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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey Signed Limited Edition
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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey Signed Limited Edition
by Chuck Palahniuk

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The Rant Limited Edition is specially packaged in a one-piece preprinted case, printed black, with the title created in spot gloss; a 4-color slipcase that matches the original jacket of the trade book; a 1/8" ribbon marker; a signed tip-in sheet...
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Look, Stranger! 1st Edition
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Look, Stranger! 1st Edition
by W. H. Auden

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London: Faber & Faber Limited, (1936). Octavo , 14x22cm. 68pp. First edition. Original grey cloth, spine gilt. In a price-clipped dust jacket. Cloth toned. Light wear at the corners and spine ends. Boards a bit bowed. Dust jacket with light rubbing and...
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The Master and Margarita, 1st Edition UK
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The Master and Margarita, 1st Edition UK
by Mikhail Bulgakov

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London: Collins & Harvill Press, (1967). Green cloth over boards, dustjacket printed in red, green & black. Corners bumped, spine slightly cocked. Notation in pen on front paste down. Light foxing to paste downs & endpapers. Dustjacket lightly soiled...
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Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
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Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
by Charles Dickens

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London: Richard Bentley, 1846. Octavo, red cloth. Fraying to cloth along rear joint, and at head of spine; covers soiled. xviii, 211pp. Bookplate to front pastedown endpaper; rear hinge cracked; some foxing, affecting plates; newspaper article tipped in...
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Dangling Man 1st Edition
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Dangling Man 1st Edition
by Saul Bellow

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New York: Vanguard Press, (1944). Octavo, 13x21cm. 191pp. First edition, the author's first book. Original beige cloth, spine and front board stamped in brown. Brown topstain. Lacking a dust jacket. Cloth toned along the spine and edges of the boards; a...
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The Works of George Meredith, Limited Edition (32 Volumes) and Limited Memorial Edition (Volumes 33-36 and Box of Illustrations)
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The Works of George Meredith, Limited Edition (32 Volumes) and Limited Memorial Edition (Volumes 33-36 and Box of Illustrations)
by George Meredith

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Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1896-1911. 37 volumes, 8vos, various paginations. Volumes 1-32 are a limited and numbered edition, #903 of 1025, published in 1896, 1897 and 1898. Volumes 33-36 and the 37th volume, which is book-shaped box...
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An Island in the Moon Limited Edition
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An Island in the Moon Limited Edition
by William Blake

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1987). Folio, 20x32cm. [viii],110pp. Limited edition, number 663 of 750 copies. Original blue buckram, spine stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Manuscript facsimiles throughout, and with the entire manuscript...
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The Letters of Charles Lamb, with a Sketch of His Life, 2 Volumes
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The Letters of Charles Lamb, with a Sketch of His Life, 2 Volumes
by Thomas Noon Talfourd

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London: Edward Moxon, 1937. 12mo. Half blue morocco with light blue cloth boards; raised bands & gilt decorative spine panels; top edges gilt. Corners lightly bumped; rubbing to extremities & joints. 2 volumes. x, 335pp; 338pp. Engraved frontispiece...
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Canons of Criticism, and Glossary; the Trial of the Letter Y [
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Canons of Criticism, and Glossary; the Trial of the Letter Y ["upsion"], alias Y, and Sonnets: 6th Edition
by Thomas Edwards

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London: C. Bathurst, 1758 6th Edition rebound in dark blue cloth with original leather spine label lain on. Some foxing to title page. Very Good/NA...
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Christopher Unborn Signed Limited Edition
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Christopher Unborn Signed Limited Edition
by Carlos Fuentes

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New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux; 1989. First American edition. Red cloth with gilt titles, in publisher's slipcase. Number 145 of 150 copies, signed by the author on the limitation page. Very good in very good slipcase. cc...
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Gilead 1st Edition Inscribed
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Gilead 1st Edition Inscribed
by Marilynne Robinson

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. Hardcover. First edition, first printing; briefly inscribed by the author on the title page. Very good in very good jacket. cc...
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Sailor Song 1st Edition Signed
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Sailor Song 1st Edition Signed
by Ken Kesey

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New York: Viking, 1992. First Edition. DJ bumped at head of spine and at top corners, front and back. Some yellowing to page edges. Book slightly cocked. Signed and dated: Ken Kesey, 1992. Good/Good. JI, Indy RDE....
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The R.B. Adam Library Relating to Samuel Johnson, LL.D. 3 Volumes
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The R.B. Adam Library Relating to Samuel Johnson, LL.D. 3 Volumes
by R B Adam

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London & New York: Oxford University Press, 1929. 3vol, 4tos. Blue cloth, teg, illustrations and reproductions of letters and manuscripts throughout. Ex-library copy. Corners rubbed lightly, white call numbers on spine, card pockets, some stimple stamps....
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The Mother's Assistant and Young Ladies Friend
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The Mother's Assistant and Young Ladies Friend
by Mary G. Halpine and C. Stone and William C. Brown

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Boston: Stone & Halpine, 1854. Octavo, 15x23cm. [214pp] + 206pp. Contemporary full red morocco elaborately decorated in gilt. All edges gilt. Contains fiction, poetry, advice, music and illustrations for young ladies, arranged in two parts. With 12 steel...
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The Golden Legend, 1st Edition
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The Golden Legend, 1st Edition
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852. 12mo, 12x18cm, 301pp. 1st edition, 2nd state with 1852 in Roman numerals on the title page, and all points of the first edition as per BAL 12102. Red cloth binding matching BAL's description but in a variant color;...
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The Man with the Miraculous Hands: Henry Miller's Copy
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The Man with the Miraculous Hands: Henry Miller's Copy
by Joseph Kessel

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, (1961). Octavo, 14x21cm. [xvi],235pp. First edition, association copy: Henry Miller's book, with his ink ownership stamp and handwriting on the flyleaf. Original quarter grey cloth, grey paper over boards. Lacking a...
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Maurizius Forever Limited Edition
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Maurizius Forever Limited Edition
by Henry Miller

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San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1946. Small quarto, 18x25cm. [78pp]. Limited edition, one of 500 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Original green paper over boards, front board and spine stamped in white. Deckled fore-edge. With color illustrations...
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The Dew-Drop of the Sunny South: A Story Written From Every Day Life
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The Dew-Drop of the Sunny South: A Story Written From Every Day Life
by Caroline E. Rush

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Philadelphia: For the Authoress by Crissy & Markley, 1851. Octavo, 120x190mm. viii + 9-213pp. First edition. Original full black cloth decorated in gilt. All edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece. Spine rubbed and cocked, spine ends worn. Boards rubbed, worn...
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Copper Sun Signed Limited 1st Edition
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Copper Sun Signed Limited 1st Edition
by Countee Cullen

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1927. Octavo, 13x20cm. 89pp. First edition, number 53 of 100 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. Original black cloth spine and corners, yellow paper over boards, printed paper label on the spine. Lacking the...
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Corregidora 1st Edition
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Corregidora 1st Edition
by Gayl Jones

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New York: Random House, 1975. First edition VG/VG: An exceptionally clean & crisp copy, likely unread, with the only detraction being some very light foxing alongtopedge. DJ is beautiful, with just one small, closed tearalong front bottom corner...
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