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THE TOYNBEE CONVECTOR

By: Bradbury, Ray

Price: $5.00

Publisher: NY, Bantam Books: 1988

Seller ID: 12954

ISBN: 0394547039

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

275, (3) Book Club Edition Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over black boards, gilt lettering on spine, author's initials, gilt, on cover. Fore-edge deckle. A collection of stories (his first since The Stories of Ray Bradbury) by the National Book Award winning author of The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451. Most of these twenty-three tales begin in the familiar rooms and landscapes of our lives, in our common thoughts and memories - and then take off through the farthest reaches of the imagination. Bradbury holds us enthralled as each story unfolds. Hardcover with dust jacket. Th...
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Eighteenth Century Poetry & Prose

By: Bredvold, Louis I.; Alan D. McKillop; Lois Whitney (editors)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, The Ronald Press Company: 1939

Seller ID: 18078

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Full tan cloth, gilt lettering on cover and spine, brown and gilt borders and decoration on cover and spine. . Volume shows mild shelf-wear, moderate notes and underlining throughout, else near fine. VERY GOOD. . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xxvii, 1154 pp
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THE WORLD OF VELAZQUEZ

By: Brown, Dale

Price: $12.00

Publisher: NY, Time-Life Books: 1969

Seller ID: 7724

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Cover near perfect condition, watercolor endpapers of Madrid. . missing slipcover . Color & Black and White. (vi), 192 pp
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THE DA VINCI CODE

By: Brown, Dan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2003

Seller ID: 11953

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (ix), 454 pp
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What Mad Universe

By: Brown, Fredric

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1986

Seller ID: 24872

Binding: Leather

Condition: As New with No dust jacket as issued

Publisher's full green leather, spine in three compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt tooling in remainder, gilt lettering and decoration on cover, all edges gilt, printed endpapers, silk ribbon marker bound in, Smyth-sewn with concealed muslin joints. B&W illustrations by Frank Mayo. Introduction by James Gunn. Collector's Notes laid-in. Fredric Brown (1906-1972) was an American science fiction and mystery writer. His classic science fiction novel "What Mad Universe" (first published in 1949) is a parody of pulp Science Fiction story conve...
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Dragon Seed: A Novel of China Today

By: Buck, Pearl S.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The John Day Company: 1942

Seller ID: 23163

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Publisher's full orange cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, fore-edge deckle, top edge blue, contains newspaper clipping on "Dragon Seed". . Lettering on spine and cover faded, dust jacket worn, else tight, square, unmarked, and clean. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. . 8vo (6 x8"). 378 pp
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Rogue Moon

By: Budrys, Algis

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press: 1988

Seller ID: 24876

Binding: Leather

Condition: Fine with No dust jacket as issued

Publisher's full blue leather, spine in four compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt tooling in remainder, gilt lettering and decoration on cover, all edges gilt, printed endpapers, silk ribbon marker bound in, Smyth-sewn with concealed muslin joints. Color and B&W illustrations by A. C. Farley. Introduction by Willis E. McNelly. Collector's Notes laid-in. Algis Budrys (1931-2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names "Frank Mason," "Alger Rome," "John A. Sentry...
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THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS

By: Burrows, Millar

Price: $21.00

Publisher: NY, The Viking Press: 1958

Seller ID: 8134

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Stated 12th printing of book, contains B&W photos and maps of sites where scrolls where excavated, translations done by author. Covered in publisher's red cloth, decorated gilt artwork and lettering on spine. . Book shows shelf-wear on spine (discoloration) and heel, spine is tight but loosening at rear board, fep has former owner's name and date. else NEAR FINE. . B&W Photographs and Maps. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. xiii, (10), 435 pp
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The Lithographs of Chagall 1962-1968 (Volume III)

By: Cain, Julien

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Boston, Boston Book And Art Shop, Inc.: 1969

Seller ID: 27751

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Publisher's full gray cloth, black lettering on spine, black lettering and facsimile Chagall signature embossed in black on cover. Illustrated with two original (dust jacket and frontispiece) and 178 additional lithographs by Marc Chagall. This work was produced by Andre Sauret and Fernand Mourlot in collaboration with Charles Sorlier. The reproductions were printed on the presses of Draeger Fréres, and the original lithographs were pulled from the presses of Mourlot Fréres. Notes and Catalogue by Fernand Mourlot and Charles Sorlier. Preface by Julien Cain. Translated from the French by Geor...
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The Stories of John Cheever

By: Cheever, John

Price: $18.00

Publisher: NY, Vintage Books: 1981

Seller ID: 15234

ISBN: 0394747992

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Publisher's glossy red wraps with silver and white lettering on spine. . Very slight crease to spine, tips on front cover are a little crimped and light tanning to pages, else unmarked, tight, square and clean. VERY GOOD+. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. viii, 693 pp
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Image for Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana and Jack Kerouac's Typescript Scroll of On the Road and the Oxford 1922 Edition of T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom (22 May 2001)

Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana and Jack Kerouac's Typescript Scroll of On the Road and the Oxford 1922 Edition of T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom (22 May 2001)

By: Christie's

Price: $40.00

Publisher: NY, Christie's: 2001

Seller ID: 1873

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: As New with No dust jacket as issued

Christie's glossy pictorial wraps. Lavishly illustrated with color photographs. List of prices realized laid in. This is the Catalogue for Sale No. 9652 held in NY on May 22, 2001. 307 lots. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. AS NEW. . Christie's Auction Catalogs Series. Catalog. Vol. 9652. Color Photographs. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 318, (1) pp
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Foucault's Pendulum

By: Eco, Umberto

Price: $50.00

Publisher: NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book: 1989

Seller ID: 26611

ISBN: 0151327653

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over black boards, silver lettering on spine, blue endpapers. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver.. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, unmarked condition. AS NEW/AS NEW.. Thick 8vo 8" to 9" tall. (vi), 641, (1) pp
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Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London

By: Eigen, Joel Peter

Price: $59.95

Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., Johns Hopkins University Press: 2003

Seller ID: 5874

ISBN: 0801874289

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

First Printing. Publisher's full black textured cloth, gilt (blue) lettering on spine, textured endpapers. 8vo. xii, 223 pp. Includes detailed Notes and Index. Publisher's release blurb laid in. Among the defendants appearing in Unconscious Crime are a sleepwalking, homicidal nursemaid; a "morally vacant" juvenile poisoner; a man driven to arson by a "lesion of the will"; and a Jekyll-and-Hyde assailant who underwent his transformation into beast-man while on the stand. These people are not characters from a mystery novelist's vivid imagination, but rather defendants who...
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The World of Giotto (In Slipcase)

By: Eimerl, Sarel

Price: $13.00

Publisher: New York, Time Inc.: 1967

Seller ID: 18565

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine+ with no dust jacket

Slightly worn slipcase. Time-Life Library of Art Series. B&W and Color Plates. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 199 pp
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There Once Was A World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok

By: Eliach, Yaffa

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1998

Seller ID: 18904

ISBN: 0316232521

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Publisher's glossy pictorial boards, white lettering on spine. Small 4to. xiv, 818, (2) pp. Profusely illustrated with B&W photographs and maps. Includes extremely detailed index. "Eliach's nine-century saga of Eastern European Jewish life is richer and fuller than any ever written. Her research took her from family attics on six continents to state archives no scholar had seen since the start of the Cold War.". Remainder mark on bottom edge, heel of spine has slight shelf-wear, else pristine, unmarked, tight, square and clean. Unclipped vinyl dust jacket has very light rubbing, els...
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Three Hundred Years of American Painting

By: Eliot, Alexander

Price: $10.00

Publisher: NY, Time Inc.: 1957

Seller ID: 15367

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

318 1st Printing Color Photographs Quarter bound in publisher's brown cloth over gray cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine, gilt borders and lettering on cover. Profusely illustrated with over 250 full-color reproductions. Includes a list of One Hundred Collections of American Painting, a Chronology, a Bibliography, an Index and an Introduction by John Walker, director of the National Gallery of Art. The author, Alexander Eliot, art editor of TIME, stretches a wonderful panorama before our eyes. At the beginning are the earliest pictures which can be claimed to be American, and at the end are...
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Three Hundred Years of American Painting

By: Eliot, Alexander

Price: $22.00

Publisher: New York, Time Inc.: 1957

Seller ID: 21358

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Quarter bound in publisher's brown cloth over tan cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine & cover. Profusely illustrated with over 250 full-color reproductions. Includes a list of One Hundred Collections of American Painting, a Chronology, a Bibliography, an Index and an Introduction by John Walker, director of the National Gallery of Art. The author, Alexander Eliot, art editor of TIME, stretches a wonderful panorama before our eyes. At the beginning are the earliest pictures which can be claimed to be American, and at the end are canvases almost too new to be varnished. The great leaders of Am...
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Hitler

By: Fest, Joachim C.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1974

Seller ID: 14737

ISBN: 0151416508

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with numerous B&W photographs and reproductions. Includes extensive Notes, Bibliography and detailed Index. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston. . Corners bumped, mild foxing, else fine. VERY GOOD. . Book Club Edition. B&W Photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 875 pp
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Norman Rockwell's America

By: Finch, Christopher

Price: $40.00

Publisher: NY, Harry N. Abrams: 1985

Seller ID: 23370

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Publisher's full red cloth, white lettering on spine, profusely illustrated with color illustrations by Norman Rockwell. . Price on dust jacket clipped, else tight, square, unmarked, and clean. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD.. Color Illustrations. Folio 13" - 23" tall. 313 pp
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The Broken Promise, and Other Tales

By: Greene, Mrs.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: NY, Cassell & Company, Ltd.: N.D.

Seller ID: 16269

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

Publisher's green cloth with pictorial front cover embossed with brown butterflies, black vines, a brown sailboat, gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Illustrated with b&w drawings. . Head and heel of spine and rear cover are lightly rubbed, one small droplet mark on edge of front cover near the spine, former owner's name on fep, spine slightly cocked. VERY GOOD-. . B&W drawings. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. 128(16) pp
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