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The Man With the Golden Gun
Fleming, IanLondon: Jonathan Cape (1965), 1965. First edition. Hardcover. 221 pp. Price of '18s net' on front jacket flap. First impression, first issue, second state, Binding C (Gilbert A13a(1.4); Gilbert notes that although there is clear priority amongst the four variant bindings, all four were available in shops on the publication...
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All the Pretty Horses
McCarthy, CormacNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First printing. Hardcover. 301 pp. Price of $21.00 on front flap of dust jacket. The first book in McCarthy's "Border Trilogy" and a best-seller that brought him to national prominence. Winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Basis...
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Mycenae: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenae and Tiryns.
Schliemann, Henry (Dr.)New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. 384 pp. Octavo, 8vo. Bound in green cloth with top edge gilt, gilt decorations on the spine and the front board, and beveled edges. Includes illustrations that show over 700 artifacts Dr. Schliemann excavated from Mycenae. The volume also includes...
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The Mystery of the Brass Bound Trunk
Keene, CarolynNew York: Grosset & Dunlap [1940], 1940. First printing. Hardcover. 220 pp. The seventeenth book in the Nancy Drew mystery series. Farah 1940A-1. Near Fine book with very slight spine lean and a contemporary gift inscription (dated December 25, 1940) in pencil on the free front endpaper in a Very...
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The Town
Richter, ConradNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. 433 pp. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket designed by John O'Hara Cosgrave II. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. An exceptional copy of the concluding volume in Richter's "The Awakening Land" trilogy about the Ohio...
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Plutarch's Lives; The Translation Called Dryden's
PlutarchBoston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1882. Later Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 5 volumes: 414 pp.; 422 pp.; 452 pp.; 570 pp.; 618 pp. Bound in orange-red cloth with gilt decorations and lettering on the spine. Corrected from the Greek and Revised by A.H. Clough. Includes an index. A beautiful set. A...
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The Old Man and the Boy
Ruark, RobertNew York: Henry Holt and Company [1957], 1957. First edition. Hardcover. 303 pp. Price of $4.95 on front flap of jacket. First printing of the first edition. Illustrated with line drawings by Walter Dower. The first of two books that collect Ruark's fictional although largely autobiographical stories of a young...
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The Sterile Cuckoo
Nichols, JohnNew York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1965. First printing. Hardcover. 210 pp. Price of $4.50 on front flap of jacket. The author's first book, a novel concerning the romance between two young people who meet at an Oklahoma bus depot and wind up attending neighboring colleges on the East coast...
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Crazy Horse; The Strange Man of the Oglalas
Sandoz, MariNew York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. 428 pp. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. Fold-out map intact. Inscribed by Sandoz on the free front endpaper, with a hand-drawn illustration by the author. Noted for her use of words...
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Letting Go
Roth, PhilipNew York: Random House, 1962. First printing. Hardcover. 630 pp. Price of $5.95 on front flap of jacket. A bright, clean, and attractive copy of Roth's second book. A very near Fine book in a Very Good+ lightly edge-worn dust jacket.
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Scott's Last Expedition
Scott, Captain R.F. (R.N., C.V.O.)New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 2 volumes, 443 pp.; 376 pp. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and top textblock in gilt. In two volumes, volume one being the journal of Captain R.F. Scott, volume two being the...
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House Made of Dawn
Momaday, N. ScottNew York: Harper & Row, Publishers [1968], 1968. First edition. Hardcover. 212 pp. Price of $4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Momaday is an important First Nations author and this, his first novel, draws heavily on Momaday's early life and includes fictional portrayals of many actual events...
