SWADOS, HARVEY

Nights in the Garden of Brooklyn: The Collected Stories

Viking Press. 1986, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0670809748). Hardcover. First printing (FP). Black cloth spine, black boards, gilt titles. Contains 21 stories with an Introduction by Robin Swados. Book very good with edge spotting, remainder mark at bottom edge. DJ also very good with tiny tear at foreedge. 381 pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 16595

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0670809748

TANIZAKI, JUNICHIRO

Diary of A Mad Old Man

Alfred A Knopf. 1965, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Turquoise cloth spine, brown boards, gilt titles, green topstain. Translated by Howard Hibbett. Book very good plus with spotting to topstain. DJ, designed by Ellen Raskin, also very good plus with edgewear. 177 pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 16619

Catalogue: Fiction

VIDAL, GORE

A Search for the King

E.P. Dutton & Co. 1950, 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition stated. Black cloth, gilt titles. With an introductory note by the author explaining the subject of this novel, the legend of Richard the Lion Heart, who was believed to have been kidnapped by Duke Leopold of Austria and rescued by a faithful servant. Book very good with owner-embossed stamp to ffep, top edge soil, light stain to cloth. DJ very good minus with (coffee?) stain to half of spine and back panel, price clipped. 255 pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 16587

Catalogue: Fiction

WAKEMAN, FREDERIC

The Wastrel

Rinehart & Co. 1949, 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition (RH logo). Black cloth, orange/gilt titles. Novel by the author of The Hucksters, Shore Leave and other books. Book very good with overall aging, a couple of tiny tears to boards at edges. DJ also very good with wear to edges and folds. 252 pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 16612

Catalogue: Fiction

WARD, DOUGLAS TURNER

Two Plays: Happy Ending / Day of Absence

The Third Press. 1966, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 089388006X). Hardcover. First edition (NAP). Black cloth, gilt titles. With an Introduction by Sheila A. Rush. Playright is also the author of The Reckoning, produced off=Broadway in 1969. Book very good plus with little wear. DJ very good with edge chipping in a couple of spots, rubbing. Scarce in hardcover. 80 pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 16597

Catalogue: Film/Drama/Media

Keywords: African American Arts 089388006x

WHITMAN, S.E.

The Troopers

Hastings House. 1962, 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition (NAP). Blue binding, gilt titles. With drawings by NIck Eggenhofer. A history of the Plains Cavalry, 1860-1890. Book near fine; DJ likewise near fine. 256 pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 16605

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: Westerns Us History

WILLIAMSON, J.M., ED.

Masques II

Maclay & Associates. 1987, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0940776243). Hardcover. Stated first edition. Williamson, Silver boards, black titles. No DJ as issued. Includes stories by Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Joe R. Lansdale, William F. Nolan & others. Book very good plus with light rubbing to boards. Ad flyer promoting the book laid in. 221 pp. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 16601

Catalogue: Speculative Fiction

Keywords: 0940776243

WILSON, EDMUND; REINITZ, NEALE

The Higher Jazz

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Univ of Iowa Pr. 1998, 1st Thus. (ISBN: 0877456550). Soft Cover. Book, Assumed first pb printing. Edited by Neale Reinitz. Wilson's short novel is based on prominent acquaintances such as Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, the Fitzgeralds, Cole Porter and Charles Ives. Unread as new, still in pub's shrinkwrap. 223 pp. As New.

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Book number: 3713

Catalogue: Litcrit/Essay

Keywords: New York N Y Fiction 0877456550

WINTLE, JUSTIN

Romancing Vietnam: Inside the Boat Country

New York, New York, U.S.A. Pantheon Books. 1991, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0679406212). Hardcover. Book, Black cloth spine, tan boards, red gilt titles. Stated frist edition. An American's account of life in postwar Vietnam. Unread, as new with a bit of shelfwear, one small tear to DJ. 464 pp. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 2993

Catalogue: Travel Essay

Keywords: 0679406212

WOODHAM-SMITH, CECIL

The Great Hunger

Harper and Row. 1962, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth, gilt titles. Likely second printing, with $6.95 price on flap and 0263 code beneath. The story of the great potato famine of the 1840s that killed a million Irish peasants and caused a flood of immigrants to the US and elsewhere. With a photoplate section on coated paper and a fold-out map of Ireland in 1848. Extensive references/chapter notes. Book very good plus with owner address stickers to pastedowns, notation of 'Christmas 1963' on ffep. DJ likewise very good with a couple of small surface abrasions, minor wear to spine-ends, folds. 510 pp. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 13376

Catalogue: World History

Keywords: Britain & Ireland

WRIGHT, JAY

Boleros: Poems

Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A. Princeton Univ Press. 1988, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 069101504X). Soft Cover. Book, First softcover printing. Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Wright has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim and various other awards. His previous books include Double Invention of Komo, Dimensions of History and others. Crease to front cover at bottom corner, else unread, as new. 95 pp. As New.

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Book number: 332

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: 069101504x

YOURGRAU, BARRY

A Man Jumps Out of an Airplane: Stories

New York, New York, U.S.A. Arcade Pub. 1999, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 1559704861). Soft Cover. Book, First printing. Contains over 70 one- and two-page stories, written in a dry, comic tone. By the author of Wearing Dad's Head, Haunted Traveller. Unread, as new. 126 pp. As New.

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Book number: 3696

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction Short Stories Single Author 1559704861