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Doctor Johnson: A Play

By: Newton, A. Edward

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Boston, The Atlantic Monthly Press: 1923

Seller ID: 9321

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Red cloth with black backstrip. Wear on corners and general light aging. Book is square and binding is tight. Jacket has wear and aging along with some tape repairs on spine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 120 pages; This is a play by the well-known book-collector A, Edward Newton, who wrote The Amenities of Book-Collecting and was a major collector of Samuel Johnson. This copy is especially distinguished by Jean Hersholt's bookplate and signature (on the bookplate) on the ffep. Hersholt was the famous Hollywood character actor for whom the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is sometimes presented...
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A Little North of Everywhere : A Merry Christmas Comedy

By: Norman, James

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Pellegrini & Cudahy: 1951

Seller ID: 11275

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Reddish-brown cloth over boards with white backstrip and titles in very dark green on spine. Book is square and securely bound with general, light wear. Some toning on endpapers. Jacket has a good bit of wear including some loss at top and bottom of spine and a quarter sized chip on the back. Jacket is G to G-. ; B&W Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 192 pages
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"Living with a Peacock" in Holiday, September, 1961

By: O'Connor, Flannery

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The Curtis Publishing Company: 1961

Seller ID: 15880

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

This is the September, 1961 issue of Holiday, a large format (10 1/2 X 13) magazine for travellers which contained the first appearance of Flannery O'Connor's essay, "Living with a Peacock." This covers for this copy are almost detached and might be completely detached in shipping. However, the covers could easily and inexpensively be tipped back on. This is an uncommon first appearance of one of O'Connor's essays on peacocks. ; Color Illustration of a Peacock; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 124 pages
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Collected Stories

By: O'Connor, Frank

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1981

Seller ID: 14006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Book is square and securely bound with minimal wear. Some expected foxing on endpapers, otherwise this copy would be about near fine. Jacket has some wear along the top edge including a very small chip and two short, closed tears. Solid and attractive copy. O'Connor was noted as a great short story writer, most with an Irish viewpoint. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 702 pages
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The Hat on the Bed : A Collection of 24 New Stories

By: O'Hara, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1963

Seller ID: 13552

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Blue cloth with gilt titles. Very light general wear with some aging along edges. Book is square and binding secure. Jacket has edge corner and surface wear including chips and tears. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 405 pages
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Wild Nights! Short Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway

By: Oates, Joyce Carol

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York City, Harper Collins / Harper Perennial: 2009

Seller ID: 10364

Binding: Softcover

Condition: New

Book is brand new. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 238+ pages; Short stories that fictionalize the deaths of famous writers.
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Operation Narcissus (Eyes Only)

By: Oldfield, Barney, Col.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Pandick Press Inc.: 1978

Seller ID: 8186

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Green cloth over boards with gilt titles. Book has some light edge and corner wear but is square and securely bound. Jacket has edge and corner wear especially along top edge. Some light age toning. In mylar. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 429 pages; Signed and inscribed by Oldfield on ffep. Oldfield was a retired Colonel in the U. S. A. F. ; Signed by Author
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Salad Days

By: Partridge, Bellamy

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company: 1951

Seller ID: 10782

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Yellow covers with black titles on spine. Very light, general wear and aging with a light odor from storage. Former owner's pictorial bookmark on front pastedown. Square and securely bound. Jacket has some edge, corner and surface wear along with a tear on the upper back left corner. ; B&W Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 272 pages
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The History of Rome Hanks

By: Pennell, Joseph Stanley

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York City, Editions for the Armed Services, Inc.: 1944

Seller ID: 6819

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Wear to cornrs and edges, paper yelowed, front cover has been creased. ; Oblong 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 479 pages
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Samuel L. Clemens: First Editions and Values

By: Potter, John K.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Black Archer Press: 1932

Seller ID: 15319

Binding: Hardcover

Original blue cloth covers with gilt decoration on front cover and gilt title on spine. Bery light rubs at extremities and light aging, VG+. Limited editionof 500 copies, this being #213. Some title pages are reproduced. Good information on Twain firsts with interesting pricing information from almost a century ago. ; Some Title Pages; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 80 +Index pages
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Lavoro Ed Usura: Tre Saggi

By: Pound, Ezra

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Milano, All'Insegna Del Pesce D'Oro: 1954

Seller ID: 15181

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Grey paper wraps over thin white pasteboard with black titles. Light edge and corner wear but with some soiling or age toning. Interior is lightly aged. This is alimited edition printing, in Italian, of 1000 copies. This is number 767. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 99VG- pages
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A Prince of Georgia and Other Tales

By: Ralph, Julian

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Harper and Brothers Publishers: 1899

Seller ID: 10785

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Red covers with gilt titles and black decoration. Light edge, corner and surface wear with a lightly sunned spine. Book is square and securely bound. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown has caused a shadow on ffep. A solid copy. ; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 162 pages; Ralph was a journalist but these appear to be short stories based on incidents from his travels
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Marie

By: Richards, Laura E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Dana Estes & Company: 1894

Seller ID: 11516

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Beige cloth with color illustration of girl playing violin. Black titles . General edge and corner wear with a stray mark on the right top front. Square and securely bound. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 96 pages
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Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters and Seymour, An Introduction

By: Salinger, J. D.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1959

Seller ID: 14970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Book has only very light, general wear and a small bit of soiling on foredge. Jacket has some wear at spine ends and very minor edge wear elsewhere. One of Salinger's great books. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 248 pages
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Another Pamela Or, Virtue Still Rewarded

By: Sinclair, Upton

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1950

Seller ID: 12324

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Book and jacket both have edge and corner wear. Endpapers of book are heavily toned, though not the rest. Jacket has a few small chips. Book is square and securely bound. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 314 pages; Epistolary parody of Richardson's Pamela, a book worthy of parody.
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Unified Field Theory : Stories

By: Soos, Frank

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Athens, The University of Georgia Press: 1998

Seller ID: 11114

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New in As New dust jacket

Book and jacket are as new and unused. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 175 pages; Winner: Flannery O'Connor Award.
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The Missing Bride

By: Southworth, Mrs. Emma D. E. N.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cleveland, The Arthur Westbrook Company: ca. 1900

Seller ID: 16076

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Pictorial wraps with oval image of bride in wedding finery; white titles. This copy has some general wear and soiling along with interior toning but is still square and securely bound. Remarkably nice copy of a fragile book. The book has no date but is probably from the late-19th or early 20th century. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
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Uncle Tom's Cabin or Negro Life in the Slave States of America

By: Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Books, Inc.: N.D.

Seller ID: 13543

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Blue cloth with gilt titles on spine. Light, general wear with toning on interior page edges. Still square and securely bound. ; The World's Popular Classics; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 371 pages; Not dated, but this edition is probably early 20th century.
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Set This House on Fire

By: Styron, William

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1960

Seller ID: 14023

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket

Book has only light, general wear with some minor toning on foredge. Jacket has some light edge and corner wear with some small scuffs along the bottom edges and extremities. Book is signed on title page in a somewhat shaky hand. The former dealer who owned this copy said that it was signed. Brunk Auctions was unwilling to state that unequivocally. It appears to me that it is likely a signature from Styron's later years when he was ill. I am not pricing the signature into this copy, so you may be getting a signature for free. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 507 pages; Signed by Author
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The Confessions of Nat Turner

By: Styron, William

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1967

Seller ID: 15760

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Book is NF with slightly bumped corners, dust jacket has minor wear on the edges. Novel based on the slave revolt led by Nat Turner in 1831, written as if told by Turner while in jail awaiting execution. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 428 pages
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On Writing and Publishing

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Book of the Month Club: 1994

Seller ID: 10786

Binding: Softcover

Condition: New

Book is new and unread. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 167 pages; Special volume of Twain's writing about writing, produced by BOMC as a special gift for members.
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Tom Sawyer, Detective (Harper's Magazine, August and September, 1896, Nos. 555 & 556)

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $275.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1896

Seller ID: 14104

Binding: Softcover

The August issue has some aging/soiling on wraps but is square and securely bound but otherwise with only light edge and corner wear. VG-. The September issue lacks the cover aging and has less wear except for a short split at spine bottom and one short closed tear on bottom rear edge. VG. These issues of Harper's contain the first publication of Twain's novel, Tom Sawyer, Detective (as told by Huck Finn. ) This is both issues complete in solid condition. ; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 326-487, 488-648 pages
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Christian Science

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1907

Seller ID: 15312

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Red cloth with gilt, blindstamped decoration on front and gilt titles on spine. Spine lightly faded with some light corner bumps and minor soiling/aging on back. Square with a secure binding. Solid very good copy. This is a first edition, first state copy of Twain's scathing analysis of Christian Science, especially harsh in its portrayal of Mary Baker Eddy. Points: 17 titles listed in the advertisement of the Uniform Mark Twain set, eight lines including heading of illustrations, and frontispiece has Twain facsimile signature and the date1906. ; B&W Photographs; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 362 ...
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Christian Science

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1907

Seller ID: 15314

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Red cloth with gilt, blindstamped decoration on front and gilt titles on spine. Spine lightly faded with some light corner bumps and a circular black spot (dime-sized) on the back cover and light streaks on front (see scan.) Square with a secure binding. Solid very good copy. This is a first edition, second state copy of Twain's scathing analysis of Christian Science, especially harsh in its portrayal of Mary Baker Eddy. Points: 18 titles listed in the advertisement of the Uniform Mark Twain set, six lines including heading of illustrations, and frontispiece has Twain facsimile signature and t...
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Editorial Wild Oats

By: Twain, Mark

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1905

Seller ID: 15316

Binding: Hardcover

Lightly faded red cloth with white titles and black and white illustration on front cover. Titles on spine almost completely faded away.. The book has light corner bumps and general interior and exterior aging. Square with a secure binding. VG to VG-. This is a first edition of some of Twain's funniest sketches. "Journalism in Tennessee is especially fun to read. This is the first edition. ; B&W Illustrations; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 83 pages
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Category: American Literature