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The Times of Melville and Whitman

By: Brooks, Van Wyck

Price: $15.00

Publisher: NY, E.P. Dutton: 1947

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 007766

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

489pp. Original burnt orange cloth over light blue with spine lettering stamped in gilt. Corners bumped. The jacket is lightly chipped at the spine ends with several small closed tears and several tea colored stains to the back panel. Still a presentable copy of an important title. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
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A Time for Remembering; The Ruth Bell Graham Story

By: Cornwell, Patricia Daniels

Price: $160.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Harper & Row: 1983

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 195

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Fine

270pp. Illustrated. Author's first book. No previous ownership inscriptions. The jacket is price clipped and has one closed tear to the back panel. Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall
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The Rising Tide

By: Deland, Margaret

Price: $80.00

Publisher: NY, Harper & Bros.: 1916

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 473

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

293pp. + 2pp. ads. Illustrated. "Compliments of the Author" card laid in. Ownership inscription on the ffep; makeshift ownership label on the front pastedown. Endpapers darkened. The jacket is a bit edgeworn with several small closed tears. Corners bumped. Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall
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Oscar Wilde and Myself

By: Douglas, Lord Alfred

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, John Long Ltd.: 1914

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 021579

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

320pp. 1st Edition. Original blue cloth with spine lettering stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. Illustrated. Some facsimiles of handwritten letters. Some mottling to the cloth, with black stains near the heel of the spine. Three corners rubbed through at the tips. Uneven patches to the fore edge of the text block. Ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Small bookseller's ticket to the front pastedown.
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Chad Hanna

By: Edmonds, Walter D

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Co.: 1940

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 023970

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Good

548pp. Original red cloth with black panel on the spine. Lettering stamped in gilt. Decorations stamped in black, dark red and gilt. Pictorial endpapers. This copy signed by the author on the preli, before the dedication page. Markings identify this as ex-library from The Higby Big Moose Club library. Bookplate of Fowler B. Glave (designed by Rockwell Kent) opposite the half title (affixed with tape which is browned). Corners bumped, bottom corners rubbed through at the tips. Ink stamp and inscription regarding the library on the title page.
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Carmela

By: Gillette, Paul

Price: $100.00

Publisher: NY, Arbor House: 1972

Edition: First Edition.

Inscription: Signed by Author(s)

Seller ID: 547

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

349pp. This copy warmly inscribed and signed by the author to his wife. "To Shelly, with all my love, Paul 20 March 1973". Gillette was the author of "Play Misty for Me" which became a film starring Clint Eastwood. He also wrote for CBS' "Camera Three" and hosted the show for a long time. He was a leading financial analyst of the beverage industry (from his 1996 obituary). Bottom corners bumped. Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall
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Siddhartha

By: Hesse, Herman

Price: $395.00

Publisher: NY, New Directions: 1951

Edition: First Edition, Second Issue.

Seller ID: 007018

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

153pp. Original pictorial mustard yellow paper over green cloth, spine lettering stamped in gilt, top edge stained green as issued. Second issue because of the photo credit listed on the copyright page (Roloff Beny). Printed at the Vail-Ballou Press in Binghamton, NY. This is the slipcased limited edition which preceded the first trade edition. The slipcase has the publication blurb on the back panel with the original price of $5.00 intact. This book was extremely influential on the 1960's counter culture. Gift inscription on the front pastedown. The back panel of the slipcase has some light s...
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MASH

By: Hooker, Richard

Price: $500.00

Publisher: NY, William Morrow: 1968

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 018016

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

219pp. Original brown cloth over white spine, spine lettering stamped in black and orangish yellow. No previous ownership inscriptions. Bottom corners very slightly bumped. The jacket is lightly and unevenly browned with only two quite tiny closed tears. The jacket is NOT price clipped (original price of $4.95 intact). This book was the inspiration behind the film starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Robert Duvall. It was also the inspiration for the hit TV show starring Alan Alda. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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Moses, Man of the Mountain

By: Hurston, Zora Neale

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott: 1939

Edition: First Edition, First Issue

Seller ID: 022663

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Good

351pp. 1st Edition., 1st Issue (reddish brown cloth). Original pictorial boards, stamped in orange. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Tape ghosts to the same where some other bookplate appears to have been removed. Offsetting to the front free endpaper. Ownership inscription to the same. Back hinge cracked and cleanly reglued with archival quality binding glue. Front cover dampstained. Corners bumped and heavily rubbed through.
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The Story of a Wonder Man, Being the Autobiography of Ring Lardner

By: Lardner, Ring

Price: $25.00

Publisher: NY, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1927

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 023844

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

151pp. Original green cloth with lettering stamped in gilt. Illustrated by Margaret Freeman in text. Corners very gently bumped. Ownership inscription mostly erased from the front pastedown. Faint spotting to the prelims. Housed in a mylar protector.
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Dusk and Other Stories

By: Salter, James

Price: $100.00

Publisher: San Francisco, North Point Press: 1988

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 023877

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Fine

157pp. Original rose colored cloth with spine lettering stamped in silver foil. This copy inscribed and signed by the author on the half title. The jacket is price clipped.
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Gods and Generals

By: Shaara, Jeff

Price: $45.00

Publisher: NY, Ballantine Books: 1996

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 023619

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

498pp. This copy signed by the author on the title page. Some faint staining to the edges of the text block. The jacket is creased.
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Jess Edwards Rides Again

By: Smith, Alice Ward

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, The Christopher House: 1934

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 020529

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

145pp. 1st Edition. Original green cloth with lettering and decoration stamped in gilt. Smith was a journalist who ended up working with the Black section of the Louisiana Writer's Project. This is her first, and only, book. A slavery novel. "In a letter to the author, William Pickens says of this story: 'It will be a great triumph for you, and for more decency in Negro story-literature" (from the blurb on the back panel). Quite scarce in the original dust jacket. Spine lettering a bit dull with some scuffing toward the head of the spine. Top corners bumped. The jacket is soi...
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Christian Science with Notes Containing Corrections to Date

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $60.00

Publisher: NY, Harper & Bros.: 1907

Edition: First Edition, Second Issue.

Seller ID: 023912

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

362pp. Original red cloth with lettering and decorations stamped in gilt. Frontispiece portrait of Twain dated 1906. Second Issue with typos and broken type corrected, but with first issue points (six lines on the illustration list page, 14 titles listed in the "Works" advert, 1906 date on the frontis., February 1907 publication info on the copyright page). Spine a bit sunned with a series of tiny dots on the same. Corners bumped. Faint staining to the fore edge of the text block. Bookplates and bookseller's ticket to the front pastedown.
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Brideshead Revisited

By: Waugh, Evelyn

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Co.: 1945

Edition: First American Edition.

Seller ID: 009818

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Fine

351pp. Original red cloth with lettering stamped in black. This one is unusual since it is a book club edition which was the true first American edition (preceding the first trade edition). The original December Book of the Month Club Newsletter is laid in. Back panel of the jacket tanned with a closed half inch tear to the bottom edge of the front panel. A gorgeous, bright copy of a book that is hard to find in this condition. This title is considered one of the best novels of the 20th century. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
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The Haircurl Papers & Other Searches for the Lost Individual

By: Zinsser, William K.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: NY, Harper & Row: 1964

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 020572

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good

180pp. 1st Edition. Original mauve paper over bluish gray cloth, spine lettering stamped in mauve. This copy inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper (dated 1964). Corners bumped, one corner rubbed through at the tip. The jacket is chipped at the head of the spine and has a three inch closed tear at the heel of the front joint of the same. Back panel of the jacket a bit scuffed. The jacket is price clipped.
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Keyword: Modern First Editions