New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1861. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 531 pp. Recently half-bound in red leather and red cloth with edges ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands, gilt decorations, and two black leather labels with gilt lettering. Endpapers and pastedowns are dark mauve. Two page...

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New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1887. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 678 pp. Bound in green cloth, with gilt lettering and red and gold decorations on the front board and gilt lettering and two gold star decorations inset in a black bar with gilt bordering (the "shoulder strap") on...

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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: 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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New 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...

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New York: Atheneum, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. 180 pp. Price of $7.95 on front flap of dust jacket. The Author's first book. A few faint traces of foxing to textblock, else Fine.

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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 336 pp. Price of $8.95 on front flap of jacket. An attractive copy of King's first and best collection of short stories. Brooks A7, Ahearn APG 005b. A Near Fine book with some very slight rubbing to the lettering...

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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: 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 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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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. First printing. Hardcover. 179 pp. Bound in red cloth with gilt decorations and titling on spine and front board. Illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock. Ahearn APG 066a. Lacks the dustwrapper. Name written on free front endpaper, few hints of wear to edges of boards.

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New York: The Viking Press, 1953. First printing. Hardcover. 145 pp. Price of $2.75 on front flap of jacket. Miller's acclaimed play is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials which serve as an allegory for the Red Scare of the early 1950s and associated mass cultural and political hysteria...

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