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New York: Viking, 1975. First edition / First printing. Uncorrected proof. Gold printed wrappers. Fine. Pulitzer Prize Winner.
The Philadelphian by Powell, Richard - 1956
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, First Printing.. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition, First Printing; SIGNED by author, also signed & inscribed by author's daughter. Black & white tweed boards with unfaded black cloth spine, red title box on spine. Slight browning to to edges on tweed cloth portions of boards. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Signed by Richard Powell on front free endpaper; inscribed on rear free endpaper by Powell's daughter Dorothy: "For Cathy, I hope you enjoy reading my Dad's book. - Dorothy Powell Quigley." Dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped (3.95 on front inside flap); slight wear at top and bottom spine edge, slight browning at front flap fold. Author's photo on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A novel covering four generations of a Philadelphia family, beginning with an untutored Irish immigrant girl in 1857, and ending with her great grandson--a successful Philadelphia lawyer at the top of the social ladder. The book was made into a successful movie in 1959 starring Paul Newman. The book was inscribed to me when I interviewed Dorothy Powell Quigley in 2007. 5-3/4" x 8-1/2". Fiction. First Edition, First Printing; SIGNED by author, also signed & inscribed by author's daughter..
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Humboldt's Gift.
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The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius
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London: Navarre Society 1924. (Hardcover) 359pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. A signed fine binding in 3 / 4 green Morocco with marbled boards, the spine with raised bands and tooled in gilt. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, and full-page and vignette illustrations. A handsome book. Edited with introduction by F.J. Harvey Darton. Illustrations by Philip Hagreen. . Suitable as a gift. Binding by Zaehnsdorf. Translated by William Adlington. (Fiction).
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Fifth Column and four unpublished stories of the Spanish Civil War.
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New York::: Scribners,,, 1969... First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with previous owner sticker removed from the flyleaf in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. These five works grew, of course, out of Hemingway's considerable experience of the Spanish war as a correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance and as a participant in filming "The Spanish Earth." More specifically, they grew from adventures in and around besieged Madrid--particularly in the Hotel Florida and in a bar called Chicote's. The book is unified, then, in time, place, and action. It is unified even more by the dominating presence of the author, who is to be found alive on every page. That presence slants the focus, but also gives the book its sharp distinction. This is immediate, unmistakable Hemingway. This collection contains Hemingway's play "The Fifth Column", and the four stories "The Denunciation", The Butterfly and the Tank", "Night Before Battle" and "Under the Ridge". Despite his fascination…
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Descent of Man.
by BOYLE, T. Coraghessan. [T. C. Boyle].
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London: Victor Gollancz, 1980. Signed on the title page by the author. First British edition / First printing. Brown paper-covered boards. Very fine in fine dust jacket. The author's first book.
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Let The Rail Splitter Awake and Other Poems.
by NERUDA, Pablo.
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Black Tickets
by Phillips, Jayne Anne
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New York: Delacorte/Lawrence (1979).. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Pages yellowing, dust jacket has a couple of very small tears. The price is intact. This award-winning author's first book by a major publisher. "These stories of America's disenfranchised - men and women light-years away from the American dream - are quite unlike any in our literature. She's an original, and this book of hers is a crooked beauty." - Raymond Carver
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The Kidnap Murder Case: A Philo Vance Story
by S. S. Van Dine [PSEUD Willard Huntington Wright (1888-1939)]
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316+[6 ad] pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. Has the "A" on the title verso. First edition. Wright wrote as a critic and journalist until 1923, when he became ill from what was given out as overwork, but was in reality a secret drug addiction, according to John Loughery's biography Alias S.S. Van Dine. His doctor confined him to bed (supposedly because of a heart ailment, but actually because of a cocaine addiction) for more than two years. In frustration and boredom, he began collecting and studying thousands of volumes of crime and detection. In 1926 this paid off with the publication of his first S. S. Van Dine novel, The Benson Murder Case. Wright took his pseudonym from the abbreviation of "steamship" and from Van Dine, which he claimed was an old family name. Wright wrote a series of short stories for Warner Brothers film studio in the early 1930s. These stories were used as the basis for a…
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Arthur & George
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London: Jonathan Cape, 2005. First Edition. Original Cloth. As New/No Jacket as Issued. Jonathan Cape, London, 2005. Hardback. Book Condition: As New. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardback. Book in in MINT/UNREAD condition. No dustjacket, as issued. Complete with promotional bookband which is also in MINT condition. SIGNED by Julian Barnes shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Death of Jim Loney.
by WELCH, James
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New York: Harper & Row, 1979. Signed on the title page by James Welch. First edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, blue paper-covered boards. Very fine in a dust jacket with minor wear, else fine. The jacket is much more attractive than usual for this book. The scarcest of Welch's novels, especially in nice condition.
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Terra Nostra.
by FUENTES, Carlos. Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden.
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. Signed on the second blank page following the free end-paper by the author. First U.S. edition / First printing. Plum cloth spine, red paper-covered boards. Fine in near fine to very good dust jacket, with abrasion to the lower spine around the publisher's name. The author's masterpiece, and one of the most important books of the seventies.
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The Philadelphian
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Hodder & Stoughton, 1957. Hardcover. Good. 1957. First Edition Thus. 376 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
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Plexus Publishing (UK), 2006. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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The Philadelphian
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The Philadelphian
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charles scribner's. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Book Good. No dust jacket. Bookplate inside. Owner's name on front endpage and page edges. (historical fiction, pennsylvania, PA)
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Gypsies
by Greenfeld, Howard
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New York: Crown Publishers. An account of the Gypsy way of life, including its origins, history, traditions, customs, occupations, and the changes that modern living has occasioned. EX LIBRARY/USUAL MARKINGS. Profusely & WONDERFULLY illustrated w/photos, Introduction, Bibliography, Index, 111 clean, crisp & solid pp. Excellent Personal cpy/Reference! . Good. Hardcover. 1977.
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Kane & Abel
by Jeffrey Archer
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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
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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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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
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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
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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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