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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($10.00). Quarter red buckram with grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An exploration of the different methods of problem solving by comparing the detection techniques of Sherlock Holmes, Inspector Maigret, Sam Spade, Philip Marlow, and Nick and Nora Charles.
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Sleuths Inc.; Studies of Problem Solvers
by Eames, Hugh
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Scene of the Crime; A Guide to the Landscapes of British Detective Fiction
by Earwaker, Julian; Becker, Kathleen
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London: Aurum Press, 2002. First Edition. Foreword by P.D. James. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A thoroughly illustrated work representing "the first comprehensive guide to the locations and landmarks that have inspired the very best of British detective fiction.
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Murder by an Aristocrat
by Eberhart, Mignon G.
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Garden City: Crime Club / Doubleday Doran, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), rubbed at the edges, toned at the back panel, a bit of loss at the head and foot of the spine. Black buckram, bumped at the corners, with orange panels on the spine and front board. Bound with an orange top stain, reading wear, and a forward lean, clean internally. A Nurse Keate mystery, adapted into the 1936 Frank McDonald film starring Lyle Talbot, Marguerite Churchill, and Claire Dodd.
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While the Patient Slept
by Eberhart, Mignon G.
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Garden City: Crime Club / Doubleday Doran, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned and rubbed, faded at the spine, loss at the corners and edges. Black buckram with red ink lettering and design on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, toned endpapers, clean otherwise. The second Sarah Keate novel, adapted into the 1935 Ray Enright film starring Aline MacMahon and Guy Kibbee.
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Baudolino
by Eco, Umberto
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New York: Harcourt, Inc, 2002. Advance Reading Copy. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Translated by William Weaver. Signed by Eco on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($27.00). Green paper on the boards with bronze gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A work of historical fiction about Baudolino and his band's search for Prester John.
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Ganton & Co.; A Story of Chicago Commercial and Social Life
by Eddy, Arthur J.
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Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Illustrated by Thomas Fogerty. Near Fine, lacking the jacket. Black buckram, faded at the spine. Square and firmly bound, contemporary gift inscription on the front endpaper, clean otherwise.
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Robert Creeley's Poetry; A Critical Introduction
by Edelberg, Cynthia Dubin
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Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($9.50), lightly toned. Grey buckram with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Advertised on the jacket as the "first book-length analysis of the development of Creeley's style and themes.
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Nurse and Spy in the Union Army; Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battlefields
by Edmonds, S. Emma E.
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Hartford: W.S. Williams & Co, 1865. Hardcover. Good. Good. Brown cloth, mottled on the spine and with a chip to the foot, unevenly toned on the front board, soiled at the bottom edge of the back board, dulled gilt lettering on the spine. Square, front hinge a bit weak but firmly bound otherwise, gift inscription on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twelve other full-page illustrations, Edmonds' work recalls her time working in the field and penetrating the enemy lines as a spy during the first and second Bull Run, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Richmond, Antietam, and Fredericksburg.
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All Night at Mr. Stanyhurst's
by Edwards, Hugh
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Introduction by Ian Fleming. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (16s. net), lightly rubbed and toned. Dark grey buckram with gilt lettering and design on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean and a faded and dusty red top stain. A novel brought back into print by Fleming's request, "it is a tale within a tale" involving a group of friends who are joined at dinner by a sailor who tells a tale of "secret cargo from the Indies, a wreck, adventures and misfortune in Africa.
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The Circuit Rider; A Tale of the Heroic Age
by Eggleston, Edward
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New Haven: J.B. Ford & Company, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good. Green buckram with black ink and gilt lettering and designs, generally rubbed and bumped at the corners and edges, a few spots worn to the boards. Bound with a forward lean and some reading wear, hinges weak but not cracked, gift inscription on the endpaper.
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The Wood and the Graver; The Work of Fritz Eichenberg
by Eichenberg, Fritz
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Barre: Imprint Society, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Introduction by Alan Fern. Limited to 500 copies with an original signed wood engraving by Eichenberg. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase, some rubbing and fading. Quarter red leather with grey cloth on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A near career-spanning account of Eichenberg's work written by the man himself, profusely illustrated with his woodcuts.
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The Longest Night; A Military History of the Civil War
by Eicher, David J.
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Foreword by James M. McPherson. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($40.00), lightly bumped at the edges. Quarter brown paper with tan paper on the boards, bumped at the edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A strictly military history of the American Civil War, covering "hundreds of engagements on land and sea, and along rivers.
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Fathers and Daughters; Portraits in Fiction
by Eicher, Terry; Geller, Jesse D.
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New York: New American Library, 1990. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Uncorrected Proof. About Fine. Orange wraps with a bit of toning. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. This anthology collects stories from the likes of Raymond Carver, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Budd Schulberg, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, R.K. Narayan, John O'Hara, Muriel Spark, among others.
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The Evolution of Physics; The Growth of IDeas from Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta
by Einstein, Albert; Infeld, Leopold
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. About Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50 on the back flap), lightly rubbed at the edges, deep creases through the spine and middle of the entire length. Blue buckram, bumped at the corners, gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a blue top stain, toned endpapers, clean otherwise. A layman's explanation of Einstein's theory of relativity, "an easily understood but authoritative account of the growth of ideas in physical science from the earliest concepts to the more abstruse theories of modern times.
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Ideas and Opinions
by Einstein, Albert
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New York: Wings Books. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Translated by Sonja Bargmann. Later Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), lightly rubbed and bumped at the edges. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Advertised as "the definitive collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings.
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Walt Disney Hollywood's Dark Prince
by Eliot, Marc
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New York: Birch Lane Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Very Good in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($21.95). Quarter brown cloth with orange paper on the boards. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, some dog-earred pages, clean otherwise. Eliot's critical biography that discusses Disney's connection to Hoover's FBI as well as his phobic behaviors and psychosexual conflicts.
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For Lancelot Andrewes; Essays on Style and Order
by Eliot, T.S.
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Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), chipped at the top edge, with the original glassine cover over the jacket. Purple cloth, faded at the head and foot to match the chips in the jacket, with silver gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a faded top stain, clean internally. Eliot's literary criticism that "discusses broadly such controversial figures as Andrewes, Machiavelli, Baudelaire, Thomas Middleton, and Richard Crashaw.
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Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry
by Eliot, T.S.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, chipped at the edges. Purple paper on the boards, toned at the spine and lightly rubbed at the bottom edge, with gilt lettering on the front. Square, bound with some reading wear, a few spots of foxing, generally clean. This was originally published annnymously but later attributed to Eliot. At the back, Pound has added a three-page "Bibliography of Books and Partial Bibliography of Notable Critical Articles.
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Four Quartets
by Eliot, T.S.
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London: Faber and Faber, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped (6s. net), lightly rubbed and toned, some spots of soiling. Tan cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a backward lean, foxed at the endpapers, former owner's stamp on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. A collection of four of Eliot's poems written during World War II, "Burnt Notice," "East Coker," "The Dry Salvages," and "Little Gidding.
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Selected Essays
by Eliot, T.S.
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. New Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($4.75), generally rubbed and lightly soiled, chips at the top edge. Black cloth, rubbed at the bottom edge, pushed at the top-right corner. Square, bound with some reading wear, yellow top stain, some light marginalia. Eliot's own selection of what he deems his best prose since 1917. This new edition features four new essays: "In Memoriam," Religion and Literature," "Modern Education and the Classics," and "The Pensees of Pascal.
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