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The Eastern Archipelago, A Description Of The Scenery, Animal And Vegetable Life, People, And Physical Wonders Of The Islands In The Eastern Seas.
ADAMS, WILLIAM HENRY DAVENPORT, Editor
London: T. Nelson And Sons, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original brown cloth, decorated in gilt and black, with beveled boards. AEG. Spine beautifully decorated in gilt. With thirty five full page plates and twenty in-text illustrations as well as a full-page map. An exceptionally clean, bright and pleasing copy. READ MORE
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Price: $200.00
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Stars Fell On Alabama
CARMER, CARL
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Original powder blue cloth on boards, stamped in silver on the front panel and the spine. Fading along the edges and the spine of the blue. In a very clean, bright and pleasing dust jacket that is price-clipped. Illustrated endpapers. Warmly inscribed and signed with... READ MORE
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Price: $200.00
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Sharpe's Enemy
CORNWELL, BERNARD
New York: Viking Press, 1984. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine / fine. An extremely clean, bright and pleasing copy. Signed by the author on a book-plate which is loosely laid in. The jacket is bright and complete. READ MORE
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Price: $250.00
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George Washington (Four Volumes)
FLEXNER, JAMES THOMAS
Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Four volumes complete. All four volumes are true first editions. Volume I (1965), subtitled the Forge of Experience (1732-1775) has a small previous owner signature to the front paste-down, else fine. The jacket is complete and shows very well indeed. Volume II (1968) is subtitled In... READ MORE
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Price: $400.00
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The Age of Fighting Sail
FORESTER, C. S.
New York: Doubleday & Co. 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Good. In original gray cloth. The jacket is evenly worn with a chip at the lower end of the dust jacket at the hinge and several other very shallow chips. There are areas of rubbing as well and some sun fading to the orange jacket near the fore-edge... READ MORE
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Price: $200.00
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Rifleman Dodd and The Gun
FORESTER, C. S.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1943. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. One of 4000 copies. The first trade edition of these two novels of the Peninsular War. A very attractive copy with only minor edge-wear. The dust jacket is price-clipped. Cover art by Jan Doubrava. READ MORE
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Price: $350.00
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Maine Families in 1790
GRAY, RUTH AND ANDERSON, JOSEPH CROOK
Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1994-2005. Hardcover. Fine. Nine volumes, complete. Original green cloth on boards, lettered in gilt on the front panel and the spine. This set is "as new." Illustrated map endpapers. Volume I is dated 1994, Volume II is dated 1994, Volume III is dated 1992 and is a first edition as are the remaining six volumes. Volume... READ MORE
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Price: $450.00
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Secret Agent X-9
HAMMETT, DASHIELL
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1934. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Book Two. Original full color pictorial pasteboard wrappers with original blue cloth spine. Black and white illustrations, four panels per page, allby Alex Raymond. Wrappers in very good shape with only minor creasing and very minor wear. The second of two volumes of the syndicated cartoon strip by Hammett with illustrations... READ MORE
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Price: $400.00
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Guardian Angel And Other Stories
LATIMER, MARGERY
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original canary yellow cloth on boards, lettered in black on the spine with red borders. Top edge stained red. In the complete and very nice dust jacket. There is a small hole to the jacket at the rear spine hinge and a few very... READ MORE
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Price: $450.00
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Nonsense Songs
LEAR, EDWARD
London: Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd. 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. No date, circa 1934. Large format music book. Orange boards, with yellow spine. Paper paste-down on front board. Set to music by Dudley Glass. With all the original pictures. A very scarce volume. Large folio, too large for the scanner. Contains 10 songs with illustrations. READ MORE
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Price: $300.00
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The Works in Four Volumes, Poems, Verse, Drama and Prose
LERMONTOV, MIKHAIL
Moscow: State Publishing, 1957-1958. Hardcover. Very Good. Four volumes complete. Contains the works of this extremely important Poet and Author. Bound in original gray cloth with lettering in gilt. I do not know if it was originally issued with dust jacket. Illustrated throughout. Much better than average paper was used for this publication and it has held up very well... READ MORE
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Price: $200.00
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The Mirror and the Lamp
MAXWELL, W. B.
London: Cassell and Company, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy in the very rare dust jacket. The cover art is extremely nice. READ MORE
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Price: $250.00
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The Cruise of the Montauk to Bermuda, the West Indies and Florida
MCQUADE, JAMES
New York: Thomas R. Knox, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Original pictoral dark green cloth stamped in gilt and black. a.e.g. xv and 441 pages. Many black and white illustrations. Tipped in "Finis" memorial note commemorating Commodore Platt of the New York Yacht Club at the front endpapers. Beveled edges. Some minor edgewear. A very good copy. READ MORE
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Price: $300.00
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Red War
PHILIPS, JUDSON P.
New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / near fine. Co-authored with Thomas M. Johnson. Great cover art. The Soviets try to take over the world. A slip of paper laid in with Philip Judson's autograph. I cannot verify the authenticity. READ MORE
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Price: $300.00
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In The Grip Of The Brute
RADCLIFFE, GARNETT
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / very good. A clean, bright and attractive copy of this extremely scarce volume. 8vo. A Crime Circle novel. Set aboard an ocean liner on the Atlantic before the war. Some minor chipping to the jacket. The jacket is price-clipped. Cover art by Bip Pares. READ MORE
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Price: $200.00
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The Avenging Ray
SMALL, J. AUSTIN
New York: The Crime Club, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Fine. An extremely clean, bright and pleasing copy. Brief previous owner notation on the front free endpaper. Original black cloth lettered and decorated in red. In a very clean, bright and lovely dust jacket with a complete wrap-around promotional band. READ MORE
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Price: $400.00
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Nocturne Militaire
SPRINGS, ELLIOTT WHITE
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1927). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original black cloth lettered in yellow on the front panel and the spine. The book has a very minor lean. On the limitation page it states: "The Limited Edition of one hundred and fifty copies of Nocturne Militaire was prepared for Mr. Springs and will... READ MORE
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Price: $450.00
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Cup of Gold
STEINBECK, JOHN
New York: Covici, Friede, 1936. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A very clean, bright and exceptional copy of the second printing. Navy blue cloth, lettered and designed in gilt. Steinbeck's first book initially published in 1929 and reprinted in 1936 due to his increased popularity. This second 1936 issue iwas published in blue cloth and with the publishers imprint removed from... READ MORE
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Price: $450.00
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The World I Breathe
THOMAS, DYLAN
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, (1939). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Fine. An exceptionally clean, bright and pleasing copy of this scarce Dylan Thomas title. From an un-numbered limited edition of 700 copies only. Original dusty rose colored cloth with lettering in gilt on the spine. The jacket is complete and without blemish. It is covered in a glassine wrapper... READ MORE
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Price: $8,000.00
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Mulliner Nights
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
London: Herbert Jenkins, (1933). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Good. Original orange cloth lettered and decorated in black. In a now complete dust jacket that has been repaired and restored. Jacket art by Abbey. Eight pages of ads at the rear. McIlvaine A48A. READ MORE
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Price: $900.00
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Uncle Fred In The Springtime
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
London: Herbert Jenkins, (1939). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original deep red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine. Small previous owner sticker affixed to the front free endpaper. "First Printing" stated on the copyright page. In a very bright and complete dust jacket with 7/6 price on the spine. The jacket shows a few very small... READ MORE
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Price: $3,250.00
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The Trembling Of The Veil
YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER
London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd. 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Volume privately printed for subscribers. Bound in original half cream parchment and half pale green buckram. In a fine and complete pale green dust jacket label affixed at the spine. An identical label is present on the spine of the book. From a limited edition of 1000 copies... READ MORE
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Price: $2,250.00
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