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The Temptation Of Don Volpi [Inscribed Association Copy]

By: Alfred Hayes

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Atheneum, New York: 1960

Seller ID: k190126s

Condition: Fine

8vo, ¼ cloth, maroon boards. Stated First Edition. Alfred Hayes was a British-born screenwriter, television writer, and novelist. He wrote the screenplays for Clash by Night [ Fritz Lang], Island in the Sun, and was a co-writer on Roberto Rossellini's Paisan in 1946 for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. He received another nomination for the film Teresa in 1951. In television he wrote for the Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Mannix, Logan’sRun, and Nero Wolfe. This copy is inscribed on the front end paper to Hollywood film producer/director Jerry Wald. “It isn’t any shorter than ’...
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Victory [Munsey's Magazine, February, 1915]

By: Conrad, Joseph

Price: $40.00

Seller ID: c1706271

First printing of the novelette 'Victory' on pp.112–240, Just these pages and front cover; bound in grey boards with paper label on front. A clean near-fine copy with some rubbing at bottom of the cover page; binding has several small chips at spine edge, lightly soiled.
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Short story “Holiday” in The New Pearson’s Magazine July, 1923

By: Dashiel Hammett

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New Pearson's Magazine: 1923

Seller ID: k200225c

"Holiday", a 3-page short story, is one of Hammett’s earliest works of fiction. It is not a crime story, but a sensitive vignette, possibly autobiographical. War veteran Paul Hetherwick is a patient at Public Service Health Hospital in San Diego. He obtains a day pass, withdraws $100 from the bank, and catches a bus to Tijuana. He spends some time playing the ponies at the track and then drinking with a couple of bar girls. With economical, prose Hammett lets us know that in addition to his lung disease, Paul is suffering from a bad case of ennui; he doesn’t care whether his horses pay off...
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The Mask [Masque] of the Red Death / in Graham's Magazine, 1842

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Boston, Graham's Magazine: 1842

Seller ID: s200408c

Condition: Very good

The Mask of the Red Death - A Fantasy; in Vol. 20 of Graham's Magazine. A remarkably clean and tight copy of the classic tale’s first appearance. Contains four other works by Poe, including Life in Death and To One Departed. The Mask begins on page 257. ##### Condition: Very good overall in half-cloth/leather binding, gilt rules and titles, ribbed spine. Covers: good, with noticeable surface wear, edges and corners rubbed. Very minor crack to front paste-down; foxing to fore-edge. Interior: title page has minor damp-stain to margins and a vintage blind-stamp from an old Library at top. Re...
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OLD MAID'S FOLLY: Black Venus and Other Texas Legal Tales

By: Hankerson, James A.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: N.P. (Austin, Roger Beacham: 1987

Seller ID: m190723b

Condition: Fine

1st ed., 8vo, grey boards, black cloth spine with titles on paper label. 76pp. with frontis protrait. Designed by W.R. Holman in an edition of 250 copies, printed at Wind River Press. A collection of stories from the life and times of author's father who practiced law in West & East Texas. Condition: near fine; a bright, tight copy. Internally pristine; a fine copy overall but with several small spots on covers.
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THE BORZOI 1920 / Being Sort of a record of Five Years' Publishing

By: Knopf, Alfred A.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A Knopf: 1920

Seller ID: 0219032

Small 8vo. First printing. With original contributions by Willa Cather "On Writing Fiction", H. L. Mencken on Cather, selection of poetry by Eliot, Pound and other Borzoi authors with a number of illustrations and photos; and a complete bibliography of the imprint. Fine; light sunning and small stain to back cover; otherwise a pristine copy.
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THE BORZOI 1920 / Being Sort of a record of Five Years' Publishing

By: Knopf, Alfred A.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: NY, Alfred A Knopf,: 1920

Seller ID: 17082902

Keep Out of the Kitchen

By: Lewis, Sinclair

Price: $185.00

Publisher: Cosmopolitan, New York: 1929

Seller ID: k180228c

16mo. Blue-green paper-covered boards. Advance printing of a story scheduled to appear in the October, 1929 issue of Cosmopolitan. 34pp. A near fine copy with only minor surface wear.
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The Chronicle of Clemendy; or, the History of the IX. Joyous Journeys

By: Machen, Arthur

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Carbonnek: 1923

Seller ID: c170705b

Privately printed for the Society of Pantagruelists. 8vo. 331 pp. ¼ vellum and blue boards; Limited edition. No. 241 of 1050 copies, signed by Machen in ink. Fine; a pristine copy in poor d/w with the spine detached from flaps, cut in half (both halves present), and 1” chips at top and bottom of spine.
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Collected Stories of Carson McCullers

By: McCullers, Carson

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: 1987

Seller ID: 121333

1st ed., with full number line. A virtually pristine copy in dust jacket with very minor shelf-wear; no tears, rubs, or nicks -- just no longer has that shiny new finish.
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Midnight Turning Gray

By: Peter Matthiessen

Price: $125.00

Publisher: & Ampresand Press/Roger Williams College: 1984

Seller ID: s180624b

8vo, softbound gray wrappers.A collection of seven short shories, all previously published. A Fine copy with practically no surface wear. Signed on title page.
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A Clark City Press Reader/Spring 1993. "Red and Blue Days / Writings on the American West" [signed copy]

By: Peter Matthiessen

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Livingston [Montana]: Clark City Press: 1993

Seller ID: s180624f

Condition: Fine.

5"x9" stapled wrappers, 34 pp.. Publishers announcement containing selections from forthcoming works, including an excerpt from Matthiessen's anticipated book Red and Blue Days/Writings on the American West. The book was never published, leaving this excerpt as the only published survivor. Fine.
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Over, Under, Around or Through; The Proud Sheriff; Paso Por Aqui. [1/1 - INSCRIBED and CORRECTED Special Edition]

By: Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Sacramento, E. H. Crussell:

Seller ID: 021004

N.p., n.d. [Sacramento: Edward H. Crussell, c. 1933] Three original issues of the Saturday Evening Post, bound in small folio, ½ burgundy leather and pebbled cloth, gilt titles and borders. April 21,1917; Feb 20,1926; and October 1,1932. Sacramento bookseller Edward H. Crussell was a great fan of Rhodes and had these three issues bound by Sacramento bookbinders Silvius and Schoenbackler. He mailed the book to Rhodes for review. Rhodes responded with a full-page inscription: ####### “Dear Mr. Crussell: Your binding of this book is best possible evidence that you really like these yarns....
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The Assyrian and Other Stories

By: Saroyan, William

Price: $550.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company: 1950

Seller ID: k1706263

1st ed.8vo, burgundy cloth in d/w. A collection of 11 short stories. A very good-near fine copy with a lengthy birthday inscription on the front end paper from “Bill Saroyan” to Armen and Ross Bagdasarian. Bagdasarian, Saroyan’s cousin, is better known by his stage name David Seville -- singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor, best known for his 1958 hit “Witch Doctor” and for creating “Alvin and the Chipmunks” later that year. Small bump to lower right corner of front board, otherwise fine. in very-good d/w: $3.50 price at lower right corner but upper right front corner...
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Welcome to the City and Other Stories

By: Shaw, Irwin

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Random House: 1942

Seller ID: k180226i

Condition: Near fine

1st ed., 8vo, red cloth. An early collection of Irwin Shaw short stories. Near fine copy; clean, tight and bright with just a bit of discoloration to end papers. Very good d/w. No chips or tears but spine darkened and a few small, light creases; not price clipped. Inscribed by Shaw on the front end paper to Hollywood writer/director Jerry Wald, who was a high school classmate of Shaw’s and developed several of his books into film projects.
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A Pottle of Strawberries, to Beguile a Short Journey or A Long Half Hour

By: SMITH, Albert [Richard]

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London D. Bogue : 1848

Seller ID: k190125a

Condition: Good

FIRST EDITION 16mo. (approx. 15 x 11.5cm) bound in full calf, gilt decorations and titles, marbled endpapers. t.e.g. 62pp. plus advertisement leaf at rear. Many delightful line drawings by Gilbert and Henning illustrating the text. Ex-libris of [?] Battie-Wrightson, possibly a reference to a member [or family] of William Battie-Wrightson, MP. CONDITION: A good clean copy with rubbing to extremities; back hinge partially cracked with small tear to endpaper. Text block is clean and bright with no foxing. .
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A Child's Christmas in Wales

By: Thomas, Dylan

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New Directions,NY: 1954

Seller ID: k180228b

A fine copy in price clipped d/w with light edgewear, small chips to corners of d/w.
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McSweeney's Issue 7

By: Various

Price: $175.00

Publisher: San Francisco, McSweeney's Publishing: 2002

Seller ID: s17062906

First edition, first printing. Nine separately bound booklets in board/cloth shell with a large rubber band holding it all together. A fine copy, signed by editor DAVE EGGERS on the rear board with the signatures of MICHAEL CHABON ['the lost chapter from "The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay with cover art by Chris Ware) and ANN CUMMINS ("Red Ant House") inside their respective booklets.
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Princess Elizabeth Gift Book, The

By: Various [AQUITH, Cynthia & Bigland, Eileen - editors]

Price: $55.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1935

Seller ID: c170630c

1st ed., 4to, white cloth, 224p. n.d. [1935] An anthology of stories and poems published to raise money for the Princess Elizabeth Hospital for Children. Two great full-color spreads by the Disney Studios featuring Mickey, Minnie and most of the other Disney characters at the time; introduction by J.M. Barrie, and contributions by Walter De La Mare, Rudyard Kipling, G.K. Chesterson and others. Endpapers by Rex Whistler, color plates by A.H. Watson and others and with many in line b/w illustrations. A Pristine copy in the original dustwrapper with color illustration of portrait of the princess...
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