Benjamin Drake and E.B. Mansfield

Cincinnati in 1826

Cincinnati, Morgan. Lodge and Fisher, 1827. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 100p, plus two plates. RARE HARDCOVER ISSUE, bound in full black leather. Recently restored with newer matching leather spine. The endpapers are original and contain the signature of one David Van Matre and the date of July 1827. A scarce work, normally found in wrappers. Scattered foxing. Very good condition. .

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Book number: 1253305

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David Drake

A Collection of 52 Items, All Personally Inscribed by Drake

A Magnificent collection of the works of the best-selling military science fiction author David Drake. Includes 28 hardcover books, nine paperback books, 11 digests, three drafts for unpublished anthologies, and the unpublished first draft of The Dragon Lord. All items are inscribed, the vast majority with interesting notes such as ADidn=t the nice folks at Putnam do a first rate job of production?@, AI=m happy with how this worked out@, AStill my favorite novel@, Amy best work to date@, and so forth. This collection includes 22 hardcover first editions and two paperback first editions entirely by Drake; four hardcover first editions and five paperback editions of works co-written by Drake; two hardcover and two paperback anthologies which include Drake=s stories; eleven science fiction digests which include Drake stories; typescripts for three proposed anthologies of Drake=s stories to be published by The Vainglory Press (none of which ever came to fruition); the first draft of the typescript for his second novel, The Dragon Lord; miscellaneous promotional material from his publisher. All works are inscribed from Drake to his long-time friend John D. Squires. Squires, Drake, and Karl Edward Wagner were friends in the early 1970s when Drake=s writing career was beginning. The pair stayed in touch over the years until Squires= recent passing. Squires ran his own small press (The Vainglory Press) and was one of the world=s leading authorities on the works of fantasy author M.P. Shiel. .

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Book number: 1233660

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Sir William Dugdale

A Short View of the Late Troubles in England

Oxford, Moses Pitt, 1681. 1st Edition. Leather bound. x, 1-959, index, catalogue of books. Old stains throughout along top and outer margins. Old tape repair to frontispiece portrait of King Charles I; tape has been professionally removed but has left discoloration. Recently rebound in full leather ruled and stamped in blind. Newer endpapers. 1x2 inch piece torn from corner of final blank page. Folio, measuring approx. 8x12 inches. Classic history of the English Civil War. .

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Book number: 1227349

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Charles Norden aka Lawrence Durrell

Panic Spring

NY, Covici Friede, 1937. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the American edition of Lawrence Durell's second book, written under the pseudonym of "Charles Norden". Near fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The interior of the book has some slight age toning to endpapers and the light tan cloth shows a few smudges of dirt but the book is otherwise flawless. The jacket has mild shelfwear to include tiny 1/8-inch chips along the lower edge of the front panel and the loss of the top 1/4-inch of the jacket's spine. The canary yellow back panel shows a modest amount of general dirt picked up from normal usage over the decades. An uncommon Durrell work, difficult to find in any semi-decent dustjacket. .

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Book number: 1226808

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Crusade in Europe

Garden City, Doubleday, 1952. Later printing. Hardcover. Later printing with no notice of printing on copyright page, published by the original publisher in 1952, four years after the first edition. Brown cloth, a few touches of shelf wear, else in fine condition. Lacks the jacket. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY EISENHOWER. Inscribed by Eisenhower on the half-title. "For T.V. DuBois, with best wishes, Dwight Eisenhower" T.V. DuBois was a Cincinnati industrialist and the founder of Cincinnati Chemical. .

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Book number: 1253306

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Johann August Ernst

Clavis Ciceroniana Sive Indices Rerum Et Verborum in Opera Ciceronis

Halle, Impensis Orphanotrophei, 1757. Leather bound. Bound in full vellum. Bookplate, else text is unmarked. A few spots of very minor foxing, pn the whole a clean, tight, complete book in fine condition. Text in Latin. A concordance to the works of Cicero, first published in Leipzig in 1739. .

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Book number: 1244123

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Lion Feuchtwanger

The Pretender

New York, The Viking Press, 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 440p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a like dustjacket. The book is unmarked and tightly bound. The jacket is nearly pristine but for mild traces of shelfwear along the bottom edge. Rarely found in such superb condition! A novel about the "False Nero," Terentius Maximus. Lion Feuchtwanger (1884-1958) was a German Jewish author targeted by the Nazis, against whom he published anti-Fascist propaganda. .

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Book number: 172372

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Marjorie Flack

The Story About Ping

New York, Viking Press, 1933. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing in 1st issue dustjacket with all necessary bibliographic points. A near fine hardcover book which has a small scratch on the rear board and a few traces of edge wear; in a very good dustjacket which is whole and complete with a couple tiny chips (one at the top left of the front panel and one along the top of the rear panel). Essentially a clean, collectible copy of a somewhat fragile vintage children's classic. Illustrated bu Kurt Weise. A classic tale of a Peking duckling which is one of the most beloved children's books of the 20th century. This is the first printing (three-line copyright on title page) in the first printing jacket with coupon on rear flap and $1.00 price. .

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Book number: 1232469

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Larry Flynt

Dayton Bachelor's Beat: Vol. One, No. 1

Dayton, Bachelor's Beat, 1968. Wraps. FIRST ISSUE OF LARRY FLYNT'S FIRST PUBLICATION. Vol. One, No. 1. The Dec. 12, 1968 issue. 12-page newspaper, folded neatly in half as issued, very good to fine condition. Unmarked, without any chips or tears. Normal age toning to newsprint. Larry Flynt started his business empire in Dayton, Ohio in 1965 with a single bar. He met with success and started expanding in 1968. opening the first Hustler Club in Dayton and issuing the Dayton edition of Bachelor's Beat (a national publication which sold franchises to individual cities). Flynt was president of the corporation while his brother was listed as editor/publisher. Larry ran the Bachelor's Beat for two years before selling it. He apparently used the experience to launch the Hustler Newsletter, a newspaper about his Hustler Club chain - in 1974, the newsletter morphed into the infamous Hustler Magazine. The first issue of Bachelor's Beat features a story about Flynt on page One along with a photo. A rare piece of ephemera, important as the genesis of a publishing empire which played a major role in the modern history of the Sexual Revolution. .

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Book number: 1265942

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C.S. Forester

Payment Deferred

Boston, Little, Brown & Co, 1942. 1st American Edition. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Former owner's name on front endpaper else clean, tight, and unmarked. The jacket is clean with the original $2.50 price intact and marred only by some shallow chipping of less than a 1/4-inch at the spine ends. Classic mystery novel, published in England in 1926 and the basis for the film starring Charles Laughton and Elsa Lancaster. This is the first American edition published 16 years later, A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone, considered as one of the top detective novels of the century. .

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Book number: 1232819

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Birket Foster

Memento of the Trosachs, Loch Katrine, Loch Lomond and the Neighbouring Scenery

Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black, 1854. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A small gift book containing 27 b/w wood engravings by Foster of various scenes in Scotland. Measures 4x5 inches. Bound in decorated boards with leather spine; boards are decorated with tartan plaid design. All edges gilt. Corner of one plate creased else in near fine condition. Gift book designed to be sold to tourists in the Scottish highlands. Scarce. .

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Book number: 1228293

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Anatole France

Crainquebille [L'Affaire Crainquebille]

New York, Limited Editions Club, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. #132 OF 1500 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, BERNARD LAMOTTE. 70p. A large hardcover book in brown tweed cloth and publisher's slipcase. The book is in fine condition and the slipcase is in very good condition (slipcase is partly faded). Translated by Jacques Leclerq and illustrated by Bernard Lamotte. Measures approx. 11.2" x 8.75.

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Book number: 1243064

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Rev. F. Bernard Francis

The Decalogue Explained and the Creed, Theological Virtues, Seven Sacraments Etc. In Fifty-One Excellent Moral Discourses

Dublin, Richard Cross, 1778. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 368p. Bound in full 18th century leather. Front cover nearly detached, being affixed by a single cord. Interior gtenerally clean and in good condition. Francis Bernard Eyeston (1628-1709) was a Franciscan priest. This work was first issued in 1684. .

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Book number: 1234562

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Demetrius A. Gallitzin

A Defence of Catholic Principles in a Letter to a Protestant Minister

Pittsburgh, S. Engles, 1816. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 144p. 16mo, measuring 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. Bound in full brown leather; large piece of leather torn from front cover exposing the cardboard beneath. Rear cover badly worn, missing a portion of the top edge. Old staining and foxing throughout. Ex-libris from St. Charles College, a Maryland seminary which closed in 1969. Poor condition but the interior is complete and readable and the binding is still tight. THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF GALLITZIN'S MOST FAMOUS WORK. Published in Pittsburgh in 1816, the work would go to be published in larger cities over the decades and widely spread as an apologetical work. Prince Demetrius Gallitzin was a Catholic priest of Russian ancestry who wrote many tracts in defense of Catholicism. A member of the Russian aristocracy, he gave up his inheritance to work as a priest in the United States. Gallitzin became known as the "Apostle of the Alleghenies" and was instrumental in establishing the Catholic Church in Western Pennsylvania. He is now a candidate for sainthood and has been declared a Servant of God. This book was his first work and is today rare. Shaw 37730. Parsons 524. .

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Book number: 1241963

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Joel Chandler Harris

Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings

New York, D. Appleton, 1906. New and revised edition. Hardcover. Red decorated cloth. SIGNED BY JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS with a flourish underneath is signature. The covers are clean with a few tiny smudges and the interior is clean and unmarked. Illustrated by A.B. Frost and complerte with all plates and drawings. .

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Book number: 1246009

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