Harper, Henry H.

Bob Hardwick: The Story of His Life and Experiences

New York, a limited edition, Issued privately by the De Vinne Press for members of the Bibliophile Society, 1911. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (vi), (3), 4-303; Bicknell. frontispiece; ochre cloth, with a paper spine label and tan paper covered boards, top edge gilt; Very good, minor edge wear. A later edition appeared in the 1930's revised with more illustrations, but this edition has the feel of a well made book. Many anecdotal incidents of travel in Missouri and neighboring states circa 1870. Very good .

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Book number: 14130

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Devinne Press

Harris, Joel Chandler

Nights with Uncle Remus; Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1887. Ticknor's Paper Series Edition, "No. 23 Extra. Wraps. Duodecimo; pp; xxxvi, (ii), 416; frontispiece and twenty-one black and white inserted plates by F. S. Church and W. H. Beard; original printed paper wrappers; wrappers soiled, spine foot chipped, small ink doodle, on front wrapper else very good. Quite scarce in this form. A great piece for the Harris / Remus Collector. Very good .

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Book number: 15762

Catalogue: Fiction

Hergesheimer, Joseph

Swords and Roses

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed limited edition, one of 225 numbered copies; Octavo, pp. (vi), (2 )3-327; original tan buckram lettered and decorated in silver. A very good copy in acetate. Southern Americana; Civil War. Hergesheimer offers us this; "here is a book of swords, now wholly discarded, and of old-fashioned dark roses----vanished objects and flowers we both regard with an especial deeply personal regret. Well, they have existed for us only in imagination..and so we must write books, we must publish books and read them, in order to return, and only for a little while, to the simpler loveliness of the past. Very Good .

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Book number: 12410

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Literature; Fiction; Historical Fiction; Southern Americana; CIVIL War.

Hummel, George F.

Summer Lightning

New York, Horace Liveright, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (8), 9-312; Yellow cloth and terra-cotta boards, patterned endpapers in a dust jacket by Stanford Olsen; Wear at top of jacket spine. Quite scarce in jacket. Gallant American "bewildered newspaper man" meets exotic "veiled Albanian beauty" in Mussolini's Italy. Great intrigue! Mussolini even appears as a character. $125.00. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 13574

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Mussolini; Italy; Romance;

Humphrey, William

My Moby Dick

(New York), Penguin Books, 1979. First Penguin edition. Paperback. Octavo; pp; 96; decorations; pictorial wrappers. A delightful novella of angling obsession.. "The Moby Dick of this saga was a gigantic trout, a fish so enormous that other trout seemed mere minnows in comparison. The Cptain Ahab was William Humphrey, the hightly acclaimed uthor of the Ordways and Home from the Hill. As soon as Humphrey spotte the fish in a small creek in Bershire Mountins of Massachusetts, he resolved to catch it. and the passionate season long pursuit was on. A delight.plays out the confrontation between fish and desire to its inevitable heart stopping conclusion. Very good .

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Book number: 16233

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Sporting; Fly Fishing; Rivers; Trout Streams; Fly Fishing & Angling

Isherwood, Christopher

The Memorial, Portrait of a Family

Norfolk Ct, New Directions, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 294; burgundy cloth, spine lettered in gilt. A British family and the costs of the first World War. Very good .

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Book number: 18919

Catalogue: Fiction

Jenks, Tudor

Making a Start

Philadelphia, Henry Altemus Company, 1903. Hardcover. (1903). Duodecimo (5.5" x 7.5"). grey pictorial cloth with cover illustration in whitepink and blue. 128pp. plus2pp. publisher's ads. With 4 black and white illustrations by R. L. Mason. Very nice with one slightly bumped corner. Former owner's name. A fatherless young man is encouraged by his friend the blacksmith to follow his talent in art. Very good .

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Book number: 17776

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Children's; Fiction; Illustrated Children's Books

Jerrold, Douglas

Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1866. First American Edition, English Sheets. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xx, 190, (10), ads; Illustrated with a chromo-lithographed frontispiece and black and white cuts by Charles Keene; decorated terra-cotta beveled cloth covered boards, all edges gilt, patterned endpapers. Another account of the eternal battleground of the war between the sexes; the marriage theatre. moderate wear to the extremities, spine ends, corners bumped.

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Book number: 18465

Catalogue: Fiction

Jones, Matthew F.

The Elements of Hitting

New York, Hyperion, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (x), 304; black cloth and yellow paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. A complex story in a baseball motif. "In this heartwarming story of dreams and redemption, acclaimed writer Matthew F. Jones celebrates America's national pastime and the power of the human spirit. With his distinctive voice and unforgettable characters, he has managed to capture in writing the secret that ages of fathers and sons have discovered in grandstands across America. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 18036

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Baseball

Kataev, Valentine

The Embezzlers

New York, Lincoln Mac Veagh, The Dial Press, 1929. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 300; burgundy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained blue. Valentine Petrovich Kataev was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright who managed to create penetrating works discussing post-revolutionary social conditions without running afoul of the demands of official Soviet style. The Embezzlers was his first novel, a humorous work set in Moscow, translated by Leonide Zarine. spine darkened else a clean tight very good copy .

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Book number: 18637

Catalogue: Fiction

King, Captain Charles

The General's Double

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1898. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo, decorated blue cloth, gilt. 446pp. plus an ad leaf. Illustrated by J. Steeple Davis. Frontispiece and three black and whote plates. Plain endpapers. Dornbush & Russell #25. Cover style #5. Very good. Former owner's name in pencil. Very Good .

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Book number: 12233

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction; Historical Fiction; CIVIL War; CIVIL War Novel

Kipling, Rudyard

Kipling Stories, Twenty-Eight Exciting Tales by the Master Storyteller

New York, Platt & Munk, Publishers, 1960. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. (x), 502; terra-cotta and gray decorated cloth, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. Because all libraries should have at least a Story Collection by Kipling! A lovely edition "Best, Beloved", of some of the finest children's stories ever penned!. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 19260

Catalogue: Fiction

Lampson, Robin

Laughter out of the Ground, a Novel in Cadence

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. Second printing, Scribner "B" on the copyright page. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xiii, (i), 344; black cloth with gilt title tiles lettered in black in a pictorial dust jacket. Epic of the California Gold Rush and subsequent settlement, written in "free hexameters" (see author's note). A beautiful copy. Near fine/very good.

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Book number: 17772

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Very Good Poetry

Lardner, Ring W.

Charles Scribner's Sons Present Ring Lardner in the Golden Honeymoon and Haircut. American Booksellers Association

St. Louis, 1926. Only Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; (vi), 115-141, (iii), 31-54; frontispiece photograph of Lardner, with cartoons by Maynard Freeman; quarter black cloth and pictorial rose paper covered boards lettered in black, pictorial endpapers; issued without jacket. The first appearance of Lardner's lecture to the ABA on "How to Sell Books," in which he speaks of F. Scott Fitzgerald; this volume marks the first separate appearance of two previously published Lardner short stories. Very good .

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Book number: 18104

Catalogue: Fiction

Malraux, Andre

Man's Hope

New York, Random House, 1938. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (vi), 511; red and blue cloth with the spine lettered in gilt. A masterpiece of the Spanish Civil War. spine darkened, lacks the jacket, gilt faded, a solid internally clean good or better copy.

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Book number: 18707

Catalogue: Fiction