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KENNEY, Richard. ORRERY.
NY: Atheneum, 1985. First printing of his second book, in original pictorial wraps (also published simultaneously in cloth). Very good copy, signed by Kenney on the title page & with an initialed warm inscription by him on the fly-title. (Poetry).
Price: USD 35.00 other currencies   order no. 082AE   details     inquire
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MERTINS, Louis & Esther. THE INTERVALS OF ROBERT FROST. A Critical Bibliography. Introduction by Fulmer Mood.
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Presds, 1947. First edition. Original cloth in original dust wrapper, fine copy. Portrait & facsimiles.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 083AE   details     inquire
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RIGSBY, Howard. THE AVENGER.
NY: Crowell, (1957). The dedication copy. First edition of this mystery (listed in Hubin). Original cloth, edges & spine lightly faded; very good copy, with a full-page enthusiastic inscription by the author signed "Hop", to the dedicatee (his agent): "I feel sure ther e have been few examples of such close collaboration between author and agent on a novel;" he expresses his "enduring regard & heartfelt appreciation... July 15, 1957."
Price: USD 35.00 other currencies   order no. 094AE   details     inquire
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SAMSON, Joan. THE AUCTIONEER.
NY: Simon & Schuster, (1975). First printing. Original cloth lettered in white, a fine copy in a fine dust wrapper, which reproduces a mood-provoking painting by Wendell Minor. (Horror tale with a rural New Hampshire locale.)
Price: USD 45.00 other currencies   order no. 096AE   details     inquire
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APPEL, Karel. [EXHIBITION CATALOG] September-October, 1975.
NY: Auerbach Fine Art, (1975.) First edition. Original color pictorial boards, approx 6 x 6 inches.Portrait. Color reproductions of Appel's vivid paintings, each with a philosophical comment by the artist. With a short biographical chronology & a list of exhibitions. Near fine c opy of this scarce illustrated exhibition catalog.
Price: USD 12.50 other currencies   order no. 1004A   details     inquire
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DOBSON, Austin. PROVERBS IN PORCELAIN.
London: Henry S. King, 1877. First edition of his 3rd book, 1 of 500 copies only, adverts dated March, 1877. Original cloth, a little worn: ends of spine worn, corners bumped, inner joint opening, collector's bookplate. (Charming, somewhat arch, poems inspired by scenes on Dobs on's Sevres china: "And so we fall to why & how/The fragile figures smile & bow;/Divine at length, the fable under..." - Prologue.)
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ART-UNION OF LONDON: The Council. FOURTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT... with list of subscribers.
London: (Printed by Charles H. Clarke), 1850. Removed from a bound volume, 108 pages, 2 plates (a statue & the Wren commemorative medal.) (An increased interest in art in the U. S. is noted with satisfaction; among the subscribers was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.)
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AXELROD, George. WHERE AM I NOW - WHEN I NEED ME?
NY: Viking, (1971). First edition. Original cloth, fine, in near-fine dust wrapper. (Literary novelby the author of "The Seven Year Itch.")
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BARROW, Fanny. THE WIFE'S STRATAGEM; a story for the fireside & wayside.
NY: Appleton, 1862. "Copyright by Fanny Barrow" on verso of t.p.: i.e., Mrs Frances E. (Meade) BARROW. 1st edn. Wright II-227. Illus. Orig cloth, marginal staining on pp31-75. (A frame tale: ruined by the Civil War, the husband takes to drink. His wife arranges that a group of friends will assemble each evening & tell a story & thus distract hubby from his rum toddies. The loosely -connected stories are quite far-fetched: a young girl's health is ruined by wearing tight corsets; duels, &c, &c.)
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DANA, Daniel. SERMON DELIVERED BEFORE THE FEMALE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY IN EXETER...July 30, 1820.
Newburyport: W & J Gilman, 1820. Cover-title, 18pp, disbound. American Imprints #948. (Urging womento good deeds.)
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DYER, (T[hos.] F. Thistleton), "T.F. Thistleton-Dyer." THE LOVES & MARRIAGES OF SOME EMINENT PERSONS.
London: Ward & Downey, 1890. 1st (only?) edn. 2 vols, orig cloth, a good tight set. (Examines the marriages of hundreds of notable Britons: Disraeli, Byron, Cobbett, Sarah Kemble, Jeremy Bentham, Archbishop Whately, &c., &c. "Married Happiness," "Eccentric Marriages," "Disappoi nted Loves," "Unmarried," "Unhappily Married," &c.)
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DOBSON, Austin OLD KENSINGTON PALACE & other papers.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1910. Printed at the Chiswick Press. First edition, blindstamped "Presentation Copy" at top of title page. Original dark blue smooth buckram, uncut, top edge gilt. Slight wear at ends & edges of spine. Complete with 6 plates (one, a double-page facsimile.) (Essays on Goldsmith, Thacker ay, "Lyttleton as a man of letters," &c.)
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GRUMBACH, Doris. THE LADIES.
NY: Dutton, (1984.) 1st edn, in pictorial d.w, an excellent copy. (A fictionalized biography of the"Ladies of Llangollen," the famous Lesbian couple of 18th Century England.)
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DOBSON, Austin ROSALBA'S JOURNAL & other papers.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1915. Printed at the Chiswick Press. First edition, complete with 6 plates. Smooth black buckram, stamped in gold, top edge gilt, uncut. Very lightly rubbed, corners bumped. Due to the poor quality of war-time paper, the paper is slightly browned, but overall, a very good copy. (Essays on Falconer; the scholarly printer, John Nichols; the artist, Rosalba, &c.)
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ATLEE, Washington L., M.D. CORRECTION OF THE ERRONEOUS STATEMENTS...
Phila: James H Bryson, 1895. OF HENRY H SMITH, M.D....in relation to a case of Gastrostomy which ocurred in the practice of [Dr.]... Atlee. Disbound pamphlet, 32pp. Cover title, sewn. Letters & documents dealing with a controversy relating to the removal of ovarian tumors, Dr Smith having implied in an article that often no tumors were found. Atlee was well known for this operation, se e Garrison-Morton 6038 & 6039. See also Rutkow GY20.
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COLLINS, Wilkie. MAN & WIFE. With illustrations.
NY: Harper & Bros, 1870. First US edition of this important novel - one of the first to deal with the injustice of British marriage laws, especially as relating to the marriage of a Roman Catholic & a Protestant, & with domestic violence. Tall octavo, original plum cloth, s tamped in blind & gold; faded to brown, especially on the spine very slight wear at ends of spine. Portrait & woodcuts. Printed in double columns. ("The law doesnt allow a married woman to call anything her own...")
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PEABODY, Andrew P. OUR CONVERSATION IN HEAVEN...
Boston: John Wilson, 1859. Sermon at the Church in Brattle Square, Boston... [for] Mary Lyman LOTHROP... 1st edn, 14pp. Disbound. A memorial sermon for the wife of the pastor of the Brattle Square Church.
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CHOPIN, Kate. A VOCATION & A VOICE. Stories edited & with an Introduction by Emily TOTH.
Np.: Penguin Books, 1991. Pre-publication proofs, in orig printed stiff wraps. "Published for the first time, as the Author intended, ... 23 of Kate Chopin's most avant-garde stories" - Introductory note.
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GILBERT, Linda. Autograph Letter Signed.
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Signed by Author 1 page, 8vo, N.Y., Feb. 5, 1880. To Mr. Burdett. A note vouching for a former prisoner, C.B. Malone:"[He is] we believe ... striving to lead an honest & upright life... & [needs] a start in life again." Gilbert, 1842-1895, established the Gilbert Li braryfor prisoners & the Prisoners Aid Society.) Tipped to a lithographed portrait of Mrs Gilbert, signed on the verso, in pencil.
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ELIOT, George, (pseud. of Mary Ann EVANS.) DANIEL DERONDA.
NY: Harpers, 1876. Disbound, 274pp. Printed in double columns. (Eliot broke ground in this novel of a sympathetic & handsome young man, a Jew, who makes his way in upper-class English society.)
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ELIOT, George, (pseud of Mary Ann EVANS.) MIDDLEMARCH: A study of provincial life.
NY: Harper, 1873. Disbound, 288pp. Printed in double columns.
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EDWARDS, Anne. CHILD OF NIGHT.
NY: Random House, (1975) First printing. Original yellowish tan boards with brown spine, stamped ingold & blind. Fine copy in near-fine pictorial dust wrapper. (Virginia novel dealing with hallucinations regarding Edgar Allan Poe.)
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STEINITZ, Kate Trauman. A PORTRAIT FROM LIFE.
Berkeley & L.A: Univ. of California Press, 1968. With "Collision," a science-fiction opera librettoin Banalities by Kurt Schwitters & Kate Trauman Steinitz, & other writings... First enlarged edition & the first U.S. edition, in d.w. Illus of collages, Schwitters & his circle, &c. Uncommon. (Modern Art, dada-ism, &c.)
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CLARKSON, L. THE RAG FAIR & OTHER REVERIES. With illustrations by the Author.
Phila: Robinson, 1879. Large 4to. Original decorated cloth, corners & ends of spine chipped. Small worn spot on spine, silk end papers. Old ink inscription on fly leaf, remnant of blue crayon price on front paste-down (the unforgettable pricing manner of the old Leary's b ook store in Phila.) Scarce illustrated book.
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VILLA, Jose Garcia, ed. A CELEBRATION FOR EDITH SITWELL ...
N.p.: New Directions, 1948; (printed by Dudley Kimball at the Blue Mountain Press, Parsippany, N.J.) [on the occasion of her visit to the U.S.] Original pictorial wraps, 144pp. Includes 9 poems by Sitwell, as well as contributions by Gertrude Stein, W.B. Yeats, et al. An uncommon item.
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ANON. LOUISA PARSONS HOPKINS...
Boston: Smith & Porter Press, n.d., [1895,] Memorial Service in the Belleville Congregational Church, Newburyport, Mass., May 29, 1895... First edition. Original printed wraps plus 16pp, sewn. Includes a poem by Harriet Prescott Spofford, (BAL 18515), a lifelong friend of Louisa Hopkins. Hopkins was a gifted teacher & pedagogical reformer.
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BARTLETT, CatherineThom. LINKS IN A CHAIN, A nostalgic narrative.
Richmond: Dietz Press, (1977.) First edition. 4to, original cloth,in slightly worn dust wrapper.SIGNED by the author on the title page. Many illus from photos. (Bryn Mawr College, Baltimore in the late 19th Century, psychic phenomena, &c, all as reflected in the lives of Nellie H opkins Thom & Hunt Thom.)
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MUMEY, Nolie. THE SAGA OF 'AUNTIE' STONE & HER CABIN -
Boulder: Johnson Pub. Co., 1964. Elizabeth Hickok Robbins Stone - (1801-1895) - a pioneer woman whobuilt & owned the first dwelling...[&c] in Fort Collins, Colorado. With the overland diary of Elizabeth Parke Keays. Centenary Edition. 1 of 500 SIGNED COPIES ONLY. 4to, original linen, largely unopened. Illustrated, including a folding plate, color plate & a folding chart. Pictorial endpapers. A scarce work portraying pioneer life in the Far West.
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WARNER, Eliza A.] OUR TWO LIVES; or, Graham & I. By A.H.K. [pseud.]
NY: Randolph & Co, 900 B'way, Cor. 20th St, (1873). Variant street address in imprint. Wright II-2643: "On Marriage." Original cloth stamped in black, lettered in gold, edges rubbed, old color cut-out on end paper.
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SCHREINER, Olive. TROOPER PETER HALKET OF MASHONALAND.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1897. First US edition. Original green cloth, scattered foxing, with somefoxing near the foot of the title page, otherwise very good. The gruesome photo-fronts shows the hanging of a group of native Africans while a few white men look on. (Wolff 6 212 su ggests that this plate was later suppressed.) According to Kunitz & Haycraft Cecil Rhodes was a great influence on Schreiner," for whom she felt a strangely ambivalent attraction & repulsion. She attacked him bitterly... in 'Trooper Peter Hal k e t ' b u t he refused to prosecute."
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GILCHRIST, Ellen. NET OF JEWELS, a novel.
Boston, &c: Little Brown, (1992.) First printing, in original cloth-backed boards. Fine in fine, but price-clipped, dust wrapper. (Southern novel by an Arkansas author.)
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INGALLS, Rachel. THE END OF TRAGEDY: four novellas.
NY: Simon & Schuster, (1987.) First printing. Original cloth-backed boards. Fine, in original fine,but price-clipped dust wrapper.
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MASON, Bobbie Ann. LOVE LIFE: STORIES.
NY: HARPER. (1989. 1st printing. Original cloth-backed boards, fine in original very good, but price-clipped dust wrapper. (Her 2nd collection of short fiction.)
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ANON. LIFE AT THE LEES. By X 107.
Boston: Hall's Book Shop, 1916. Only edition, 66 pp & 1 leaf. Small 8vo, original gray- green boards with a printed label on the front cover & spine, spine a little faded, top of spine pulled. Prison verses & extracts from letters by a woman inmate - a "fallen" woman judging from the Foreword.
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CAMPBELL, Harry. M. & FOSTER, Ruel E. ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS, American Novelist...
Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, (1956). First edition in original cloth, in a finger-smudged d.w. which has a closed tear in the front panel & several tiny edge chips. While Roberts wrote of life in rural Kentucky, she, like Twain or Faulkner, was more than a regional author, and one of the best American writers of the first half of the Twentieth Century.
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CHEEVER, Susan. HOME BEFORE DARK.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. First printing, original cloth, fine, in near-fine dust wrapper (back panel lightly soiled). Illus. (A biographical memoir of John Cheever by his daughter, with revelation of "his secret life.")
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ELLIS, Jessie Croft. MARY ANN OF OLD KENTUCKY.
Richmond, Va: The Dietz Printing Co, 1946. First edition of this Southern juvenile, in a very good printed dust wrapper, with but very slight soiling across the top of the front panel. 50 pp, illus, prior owner's inked signature & date on front free end-paper. The author was the compiler of various indices & at least one bibliography.
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FRASER, Kennedy. ORNAMENT AND SILENCE: Essays on Women's Lives.
NY: Knopf, 1996. First printing, "Uncorrected Proof" in original printed wraps, very good copy withadvertising sheet inserted. (Ms. Fraser, in these essays which appeared first in "Vogue" & "The New Yorker," "explores the uniquely female voice & presence in literat ure & art.")
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GAITSKILL, Mary. TWO GIRLS, FAT AND THIN. A Novel.
NY: Poseidon Press, (1991). First edn, in fine dust wrapper, of her 2nd book.
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HANAFORD, Phebe A. THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF CHARLES DICKENS. A Woman's Memorial Volume.
Augusta, Maine: E. C. Allen & Co., 1871. Original purple cloth lettered in gilt, a few light spots on the covers, corner of 2 leaves folded & dirty, otherwise a very good, tight copy. One of two editions published the same year (the other was in Boston). Podeschi H230 lists this one first.
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HAYWARD, A., ed. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, LETTERS AND LITERARY REMAINS OF MRS. PIOZZI (THRALE)...
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1861. Edited with Notes & an Introductory Account of her Life and Writings. First US edition, the same year as the London edition, (1st state [?] - with "Ticknor & Co." on spine). Orig brown pebbled & blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Very good, sound copy, with armorial bookplate on front pastedown, very slight fading around the edges.
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KINCAID, Jamaica. LUCY.
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1990). First printing, in original cloth-backed boards, fine copy in original dust wrapper, which is price-clipped, otherwise fine (d.w. dated 10/90). Story of a West Indian girl who comes to the US, by this highly regarded West Indian author.
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MORRIS, Linda A. WOMEN'S HUMOR IN THE AGE OF GENTILITY.
Syracuse Univ Press, (1992). The Life and Works of Frances Miriam Whitcher. First edition, fine, in a fine dust wrapper. Illus. (Whitcher wrote a highly popular series of humorous sketches in the tradition of the Yankee yarn-spinner during the mid 19th Century, published posthumously as "The Widow Bedott Papers.")
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OAKLEY, Violet. CATHEDRAL OF COMPASSION. Dramatic Outline of the Life of Jane Addams, 1860-1935.
Phila, (1955). Limited edition. Portrait frontispiece of Jane Addams by the artist/author, other sketches in the text. Orig tan cloth stamped in red, binding very slightly sunned around the edges. Overall, very good.
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STEIN, Gertrude.] DEAR SAMMY. Letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. Edited with a Memoir by Samuel M. Steward. Illus with photographs. First edition in original white linen. Very good copy in a slightly soiled dust wrapper with minor edge nicks. (The "Sammy" of this correspondence was a young American teacher of English literature.)
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TICKNOR, Caroline. MISS BELLADONNA. A Child of To-day. Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1898. Original red cloth decorated & lettered in gilt, t.e.g., spine a little faded. A very good, sound copy. Social satire. (A reprint of Wright-III-5468, 1897.)
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WOODWARD, Helen. THE LADY PERSUADERS.
NY: Ivan Obolensky, (1960). 1st printing, fine, in original yellow cloth, in an edge chipped dust wrapper with a small piece gone from the top of the spine panel. Signed inscription by the author on the front free end paper. A study of American women's magazines & their influe nce.
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SCHERR, Johannes. WEIB, DAME, DIRNE: Kultur & Sittengeschichte der deutschen Frau...
Dresden: P. Aretz, (1928.) First edition with this title; originally published as "Geschichter der deutschen Frauen..." , & edited by Max Bauer. Over 100 illus, some in color. 4tp, 344, (2)pp, original red cloth. An excellent copy, with portions of the original dust wrapper l aid in. (An updated edition of this classic history of German women.)
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SALTER, Mary Jo. UNFINISHED PAINTING:POEMS.
NY: Knopf, 1989 First printing of her 2nd book, the 1988 Lamont Poetry Selection of the American Academy of Poets. Original gold-stamped cloth, fine, in fine original dust wrapper.
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SACKVILLE-WEST, Edward, (5th Baron Sackville.) PIANO QUINTET.
London: Heinemann, 1925. First edition of his first book. Original blue cloth, stamped in gold & blind, some light foxing. This work, by Vida Sackville-West's cousin reflects his deep interest in the world of music. (The 2 cousins collaborated on a translation of Rilke.)
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PORTER, Katherine Anne. THE LEANING TOWER and Other Stories.
NY: Harcourt, Brace, (1944). First printing, original off-white cloth, edges of leaves very lightlybrowned. In the original dust wrapper which is somewhat worn, with a few edges chips & a darkened spine panel.
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BARKLEY, Deanne. FREEWAY.
NY: Macmillan, (1978). Uncorrected proof copy of her first book, a suspense novel with a Los Angeles locale. Original printed wrappers, slight wear.
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BRADY, Kathleen. IDA TARBELL. Portrait of a Muckraker.
NY: Seaview / Putnam, (1984). First edition. Original cloth-backed boards, very good copy. (Includes index, bibliogaphy & extensive notes.)
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JAMES, Henry. THE REVERBERATOR.
London & NY: Macmillan, 1888. 1st US edition. Edel & Laurence A31b. Original blue cloth stamped in gold & blind, inner joint opening.
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HARTLEY, L[eslie] P. FACIAL JUSTICE, an Improved Fantasy.
London: Hamish Hamilton, n.d. [1960]. "Uncorrected proof" copy in original wraps, small marginal blemish on a few pages, slightly cocked. (Novel of the future, after the Third World War.)
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MACDIARMID, Hugh, ed.] NORTHERN NUMBERS... from certain living Scottish Poets...
Edinburgh & London: T.N. Foulis, (1920). 1st edn. Orig light blue boards backed with darker blue cloth stamped in gold, very slightly rubbed, uncut. (MacDiarmid's first book, edited by him, & with contributions under his real name, C[hristopher] M. GRIEVE. "Sangschaw," which appeared 5 yea rs later, is the work usually cited as this Communist/Scottish Nationalist poet's first book.)
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HERSEY, John INTO THE VALLEY. A Skirmish of the Marines. Illustrations by Major D.L. Dickson.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1943). 1st London edn of his scarce 2nd book. Original off-white cloth, very slightly dust-soiled, crease in end paper.
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BERGER, Thomas. KILLING TIME, A Novel.
NY: Dial, 1967 1st ptg, pre-publication copy in original printed wraps. (By the author of "Little Big Man.")
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WOOLF, Leonard. QUACK, QUACK!
NY: Harcourt, Brace, (1935). 1st US printing. Original cloth, lettering on spine faded, most of original d.w. inserted at rear. Illustrations of Hitler & Mussolini comparing them with effigies of primitive war gods. (Essays on unreason & superstition in politics, belief & thoug ht.)
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DAVIE, Donald. DONALD DAVIE.
(Swinford,Eynsham, Oxford: Fantasy Press, 1954.) #19 in "The Fantasy Poets Series," issued by the Oxford Univ. Poetry society. Self-wraps, cover title, [8] pp. 1st edition. Three very small spots on cover, slightly wrinkled. (His first creative effort, preceded by his "Purity of Diction in English Verse," 1952.) Scarce.
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WARREN, Robert Penn. RUMOR VERIFIED: Poems, 1979-1980.
NY: Random House, (1981.) First trade printing. Fine, in original linen cloth. In original, fine, dust wrapper.
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PYNCHON, Thomas. SLOW LEARNER: early stories.
Boston: Little, Brown, (1984.) First printing. Fine in original linen cloth, in original, fine dustwrapper.
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HOWELLS, W[illiam] D. NO LOVE LOST, A Romance of Time.
NY: Putnam, 1869 First edition. BAL 9552. Original decorated bevel- edged cloth, slight rubbing at extremities of spine & corners, one signature a little sprung, slight trace of shelf label on spine, old library bookplate, otherwise very good. Complete with fronts, extra engraved title & one plate. An epistolary narrative poem of a tangled love affair involving a lover mistakenly reported dead in the Civil War; & is told from several points of view: the heroine's, his, & her confidant's. One of Howell's s carcer books. The locale is Venice, where Howells had served as US Consul in reward for his campaign biography of Lincoln.
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HAYLEY, William. THE TRIUMPHS OF TEMPER; A Poem in 6 Cantos... The 2nd Edition.
London: for J. Dodsley, 1781. 4to, removed from a bound volume, complete with fly-title & advt leaf(the latter with a repair). Early edition of this very popular narrative poem. (Hayley, ridiculed by Byron in "English Bards & Scotch Reviewers," was a prolific & popular writer, of whom it was said that "everything was good about him but his poetry.")
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ABRAHAMS, Edward. THE LYRICAL LEFT: Randolph Bourne [&] Alfred Stieglitz & the Origins of Cultural Radicalism in America.
Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Va, (1986). First edition. Original cloth in original dust wrapper,a very good copy. The illustrations feature reproductions of photos by Stieglitz.
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GRIMES, Martha. I AM THE ONLY RUNNING FOOTMAN.
Boston: Little, Brown, (1986). 1st edition. Orig blue spine lettered in gold, cream boards, in original pictorial dust wrapper. SIGNED inscription by Grimes on the fly- title. Excellent copy of this eighth "Richard Jury" mystery.
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MEYERS, Manny. THE LAST MYSTERY OF EDGAR ALLEN [sic] POE: The Troy Dossier.
Phila & NY: Lippincott, (1978). 1st edition, unpublished proofs in original wrappers, title neatly inked on bottom edge, announcement taped to rear wrapper. (Queen Victoria plots to reconquer the U.S. (Let's hope they corrected the title in the published book!)
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MILLHAUSER, Steven. LITTLE KINGDOMS: 3 Novellas.
NY: Poseidon Press, (1993). First printing, original cloth-backed boards, fine, in fine dust wrapper (except for a clipped price). Unlike many copies, this has no remainder mark.
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NOYES, Alfred. THE WINE-PRESS. A Tale of War.
Edinburgh & London: Blackwood, 1913. First edition of this prophetic narrative poem, which foretoldof war in the Balkans, &c. Original buckram, uncut, traces of a bookplate removal, otherwise very good.
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DUBUS, Andre. THE TIMES ARE NEVER BAD: A Novella & Eight Short Stories.
Boston: Godine, (1983). First printing, original gold stamped blue cloth, fine, in original pictorial dust wrapper (d.w. has several tiny edge tears.)
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JAMES, Henry. COMPLETE TALES. Edited with an Introduction by Leon Edel. Volume 5, 1883-4 & Volume 6, 1884-8.
London: Hart-Davis, 1962. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPIES, each in original printed wrappers, very good copies. Scarce pre-publication format of the first British editions. (The final set comprised 12 volumes, each complete in itself. These 2 volumes contain: "The Author of Beltraf fio," "The Aspern Papers," "A New England Winter," "The Liar," & other works of short fiction.)
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ADAMS, Henry. PRAYER TO THE VIRGIN OF CHARTRES.
N.p., n.d. [not after July 5, 1938]. Original blue wrappers plus 8 pp. 1st separate edition, in very good condition. BAL 48. (Poem).
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BRODKEY, Harold. WOMEN AND ANGELS.
Phila, &c: Jewish Publication Society, 1985. 1st printing, fine, in original cloth-backed boards & in the original box (which is often lacking). 3 short (autobiographical?)stories exploring the spiritual growth of a young Jewish boy. This book was issued without a dust wrapper.)
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SMITH, Charles. (1768-1808). THE BEAUTIFUL UNKNOWN, A Dramatic History. Translated from the German of Augustus von Kotzebue.
NY: Burnton & Darling, 1803. Disbound, 50 pp plus 2 pp of advts. 1st of this adaptation. Hill 270. American Bibliography 4491.
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SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles. A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1883 First edition, original cloth stamped in gold & blind, rear inner joint partly opened, otherwise a very good copy with the bookplate of Viscount Birkenhead (famous attorney, Parliamentarian & Lord Chancellor.) Only 1000 copies printed.
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TURNER, Frederick. THE NEW WORLD, An Epic Poem.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1985). First edition. In the "Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets." Original gold-lettered cloth, fine, in fine original dust wrapper. Tall 8vo. An unusual merger of poetry & science fiction which applies the epic form to a nuclear-free vision of the Am erican state in the 24th Century.
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UPDIKE, John THE COUP
NY: Knopf, 1978. 1st edition, in d.w. which is very lightly age darkened along the top edge.
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JAMES, P. D. A TASTE FOR DEATH.
NY: Knopf, 1986. 1st US edition, in d.w. dated 11/86. (An Adam Dalgliesh mystery.) An excellent copy in a near fine d.w.
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JAMES, P. D. DEVICES AND DESIRES.
NY: Knopf, 1990. 1st US edition, in d.w. dated 2/90. (An Adam Dalgleish mystery involving a psychopathic serial killer operating in the shadow of a nuclear power station.)
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SIMON, Andre L. THE NOBLE GRAPES AND THE GREAT WINES OF FRANCE. With 24 Colour Photographs... 8 Maps & Decorations...
NY: McGraw-Hill, (1957). Quarto. 1st US edition. Vellum-backed red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine age darkened. ("The first book which gives a true picture of some of the wines made from different sorts of grapes... the exact size, shape and colour of the Cabernets , Pinots and other grapes... exact colour of the wines... [which] could not be done before the recent development in the art... of colour photography... [&] transfer of the colours to paper..." -Introduction.)
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GRANT (John Cameron). THE ETHIOPIAN. A Narrative of the Society of Human Leopards.
NY: The Black Hawk Press, 1935. 1st US edition (originally published in Paris in 1900 & in England in 1905). Orig cloth, photographic fronts. (Sensational & exploitative novel: a highly educated, sophisticated African is revealed as the leader of a cannibalistic cult. The "Publisher's Advertisement", pp v - xii, contains an acount of a white woman who advertised for a black lover.)
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SAROYAN (William). MY NAME IS ARAM.
NY: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc, n.d. Oblong duodecimo, original pictorial wrappers, stapled, as issued. Armed Services Edition no. J-272, published for soldiers during WW II. Bright, clean copy, with a small crease in the upper, outer corner of the front wrapper. (The format was desgined to fit in the shirt pocket of a soldier's fatigue uniform.)
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HOBSON, Linda Whitney. WALKER PERCY: A COMPREHENSIVE DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Introduction by Walker Percy.
New Orleans: Faust, 1988. 1st edition, issued without a d.w. Illus.
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PORTER, Eliot. ANTARCTICA.
Dutton NY, (1978). First edition. Map endpapers. Beautiful color photographs throughout. A square 4to. A very good copy in the original white cloth with a very good d.w.
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CAHN, Robert. & KETCHUM, Robert Glenn AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE NATIONAL PARKS
NY: Viking, (1981). First edition. 4to. Light green cloth, boxed, fine. Reproductions of photos by Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, George Fiske, William Garnett, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Eadweard Muybridge, Eliot Porter, Carleton E. Watkins, Edward Weston, et al.
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FORD, Colin AN EARLY VICTORIAN ALBUM. The Photographic Masterpieces (1843-1847) of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson.
Alfred A. Knopf NY 1976 1st US Edition Cloth 4to Illustrated with over 330 photographs by these famous Scottish photographers. Very Good/d.w. very good
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EDWARDS, Everett E. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES
Burt Franklin, (1970) NY Facsimile of the 1930 edition Cloth 8vo The work concentrates on literature printed between 1900 & 1929. 307 pp. Index. As new.
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