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The Mansion

Faulkner, William

New York: Random House, 1959. First printing. Hardcover. 436 pp. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering on the front board and the spine, light blue endpapers and pastedowns, yellow topstain. Price of $4.75 on front flap of dust jacket. Correct code on flap as called for in Ahearn APG...

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Crazy Horse; The Strange Man of the Oglalas

Sandoz, Mari

New 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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One Hundred Years of Solitude

Garcia Marquez, Gabriel

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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Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

Grant, Ulysses S.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes., large octavo; 584 pp (1885); 647 pp (1886). Bound in green cloth, with beautiful gilt decorations on the front boards and the spines, and gilt lettering and four gold star decorations inset in a black bar with...

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The Crossing

McCarthy, Cormac

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. 426 pp. Price of $23.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. One of a thousand signed copies prepared for friends of the author and publisher (signed by McCarthy on the limitation page). A very attractive copy of the second...

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A Tramp Abroad

Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)

Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. 631 pp. Bound in brown cloth with gilt decorations and lettering on the spine and the front board. Illustrated by various artists, with three or four by the author himself. In all the volume includes 328 illustrations. BAL 3386. Ahearn APG...

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The Great Brain

Fitzgerald, John D

New York: The Dial Press [1967], 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 175 pp. Illustrated by Mercer Mayer. A Near Fine book with mildly warped boards in a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with a few closed tears and fading to the spine panel.

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Cordelia's Honor

Bujold, Lois McMaster

New York: Baen (1996), 1996. First edition thus. Hardcover. 480 pp. First combined hardcover edition of "Shards of Honor" (Bujold's first novel and the first book in her Vorkosigan series) and "Barrayar" (winner of both the Hugo and Locus Awards for best novel), and the first trade hardcover edition of...

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Three Years of Arctic Service; An Account of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881-84 and the Attainment of the...

Greely, Adolphus W.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. 2 volumes. 428 pp.; 444 pp. Bound in navy cloth with silver lettering on the front boards and the spine panels, and red and gold decorations on the front boards and the spines. With nearly one-hundred illustrations made from...

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Letting Go

Roth, Philip

New 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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Memoirs of Gen. W.T. Sherman, Written by Himself; With an Appendix, Bringing his Life Down to its Closing Scenes, Also...

Sherman, Gen. W.T.

New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1891/1892. First edition thus. Hardcover. 8vo. 2 vols. 455 pp.; 604 pp. Bound in rich green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and the spine, as well as on the spine. Fourth Edition, revised, corrected, and complete. The original edition was...

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Eloge de La Folie (In Praise of Folly)

Erasmus (Erasme)

Paris: Librairie Des Bibliophiles, 1872. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 200 pp. Gathered in 4s (gathering a in 8s, gatherings b-f in 4s, gatherings 1-26 in 4s). Fully bound in brown morocco with five raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine, all edges gilt. Endpapers and pastedowns are marbled and...

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