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Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1954. First American Edition. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Signed by H.E. Bates on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner in Paris, 1959. [vi], 217 pp. Publisher's slick navy cloth, spine lettered in white. Fine in Very Good dust jacket with rubbing, a little foxing, small closed tear to back panel. A collection of three novellas-- "The Grass God," "Dulcima," and "The Delicate Nature"-- by the prolific British author best-known for The Darling Buds of May.

St. Louis, MO: Charles F. Haanel, 1927. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Charles F. Haanel on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with gilt rubbed on spine and previous owner bookplate of George Winslow Plummer to front free endpaper. Plummer was Imperator and Supreme Magus of the Societas Rosicruciana in America from 1909 to 1944. Under his auspices the organization was given it's contemporary structure.

New York: The Master Key Institute, 1928. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, complete in seven volumes. Very Good with wear and light soiling to bindings, gilt worn, bumped corners. Former owner name scratched out and abraded at the base of each front free endpaper. Complete sets are rare.

New York: The Master Key Institute, 1919. Near Fine. Complete in seven volumes. Publisher's green leatherette binding, decorated in blind and stamped in gilt. Volumes range from Near Fine to Very Good. Light rubbing to extremities, pages tanned and several light instances of marking to text. Small owner name and date to front free endpaper in Volume I; webbing of Volume 7 is exposed at the to end of the rear inner hinge. A scarce set.

St. Louis, MO: Charles F. Haanel, 1927. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Charles F. Haanel on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a related pamphlet. Bound in publisher's original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with wear and light discoloration to spine ends, pages toned.

Graz, Austria: Pfirsich, 1975. Very Good. Oversize wrappers. Text mostly in German. Very Good with light wear and toning. A survey of the "body art" movement in the early mid 1970s, covering Vito Acconci, Trisha Brown, Arnulf Rainer, Wilfried Skreiner, the Cockettes, Bruce Nauman and many other artists, with many black-and-white photos.

Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1932. First edition. First edition. (First printing with "1.bis 5. Tausend" on copyright page.) 230, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with paper title label. In German. Near Fine with a few faint stains to back board, slight lean. An acclaimed German novel first translated into English in 2015 as Blood Brothers. From its American publisher: "Originally published in 1932 and banned by the Nazis one year later, Blood Brothers follows a gang of young boys bound together by unwritten rules and mutual loyalty. Blood Brothers is the only known novel by German social worker and journalist Ernst Haffner, of whom nearly all traces were lost during the course of World War II. Told in stark, unsparing detail, Haffner's story delves into the illicit underworld of Berlin on the eve of Hitler's rise to power, describing how these blood brothers move from one petty crime to the next, spending their nights in underground bars and makeshift hostels, struggling together to survive… Read More

London: Longmans & Company, 1887. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first issue, dated 1887 on title page and with all misprints throughout. Bound in publisher's original navy cloth with gilt lettering. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, light wear to clot and small stain to rear cover. Former owner name on front free endpaper, pages toned. Rear inner hinge and several hinges throughout are exposed. A nice copy of the classic Lost World adventure novel.

London: Longmans, Green, And Co, 1896. New and Revised Edition. Near Fine. New and revised edition. A presentation copy signed and inscribed by H. Rider Haggard to Mrs. Pitt on the half-title page. It has been convincingly suggested that the "Mrs. Pitt" to whom Haggard has inscribed others of his works to is the 19th century British children's author Sarah Pitt. Bound in publisher's deep maroon cloth stamped in silver. Near Fine with light wear to clot at extremities and several light stains, pages lightly toned with sporadic light foxing. A lovely copy.

London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1885. First American Edition. Very Good. First American edition with all errors in text present: "Bamamgwato" for "Bamangwato" on p. 10, line 14; "to let twins to live" for "to let twins live" on p. 122, line 27; and "wrod" instead of "word" on p. 307, line 29. The first edition consisted of 2,000 copies printed in Britain, where 1,500 of those were bound with ads at the rear; the remaining 500 sheets were sent to Cassell's New York office and bound in the United States without terminal ads. In publisher's original red cloth decoratively stamped in black on upper board and spine, and spine titles in gilt; folding map at frontis. Very Good with lean to binding, wear to cloth with rubbing through and fraying to corners and spine ends. Former owner name and bookplates to preliminary pages, folding map with tears and a few creases, pages toned with an occasional corner crease, front and rear inner hinge suggest glue repairs, hinges at front free end paper and… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, And Co, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, first printing with all errors present. Bound in publisher's navy blue cloth stamped in gilt. Two facing color plates, (vi), 317pp. + two pages of ads at rear. Near Fine with lean to binding and slight wear, corner clipped from half-title page, several hinges slightly exposed and a few instances of foxing. A beautiful copy of the classic Lost World adventure novel.

London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1888. Early Reprint. Very Good. Early reprint ("Sixty-third Thousand). Signed and inscribed by H. Rider Haggard on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original burgundy cloth decorated in black and gilt. Very Good. Repair to head of spine and inner hinges. Cloth at spine darkened with stamping rubbed. Corners softened. Foxing to endsheets, pages toned. Map intact, with small tear and several small spots. One of the prolific author's best-known works.

New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1910. First edition. Near Fine. First edition. (Precedes the British edition by two days.) x, 326 pp. Publisher's green ribbed cloth stamped in white and gilt. Near Fine with much less rubbing to stamping than usually found, light rubbing along bottom edge of cloth, rear hinge a bit free. A neat, clean copy of an adventure novel in the mold of the author's earlier King Solomon's Mines.

London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1885. First Edition. Good. First edition, first printing. First issue with proper textual errors: "Bamamgwato" for "Bamangwato" on p. 10, line 14; "to let twins to live" for "to let twins live" on p. 122, line 27; and "wrod" instead of "word" on p. 307, line 29, and with publisher's catalog dated 5 G. 8.85. In publisher's original red cloth decoratively stamped in black on upper board and spine, and spine titles in gilt; folding map at frontis. Good. Cloth faded at spine, a bit stained and edge worn. Lean to binding. Very subtle repair to spine, tear to map repaired. Previous owner name to front paste down and bookseller emboss to front free endpaper, foxing throughout.

Prague: Orbis, 1948. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Jan Hajsman on title page in green ink, inscribed in Czech in the year of publication to former owner. 213, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps.Very Good, wraps worn along edges, slight crease to front wrap, small tidemark to rear colophon. A history of the German occupation of Europe during WWII by a Czech journalist and resistance fighter who spent nearly six years in Buchenwald concentration camp (Sept 1939-April 1945). This work and his earlier book Buchenwald were some of the earliest writing about German concentration camps. Scarce signed.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. Near Fine/Very Good+. Inscribed "For Jim Schumock with best wishes [signed] David Halberstam May 11 1998" on front free endpaper; inscribee was a Portland, Oregon radio host and book reviewer. Black cloth lettered in red. 216 pp. Early printing. Near Fine in Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket. A novel of the Vietnam war by the late American journalist and historian.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. v, 93pp. Original blue cloth with printed paper labels. Near Fine in Very Good original dust jacket. A few spots of toning to cloth, dust-soiling to edges, a few easily-erasable pencil marks in margins. Jacket chipped along head/back panel and at tail, a little foxed, nick in spine. The author's first book, a wide-ranging lecture on technology, ethics, and science that helped inspired Huxley's novel Brave New World.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. viii, [2], 587 pp. Original black cloth and paper-covered boards, spine titled in gilt. Near Fine with remainder mark on bottom edge, light rubbing, gift inscription on front free endpaper, in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear. The bestselling novel that inspired the 1977 TV miniseries by the same name.

New York: Atheneum, 1970. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good+. First edition. (Stated "First Edition" on copyright page with no later printings indicated.) Red cloth with black lettering. Very Good with tape ghosts to boards and endpapers, rubbing to edges, slight bowing to boards, contents clean and unmarked. In Very Good+ unclipped ($5.95) dust jacket with some wear and slight curling along edges; no Caldecott medal sticker as called for. An attractive copy of one of the scarcest Caldecott Medal winners to find in its first printing.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1889. First Edition, Deluxe Large Paper Issue. Near Fine. First edition, deluxe large paper issue limited to 100 copies signed by the Frederic M. Halford, this is copy number 18. Bound in publisher's original full green morocco stamped in gilt, with top edges gilt and other edges rough cut, printed on India Paper with mounted plates. Near Fine with light scuffing to leather, light toning to spine, some foxing to plates and toning to tissue-guards, else clean and bright. A lovely copy.