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SAINT CROIX NOTES - River Mornings, Radio Nights

By: Adams, Noah

Price: $22.00

Publisher: New York, W W Norton & Co Inc: 1990

Edition: First

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 025420

ISBN: 0393029050

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Stated First Edition (and First Printing, with full number line), SIGNED by author, in clean unclipped dust jacket. Very clean purple boards with lighter purple cloth spine, silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean endpapers. Inscribed and signed by author on half-title page: "To Gretchen - Someone who care about the weather - the animals and memories of the land - With Thanks - Noah 11/5/90." 221 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new a...
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This Generation: A Selection of British and American Literature from 1914 to the Present with Historical and Critical Essays

By: Anderson, George K. And Eda Lou Walton

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Scott, Foresman and Company: 1939

Edition: First

Seller ID: 016829

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Clean rust brown cloth boards with blue circular title box on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Very small previous owner name neatly penned at top edge of front free endpaper; no other marks. 975 pgs. with index of first lines. Includes works by Robert Frost, Henry Louis Mencken, George Santayana, Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gertrude Stein, Katherine Mansfield, Archibald MacLeish, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, William Faulkner and many more. approx. 7" x 10". Literature.
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Change! 71 Glimpses of the Future

By: Asimov, Isaac

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1981

Edition: First

Seller ID: 014800

ISBN: 0-395-31545-X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Clean green cloth boards with bright silver lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & crisp, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 201 pgs. Clean silver dustjacket is not price clipped, no chips, no wear, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Essays on the future in space, science, aging, the environment, sexuality and more by the great Isaac Asimov. 8vo. Science.
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Spring Jaunts - Some Walks, Excursions & Personal Explorations of Town, Country & Seashore

By: Bailey, Anthony

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1986

Edition: First

Seller ID: 018598

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

"First Edition, 1986" on copyright page. Clean green boards with clean beige cloth spine, bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 239 pgs. Clean dustjacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A collection which contains some of the best work that Anthony Bailey has done for The New Yorker. His descriptive journeys include the Isle of Wight, a dawn-to-dusk stroll along the New Hampshire coast, and...
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Modern Daughters - Conversations with Various American Girls and One Man

By: Black, Alexander

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1899

Edition: First

Seller ID: 021823

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First Edition. Maroon cloth boards with decorative oval portrait in black and white on cover of a beautiful young woman, gold decoration; gold lettering on spine. Some fading to spine and upper board edges. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright, with gilt top edges. Silk endpapers, with tasteful previous owner bookplate at upper corner of front fixed endpaper, name and date (Dec. 25th, 1899) at top of front free endpaper. Frontis portrait of a second young girl with clean tissue guard.Designs and photographic illustrations by...
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On the Edge of the Wild: Passions and Pleasures of a Naturalist

By: Bodio, Stephen J.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Lyons Press: 1998

Edition: First

Seller ID: 029065

ISBN: 1558216480

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition, First Printing (with full number line) in clean unclipped dust jacket. Beige boards are clean but for faint partial ring stain on rear board, with clean black spine, red lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no names or bookplates ("1998" written in ink by publisher's name on title page). 199 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Thought-provoking essays center on living on t...
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Image for Boswell's Column - Being his Seventy Contributions to the London Magazine under the pseudonym The Hypochondriack from 1777 to 1783 here First Printed in Book Form in England

Boswell's Column - Being his Seventy Contributions to the London Magazine under the pseudonym The Hypochondriack from 1777 to 1783 here First Printed in Book Form in England

By: Boswell (Introduction and Notes by Margery Bailey)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, William Kimber: 1951

Edition: First

Seller ID: 028248

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First Edition hardcover book in original unclipped dust jacket. Clean red cloth-covered boards with gold lettering on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers - no names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated with black & white drawings. 359 pages. Clean jacket has some small edge chips, mostly at top and bottom spine edges, is not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. During the years 1777 to 1783 Boswell contributed seventy papers to The London Magazine under th...
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Then & Now: Quaker Essays: Historical and Contemporary

By: Brinton, Anna

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press: 1960

Edition: First

Seller ID: 007588

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

First Edition in original dust jacket. Pale green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Clean, with a few faint white specks to boards. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Previous owner name in very tiny print at top edge of front free endpaper. 352 pgs. with index. Clean dustjacket is not price clipped, has slight age-toning to white edges, small corner chips and 1/3" closed tear at top of spine. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover.
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A Few Brass Tacks

By: Bromfield, Louis

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York/ London, Harper & Brothers: 1946

Edition: First

Seller ID: 015617

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Stated First Edition in unclipped jacket. Black cloth boards with gold title box on spine. No bumping or wear. Faintest hint of light soiling. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 303 pgs. Unchipped dustjacket is not price clipped, with just a hint of slightest edge wear and very slight soiling, one 1/4" closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Louis Bromfield, Pulitzer Prize winning author, on some answers to the political, economic and social problems of America and the world. 8v...
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A Few Brass Tacks

By: Bromfield, Louis

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1946

Edition: First

Seller ID: 020813

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

"First Edition" stated on copyright page, in original jacket. Clean black cloth boards with gold title box on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 303 pp. Clean dustjacket is price clipped at upper corner of front inside flap, clean (age-toning to white rear panel), shallow chipping to top spine edge, fading to red background on spine. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Louis Bromfield's essays on the political, economic and social problems of the time ...
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Sunshot - Peril And Wonder in the Gran Desierto (The Southwest Center Series)

By: Broyles, Bill

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona Press: 2006

Edition: First

Seller ID: 025684

ISBN: 0816525242

Binding: Paperback

Beautiful large trade paperback with French flaps. Text by Bill Broyles. Photographs by Michael P. Berman. No fading, chipping or creasing. Binding is tight, pages and edges are clean and bright. Small stamp mark at lower corner of half-title page: "Donated by the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute's Nature Writing Award Program." No other marks. Illustrated with gorgeous photographs throughout. 245 pages. Over the years, Bill Broyles has ventures into the sunshot territory of Northern Mexico, slogged across its salt flats and sand dunes, defied its deadly heat. These are his...
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Fernand Leger

By: Buck, Robert T.; Edward F. Fry; Charlotta Kotik (essays)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery/Abbeville Press: 1982

Edition: First

Seller ID: 013461

ISBN: 0-89659-254-5

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near FIne

Clean bright softbound book with no creasing, curling or chipping. Binding is tight, pages and edges are clean and bright. No names, writing or bookplates. 161 pgs. Illustrated throughout with color plates. Brochure from the exhibition at Albright-Knox Gallery enclosed. 9" x 11". Art.
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Resistance, Rebellion, and Death

By: Camus, Albert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1969

Edition: Second Modern Library Edition

Seller ID: 028233

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Modern Library No. 339 in clean unclipped dust jacket. Toledano binding no. 14. Translated from the French and with an Introduction by Justin O'Brien. Very clean dark blue cloth boards with "ml" logo blind-stamped on cover, bright silver lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Fujita endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. 209 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, not price clipped, one tiny closed edge tear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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The Works of Thomas Carlyle: The Life of Friedrich Schuller; Critical and Miscellaneous Essays; Latter-Day Pamphlets; The French Revolution; Sartor Resartus

By: Carlyle, Thomas

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, John B. Alden: 1885

Seller ID: WARD00951

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

FIVE VOLUMES from "The Works of Thomas Carlyle". Near fine condition. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, bevelled edges, gilt top page edges. Bindings tight & square, no cracking. Decorated endpapers. Pages clean and bright. No names or bookplates inside. Almost no wear to these books. "The French Revolution" is Volume I of two volumes. Clean, solid, attractive books. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Antiquarian.
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The Art of Living Long - A new and improved English version of the Treatise by the Celebrated Venetian Centenarian, Luigi Cornaro

By: Cornaro, Luigi

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, William F. Butler: 1918

Seller ID: 027194

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Very clean hardcover book. Unfaded brown cloth boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright with clean unmarked endpapers. Nicely illustrated with black and white plates. Frontispiece portrait of Luigi Cornaro. With Essays by Joseph Addison, Lord Bacon, and Sir William Temple. 213 pages.
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Cow Country

By: Dale, Edward Everett

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press: 1945

Edition: Third printing

Inscription: Signed

Seller ID: 024029

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Third printing, published July, 1945, inscribed and SIGNED by author. Beige cloth boards are unfaded and clean except for faint number at top edge of spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by author: "To Mr. Elmer Barnes with all good wishes of Edward Everett Dale - Sept. 10, 1969." 265 pages. Author's essays on cowboy life in the American West.
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Desert Memories: Journeys Through the Chilean North

By: Dorfman, Ariel

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Washington DC, National Geographic Directions: 2004

Edition: First

Seller ID: 028964

ISBN: 0792262409

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Clean first edition in unchipped dust jacket. Clean pale orange paper-covered boards with black cloth spine, bright silver lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean pale yellow endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 283 pages + "About the Author". Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. "Rarely has a desert been so filled with life as the one Ariel Dorfman depicts in this remarkable trek through Chile's Norte Grande...with the eloquence ...
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The Blue Fox

By: Duncan, Ronald

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford Press: 1952

Edition: First

Seller ID: 017630

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Very clean blue cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Hint of light surface wear to bottom spine corners, no fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean bright illustrated endpapers. Small previous owner name and date neatly penned at top corner of half-title page; no other marks. 202 pgs. Foreword by Brian Vesey Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Michael Hansom. Clean dustjacket has shallow chipping at top and bottom spine edge, a few short closed edge tears, clear tape at top and bottom spine edge. Ronald Duncan, a farmer "down to ear...
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Apolcalypse Postponed

By: Eco, Umberto

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press and The British Film Institute: 1994

Edition: First

Seller ID: 017522

ISBN: 0-253-31851-3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Clean unfaded maroon cloth boards with 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. 227 pgs. with index. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. A collection of Umberto Eco's essays on mass culture from the 1960s through the 1980s, including major pieces which have not been translated into English before. Organized in four main parts, Eco looks at a variety of topics and cultural productions, including ...
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Shadow & Act

By: Ellison, Ralph

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Secker & Warburg: 1967

Edition: First

Seller ID: 028380

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

First British Edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean black boards with bright gold lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. 317 pages. Clean dust jacket is not price clipped, (42 s net on front inside flap), some edge chipping and edge wear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.
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Keyword:Essays