Small, square quarto (20cm). Original printed wrappers; unpaged [16 leaves]; chiefly illustrations. Presentation inscription from Jung to Bernarda Shahn on half-title: "For auld lang syne: to Ben's memory & with appreciation for your artistry & friendship: Theo, 12.xi.76." Fine copy.
Second issue, with "Devine" on Contents page. Octavo (19cm); red ribbed cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and front cover, with small blind-stamped publisher's device to lower quadrant of spine panel; dustjacket; 217pp. Slight lean to spine; spine ends and corners touched, still a pleasing, fresh copy in the original.....
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First Printing, one of reportedly only 500 copies (per Ahearn). Octavo; rough beige cloth, titled and ruled in gilt and green, with printed paper title label on front panel; green topstain; dustjacket; 120pp; illus. Topstain slightly faded, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly edge-rubbed, with a few short tears, and.....
Octavo (20cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket by E. Lucchesi; 287pp. Upper jacket panel a bit rubbed with two closed tears to top edge, one just touching text without loss; minor soil to upper cover cloth, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Posthumous collection of short.....
First Impression. Octavo; blue-gray paper over boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 280pp. A triffle sunned at spine and upper board edges, else very Near Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket, with some trivial sunning to yellow spine lettering. The sixth Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novel.....
Octavo (21cm.); original simulated cloth in pale blue and white pictorial dust jacket; xvi,[2],299pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and worn with clean one-inch loss to top edge of upper cover not touching text or image, some minor dust-soil. Near Fine in an About Very Good copy of the scarce.....
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Octavo (21cm); red textured cloth boards, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; frontispiece, [8],146,[6]pp; illus. Neat, contemporary owners name to front endpaper, crown gently nudged, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.50), spine-sunned and edgeworn, with a few tiny nicks to extremities, two small.....
Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's cloth in blue and grey pictorial price-clipped dust jacket by Irene Hawkins, grey topstain; [6],348pp. Some light chipping to jacket extremities, else Near Fine. Theological novel by the Canadian author and television personality.
Octavo (20.5cm.); original dark green gilt-embossed cloth, top edge gilt; v,[3],515pp.; engraved frontispiece and full-page map. Spine a hint cocked, some foxing to preliminaries else Very Good to Near Fine. Contemporary ownership inscription of an N. (or W.?) D'Oyly Gaby to front free endpaper. The Wessex Novels Vol. VIII. PURDY.....
First Printing. Octavo; 3/4 lime green paper over quarter beige cloth, with titles stamped in copper foil on spine; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 240pp. Signed by Hiaasen on the title page. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket.
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); rough blue cloth with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 244pp. Laid into this copy is a half-page typed letter, signed, addressed to literary editor Aaron Asher (dated October 21, 1959). Hint of a lean, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly.....
Octavo (19.5cm.); original simulated cloth in white pictorial dust jacket, purple topstain; 314pp.; frontispiece. A few closed tears to jacket extremities, the longest measuring approx. 3/4" at top edge of upper panel touching the "P" in "Pirates," minor rubbing, a bit of dust-soil and foxing, red lettering to spine almost.....
Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's unbound signatures, all edges untrimmed, laid into the casing for the trade binding [casing is only black cloth over boards, without pastedowns]; [iv],303,[5]pp. Scattered foxing to text edges, preliminary and terminal leaves; casing with splits along joints and light external wear; Very Good+.
Photogravure print of four frontally nude women embracing. Anonymously published, and without any identifying markings (as is typical for such images). Mild toning to margins; image Near Fine.
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First Printing. Octavo (20cm); light brown cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in white, dark yellow, and hunter green on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x,339pp; frontispiece and 14 plates of illustrations. Brief contemporary (1914) pencil inscription to front endpaper, spine ends gently nudged, with rubbing to white spine lettering.....
Board game, consisting of one (1) game board (21.5" x 22"), set of two (2) red acrylic dice, 41 round and square painted wood pieces in black, white, green, red, yellow, blue, and brown (one black piece replaced), 17 game cards (2.25" x 3.75", printed on rectos only), and original.....
Quarto (28.75cm); full black cloth, with titling and artist's facsimile signature stamped in white on spine and front cover; illustrated endpapers; dustjacket; 143,[1]pp; illus; text is in French and English. Inscribed by the artist to Broadway star Sondra Lee on the first blank page ("Pour Sondra / trés amicalement /.....
First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth, pictorial paper plates printed in blue and black mounted to upper cover and spine, cream pictorial dust jacket; vi,378pp.; two-toned frontispiece, illus. throughout, pictorial endpapers. Jacket a bit dust-soiled and rubbed at extremities, minor chipping at spine ends, else Very Good or better. "An.....
Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial price-clipped, later issue dustjacket mentioning the Pulitzer Prize; 128pp.; illustrated endpapers, title page printed in blue and black. Some minor wear to jacket extremities, horizontal tear one inch below spine crown, jacket and cloth spine a bit faded; textblock fine. Very Good. Pulitzer Prize-winning.....
Oblong quarto (23cm x 29cm); cloth boards; dustjacket; 294p. Inscribed by the artist on front endpaper to artist Bernarda Bryson Shahn: "Dear Bernarda / Congratulations on your retrospective! this book is the result of my retrospective last year / with love Leah Dubin Schwartz," undated but obviously contemporary. Fine copy.....
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Octavo (19.5cm.); pubilsher's white pictorial cloth stamped in black; 306,[18]pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece of "Marie Rosicky." Board extremities heavily rubbed with loss at spine ends, both hinges cracked, shallow chipping to front free endpaper (toned and brittle due to inferior stock); a Good copy, internally sound. Green printed errata slip.....
Octavo (19.25cm); pictorial wrappers; 128pp; illus. Tanning to text edges (as is typically seen with this series), light dustiness and marginal wear to extremities, with a faint damp mark to right edge of front wrapper; a well-preserved, Very Good+ copy.
Folio (41.5cm); printed card wrappers, stapled; [34pp]; illus; text is in French. Light wear and thumbing to extremities, with some dustiness to rear wrapper; spinal extremities and two chips to rear wrapper expertly restored; Very Good.
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First Printing, issued without price or location, with the statement "Printed underground in the U.S. for the people" at lower margin of title page. Octavo (25.75cm); red and black printed wrappers; [x],152,[2]pp; illus. Light wear, some creasing, and tiny tears to yapped edges, faint vertical crease toward left edge of.....
