The Ballad of Mad Jenny
by Broughton, James;
San Francisco: The Centaur Press, 1949. First Edition. Paperback. Like New. Signed. Purple string-bound wraps, printed in red with light salmon paper, untrimmed. Inscribed by Broughton & Kermit Sheets (the printer) on first page. Moderate toning to edges of covers.
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Nibble Nibble: Poems for Children
by Brown, Margaret Wise
New York: William R. Scott. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Weisgard, Leonard. 4to in pictorial cloth, unnumbered pages, green and black illustrations by Leonard Weisgard throughout; dust jacket worn and toned, split in two along front joint with large chips out at head and tail, presents well in mylar. Posthumously published collection of poems by the beloved Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by frequent collaborator and Caldecott Medal winner, Leonard Weisgard.
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Henry-Fisherman: A Story of the Virgin Islands
by Brown, Marcia
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition with "A" on copyright page, oblong in gray cloth with brown illustration on front board, 4to, unnumbered pages, gorgeous illustrations done in five colors throughout, pictorial endpapers; manufacturing error resulting in permanent creases in front paste-down, dust jacket shows heavy edge wear with chipping and small tears. Toning along edges and to spine, sunned strip along rear fore-edge. A scarce title from one of... Read More
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Dick Whittington and His Cat
by Brown, Marcia
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Grey cloth boards with black design, red endpapers, under brown illustrated dust jacket priced at $1.75. A lovely copy, the DJ has two short closed tears. Caldecott Honor finalist book from the popular author & illustrator. And of course, it's about cats!
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Crazy Quilt Circus Pony: The Story of a Piebald Pony
by Brown, Paul
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Brown, Paul. First edition with "A" on CR page. Original pencil horse sketch with inscription by author on CR page. Red cloth boards with black lettering & decoration, under blue illustrated just jacket priced at $2.00, illustrated endpapers, black & white illustrations throughout. Toning to spine panel of DJ, slight wear to book. A beautiful copy of Paul Brown's first published horse book, with the uncommon jacket, and an original... Read More
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Between Hume & Mill, An Anthology of British Philosophy, 1749-1843
by Brown, Robert
New York, NY: Modern Library, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First Modern Library Edition, Toledano binding style G7, blue cloth, blank endpapers, interior of dust jacket blank, 495 pages; boards slightly bowed, faint foxing to edges of text block; price clipped dust jacket is edge worn, now protected in mylar cover. A vintage first Modern Library Giant Edition of selected readings in philosophy from Hartley to Ferrier.
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The Poems & Plays of Robert Browning
by Browning, Robert
New York: Modern Library, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint, Toledano binding style G6, teal cloth, blank endpapers, interior of dust jacket blank, 1,223 pages plus publisher's list; head and tail of spine turned in, random house publisher's stamp on top of edge block; dust jacket is lightly edge worn and protected in mylar. Everything of importance that Browning ever wrote, including "The Ring and the Book", in one volume.
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Hydriotaphia: Urne-Buriall, or A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk [Urn Burial]
by [Bruce Rogers] Browne, Sir Thomas
1907: Riverside Press / Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover. Very Good. Rogers, Bruce. Full red leather binding with extensive gilt decoration to both boards, pages untrimmed, #239 of 385 copies. As with many copies, the spine ends are worn--loss to bottom 1/4" of spine and less to top of spine; small chip toward middle of spine. Slipcase is splitting along top edge. Zamarano Club bookplate inside front cover.
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(MONOGRAPH SERIES VOL. 6) Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1937-1941
by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer; Futagawa, Yukio
Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita , 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. 0x0x0. Red cloth boards under photographic dust jacket, oversized hardcover, 317 pp. Near fine copy with small stain to top of closed pages; other books in this series available at time of entry. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.
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Total eclipse (Science fiction)
by Brunner, John
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975. First Edition. hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8x5x0. Blue binding with gilt lettering to spine under blue illustrated dust jacket priced 2.95. Minor spine lean from reading, but a nice sharp copy.
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The Center of the Sunlit Sky: Madhyamaka in the Kagyu Tradition (Nitartha Institute)
by Brunnholzl, Karl
Snow Lion, 2004-11-02. hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 6x1x9. Institutional stamp & blacked-out stamp to front endpapers, else near fine in like jacket. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.
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The Chosen Ones, or, The Psychology of Jury Selection
by Bryan, William J. Jr
Vantage Press, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Green boards under yellow jacket priced $12.75. Chips and some wear to DJ but a nice copy of this underground classic on jury selection.
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Frank B. Kellogg: A Biography
by Bryn-Jones, David
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed (no name) by Bryn-Jones on front endpaper; a 2-page typed letter signed by Frank Kellogg on Department of State letterhead is laid in. This letter is addressed to Senator Earle B. Mayfield of Texas, and references the murder trial of H.A. Boitel by the Supreme Court of Cuba. Frank Kellogg was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1929. Full brick cloth binding with gilt lettering,... Read More
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I and Thou. Second Edition
by Buber, Martin; Smith, Ronald Gregor (trans.)
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Black cloth boards with gold lettering under yellow & white DJ priced $1.75, 7-1/2" x 5-1/4", 137 pp. First printing of the second edition, Scribner's code A.8-58[V] on CR page. Some toning to front endpapers else quite nice; jacket is toned at spine, chipped at spine ends and front corners, still looks good. A nice vintage copy of a classic.
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Midwinter
by Buchan, John
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Black cloth boards with red lettering & decoration under "Mel" illustrated two-tone dust jacket priced at $2.50, 7-3/4" x 5-1/2", top edge stained red, 333 pp. Owner's name & bookplate to front endpaper, remnants of address label to free front endpaper, bookseller ticket to rear (J.W. Robertson Co. in Los Angeles.) An American reprint, six years after the first edition, but uncommon in jacket.
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Homilies and Recreations
by Buchan, John
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9. Signed by Author(s). Number 18 of two hundred copies, signed by the author, gray paper over cream cloth spine, brown leather title block to spine, 4to, 383 pages. Boards are tanned along extremities, bump to bottom front corner, title block on spine scuffed and chipped, brief gift inscription in front end paper dated 1955, internally clean and soung. John Buchan, or 1st Baron... Read More
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Scholar Gipsies
by Buchan, John
New York: The Bodley Head/John Lane/Macmillan, 1896. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7. Cameron, D.Y. Brown cloth with dark green ribbed spine and gilt title, 8 x 5.5 inches, 205 pages, five etchings by D.Y. Cameron; boards are edge worn, mottled in several places, wrinkling along edges, decorative gilt on spine is rubbed, deckle edge pages vary in size to add a unique handmade quality.
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My Saint Patrick
by Buck, Alan M
Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co, 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Bennett, Richard. Mint green cloth with black titles, 8vo, 243 pages, illustrated by Richard Bennett; head and tail of spine worn, endpapers toned, previous owner's bookplate adhered to front free endpaper; dust jacket dust soiled and edge worn with a few chips to extremities. An attractive vintage copy of this biography of Saint Patrick.
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Dash & Dart
by Buff, Mary & Conrad
New York: Viking, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Inscribed by the authors on front free endpaper, $2.00 price intact in front flap of dj, pictorial tan cloth, tall 4to, unnumbered pages, sepia drawings on almost every page, several double-page color illustrations. Bit of edge wear, toned endpapers; toned and edge worn dust jacket with chipping at extremities, two long thin chips out at top rear edge, now in protective mylar cover. Simple rhythmic... Read More
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Grammar of Love
by Bunin, Ivan
Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition (NAP). Black cloth boards with gilt lettering & decoration under red & yellow dust jacket, 7-3/4" tall. Owner's inscription to front endpaper, else near fine with minor bump to top front corner; dust jacket has "Recommended by The Book of the Month Club" sticker on front panel, price-clipped at bottom of flap, small chip to corner of head of spine panel, but overall quite nice. Short... Read More
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Napoleon symphony
by Burgess, Anthony
Cape, 1974. hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 7x4x0. Grey cloth boards lettered in gilt under white Alan Tunbridge dust jacket. First edition stated, DJ price-clipped else a fine copy.
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Mrs. Hope's Husband
by Burgess, Gelett
New York, NY: Century Co, 1917. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6. Raleigh, Henry. 161 pages, black and white illustrated plates throughout; red cloth boards with gilt titling, previous owner address stamp (A. C. Guanzinoli) in front free end paper, a bit of foxing in end papers and at page edges, dust jacket is lightly toned from age with small, quarter inch chips out of head and tail of spine, now in protective mylar sleeve. By the... Read More
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Goops and How to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants
by Burgess, Gelett
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Pictorial yellow cloth, 4to, not paginated, illustrated by Gelett Burgess throughout; a few blue ink splotches on endpapers; price clipped dust jacket is a bit rubbed now in mylar. From the dust jacket: A reissue- "by popular request of the best grandmothers"- of the Goop book which contains many of the funniest and most useful of Gelett Burgess's famous rhymes. 0
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Buster Bear's Twins
by Burgess, Thornton W
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6. Cady, Harrison. Blue cloth, 7.5 x 5 inches, 207 pages, illustrations by Harrison Cady; boards are just slightly edge worn, especially in respect to corners, illustrated end papers are bright, text is unmarked; dust jacket worn with a sunned spine, dust jacket now in protective mylar cover. Part of the Green Forest Series.
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Dreams and Derisions
by Burke, John [Pulitzer, Ralph]
New York: Pynson Printers, 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Kent, Rockwell. Signed by Illustrator(s). Signed by Rockwell Kent, limited edition, #73 of 200. Leather spine and corners with marbled paper-covered boards, printed endpapers, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, in original slipcase. Near fine condition with moderate fading and small ding to tail of spine, slipcase toned. -- Poetry by Ralph Pulitzer, son of Joseph Pulitzer, decorated by his friend Rockwell Kent. Despite the small print run, there... Read More
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