IRVING, WASHINGTON

A Book of the Hudson. Collected from the Various Works of Dierich Knickerbocker. Edited by Geoferey Crayon

NY, Putnam. 1849, 1st. Hard, 16mo. First edition. Published NY: Putnam, 1849. 12mo. 4 5/8" x 6 1/4", 215pp. 16pp. publisher's ads. Blind embossed brown cloth with gilt spine titles. Chipping to the spine cloth, spotting and fading to covers, light to moderate occasional foxing. Binding strong and tight. Good. Good/No Jacket.

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IRVING, JOHN

A Son of the Circus

NY, Random House Inc. 1994, 1st. (ISBN: 0679434968). Hard, 8vo. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Published NY: Random House, 1994, first printing. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a short, closed bump tear at the heel. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 000735

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DELL'ISOLA, FRANK

Thomas Merton: A Bibliography (The Serif Series: Number 31, Bibliographies and Checklists)

Ohio, Kent State University Press. 1975. (ISBN: 0873381564). Hard, 8vo. Revised and Expanded Edition. Hard cover. Published Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1975, first printing. 8vo. xvii+220pp. Maroon cloth with gilt titles. The Serif Series, No. 3. Fine. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 009021

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JAMES, HENRY

The Princess Casamassima

NY, Macmillan. 1948, 1st. Hard, 12mo. First edition thus, with an introduction by Lionel Trilling. 2 volume set in publisher's slipcase. Published NY: Macmillan, 1948, first printing. 12mo. 5" x 7 1/4", xlvii+321; 382pp. Marbled papers over black cloth with gilt titles. Slight fade to the spine cloth, else fine in very good slipcase with light wear and a ring stain on rear panel. Near Fine/No Jacket.

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JAMES, P. D.

A Time to Be in Earnest: A Fragment of Autobiography

NY, Alfred a Knopf Inc. 2000, 1st. (ISBN: 037541066x). Hard, 8vo. Ex-Library, First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Published NY: Knopf, 2000. 269pp. illus. b/w photos. Ex-library copy with pocket and small bar code label on rear pastedown, rubber stamp top edge, dj glued on. No writing or markings to text. Very good plus copy in dj. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 000632

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JANOWITZ, TAMA

By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee

NY, Crown. 1996, 1st. Soft Cover, 8vo. Galley/Proof, First edition. Uncorrected Proof. Published NY: Crown, 1996. 8vo. wrappers. Small skinned spot on edge of front cover, else fine. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 000422

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JEBB, CAMILLA

A Star of the Salons: Julie De Lespinasse

NY, Putnam's. 1908, 1st. Hard, 8vo. First American edition. Published NY: Putnam's, 1908, first printing. 8vo. xii+343pp. illustrated with 20 plates. Blue/green cloth with gilt titles, top edge gilting. Light edgewear, ocassional mild foxing, else very good. Very Good Minus/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009089

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Keywords: England & Europe

JOHNSON, PAMELA HANSFORD

Hungry Gulliver, an English critical appraisal of Thomas Wolfe

NY, Scribners. 1948, 1st. Hard, 8vo. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Published NY: Scribners, 1948. 170pp. Fine in near fine dj. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 000657

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KAUFMAN, JENNIFER; MACK, KAREN

Literacy and Longing in L. A.

NY, Delacorte. 2006, 1st. (ISBN: 0385340176). Soft Cover, 8vo. Galley/Proof, First Edition. Advance Reading Copy. Published NY: Delacorte, 2006. 8vo. wrappers. As new. As New/No Jacket, As Issued.

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KEATS, JOHN

Complete Poetry of John Keats (The Modern Readers' Series)

NY, Macmillan. 1927. Hard, 12mo. Second printing. The Modern Readers' Series. Half leather. Published NY: Macmillan, 1927. 12mo. 5 1/4" x 7 1/4", xxiii+457pp. Edited with an introduction by George R. Elliott. Half green leather over green linen cloth with gilt spine titles and designs, top edge gilting, pictorial endpapers. Chip at the crown, sun darkening to the spine, rub along outer hinges and heel, faint bleed darkening to pastedowns at contact areas of binder's underlay, previous owner bookplate on pastedown. Very good, tight, crisp. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Keywords: Poetry

KEROUAC, JACK; MARION, PAUL

Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

New York, New York, U.S.A. Viking Pr. 1999, 1st. (ISBN: 0670888222). Hard, 8vo. First Edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Viking, 1999. xxii+249pp. Sixty previously unpublished works that Kerouac wrote between the ages of thirteen and twenty-one. Highlighting of four lines on contents page, else near very fine in dj. Near Very Fine/Near Very Fine.

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KILMER, NICHOLAS

Lazarus, Arise

Scottsdale, Poisoned Pen. 2001, 1st. Soft Cover, 8vo. Galley/Proof, First edition. Uncorrected Proof. Published Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen, 2001. 8vo. wrappers. Very fine. Very Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 000420

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KING, RUFUS

North Star

NY, Watt. 1925, 1st. Hard, 8vo. Illus, First Edition. Hardcover. Published NY: Watt, 1925. Color frontis by Chales Livinston Bull. Dec. green cloth with embossed black lettering. End papers and ends foxed with a little foxing to the margins of some pages. Very good minus. Very Good Minus/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000821

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KING, JONATHON

A Visible Darkness

NY, Dutton. 2003, 1st. Soft Cover, 8vo. Galley/Proof, First edition. Uncorrected Proof of author's second novel. Published NY: Dutton, 2003. 8vo. wrappers. An as new copy. As New/No Jacket, As Issued.

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KLAVAN, ANDREW

Dynamite Road

NY, Doherty. 2003, 1st. Soft Cover, 8vo. Galley/Proof, First edition. Uncorrected Proof. Published NY: Doherty, 2003. 8vo. wrappers. Very fine. Very Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 000414

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