karma, reincarnation, ghosts, and so much more. This book will make you stop and... Read More
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Side Effects
by Allen, Woody
New York: Random House, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x0. First edition. Top edge lightly foxed, jacket lightly toned, light crease down front jacket flap. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1980 Hard Cover. 149 pp. Woody Allen's third collection of comic writings. These essays appeared in The New Yorker during the late 1970s. Volume includes Remembering Needleman, The Kugelmass Episode, Confessions of a Buglar, and more.
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Not a Dog: An Ancient Tai Ballad
by Alley, Rewi; The Students of the Chinese Department of Yunna University
Peking, China: New World Press, 1962. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 0x0x0. Includes original onionskin jacket. Chips and tears to jacket edges, jacket flaps taped down. 1962 Soft Cover. 144 pp. Color plates. Compiled by the students of the Chinese Department of Yunnan University (Class 1956). Translated into English by Rewi Alley. This was translated from the native Tai to Han Chinese to English.
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Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government
by Allgor, Catherine
Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia, 2000. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Top edge faintly foxed. 2000 Hard Cover. 299 pp. When Thomas Jefferson moved his victorious Republican administration into the new capital city in 1801, one of his first acts was to abolish any formal receptions, except on New Year's Day and the Fourth of July. His successful campaign for the presidency had been partially founded on the idea that his Federalist... Read More
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R is for Rhode Island Red: A Rhode Island Alphabet
by Allio, Mark R
Chelsea, Michigan: Sleeping Bear Press, 2005. First Edition. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 11x9x0. Begin, Mary Jane. Signed by author. Signed by illustrator. First edition. Signed by author and illustrator with inscription, "A is for Angus + Astrid!" Light smudges on rear board, board edge lightly rubbed. 2005 Large Hardcover. Our alphabet journey takes us next to the charming state of Rhode Island in R is for Rhode Island Red: A Rhode Island Alphabet. It... Read More
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Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes Series Volume 13)
by Allison, Anne
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x0x9. First paperback printing. 2006 Trade Paperback. xxii, 332 pp. From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese "cool" is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation), and cute characters that have fostered kid crazes from Hong Kong to Canada. Examining... Read More
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Cavedweller: A Novel [Cave Dweller]
by Allison, Dorothy
New York: Dutton, 1998. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Reprint. 1/4 inch jacket tear along top edge, jacket and edges a bit soiled. 1998 Hard Cover. 434 pp. "From the author of Bastard Out of Carolina comes another compelling novel about four women whose lives converge unexpectedly and force all of them to come to terms not only with their past, but their future.
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Chiang Erh-shih Painting in the Allison Collection [CHINESE TEXT]
by Allison, Effie B.; Er-Shih, Chiang
Japan: Tosho Insatsu Publishing Co., Ltd, 1956. Large Softcover. Near Fine. 0x0x0. Naito, Makoto. Jacket toned with some chips. 1956 Large Softcover. Chinese text. Includes 27 black-and-white plates. Black and white reproductions, printed tissue guards. Brocaded green flexible cloth, paper cover label, string-bound Asian-style, unprinted paper jacket. Exquisite Chinese paintings by this masterful 20th century Chinese artist. Minimal text in both Chinese and English. "Born in Kiangsu Province, China, in 1913, Mr. Chiang shares his name with a... Read More
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The Hammer Conspiracies
by Aloi, Frank A
New York: Parthenon / 20th Century Books, 1982. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x1. Signed by author. First edition - a paperback original (quite a bit scarcer than the 2nd printing in plain black wrappers). Inscribed without attribution and signed by author on front flyleaf ('Best wishes, Frank Aloi'). Wrappers lightly rubbed, ink name and a few faint spots inside front wrapper. 1982 Trade Paperback. 564 pp. 8 1/4 x 5 1/4. Pictorial front wrapper. Details investigations... Read More
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The Big Fall
by Aloi, Frank A
Rochester: Self-Published, 2021. Trade Paperback. Fine. 0x0x0. A fine copy. 2021 Trade Paperback. vii, 289 pp. Johnny Fixx went to war in the nightmare of Vietnam. Joey Dancer became his blood brother for life after both survived fire fights and atrocities in the jungle. It would be law school and private practice in Southern California for Fixx. He had high ideals Stateside, fighting for veterans literally destroyed by Agent Orange!. Dancer too returned to the Southlands, but his... Read More
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The Hammer Conspiracies
by Aloi, Frank A
New York: Parthenon / 20th Century Books, 1982. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x1. Signed by author. 2nd printing. Signed by author without inscription. Edges lightly rubbed with light cosmetic wear to surface of wrappers. 1982 Trade Paperback. 564 pp. Black wrappers with red titles. Details investigations of mafia activity in Rochester, New York, the subsequent trials, and the debacle that followed. It is a story of perjured detectives, gang wars, organized crime, overthrown convictions, imprisoned law... Read More
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Shadow Cast: A Novel of Vietnam After the Fall
by Aloi, Frank
New York: 20th Century Books, 1984. Trade Paperback. Fine. 0x0x0. Still in packaging. Fine condition. 1984 Trade Paperback. 228 pp. An explosive adventure story set in the jungle highlands of Indochina after the fall of Vietnam. You've never read anything quite like it. The war in Vietnam as it was then, 1964-1972, and as it continues today, and one man's curious odyssey from Los Angeles to the Mekong to find 'what' he is.
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Prosperi Alpini Marosticensis Philosophi, Medici, & in Gymnasio Patavino Simplicium Medicamentorum Professoris Ordinarii, atque Horti Medici Praefecti, de Medicina Methodica Libri Tredecim. In quibus medendi Ars Methodica vocata olim maxime celebris, quae hac aetate non sine magno Studiosorum medicinae & dedecore, & damno plane desiisse visa est, denuo restituitur, atque in Medicorum commodum quadantenus ad medicinam Dogmaticam conformatur. Opus novum, e quo Studiosi praeter sectae Methodicae placita a celeberrimis Medicis tradita, etiam praxim Methodicam exactissimam ad medendum nanciscentur. Editio Secunda
by Alpini, Prosperi [Alpinus, Prospero]
Lugduni Batavorum [Leyden]: Boutesteiniana, 1719. Second Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Second edition. Minor loss from corners, small paper remnant on spine head. 1719 Full-Leather. [xxiv], 765, [37] pp. Full calf, red morocco spine label, gilt titles, gilt tooled compartments, marbled endpapers. Latin text. A medical work by the Venetian physician and botanist whose descriptions of coffee and banana plants are the earliest written records in European literature. Prospero Alpinus oversaw the botanical garden at Padua, and wrote... Read More
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Evocations of Love
by Altenberg, Peter; King, Alexander
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x8x0. King, Alexander. Includes publisher's slipcase. Minor wear to spine, slipcase edges faded. 1960 Large Hardcover. 175, [1] pp. A collection of dozens of short works by the Austrian Modernist author, translated and illustrated by writer and artist Alexander King, whose book Mine Enemy Grows Older led to his frequent appearances on the Jack Parr show. Color frontispiece, color paste-down illustration on slipcase, line drawings throughout text.... Read More
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The Free Rangers (The Young Trailers Series)
by Altsheler, Joseph A
New York: Amereon House, 1976. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Limited edition reissue, one of 80 copies. No jacket. Several blemishes on boards. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1976 Hard Cover. 364 pp. "The Free Rangers, a Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi" is a 1909 historical novel written by Joseph A. Altsheler. The fifth novel in the "The Young Trailers Series", this exciting adventure romp in the American Old West... Read More
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Hunt
by Alvarez, A. [Alfred]
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1978. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x1. First edition. Review copy with slip laid in. Edges faintly foxed, otherwise an excellent copy. 1978 Hard Cover. 288 pp. "Conrad Hunt leads a tedious suburban life with his wife and sons, painting in the attic while the rest of the family watches TV. But he finds himself caught up in a confusing and bizarre game of gambling in which he has no idea... Read More
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Emmanuelis Alvari, E Societate Jesu, Prosodia: Sive Institutionum Linguae Latinae. [Latin Text]
by [Alvares, Manuel]
Novi Eboraci: Typis T. & J. Swords, 1805. Full-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Front free endpaper loose but included, some pages stained and soiled, some pencil marks to endpapers. 1805 Full-Leather. 61 pp. Latin text. Full leather. A religious text from the early 1800s. Title translates as Emmanuel Alvarez, from the Society of Jesus, Prosody; or Institutes of the Latin Language.
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El Toreo (The Art of Bullfighting): Short Historical Notes
by Alvarez, Rafael Vilar; Inigo y Samaniego, Enrique (translator)
Mexico: Editorial Eduardo Cabal, 1975. Stapled Binding. Very Good. 0x0x0. Alvarez, Rafael Vilar. No publisher date. Rear wrapper soiled. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1975 Stapled Binding. 50 pp. A history of the art of bullfighting with illustrations throughout.
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Viaggio da Napoli a Castellammare con 42 Disegni di Achille Gigante
by Alvino, Francesco
Napoli: Associazione Napoletana per i Monumenti e il Paesaggio / Tipografia Gennaro D'Agostino, 1965. Limited Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Gigante, Achille. Limited edition, #398 of 550. Light wear to corners. 1965 Trade Paperback. 310, [5] pp. Plain wrappers, printed dust jacket. Italian text. 1965 reissue of Alvino's 1845 account of 19th century Naples, with 42 illustrations by Achille Gigante.
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