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Drums And Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes
Athens, GA: University Of Georgia Press, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Near Fine. Original pale green cloth, lettered and stamped in black. Large octavo, xx.,274pp. Savannah Unit, Georgia Writers' Project, Work Projects Administration. Photographs by Muriel and Malcolm Bell, Jr. Dykes says "This is an important study of African survivals among the Georgia coastal negroe." "One of the... READ MORE
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Price: $350.00
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A Guide To Burlington, Iowa
Burlington: Acres, Blackmar Co. 1938. Second edition. Wraps. Near Fine. Illustrated stapled wrappers. 80pp. Illustrated throughout with two maps. Compiled and Written by The Federal Writers' Project/Works Progress Administration/State of Iowa. An American Guide Series publication. Sponsored by Burlington City Council. A very clean, bright and lovely copy. Fore-edge corners rounded, as issued. A crease to the blank rear cover... READ MORE
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Price: $200.00
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Minnesota: A State Guide
New York: The Viking Press, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. "Federal/Writers/Project" on three lines on the spine, indicating to Scharf that this is likely a third state binding. Octavo, xxx, 56(photos), 523pp. Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. Sponsored by the Executive Council... READ MORE
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Price: $275.00
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The Morning Watch
AGEE, JAMES
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. A lovely copy with only the slightest hint of fading to the spine. Agee's wonderful coming of age novel set at an Episcopal Boys School in Tennessee. READ MORE
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Price: $300.00
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The Fairport Nine
BROOKS, NOAH
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original green cloth, lettered in black and gilt and illustrated in the same fashion. The front panel shows a baseball player about to pitch, he wears no glove, and he is standing in the middle of a ball diamond. The gilt figure on the spine shows a player, bat... READ MORE
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Price: $1,250.00
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Incendiary
CLEAVE, CHRIS
London: Chatto and Windus, 2005. FIRST LIMITED ED. Hardcover. Limited Edition Number 296/500. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. This book was published as a paperback original, however, 500 hardbacked copies were published two week earlier in a special limited edition. This is number 296 of this limited... READ MORE
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Price: $200.00
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Victory
CONRAD, JOSEPH
London: Metuen & Co. (1915). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright, and solid copy of the first English edition. Published in September of 1915 in an impression of 8000 copies, including Canadian and Colonial export editions. Last page of ads dated 8/15/15. Some pages in the middle of the book remain uncut. 'Methuen's Popular... READ MORE
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Price: $4,250.00
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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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The Sea Mystery
CROFTS, FREEMAN WILLS
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. 8vo. Blue-green cloth stamped in dark green. Minor wear and rubbing to the covers. Dust jacket lightly sunned at spine and minor edge-wear. Still, a very pleasing copy of this Inspector French Detective Story. French solves the mystery arising from the discovery of a half-naked body... READ MORE
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Price: $500.00
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The Silent Murders
GORDON, NEIL
New York: The Crime Club, Inc. 1930. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Bound in original black cloth, lettered in red. In a complete and very compelling period dust jacket. A book much praised by Barzun and Taylor (1538). Gordon is the pseudonym of Archibald Gordon MacDonnell. Listed in Hubin. Previous owner book-plate on front paste-down. The... READ MORE
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Price: $550.00
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Le Morte Darthur
MALORY, SIR THOMAS
London: Jonathan Cape, (1923). Leather Bound. Very Good. Two quarto volumes bound in full deep green with lettering and ornamentation in gilt. The spine is heavily decorated with six compartments, and title in gilt on a red background and the author and volume information in gilt on a black background. The remainder is in the same green with gilt ornaments... READ MORE
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Price: $550.00
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The Bucharest Ballerina Murders
MASON, VAN WYCK
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. A very nice copy in the scarce dust jacket. Cover art by John Alan Maxwell. Some rubbing to the spine ends, the top edge being more rubbed than the bottom, and creasing with one chip along the top edge of the front panel. READ MORE
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Price: $200.00
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Bald Knobbers
MORRIS, LUCILLE
Caldwell: The Caxton Printers, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. An exceptionally clean, bright and pleasing copy of a very scarce volume. Illustrated endpapers. The jacket is not price-clipped. There are no signatures or marks in the book. The pursuit of law and order in Missouri in the years after the American Civil War. READ MORE
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Price: $450.00
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The American Gun Mystery. Death At The Rodeo
QUEEN, ELLERY
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. 8vo, original red cloth, with design and lettering in black. In a clean, bright and remarkably nice dust jacket. A very attractive and desirable copy of Ellery Queen's sixth novel. From the back of the jacket - "The story of an extraordinary and baffling murder... READ MORE
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Price: $1,500.00
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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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Let It Bleed
RANKIN, IAN
London: Orion, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / fine. An extremely clean, bright and pleasing copy. Signed by the author on the title page with a little doodle of a face. READ MORE
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Price: $750.00
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A Necessary End
ROBINSON, PETER
Toronto/London: Viking, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A very clean, bright and pleasing copy of this, the third Inspector Banks Mystery. Signed by the author on the title page. READ MORE
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Price: $200.00
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The Book Of Folly
SEXTON, ANNE
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Bound in red and black, with lettering in gilt on the spine. All edges gilt. From a limited edition of 500 copies and signed by the author on the limitation page. A lovely copy in all respects of this scarce volume from a Pulitzer Prize winning author. Housed in... READ MORE
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Price: $500.00
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Four-Square Jane
WALLACE, EDGAR
New York: World Wide Publishing, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A lovely copy of a very scarce title in near fine condition. Original red cloth lettered in gilt. The pages are toning a bit along the edges. READ MORE
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Price: $200.00
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Rolling Stone
WENTWORTH, PATRICIA
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. A very attractive copy of a very scarce title. Very light edgewear to the jacket. The jacket is price-clipped. READ MORE
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Price: $250.00
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The Happy Prince And Other Tales
WILDE, OSCAR
London: David Nutt, 1889. Second edition. Hardcover. Fine. Now completely and beautifully rebound by the Chelsea Bindery in deep blue morocco with the original David Nutt cover design stamped in gilt with the additional flourish of a weeping swallow towards the bottom edge. Lovely flower patterned endpapers and decorative inner dentelles. All edges gilt. Though this copy is the second... READ MORE
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Price: $12,500.00
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