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10201 |
Milsone, Leonard M. and Edelson, Richard L., editors ENDOCRINE, METABOLIC AND IMMUNOLOGIC FUNCTIONS OF KERATINOCYCTES
New York, New York: The New York Academy of Sciences, 1988. First edition. Two long creases to the front cover, some mild shelfwear, else a very good copy in illustrated wraps.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: Volume 548. Papers presented at a conference held by the New York Academy of Sciences in New York City, Feb. 17-19, 1988. 366 pages; subject index and an index of contributors. Figures and tables.
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10202 |
Mims, Edwin THE ADVANCING SOUTH: Stories of Progress and Reaction
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. Corrected fifth edition. Hardcover. Upper corner tips lightly bumped, else a very good plus copy in maroon ribbed cloth, titles in gilt (slightly tarnished); lacking the dust jacket.
A series of essays related to the liberal movement in the South that fought against a conservatism that had impeded Southern Progress. This copy has been SIGNED, and dated at the University of Southern California by the author to the title-page.
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10203 |
Min, Anchee BECOMING MADAME MAO
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. 0618004076 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Minor paper-flaw (nick) to the upper edge of the front pastedown, else near fine in red cloth over red boards with gilt titles to the spine; in a fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author to the title-page.
The author draws from historical facts and her own past experiences in this fictionalized account of the ambitious, vindictive and cruel Madame Mao. Early in life, Min was recruited for Madame Mao's Shanghai film studio from a Chinese labor collective.
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10204 |
Min, Anchee WILD GINGER
Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002. 0618068864 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
SIGNED by the author to the title-page. Like her character Wild Ginger, Min ardently followed the tenets of Maoism to save her spirit and joined the Red Guards to avoid being attacked.
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10205 |
Mina, Denise SLIP OF THE KNIFE
New York/Boston/London: Little, Brown and Company, (2008). 031601558X First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
The Edgar-finalist's third thriller to feature Paddy Meehan finds the Glaswegian journalist embroiled in a politically charged and personal story. When the corpse of Meehan's ex-lover turns up it, everything points to an IRA execution.
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10208 |
Miner, Earl, edited, with an introduction by ILLUSTRIOUS EVIDENCE: Approaches to English Literature of the Early Seventeenth Century
Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1975. 0520027825 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very small bookplate of noted bibliographer, librarian, and author Lawrence Clark Powell to pastedown, a few tiny areas of stain to preliminaries, else fine, in tan-grey cloth stamped in bright blue; no dust jacket, as issued.
Essays by Frank L. Huntley, James Thorpe, Barbara K. Lewalski, Robert M. Adams, Louis L. Martz, Stanley E. Fish. 135 pages, including index.
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10209 |
Miner, Roy Waldo, editor CHROMATOGRAPHY
New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1948. First edition. Trade Paperback. Fine in wraps.
Trade paperback. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences: Volume XLIX, Article 2. Pages 141-326; this series of papers was presented at the Conference on Chromatography in 1946.
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10210 |
Mingay, G.E. THE TRANSFORMATION OF BRITAIN 1830-1939
London, Boston and Henley: Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1986). 071009762X First edition. the fifth volume in the Making of Britain series. Hardcover. Fine in a photo-pictorial dust jacket. 236 pages, eighty-two b&w photographs, nine b&w figures, further reading list, and an index.
A history of Britain from the growth of cities in the mid-19th century to the start of World War II, written from an archaeologist's perspective, with an emphasis on material culture, or what was produced and what it reveals about English society.
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10211 |
Minghella, Anthony COLD MOUNTAIN: A Screenplay
New York: Miramax Books, (2003). 1401359426 First edition, first printing: a trade paperback original. Trade Paperback. Fine in color photo-pictorial wraps. This copy SIGNED by screenwriter/director Minghella to the half-title page.
Minghella's adaptation of Charles Frazier's National Book Award-winning novel starred Nicole Kidman, Jude Law and Renee Zellweger. Zellweger won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
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10212 |
Minkoff, G. J. FROZEN FREE RADICALS
New York: Interscience Publishers Inc., 1960. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine book in very good dust jacket that is lightly rubbed and shelfworn.
148 pages, references, index. Color photographic frontispiece, text figures and equations.
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10213 |
Minton, H. Garland BLIND MAN'S BUFF
London: Paul Elek, (1974). 0236176242 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, as-new, in a fine, as-new, dust jacket.
A personal account of a man who suddenly became blind, with details on the different manners in which he was treated and the adjustments he had to make in the 1960s.
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10214 |
Mirbeau, Octave THE GARDEN OF EVIL (THE TORTURE GARDEN)
London: David Bruce & Watson, (1973). 0851270115 First edition thus: translation by Raymond Rudorff. Hardcover. Very mild crimping at spine ends, else fine, in black boards; in very nearly fine, illustrated dust jacket that shows some minor edgewear.
Mirbeau's once scandalous tale of a young Frenchman's affair with a beautiful, exotic and cruel girl, the female personification of the Marquis de Sade. Originally published in French in 1899. Filmed in 1976.
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10215 |
Mirsky, Prince D.S. CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN LITERATURE, 1881-1925
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1926. First edition, first printing. 372 pages, including index, plus colophon. Hardcover. Owner's discreetly penned name to endsheet, else fine, fresh, virtually as-new, in green cloth with gilt lettering, pale green top-edge tint; in a lightly worn, age-darkened, very good plus dust jacket, with vertical crease to spine panel.
Follow-up to the Russian political and literary historian's landmark and still standard study, A HISTORY OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE: From its Beginnings to 1900. Mirsky's view of Chekhov as "lowbrow" is seen by some critics as a peculiar blind spot.
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10216 |
Mirvis, Tova THE OUTSIDE WORLD
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2004. 1400041619 First edition, first printing: Advance Reading Copy. Proof. Fine in color illustrated wraps.
A comic portrait of two Orthodox Jewish families put in turmoil by the marriage of their children.
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10217 |
Mischakoff, Anne KHANDOSHKIN AND THE BEGINNING OF RUSSIAN STRING MUSIC
Ann Arbor, Michigan: UMI Research Press, (1983). 0835714284 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, as-new, in tan illustrated cloth; no dust jacket, as issued.
Octavo. 197 pages; appendices, notes, bibliography, and an index. 136 music examples. Russian Music Studies, No. 9.
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10218 |
Miscione, Lisa TWICE
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, (2004). 0312314051 First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A new book! SIGNED by the author at an event in our shop.
Third outing for PI Lydia Strong. Miscione's previous books, ANGEL FIRE and THE DARKNESS GATHERS inspired enthusiastic praise. "Flat-out terrific!"--Margaret Coel. "One of my favorite new characters, by one of my favorite new writers."--Lee Child.
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10219 |
Mishima, Yukio and Bownas, Geoffrey, edited by NEW WRITING IN JAPAN
(Middlesex, England): Penguin Books, (1972). 0140034269 First edition, first printing: a paperback original. Mass market paperback. Pages uniformly tanned, a hint of wear to the covers, else a fine, unread copy in illustrated wraps, with detail of ''Ama-no-Hashidate'' by Kawabata Ryuhsi.
Scarce anthology of poetry and short stories by eighteen Japanese writers, including Mishima, Kobo Abe, Oe Kenzaburo, Yoshioka Minoru, Anzai Hitoshi, Tamura Ryuichi, more. 249 pages, including capsule biographies of the writers.
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10220 |
Mistry, Rohinton SWIMMING LESSONS And Other Stories from Firozsha Baag
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. 0395498627 First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Fine in red-foil stamped blue cloht over blue boards; in an illustrated dust jacket.
"The crowded, throbbing life of India is brilliantly captured in this series of stories about some of the characters who live in a Bombay apartment block."--London Sunday Times. "It's hard to believe this is Mistry's first book."--Albert Manguel.
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10221 |
Mitchell, Adrian THE APEMAN COMETH: Poems by Adrian Mitchell (and Apeman Mudgeon)
London: Jonathan Cape, (1975). 0224011316 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, in black boards with gilt spine titling; in a lightly age-toned photo-pictorial dust jacket.
Collection by the English poet, playwright, novelist, children's author, librettist and lyricist, who has long been associated with the National Theatre and the RSC. This copy inscribed and SIGNED by the author with an original doodle of an elephant.
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10222 |
Mitchell, Albert HERE'S THE ANSWER
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, (1946). First edition. Hardcover. Lower edges slightly bumped, else very good in a price-clipped and slightly shelfworn dust jacket with short edge tears, a lightly faded spine and taped edge reinforcing on the verso.
The author was "The Answer Man" for a radio program in New York. It is from the public response to this program that the questions in this book are derived.
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10224 |
Mitchell, Edwin Valentine IT'S AN OLD PENNSYLVANIA CUSTOM
New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., (1947). First edition. Hardcover. Bumped corners, light offsetting to endsheets, a small stain to page 10, else a near fine copy in oatmeal cloth with green illustration of pilgrims to front cover; in illustrated dust jacket with age-toning to spine, mild corner crease to front panel.
A volume in the American Customs series. Pennsylvania and its many varieties of people, traditions, and superstitions are described in this combination history lesson and travel guide, including the Amish, Mennonites, Quakers, and Dunkers.
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10225 |
Mitchell, Edwin Valentine IT'S AN OLD CAPE COD CUSTOM
New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., (1949). First edition. Hardcover. Some minor staining to lower edges of the cover, else a near fine copy in grey cloth with brown illustration of a whale to the front cover; in a near fine illustrated dust jacket.
A volume in the American Customs Series. Mitchell describes the Cape Cod region, which Thoreau called, "the bare and bended arm of Massachusetts," with the sea, the salt air, the dunes, the part-time residents, and the traditions.
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10227 |
Mitchell, James DEAD ERNEST
New York: Henry Holt, (1986). 0805004637 First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
"James Mitchell's latest is another crackling tale, witty as always and spiced with a tropical tie...A first-rate thriller." --Daily Post. By the author of DYING DAY.
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10228 |
Mitchell, James; Woodward, Edward RED FILE FOR CALLAN (A MAGNUM FOR SCHNEIDER)
(London): Corgi Books/Transworld Publishers Ltd, (1971). First edition thus: a paperback. This copy SIGNED by both the author, James Mitchell, and the star of the television show, Edward Woodward. Pages and covers lightly age-toned, else a fine, bright, beautiful, unread copy in color photo-pictorial wraps with photograph of Edward Woodward as Callan in the U.K. television series.
A MAGNUM FOR SCHNEIDER was first shown as an episode of the anthology series ARMCHAIR THEATRE; retitled CALLAN, it ran on Thames Television from 1967 to 1973, with Woodward in the title-role. This is a pb edition of Mitchell's novel based on the show.
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10229 |
Mitchell, John H. WRITING FOR TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS
New York: John Wiley & Sons, (1968). Third Printing. Hardcover. Lower corner tips lightly bumped otherwise near fine in dust jacket.
Style guides and sample articles are used to demonstrate techniques in writing for professional journals serving both the novice and the experienced writer. 405 pages including an index.
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10230 |
Mitchell, Joseph JOE GOULD'S SECRET
New York: The Viking Press, (1965). First edition. Hardcover. Rear endpaper excised, page edges somewhat soiled with one corner creased from folding, corner tips lightly bumped, else a very good copy; in a worn and rubbed dust jacket with tiny edge tears and attending creases.
This book consists of two views of the same man, Joe Gould, both written as Profiles for THE NEW YORKER, one in 1942 and the second in 1964; reworked by the author to form a single brillantly conceived portrait. Source of the recent film adaptation.
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10232 |
Mitchell, Michele THE LATEST BOMBSHELL
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (2003). 0805073213 First edition: Review copy, with publisher's materials laid in. Hardcover. Spine edges mildly crimped, else near fine in a like, photo-pictorial dust jacket.
Of this former political anchor's debut novel, Laura Zigman writes: "Denizens of Washington D.C. and small towns everywhere will recognize this cast of characters from the feisty heroine to the friends and fiends that surround her. A terrific read!"
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10233 |
Mitchell, Reid THE VACANT CHAIR: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. 0195078934 Reprint. Hardcover. Fine in dust jacket. Jacket design and inset photograph by Pat Burton. 201 pages, frontispiece illustration, twenty-six b&w plates, notes, and an index. Small octavo.
The author draws on letters, diaries, and memoirs of soldiers to describe the experience of soldiers from the North during the Civil War.
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10234 |
Mitchell, Sally THE FALLEN ANGEL: Chastity, Class and Women's Reading 1835-1880
Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, (1981). 0879721553 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in red linen with titles stamped in white to the front cover and spine; in a fine dust jacket. Octavo. 223 pages; bibliography; The authors' synopses; and index.
A study of the unchaste woman in fiction that also examines the ideas about how women were defined, how a woman was viewed as physically changed when not a virgin, woman's nature, her role, her relationship to man, to society, and to herself.
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10235 |
Mitgang, Herbert DANGEROUS DOSSIERS: Exposing the Secret War Against America's Greatest Authors
New York: Donald I. Fine, Inc., (1988). 1556110774 First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a photo-pictorial dust jacket, with very light tanning to the edges. Jacket designed by Robert Aulicino. 331 pages, fifty illustrations, evidence and readings, index.
Mitgang, cultural correspondent for THE NEW YORK TIMES, reveals the fifty-year espionage campaign waged by the C.I.A., F.B.I., and other intelligence agencies against America's most prominent authors, including Hemingway, Steinbeck, and Faulkner.
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10236 |
Mixon, Laura J. PROXIES
New York: Tor/A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (1998). 0312854676 First edition: Review copy, with materials laid in. Hardcover. Very mild crimping to the spine ends (production flaw), thus near fine; in an illustrated dust jacket.
The second novel from the author of the highly praised GLASS HOUSES. Set in a plausible, technological future, this is the story of one woman's invention, the ability to project one's consciousness, gone terribly awry.
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10237 |
Miyabe, Miyabe SHADOW FAMILY
Tokyo/New York/London: Kodansha International, (2004). 4770030029 First U.S. edition, first printing: Advance Reading copy. Proof. Fine in color illustrated wraps. Translated from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter.
A mystery focusing on the murky world of internet chat rooms, populated by all types of people attracted by the possibility of being whoever they wanted to be. The award-winning Miyabe, author of over 35 novels, is a prominent Japanese mystery writer.
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10238 |
Mo, Timothy THE MONKEY KING
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., (1986). 0688061893 First edition thus. Hardcover. Near fine in a lightly age-toned dust jacket.
"A comic richness of astonishing maturity."--The London Times. "Splendid and highly entertaining...A genuine writer."--Books and Bookmen. Mo's impressive debut, followed by SOUR SWEET, AN INSULAR POSSESSION and REDUNDANCY OF COURAGE.
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10240 |
Modesitt, L.E., Jr. SHADOWSINGER
New York: Tor/A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (2002). 0765303582 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, in a fine illustrated dust jacket with wraparound artwork by Darrell K. Sweet.
"This fifth and last novel in the Spellsong Cycle is by far one of the best sword and sorcery novels of the new millennium."--Harriet Klausner.
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10241 |
Modesitt, L.E., Jr. MAGE-GUARD OF HAMOR
New York: Tor/A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (2008). 0765319276 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket illustrated by Darrell K. Sweet. New from the publisher!
The fourteenth novel in the Saga of Recluse and the second of two volumes set mostly on the continent of Hamor, far across the sea from Recluce, where the story began. The tale of how Rahl, a mage, gains both more knowledge and power.
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10242 |
Modesitt, L.E., Jr. THE ETHOS EFFECT
New York: TOR / A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (2003). 0765308029 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Sequel to THE PARAFAITH WAR, set two-centuries later and intended to be read independently.
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10243 |
Modesitt, L.E., Jr. THE SHADOW SORCERESS
New York: Tor/A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (2001). 031287877X First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket illustrated by Darrell K. Sweet.
The fourth book in the Spellsong Cycle by the author of THE SOPRANO SORCERESS. The beginning of a new trilogy shifts its focus to Secca, now a young Sorceress who is thrust into power when her mentor is killed.
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10244 |
Modesitt, L.E., Jr. THE OCTAGONAL RAVEN
New York: Tor / A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (2001). 031287720X First edition: Review copy, with materials laid in. Hardcover. Fine in an illustrated dust jacket with artwork by David Seeley.
Standalone SF adventure from the author of the RECLUSE fantasy saga.
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10245 |
Modesitt, L.E., Jr. GRAVITY DREAMS
New York: Tor / A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (1999). 031286826X First edition, first printing: Review copy, with publisher's materials laid in. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
"The transformation of a young man from an agrarian Luddite to a physiologically enhanced star pilot provides the plot for Modesitt's latest, a far-future SF adventure."--PW.
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10246 |
Modesitt, L.E., Jr. DARKSONG RISING: Book Three of The Spellsong Cycle
New York: TOR / A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (1999). 0312868227 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
In the third volume in the saga where music is a source of magic, a bereaved voice teacher from Iowa becomes a mighty ruler. Anna Marshall is now regent of the fantastic realm of Defalk and must gather her loyal followers to defend against rivals.
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10248 |
Moeller, Philip SOPHIE: A Comedy
New York: Alfred A Knopf, (1919). B00085OYZE First edition, first printing. With a prologue for the reader by Carl Van Vechten. Hardcover. Mild curl to boards, some spotting to top page edges, very light wear to edges, mild soiling to rear cover; thus very good plus; in a near fine printed dust jacket with some darkening to spine panel, light wear to edges.
Depicts one night in the life of 18 century French actress and diva Sophie Arnould, one of the wittiest and most notorious women of her age. Moeller wrote a number of successful Broadway plays and was also a notable director of O'Neill and others.
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10249 |
Moffat, Gwen DYING FOR LOVE
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, (2005). 9786715030 First U.S. edition, first printing: Review copy, with materials laid in. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Culchet is everyone's idea of the idyllic Lake District village--but when two deaths occur within a short space of time, both too sudden and unusual to be deemed accidents--the village erupts in panic.
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10251 |
Moffat, Gwen OVER THE SEA TO DEATH
New York: Scribner's, (1976). 0684148080 First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine copy in a lightly age-toned dust jacket.
A Miss Pink crime novel by the author of MISS PINK AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
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10252 |
Moffat, Gwen STONE HAWK
New York: St. Martin's, (1989). First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
A Miss Pink mystery. Review copy with materials laid in.
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10253 |
Moffat, Gwen RAGE
New York: St. Martin's, (1990). First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
A Miss Pink mystery. Review copy with materials laid in.
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10254 |
Moffett, Judith PENNTERRA
New York: Congdon & Weed, (1987). 0865531897 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Textblock age-toned, as expected, else fine; in a near fine, illustrated dust jacket with mild age-toning, and uniform fading to the spine and rear panel.
"Sf novel, a first novel, in the "Isaac Asimov Presents" series. Quakers have settled an alien planet, and fit in with the strange natives. New high-tech settlers upset the balance, and things begin to happen."--Locus.
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10255 |
Moffett, Judith THE RAGGED WORLD: A Novel of the Hefn on Earth
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1991). 0312054998 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. A few tiny areas of stain to upper page edges, else near fine, in blue boards with silver spine titling; in a near fine, faintly age-toned, very lightly edge-worn illustrated dust jacket.
"A brave book, exhilarating and harrowing, a journey to the depths and heights of experience....a triumph."--Michael Swanwick. "One of the best new writers to enter science fiction in many years."--Gardner R. Dozois.
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10256 |
Moffett, Judith TIME, LIKE AN EVER-ROLLING STREAM: A Sequel to The Ragged World
New York: St. Martin's Press, (1992). 0312083238 First edition. Hardcover. Tiny dot of pale stain to upper page edges, else fine in a fine dust jacket with artwork by Harlan Hubbard.
"Moffet brings to life the strangeness that is at the core of what we love about SF. Her tales of the Hefn...are destined to become classics of alien encounter SF."--Terry Bisson. Sequel to the author's highly praised THE RAGGED WORLD.
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10257 |
Molesworth, Mrs. THE BOLTED DOOR And Other Stories
London & Edinburgh: W. & R. Chambers Ltd., [1906]. First edition. Blue cloth lettered in gilt, with illustration in dark blue, black and gilt to front cover, spine. 239 pages, a leaf of ads to rear. Hardcover. Very good only: shaken, spine slant, wear, abrasion, rubbing, dots of stain to covers, foxing to pages and page edges, owner's inscription to a flyleaf, inked ''1906'' to title-page, 1913 Sunday School Prize bookplate to pastedown. Tissue-guarded frontis.
The title tale, "The Feather for Connie," "Genevieve's Escapade," "A Strange Christmas," "Garden Tools," "The Thatched Cottage," "What the Parcel-Post Brought on Christmas Eve," "A New Cinderella," "Cruel Kindness." 17 illustrations by Lewis Baumer.
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10258 |
Molesworth, Mrs. THE BEWITCHED LAMP
London: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, [circa 1908]. Early reprint. Blue cloth adorned with an early Mabel Lucie Attwell illustration--in green, yellow and black--of a girl and boy reading by a window. Hardcover. Very good: mild wear and rubbing to covers, small area of pale stain to rear cover, some negligible stains within; endsheets tanned, as expected; public school prize bookplate (1st prize!)--hand dated 1908 to front pastedown; no dust jacket.
Fantasy yarn by the doyenne of Victorian children's fiction centers around 13-year-old Roger Fawke and a magical lamp which somehow finds its way back when taken away from its Moordale Court home. Tissue-guarded frontispiece by Robert Barnes. Scarce!
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10259 |
Moliere COMEDIES
Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, (1986). Reprint. Fine, as-new, in ruby-red faux-leather binding with gilt lettering and decoration; hubbed spine, all edges gilt, decorative endpapers.
THE SCHOOL FOR HUSBANDS; THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES; THE MISANTHROPE; TARTUFFE; THE MISER; THE WOULD-BE GENTLEMAN; THE IMAGINARY INVALID. Translated by Donald Frame. Wood-engraved illustrations after Tony Johannot.
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10260 |
Molineux, Roland Burnham THE ROOM WITH THE LITTLE DOOR
New York: G.W. Dillingham Company, (1903). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Spine shows some minor darkening and some fading to the white lettering, else a fresh, fine copy in blue cloth with black rules, gilt devices, and white lettering. Burnham family bookplate to pastedown.
Account of his time in prison by the defendant in a sensational murder-by-poison trial. The titular room is the death chamber at Sing-Sing. Molineux was eventually retried and acquitted; his case is oft cited as a precedent in modern criminal cases.
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10261 |
Moll, Elick SEIDMAN AND SON
New York: Samuel French, Inc., (1963). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in very lightly rubbed photo-pictorial dust jacket.
Moll's stage adaptation of his novel originally starred Sam Levene and Vincent Gardenia.
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10262 |
Molnar, Thomas UTOPIA: The Perennial Heresy
New York: Sheed and Ward, (1967). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in mauve cloth with plum-colored titles to the spine; in a near fine dust jacket with very short tears and minor creases to the lower shelf edges. 245 pages; index.
The author's belief that utopian thinking possesses its own structure brings a theme to this study on the sometimes contradictory and dangerous visions of some major utopians. Some doctrines examined are those of the Gnostics, Marxists, and Manicheans.
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10263 |
Momaday, N. Scott THE NAMES: A Memoir
New York/Hagerstown/San Francisco/London: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1976). 0060129816 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows some fading to the spine panel. Illustrated with photographs.
The author of the Pulizer Prize-winning novel, HOUSE MADE OF DAWN, here writes warmly and eloquently of his own life, of the Southwest, of what it means to grow up with a strong spiritual relation to the American wilderness.
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10264 |
Monahan, Brent THE SCEPTRED ISLE CLUB
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, (2002). 0312288034 First edition: Uncorrected Proof. Proof. Fine in color illustrated, glossy wraps.
With the same acclaimed format used in THE JEKYL ISLAND CLUB, Monahan combines real historical detail with cameos of famous figures in this period mystery set in London 1905 and centered around an exclusive men's club. Conan Doyle makes an appearance.
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10265 |
Monahan, Michael AT THE SIGN OF THE VAN: Being the Log of the Papyrus with Other Escapades in Life and Letters
New York & London: Mitchell Kennerley, 1914. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Faint dustsoiling to top page edges, a whisper of wear, else a fine, fresh copy in green cloth with gilt lettering and blind rules; in the scarce early dust jacket...lightly worn, age-darkened, with very minor nicking. A lovely example.
Literary essays, memoirs in four parts: "At the Sign of the Van"; "Adventures in Life"; "Adventures in Letters"; "Adventures of the Spirit"--by the founder of The Papyrus--one of the earliest little magazines--succeeded, in 1914, by Monahan's The Phoenix.
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10266 |
Monahan, Michael ADVENTURES IN LIFE AND LETTERS
New York & London: Mitchell Kennerley, 1912. First edition, first printing. 332 pages. Hardcover. Small oval of faint stain at hinge of a flyleaf and facing page, else very very close to fine, in green cloth with gilt lettering and blind rules; in a good dust jacket, with soiling, nicking, shallow chipping, separation at front flap fold.
Collection of eloquent and penetrating pieces by the American essayist and poet, founder of The Papyrus and The Phoenix magazines. Subjects both literary and autobiographical include: Dumas, Maupassant, Claude Tillier. Scarce in jacket.
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75.00 USD
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10267 |
Monig, Christopher ABRA-CADAVER
London: T.V. Boardman & Company Limited, (1958). First U.K. edition. American Bloodhound Mystery No. 230. Hardcover. Dots of faint foxing to page edges, else nearly fine, in orange textured boards with black lettering and bloodhound devices; in a lightly worn, rubbed, creased pictorial dust jacket with a patch of pale dampstain to rear panel.
Follow-up to THE BURNED MAN, which introduced series insurance sleuth Brian Brett, and which garnered notices like, "A witty American thriller."--Alan Hunter. By Kendell Foster Crossen under pseudonym; Crossen also wrote as M.E. Chaber.
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10268 |
Monikova, Libuse THE FACADE: M.N.O.P.Q.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. 0394572505 First edition in English: Review copy, with publisher's materials laid in. Hardcover. Fine in royal blue cloth over boards with gilt titles and panel to the front cover and spine; in fine illustrated dust jacket.
Translated from the German by John E. Woods. For this book, Monikova was the recipient of the prestigious Alfred Doblin Prize.
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10269 |
Monroe, Steve '46, CHICAGO
(New York): Talk Miramax Books/ Hyperion, (2002). 0786867310 First edition: Uncorrected Proof. Proof. Fine in printed wraps.
Suspended cop Gus Carson is hired by an aspiring politician to find a kidnapped racketeer. "[Monroe is] a fine storyteller . . . with a plot that builds, twists and turns in the tradition of classic crime/suspense pulp fiction."--USA Today.
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10270 |
Monsarrat, Nicholas A FAIR DAY'S WORK
London: Cassell, (1964.) First edition. Hardcover. Near fine in gold-stamped china blue boards; in like dust jacket with some very light edge wear and a nearly invisible, stamp-sized mar to bottom front panel. With a starkly powerful jacket painting by Arthur Wragg. A very nice copy.
"Unofficial" strike aboard the luxury ship Good Hope as below decks "seethe agitation and unrest, tightening their grip as the tide floods and the hour for sailing approaches."
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10271 |
Montague, Gilbert Holland THE RISE AND PROGRESS OF THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1903. First edition. From Arthur Hoe library, with his distinctive bookplate to pastedown. Hardcover. Paper label residue to spine, light wear to spine ends and corners, owner's rubber stamp to front pastedown, name to front endpaper, nicked abrasion to upper board, else a very good copy with gilt lettering to the front cover and spine; no dust jacket.
A study of the Standard Oil Company, by Montague, a Ricardo Scholar in Economics at Harvard University. The sources of this history are the reports of official investigating commissions from New York State and the U.S. government.
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10272 |
Montalbano, William D. & Hiassen, Carl A DEATH IN CHINA
New York: Atheneum, 1984. 0689114486 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Tiny splotch of black ink to lower page edges, dot of faint stain to fore-edge, else a sharp, bright, nearly fine copy in silver-lettered red cloth shelfback over blue boards, red top-edge coloring; in a very mildly age-toned, else fine dust jacket.
Third novel from the writing team is "a classic thriller...but what sets it apart from other fine genre books is the evocative portrait of the new China that the authors paint."--John Katzenbach. "Startling and compelling."--Malcolm Bosse.
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175.00 USD
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10273 |
Montanari, Richard THE ROSARY GIRLS
New York: Ballantine Books, (2005). 0345470958 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
The first installment in a projected series by the screenwriter and internationally acclaimed novelist. "Readers of this terrifying page-turner are in the hands of a master storyteller. Be prepared to stay up all night."--James Ellroy.
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10275 |
Montecino, Marcel BIG TIME
New York: William Morrow, (1990). 0688093744 First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
The second novel by the author of THE CROSSKILLER. "Marcel Montecino has all the makings of a superstar novelist." --Stephen King
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10277 |
Montedonico, L., compiled by MISCELLANEA: Containing a Variety of Literary Compositions
Los Angeles, California: Privately Printed, 1935. First edition, first printing: one of 150 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Hardcover. Offsetting to endsheets, mild fingering to covers, thus very nearly fine, in light brown cloth shelfback with printed spine label, over purple boards; no dust jacket. Tall octavo.
A delightfully diverse commonplace book of literary pieces, compiled for friends and acquaintances and "undertaken and performed, in my seventy-sixth year, as a diversion" (LM).
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75.00 USD
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10278 |
Monteilhet, Hubert THE PRAYING MANTISES
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. Former owner's small bookplate, name and date (in ink) to front pastedown, else fine; in a price-clipped illustrated dust jacket.
Translation by Richard Howard of the original French-language edition entitled LES MANTES RELIGIEUSES. "a cool, swift, elegant, ruthless tale that will spoil the intelligent man's taste for the lesser product."--Sybille Bedford. Two-part TV movie source.
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10279 |
Monteilhet, Hubert MURDER AT LEISURE
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1972). First U.K. edition. Hardcover. Faint stain on top and bottom page edges, else very good plus in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
Author of PRAYING MANTISES.
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10281 |
Monteleone, Thomas F. SEEDS OF CHANGE
Don Mills, Ontario, Canada: Laser Books, (1975). First edition. Uniform brown offsetting to the inside covers else, a fine copy of this paperback original.
Limited Collector's Edition. Kelly Freas illustrated covers.
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10282 |
Monteleone, Thomas F. OZYMANDIAS
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1981. 0385157681 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Faint remainder spray to lower page edges, else fine, in black boards with white spine lettering; in a lightly soiled, mildly worn and age-toned, very good illustrated dust jacket--showing a few tiny edge tears.
Second book in Monteleone's "entertaining post-Holocaust Guardian sequence." In the first volume, GUARDIAN, "a supercomputer is found" and in this sequel, the computer "is incarnated in a human body."--Clute and Nicholls.
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10.00 USD
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10283 |
Montgomery, L.M. KILMENY OF THE ORCHARD
New York: A.L. Burt Company Publishers, (1910). Reprint. Hardcover. Very good in green cloth with gilt stamping to front cover and spine: mild spine slant, discreet gift inscription to front free endsheet; lacking dust jacket.
When Eric Marshall arrives on Prince Edward Island to become a substitute schoolmaster, fate throws in his path a beautiful, mysterious mute girl named Kilmeny Gordon. With jet black hair and sea blue eyes, Kilmeny immediately captures Eric's heart.
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10284 |
Montgomery, Rutherford THE CAPTURE OF WEST WIND
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1962). Book club edition. Hardcover. Fine in a pictorial binding with an attractive three-color illustration to the cover; in dust jacket with a small internal chip missing from the spine and a tiny chip to the upper rear panel.
A Junior Literary Guild selection by the master storyteller. Dust jacket and internal illustrations by Albert Micale.
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10285 |
Montgomery, Rutherford G. COREY'S SEA MONSTER
Cleveland: World Publishing Co., (1969). First edition. Hardcover. Fine, unread copy in deep-sea turquoise cloth with illustration to front cover of a diver facing off with an enormous squid; in color pictorial dust jacket with a hint of age-toning, and a whisper of soiling to rear panel.
A summer vacation nearly ends in nightmare as a boy and a girl probe the ancient secrets of the ocean depths. Juvenile scuba suspense by the children's and Western writer; with many black-and-white interior illustrations by Harvey Kidder.
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10286 |
Montgomery, Rutherford G. RUFUS
Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1973. 0870042270 First edition. Hardcover. Very fine in a very fine illustrated dust jacket--an AS NEW copy! Vivid jacket art by J.D. Nenninger.
Montgomery was one of the most widely read and best-loved nature writers in America. He wrote well over a hundred books and many are now considered classics. RUFUS is the story of a young bobcat and his struggle to survive in the wilderness.
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10287 |
Montias, John Michael THE STRUCTURE OF ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1976. 0300018339 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Faint dampstain to the rear cover, else near fine in green cloth with gilt-embossed spine titles; in an illustrated dust jacket with a corresponding dampstain to the rear panel.
Royal octavo. 323 pages; appendix and index. Diagrams. Pioneering work that draws on principles of organization, information, and economic theory to bring out significant differences among economic systems.
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10289 |
Moody, Bill BIRD LIVES!
New York: Walker and Company, (1999). 0802733271 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
"Now that jazz pianist Evan Horne is playing music again, he'd like to concentrate only on his upcoming recording gig--not on a series of murders in the music industry. It doesn't work that way..."--Booklist. Fourth in the series.
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10290 |
Moody, Bill SHADES OF BLUE
(Scottsdale, Arizona): Poisoned Pen Press, (2008). 1590584856 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
The sixth Evan Horne mystery finds the jazz pianist at peace, living in California with his girlfriend, FBI agent Andie Lawrence. Horne finds some aging handwritten sheet music, which might be original compositions of two famous Miles Davis recordings.
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10292 |
Moody, Rick GARDEN STATE
Wainscott, New York: Pushcart Press, (1992). 0916366731 First edition. Winner of Pushcart's Tenth Annual Editors' Book Award. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Captures the tale of four twenty-something, Generation X youths who suddenly are given a "wake-up call" and are forced to take on responsibilty and enter the real world once and for all. The first book by the author of THE ICE STORM.
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125.00 USD
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10293 |
Moody, Skye Kathleen K FALLS
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, (2001). 031226609X First edition: Uncorrected Proof. Proof. Fine in illustrated glossy wraps.
The fifth Pacific Northwest mystery featuring Fish and Wildlife Agent Venus Diamond. As Venus investigates a series of dam bombings along the Columbia River, she gets personally involved when a friend is killed in one of the explosions.
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10294 |
Moody, Skye Kathleen K FALLS
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, (2001). 031226609X First edition: Review copy, with materials laid in. Hardcover. Fine in illustrated dust jacket.
"Moody's mysteries deliver an environmental message with great grace and style, and more than dollop of humor."--New Orleans Times-Picayune. Fifth in the series featuring Fish and Wildlife Service agent Venus Diamond.
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10295 |
Moody, Skye Kathleen THE GOOD DIAMOND
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, (2004). 0312324154 First edition, first printing: Review copy, with publisher's materials laid in. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
The seventh environmental mystery set in the Pacific Northwest and featuring Venus Diamond, a perky Fish and Wildlife Service agent. "Moody writes with a rare combination of wit and style...Diamond is gutsy, hip, and truly original."--Janet Evanovich.
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10297 |
Moon, Bernice and Cliff MEXICO IS MY COUNTRY
(East Sussex, England): Wayland, (1986). 0850786592 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in color photo-pictorial laminated boards; without dust jacket, as issued. 60 pages; facts list; and index.
Twenty-six people from all over the country, of various vocations, voice what their life is like in Mexico. Generously illustrated with several color photos of each person and their activities. A lovely slice of life for young people.
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10298 |
Moon, Elizabeth VICTORY CONDITIONS
New York: Del Rey/Ballantine Books, (2008). 0345491610 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. New. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
"Rip-roaring action and intriguing science and tactics distinguish Nebula-winner Moon's fifth and final Vatta's War installment. This epic volume is a fine and fitting conclusion to Moon's grand space opera tour de force."--PW.
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26.00 USD
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10299 |
Moon, Grace; illustrated by Carl Moon THE MISSING KATCHINA
Garden City/New York: Junior Books/Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. B0006AL33C First edition, first printing. SIGNED by author Grace Moon to the half-title. Hardcover. Very good: fading to spine, grubby covers; yet, except for tiny areas of offsetting to a few pages, the interior is sharp and bright; lacking dust jacket.
Young adult novel of Indian life by the husband-and-wife team noted for their Native American themes; the coated stock, doublespread frontispiece/title-page art is just superb, with frontis in color, title-page decoration in b&w.
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100.00 USD
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10300 |
Moon, Grace; illustrated by Carl Moon NADITA (Little Nothing)
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1927. B000EIBRIW First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very good at best, with nicked bumps to upper cover edges, dot of red stain to front cover, light soiling, use; in yellow cloth with black lettering and black and red sombrero device; detached front panel of dust jacket laid in.
In a departure from their wonted tales of American Indians, the Moons here offer the story of a seven-year-old girl who lives in a little town in central Mexico. Color jacket painting (echoed on the frontispiece), and b&w full-page illustrations within.
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25.00 USD
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