Oh What a Paradise it Seems by Cheever, John - 1982

Sandton City: Valiant Publishers, 1976. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author, with short inscription. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. light cover rub, edges lightly sun faded, occassional owner's marginalia. 131pp..

Macdonald. First edition-first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. VGC.Macdonald,1989.Rare First edition-first printing.A novel by the author of The Assyrian.Blue hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small nick on the edge of the cover)with Dj(a couple of nicks and creases on the edges of the Dj cover),both in VGC.Nice & clean pages with some foxing marks,ink mark and slightly tainted and yellow on the outer edges,number written on the edge of the first blank page of the book,pages are slightly yellow on the edges.Nice and clean book with some shelf wear.595pp.Price un-clipped.A collectable first edition.

Brookville, New York: Hillwood Art Gallery, 1989. SIGNED first edition. Softcover exhibition catalog. Published C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University, Brookville: Hillwood Art Gallery, 1989. 8vo. oblong wrappers, 10" x 9", 36pp., illustrated with b/w photos. Inscribed by Leipzig on title page: "To charlotte, with gratitude, Arthur Leipzig". Near fine. . Signed by Illustrator. 1st. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Everson Museum of Art, 1983. SIGNED first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Abrams, 1983, first printing. Folio, 10 1/2" x 13 1/2", 350pp., over 1,000 illustrations, more than 900 in full color of personalities in the sports world. Boldly inscribed on half title to George L. Ball: "For George Ball, Merry Christmas 83', Leroy Neiman" Printed note paper of George L. Ball, Prudential-Bache Securities laid in, in which he gifts the book to someone else. . Signed by Author. 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. Book. Fine. Hard Cover Slipcased. Signed by Author(s). Limited / Numbered / Signed. Fine, unread copy, in original browned glassine jacket, which is missing an inch and a half strip from top of back panel and part of spine, and has small chips to bottom of front panel. The slipcase is solid, with a little rubbing to extremities. Fortunately, the glassine, and slipcase have kept this copy exceptionally bright and clean. It appears unopened. Top edge gilt. # 123 of 265 signed and numbered copies. Uncommon thus..

New York: John Furman, 1800. Hardcover. Near Fine. Translated by William Roscoe. "Re-printed for William Cobbett." 30, 44, 34 p.; 14 cm. (18mo). Signatures: A-I6. Contemporary binding: half speckled calf with marbled paper over boards. Gilt rules on spine; black morocco spine label with gilt-tooled title: The Nurse. All page edges speckled. English translation only, from Roscoe's bilingual edition of 1798. Includes Roscoe's introduction on the life and works of Tansillo, largely adapted from G.A. Ranza's Italian edition of 1767, with Latin passages from book 12 of the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius. Evans, 38604. In Near Fine Condition: corners rubbed; pages are clean and tight. An attractive early 19th-century binding.

Baltimore, MD: The Xavier Press, 1995. cloth, gilt-stamped spine and front cover, decorated endpapers. Miniature Books. miniature book (7.1 x 5.5 cm). cloth, gilt-stamped spine and front cover, decorated endpapers. (iv), 24, (2) pages. Limited to 200 numbered copies (Bradbury Xavier Press 10). Frontispiece tipped in portrait of Poe. Tipped-in illustrations, and U.S. postage stamp in text. Blade of grass, encased in plastic, from Poe's original grave in pocket on back pastedown.

Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1995. First edition. Octavo. Original cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Signed by Russell Kirk's wife, Annette Kirk, on front free endpaper: "With best wishes! / Annette Y. Kirk / August 1997." Fine in fine dust jacket.. A fine copy of Russell Kirk's (1918-1994) memoirs, signed by his wife, Annette Kirk, to whom he dedicated the book. Widely celebrated as a founding father of modern intellectual conservatism, Russell Kirk-the Sage of Mecosta-set out in The Sword of Imagination to describe his participation in the intellectual, social, philosophical, and political contests of the twentieth century. Kirk wrote the book in the third person in order to tell the story of a young boy coming of age in the railroad yards outside of Detroit and maturing into one of the most influential political minds of his generation. Perhaps best remembered for his movement-defining book The Conservative Mind (1953), throughout his life Kirk wielded… Read More

Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, 1978. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's brown cloth in original dust jacket (not price-clipped). Sunning to spine and front panel; edgewear and rubbing. Boldly inscribed by Toledano to Karl and Therese Hess on front flyleaf: "For Karl & Therese / As always / In Friendship / Ralph de Toledano." Fine in very good dust jacket. Single-page letter addressed to Karl Hess dated "11 February 1978," signed by Toledano, with mild toning and spotting and neat fold creases, else fine.. Signed first edition of the only book of poems published by influential conservative journalist, poet, critic, commentator, and jazz enthusiast Ralph de Toledano (1916-2007). Toledano was born in Tangier, Morocco but moved to New York with his family as a child. He later attended Columbia University to study literature and philosophy, graduating in 1938. In 1940 he became editor of the Socialist Party of America's magazine, The New Leader, and was later drafted into military service… Read More

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