Chronicles of Lucius Leffing
by Brennan, Joseph Payne
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 253pp. Sharp Stated First Edition of this anthology of eight stories the psychic investigator. Bound in brown cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($7.00), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. A very pretty collectable copy.
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Chronicles of Lucius Leffing
by Brennan, Joseph Payne
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 253pp. Sharp Stated First Edition of this anthology of eight stories the psychic investigator. Bound in brown cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Small bookplate of noted Sci-Fi collector and former Rare Book Librarian at the Philadelphia Free Library, Frank Michael Halpern. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($7.00), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases,... Read More
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Flight to Darkness
by Brewer, Gil
Greenwich, CT: Gold Medal, 1961. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Vintage Paperback PBO Gold Medal # 277. Beautiful Unread First Printing of this Paperback, December, 1952. No cover price. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear or toning. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Remarkably well-preserved. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price.
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13 French Street
by Brewer, Gil
New York: Gold Medal, 1959. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Fine. Vintage Paperback PBO Gold Medal #211. Beautiful Unread First Printing of this Paperback Original, No month, 1951. No Cover price. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear or toning. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Remarkably well-preserved. A simply gorgeous collectable copy of a very scarce title such high-grade condition.
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The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century
by Brewer, John
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Large 8vo.,721pp. Beautiful Stated First Farrar Edition, bound in 1/4 black cloth over grey paper-covered boards with titles in gold on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($40.00), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price.
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To Urania: Poems (Uncorrected Advance Proofs)
by Brodsky, Joseph
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. Uncorrected Proof. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo., Wraps 168 pp.. Beautiful Unread Uncorrected Galley Proof. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, tears or toning. Small date written on half-title page. A sharp collectable copy and quite scarce in such high grade condition.
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The Slightest Distance
by Bromell, Henry
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo., 192pp. Beautifully well-preserved stated First Printing, square, tight and clean throughout with just a touch of wear to spine ends but minor. Fragment of a ghost from price sticker on the front paste-down. Equally attractive unclipped wrapper has some very light shelf-wear and a shallow corner crease on the front flap. Still a fresh and bright with no chipping or tears. A very attractive, collectable copy of... Read More
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Birds of Prey: Being Pages From the Book of Broadway
by Bronson-Howard, George
New York: The National Book Co, 1918. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine/Fine. 8vo., 302pp. Sharp Reprint after the first Edition published by Watt. Only original 1918 date on copyright page. Bound in publisher's red cloth with titles stamped in black on spine. Illustrations by Wallace Morgan. Solid and mostly clean throughout save some off-setting to end-papers and a few prelims with light scattered foxing. Cloth is clean with just a hint of wear to spine ends and... Read More
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Whiskey Drips: A Series of Interesting Sketches Illustrating the Operations of the Whiskey Thieves in Their Evasion of the Law and Its Penalties
by Brooks, Detective James J.
Philadelphia, PA: Williams B. Evans & Co, 1873. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo., 349(2)pp. plus 2pp. ads. Sharp First Edition of these supposedly true crime stories. However, like much of these similar "Memoirs", the stories are completely fictitious. Published in 1876 as "The Adventures of a U.S. Detective". Bound in publisher's original brown cloth. Borders and decorations stamped in black and titles stamped in brown over super-imposed gilt banners on front board and spine. Brown end-papers. Black... Read More
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Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp
by Browning, Christopher R.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 375pp. Beautiful Unread Stated First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. No page toning or foxing. Equally attractive unclipped dust jacket, ($27.95), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. A gorgeous collectible copy and though not uncommon, much harder to find in such high grade condition.
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The Da Vinci Code: Special Illustrated Edition
by Brown, Dan
New York: Doubleday, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to., 467pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($35.00), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy offered at a great price.
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The Da Vinci Code
by Brown, Dan
New York: Doubleday, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 454pp. Beautiful Sharp First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with gently bumped heel. Equally attractive unclipped dust jacket, ($24.95), is fresh and bright with no creases, or chipping, toning or tears. Very well-preserved. Made into the 2006 film starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price.
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When The Gay White Way Was Dark (Valentine's Manual #7, New Series)
by Brown, Henry Collins
New York: Valentine's Manual, Inc, 1923. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo., 366(1))pp, Beautiful presumably First Printing from this "New" series, (originally begun in the mid 19th century in a different format), of a book of historical vignettes about New York City with accompanying photos and illustrations. It was issued annually with each volume focusing on a particular topic or decade in NYC's history. There were 11 volumes in the set and interestingly, the rear flap of the... Read More
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Teen-Age Mafia
by Brown, Wenzell
New York: Gold Medal, 1959. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine/Fine. Vintage Paperback PBO Gold Medal s917. Beautiful Unread First Printing of this Paperback Original, September, 1959. $.25 cover price though this has been inked out. Tight and clean throughout with little or no wear and perhaps a hint of toning. Upper spine has a touch of a lean but quite minor. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy of an uncommon... Read More
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Too Long a Sacrifice
by Broxon, Mildred Downey
New York: Bluejay Books, 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo., 224(1)pp. Gorgeous Unread First Bluejay Printing, #191 of only 350 numbered copies printed. Bound in full black cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Silk bookmark. Square, tight and clean throughout with no discernible wear. Equally attractive unclipped jacket, ($35.00), is fresh and bright with no creasing, chipping or tears. Fine publisher's cloth slipcase has the barest hint of edge-wear. Signed by the author on the... Read More
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Power And Principle (Uncorrected Advance Proofs)
by Brzezinski, Zbigniew
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. Uncorrected Proof. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo., Wraps 573 pp.. Beautiful Unread Uncorrected Galley Proof. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, tears or toning. A sharp collectable copy of an uncommon item.
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Carr: Five Years of Rape and Murder (Signed 2x Presentation Copy)
by Edna Buchanan
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo., 261pp. Sharp Stated First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Bound in red paper-covered boards with titles in red on spine. The much loved mystery writer's first book; a non-fiction work detailing the live and crimes of Robert Frederick Carr III, notorious serial rapist and killer responsible for the murders of three children and one adult woman. Buchanan was a reporter for the Miami... Read More
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Castle Gay
by Buchan, John
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1937. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo., 363pp. Sharp later printing, originally published in 1930. Bound in publisher's blue red with titles and borders in black on front board spine. Square, tight and generally clean throughout. Tiny smudge on the title page. A few spots to end-papers. A couple of minuscule color-flakes to the cloth. Prize presentation bookplate affixed to front end-paper. Very attractive, unclipped dust-jacket, (1'6 net on spine panel), has some edge-wear... Read More
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The Far Islands and Other Tales of Fantasy
by Buchan;, John; John Bell, Editor
West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant Publisher, Inc, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.,206pp. Sharp Stated First Edition of this anthology of six stories. Bound in maroon cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Illustrations by Larry Dickison. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($17.00), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. A very pretty collectable copy.
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A Woman in Exchange
by Buck, Howard
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1936. 1st Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo., 312pp. Beautiful First Edition bound in publisher's original orange pebbled cloth with titles on front board and spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save some quite gentle bumping to spine ends. Some off-setting to endpapers. Some soiling to top page edges. Remarkably well-preserved. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($2.00), has some light edge-wear and toning to spine. Still fresh and bright with... Read More
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Under the Southern Cross in South America
by Buckman, Willamson
New York: Book Publisher's Press, 1914. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Fine/Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo., xvii (2) 482pp. Beautiful First Edition bound in bright blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front board. Decorative palm tree stamped in green on front board. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save some gentle bumping to the spine ends but quite minor, Fresh and bright and remarkably well-preserved. Very... Read More
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The Story of Jim Bunning
by Bunning, Jim and Ralph Bernstein
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo., 180pp. Sharp First Printing. Square, tight and clean throughout with a touch of wear to spine ends but very minor. Edges of boards ever-so-lightly toned. Very attractive unclipped wrapper, (3.50), has a closed tear on the front panel and light edge-wear but is fresh and bright with no chipping or creases. A very pretty collectable copy at a great price.
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The Kingdom of the Wicked (Uncorrected Advance Proofs)
by Burgess, Anthony
New York: Arbor House, 1985. Uncorrected Proof. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo., Wraps 379 pp.. Beautiful Unread Uncorrected Galley Proof. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. A hint of toning to edges but barely. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A sharp collectable copy at a great price.
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Ernest Hemingway and His World
by Burgess, Anthony
London: Thames & Hudson, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to., 128pp. 116 Illustrations. Beautiful First Edition, First Printing. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped, though unpriced, dust jacket is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy.
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Shakespeare
by Burgess, Anthony
New York: Knopf, 1970. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to., 272pp. Beautiful First U.S. Edition, bound in brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on black leather labels on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Board edges ever-so-lightly toned. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($15.00 until Dec. 15, 1970), has a hint of wear at the crown but barely noticeable. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy. ... Read More
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