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Melville's Quarrel With God by Lawrance Thompson - 1952
by Lawrance Thompson
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Melville's Quarrel With God
by Lawrance Thompson
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1952 Princeton University Press first edition.
Dr. Thompson was a longtime faculty member at Princeton University, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Robert Frost. There is a long inscription from Thompson on the front free endpaper, which provides insight on the Melville book's creation.
Condition of the book is Very Good Plus. The binding is straight and sound. Other than the inscription, inside pages are complete and unmarked.
Condition of the dust jacket is Very Good. The DJ is complete, not price clipped. It shows light wear, including a small chip on the center portion of the spine. The DJ is protected in a new mylar cover.
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Dr. Thompson was a longtime faculty member at Princeton University, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Robert Frost. There is a long inscription from Thompson on the front free endpaper, which provides insight on the Melville book's creation.
Condition of the book is Very Good Plus. The binding is straight and sound. Other than the inscription, inside pages are complete and unmarked.
Condition of the dust jacket is Very Good. The DJ is complete, not price clipped. It shows light wear, including a small chip on the center portion of the spine. The DJ is protected in a new mylar cover.
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Canary In A Cat House, The
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. SCARCE
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The Little Lady of the Big House
by London, Jack (1876-1916)
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[4]+392+[2] pages with a frontispiece from a painting by William Van Dresser. Small Octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's blue cloth illustrated in black,cream and orange, lettered in cream and gilt. (BAL 11966) (Sisson & Martens pg 87) First edition.A tale about a love triangle on a large ranch. Though not published until the year of London's death, he had written this during his bad year of 1913. He spent much of that year visiting a dentist, finally having all of his upper teeth pulled to halt the pyorrhea raging in his gums; at about the same time, his Wolf House burned down two weeks before its completion; and his kidney problems continued to worsen, exacerbated by his drinking and his insistence upon eating raw fish and duck. [The novel] was meant to exalt the splendor of Wolf House and scientific farming and sex." "It is all sex from start to finish", he wrote to the editor of Cosmopolitan, "in which no sexual adventure is actually achieved or comes within a million miles of…
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Collected Longer Poems.
by CARRUTH, Hayden
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Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1993. Signed by the author on the title page. First edition / First printing. Tan cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.
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The Last Tycoon, an unfinished novel
by F Scott Fitzgerald
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Scribner - Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1941,1969. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 190 pp. Quarter-bound in black cloth on blue cloth; lettered in black on the front panel and decorated in gilt on the spine; no dust jacket. no interior markings.Original ¼ black and blue cloth covers, blind stamped, flat spine with gilt title.
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Steppenwolf
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The Easton Press, The Collector's Library of Famous Editions (1991). First Edition thus; Collector's Edition. Illustrated by Charles Raymond. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Used - Fine, Like New condition. Text block is tight and clean with no ownership markings or bookplates. Appears unopened / unread. Bound In full (genuine) leather with hubbed spine. Embossed in 22kt gold on the spine and front and back covers. Heavy duty binding boards. Printed on acid-neutral, archival paper with gilded edges. Smyth sewn with concealed muslin joints, silk moire fabric end leaves, and permanent satin ribbon marker. Notes From The Archives sheet laid in. Photos are of the copy we have at Barbed Wire Books.Translated by Basil Creighton.Beautiful gift book!
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Lillabulero: Being a Periodical of Literature and the Arts. Volume 1, Number 2.
by BANKS, Russell and William Matthews, Editors. Signed by Russell Banks
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Chapel Hill: Lillabulero, Spring 1967. Signed by Russell Banks on title page. First edition / First printing. Stapled blue wrappers. Very good. Sunning and light wear to covers, short tear to top front cover, no loss. Includes Portfolio 2: The Shaker Dove, by Daniel Patterson inserted into a sleeve on inside rear cover. Also includes William Faulkner: a Story and Five Poems. Poetry by Lucius Shepard, Dabney Stuart, etc.
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The Miser's Daughter: An Historical Romance
by Ainsworth, William Harrison
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Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Brothers, 1868. Paperback. Good. [2], 396, [2] p.; 25 cm. Original printed wrappers. Woodcut illustration on front wrapper drawn by Henry Anelay and engraved by H. Carter. Date of publication inferred from publisher's advertisement on first page following text: "Get up your clubs for 1869!" Printed wrappers and final leaf contain publisher's advertisements. Some unopened leaves. Very scarce in original illustrated wrappers. In Good Condition: wrapper fore-edges and lower edges chipped; wrapper separating from head of front joint for 3 cm. and from tail of back joint for 10 cm.; wrapper is slightly soiled; fore-edges of front wrapper and pages through p. 116 damaged, without loss of text; occasional light foxing; otherwise clean and tight.
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MEMOIRS OF JACQUES CASANOVA, #165, STATED 1st Modern Library Edition on copyright pg, Mentions 159 books on back of DJ & 95 cents a Copy
by by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Venetian adventurer & Author; Edited by Madeleine Boyd, Introduction by Ernest Boyd, Not Illustrated,
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MODERN LIBRARY NY, with #165 Twice on Spine DJ in Red, 1929 FRONT DJ Shows man at door Holding candle with bizarre reflection on door as he opens it & is titled in Red ,J Inner FlapPrice Clip but 95 Cents INTACT, Illustrated Green & White Rockwell Kent RUNNING streamer MAN Endpapers are an aqua blue color Former Owner Inscription, HBDJ, with top edge stained blue. .1929, STATED 1st Modern Library Edition on copyright pg, 1st Edition THUS, NF+/VG-, AS-IS,. Jacket Priced 95 cents with 159 title listed on rear panel with pre Zip code Coupon . Small 4 1/2 X 6 3/4 in. Blue BALLOON flexible Cloth cvr with Gold Gilt man running with Streamer on Front Light WearCloth cvr , . 12mo., xii, 492 pg NO ADS IN BACK., DJ FOXED, Lightly Frayed with TINY holes at DJ Fold & EXTREMITiES Is Titled in Red on Front DJ, ; Titled & Grape Vine design Decorated Gold Gilt on Cvr SPINE, Interior nice clean light wear Fox, Spine DJ end Tiny chips Tears, Jacket has some chipping along rear top edges and…
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HISTORY OF TOM JONES A FOUNDLING. STATED First Modern Library Giant Edition, 1940. G-54 on Red dustjacket with Black Oval on front with Man & walking Stick & Tree COMPLETE & UNABRIDGED
by Henry Fielding, 1707-1754, includes a biographical note on the author..Inner DJ Flap PriceClipped, Back Inner Flap mentions 274 Tiles & goes thru G52, Ulysses, Blank Endpapers Lite Fox
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New York: The Modern Library., 1940. HBDJ, STATED First Modern Library Giant Edition, 1940. NF/GOOD+, ML#54. 274 TITLES ON VERSO OF BACK OF DJ with the highest Giant being G54, Tom Jones, A NF copy in blue cloth with light wear FOX, in a bright, unfaded, red, blue and gold dustwrapper GOOD+, with tiny Tears Wear & end chips to Spine DJ. . Very scarce in this condition. Toledano 54.1. 861 pgs NO ADS IN BACK, The book has Toledano G4 cover, A or blank endpapers and a c jacket. These pointers indicate this is a First Modern Library Edition with a fall 1940 jacket. book is in about NF condition with a decent RED top stain. It has no writing, underlining, or missing pages. The jacket has a ¼? per side triangular chip at the top of the spine, crimping at the bottom of the spine, wear at the flap folds and light soil ,Follow Tom from his humble beginnings; experience his forbidden passion for the beautiful Sophie; and ride along with him on his colorful journey to London - where he finally…
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The Confusion. Volume Two of The Baroque Cycle.
by STEPHENSON, Neal.
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New York: William Morrow & Company, 2004. Signed on the half-title page by Neal Stephenson. First edition / First printing. Brown paper spine,ochre paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. This copy has been stored lying flat on a shelf since publication, and has no sagging of the text block, endemic to the majority of copies of this heavy, oversize book. An exceptionally beautiful copy. Note: extra shipping applies to this title. Winner of the 2005 Locus Award.
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Melville's Quarrel With God
by Lawrance Roger Thompson
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Kane & Abel
by Jeffrey Archer
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Decatur, Indiana, United States
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New York, 1979. Book Club. Hardcover. Book Club/Has Jacket. Book is a book club edition. Quite a few closed tears, chips, and other signs of wear to the dust jacket. Some bumping to the boards at corners, edges and ends of the spine. Pages are clean.
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Cold Mountain
by Frazier, Charles
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NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .
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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural
by Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945)
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228 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with quarter brown spine and dark green lettering to spine label and cover. First edition, first issue. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly chipped, spine heal rubbed, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts
by Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945)
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209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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Red Pottage
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Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.
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We Loved Them Once
by Rivers, Ronda
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NY: Vantage Press, 1954. Pages [135] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Tan boards, black lettering, clean, minor shelf wear. PO's name penned to endpaper. Set in 1950's America. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
by Traven, B
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
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v+321 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First British edition. St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. He alternated dictating St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston but gradually lost interest in the former. The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf wear, hinges and spine heal moderately rubbed, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy.
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Dobrodruzstvi Toma Sawyera a Huckleberryho Finna.
by Twain, Mark; Jiri Hejna
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Praha: Statni Nakladatelstvi Krasne Literatury SNKLHU, 1961, hardcover. Apparent first edition in Czech 1961, with the illustrations by Jiri Hejna, of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Translated into CZECH by Frantisk Gel. 393 pages. -- Hardcover. Good used condition (yellow cloth cover some soil) with very good minus dust jacket (spine sunned).
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