Karen's Memory by Duffield, Anne [Dorothy Tate] - 1939

Constable, London, 1920. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 187pp. Brown cloth, lettered in black at the spine and upper board and with a black-stamped decoration. Top edge dust marked, and with just a touch of rubbing to the spine ends and corner tips. Newspaper clippings have been pasted to the rear pastedown and free endpaper, along with some pencilled notes (which could easily be erased), and a third clipping is pasted to a blank rear flyleaf, with a panel of offset browning to the adjacent verso page. A very good copy in tanned and chipped dust wrapper, with an inch of loss from the base of the spine panel, and several further slivers of edge loss. The front flap of the wrapper is detached but included. The author's extremely uncommon first novel, a semi-autobiographical narrative which she continued with her second novel, 'Two Selves' (1923)..

New York: The Armchair Detective, 1991. Signed by Richard Condon on the colophon. Limited Edition / First Printing. Number 87 0f 100 copies. Maroon cloth in a Maroon cloth slipcase Very fine in a very fine slipcase. With a new introduction by Richard Condon. Basis for the 1962 John Frankenheimer film, starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, and Angela Lansbury.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 226 pages. In Very Good condition, with Very Good dust jacket. Spine yellow with red titling. dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Price uncut '$2.00'. Very mild wear and rubbing overall. Larry McMurtry's copy, with his neat (and therefor very early) ownership signature in pencil on the front free end paper. CX Consignment. NOTE: Shelved in Room G. Larry McMurtry (1936-2021) was an American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter, perhaps best known for 'Terms of Endearment' and 'Lonesome Dove.';. 1346551. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition and presumed second issue with the words "Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1904" printed on the copyright page. Publishing date 1904 on title page and copyright notices 1903 and 1904 on copyright page. Pictorial blue cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, t.e.g.; 8vo; pp. [6], 366, [3] (ads), plus frontispiece and 5 plates. Light spotting to spine. Light wear to tips; Small, contemporary ownership signature on FFEP. Half-inch closed tear near gutter on page vii (List of Illustrations)

Knopf, 1995. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition stated. Sm 4to. 652 pp. One quarter cloth and black paper-covered boards. Silver lettering to the spine. Volume is fine. Jacket has a little bit of crimping at the top of the front panel at the spine fold, else fine. Inscribed to the author Ron Hansen on the tile page: "For Ron, with good luck especially in the movies. William H. Gass." Gass was likely referring to Hansen's novel, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford which was made into a movie starring Brad Pitt. Hansen recently sold many of his books to a Palo Alto bookseller including this one.

1914 1ed Butterfly Babies Book Gordon Ross Children Literature Color Illustrated

M.T. Ross, "Penny", was a popular artist and cartoonist in the early 1900s whose works include "The Flower Babies Book", "The Flower Children", "Butterfly Babies", "Bird Children", "Animal Children" and others. He was also the originator of the extremely popular comic strip "Mamma's Angel Child" for the Chicago Tribune and worked with Walt Disney before he made his own company.
Elizabeth Gordon was a fantasy author and poet. Her book 'Butterfly Babies' Book' is a short children's fantasy collection of poems that anthropomorphize butterflies giving them names and stories while giving information through poetry on the trees and flowers they eat and take shelter from. The book ends with an area for the reader to notate when they see butterflies and what butterflies they see.
This charming children's book of poems contains color illustrations from Ross on each page of each butterfly including on the cover boards!

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1874 EXQUISITE Saint Louis IX Medieval France Joinville Crusades French Wailly

Jean de Joinville was a 13th-century French historian who is best known for his biographical work on the life of Saint Louis, or King Louis IX of France. This work is perhaps the most authentic and best account of the King Louis leadership during the Seventh Crusade. This 1874 French edition was collected and edited by J Natalis de Wailly. Wailly includes impressive facsimile views of original portions of Joinville's text.

Item number: #10653
Price: $550
JOINVILLE, Jean
Jean, sire Joinville : Histoire de Saint Louis ; Credo ; et, Lettre à Louis X
Paris : F. Didot frères, fils et cie, 1874.

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Collation: complete with all pages
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[4], [xxviii], 690p
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Illustrated throughout
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Language: French
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Binding: Leather; tight and secure
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Size: ~11in X 7in (28cm x 17.5cm)
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1907 1st ed Dream of Fair Women Harrison Fisher Girl Illustrated Color Poetry

Harrison Fisher, the "Historian of American Beauty," was an American illustrator whose works regularly appeared on the cover of 'Cosmopolitan' Magazine in the early 1900s.
"At the top of the heap stands Harrison Fisher, creator of the Fisher Girl and most popular of all Americans who ply brush and pencil for reproduction. By reason of his industry and because of the uniform soundness of his drawings and color sense, he is the acknowledged master of the pretty girl picture"(Cosmopolitan).
This first edition of the book 'A Dream of Fair Women' is filled with romantic full-color illustrations of the "Fisher Girl" type. The illustrations are inspired from the text of famous poems decorated in Art Nouveau style by E. Stetson Crawford. A fine piece!
Item number: #13376
Price: $399
FISHER, Harrison
A dream of fair women,
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [©1907] First Edition.

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1908 1st ed Harrison Fisher ART Bachelor Belles Portraits Cosmopolitan Magazine

Harrison Fisher was a 20th-century American artist known for his drawings of women, portraits that regularly appeared on early 1900s editions of 'Cosmopolitan' magazine. 'Bachelor Belles' is a 1908 portfolio of Fisher's portraits – each beautifully colored. These 22 illustrations are paired with American poetry and short stories and illustrated page decorations by Theodore Hapgood.
Item number: #13402
Price: $499
FISHER, Harrison
Bachelor Belles
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1908. First edition

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o 22 full-page illustrations
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
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Original dust jacket
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Original hard shell
· Size: ~11in X 8in (28cm x 20cm)
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1904 Jack London 1st/1st ed The Sea-Wolf by Adventure Novel Shipwreck FAMOUS
A rare first British edition of Jack London's famous novel "The Sea Wolf". This book follows the story of Humphrey van Weyden and his adventures alongside Wolf Larsen on the sea. Like many sea adventures stories, this book describes mutiny, shipwrecks, seal-hunting, and many other adventure tropes.
Item number: #20039
Price: $499
LONDON, Jack
The Sea-Wolf
New York, London: The Macmillan Company, 1904. First edition. First Printing

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· Collation: Complete with all pages
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vii, [1], 366, [4]
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6 illustrations
· References: BAL 11882
· Edition Note
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"Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1904" printed on the copyright page.
· Provenance: Handwritten – Alfred Schaumleffel
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
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Blue cloth
· Size: ~7.75in X 5.25in (19.5cm x 13.5cm)
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