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Mormon Country
Stegner, WallaceNew 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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One Fearful Yellow Eye
MacDonald, John D.Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company (1977), 1977. First printing. Hardcover. 286 pp. Price of $8.95 on front flap of dust jacket. First printing of the first American hardcover edition. Ahearn APG 053c. A very handsome copy of the eighth Travis McGee novel.
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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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The Mummy Case
Peters, Elizabeth (Barbara Mertz)New York: Congdon & Weed, Inc. [1985], 1985. First edition. Hardcover. 313 pp. Price of $14.95 on front flap of jacket. The first printing of the first edition. The author's third novel using the Elizabeth Peters pseudonym featuring Amelia Peabody. Signed "Elizabeth Peters" on the title page.
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The Second Floor Mystery; Photoplay Title of The Agony Column
Biggers, Earl DerrNew York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers [1930], 1930. First edition thus. Hardcover. 158 pp. Hubin 71. With illustrations from the Warner Bros. talking picture. Derr Biggers' novel "Agony Column" was first published in 1916, then adapted into a film in 1930 giving the novel a re-release under the title "The...
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Hofstadter, Douglas R.New York: Basic Books (1979), 1979. First printing. Hardcover. 777 pp. Price of $18.50 on front jacket flap. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. A nice copy of Hofstadter's well-known book, "A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll" Near Fine...
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The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag
Heinlein, Robert A.Hicksville, NY: The Gnome Press, Inc., 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 256 pp. Price of $3.50 on front flap of jacket. Currey 235. Ahearn APG 030a. A very near Fine book with the usual age toning to pages due to production methods in a like jacket with two small spots of edge wear.
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Space Cadet
Heinlein, Robert A.New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. 242 pp. Price of $2.50 on front flap of jacket. Illustrated by Clifford N. Geary. Currey 234. Ahearn APG 003a. An attractive copy of Heinlein's second novel, difficult to find in collectible condition. A Near Fine book with faint offsetting to...
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Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West
Morgan, Dale L.Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. [1953], 1953. First printing. Hardcover. 458 pp. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on the front board and the spine, maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $4.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Cazedessus 12. A nice copy of...
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Robbins, TomNew York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. 365 pp. Light blue cloth covered boards quarter bound in white cloth with blue lettering on the spine. Price of $10.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Signed by the author on the half title page. A very attractive copy of Robbins' second book.
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The Hunt for Red October
Clancy, TomAnnapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1984. First printing. Hardcover. 387 pp. First edition in first issue dust jacket, with all required points. The author's first book. Small closed tear to top of front panel, a few other traces of wear to the extremities; book has some rubbing to edges of boards...
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The Killer Angels; A Novel
Shaara, MichaelNew York: David McKay Company, Inc. [1974], 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 374 pp. Price of $8.95 on front flap of the dust jacket. Broadfoot 521. A sharp copy of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize Winner, one of the most highly-regarded and popular historical novels centered around the Civil War. A very...
