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Rabbit At Rest

By: Updike, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York City, Alfred A. Knopf: 1990

Seller ID: 6276

ISBN: 0-394-58815-0

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

Very light shelf wear, with light remainder mark on bottom foredge. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 512 pages
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Brazil

By: Updike, John

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1994

Seller ID: 11845

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Unread copy with only light shelf wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 260 pages; One of the great American novelists of the last half of the 20th century.
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People One Knows: Interviews with Insufficiently Famous Americans

By: Updike, John

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Northridge, Lord John Press: 1980

Seller ID: 15182

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Book has only a hint of wear, about fine. This book was issued in a Limited Edition of 300 signed, numbered copies, 100 of which were specially bound. This copy is a stated Presentation Copy which may have been printed especially for Updike. It is signed, but there is no number or place for a number. I have not been able to find other Presentation Copies. There is no slipcase or dustjacket, which may be the way this copy was issued. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 41 pages
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People One Knows: Interviews with Insufficiently Famous Americans

By: Updike, John

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Northridge, Lord John Press: 1980

Seller ID: 15184

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Book has only very light, general wear. No slipcase. This book was issued in a Limited Edition of 300 signed, numbered copies, 100 of which were specially bound. This copy is not numbered (it is signed), probably indicating that it was an extra copy that was not officially issued. Most Limited Editions have extra copies, either for the author or in case there are problems with some of the books in the limitation.The book came from interviews that Updike did with ordinary Americans whom he came in contact with in his daily life.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 41 pages
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The Music School: Short Stories

By: Updike, John

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1966

Seller ID: 16366

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Book has almost no wear except for a bit of dustiness on top edge and light toning on foredges. Jacket has some very minor edge wear with one very short closed tear. Both book and jacket are about near fine. This is a nice collection of Updikes' well-crafted stories. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 260 pages
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The Pilgrim Ship

By: Upstairs Al

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, The Christian Herald: 1911

Seller ID: 10727

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Blue cloth with white titles and decoration. Light general wear and aging. Still square and securely bound. VG. ; B&W Frontispiece of Ship; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 345 pages; The only date is 1911 on back of title page. Not sure if this is a first priniting. The book is a religious allegory.
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Rising Up and Rising Down : Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means

By: Vollman, William T.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Harper Collins: 2004

Seller ID: 15090

ISBN: 0060548185

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Fine copy, without dustjacket as issued, of Vollman's abridgement of his seven-volume treatise on violence. This copy is Fine except for some minor packing wear. Important and readable work on violence. Signed by Vollman on the half-title page. Also, an autographed card from a Vollman booksigning for this volume laid in. ; B&W Photographs; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 733 pages; Signed by Author
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The Rifles

By: Vollman, William T.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1994

Seller ID: 15091

ISBN: 0670848565

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket

Book is fine except for a remainder mark on bottom edge. Jacket seems pristine. Rifles is Volume 6 of Vollman's seven volume project, Seven Dreams, a series based on the conflicts between Native Americans and European colonizers. Signed by Vollman on the Seven Dreams title page which is a separate page from the true title page of this work. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 411 pages; Signed by Author
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Girl with Curious Hair

By: Wallace, David Foster

Price: $450.00

Publisher: New York, W. W. Norton & Company: 1989

Seller ID: 16980

ISBN: 0393027570

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

This is a beautiful copy, with only a hint of wear, of Wallace's second published work. Wallace has signed on the title page above his name, which is crossed out, with no inscription. This copy has to be among the best available. This is a much-praised collection of short stories. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 373 pages; Signed by Author
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The Sword: Poems

By: Warren, G. O. (Gretchen Osgood)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Oxford, B. H. Blackwell: 1919

Seller ID: 16217

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

The book has very light, general wear but with some light toning on edges. Many pages are unopened. Book is square and securely bound. Gretchen Osgood Warren was from the wealthy Osgood family of Boston. Her potrait with her daughter by John Singer Sargent is considered on of the artist's most important. Warren wrote poetry and was published in important magazines like Poetry. She is somewhat forgotten today. (One article I read constantly referred to her as a man.) Her poetry is worth a read. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; pages
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Beyond Concord: Selected Writings of David Atwood Wasson

By: Wasson, David Atwood (ed. Charles M. Foster)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana University Press: 1965

Seller ID: 16209

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Book has very light, general wear and aging. There is a light stain on bottom edge. Jacket has very light edge and corner wear but with some soiling and a lightly sunned spine. This both a biography and critical examination of the life of David Atwood Wasson, a frequently overlooked contemporary and frined of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and a good selection of Wasson's essays. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 334 pages
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Magnificent Destiny : A Novel about the Great Secret Adventure of Andrew Jackson and Sam Houston

By: Wellman, Paul I

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1962

Seller ID: 12967

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good dust jacket

Book has light wear and minor soiling. Stil square and securely bound. Jacket has edge and corner wear, some chips, along with insect damage on back bottom edge. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 444 pages
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The Massacre At Fall Creek

By: West Jessamyn

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York City, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1975

Seller ID: 6709

ISBN: 0-15-157820-6

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Book is square and securely bound. Corners lightly bumped, former owner's inscription on list of West's books after half-title page. Dust jacket price clipped, head of spine chipped, some wear to edges and corners. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 373 pages; Stated First Edition. Signed by West on half-title page; Signed by Author
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The House of Mirth

By: Wharton, Edith

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Vintage Books/ The Library of America: 1990

Seller ID: 16000

ISBN: 0679725393

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued

This is the first softcover edition of The House of Mirth. Book has only light, general wear. Spine has no creasing and book seems unread. Book is about near fine. ; The Library of America; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 371 pages
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Drum Taps

By: Whitman, Walt

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: N.D.

Seller ID: 17146

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

it is in slipcase ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages; part of the Cameo Classics printed by Grosset & Dunlap
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Tobias Brandywine

By: Wickenden, Dan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York City, William Morrow: 1948

Seller ID: 6565

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The book is VG with only light, general wear and aging. The dust jacket is G- with some chips (a large one on the top rear, but still in one piece and reasonable in mylar. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 366 pages; Novel tracing the history of a family.
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Theophilus North

By: Wilder, Thornton

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York City, Harper and Row: 1973

Seller ID: 5534

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Lower right corner bumped, causing first few pages to turn up slightly, light creasing to spine, gift inscription in red ink on blue ffep. DJ has some chips and a few small tears on edges, spine sunned. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 374 pages
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Memoirs of Hecate County

By: Wilson, Edmund

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Ballentine Books: 1967

Seller ID: 10788

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

White wraps with black titles. This is basically and new and unread book that has age and shelfwear but no other problems. There is toning around the wrapper edges and a black line, maybe a remainder mark, on the top foredge. Interior has almost no toning . Book is square; spine has no creases or cracks; binding is secure. It is as though the book has been sitting on a shelf for the past 45 years. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 411 pages
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Upstate : Records and Recollections of Northern New York

By: Wilson, Edmund

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux: 1971

Seller ID: 12515

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Book has only light wear and aging. Jacket has light edge and corner wear but with damage and loss at top of spine -- see scan. ; B&W Photographs; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 386 pages
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The Barracks Thief

By: Wolff, Tobias

Price: $95.00

Publisher: New York, The Ecco Press: 1984

Seller ID: 16709

ISBN: 0880010355

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Book and jacket are both about fine with very minor wear. Wolff has signed above his name on the title page. This novel/novella is the story of three young paratroopers in Vietnam and the search for a thief. Many have noted that Wolff seved as a paratrooper in Vietnam. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 101 pages; Signed by Author
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Ships by Day

By: Wyman, Edwin A.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, James H. Earle, Publisher: 1896

Seller ID: 13491

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Brown cloth with somewhat faded black titles and illustration. Gilt title on spine. Book has some edge and corner wear but is square and securely bound. Some tearing of endpapers along front hinge that does not affect the binding. On the back endpaper there is some scrawled writing and large initials in white ink. ; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 451 pages; Book is basically a love story set along the Connecticut River, but there are a couple of interesting variations. One chapter, entitled "The Negro Wedding," is an account of the protagonist attending a "jubilee" wedding of former ...
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Category: American Literature