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Infinite Jest 1st Edition by David Foster Wallace Publisher Comments A new collection of stories from David Foster Wallace is occasion to celebrate. These stories -- which have been prominently serialized in Harper's, Esquire, the Paris Review, and elsewhere -- explore intensely immediate states of mind, with the... (read more) Your price: $250.00 Rare Books - Hardcover 
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All the Pretty Horses 1st Edition by Cormac McCarthy Publisher Comments Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton. The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of... (read more) Your price: $150.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Hear the Wind Sing 1st Edition by Haruki Murakami Notes Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., (1987). Duodecimo, 15 x 10.5 cm. 165pp. First English language edition (with the correct ISBN and with only "First edition, 1987" on the copyright page). Original white and grey patterned wrappers. In the original... (read more) Your price: $600.00 Rare Books - Trade Paper
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Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s Signed 1st Edition by Kurt Vonnegut Notes Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, (1991). Octavo, 15.5 x 23.5 cm, 240pp. Limited first edition, signed by the author on a tipped-in page at the front. Original full gray leather decorated in gilt, with moire endpapers and ribbon marker; all edges gilt. The... (read more) Your price: $300.00 Rare Books - Leather
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The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe 2 Volumes by Christoper Marlowe and Fredson Bowers Notes Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973. 2 volumes. Octavo, 14.5 x 22 cm. [xii],417pp; [vi],542pp. First edition thus. Original light blue cloth, spines stamped in gilt. In price-clipped dust jackets. Frontispiece in volume 1. Bindings lightly rubbed.... (read more) Your price: $200.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Of by Cid Corman Notes Venice, CA: Lapis Press, 1990. Octavo, 21.5 x 12.5. 749 pp. & 757 pp. Two volumes in stiff paper wrappers. Black cloth spines stamped in white. Housed in a black cloth-covered slipcase. Cloth lightly rubbed. Near fine condition... (read more) Your price: $150.00 Rare Books - Trade Paper
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Oliver Twist: or, The Parish Boy's Progress 1st Edition Mixed State 3 Volumes by Charles / Boz Dickens Notes London: Richard Bentley, 1838, 1st edition Mixed state. Rebound in half calf with blue pebbled cloth over boards. 4 raised bands on gilt stamped spines. Author listed as Boz. on title pages (1st state). Last plate in Vol.3 replaced with 'church' plate... (read more) Your price: $2000.00 Rare Books - Leather
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The Devil's Advocate 1st Edition by Taylor Caldwell Notes New York: Crown Publishers, (1952). Octavo, 21 x 13.5 cm. 375 pp. First edition. Publisher's brick cloth over boards, front board and spine stamped in gilt. In a dustjacket with 3.50 price present. Dustjacket lightly rubbed, soiled and edgeworn with a 1... (read more) Your price: $100.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Olla Podrida 3 Volumes 1st Edition by Frederick Marryat Notes London: Longman, Orme, Green, Brown & Longmans; 1840, 1st edition. 3 volumes. 1/2 bound in red leather with marbled paper over boards & marbled fore-edges. 5 raised bands on spines. Leather rubbed through to the boards underneath at corners, spine ends &... (read more) Your price: $70.00 Rare Books - Leather
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The Courtin' 1st Edition by James Russell Lowell Notes Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1874. Quarto 20 x 25 cm. First edition. Skillfully rebound in dark blue cloth over bevelled boards with most of the original cloth from the backstrip and boards retained and retaining the original endpapers as well... (read more) Your price: $100.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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South Street, 1st Edition Thus by William Gardner Smith Notes New York: Berkley Publishing Corp. (1955). Mass market 10.5 x 16 cm. 253pp. First edition thus as a paperback (Berkley Books G-4). Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers a bit edgeworn two corners creased. Spine slightly creased. Text block partly toned... (read more) Your price: $50.00 Rare Books - Mass Market
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The Big Rock Candy Mountain Signed Edition by Wallace Stegner Notes Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1978. Octavo, 16.5 x 24.5 cm, 733pp. Limited edition, signed by the author on a flyleaf tipped in at the front. Brown leather decorated in gilt; all edges gilt; brown moire endpapers; ribbon marker. Illustrated by... (read more) Your price: $125.00 Rare Books - Leather
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Flagons and Apples by Robinson Jeffers as John Robinson Jeffers Notes Los Angeles: Grafton Publishing Company, 1912. Octavo, 19.5 x 13.5 cm. 46 pp. One of 500 copies printed at the author's expense, as per Alberts pp. 11. Original cream-colored cloth backing stiff paper boards. Spine bearing paper label near head. Front... (read more) Your price: $350.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal First Series 4 Volumes: Spring 1895, Autumn 1895, Summer 1896 & Winter 1896-97 by Patrick Geddes Notes Edinburgh: Patrick Geddes and Colleagues, 1895 - 1897, Leather-covered card boards. Four volumes comprising the First Series as explained by tipped-in slip of paper in the Spring 1895, or first, issue. Leather of cover of Spring 1895 issue overhangs... (read more) Your price: $350.00 Rare Books - Leather
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A Prologue to America by Thomas Wolfe Notes Athens, Ohio: Croissant & Company, (1978). Number 73 of 100 produced. Stapled pamphlet with self wraps. Wraps lightly age-toned, blindstamp to front free endpaper. Very Good condition. CH... (read more) Your price: $100.00 Rare Books - Pamphlet
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Bibliographia Poetica: A Catalogue of Engleish Poets of the Twelfth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth & Sixteenth Centuries, 1st Edition by Joseph Ritson Notes London: C. Roworth 1802. First edition octavo recently rebound in black cloth with a brown leather spine label laid on. New endpapers top edge gilt; 402pp. A good copy with occasional foxing... (read more) Your price: $175.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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The Collected Strange Stories, Volume II by Robert Aickman Notes (Leyburn, UK): Tartarus Press, (2001). Octavo, 15.5 x 24 cm, 470pp. 2nd edition. Red paper-covered boards stamped in black. Spine cocked; top rear corner slightly bumped; some light rubbing and wear to the text block edges. Dust jacket lightly worn at... (read more) Your price: $350.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Concrete Island 1st Edition by J. G. Ballard Publisher Comments On a day in April, just after three o'clock in the afternoon, Robert Maitland's car crashes over the concrete parapet of a high-speed highway onto the island below, where he is injured and, finally, trapped. What begins as an almost ludicrous predicament... (read more) Your price: $150.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Samuel Beckett: The Grove Centenary Edition, 4 Volumes by Samuel Beckett Notes New York: Grove Press, (2006). 4 volumes, octavo, 15.5 x 23.5 cm. All volumes with blue paper over boards and black cloth backstrips stamped in silver and blind; housed in matching blue paper-covered slipcase. All volumes lightly rubbed with light wear... (read more) This Edition: SOLD OUT add to wish list |
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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens Notes London: Chapman and Hall, 1838. 8vo, 14.5 x 22 cm, 609pp. First edition, later issue. Contemporary half red morocco with marbled paper-covered boards. Rebacked with the original spine laid down; recent endpapers. With 43 black & white illustrations by R.... (read more) Your price: $400.00 Rare Books - Leather
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