New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. Wiese, Kurt. First edition. Hardcover. 265 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. An endearing story about Freddy the pig-detective, and how he makes the football team while solving two mysteries...

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New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce [1942], 1942. First printing. Hardcover. 362 pp. Price of $3.00 on front flap of jacket. Bound in maroon cloth. Edited by Erskine Caldwell. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. Part of the American Folkways series. Colberg A6. A Near Fine book with a....

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. 151 pp. Price of $16.95 on front flap of jacket. Proulx's first book of fiction, a well-received collection of nine short stories.

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Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1973. First printing. Hardcover. 276 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the first American hardcover edition. Ahearn APG 058c. An attractive copy. A Near Fine book with a former owner's name written on the free front endpaper in...

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London: Hutchinson of London (1968), 1968. First British Edition. Hardcover. 224 pp. Price of "25s net" on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first British edition. Based on Clarke's short story The Sentinel, the novel was written by Clarke while he was writing the screenplay for the...

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New York: Viking Press, 1942. First printing. Hardcover. 188 pp. Price of $2.00 on front flap of jacket. First issue with the correct first issue dust jacket ($2.00 price and untrimmed corners). Ahearn APG 018c. Goldstone and Payne A16. A Near Very Good book with some pushing to the binding...

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New York: Charles L. Webster & Co. 1892. First printing. Hardcover. 277 pp. Bound in olive-green cloth. BAL 3434. An attractive copy. Tiny tear to last three leaves, hints of wear to edges of boards, else Very near Fine.

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New York: The Viking Press, 1938. First printing. Hardcover. 303 pp. Bound in reddish-brown cloth with a buckram-colored spine, 8vo. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. A collection of short stories by one of America's greatest writers of the twentieth century. Goldstone & Payne A11, Ahearn APG 013a...

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New York: Random House, 1952. First printing. Hardcover. 311 pp. Price of $3.50 on front flap of dust jacket. An attractive copy of Bowles' fifth book. Very near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket with a couple of small closed tears, some light edge wear, and a few traces of rubbing.

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New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 129 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. A nice copy of this collection of poems by Jeffers. Ahearn APG 011a. A Very near Fine book with a vintage bookseller label on the rear pastedown in a Very Good+ jacket...

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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1972. First printing. Hardcover. 288 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards. A very attractive copy of this science fiction classic, and uncommon thus. Some rippling to the rear pastedown near the hinge, else...

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New York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1970], 1970. First printing. Hardcover. 422 pp. Price of $7.95 on front flap of jacket. Second state dust jacket as per Ahearn APG 002c. A beautiful copy of the author's masterpiece, a landmark work of literature widely regarded as the finest Latin American novel...

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