Eric Ambler

Eric Ambler's Double Decker

Cleveland, The World Publishing Company, 1946. Forum Books Edition, 2nd printing. Hardcover. 178p. A black cloth hardcover book in good+ condition. Faint soiling on front cover and corners lightly worn. Pages deeply tanned and brittle with age; light wear at bottom corners of pages toward the back. Small stain on bottom edge. Otherwise clean and tight. Two spy-thriller novels in one volume --- CAUSE FOR ALARM and BACKGROUND TO DANGER. Good .

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Book number: 191317

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Louis L'Amour

The Tall Stranger

Greenwich, CT, Gold Medal Books (Fawcett Publications, Inc.), 1960. 2nd Printing. Paperback. 126p. A softcover book in very good condition. Tiny nick about a quarter-inch from the top of the spine. The tip of the bottom corner of the front cover has chipped off. Bottom corners sllightly bent. Otherwise clean and tight. Very Good .

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Book number: 192270

Catalogue: Literature & Fiction

Florence Bennett Anderson

The Black Sail

New York, Crown Publishers, 1948. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 318p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is lightly rubbed, but fully intact. A novel about the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. .

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Book number: 177302

Catalogue: Literature & Fiction

Lynn V. Andrews

Dark Sister: A Sorcerer's Love Story

New York, HarperCollins, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 242p. A 1/4 black cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Former owner's name stamped inside. An occult novel drawing on Native American culture and New Age spirituality. Very Good .

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Book number: 183349

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William Elliott Andrews

Imagine My Surprise: A Travel-Diary of a Flapper-Philosopher

New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 275p. Green cloth. Hardback in very good condition. Small smudges on cover. Owner's name in pen on endpaper. Good binding and clean pages. Twenty b/w illustrations. Ill.: Agnes Sims.

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Book number: 124538

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Keywords: Agnes Sims

Sister Mary Angelita

Starshine and Candlelight

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1925. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 100p. INSCRIBED BY THE POET. A hardcover book in very good condition with an acceptable dustjacket. Spine ends faintly tanned; otherwise clean and tight. The jacket is tanned and chipped; the corners have been reinforced with clear tape. Contains a tipped-in inscription from Sr. Mary Angelita to Paul Ryan Byrne, longtime librarian at the University of Notre Dame. Good .

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Book number: 181328

Catalogue: Catholic Literature

Maya Angelou

Now Sheba Sings the Song

London, Virago, 1987. Paperback. 55p. An oversize softcover book in very good condition. Cover lightly crinkled and rubbed, and traces of foxing inside; otherwise clean and tight. Angelou's poem illustrated by Tom Feelings. Measures approx. 12" x 9.2.

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Book number: 177340

Catalogue: Literature & Fiction

Anon

John Galsworthy: A Sketch of His Life and Works

New York, Scribners, 1928. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Paperback. 22p. Softcover booklet in fine condition. A study of Galsworthy's writings issued at the height of his popularity. As new .

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Book number: 43103

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Jean Anouilh

Becket or the Honor of God

New York, Coward-McCann, Inc, 1960. First American Edition. Hardcover. 128p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is faintly splattered with stains, and a bit edgeworn as well. The SCARCE true first printing, with the $3.00 price on the upper right of the dustjacket flap. .

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Book number: 200501

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Christopher Anstey

The New Bath Guide; or Memoirs of the B-N-R-D Family, in a Series of Poetical Epistles

London, Hurst, Chance, & Co, 1830. Hardcover. 176p. A hardcover book bound in the original plum cloth boards, protected by a more recently made wrapper of red cloth. The original spine is faded and the edges of the cloth are wearing through. Small name sticker inside front cover. Small closed tear in the rear free endpaper. Foxing throughout, but text otherwise unmarked. Binding a little shaken in the back, but still secure for normal handling. The wrapper is faded on the spine and edges and shows some wear at the spine ends. The satirical poem for which Anstey became famous in his day. A small, 24-page publisher's catalogue dated May 1830 is bound in the front. .

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Book number: 177128

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Louis Aragon

Holy Week

New York, Putnams, 1961. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. A near fine hardcover book in a very good dustjacket. Former owner's bookplate on inside front cover else clean, tight, and unmarked. Jacket is whole and intact with light shelf wear along its edges. An historical fiction novel of Napoleon and the first week of the Hundred Days. Very good .

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Book number: 87887

Catalogue: Literature & Fiction

Keywords: Fiction

Roger Ascham; Edward Arber, ed

The Scholemaster

London, Constable and Co. Ltd, 1927. Hardcover. 160p. A small, tan-grey hardcover book in good condition. Spine tanned and lightly chipped along the side. Inscriptions on endpapers. Scattered markings in pen. Otherwise, binding tight. A good reading copy. From the English Reprints series. Edited by Edward Arber. Originally published in 1570, this is Ascham's classic treatise on the education of youth. Measures approx. 6.75" x 4.25.

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Book number: 161387

Catalogue: Literature & Fiction

Richard Armour

American Lit Relit

New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 160p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket is price-clipped and just a touch sunfaded. Humorous profiles of celebrated American authors. Features cartoon illustrations by Campbell Grant. .

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Book number: 178537

Catalogue: Literature & Fiction

Richard Armour

Light Armour: Playful Poems on Practically Everything

New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1954. 5th printing. Hardcover. 118p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a good dustjacket. Bottom of cover and endpapers lightly dampstained. Text unmarked and binding tight. The jacket is quite faded and is more noticeably dampstained, and has some light edgewear. A book of short, humorous poetry. Features cartoon illustrations by Leo Hershfield. .

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Book number: 178536

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Richard Armour

Nights with Armous: Lighthearted Light Verse

New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. 111 pgs. A hardcover book in very good condition with a good dust jacket. Light rubbing on front and back of dust jacket, light wrinkling on back and crunching at top of dust jacket spine. The pages are clean and the binding tight. Ill.: Leo Hershfield.

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Book number: 203839

Catalogue: Literature & Fiction

Keywords: Leo Hershfield