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More Fables
Ade, George
Chicago Herbert S. Stone 1900 First Hardcover Very Good+ no dust jacket Jacket Clyde J. Newman, Illustrator Signed
First Edition, decorated American trade binding, SIGNED by author, and SIGNED by illustrator with added original sketch. Small book (approx. 6" x 4-1/2"). Yellow cloth boards with green and black decoration, lettering and line border on cover, black lettering on spine. Hint of very light soiling. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt top page edges. Very tasteful small custom bookplate on front pastedown. Illustrated by Clyde J. Newman. Lovely small original ink sketch of woman in an apron by Clyde J. Newman with his signature below with date Nov. 13, 1900 is on back of blank fly leaf. Opposite this, on the front free endpaper, is inscription and signature of author: "To The Gussys - George Ade - Chicago - Nov. 19, 1900." 218 pages. 023449
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150.00 USD
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The Stone Mason of Tor House - The Life and Times of Robinson Jeffers
Bennett, Melba Berry
New York The Ward Ritchie Press 1966 Later printing Hardcover Near Fine Very Good+ Jacket Signed
Very clean book SIGNED by the author in original unclipped jacket. Later printing (no statement of edition). Clean unfaded black cloth boards with gold decoration on cover, gold letteirng on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by author: "For Dan McCall - Warm Regards, Melba Berry Bennett." Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. 264 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped (10.00 on front inside flap), very slight edge wear and a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. First full-length biography of Robinson Jeffers, one of the great American poets. 022152
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40.00 USD
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Phantom Soldiers
Brown, Raymond L
New York / London Drake Publishers 1975 087749777X / 9780877497776 First Hardcover Very Good+ Very Good Jacket
First Edition, in clean unclipped jacket. Clean red boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking; pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names,writing or marks. 184 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Clean jacket is not price clipped (9.95 on front inside flap), slight edge wear, several short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A fascinating blend of military fact and fantasy from the Stone Age to the Present. Tells of ghosts from the Stone Age to the present day, and also describes manyt occult practices and superstitions of the world's armies. 019503
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The Sea and the Stone
Clift, Charmian and George Johnston
Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1955 First Hardcover Near Fine Very Good Jacket
Stated First Edition in original unclipped dust jacket. Clean red cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 366 pages. Dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped (3.95 on front inside flap), Slight browning to spine and bottom rear edge. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A novel set in the timeless Greek isles amongst the sponge divers and fleet as their market crumbles with the introduction of synthetic sponge. 025038
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25.00 USD
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The Art of the Stonemason
Cramb, Ian
Betterway Publications 1992 1558702253 / 9781558702257 First Paperback Near Fine
Clean large paperback. No creasing or curling; all pages and edges are clean and bright - no names, writing or marks. Thoroughly illustrated with photographs, drawings. 174 pages. Size is approx. 8-1/2" x 11". Author is a fifth generation stonemason who relies on the old methods of buildign to create and restore beautiful structures that will last for centuries. 027084
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The Seeing Stone
Crossley-Holland, Kevin
New York Arthur A. Levine Books 2001 0439263263 / 9780439263269 First Hardcover Fine Near Fine Jacket
Stated First American Edition with correct number line (first printing). Smooth black boards with illustration on cover, gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright; no names, writing or marks. Clean map-illustrated endpapers. 342 pages. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, small price clip to upper corner of front inside flap. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A novel set in the time of King Arthur, with interesting and complex characters and a spellbinding story. 022036
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20.00 USD
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Verdicts Out of Court
Darrow, Clarence
Chicago Quadrangle 1963 First Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Jacket
Clean blue and red cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Hint of wear at top and bottom spine edge, no fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. 448 pgs. Edited with an introduction by Arthur & Lila Weinberg. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has slight edge wear and a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. "A fascinating collection of Darrow's writings, showing the wide range and the impact of his thinking on the Armerican character." - Irving Stone Lage 8vo. Law. 015441
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The Salmon Rivers of Scotland
Derek Mills; Neil Graesser
Stone Wall Press 1984 0913276499 / 9780913276495 First Hardcover Fine Fine Jacket
Second Impression in clean unclipped dust jacket. Very clean green boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Thoroughly illustrated with drawings and maps (including many fold-out maps in excellent condition). 339 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. 026654
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Your House in Needlepoint
Farlie, Barbara L; Sloan, Constance
Indianapolis / New York Bobbs Merrill 1976 0672520559 / 9780672520556 First Hardcover Fine Near Fine Jacket
First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Very clean beige cloth boards with red lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Needlepoint photographs by Otto Maya; drawings by Jill Weber. 142 pages with index. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped - enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Dozens of how-to diagrams, charts, drawings and 12 exquisite full color portraits--teaching you how to portray your own house: true in every detail down to the very textures of brick or stone or wooden siding, of windows, doors, tile or shingle roof--even of the shrubs and trees around it. 027431
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Teresa or Her Demon Lover
Gray, Austin K.
New York Scribners 1945 First Hardcover Very Good+ Good Jacket Signed
First Edition, First Printing, SIGNED by author, in original unclipped jacket. "A" indicating first printing appears on copyright page. Clean red cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. Fading to top spine edge and small line of fading just below center of spine. No fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper: "To Frank R. Stone with kind regards from Austin K. Gray - Nov. 9, 1945." Illustrated with black and white plates. 385 pages with index. Colorfully illustrated jacket is not price clipped (3.50 on front inside flap), has up to 1/2" chipping at top spine edge, narrow ragged chip at spine center, edge wear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The biography of Te3resa Guiccioli, the last of Lord Byron's "ladies." Their love affair lasted over four years, four times as long as any of Byron's other alliances -- and was terminated only by his sailing for Greece to meet his death at Missolonghi. 022847
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A Pioneer Through Time
Heilig, Matthias R.
New York The American Press 1963 First Hardcover Fine Very Good+ Jacket
Stated First Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Orange cloth boards are clean, with crisp black lettering on spine. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages are clean and bright with clean blank endpapers - no names, writing or marks, top of pages (top text block edge) has faint water stain. 314 pages. Dust jacket has very slight soiling to rear panel (faint water mark at top edge), one short closed edge tear, tiny chip at base of rear panel edge, size of match head. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The hero of this intriguing novel is literally immortal, a Stone Age man who, through some mysterious agency, is destined to live from his time to our own, traveling through all of humanity's past experiments in civilization. 027400
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Bonaparte in Egypt
Herold, J. Christopher
New York Harper & Row 1962 First Hardcover Very Good+ Very Good+ Jacket
Stated First Edition in original unclipped dust jacket. Clean blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear, slight fading to edges. Binding is tight, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with decorated endpapers (small previous owner name at top edge of front free endpaper). Preface by the author. Illustrated with maps, black and white plates. 424 pages with index + "About the Author" on last page. Clean dust jacket has slight edge wear, not price clipped, tiny loss from chipping at top and bottom spine edges (1/16"). Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The French expedition to Egypt which Bonapart launched in 1798 was one of the most exciting, most harrowing, most futile, and yet most fruitful adventures in modern times, and the three years of occupation left a lasting mark on Egypt. With the armed forces came a group of experts--the so-called Scientific and Artistic Commission--which included some of the most brilliant scholars and scientists of the time. In incredibly adverse circumstances, these men put their talents at the service of the army of occupation, of Egypt, and of knowledge. It was they who discovered the glories of ancient Egypt, who studied for the first time the colossal ruins of Luxor and Karnak as well as the Rosetta Stone, who surveyed the Isthmus of Suez with a view to building a canal, and who collected enough data to fill nine large volumes of text and fourteen volumes of plates. It was because of them that the expedition was something more than a futile and criminal waste of lives. 027980
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The Peach Stone: Stories from Four Decades
Horgan, Paul
New York Farrar Straus & Giroux 1967 First Hard Cover Near Fine Good+ Jacket
Clean black cloth boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or bookplates. 470 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, slight edge wear, some closed tears at folds, chip at rear spine corner. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Short Stories. 009727
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The Hills Were Liars
Hughes, Riley
Milwaukee, Wisconsin Bruce Publishing 1953 First Hardcover Very Good+ Very Good+ Jacket
First Edition in original unclipped dust jacket. Turquoise cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. No fraying or wear, slightest hint of browning to spine. Binding is tight, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. 250 pages. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped, has very slight edge wear, 1" closed tear at top of front flap fold. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A novel of the post-atomic age, when civilization has been almost completely destroyed and the only people who remain are widely scattered "islands of humanity" living very much the way they did in the Stone Age. 026519
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Legacy in Stone: The Rideau Corridor
Humphreys, Barbara and Fiona Spalding-Smith
Erin, Ontario, Canada Boston Mills Press 1999 155046213X / 9781550462135 First Hardcover Fine Very Good+ Jacket Fiona Spalding-Smith, Photographer
First Edition in unclipped dust jacket. Clean unfaded black cloth boards with bright silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright with clean endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated with full color photographs by Fiona Spalding-Smith. 96 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, has one short closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Stretching some 200 kilometres between Kingston and Ottawa, the Rideau Corridor encompasses a wealth of rural charm. At its heart, the Rideau Canal connects a series of rivers and lakes to create one of the most picturesque waterways on the continent. Throughout the nineteenth century, hundreds of buildings were constructed here of stone, because of its availability and the number of skilled masons who remained in the area after their work on the Canal. Photographer Fiona Spalding-Smith and historian Barbara Humphreys have chosen as examples many fine structures that demonstrate the incomparable beauty, versatility, endurance and strength of stone. 027365
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Mark it with a Stone
Martin, George Victor
New York Frederick Fell, Inc. 1947 First Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Jacket
Stated First Edition. Bright yellow cloth boards with brown lettering on spine. A little darkening along front spine gutter. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. No names, writing or bookplates. 202 pgs. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has small chips at top and bottom of spine, a few short closed edge tears, slight sunning to spine. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. 8vo. Fiction. 010434
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75.00 USD
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The Corner Stone
McCarter, Margaret Hill
Chicago A. C. McClurg 1915 Fourth Printing softcover Near Fine J. Allen St. John, Illustrator
Lovely decorated softcover book in original clean decorated box. Stiff boards with yellow wheat design, green and brown lettering on cover. Gorgeous decorated endpapers. Illustrations, including full color frontispiece, illustrated chapter pages by J. Allen St. John. 100 pages. Box is clean with very little wear, a little cracking to edges of box base. A very nice collectible quality item, scarce in this condition. 024144
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When Valmond Came to Pontiac - The Story of A Lost Napoleon
Parker, Gilbert
Chicago Stone & Kimball 1895 First Hardcover Very Good No Dust jacket
Clean decorated American trade binding (cover by Bruce Rogers). Green cloth boards with gold floral and wreath decoration on cover, gold lettering on spine. Light surface wear to spine corners and edges. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean, with gilt top page edges. 222 pages. In clear protective mylar cover. 022370
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