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By the Sea, By the Sea . . .

By: Albee, George Sumner.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: N.Y., Simon & Schuster: 1960

Seller ID: 5306

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition in Very Good dust jacket, in protective mylar wrap

8vo; cloth in illustrated white jacket with light soil, minor wear at top corners.

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Anthony Adverse.

By: ALLEN, HERVEY.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: N.Y., Farrar and Rinehart: 1933

Seller ID: 8884

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good condition

Has many first edition points, with publisher's monogram on copyright; numerous typographical errors including Xaxier for Xavier p.352; ship for shop p.1086; found repeated p. 397. One volume edition printed on thin paper stock; 8vo; bound in half green leather and marbled paper over boards; two red leather spine panels; spine lettered & decorated in gilt. Green paper pastedowns and endpapers; verso of front endpaper with small label lower edge near hinge: "Viggo Nielsen, Bogbinder, V E J L E." Moderate rubbing to leather at edges; fading to spine leather with a some soil to lower rai...
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The Californians.

By: Atherton, Gertrude.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: N.Y., B. W. Dodge: no date (c. 1903?)

Seller ID: 7299

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Condition

No limitation notice; 351 pp., pubs. ads; 8vo; blue cloth lettered in white. Cover with moderate rubbing & soil, mostly to spine, with spine lettering effaced; spine slightly cocked; bookplate on front endpaper; moderate tanning to endpapers & pastedowns; area of red offset to cloth back cover along spine, and lower corner near spine.

The first edition was published by John Lane, 1898. This edition, not found on World Cat, appears to be very scarce. Publisher's Weekly for 1903 lists this title and B. W. Dodge.
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The Splendid Idle Forties. With illustrations by Harrison Fisher.

By: Atherton, Gertrude.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: N.Y., Macmillan: 1902

Seller ID: 10169

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good condition

8vo; red cloth, lettered in gilt & floral decoration in gold & green; presentaion bookplate of Flodden W. Heron to Mills College on front pastedown; bookplate of Mills College, Albert Bender Collection on front endpaper. Leading corners bumped, minor wear at spine ends; title page with light spots of tanning at extremities.

Gertrude Atherton [1857-1948]. Reared in San Francisco and its peninsula as Gertrude Franklin Horn, she returned from finishing school in Kentucky to find her mother contemplating a third marriage to George Atherton, son of a wealthy merchant and aristocratic Chilea...
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A Daughter of the Vine.

By: Atherton, Gertrude.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London & N.Y., John Lane: The Bodley Head: 1899

Seller ID: 10172

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine condition

8vo; blue cloth, lettered in white; top edge gilt; frontis portrait of the author; presentaion bookplate of Flodden W. Heron to Mills College on front pastedown; bookplate of Mills College, Albert Bender Collection on front endpaper. Small bookseller's label lower edge of rear pastedown for Robertson's, San Francisco. Her sensational first publication, based on the lurid lives of George and Nelly Gordon, serialized in The Argonaut, 1882 under the title "The Randolphs of Redwood: A Romance," with the pseudonym Asmodeus, then re-titled A Daughter of the Vine. Very light cover wear; leading lowe...
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Mother of Felipe and Other Early Stories. Collected and edited by Franklin Walker.

By: Austin, Mary.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: [San Francisco], The Book Club of California: 1950

Seller ID: 2822

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition

400 copies, with decorations by Cas Duchow, printed by Anderson & Ritchie, The Ward Ritchie Press. 141 pp.; sq. 8vo; gilt stamped black cloth back, checkered paper over boards.

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The Small Back Room.

By: Balchin, Nigel.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: N.Y., Houghton Mifflin: 1945

Seller ID: 4921

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine condition in Very Good jacket, in protective mylar wrap

216 pp.; 8vo; cloth in pictorial black dust jacket. Touch of wear at points of bottom edge; moderate wear to jacket at extremities.

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The Married Land.

By: Bell, Charles G.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1962

Seller ID: 3359

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition in Very Good or better jacket

8vo; cloth in price clipped dust jacket. Very minor wear to jacket at top of spine and corners with a thin light vertical scrape to front.

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L' homme qui etait trop grand.

By: Benoit. Pierre, and Claude Farrére.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Les Editions de France: no date (c. 1933)

Seller ID: 5335

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Condition

8vo; illustrated white wrappers, covered in a gray advertising jacket printed on both sides in blue & black. Ads include Albin Michel, Librairie Havraise, Benedictine Liquer, Larousse, Sevres. In addition there is a book mark of black card stock with gold illustration for Draeger on one side showing a 'bottle' with legs, head and hands, and a corkscrew cane. The other side also in gold on black with graphic lettering for Nicolas. Overall browning to text pages which are unopened at top edge. Outer jacket with tanning at extremities, a down spine of 3", shorter splitting at bottom. Nicely p...
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Winston of the Prairie.

By: Bindloss, Harold.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: N.Y., Grosset & Dunlap: 1908

Seller ID: 5558

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good condition

340 pp., ads; color frontis by Herbert Dunton; 8vo; purple cloth with frontis illustration used for paste-down cover label. Moderate fading & wear to covers, including fading to cover illus. at edge; tanning to endpapers, else a solid copy.

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Marie Stuart', Reyne d' Escosse, Nouvelle Historique.

By: Boisguilbert, Pierre le Pesant de.

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Paris, Louis Billaine: 1675

Seller ID: 5148

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good condition

3 parts in 1; 234, 239, 428 pp.; 12mo; original polished tan calf; crown over decorative design stamped in gilt front cover; letters & decorations stamped in gilt on spine in six compartments with titles on red & brown leather labels; marbled pastesdowns, endpapers, and edges. Rubbing and moderate wear at edges and spine with minute loss at crown; joints appear to have had some expert repair in the past; title gilt on third panel for the most part effaced; dark "burned" spot bottom front edge. Tanning to endpapers at edges, but title and text pages exceptionally clean in a solid binding.
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The Delicate Prey and other stories.

By: Bowles, Paul.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: N.Y., Signet: 1952

Seller ID: 3556

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good condition

192 pp.; illustrated wrappers. Minor wear to spine at edges; moderate even tanning to pages, slightly more at edges.

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(Three Titles) Avalanche (inscribed with holograph note signed); Gentlemen, I Address You Privately; Plagued by the Nightingale.

By: BOYLE, KAY.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Southern Illinois University Press; Capra Press: 1944, 1966, 1991

Seller ID: 8396

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good condition

8vo; cloth in dust jackets. Avalanche with bumped corners and some mild rubbing to spine, in price-clipped jacket with wear at corners, closed tear, soil back cover. The other titles in fine condition.

Avalanche inscribed by the author in pen on front endpaper "October, 1978, Love and admiration to Israel - Kay, San Francisco." The note also in pen on a scrap from a theater handbill or program, " dear Irving, We are very disappointed - house sold out - but we've made reservations for next Friday night, Love, Kay and Ian." A note in red pen at bottom edge reads: "9-...
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The First Lover and Other Stories.

By: BOYLE, KAY.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: N.Y., Harrison Smith & Robert Haas: (1933)

Seller ID: 8888

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Condition in Good or better jacket in protective mylar.

249 pp.; 8vo; blue cloth lettered in gilt in dust jacket. Cloth with significant fading to spine ends, less marked at top and bottom edges. Dust jacket with some age toning; chips with loss at spine ends up to one inch at top; chip to bottom front edge.

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An Unfortunate Woman, A Journey.

By: Brautigan, Richard.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: 2000

Seller ID: 7961

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine condition

110 pp.; 8vo; glossy red & white wraps.

Completed prior to his 1984 suicide, the author's last unpublished novel.
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Image for The Complete Novels. Including: Agnes Grey, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Professor, Jane Eyre, Villette, and Shirley (7 vols., complete).

The Complete Novels. Including: Agnes Grey, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Professor, Jane Eyre, Villette, and Shirley (7 vols., complete).

By: BRONTE, CHARLOTTE.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, The Folio Society: 1991

Seller ID: 8738

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine condition

Without Slipcase; 8vo; bound in green moire fabric; illustrated with wood engravings by George Tute, Simon Brett, Ian Stephen, Peter Forster, Harry Brockway, Peter Reddick and Howard Phipp.

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Peace - At Any Price.

By: Browne, Porter Emerson.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: N.Y., Appleton and Co.: 1916

Seller ID: 7960

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair condition

(70) pp., frontis; 12mo; gray boards; illustrated cover label & frontis and 5 text illustrations by Peter Newell. Boards rubbed and worn at corners with a 2" repaired split lower front joint; moderate soil to covers and some thumbing of blank opposite first text page (7); repair to hinge at frontis & title; ownership signature in purple rear endpaper. Bit of a beater but a firm reading copy thus.

A short piece by the playwright, and mentor to the historian John Toland - in which war breaks out at a peace rally.
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Play This Love With Me.

By: Bryant, Baird.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: N.Y., Traveller's Companion, Inc. in assoc. with Olympia Press: 1967

Seller ID: 5153

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good condition

TC-203 in the Traverller's Comapanion Series. Mass market paperback; green wrappers; bookseller label inside top front edge for C. J. Scheiner Books; moderate tanning to inside wraps and endpapers, else a sharp copy.

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The Land of Plenty.

By: Cantwell, Robert.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Carbondale, London, Southern Illinois University Press, Fefer & Simons, Inc.: 1971

Seller ID: 4484

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine condition in Fine jacket, in mylar wrap

8vo; red cloth in dust jacket. Preface by Harry T. Moore. Minor sprinkle of foxing top & foredge.

Part of the Crosscurrents / Modern Fiction series. A reprinting of one of the most graphically exciting novels of the thirties.
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Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Illustrated by Kim Deitch.

By: CARROLL, LEWIS.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Cottage Classics: 2000

Seller ID: 4491

ISBN: 1892847019

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

No. 249 of 250 copies. 84 pp.; square 12 mo; blue cloth stamped in silver in color illustrated dust jacket. Jacket and full page and vignette illustrations in black & white by Kim Deitch. Forward by Mark Burstein.

This non-facsimile edition of Carroll's predecessor to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is unique in that this is the very first time that Carroll's seminal story has been set in type in a single volume and published with drawings other than those by the author himself.
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