The Son of Tarzan
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
New York (1917, But Actually 1927): Grosset & Dunlap. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Early reprint; small octavo, 312 pages. Publisher's red cloth, pictorial dust jacket; date written on FEP. Text lightly toned, dust jacket is very good.
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Naked Lunch
by Burroughs, William S.
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1959. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/About Fine. 12mo, 255 pages; a fine unread copy, in a so near fine, first issue dust jacket, with price of $6.00 on front flap and no zip code at bottom right of rear panel. Top edges stained black. One of 3500 copies printed.
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Viridarium Christianarum Virtutum
by Busaeus, Johannes
Lugduni: Sumptibus Horatij Cardon, 1611. Full-Leather. Very Good. 12mo. 784 pages. Contemporary full vellum binding, with 3 of 4 ties; light stain on first few leaves; small worm hole in 12 leaves; internally quite clean; a very good copy.
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The Life of Mohammed; Founder of the Religion of Islam, and of the Empire of the Saracens
by Bush, Rev. George (Ancestor of the Presidents Bush)
New York: J. & J. Harper, 1830. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo; original tan muslin cloth, printed in black. The Harper's Stereotype Edition; folding frontis of the Sacred Temple of Mecca. Frontis and title page a bit browned; text is clean and bright. Cloth is worn at extremities and at spine ends; bookplate.
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BRITISH BIRDS WITH THEIR NESTS AND EGGS
by Butler, Arthur G.
London; nd. [ca.1896-99]: Brumby and Clarke. Hard Cover. Near Fine. Quarto. In six volumes, illustrated by F.W. Frohawk in black & white with the birds eggs presented in color. Each volume bears a different bird classification as adopted by Howard Saunders in his Illustrated Manual. Bound in 1/4 dark red cloth over red cloth lettered in gilt, spine lettering gilt; small owner's name neatly embossed on front free endpaper; internally clean and bright with tissue guards present over... Read More
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BIRDS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Order Passeres
by Butler, Arthur G.
Hull and London; [1904-1908]: Brumby & Clarke, Ltd. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Quarto. Complete in 2 vols., 210, 216pp., 107 chromolithographed plates of birds and 8 of eggs by H.Grönvold and F.W. Frohawk, tissue guards, text and plates clean and bright; original buckram-backed cloth, spine lettering gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut; a very good+ attractive set.
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RADIO RECEIVERS AND HOW TO BUILD THEM
by Butler, Carlton E.
Dubuque, Iowa: The Dubuque Times-Journal, 1923. First Edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Octavo. The construction and operation of all the latest and most efficient circuits fully illustrated and described in simple language, including the neutrodyne, reinartz, armstrong kopprasch, ultra-audion, wood's, cockaday reflex, runed impedence and tuned plate and grid circuits together with instructions showing how to add. Two states of audio or two states of radio frequency to an of the above receivers. 64pp., illustrated throughout, bound in... Read More
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HUDIBRAS, In Three Parts. Written in the Time of the Late Wars. With a Life of the Author, Annotations, and an Index
by Butler, Samuel (Esq.)
London: J. Walker, 1809. Full-Leather. Very Good. 16mo (2 3/4" x 5 1/4"), 336 pages, plus 16 pages of Index. Engraved frontis and title. Bound in contemporary full leather, double ruled in gilt, spine decorated in gilt; gray end papers, marbled edges. Internally very clean and bright, front and rear leather panels are a little dry and surface scuffed, but hinges are strong and supple.
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DISCOVERY the Story of the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition
by Byrd, Richard E.
New York: G.P. Putnam, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. 405pp. Introduction by the Secretary of the Navy, Claude A.Swanson. Illustrations and maps. Bound in light blue cloth stamped in gilt, spine lettering gilt, top edge blue, endpapers are maps; a fine sharp copy in clipped pictorial dust jacket, blue faded along spine.
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Smirt (Signed)
by Cabell, Branch
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co, 1934. First Edition. Fine. number 24 of 153 copies. Octavo, 309 pages, first edition stated, signed by the author. Publisher's original silver cloth, sans glassine dust wrapper and slipcase. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. A fine copy.
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THE BUTTERFLY
by Cain, James M. (SIGNED)
New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 1947. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION BY JAMES M. CAIN. Inscribed to a friend and dated Dec. 21, 1947 Hollywood, Calif. in acknowledgement for help on his book The Moth. 165pp. Bound in tan cloth stamped in green, spine ruled and lettered in green. Owner's embossed stamp ob FEP; a clean bright copy in unclipped dust jacket with... Read More
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PAST ALL DISHONOR
by Cain, James M.
New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine+. Octavo. Stated first edition. Price is $2.00 on front dust jacket flap. A fine copy in a near fine+ dust jacket. 232 pp.
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The Luciano Project. The Secret Wartime Collaboration of the Mafia and the U.S. Navy
by Campbell, Rodney
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977. First Edition. Fine/About Fine. Octavo, 299 pages; dust jacket with price of $9.95 on front flap. With 5" x 4" black and white photo of author Campbell and publisher's announcement of publication date (November 13, 1977) laid in. First printing, with full number line.
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays. Two Volumes
by Carlyle, Thomas
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1838. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Octavo. TWO VOLUMES. In original green cloth, stamped in gilt. The first two of four volumes, only 1000 copies were issued. As fine a pair as we have seen; occasional light foxing throughout, cloth showing very light wear; small wax seal FEP of volume I.
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SARTOR RESARTUS. In Three Books
by Carlyle, Thomas
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836. Three Quarter Leather. Near Fine. Small Octavo. First Published Edition. Edited by Ralph Waldo Emerson. One of 500 Copies. Bound in 3/4 black textured leather and marbled boards with gilt lettering spine, marbled endpapers. Additional lined paper pages bound in front and rear. Mild cover edge wear. Minimal scattered foxing. viii, 299 pp. The American edition is the first published edition, of which only 500 copies were printed. The British edition of... Read More
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PAST AND PRESENT
by Carlyle, Thomas
London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-. Octavo. A very good- copy bound in original brown cloth with pale yellow endpapers. Rear inner hinge cracked. Wear, slight loss to spine tips. Scattered foxing. vi, 399 pp.
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The Corpse in the Waxworks
by Carr, John Dickson
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1932. First Edition. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, 248 pages; publisher's black cloth, printed in gray. Light wear at extremities, owner name and date on ffep; bookplate. First edition, stated. Light brown marginal stains on page 196. Upper fore-corners bumped.
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The Blind Barber
by Carr, John Dickson
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1934. First Edition. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, 279 pages; publisher's black cloth, printed in red. Bookplate. First edition stated. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Carroll, Lewis
New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1927. small octavo, 241 pages; a facsimile of the first American edition; publisher's pictorial red cloth, printed in gilt. black coated end papers; all edges gilt. Gilt on spine a bit dull, but a handsome near fine copy.
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Novelty and Romancement
by Carroll, Lewis
Boston: B. J. Brimmer Company, 1925. First Edition. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. octavo, 55 pages; orange boards, black cloth spine. First Printing, stated; printed on heavy paper. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.
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A Tangled Tale
by Carroll, Lewis
London: Macmillan and Co, 1885. First Edition. Very Good. 12mo, 152[1] pages, 1 page ad; first printing. Publisher's pictorial red cloth, decorated in gilt; black end papers, bookplate. All edges gilt. With six illustrations by Arthur B. Frost. Slight darkening at spine, wear at spine ends. Internally clean and bright.
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The Harp of a Thousand Strings; or Laughter for a Lifetime
by Carroll, Lewis
New York (1858): Dick & Fitzgerald. First Edition. S. P. Avery. octavo, 268 pages, 4 pages ads; publisher's pictorial rust colored cloth, printed in gilt; yellow end papers. Contains the Lewis Carroll story "Novelty and Romancement" on pages 188-194. Wear at extremities, one loose signature, but very good. Internally clean and bright.
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The Blank Cheque. A Fable
by Carroll, Lewis; Dodgson, Charles L.
Oxford: James Parker and Co, 1874. First Edition. 12mo, 14[1] pages; publisher's original orange wrappers; short closed tear ot rear wrap and a slight fold or two. Booksellers' ticket on front wrap. Internally clean and bright. Now quite scarce on the market. Very good.
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
by Carroll, Lewis
London: Macmillan and Co, 1893. First Edition. Good+. Harry Furniss. octavo, 423 pages; publisher's red cloth printed in gilt. First issue with Chapter VIII mispaginated in Contents. All edges gilt, black coated end papers. "With forty-six illustrations" in black and white. Chipped at head of spine, front inner hinge cracked, spine darkened.
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Alice's Adventures Underground
by Carroll, Lewis
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. First Edition. Fine/Very Good. 12mo, 91(1) pages; publisher's red cloth, spine printed in gilt; original pictorial dust jacket, lower front flap clipped, price of $1.00 on upper front flap. Front panel of dust jacket chipped on upper edge; light off-setting on ffep.
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