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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Color Plates, B/W Illustrations. (57) Pp. Light Blue Cloth, Lettered In White, Grey Background, Red And Black Illustration. 12 3/4 X 9 1/2". First (And Only) Printing. A Clean, Bright Example, Pages Immaculate And Square, Endpapers Slightly Age-Toned, Covers With Light Rubbing At Corners, No Fraying, Hinges Tight, Some Rubbing To Cover Lettering, Background, And Illustration With Small Losses (See Photo). No Names Or Marks Or Stains.
[SIGNED WITH DRAWING] WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. 25th Anniversary Limited Edition by SENDAK, Maurice - 1988: Signed, Limited, with an original drawing of Max
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[SIGNED WITH DRAWING] WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. 25th Anniversary Limited Edition: Signed, Limited, with an original drawing of Max
by SENDAK, Maurice
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Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. [New York]: Harper & Row, [1988]. 25th Anniversary Limited Edition; oblong quarto. Unpaginated [40] pp.
With an original pen & ink drawing of MAX in 'Wild Thing' garb, signed and dated, Sept. 1988; approx. 6 x 5 inches; 151 x 126 mm.
Publisher's full blue morocco, decorative end-papers, all edges gilt. Housed in publisher's felt-lined, buckram clamshell case with color plate on front panel; inside panel has a printed limitation label numbered "214." VG. Minimal wear to case.
With an original pen & ink drawing of MAX in 'Wild Thing' garb, signed and dated, Sept. 1988; approx. 6 x 5 inches; 151 x 126 mm.
Publisher's full blue morocco, decorative end-papers, all edges gilt. Housed in publisher's felt-lined, buckram clamshell case with color plate on front panel; inside panel has a printed limitation label numbered "214." VG. Minimal wear to case.
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The Clan Of Munes
by Waugh, Frederick J.
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La Chasse de Kaa
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Paris: Javal and Bordeaux, 1930. Limited Edition. JOUVE, Paul. Illustrated by one of the leading painters in France, this superb work brings Kipling's classic Jungle Book story into the realm of fine 20th century French publishing. Limited edition of 125 copies, bound in snakeskin-style folding case, protected by matching slipcase (some wear), 340 mm x 265 mm, 130 unbound pages as issued, 21 plates, printed on imperial Japan paper, an excellent copy.
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The Snowy Day
by Keats, Jack Ezra
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New York: Viking Press, 1963. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page - " For Dana Ericson - best wishes Ezra Jack Keats". Stated Second printing February, 1963, with Caldecott Award medal front panel, $3.00 price with Caldecott mention front flap and lovely snowflake decorated end papers. Near Fine, slight bow to front board, in a Near Fine dust jacket, hint of a crease and trace of wear at head of spine. SIGNED copies of this groundbreaking and award winning children's book are RARE in any printing, and particularly so in such lovely condition. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Second Printing. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Oblong 8vo.
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Typed Letter Signed by Beginner Books Author P.D. Eastman, Discusses Dr. Seuss, etc.
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P.D. Eastman, 1975. First Edition. Unknown. Very Good. A simply outstanding typed letter signed by noted children's author and illustrator P.D. Eastman discussing his career, influences, Dr. Seusss, Random House, his work, children, etc., etc., on onionskin paper, 2 pages (on a single sheet) dated July 10, 1975, signed in pencil with some pencil corrections and additions. Includes original mailing envelope.
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Insight: A Study of Human Understanding [Signed]
by Lonergan, Bernard
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London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1958. Revised edition. Octavo. Original cloth boards and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Foxing and toning to endpapers and pastedowns; foxing, spotting, and rubbing to dust jacket with edgewear, particularly at jacket folds and along head and foot; sunning to spine; small ink inscription to front pastedown; general wear to dust jacket. Signed by Bernard Lonergan on the front free endpaper with message: "Bernard Lonergan S.J. / The fundamental principle is [...] conversion / eg. P. xxii, f. 'The hard fact is...'" Very good in good-plus dust jacket. Scarce with Lonergan's signature and personal annotation.. Bernard Lonergan's (1904-1984) masterpiece, Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, with Lonergan's rare personal signature and inscription to front free endpaper. Lonergan's Insight was born out of the success of a 1945 lecture that he gave at the Thomas More Institute in Montreal entitled "Thought and Reality." In the following years he wrote Insight in order to…
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The Clan Of Munes
by Waugh, Frederick J.
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Color Plates, B/W Illustrations. (57) Pp. Light Blue Cloth, Lettered In White, Grey Background, Red And Black Illustration. 12 3/4 X 9 1/2". First (And Only) Printing. A Clean, Bright Example, Pages Immaculate And Square, Endpapers Slightly Age-Toned, Covers With Light Rubbing At Corners, No Fraying, Hinges Tight, Some Rubbing To Cover Lettering, Background, And Illustration With Small Losses (See Photo). No Names Or Marks Or Stains.
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La Chasse de Kaa
by KIPLING, Rudyard
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Paris: Javal and Bordeaux, 1930. Limited Edition. JOUVE, Paul. Illustrated by one of the leading painters in France, this superb work brings Kipling's classic Jungle Book story into the realm of fine 20th century French publishing. Limited edition of 125 copies, bound in snakeskin-style folding case, protected by matching slipcase (some wear), 340 mm x 265 mm, 130 unbound pages as issued, 21 plates, printed on imperial Japan paper, an excellent copy.
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The Snowy Day
by Keats, Jack Ezra
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New York: Viking Press, 1963. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page - " For Dana Ericson - best wishes Ezra Jack Keats". Stated Second printing February, 1963, with Caldecott Award medal front panel, $3.00 price with Caldecott mention front flap and lovely snowflake decorated end papers. Near Fine, slight bow to front board, in a Near Fine dust jacket, hint of a crease and trace of wear at head of spine. SIGNED copies of this groundbreaking and award winning children's book are RARE in any printing, and particularly so in such lovely condition. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Second Printing. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Oblong 8vo.
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Typed Letter Signed by Beginner Books Author P.D. Eastman, Discusses Dr. Seuss, etc.
by Eastman, P.D.
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P.D. Eastman, 1975. First Edition. Unknown. Very Good. A simply outstanding typed letter signed by noted children's author and illustrator P.D. Eastman discussing his career, influences, Dr. Seusss, Random House, his work, children, etc., etc., on onionskin paper, 2 pages (on a single sheet) dated July 10, 1975, signed in pencil with some pencil corrections and additions. Includes original mailing envelope.
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Insight: A Study of Human Understanding [Signed]
by Lonergan, Bernard
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London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1958. Revised edition. Octavo. Original cloth boards and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Foxing and toning to endpapers and pastedowns; foxing, spotting, and rubbing to dust jacket with edgewear, particularly at jacket folds and along head and foot; sunning to spine; small ink inscription to front pastedown; general wear to dust jacket. Signed by Bernard Lonergan on the front free endpaper with message: "Bernard Lonergan S.J. / The fundamental principle is [...] conversion / eg. P. xxii, f. 'The hard fact is...'" Very good in good-plus dust jacket. Scarce with Lonergan's signature and personal annotation.. Bernard Lonergan's (1904-1984) masterpiece, Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, with Lonergan's rare personal signature and inscription to front free endpaper. Lonergan's Insight was born out of the success of a 1945 lecture that he gave at the Thomas More Institute in Montreal entitled "Thought and Reality." In the following years he wrote Insight in order to…
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[Motorized Advertising Display]: I Saw Esau
by SENDAK, Maurice
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[Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 1992. Unbound. Near Fine. Advertising display. Approximately 14"x 18¼" x 5". A stiff cardboard cutout with attached motor and battery compartment on rear. Slightly rubbed at the edges with a couple tiny spots on the rear and a bit of oxidation to the rear motor arm. When batteries are inserted the two characters on the front of the display move up and down on a seesaw. An uncommon and lovely Sendak promotional item.
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Under Fire: An American Story
by North, Oliver L
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Harpercollins, 1991. First edition, as stated, first printing . Hardcover. Fine/near fine. r. 446 pp. This is a rare first edition copy signed by both Oliver North and William Novak. North's inscription, "Margo and Sam, all the best," appears in blue ink on the half title page with North's signature and the date "3 Nov 91" and Novak's signature in black ink. Dust jacket slightly wrinkled at top of spine. Free USPS tracking with every US order. Ships from MA.
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A New History of Japanese Cinema: A Century of Narrative Film
by Standish, Isolde
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New York: Continuum, 2006. 8vo size trade paperback with black and white photo illustrated cover; 414 pages From back: "Cinema, which first arrived in Japan in 1896 with the Kinetoscope prototype, came at the very time that Japan was transforming its economic base and society into that of a major international power. The first cinema, the Asakusa Denikikan, was opened in Tokyo in 1903 and within 13 years 300 cinemas had sprung up throughout the country... (The author) focuses on the historical development of Japanese film, illustrated by a series of typical Japanese film posters. She details an industry and an art form shaped by the competing and merging forces of traditional culture and of economic and technological innovation." Edgewear, creases to bottom and bottom and top corners of front cover, soil on bottom and light soil to outside pages. We note pencilled underlining on at least 29 pages and pencilled marginalia on at least three pages and four creased page corners. Quotes…
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Old Bones
by Elkins, Aaron J
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New York, NY, U. S. A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. New York, NY, U. S. A.: Mysterious Press, 1987. Fine in Near Fine jacket Signed by Author A Gideon Oliver Mystery, SIGNED on title pg. Edgar Award winner best mystery npc 197pp. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition
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Hurrah for My New Free Country (INSCRIBED BY EDITORS) (FIRST EDITION)
by Leon Charles Fouquet
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1990 (INSCRIBED BY THE EDITORS) "Best wishes to Frances McLaughlin fellow member of the writers guild" Rosalie Davis Mathilde Ruggles (Collette) Hurrah for My New Free Country covers a wide span of events, from the settlement of Kansas in the late 1860s (which included Indian wars and the near-extermination of the buffalo), to the Oklahoma land rush, to the peaceful growth of the area around Chandler, Oklahoma, in the early 1900s." Book: clean and unmarked - pages are crisp/white DJ: minimal shelfwear - colors are vibrant
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Starting With Flags : Forty-Three Drawings
by Parker, Kingsley
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New York: Private Printing. Fine with no dust jacket. 1976. Limited Signed Edition. Softcover. The artist's abstract and quite varied series of 43 drawings of flags, all printed monochrome on the recto of pages. Kingsley Parker has been exhibiting and represented by galleries since the mid-1970s and has a work in the collection of the Museum Of Modern Art in New York, NY. The artist is quite active with new works. Signed in ink "K. Parker/1976 ©" in the front matter where Parker explains his motivation for drawing the series of abstract flags. Copy 158 of a limited edition of 600, numbered in the colophon. Approximately 44 pages, unpaginated. Printed on fine, machine-made paper in brown wraps. The title and a flag drawing are framed on the front cover. In absolutely clean, Fine condition. ; Drawings; Square 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 44 pages; Signed by Artist .
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Dead in Dixie
by Charlaine Harris
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New York: Science Fiction Book Club, 2003. Z2 - A Science Fiction Book Club Omnibus Edition hardcover book SIGNED by the Charlaine Harris in as new condition in as new dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dead Until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead. 8.5"x5.75", 612 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book Club (BCE/BOMC).
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Songs From Appledore
by Oscar Laighton
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RARE. Collectible: 1916. Signed by the author. Cambridge MA: University Press. Very Good. Hardcover. Light soil to green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped title, author's name, and design. A bright solid, book - 27 pages; Inside covers are sunned. Pages clean and bright. Frontspiece. "View from Mrs. Thaxter's Garden Gate. 29 illustrations. Small book: 7" x 5"
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Grant Wood and Marvin Cone : Artists of an Era
by Hazel E. Brown
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Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Flat signed and dated by author on FFEP and Inscribed by author to a friend on half-title page. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine except for author's inscription and signature. Spine straight and tight. Jacket shows light rubbing, light chipping at spine head, and light reading wear to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xi + 150 pages. illus. A reflection of the relationships of two artists -- Grant Wood (1891-1942) and Marvin Cone (1891-1965) -- with the community of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A loving biography by a woman who knew them both. Laid-in are two letters to the editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette; one from Woods' sister, and another from a friend of Woods and the author.
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The Lace Reader
by Barry, Brunonia
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- 097915930X
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True FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated). "Flap Jacket Press trade paperback edition / First Printing July 2007" on copyright page. This small run printing precedes the hardback edition. NEW. Cover Clean, no wear, no tears, no spine creases, protected in Brodart cover. Text Clean, no marks. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. Books are Carefully Packed in a Box and Shipped Daily with Delivery Confirmation from Dry, Smoke-Free shop. Complete Satisfaction Guaranteed. B103
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I Curse the River of Time (Signed, Limited UK Edition)
by Petterson, Per
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SIGNED, FIRST UK LIMITED EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (stated, complete number line to 1) Harvill Secker, London, 2010. NEW, Unread. Author's Signature, no inscription, on a bookplate attached to the first chapter page. Note on bookplate reads "This edition of I Curse the River of Time, signed by the author, is limited to 1,000 copies". Dust Jacket Bright in Brodart protective cover, Clean, no wear, no tears, not price clipped (£12.99). Text Clean, no marks. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. Not book club. Fast shipping from Dry, Smoke-Free home. Email Confirmation with Tracking Number. International ships Air Mail.
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