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Adventures in the Land of the Behemoth by Jules Verne; Ferat, J. (illu.) - 1874
by Jules Verne; Ferat, J. (illu.)
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Adventures in the Land of the Behemoth
by Jules Verne; Ferat, J. (illu.)
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Boston: Henry L. Shepard and Company, 1874. Second. Hardcover . Used - near fine. 12mo.; 190pp.  Second American Edition (unauthorized edition; first thus, with new binding and translation), 'Fourteenth Thousand' with final leaf blank. Forest green ribbed cloth with gilt and black pictorial decorations. 'Fully illustrated by [Jules] Ferat'; tissue guarded frontispiece and 19 additional full page interior illustrations. Gilt exceptionally bright, contrasting well with fresh forest green cloth covers. Just a hint of staining to text block edges.  Light rubbing to cover extremities, primarily at the spine folds.  Tail of spine with about a 1/8' x 3/8' loss of cloth. The book is now covered with a removable mylar cover.
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Mythago Wood
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The Complete Tales
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Bantam Books, New York, 2000. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). Eighteenth impression of the first edition - this copy signed by the author on the title page. Large 8vo. 973pp. Paper-covered boards lettered in green at the spine. Map-illustrated endpapers. Head and base of spine lightly bruised and spine lettering very slightly defective in several places. A minor production fault finds the base of front pastedown lifting just a fraction. Very good indeed in virtually fine non-price-clipped (USA $35.00 / Canada $38.00) dust wrapper, just fractionally rubbed at head and base of spine panel..
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Freddy And The Clockwork Twin, Hardcover. Brooks, Walter. Alfred A. Knopf, 1933, 1st Ed. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. USED/ Decorated yellow boards, Gibraltar Library Binding. Good/ No DJ included. A clean, bright solid copy. Please enjoy browsing all of our Freddy The Pig titles. RARE
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Johnson, Crockett. A Picture For Harold's Room, A Purple Crayon Adventure. Harper Crest Library binding. First Edition, Harper and Brothers 1960. Used. Good Plus Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Rare/scarce. A nice find!
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A Child's Garden Of Verses
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QUITE RARE. A Child's Garden Of Verses (1888 Charles Scribner's Sons 1st American Edition) USED. Good+ /No dust jacket included. Leatherbound edition. Please see our photos. Title page states 1888. Former owner bookplate on inside front endpaper. We consider offers
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The Rocket Book
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By Peter Newell, author of "The Hole Book". The Rocket Book, Harper & Brothers Stated October, 1912 First Printing. USED. GOOD+ CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET INCLUDED. 7 1/8 X 8 7/8. Seller's Note: Sadly, (no one is sadder than me) the Front paper paste-down label has been removed from cover. Minor corner-bumps. No titling on spine if printed there originally. Pages are all present, in nice shape, and affixed to binding. HOLE-DRILLED straight through the book. RARE IN THIS FIRST PRINTING.
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Adventures in the Land of the Behemoth
by Jules Verne
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Adventures in the Land of the Behemoth
by Jules Verne
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Adventures In The Land Of The Behemoth (1874)
by Jules Verne
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Adventures In The Land Of The Behemoth (1874)
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Adventures In The Land Of The Behemoth (1874)
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Adventures in the Land of the Behemoth
by Jules Verne
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Boston, MA: Henry L. Shepard & Co., 1874. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Ferat. 1st (pirated) US edition. Russet cloth with elaborate lettering and decoration in gilt and black. Boards moderately edgeworn, frayed, dampstained and dented (interior not affected by water). Dark blue eps lightly creased. Binding sound, text clean. Interior toned, with light foxing and soil. Tissue guarded frontis. B/w plates. Gift inscription to second blank. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 190 pp.
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Good. Ferat is illustrator beautiful and highly decorated red gold and black boards nice frontis w/ tissue
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The Ghouls
by Haining, Peter ed
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Stein & Day, New York, 1972 (Second Printing- first published 1971), 8vo., 383. quarter red cloth over green paper boardsBook has a rear lower bumped corner and a bump to lower front. There also is some soiling(red) to the front and rear boards. Internals very clean. Unclipped jacket has a "scrunch" with accompanying "waves" to the lower rear with a crease extending to the flap fold. (please see images).
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Christopher Lee’s New Chamber of Horrors
by Peter Haining
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binding generally clean, straight & tight. Internals are clean, though pages have darkened which is common enough with many of these UK titles due to the paper stock selected. Unclipped wrapper has rubbing/dust dulling but no tears, chips or creases.11/2023
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The Case Against Satan
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black cloth binding. First Printing. boards have light edgewear, corners curved in slightly. Unclipped wrapper has a 15 mm open tear on the front at the top, minor soiling. Overall, a very tidy copy of Russell's first novel.
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The Devil’s Advocate
by Neiderman, Andrew
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- 9780712638340
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Clean tight binding with one bumped and three curved corners. Also a bit of a bump at the spine head/gutter area with a slightly cocked spine. Unclipped jacket* has subtle creases to both front and reverse along the lower edge(s). A touch of chafing also along the upper edge with rubbing/dust dulling to both front & reverse. No tears, chips or other large creases. *the price has been marked thru with "Sharpie" ink. Uncommon.Inv. # 63835 TDA* bds 11/2023
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Strategem and Other Stories (Short story index reprint series)
by Crowley, Aleister
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Hardcover, Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, New York. 139p.This 1971 edition reprinted from the 1929 Mandrake. Silver titles on spine, Book for Libraries emblem blind-stamped lower right front board. Front pastedown has ghost of a bookseller's sticker; rear pastedown shows what appears to be an Army/Navy surplus stamp in red. A few tiny dark marks near the blind stamp and some soiling to top rear board. Minor blemishes withstanding, this is a very nice, collectible copy.Inv. # 32586 bds 2022
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The Man Who Lost His Head
by Claire Huchet Bishop
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The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.
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The Elephant's Child: Just So Stories Series
by Kipling, Rudyard
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Kipling, Rudyard: The Elephant's Child, Just So Stories Series. 1942 First Edition Thus, Garden City Publishing. Beautifully illustrated by R.F. Rojankovsky. CHILDREN'S BOOK. Story Summary: "Because of his 'satiable curiosity' about what the crocodile has for dinner, the elephant's child and all elephants thereafter have long trunks." Used. VG condition/ No DJ included. Unpaged. 7 X 9 1/2
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The Satanic Mill
by Preussler, Otfried
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Belleville, Illinois, United States
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First US Edition/Third Printing**. Binding is clean, straight & very tight. Some little shelf wear but corners are square. On the ffep there is a gift inscription - but no other markings detected. Unclipped wrapper has wear at spine head and tail, also at upper front flap fold. Rear flap fold has a crease. Reverse has minor soiling. No tears, chips, other creasing or tape repairs/re-enforcements.Inv. # 63666 TSM* bds 9/2023
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The Book of Life: A Novel: All Souls Trilogy, Book 3
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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Black boards with gold writing on spine; author's initials embossed in gold on front board. Top and bottom of book spine rumpled; illustrations on inside of front and back board. Shelf wear to top and bottom of dust jacket spine; pages and binding still look in excellent condition. Cover price of $30.00 and 0714 on front dust jacket flap.Viking First Edition; Seventh Printing as indicated by complete number line ending in "7 9 10 8" on copyright page. Signed by author on title page.The third and final book in the All Souls trilogy, Harkness' novel "deepens her themes of power and passion, family and caring, past deeds and their present consequences." Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.
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Astrologer
by Barcynska, Countess
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Belleville, Illinois, United States
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slight spine lean, light edgewear; binding is generally clean. Internals are clean save for Holiday inscription on ffep. Unclipped jacket 6 cm tear at lower front(with several creases in that area) & a 25 mm tear to upper front. The reverse has a 11 cm tear that runs from the top down to the middle of rear flap. Soiling is present both face & reverse. NB: "War Economy Standard" edition. Additional images available upon request. Scarce in wraps.Inv. # 63765 A* bds 10/2023
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