GRISHAM, JOHN

The Client

NY, Doubleday. 1993, 1st. Hard, 8vo. First Edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Doubleday, 1993. Closed tear on spine of dust jacket, label residue on front panel. Near fine in fair dj. Near Fine/Fair.

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Book number: 000265

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GROSS, MILT

De Night in De Front From Chreesmas

NY, George H. Doran. 1927, 1st. Hard, 8vo. First edition. Hard cover in original paper covered boards. Published NY: Doran, 1927, first printing. 8vo. 5 3/4" x 8 1/4", 39pp. illustrated throughout by Gross with b/w drawings. Pictorial green, red and black paper covered boards, orange pictorial endpapers. Wear at the tips and spine, with light splitting. Very good, clean, bright. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010053

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GROSSKURTH, PHYLLIS

Byron: The Flawed Angel

Boston, Houghton Mifflin. 1997, 1st. (ISBN: 0395693799). Hard, 8vo. Illus, First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Published Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. xvii+510pp. illustrated with plates. Inscription on f.l. else an unread, fine copy in dj. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 000759

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GUERIN, EDDIE

CRIME. The Autobiography of a Crook

London, John Murray. 1928, 1st. Hard, 8vo. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published London: John Murray, 1928, first printing. 8vo. 319pp. illustrated with b/w plates. International criminal and bank robber Eddie Guerin, "The Fox" grew up in Chicago, made his way to Europe and landed in the French penal colony of Devils Island, from which he successfully escaped. Black linen cloth with gilt titles. Mild fray at the crown, very light foxing to preliminaries/edges, else near fine, clean, bright, unworn in very good dust jacket with chipping along the top edge, spine panel darkened. An attractive copy. Very scarce in dust jacket. Very Good Plus/Very Good.

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Book number: 007940

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GUILES, FRED LAWRENCE

Hanging on in Paradise

NY, McGraw-Hill. 1975, 1st. (ISBN: 0070251185). Hard, 8vo. Illus, First Edition. Hardcover. Published NY:McGraw-Hill, 1975. 412pp. illus. b/w photos. Chronicle of literay authors in Hollywood with selected filmographies. Very Good. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000992

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Keywords: Guiles Fred Hanging Paradise Hollywood Literary Authors Performing Arts 0070251185

GURA, PHILIP F.

Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel

NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2013, 1st. (ISBN: 9780809094455). Hard, 8vo. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013, first printing, 8vo. xix+330pp. "Rich in subplots and detail, Gura's narrative includes enlightening discussions of the technologies that modernized publishing and allowed for the printing of novels on a mass scale, and of the lively cultural journals and literary salons of early nineteenth-century New York and Boston. A book for the reader of history no less than the reader of fiction, Truth's Ragged Edge?the title drawn from a phrase in Melville, about the ambiguity of truth?is an indispensable guide to the fascinating, unexpected origins of the American novel." Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 009083

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HAMILTON, IAN

Robert Lowell: A Biography

NY, Random House Inc. 1984, 1st. (ISBN: 039450965x). Hard, 8vo. Illus, First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Published NY: Random House, 1984. xii+527pp. illus. Very good plus in dj. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus.

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Book number: 000987

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HAMMETT, DASHIELL

Woman in the Dark

NY, Alfred a Knopf Inc. 1988, 1st. (ISBN: 0394572696). Hard, 8vo. First Edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Knopf, 1988. Originally published in Liberty Magazine in the 1930's, then as 50's pulp paperback. First hardcover edition. Intro. by Robert Parker. As new in dj. As New/As New.

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Book number: 000379

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O'HARA, MARY

My Friend Flicka

Philadelphia, Lippincott. 1941. Hard, 8vo. Third printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1941. 8vo. 349pp. Red cloth with gilt spine titles, blind embossed cover design. Author's first book, made into a 1943 Hollywood film. Fading to the green top edge tinting, name in small hand on flyleaf. Very good plus, clean, pages and enpapers bright, in very good dust jacket with some loss at the folds and edges. Stated third printing on dust jacket flap, along with price of $2.50. Very Good Plus/Very Good.

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Book number: 009111

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HARRIS, ROBERT

Archangel

NY, Random House Inc. 1999, 1st. (ISBN: 0679428887). Hard, 8vo. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Published NY: Random House, 1999. First American edition. Near very fine in dj. Near Very Fine/Near Very Fine.

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Book number: 000810

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HARRIS, FRANK

Daughters of Eve

NY, Pearson's Library. 1919, 1st. Soft Cover, 8vo. First edition thus. 8vo. wrappers, 5" x 8." 63 pages, staple bound into green card cover. Printed on acid paper which has uniformly darkened. Closed tears on several of the pages, bottom corner lightly curled, o/w very good. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 000273

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HARRIS, FRANK

My Life & Loves [Five Volumes in One]

NY, Grove Pr. 1963. Hard, 8vo. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Grove Press, 1963, third printing. Thick 8vo. xviii+983pp. illus frontis plate. Green cloth with gilt tiles abd black portrait design, top edge tinted green, brown endpapers. Complete and Unexpurgated. Edited and with an introduction by John F. Gallagher. Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Very Good Plus/Very Good.

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Book number: 010228

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HART, CAROLYN G.

Death on the River Walk: A Henrie O. Mystery

NY, Twilight. 1999, 1st. (ISBN: 0380974150). Hard, 8vo. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. Published NY: Twilight, 1999. As new in dj. As New/As New.

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HARTE, BRET

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches

Boston, Fields, Osgood & Co. 1871, 1st. Hard, 12mo. First edition, second issue containing the story "Brown of Calaveras" omitted from the 1870 issue. Hard cover in blind embossed green cloth with gilt spine titles and designs, brown endpapers. Published Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co. 1871. 12mo. (viii)+256pp. Minor edge chip to the rear flyleaf/pastedown, else about fine, crisp, bright, tight. Near Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008517

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HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL

A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales

Philadelphia, Jacobs. Hard, 8vo. Ill.: Pogany, Will. Ex-Library, Hard cover in original cloth. Published Philadelphia: Jacobs, no date, (c.1910). 8vo. 320pp. illustrated with 4 full color plates - frontis plate is lacking, plus 24 full page b/w plates, historiated initials in red throughout the text by Will Pogany. Red cloth with gilt titles and cover design, top edge gilting. Ex-library with library treatments, frontis plate lacking, two plates have old tape repair. Good reading copy. Fair/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009061

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