NORTHANGER ABBEY
by AUSTEN, Jane
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Hardcover. Sunning to the spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with a sunned backstrip. Clarke Hutton. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound ina varicolored, narrow-striped, satin-finish fabric with a black leather spine label stamped in gold. Designed by Richard Ellis and printed at the Garamond Press with an introduction by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Illustrated with 12 full-page paintings and 22 monochrome drawings by Clarke Hutton .Copy #887 of 1500 SIGNED by... Read More
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PAUL AUSTER'S NEW YORK
by AUSTER, Paul
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, issued without dustwrapper. A thin hardcover chapbook of about 100 pages in pictorial boards. Preface by Luc Sante and photographs of New York scenes by Frieder Blickle, including two that depict the World Trade Center. The final photograph, a two-page spread depicting the city with the towers in the distance and a bird of prey on a cliff in the foreground, is especially striking. Published in a... Read More
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WALL WRITING
by AUSTER, Paul
(Berkeley): The Figures, (1976). First Edition. Printed wraps. Light soiling to wraps, spine sunned. Near Fine. One of 474 copies printed of this volume of poetry, Auster's second original work.
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WALL WRITING
by AUSTER, Paul
(Berkeley): The Figures, (1976). First Edition. Printed wraps. Fine. Printed blue wraps. One of 474 copies printed of this volume of poetry, Auster's second original work.
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AUGGIE WREN'S CHRISTMAS STORY
by AUSTER, Paul
(Birmingham, UK): Delos Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, as issued. Thin quarto in quarter buckram and marbled boards. Copy #96 of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by the author (of a total edition of 450 of which 150 were signed), this being one of the even-numbered copies issued in the United States.
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THE UNINHABITED: SELECTED POEMS OF ANDRE DU BOUCHET
by AUSTER, Paul (Translator)
(New York): Living Hand 7, (1976). First Edition. Printed wraps. Fine. Printed wraps. With a three-page introduction by Auster. One of 500 numbered copies. This copy SIGNED by Auster on the title page.
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MR. VERTIGO
by AUSTER, Paul
[New York]: Viking, (1994). First Edition. wraps. About Fine. Advance Reading Copy in pictorial wraps, described as "Advance Uncorrected Proofs." SIGNED by the author on the title page.
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UNEARTH
by AUSTER, Paul
(Weston, CT): Living Hand, (1974). First Edition. wraps. Slight sunning to spine extending to cover. Near Fine. Printed blue wraps. One of 1000 copies printed of this volume of poetry, the third volume of the publisher's series and Auster's first original work after two translations. Not published in hardcover.
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GHOSTS
by AUSTER, Paul
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1986). First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. The second volume of his New York trilogy. This is copy "D" of only 26 lettered copies SIGNED by the author on the colophon page.
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HAND TO MOUTH. A CHRONICLE OF EARLY FAILURE
by AUSTER, Paul
New York: Holt, (1997). First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Auster's memoir of his early days of writing along with three of his plays, his baseball novel (originally published as a paperback under the name of Paul Benjamin), and the rules of a baseball game he invented.
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FRAGMENTS FROM COLD
by AUSTER, Paul
(Brewster, NY): Parenthese, (1977). First Edition. wraps. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper, just lightly soiled. Norman Bluhm. Wraps in pictorial dustwrapper. Illustrated with drawings by Norman Bluhm. One of 750 copies. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page "For Mork & Mindy(?): with love. Paul." A rather scarce early title from this acclaimed writer.
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A LITTLE ANTHOLOGY OF SURREALIST POEMS
by AUSTER, Paul (Translator)
[New York]: Siamese Banana Press , [1972]. First Edition. Wraps. Slight darkening to covers. Near Fine. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") consisting of mimeographed leaves printed on rectos only and stapled into printed card covers illustrated by George Schneeman. Auster's first book, an anthology of poems translated by him. Poets include Andre Breton, Tristan Tzara, Louis Aragon, Hans Arp, Paul Eluard, Rene Char, Benjamin Peret, Robert Desnos, and Antonin Artaud.
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HAND TO MOUTH. A CHRONICLE OF EARLY FAILURE
by AUSTER, Paul
New York: Holt, (1997). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Advance Reader's Copy in pictorial wraps replicating the dustwrapper. Auster's memoir of his early days of writing along with three of his plays, his baseball novel (originally published as a paperback under the name of Paul Benjamin), and the rules of a baseball game he invented. INSCRIBED "For Darlene" and SIGNED by the author on the title page.
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THE ART OF HUNGER
by AUSTER, Paul
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight foxing to top bulked text edge. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. One of 300 numbered and SIGNED copies of this collection of essays and interviews.
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THE UNINHABITED: SELECTED POEMS OF ANDRE DU BOUCHET
by AUSTER, Paul (Translator)
(New York): Living Hand 7, (1976). First Edition. Printed wraps. Fine. Printed wraps. With a three-page introduction by Auster. One of 500 numbered copies.
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EARLY AMERICAN MEDICAL IMPRINTS 1668 - 1820
by AUSTIN, Robert B
Washington DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961. First Edition. Softcover. Bookplate of former bookseller F. Thomas Heller tipped to front inside cover. Tears to front cover. Good. Printed wrappers; x, 240 pages.
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A VOYAGE ROUND GREAT BRITAIN, UNDERTAKEN IN THE SUMMER OF THE YEAR 1813, AND COMMENCING FROM THE LAND'S-END, CORNWALL ... WITH A SERIES OF VIEWS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE CHARACTER AND PROMINENT FEATURES OF THE COAST
by AYTON, Richard
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814-1825. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents with occasional light foxing (primarily to text leaves facing plates but slightly affecting a few plates) and some offsetting from plates, else clean. All bindings quite solid and attractive, some light rubbing or scuffing to some hinges and edges or corners, one volume with small tear at base of spine, a few small scuffs and similar minor blemishes. A clean and handsome set in nicely preserved bindings,... Read More
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WORKS
by BACHELLER, Irving
New York: Various publishers. First Editions and reprints. Hardcover. Two or three volumes with pages roughly opened resulting in a few tears. A bit of light wear and rubbing to corners and spine tips, but a Near Fine, bright set in an attractive binding. A collection of 9 books by Bacheller, some signed and some first editions, all uniformly bound in 3/4 red morocco leather and marbled boards with gilt rules, five raised bands, gilt-decorated and lettered spines,... Read More
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![THE ESSAYES [ESSAYS] OR COUNSELS CIVILL & MORALL OF FRANCIS BACON BARON OF VERULAM VISCOUNT SAINT ALBAN](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/779/333/250333779.0.l.jpg)
THE ESSAYES [ESSAYS] OR COUNSELS CIVILL & MORALL OF FRANCIS BACON BARON OF VERULAM VISCOUNT SAINT ALBAN
by BACON, Francis
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1944. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and about Fine clamshell box. Folio (8-3/4" x 13") bound in half buckram and lovely gold-decorated boards. Introduction by Christopher Morley, note by A. S. W. Rosenbach. Copy #834 of 1100, one of the smaller limitations of the time for the press, designed by Bruce Rogers who has created a lovely presence for these marvelous essays and who has SIGNED the colophon page.
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THE FAMOUS HISTORIE OF FRYER BACON. CONTAINING THE WONDERFULL THINGS THAT HE DID IN HIS LIFE. ALSO THE MANNER OF HIS DEATH. WITH THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF THE TWO CONJURERS BUNGYE AND VANDERMAST. VERY PLEASANT AND DELIGHTFULL TO BE READ
by [BACON, Fryer]
[Edinburgh]: (Otto Schulze & Co.), n.d. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Some soiling to spine and edges; internally clean. Very Good. Quarto (9-1/4" x 11-3/4") in cloth-backed boards. The third in the series of Early English Prose Romances, attractively illustrated by Harold Nelson. One of only 500 copies.
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FRIER BACON HIS DISCOVERY OF THE MIRACLES OF ART, NATURE, AND MAGICK
by [BACON, Roger]
London: Simon Miller, 1659. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor foxing, pencil notes on endpapers; small chip to head of spine. Near Fine and very scarce. Small duodecimo (3-1/8" x 5-1/2") bound in early calf with gilt-ruled covers and gilt decoration and lettering on the spine; [xii], 51, [7 - ads] pages. First separate printing and First English Edition of Roger Bacon's letter to William of Paris that first appeared in Dee's BACON'S EPISTOLAE, published in Hamburg in 1618. Bacon... Read More
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THE MEZZANINE
by BAKER, Nicholson
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Very thin, light remainder stripe on bottom edge. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Author's first book.
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VOX
by BAKER, Nicholson
New York: Random House, (1992). First Edition. Decorated wraps. Fine in plain brown paper sleeve. Advance Reading Copy in decorated wraps of this unlikely bestseller about phone sex.
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THE MEZZANINE
by BAKER, Nicholson
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Author's first book.
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ROOM TEMPERATURE
by BAKER, Nicholson
New York: Grove Weidenfeld, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Author's second book, a marvelous tour de force.
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