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DOMESTIC MANNERS OF THE AMERICANS

Trollope, Frances [Fanny]

Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society, 1969. Limited Edition / First thus. Hardcover. Limited edition of Frances Trollope's celebrated and often sharply critical account of American society and manners, first published in..... #51391

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STARS OF MAGIC

Starke, George (editor)

New York: Louis Tannen, Inc., 1961. First collected edition / First edition thus. Hardcover. First collected edition of the celebrated Stars of Magic series, originally issued as individual instructional lessons..... #51390

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Book #51385] THE STORY OF BABAR. Jean De Brunhoff

THE STORY OF BABAR [Inscribed by Laurent de Brunhoff]

De Brunhoff, Jean

New York: Random House, 1961. Later Edition / Reissue. Hardcover. Later Random House printing of the first Babar book, written and illustrated by Jean de Brunhoff. Inscribed on the title..... #51385

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Book #51383] THE POEMS OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti

THE POEMS OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI With Illustrations From His Own Pictures and Designs [2 volumes]

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel; Rossetti, William Michael (editor)

London: Ellis & Elvey, 1904. First edition thus. Hardcover. Two volumes. Edited with an introduction and notes by William Michael Rossetti. Illustrated with 20 full-page plates from Dante Gabriel Rossetti's..... #51383

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RAW : HIGH CULTURE FOR LOW BROWS. Vol. 2 No. 3

Spiegelman, Art; Mouly, Francoise

Penguin Books, 1991. First Edition / First Printing. Paperback. Vol. 2, No. 3 of Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly’s influential comics anthology RAW, featuring work by R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman..... #51382

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EARTH IN THE BALANCE: ECOLOGY AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT

Gore, Al

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by Al Gore. His influential 1992 examination of the global environmental crisis and the political and economic changes he..... #51380

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Book #51379] THE DISINFORMER. Peter Ustinov

THE DISINFORMER Two Novellas

Ustinov, Peter

New York: Arcade, 1989. First American Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED by Peter Ustinov on the title page. A Cold War-era spy novel and political satire centered on deception..... #51379

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AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING

Locke, John

London: William Baynes and Son, 1823. Twenty-fourth Edition. Hardcover. Twenty-fourth edition, with the author's last additions and corrections, complete with notes in one volume. An attractive early nineteenth-century edition of..... #51377

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PETER IBBETSON

Du Maurier, George

London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. Early edition / Later edition. Hardcover. Du Maurier's first novel, a strange romantic fantasy in which two lovers separated in ordinary life..... #51376

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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF PATENTS, FOR THE YEAR 1848

(House of Representatives)

Washington: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. House Executive Document No. 59, 30th Congress, Second Session. Substantial annual report covering American invention, industry, agriculture, and manufacturing, with particularly..... #51374

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STAT NOMINUS UMBRA (LETTERS OF JUNIUS)

Junius

London: T. Bensley for Vernor and Hood, et al. 1799. Illustrated edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. The 1799 Bensley edition of the celebrated political letters of “Junius,” originally published anonymously in..... #51373

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STUDIES IN CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE

Lawrence, D.H.

New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Roberts A25a. Lawrence's influential study of American literature, with essays on Benjamin Franklin, Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville..... #51372

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Book #51370] THE FIELD BOOK: Or, Sports and Pastimes of the United Kingdom; Compiled from the...

THE FIELD BOOK: Or, Sports and Pastimes of the United Kingdom; Compiled from the Best Authorities, Ancient and Modern by the Author of "Wild Sports of The West"

(Maxwell, William Hamilton)

London: Effingham Wilson, 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. An extensive alphabetical compendium of British field sports by Irish novelist and sporting writer William Hamilton Maxwell, covering hunting, shooting, angling, racing, horses..... #51370

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THE AMERICAN ALMANAC AND REPOSITORY OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, FOR THE YEAR 1849

Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1848. Hardcover. Twentieth annual volume. A substantial contemporary reference to American government, politics, statistics, commerce, astronomy, and current events, including state-by-state information, an..... #51369

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POEMS, BY MRS. JULIA H. SCOTT. TOGETHER WITH A BRIEF MEMOIR, BY MISS S. C. EDGARTON

Scott, Mrs. Julia H.

Boston: A. Tompkins & B. B. Mussey, 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Posthumous collection by Pennsylvania poet Julia H. Scott, with a memoir by Sarah Carter Edgarton and engraved..... #51368

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Book #51367] OF ANAGRAMS. H. B. Wheatley, Henry Benjamin Wheatley

OF ANAGRAMS A Monograph Treating of Their History from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time; With an Introduction, Containing Numerous Specimens of Macaronic Poetry, Punning Mottoes, Rhopalic, Shaped, Equivocal, Lyon, and Echo Verses, Alliteration, Acrostics, Lipograms, Chronograms, Logograms, Palindromes, Bouts, Rimes

Wheatley, H. B. [Wheatley, Henry Benjamin]

London: Hertford, 1862. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. An early study of anagrams and related forms of literary wordplay by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, later a prominent bibliographer, editor, and authority..... #51367

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INSTRUCTIONS TO THE DOUBLE

Gallagher, Tess

Port Townsend, WA: Graywolf Press, 1976. First Edition / First Printing. Paperback. First edition, first printing, one of 1,350 copies issued in wrappers. Warmly INSCRIBED by Gallagher on the title..... #51365

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WAYS OF ESCAPE

Greene, Graham

Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1980. First Edition / Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 63 of 150 numbered copies, SIGNED by Greene on the limitation page. Green cloth lettered in..... #51364

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LESSONS

Mcewan, Ian

New York: Knopf, 2022. First American Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. First American edition, first printing. Publisher's signed edition, SIGNED by McEwan on a specially bound-in page, with gold "Signed..... #51362

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Book #51361] BREAD OF ANGELS. Patti Smith

BREAD OF ANGELS A Memoir

Smith, Patti

New York: Random House, 2025. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. First American edition, published simultaneously with the UK edition. Publisher's signed edition, SIGNED by Smith on a specially bound-in..... #51361

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Book #51360] THE HARRISON FISHER BOOK: A COLLECTION OF DRAWINGS IN COLORS AND BLACK AND WHITE....

THE HARRISON FISHER BOOK: A COLLECTION OF DRAWINGS IN COLORS AND BLACK AND WHITE Introduction by James B. Carrington

Fisher, Harrison

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Large quarto. Publisher's pictorial cloth with color illustration mounted to front board. Illustrated throughout with full-page drawings in color..... #51360

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THE FOUNDING OF EVIL HOLD SCHOOL

Tolstoy, Nikolai

London: W. H. Allen, 1968. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. A comic Gothic fantasy for children centered on the eccentric Evil Hold School, written by Nikolai Tolstoy and illustrated..... #51359

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ATLANTIC CROSSING. EXCERPTS FROM THE JOURNALS OF JOHN CHEEVER

Cheever, John

Cottondale, Alabama: Ex Ophidia, 1986. First Edition / Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition, No. 31 of 90 copies printed on handmade paper and bound in full rust-colored Niger morocco, with..... #51358

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YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW MY LIFE

Loren, Sophia

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. First printing with full number line, SIGNED by Loren on the title page. Memoir by the Academy Award–winning..... #51355

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A MESSAGE TO GARCIA: BEING A PREACHMENT

Hubbard, Elbert

East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1914. Reissue. Softcover. Later Roycroft edition. Small 16mo. Flexible green leather binding with blind-stamped title and Roycroft device to front cover; decorative title page printed..... #51351

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LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF EMINENT ORATORS: WILLIAM PITT

Hubbard, Elbert

East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. The June 1903 installment of Little Journeys, Vol. XII, No. 6. Publisher's brown paper-covered boards with patterned cloth spine and printed..... #51350

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Book #51349] GRIDIRON GRENADIERS. Tim Cohane

GRIDIRON GRENADIERS The Story of West Point Football

Cohane, Tim

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1948. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. A history of more than half a century of football at the United States Military Academy, chronicling..... #51349

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LITTLE BLACK SAMBO

[Bannerman, Helen]

1932: The Platt & Munk Co., 1932. Reissue. Softcover. No. 3100-B. Early paperback reissue of this story, first published in 1899. The work is notorious for its racist caricatures of..... #51348

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MOCKINGBIRD.

Tevis, Walter.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. This dystopian novel by Tevis was nominated for a Nebula Award for Best Novel. Underappreciated machine dystopia by the..... #51338

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THE LAST WOLF & HERMAN: The Game Warden & The Death of a Craft

Krasznahorkai, László

New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2016. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Two haunting novellas by Nobel Prize–winning Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai. The Last Wolf (translated by George Szirtes)..... #51337

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Book #51335] BINTI; BINTI: HOME; BINTI: THE NIGHT MASQUERADE (ALL THREE BINTI FIRST HARDCOVER...

BINTI; BINTI: HOME; BINTI: THE NIGHT MASQUERADE (ALL THREE BINTI FIRST HARDCOVER EDITIONS).

Okorafor, Nnedi.

New York: Tor.com, 2018. First Hardcover Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. First printings of the first hardcover editions of all three books in the BINTI novella trilogy by acclaimed, award-winning..... #51335

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BEST PLAYS OF THE MODERN AMERICAN THEATRE SECOND SERIES

Gassner, John (editor)

New York: Crown Publishers, 1947. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Companion volume to Gassner’s influential 20 Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre, extending into the postwar period. Inscribed..... #51333

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TWENTY BEST PLAYS OF THE MODERN AMERICAN THEATRE

Gassner, John (editor)

New York: Crown Publishers, 1939. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Landmark theatrical anthology edited by critic and historian John Gassner, collecting significant American plays of the first half of..... #51332

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SCAVULLO ON BEAUTY

Scavullo, Francesco

New York: Random House, 1976. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed by Scavullo in 1977 on the front free-endpaper; also signed on the title page. Conversations between the photographer..... #51328

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SCAVULLO ON MEN

Scavullo, Francesco; Colacello, Bob

New York: Random House, 1977. First Edition / First Printing. Inscribed by Scavullo in 1977 on front free-endpape; and signed on the title page. Francesco Scavullo interviews and photographs leading..... #51327

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THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS

Vuong, Ocean

New York: Penguin Group, 2025. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Vuong on the title page. Author's second novel, following On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. Set in a...... #51322

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WILLIAM GRANT STILL AND THE FUSION OF CULTURES IN AMERICAN MUSIC

(Still, William Grant) Haas, Robert Bartlett (editor)

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Edition / First Printing. Introductions by Howard Hanson and Frederick Hall. Trade first edition, SIGNED by Still on the page facing the title..... #51321

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THE VENICE NOTEBOOK

Wright, Charles

Boston, MA: Barn Dream Press, 1971. First Edition / Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Poems. One of only 26 lettered copies that were specially bound from a total edition of 526..... #51313

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LES PIEDS DANS LE PLAT

Crevel, René

Paris: Éditions du Sagittaire, 1933. First edition. Softcover. First edition of surrealist novel. Small 8vo, printed wrappers. #51312

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K2 THE SAVAGE MOUNTAIN

Houston, M.D., Charles S.; Bates, Robert

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1954. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. First edition, warmly signed & inscribed by Charles Houston in 1955, thanking the recipient for his “help on..... #51310

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THE PRESIDENTS I HAVE KNOWN FROM 1860-1918

Wolf, Simon

Washington, DC: Press of Byron S. Adams, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, signed & inscribed by Simon Wolf in the year of publication (1918). A memoir and collection of..... #51309

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MORT À CRÉDIT

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Paris: Denoël et Steele, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Original French edition, published by Denoël et Steele in Paris in 1936. Professionally rebound into an attractive later hardcover binding. Front pastedown..... #51306

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WHEREABOUTS

Lahiri, Jhumpa

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED BY LAHIRI on a specially bound-in page by the publisher. Novel by the Pulitzer prize-winning author was..... #51301

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Book #50942] THE WORLD WE MAKE. N. K. Jemisin

THE WORLD WE MAKE Great Cities: Book Two

Jemisin, N. K.

New York: Orbit, 2022. Signed First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Barnes & Noble Exclusive edition with bonus content inside and SIGNED BY AUTHOR on a specially bound-in page. Second..... #50942

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THE CITY WE BECAME.

Jemisin, N. K.

New York: Orbit, 2020. Signed First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on a specially bound-in page by the publisher. Author's first novel since her triple Hugo Award..... #50337

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Book #51297] "JANUARY FIRST, A.D. 3000" in HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE Volume...

"JANUARY FIRST, A.D. 3000" in HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE Volume XII December 1855 to May 1856 (Le Monde tel qu'il sera - The World as it Shall Be - 1st US appearance)

Souvestre, Émile

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound volume of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume XII, December 1855 through May 1856. Subscriber's binding. Contains the January 1856 number..... #51297

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Book #51296] LES TEMPS MÊLÉS. Raymond Queneau

LES TEMPS MÊLÉS Gueule de Pierre II (INSCRIBED TO BRICE PARAIN)

Queneau, Raymond

Paris: Gallimard, N.R.F., 1941. First Edition / First Printing. Softcover. 181 pages. First edition. “S.P.” (service de presse) designation printed on the title page and the rear cover. SIGNED &..... #51296

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OBSERVATIONS IN ASIA

Grant, Percy Stickney

New York: Brentano's, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed & inscribed by the author on the title page in 1908. Travel book reflecting the author’s impressions of various parts of Asia..... #51295

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Book #51294] ROY LICHTENSTEIN: MURAL WITH BLUE BRUSHSTOKE. Roy Lichtenstein, Calvin Tomkins, Bob...

ROY LICHTENSTEIN: MURAL WITH BLUE BRUSHSTOKE (SIGNED BY LICHTENSTEIN)

Lichtenstein, Roy; Tomkins, Calvin; Adelman, Bob;

New York: Harry N Abrams Inc, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by Lichtenstein on the title page. Uncommon signed. 142 illustrations, including 130 plates in full color. With..... #51294

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