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RANEY. A Novel
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY CLYDE EDGERTON ON TITLE PAGE. A Fine copy in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. $12.95 price on front flap of Dust Jacket. 227 pp. Author's First Book. More
THE HISTORY AND POETRY OF FINGER RINGS
New York: Redfield, 1855. First Edition. Hard Cover. Small Octavo. Color frontispiece, 239pp., (12)pp. ads at rear.textual illustrations. Bound in publisher's light maroon cloth, spine gilt and evenly sunned to tan extending a bit to rear board; contemporary owner's name in pencil to front free endpaper, and small owner's stamp..... More
Wrath in Burma. The Uncensored Story of General Stilwell and International Maneuvers in the Far East (Signed)
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1946. First Edition. 8vo, 320 pages, original green cloth, spine printed in gilt; dust jacket with $3.00 price on front flap, map end papers. SIGNED by the author on half-title. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind; bookplate. More
Daniel Deronda. Four Volumes.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876. First Edition. Eight volumes in four. A complete set. Publisher's variant red cloth; first issue, without inserted "contents" leaves, volume I, page 83, line 2 with misprint "reponsive" and errata tipped-in after title page of volume II (part III). Yellow coated end..... More
THE SPANISH GYPSY. A Poem
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Hard Cover. Small Octavo. Author's Edition, from Advanced Sheets. Bound in original green cloth with gilt lettering spine, front cover. Light wear at extremities and lower spine. 287 pp. More
The Confidential Clerk, A Play
London: Faber & Faber, 1954. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. First issue, with "Ihad" on page 7, and in first issue dust jacket. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. More
EZRA POUND: HIS METRIC AND POETRY
New York; 1917 [but Pub. 1918]: Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. 31pp. Bound in rose colored paper covered boards with gilt lettering front cover. Minimal sun and soil covers. Small bookstore stamp to front endsheets. A very good copy written anonymously by T.S. Eliot, but Ezra Pound..... More
THE USE OF POETRY AND THE USE OF CRITICISM, Studies in the relation of Criticism to Poetry in England
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. 149pp., bound in burgundy cloth, spine lettering gilt, previous owner's name, slight damp staining to last few leaves on very edge of out margins, a very good copy in unclipped dust jacket showing heavy damp staining with..... More
ROYAL BLOODLINE: ELLERY QUEEN, AUTHOR AND DETECTIVE
Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. SIGNED AND DATED ON TITLE PAGE BY FRANCIS M. NEVINS, JR. without personaization. No dust jacket as issued. Very good copy bound in yellow cloth with black lettering spine and front cover. Mild soil and stains covers. Previous..... More
Blood on the Moon (Inscribed)
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. 263 pages; SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on FFEP to mystery collector Arthur Parson; pictorial dust jacket, with $14.95 on front flap. First edition stated. A beautiful copy of the author's first U.S. hardcover book. More
OPENING CHAPTERS OF WHITE JAZZ. A Novel
New York: Knopf, 1992. Original Wraps. Octavo. SIGNED BY JAMES ELLROY ON TIPPED-IN BOOKPLATE without personalization. Avance Excerpts. Fine in original wrappers. 26 pp. More
THE BIG NOWHERE
New York: Mysterious Press, 1988. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "TO ARTHUR H. PARSON - THIS BOOK EATS SOULS!" BY JAMES ELLROY ON HALF TITLE PAGE. $17.95 price on dust jacket front flap. A near fine book in a fine dust jacket. 406 pp..... More
THE BLACK DAHLIA
New York/London: The Mysterious Press, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "BLOOD CRUD!" BY JAMES ELLROY ON TITLE PAGE without personalization. 325pp. Bound in 1/4 black cloth over light purple paper covered boards, spine lettering purple foil. A fine First Edition First Printing in..... More
THE BLACK DAHLIA
New York/London: The Mysterious Press, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "To / Arthur H. Parson - / Fear / This / Book!" BY JAMES ELLROY ON FFEP. 325pp. Bound in 1/4 black cloth over light purple paper covered boards, spine lettering purple foil..... More
WOMAN IN AMERICA: Her Character and Position as Indicated By Newspaper Editorials and Sustained By American Social Life
Cincinnati: AuthorHouse, 1857. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. 215pp. Bound in publisher's brown embossed cloth, spine gilt. A fine copy. Emerson presents news articles, court hearings and various other subects pertaining to the life of the 19th century American woman. More
GEOLOGY OF BIKINI AND NEARBY ATOLLS [complete in two parts]
Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1954. Original Wraps. Quarto. Part one-Geology: 263pp., black and white photographic plates 1-64, bound in original gray printed wraps. Part two: Circulation Systems of Bikini and Rongelap Lagoons by William S. Von Arx, Adjustment of Bikini Atoll to Ocean Waves by W. Munk and..... More
Introduction to Egyptian Archaeology, with Special Reference to the Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Cairo: L'Institut Francais D'Archeologie Orientale, 1946. First Edition. Hard Cover. Octavo. Bound in green cloth spine over beige printed boards. Inscribed by the author's wife. Folding map and 2 folding plates. A very good++ copy with minimal soil and edge wear covers. Issued without dust jacket. More
UNCLE SAM in the Eyes of His Family
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1930. Hard Cover. Octavo. SIGNED BY JOHN ERSKINE ON COLOPHON PAGE without personalization. Autographed edition with one page of original typed manuscript corrected and initialed by the author. LIMITED EDITION OF 356 COPIES. THIS IS No. 238. 351pp. Bound in rust colored cloth over beveled boards..... More
Adam and Eve. Though He Knew Better
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1927. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED WITH A BIBLICAL VERSE ON FEP BY JOHN ERSKINE. 338 pp. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket, with mild chips. More
Sudden Country (Signed)
New York: Doubleday & Company, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. octavo, 182 pages; SIGNED by the author, without personalization on the title page; first edition stated, with full number line. Pictorial dust jacket with price of $15.00 on front flap. Internally clean and bright - as new..... More
The Horse Whisperer [ with Publisher's Promotional Cassette and Custom Clamshell box)
New York (1995): Delacorte Press. First Edition. Original Wrappers. "Advance Reading Copy From Uncorrected Proofs" - first printing, wiith complete number line. Publisher's pictorial wrappers, with publisher's wrap-around band with the word "Believe" on it [together with] publisher's cassette tape still wrapped in cellophane and with the word "Believe" on..... More
Fifty Years. Being a Retrospective ...of Novels, Tales,,,, All Drawn from....Alfred and Blanche Knopf
New York: Alfred A . Knopf, 1965. First Edition. HardCover with Dust Jacket. Large Octavo. Dust jacket, with price of $10.00 on front flap and a couple of short closed tears; yellow on spine ever so slightly faded. "H" stamped on ffep. Stated first edition. 1088 pp. More
The Ships and Aircraft of the United States Fleet
New York: Ships and Aircraft, 1944. Octavo, 80 pages; original blue pictorial wrappers.Second [World] War Edition. Illustrated in black and white. Staple bound. More
BEWARE THE CURVES
New York: William Morrow, 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Octavo. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Dust Jacket by Bill Hughes. 224 pp. A Bertha Cool and Donald Lam mystery. Price of $2.95 on front flap. More