Marvel Ik (Donald G. Mitchell)

Dream Life

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; xx, 258; Frontispiece etching by Percy Moran; three quarter calf and marbled paper covered boards and marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; gilt decorated spine with a red title label and a black author label, both lettered in gilt. With the new preface dated 1883; partially uncut, a very handsome copy of this lovely edition. Very good .

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Book number: 18344

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fine Bindings

Marvel Ik (Donald G. Mitchell)

Reveries of a Bachelor or a Book of the Heart

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. Hardcover. 16mo; pp; xxii, 260;Frontispiece etching by Percy Moran; three quarter calf and marbled paper covered boards and marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; gilt decorated spine with a red title label and a black author label, both lettered in gilt. With the three prefaces including the last dated 1883; partially uncut, a very handsome copy of this lovely edition. Very good .

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Book number: 18343

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fine Bindings

McCutcheon, George Barr

The Day of the Dog

New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1924. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. (iv), 59; With color frontispiece by Harrison Fisher; green cloth decorated in blind, lettered in orange.The hero is a bulldog named Swallow. Fine .

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Book number: 16197

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Bulldogs; Dogs; Canine;

Momaday, N. Scott

The Ancient Child

(New York), Harper Perennial, 1990. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Octavo; pp; (xvi), 313, (iii); original printed pictorial wrappers, paperback. Very good .

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Book number: 18042

Catalogue: Fiction

Morris, Wright

What a Way to Go

New York, Atheneum, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (viii), 311; black cloth and terra-cotta paper covered boards, top edge stained blue, lettered in gilt in a dust jacket. Very good/in a very good unclipped dust jacket, jacket spine a bit toned;.

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Book number: 18867

Catalogue: Fiction

Nichols, John

The Nirvana Blues

New York, Henry Holt and Company, An Owl Book, 2000. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Octavo; pp; (x), 509; original printed pictorial wrappers, paperback. The seventies are over. All across America, the overgrown kids of the middle class are getting their acts together--and getting older. The once-tight Chicano community of Chamisaville is long gone, and the Anglo power brokers control almost everything. Joe Miniver--faithful husband, loving father, and all-around good guy—is about to sink roots. To buy the land he wants, he dreams up a coke scam that will net him the necessary bread. Joe is also about to embark on a series of erotic adventures with three headstrong women, bringing him face-to-face with the terrors (and absurdity) of the modern man-woman scene. This final volume in the New Mexico trilogy, like its predecessors, is a lusty, visionary novel that blends comedy and tragedy, reality and fantasy, tenderness and bite, to illuminate some very troubling truths about America--truths no less pointed and accurate today than they were twenty years ago. Very good .

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Book number: 18094

Catalogue: Fiction

Norris, Frank

A Deal in Wheat; and Other Stories of the Old and New West

New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (viii), (2), 3-272); frontispiece by Leyendecker and three black and white inserted plates by Remington, Hitchcock and Hooper; decorated burgundy cloth , top edge gilt, lettered in gilt; Overall a good or better tight copy, edge wear at spine ends and corners, one abrasion at lower right, bookseller's tag from F. Loesser & Co. Brooklyn on front paste-down also (What were they thinking) an embossed stamp not unlike a library stamp advertising their store on the verso of the half-title and on page 4; Unusual. Collection of short stories. BAL #15039. Blanck's issue "A", with sheets bulking to 7/8. This is a Bleiler item with two ghost stories. Good + .

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Book number: 14409

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Progressives; Muckrakers; Ghost Stories;

Orum, Poul, Translated From the Danish by Kenneth Barclay

Nothing But the Truth

London, Thriller Book Club, 1977. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 254; red cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. Copenhagen Murder Squad Inspector Morck, the second appearance of this character. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 18823

Catalogue: Detective Fiction & Mystery

Price, Reynolds

Blue Calhoun

New York, Scribner Paperback Fiction, 2000. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Octavo; pp; (x), 373; original printed pictorial wrappers, paperback. "This starts with the happiest I ever was, though it brought down suffering on everybody near me. Short as it lasted and long ago, I've never laid it all out yet, not start to finish. But if I try and half succeed, you may wind up understanding things, choosing a better road for yourself and maybe not blaming the dead past but living for the here and now, each day a clean page." April 28, 1956, was the day Blue Calhoun met a sixteen-year-old girl named Luna. And for the next three decades, their love has borne consequences of the most shattering -- and ultimately, perhaps healing -- kind for everyone they know. As Blue recounts the years and their events for us -- fervently, tenderly, knowing full well his own deep responsibility -- we are made witnesses to a story of classic dimensions, a story of love and suffering, family and friendship, death and redemption. Very good .

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Book number: 18093

Catalogue: Fiction

Prieto, Jose' Manuel

Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire; Translated from the Spanish by Carol and Thomas Christensen

New York, Grove Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, 322; black cloth and purple paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. "Combining the intellectual sophistication and luminous prose of Nabokov with the world view of a scion of Castro's Cuba, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire is a novel of immense power and originality from one of the most exciting new talents in Latin America. J. ('the most hilariously wounded and obsessive narrator since Pale Fire's Charles Kinbote'-Francisco Goldman) lives on the fringes of Eastern Europe, a smuggler fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 17863

Catalogue: Fiction

Roosevelt, Kermit

In the Shadow of the Law

New York, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (vi), 370; black cloth letterred in gilt and blue paper covered boards in an unclipped dust jacket. First edition of the author's first novel. Near fine/very good.

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Book number: 17023

Catalogue: Fiction

Salisbury, Harrison E.

The Northern Palmyra Affair

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1962. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (vi), 310, (i), Author Bio; orange cloth, spine lettered in black in an unclipped dust jacket. The first novel from the pen of New York Times' correspondent Harrison Salisbury is the powerful story of the reactions of the men and women who are invited to the funeral of Leningrad sculptress who had shortly before been declared ideologically corrupt and banished as a state criminal. They know from the beginning the probable consequence of their attendance. All had believed in the Revolution and the bright new world it promised. In some the love for freedom is reborn and they give praise to their dead friend others the habit of obedience is well instilled and the fear great and they plot to betray the others. The absurd conversion by the Moscow secret police of a housing project into a conspiracy against the state brings to startling life Stalin's reign of terror, where mystery and imagination substitute for fact, and where guilt and innocence become notions. Here is a novel that will command the reader's interest and illuminate his understanding. His expert political reporting in dramatic terms. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 18904

Catalogue: Fiction

Smith, Miss M. M.

Kick Him Down Hill; Ups and Downs in Business

New York, United States Publishing Company, 1875. First edition. Octavo; pp. vi, 312; decorated green cloth, gilt; A good copy; internally very good. Some insect specks on boards, wear at extremities. Gilded Age tale. Wright's American Fiction II-2270. Scarce. Appears in blue and red cloth, no preference. Good .

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Book number: 10650

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction, Economics, Business, Social History, Gilded Age.

Stimson, F. J.

King Noanett; a Story of Old Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay

New York, A. Wessels Company, 1901. Special limited edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (viii), 327; decorated green cloth; Very good, a nice copy. The story of Bampfylde Carew, an early Irish emigree to the New World. Carew is said to be based loosely upon John Boyle O'Reilly, to whom the book is dedicated. Picaresque and fast moving. Wright American Fiction V3:5219. Very good .

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Book number: 13644

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Indians; New England Indians; Native Americans; Colonial America; Massachusetts; Virginia;

Stuart, Francis

The Coloured Dome

New York, Macmillan, 1933. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 287; terra-cotta cloth lettered in gilt; This is a review copy with the Review Slip laid in. The first American edition of a very hard to find novel by the celebrated Irish writer. Very good .

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Book number: 19128

Catalogue: Fiction