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Anonymous. [By Captain Irving B. Cook] THE "CITY GUARD": A History of Company B, First Regiment Infantry, N.G.C., During the Sacramento Campaign, July 3 to 26, 1894: Including a Brief History of the Company...
San Francisco: Filmer-Rollins Electrotype Co., (1895). First edition. Attractive bookplate of Norris King Davis to the front pastedown endpaper and his pencil signature and date (1895) to the title-page. Hardcover. A few minor scattered marks to the covers, mild rubbing to the corner tips and spine ends, else a very nearly fine copy in bright blue beveled cloth decorated in the blind, with gilt regimental emblem embossed to the front cover, and spine titles gilt.
A history of the San Francisco National Guard's participation in the American Railway Union strike of 1894 that affected the whole Santa Fe railway system. 263 pages; all printed on coated stock. Illustrated with many contemporary photographs.
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Anscombe, Roderick THE SECRET LIFE OF LASZLO, COUNT DRACULA
New York: Hyperion, (1994). 0786860405 First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a photo-pictorial dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Jana Leon.
Inscribed and SIGNED to the title-page. Anscombe makes his fictional debut with this novel that shows Count or Dr. Dracula not as a mythological creature but instead as a sad and insane human being.
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Anscombe, Roderick THE SECRET LIFE OF LASZLO, COUNT DRACULA
New York: Hyperion, (1994). 0786860405 First edition: Advance Reading Copy. Proof. Fine in photo-pictorial wraps.
Anscombe, an Oxford-trained psychiatrist, re-imagines the oft-told story of Count Dracula, placing emphasis on his human qualities and mental state, rather than presenting him as a monster.
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Anthony, Evelyn THE POELLENBERG INHERITANCE
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., (1972). 9997406125 First U.S. edition. Hardcover. A very good plus copy in white linen-backed blue gilt stamped boards with spine titles gilt; in a shelfworn illustrated dust jacket with a few edge tears and attendant creases.
"From the moment a Nazi general, living secretly in Spain, decides to lead his daughter to a priceless inheritance, an intricate web is spun until the concentric threads of intrigue draw the characters to a suite at the Paris Ritz for a brilliant climax."
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Anthony, Mark THE DARK REMAINS
New York: Bantam Books, (2001). 0553381016 First edition: Review copy, with publisher's materials laid in: a trade paperback original. Trade Paperback. Fine in slick, illustrated wraps. Cover art by Stephen Youll.
Book Three of THE LAST RUNE, preceded by BEYOND THE PALE and THE KEEP OF FIRE.
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Anthony, Patricia GOD'S FIRES
New York: Ace Books, (1997). 0441004075 First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine illustrated dust jacket.
The sixth novel from the author of BROTHER TERMITE, HAPPY POLICEMAN and the Locus Award-winning COLD ALLIES. GOD'S FIRES was named by Publisher's Weekly as one of 1997's Best of the Year.
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1609 |
Anthony, Piers ORN
Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., (1970). Book club edition. Hardcover. Light tanning to the gutters of the endpapers, else a near fine copy; in a slightly age-toned illustrated dust jacket.
Orn, a man-sized bird who belonged to the most advanced species ever to develop, enables the humans and the mantas to revolt and they now must save the creatures from extinction and earth's all consuming greed. Jacket painting by Frank Frazetta.
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1610 |
Anthony, Piers OX
Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, Inc., (1976). First edition: Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club with code G 3 on page 215. Hardcover. Spine ends lightly rubbed, otherwise a near fine copy; in a near fine illustrated dust jacket with mild fading to the spine.
A fantastic tale of an alternate world inhabited by savage robot machines and three trapped scientists. Jacket painting by Richard V. Corben.
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1611 |
Anthony, Piers HASAN
San Bernardino, California: The Borgo Press, 1977. First edition: Paperback Original. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in colorfully illustrated wraps.
Trade paperback. In the tradition of Arabian Nights, a tale of the magical winged creature and the moral man fixated upon her. Cover illustration by George Barr.
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1612 |
Anthony, Piers NIGHT MARE
New York: Del Rey, (1982). Book club edition. Hardcover. Binder's stamp on back endpaper, otherwise fine in a brightly illustrated fine dust jacket.
A tale set in the magical land of Xanth where its future rests on the Night Mare horse Imbri, who has acquired the power to carry frightening visions into the sleep of the inhabitants. Jacket painting by Tony Fiyalko.
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1613 |
Anthony, Piers WITH A TANGLED SKEIN
New York: Del Rey/ Ballantine Books, (1985). 0345318846 Book club edition. Hardcover. Near fine in an illustrated dust jacket.
Book Three of "Incarnations of Immortality" pits Niobe against The Fates and The Devil in the ultimate challenge to defeat Satan and save her son. Cover painting by Michael Whelan.
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1614 |
Anthony, Piers GHOST
(New York, N.Y.): Tor, (1986). 0312932723 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket art by Ron Walotsky.
"Sf novel mixed with fantasy and social satire. A space captain explores a ghost universe."--Locus Magazine. Reworking of a story published in IF in 1966 as "The Ghost Galaxies." Afterword by Anthony chronicling the history of the novel's writing.
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1615 |
Anthony, Piers SHADE OF THE TREE
(New York): Tom Doherty Associates, (1986). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a beautifully illustrated fine dust jacket.
A widower takes his two small children to his uncle's old estate in Florida which is rumored to be haunted by spirits, animals and machines that couldn't exist. Cover art by Linda Garland.
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Anthony, Piers SHADE OF THE TREE
(New York): Tom Doherty Associates, (1986). First edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a price-clipped dust jacket.
A widower takes his two small children to his uncle's old estate in Florida which is rumored to be haunted by spirits, animals and machines that couldn't exist. Cover art by Linda Garland.
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1617 |
Anthony, Piers WIELDING A RED SWORD
New York: Del Rey, (1986). 0345322207 Book club edition. Hardcover. Fine in an illustrated dust jacket that is very mildly age-toned, but otherwise fine.
Book four of the Incarnations of Immortality, in which Mym agrees to assume the office of the Incarnation of War, only to be tricked into imprisonment in Hell so that Satan may wreak havoc on Earth. Cover painting by Michael Whelan.
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1618 |
Anthony, Piers OUT OF PHAZE
New York: Ace/Putnam, (1987). 0399132724 First edition. Hardcover. Pages mildly age-toned, else fine in a likewise mildly age-toned, else fine illustrated dust jacket.
Book Four of the Apprentice Adept Series tells of a young man named Mach who lives in the magical land of Phaze where science is inoperative and magic abounds. Map-illustrated endpapers; jacket art by Darrell Sweet.
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1619 |
Anthony, Piers BEING A GREEN MOTHER
New York: A Del Rey Book/Ballantine Books, (1987). 0345322223 First edition. Hardcover. Very faint foxing to upper page edges, else near fine in an illustrated dust jacket.
The fifth book in the "Incarnations of Immortality" series. Orb must avoid the prophecy that one day she will marry Evil. Jacket cover painting by Michael Whelan.
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1620 |
Anthony, Piers UNICORN POINT
New York: Ace/Putnam, (1989). 0399134336 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Book Six of the Apprentice Adept Series finds Mach, the robot from Proton and Bane, his magical alternate self (along with their children) fighting the ultimate battle to keep their worlds alive. Jacket painting by Darrell Sweet.
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1621 |
Anthony, Piers TATHAM MOUND
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., (1991). 0688101402 First edition, first printing: Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Hardcover. Fine; in a fine dust jacket with wraparound art by Jerry Lofaro.
Poignant vision of the Spanish Conquest from the Native American perspective, a chronicle of a lost culture, brimming with the lore, the achievements, and the courage of an utterly vanished American tribe. From the sf/fantasy veteran.
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Anthony, Piers TATHAM MOUND
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., (1991). 0688101402 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine; in a fine dust jacket with wrap-around art by Jerry Lofaro.
Hugo and Nebula Award Nominee and master fantasy author of the Xanth series presents a saga of the Spanish conquest told through the viewpoint of the Native-American.
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1623 |
Anthony, Piers VIRTUAL MODE
New York: Ace/Putnam, (1991). 0399136614 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very nearly fine; in a slightly nicked illustrated dust jacket.
Book one of the Mode Series: The epic tale of mortal Colene and mystical Darius who is visiting on a quest to find her from another world. Jacket design by Isabella Fasciano.
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Anthony, Piers VIRTUAL MODE
New York: Ace/Putnam, (1991). 0399136614 Reprint. Hardcover. Very nearly fine, in a faintly age-toned pictorial dust jacket.
Book One of the Mode Series: The epic tale of mortal Colene and mystical Darius who is visiting on a quest to find her from another world. Jacket design by Isabella Fasciano.
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Anthony, Piers DEMONS DON'T DREAM
New York: Tor Fantasy/A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (1993). 0312853890 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, in red-stamped black cloth over red boards, full-color illustrated endpapers; in a very faintly age-toned illustrated dust jacket; wraparound jacket painting by Darrell Sweet.
Sixteenth novel in Anthony's Xanth series. "Anthony is one of those authors who can perform magic with the ordinary."--A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction.
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Anthony, Piers CHAOS MODE
New York: Ace/Putnam, (1993). 0399138935 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Book three of the Mode series. Colene the mortal and Darius the mystical wanderer king from another planet face dangerous adventures while traveling through multiple universes. Jacket illustration by Romas Kukalis.
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Anthony, Piers HARPY THYME
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, (1994). 0312853904 First edition. Hardcover. Fine, with beautifully illustrated endpapers in a bright and colorful fine dust jacket.
Join Gloha, the unique and beautiful harpy-goblin in the magical land of Xanth as she sets out with Cynthia the Centauress, Graeboe the invisible giant, Trent the magician, and Marrow Bones the skeleton on a thrilling quest to find true love.
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Anthony, Piers TOTAL RECALL
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., (1989). 0688052096 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, as-new, in a faintly age-toned, else fine, illustrated dust jacket. Jacket art by John Berkey.
"Based on the Philip K. Dick story, 'We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,' this sf adventure (released as a movie in 1990) by one of the genre's most prolific and respected authors features fast-paced action and vivid imagery."--Library Journal.
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Anthony, Piers TATHAM MOUND
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., (1991). 0688101402 Reprint. Hardcover. Fine, in gilt-lettered, milk-chocolate brown cloth shelfback over sienna boards; in a faintly age-toned, else fine, illustrated dust jacket, with artwork by Jerry Lofaro.
"A young Indian warrior receives a mission from the spirits of the dead to search for an item of magical power that can save his people from destruction."--LJ.
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1630 |
Anthony, Piers CENTAUR AISLE
New York: Del Rey, (1981). First hardcover edition: Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. Hardcover. Faint foxing to the top page edges, else fine; in a near fine, illustrated dust jacket that is mildly shelfworn and shows a scrape to the front panel.
A magical tale of Dor having to take charge of the magical land of Xanth to govern the centaurs, golems, ogres, and medusas when the king and queen leave temporarily. Jacket painting by Tony Fiyalko.
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Anthony, Piers FRACTAL MODE
New York: An Ace/Putnam Book, (1992). 0399136495 First edition, first printing. Book Two of the Mode Series. Hardcover. Faint age-toning to pages, else fine; in a faintly age-toned, else fine, illustrated dust jacket. Jacket art by Daniel R. Horne.
"As Colene, the teenage heroine of VIRTUAL MODE and her traveling companions continue their trek across the dimensions of reality, they encounter a fractal world where a young woman struggles to change her oppressive society."--PW.
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1632 |
Anthony, Piers ON A PALE HORSE
New York: A Del Rey Book/Ballantine Books, (1983). 0345309243 Book Club edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover painting by Michael Whelan.
Book One of Incarnations of Immortality. Somewhat scarce in hardcover.
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1633 |
Anthony, Piers PHAZE DOUBT
New York: Ace/Putnam, (1990). 0399135294 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Book seven of the Apprentice Adept Series finds two children with the daunting task of saving the newly-merged worlds of Phaze and Proton using their special powers. Jacket design by Lisa Amoroso.
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Anthony, Piers GOLEM IN THE GEARS
New York: Del Rey/Ballantine Books, [1986]. First hardcover edition: Issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. Hardcover. Fine in a fine illustrated dust jacket. Jacket painting by Ron Walotsky.
The ninth Xanth novel.
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Anthony, Piers OMNIVORE
New York: Ballantine Books, (1968). First U.S. hardcover edition; issued by the Science Fiction Book Club. First printing with code "20 K" on page 187. Hardcover. Faint foxing to the top page edges, else fine; in a near fine, illustrated dust jacket tanned at the spine.
Three scientists sent to the forboding planet of Nacre (inhabited by giant mushrooms, spore clouds, a dim sun, and strange one-eyed creatures) are interviewed by a unique investigator.
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Anthony, Piers & Nye, Jody Lynn PIERS ANTHONY'S VISUAL GUIDE TO XANTH
New York: Avon Books, (1989). 0380757494 First edition: Trade Paperback Original. Trade Paperback. Just a suggestion of wear to the edges, else this is a fine, unread copy in illustrated wraps with a very appealing color cover painting depicting the wide variety of flora and fauna native to the Xanth universe.
Every nook and cranny of this 236-page guide to everything Xanthian (People, Places, Bestiary, Calendar, etc.) is crammed with detailed maps, charts and b&w illustrations. The artwork is by Todd Cameron Hamilton and James Clouse. Manna for Xanthophiles.
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1638 |
Anthony, Piers and Margroff, Robert E. SERPENT'S SILVER
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, (1988). 0312931034 First edition. Hardcover. Very nearly fine in an illustrated dust jacket with artwork by Darrell K. Sweet.
Continues the magical quest of Kelvin of Rud, a young Roundear destined to fulfill an ancient prophecy and rule the land. Second book in the Dragon's Gold Series, followed by CHIMAERA'S COPPER, ORC'S OPAL, and MOUVAR'S MAGIC.
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1639 |
Anthony, Piers and Margroff, Robert E. CHIMAERA'S COPPER
New York: Tor Fantasy/A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (1990). 0312932138 First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a mildy age-toned, otherwise fine, illustrated dust jacket. Jacket art by Manuel Morales.
In the universe of Dragon's Gold and Serpent's Silver, we find Kelvin Knight Hackleberry fighting against the allied forces of the king and queen of Zud and Hud to defeat the dark sorcery and save his land and loved ones.
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1640 |
Anthony, Piers and Margroff, Robert E. ORC'S OPAL
New York: Tor / A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (1990). 0312851073 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, in brown boards with gilt spine titling; in a lightly age-toned, else fine, illustrated dust jacket. Jacket art by Darrell K. Sweet.
Fantasy novel, fourth book of the Dragon's Gold series.
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1641 |
Anthony, Piers; edited by Alan Riggs LETTERS TO JENNY
New York: Tor / A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (1993). 0312854137 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very nearly fine, in a very mildly age-toned, otherwise fine illustrated dust jacket; jacket painting by Jael.
A year's worth of weekly letters the Xanth creator wrote to a 12-year-old fan who had been struck by a drunk driver and lay in a coma in hospital "reveal the author's wit, humanism and social conscience."--PW.
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1642 |
Anthony, Ronald THE FOREVER YEAR
New York: Forge/A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (2003). 0765304058 First edition: Review copy, with publisher's materials laid in. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Of Anthony's debut novel, Lisa Kleypas writes: "With a polished and intimate style, and characters that seem to come from your own family, Ronald Anthony delivers a powerful story that may just change the way you think about love."
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1643 |
Antonelli, F., general realtor The Posito of the Historical Section of the Sacred Congregation of Rites on the Introduction of the Cause for the Beatification and Canonization and on the Virtues of the Servant of God: KATHARINE TEKAKWITHA, The Lily of the Mohawks
New York: Fordham University Press, (1940). First edition, first printing. Frontispiece, hand-lettered title-page, full-page woodcuts, tailpieces and page borders by LeRoy H. Appleton. Hardcover. A hint of wear at the extremities, gift inscription to half-title, thus near fine, in terra-cotta cloth with gilt lettering, rules and devices; fore-edge untrimmed, map-decorated endsheets, maroon border decorations, tailpieces; no dust jacket. Quarto.
"Being the Original Documents first published at the Vatican Polyglot Press now done into English and presented for the Edification of the Faithful." Story of the first North American Indian to be canonized by the Catholic Church. 468 pages, colophon.
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1644 |
Antoni, Brian PARADISE OVERDOSE
New York/London/Toronto/Sydney/Tokyo/Singapore: Simon & Schuster, (1994). 0671884263 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very good: dampstaining to covers and textblock; in a very good plus dust jacket with evidence of damping to upper and lower edges.
"Nothing short of a force-10 hurricane is the impact of Brian Antoni's first novel about turbulent and turgid goings-on in the Bahamas. An astonishing debut!"--George Plimpton. SIGNED by the author to the title-page.
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1645 |
Antonick, M.B., President CORVETTE! AMERICA'S ONLY
Powell, Ohio: Michael Bruce Associates, Inc. 1978. B000J3SOH4 First edition, first printing, limited to 7,500 numbered copies. Hardcover. Mild crease to outer spine gutters, near fine and tight in deluxe silver boards with titles embossed in blue to the front cover and spine and with a red and blue decorative design to front cover; no dust jacket, as issued. Oblong octavo.
A beautiful production with striking quality color and black-and-white photographic plates depicting the creators, the racers, the stylists, the design drawings, and the great variety of corvettes made. A marvelous, heavily detailed history. 143 pages.
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Antrim, Donald ELECT MR. ROBINSON FOR A BETTER WORLD
(New York, New York): Viking, (1993). 0670851396 First edition. Hardcover. A very nearly fine copy in a mildly age-toned dust jacket.
"Donald Antrim's first novel is a glorious piece of gallows humor. It's a mordant, morbid surburban gothic about the primitive animal seething and roaring just below the social skin."--Patrick McGrath. "Magnificently absurd."--Hilary Mantel.
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Antrim, Donald THE VERIFICATIONIST
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. 0375408223 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
"Antrim's extraordinary imagination has invited comparison...with...Italo Calvino, but Antrim has a sharper razor, a diamond eye drilling our culture and time."--Annie Proulx. "Antrim is in top form with this high-spirited hallucination."--Thomas Pynchon.
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1648 |
Appel, Allen TWICE UPON A TIME
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., (1988). First edition. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Continuing the time travel adventure which began in his first novel, "Time After Time." Alex travels to Civil War time Philadelphia. Jacket design and illustration by Tom McKeveny.
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Appel, Benjamin BUT NOT YET SLAIN
New York: A.A. Wyn, Inc., 1947. First edition. Hardcover. A near fine copy in grey cloth with maroon spine lettering; in an illustrated dust jacket with a thin band of chipping and associated creases to the upper front panel, rear panel lightly soiled and age-toned.
A novel of politics set in Washington, D.C., during the postwar years, by the author remembered primarily for his hard-boiled crime novels.
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Appel, Benjamin THE RAW EDGE
New York: Random House, (1958). B0006AVE54 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fading to black top-edge coloring, hint of wear at the extremities, thus very good plus, in a lightly rubbed, mildly age-toned photo-pictorial dust jacket that shows just a hint of edgewear.
A behind-the-scenes novel of the New York waterfront by "one of the early contributors to noir."--Ed Gorman.
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Appel, Benjamin A BIG MAN, A FAST MAN
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Former owner's name and address written on the front pastedown, otherwise a very good copy in a price-clipped and shelfworn dust jacket with a slightly faded spine and several nicks and short tears at the extremities.
A tough guy looks for power and the way to the top.
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Apple, Max FREE AGENTS
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, (1984). 0060152826 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Faint foxing to page edges, mild age-toning to pages, thus near fine; in an about near fine age-darkened illustrated dust jacket with one tiny corner crease to front flap.
Collection of satirical stories, including "Walt and Will" (about Walt Disney and his brother Will). "Apple is that extraordinary paradox: a tender wit, a kindly satirist, a laughing stringency, a saintly critic."--Cynthia Ozick.
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Apple, Max ZIP: A Novel of the Left and Right
New York: The Viking Press, (1978). First edition. Review copy. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Review copy of a novel about a nice Jewish boy managing a flashy Puerto Rican middleweight, a chaste widow in the arms of a Detroit industry kind, and several other odd couples united by a strange force called "zip." Publisher's material laid in.
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Appleton, Victor, II TOM SWIFT AND HIS MEGASCOPE SPACE PROBER
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, (1962). 900119964X First edition, first printing. #20 in The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures. Spine number 9120. Illustrated by Charles Brey. Hardcover. Pages mildly age-toned, tiny tears to spine crown, soiling to page edges, thus very good, in pictorial boards; no dust jacket, as issued. Spine and rear cover light orange. Endsheet art in black, b&w drawings within.
When another secret invention of Tom's becomes the target of his enemy, all evidence points to the fact that an unidentified traitor at Swift Enterprises is in league with a criminal mastermind outside the plant.
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Arber, Edward, edited by THE SPENSER ANTHOLOGY: 1548-1591 A.D.
London: Henry Frowde, 1899. B0008BZ4SE First edition, first printing. In green blind-debossed decorative cloth with gilt spine title, marbled endsheets; no dust jacket. Hardcover. Very good minus: browning and rippling to textblock, faint stains to upper-page-edge gilt, covers worn, flecked and showing evidence of quite substantial dampstain and splaying to rear cover.
The third in Arber's series of historical national anthologies of British poetry, named for the preeminent poet of each age. This example dated in January of 1900, inscribed and SIGNED by editor Arber to a flyleaf. 312 pages, plus 8 pages of ads.
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Archer, Geoffrey SKYDANCER
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, (1988). First edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in dust jacket.
A novel of espionage, betrayal, and the ultimate doublecross.
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Archer, Jeffrey SONS OF FORTUNE
New York: St. Martin's Press, (2003). 0312313195 First edition: Review copy, with publisher's materials laid in. Hardcover. Bumped indentation to the lower shelf edge, else near fine in dust jacket with a corresponding tear and crease.
"Cunning plots, silken style . . . Archer plays a cat-and-mouse game with the reader."--The New York Times.
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Archer, Jeffrey THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT
(New York, N.Y.): HarperCollinsPublishers, (1998). 0060191503 First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. Textblock age-toned, else fine in a fine illustrated dust jacket.
The 11th commandment is "Thou Shalt Not Be Caught"--which has particular resonance for this international best-selling author and controversial politician, who in 2001 was sentenced to a four-year term in prison for perjury.
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Archer, Jeffrey CAT O' NINE TALES: And Other Stories
New York: St. Martin's Press, (2007). 0312362641 First U.S. edition, first printing: Review copy, with publisher's materials laid in. Hardcover. Fine, as-new, in a fine, as-new, dust jacket.
Archer put his time in prison to fine literary use, as shown by the 12 stellar entries in his fifth story collection, nine which are based on tales he heard from fellow inmates while incarcerated. Enhanced with delightful wacky drawings by Ronald Searle.
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Archer, Nathan MARS ATTACKS: Martian Deathtrap
New York: A Del Rey Book/Ballantine Books, (1996). 0345404955 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Novel-length installment in the multi-pronged invasion of books, cards, comics and film (directed by Tim Burton), based on the cult-inspiring Topps trading cards series originally released in 1962. With bound-in trading card insert present!
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1662 |
Ard, William LIKE ICE SHE WAS: A Lou Largo Novel
Derby, Connecticut: Monarch Books, Inc., (1960). First edition: Paperback Original. Monarch #147. Cover price, $.35. Mass market paperback. Near fine: covers and pages mildly age-toned, a hint of wear to the extremities, a tiny, faint corner crease to lower front cover; in illustrated wraps.
"She Played it Cool--But She Liked it Hot." Final Largo book penned by Ard (Lawrence Block and John Jakes kept the series alive after Ard's death). Noir cover painting looks back to vintage calendar art and forward to fine art alchemized from pulp.
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Ard, William LIKE ICE SHE WAS: A Lou Largo Novel
Derby, Connecticut: Monarch Books, Inc., (1960). First edition: Paperback Original. Monarch #147. Cover price, $.35. Mass market paperback. Very good plus: minor wear, some very mild, nearly imperceptible creasing, pages age-toned, very light spine crease; in illustrated wraps. The last Lou Largo actually written by Ard (Lawrence Block and John Jakes ghosted the series after Ard's death).
Scarce PBO with one of the most arresting cover paintings ever published: the bad girl art is racy, not obscene, but there is something about the weird posed quality and the pulp naif style that powerfully conveys the "ice" in this girl's veins. Creepy.
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Arden, Leon SEESAW SUNDAY
N.Y.: Crown, (1965). First edition. Hardcover. Review copy with publisher's review card laid in. Near fine in dust jacket with very short tears at spine ends and faint soiling to the rear panel.
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1666 |
Ardies, Tom PALM SPRINGS
Garden City: Doubleday, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Lower corner tip lightly bumped, else near fine in dust jacket.
A novel of super-wealth, power and sex.
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Ardizzone, Edward SHIP'S COOK GINGER: Another Tim Story
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., (1978). 0027056805 First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Quarto.
The Kate Greenaway Medal Award-winning author of TIM AND THE BRAVE SEA CAPTAIN provides the perfect nautical setting for his two young heroes in a picture book full of action, humor and the excitement of the sea.
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Ardrey, Robert WORLDS BEGINNING
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, (1944). First edition. Hardcover. Very good plus in dust jacket with a chip on the upper rear cover and minor shelf wear.
A futuristic novel, set in a shrinking world rife with giant technological advances with the underlying message that American democracy needs only to face its problems to conquer them.
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Ariss, Bruce FULL CIRCLE
New York: Avalon Books/Thomas Bouregy and Company, Inc., (1963). First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Mild foxing to upper page edges and to spine, thus near fine, in mustard cloth with black spine titles; in a lightly worn, lightly foxed very good dust jacket. Jacket art by Ed Emshwiller.
"A selected survival group causes discord in a future North America where a few Indian tribes survive."--Tuck.
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1670 |
Aristophanes; translated into English verse by Gilbert Murray THE BIRDS
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, (1950). First edition thus, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, in green cloth with gilt spine lettering; in a printed dust jacket that shows a small chip to the spine head, light nicking at the corners, mild edgewear, some soiling, dot of abrasion to spine panel.
English rendering of one of the best known Greek comedies by one of the most eminent of the classical translators. With an introduction and notes by Murray. Lovely little edition!
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Arlen, Michael The Acting Edition of THE GREEN HAT: A Romance
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. First edition, first printing. This copy SIGNED by the author to the half-title. Hardcover. Spine has been neatly but amateurishly reinforced with cloth tape, there is wear to the extremities, previous owner's attractive vintage bookplate to pastedown, interior clean and sharp, thus a very good plus copy in marbled boards; lacking slipcase.
The Armenian-born British author had an enormous hit with his novel THE GREEN HAT, and rivaled the book's success with this stage version--starring Katherine Cornell "perfectly cast" (NY Times) in the role of Iris March and Leslie Howard "able" as Napier.
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Arley, Niels and Buch, K. Rander INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (1961). Later printing. Hardcover. Former owner's small, neat signature on the front flyleaf, else a near fine copy in dark blue with red bands, lettered in gilt; no dust jacket.
Part of the Applied Mathematics Series. 238 pages, appendix, tables, problems, references, index. Text figures and equations.
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Armistead, Bob NEVER TO QUIT
(Nashville, Tennessee): Eggman Publishing, (1993). 0963502611 First edition, first printing: Trade paperback original. Trade Paperback. Fine in illustrated wraps. Octavo. 151 pages.
Civil War novel featuring Nathan Bedford Forrest and his friend and subordinate, James Wilson. Bob Armistead is a Civil War Historian and gallery owner focusing on Civil War art and battle souvenirs.
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Armstrong, Alan FARMWORKERS IN ENGLAND AND WALES: A Social and Economic History 1770-1980
Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, (1988). 0813800021 First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Fine in a photo-pictorial dust jacket. 302 pages, twenty-two tables, a map, nineteen b&w illustrations, notes, further reading, and an index.
An examination of British farming from the time of the American Revolution to the 1980s; traces the evolution of an industry that has involved more than five million people in the last two hundred years.
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Armstrong, Campbell WHITE LIGHT
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., (1988). 0688077013 First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in an age-toned dust jacket.
Campbell Armstrong is a pseudonym for Campbell Black. WHITE LIGHT was originally published in the UK as MAZURKA.
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Armstrong, Kelley STOLEN
(New York): Viking, (2003). 0670031372 First U.S. edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine in dust jacket.
Book II of Armstrong's Women of the Underworld series featuring werewolf Elena Michaels who is, according to Karin Slaughter, "at once sublime and sympathetic, a modern heroine who shows that real women bite back."
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Armstrong, Kelley PERSONAL DEMON
(New York, New York): Bantam Books, (2008). 0553806610 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
"Fans of the paranormal will delight in the eighth Women of the Underworld yarn, with its ass-kicking, Bollywoodbeautiful, former-socialite heroine and full complement of sorcerers, witches, werewolves, and other paranormal beings."--Booklist.
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1682 |
Armstrong, Martin SIR POMPEY AND MADAME JUNO And Other Tales
London: Jonathan Cape, (1927). First edition. Hardcover. Nearly fine: a hint of darkening to the extremities of the vivid lilac cloth covers, faint offsetting to the endsheets, and a slight separation at one of the signatures; in a dust jacket which shows some minor age-darkening, particularly to spine panel.
"A consummate stylist and a lover of the English language."--Clute/Nicholls. Like each of Armstrong's story collections this volume is a treasure house of literate entertainment in miniature, and contains--as usual--an offering or two of genre interest.
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Armstrong, Martin THE STEPSON
London: Jonathan Cape, (1927). First edition. Hardcover. Owner's handsome bookplate to front pastedown, else near fine in green cloth stamped in gilt to the spine, in blind to the rear cover; in an illustrated dust jacket that shows edgewear, rubbing and nicking, and staining to the rear panel and flapfold.
A novel in which a young woman marries an old man and falls in love with her stepson, an excellent example of early twentieth-century psychological realism.
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Arnason, Eleanor RING OF SWORDS
New York: Tom Doherty Associates, (1993). 0312855184 First edition. Hardcover. Crisp and fine in a fine illustrated dust jacket.
Taking place in the entire civilized galaxy of the 22nd century, the humans attempt to head off inter-stellar war with the enigmatic humanoid aliens, the only other intelligent life so far discovered. Jacket art by Roger Loveless.
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Arnold, Elliott WALK WITH THE DEVIL
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. Second printing. Hardcover. Near fine, in a dust jacket with mild fading to the spine, shallow chipping to the spine head, a short close edge tear and corresponding creases to the rear panel, and general minor edge wear. Superb vintage art by H. Lawrence Hoffman.
SIGNED, dated and inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper. Six people from a village in the Italian Apennines mountains deal with gangsters and love in this novel from the author of EVERYBODY SLEPT HERE.
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Arnold, Elliott CODE OF CONDUCT
London: Longman, (1970). First U.K. edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in a dust jacket with a few wrinkles to the rear flap.
By the author of NIGHT OF WATCHING. Review copy with materials.
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Arnold, Elliott BROKEN ARROW
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1956). B0007DYCBS Fourth printing; so stated on copyright page. Hardcover. Minor wear at shelf edges, thus nearly fine, in terra-cotta cloth with front cover pictorial device and spine lettering and device in blue; in a very good plus dust jacket, with light wear, shallow nick to spine head, short creased tear to rear panel.
A Young Reader's Edition of the Classic Novel of the Southwest. Jacket art (bright and vivid in this example) and interior illustrations by Frank Nicholas. Inscribed and SIGNED by the author to the half-title page. Filmed with Jeff Chandler in 1950.
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Arnold, Linda BUREAUCRACY AND BUREAUCRATS IN MEXICO CITY 1742-1835
Tucson, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press, (1988). First edition. Hardcover. Fine without dust jacket in a brick-red binding titled in gilt.
A comprehensive study of the structure of the bureaucracy present in Mexico between 1742-1835, including the fiscal bureaucracy, job security, income, career opportunities, personnel policies, and politics. 202 pages.
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Arnote, Ralph A RAGE IN PARADISE
New York: Forge Books/A Tom Doherty Associates Book, (1997). 0312861982 First edition, first printing: Review copy, with publisher's materials laid in. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
The first title in the Willy Hanson series to be published in hardcover. "Hard-boiled and lean, with fast-paced action and gritty characters."--Winnipeg Sun.
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Arnow, Harriette THE DOLLMAKER
New York: Macmillan, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Foxing to covers and page edges, else very good in worn and slightly chipped dust jacket.
Basis for the Jane Fonda film. A Kentucky hills woman moves to a government housing project in Detroit with her family.
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Arsenault, Mark SPEAK ILL OF THE LIVING
(Scottsdale, Az.): Poisoned Pen Press, (2005). 1590581393 First edition, first printing: Review copy, with publisher's materials laid in. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Arsenault, the journalist who gained national fame for covering the tragic Rhode Island nightclub fire, brings his experience to bear creating a series featuring very active reporter, Eddie Bourque. Sequel to the Shamus Award nominee, SPIKED.
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Artaud, Antonin HERE THEN THE QUESTION
[No place]. Filthythumb Press, 1968. First edition: a chapbook original. Offsetting to covers, else a nearly fine copy in stapled, illustrated wraps.
Posthumous publication of several short pieces by the French poet/dramatist (whose THE THEATRE AND ITS DOUBLE wielded enormous influence on the avant-garde theatre of the 1960's), including the title poem. The question is: "Why in hell are we living?'
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Artin, Emil GALOIS THEORY: Notre Dame Mathematical Lectures, Number 2
Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1944. Second edition with additions and revisions. Trade paperback. Trade Paperback. Very good: previous owner's rubber-stamped address to the inside of the front cover, ownership name to upper front cover, mild wear to the spine, slight creasing to covers; in brown printed wraps with black cloth spine.
82 pages; figures. Edited by Dr. Arthur N. Milgram. A comprehensive course on the Galois Theory with sections discussing linear algebra, field theory, and applications, including two chapters not in the first edition.
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Artzibashev, Michael; illustrated by Cameron Wright SANINE: A Russian Love Novel
New York: Three Sirens Press, (1932). Reprint. Hardcover. Fine, in gilt-stamped red cloth; in a near fine, illustrated dust jacket; jacket art by Politzer. A superb copy!
Deluxe, illustrated edition of the Russian novel first published in English in 1914. Translated into English by Percy Pinkerton. The line engravings, reproduced as full-page illustrations, chapter heads, endpieces, and intext art, are by Cameron Wright.
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Arvin, Reed BLOOD OF ANGELS
(New York, N.Y.): HarperCollinsPublishers, (2005). 0060596341 First edition, first printing: Advance Reading Copy. Proof. Fine in color illustrated wraps.
Legal thriller set in Nashville and featuring a Sudanese immigrant.
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Asch, Frank LITTLE DEVIL'S 123
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1979). 0684162946 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine, as-new, in a fine, as-new, dust jacket. Slim octavo.
Humorous illustrations introduce the number 1 through 25. Small children delight in learning to count and long after the numbers are mastered, the antics of the amusing and clever little devils will continue to appeal.
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