New Arrivals

THEY WHISPER
BUTLER, Robert Olen
Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill, (1994).
Price: $150.00
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A BLOODSMOOR ROMANCE
OATES, Joyce Carol
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., (1982).
Price: $15.00
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ANONYMOUS SINS & OTHER POEMS
OATES, Joyce Carol
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (1969).
Price: $100.00
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AN UNFINISHED WOMAN. A MEMOIR
HELLMAN, Lillian
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1969).
Price: $15.00
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FEVRE DREAM
MARTIN, George R. R
New York: Poseidon Press, (1982).
Price: $35.00
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PRINCE OF DARKNESS AND OTHER STORIES
POWERS, J. F
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947.
Price: $100.00
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TO AN EARLY GRAVE
MARKFIELD, Wallace
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964.
Price: $35.00
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GEORGE SAINTSBURY
[SAINTSBURY, George] WEBSTER, A. Blyth
Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, [1933].
Price: $35.00
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A HISTORY OF CRITICISM AND LITERARY TASTE IN EUROPE FROM THE EARLIEST TEXTS TO THE PRESENT DAY
SAINTSBURY, George
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1900/1902/1904.
Price: $50.00
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A HISTORY OF THE FRENCH NOVEL (TO THE CLOSE OF THE 19TH CENTURY)
SAINTSBURY, George
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1917.
Price: $35.00
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A HISTORY OF ENGLISH PROSE RHYTHM
SAINTSBURY, George
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1922.
Price: $25.00
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ESSAYS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1780 - 1860. SECOND SERIES
SAINTSBURY, George
London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1895.
Price: $25.00
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ESSAYS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1780 - 1860
SAINTSBURY, George
London: Percival and Co., 1890.
Price: $25.00
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SCEPTICISM AND ANIMAL FAITH. INTRODUCTION TO A SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHY
SANTAYANA, George
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923.
Price: $25.00
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REALMS OF BEING. ONE-VOLUME EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
SANTAYANA, George
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942.
Price: $25.00
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Beautifully bound by Maurin in 3/4 blue morocco and blue cloth with a gilt-decorated and lettered spine, three raised bands, top edge gilt; xxiii, 918 pages.
POETICAL WORKS
SHELLEY, Percy (HUTCHINSON, Thomas: editor)
London: Oxford University Press, (1952).
Price: $250.00
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ELIA and THE LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA.
LAMB, Charles
London/New York: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd./Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926.
Price: $250.00
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ARCHIVE OF LETTERS: 21 pages
McCOURT, Frank
1983 - 1990.
Price: $7,500.00
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CONSTITUTIONS OF THE SEVERAL INDEPENDENT STATES OF AMERICA; THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION BETWEEN THE SAID STATES; THE TREATIES BETWEEN HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. --AND THE TREATIES BETWEE
Boston: Norman & Bowen, 1785.
Price: $2,000.00
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[HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES] GESCHICHTE DER VEREINIGTEN STAATEN VON DEN FRÜHESTEN ZEITEN BIS ZUR ADMINISTRATION VON PRESIDENT JOHNSON
SPENCER, J. A
New York: Johnson, Fry & Compagnie, (1866).
Price: $500.00
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[HERBAL] THE HERBALL OR GENERALL HISTORIE OF PLANTES. GATHERED BY JOHN GERARDE OF LONDON MASTER IN CHYRURGERIE Very Much Enlarged and Ammended by Thomas Johnson, Citizen and Apothecarye of London
GERARDE [GERARD], John
London: Adam Islip, Joice Norton & Richard Whitakers, 1636.
Price: $7,500.00
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BOUND FOR GLORY
GUTHRIE, Woody
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1943.
Price: $1,000.00
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BOUND FOR GLORY
GUTHRIE, Woody
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1943.
Price: $3,500.00
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THE WRITINGS OF JOHN MUIR
MUIR, John
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-1924.
Price: $2,500.00
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Quarto (7-1/8" x 10-3/4") bound in decorated red cloth. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white plates, several color plates, and two albumen photographs of the moon.
LES TERRES DU CIEL. VOYAGE ASTRONOMIQUE SUR LES AUTRES MONDES ET DESCRIPTION DES CONDITIONS ACTUELLES DE LA VIE SUR LES DIVERSES PLANÈTES DU SYSTÈME SOLAIRE
FLAMMARION, Camille
Paris: G. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1884.
Price: $175.00
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Duodecimo (4-1/2" x 7") in original pictorial boards with a blue cloth spine; 120 pages with additional pages of ads at the beginning and end. "Splendidly Illustrated with 124 Wood-cuts." Contains a full ten illustrated pages about baseball as well as a mention of tennis and much on cricket, rugby, etc.
THE PLAY GROUND; OR, OUT-DOOR GAMES FOR BOYS. A BOOK OF HEALTHY RECREATIONS FOR YOUTH. CONTAINING UPWARDS OF A HUNDRED AMUSEMENTS, INCLUDING GAMES OF ACTIVITY AND SPEED; GAMES WITH TOYS, MARBLES, TOPS, HOOPS, KITES, BALLS; AND FULL INSTRUCTIONS IN ARCHERY
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, (1866).
Price: $2,000.00
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Second Edition of the first volume and First Edition of the other three volumes. Four quarto (8-1/2" x 11") volumes bound in contemporary sheep with the owner's coat of arms stamped on all covers, recently rebacked with new calf spines with gilt-lettered contrasting morocco spine labels. Illustrated with two plates, one folding. The Earl of Bedford's copy with his arms on the covers and his Woburn Abbey bookplates dated 1873 on the front pastedowns.
COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND IN FOUR BOOKS
BLACKSTONE, William
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1766-1769.
Price: $6,500.00
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PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF U. S. GRANT
GRANT, Ulysses S
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885.
Price: $1,000.00
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A lovely copy of Wolff's first book, a Vietnam novel, published only in Great Britian and never reprinted per orders of the author. Reportedly less than a thousand copies were printed.
UGLY RUMOURS
WOLFF, Tobias
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., (1975).
Price: $1,000.00
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AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; OR, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES
WILSON, Alexander & BONAPARTE, Charles
London/Edinburgh: Whittaker, Treacher, & Arnot/Stirling & Kenney, 1832.
Price: $3,500.00
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The future President's first book, issued in an edition of a thousand copies, comprising the text of a lecture delivered at the Milton Academy on the Alumni War Memorial Foundation on 18 May 1926.
WHITHER BOUND?
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926.
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FISHING FOR FUN AND TO WASH YOUR SOUL
HOOVER, Herbert Clark (Nichols, William; editor)
New York: Random House, (1963).
Price: $650.00
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A PRESIDENT'S COUNTRY: A GUIDE TO THE HILL COUNTRY OF TEXAS
[JOHNSON, Lyndon B.] MAGUIRE, Jack
Austin: The Alcalde Press, (1964).
Price: $1,500.00
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THE STRENUOUS LIFE. ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES
ROOSEVELT, Theodore
New York: Century Company, 1902.
Price: $5,000.00
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THE VANTAGE POINT: PERSPECTIVES OF THE PRESIDENCY 1963-1969
JOHNSON, Lyndon B
New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, (1971).
Price: $750.00
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A TIME TO HEAL. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GERALD R. FORD
FORD, Gerald R
New York: Harper & Row/Readers Digest, (1979).
Price: $500.00
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SIX CRISES
NIXON, Richard
Garden City: Doubleday, (1962).
Price: $400.00
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AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
LAWRENCE, D. H
Questa, New Mexico: 25 February 1923.
Price: $3,500.00
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Brief letter on two sides of a generic Christmas card. In full: "I appreciated those kind words in the Commonweal - an excellent selection of adjectives, said I to myself. Did you see the editorial in America about Rabbit Run? Nausesous [sic]. I hope your various projects are going well and I wish you a Merry Christmas. Flannery OC." Although the recipient is not named and the date not given, the reference to the review of Updike's book dates this to 1960. The card (4-3/4" x 5-1/2") is matted with a photograph of O'Connor (-4-1/4" x 6-1/4") and framed to an overall size of 14-1/4" x 19-3/4" with a cutout on the reverse side to show both sides of the card.
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
O'CONNOR, Flannery
n.d. [1960].
Price: $2,500.00
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Quarto (7-1/2" x 9-1/2") bound in full contemporary brown morocco stamped in gilt with "James Mc Hose. Class of 1855." in gilt on the front cover within a lovely embossed view of the university. The rear cover is identical except that only the date is present. Illustrated with several engraved views of the campus as well as engraved and lithographic portraits of nearly all of the faculty and students. The book is SIGNED, often with added sentiments, by over 50 faculty and students including Yale President Theodore Woolsey, Timothy Dwight, Thomas Thacher, Noah Porter, Edwin Corning, Theodore Lyman, William Wheeler, and others. Bound in at the rear is a four-page pamphlet: SONGS FOR PRESENTATION DAY, JUNE 13, 1855.
[YALE CLASS OF 1855 AUTOGRAPH ALBUM]
[DWIGHT, Timothy; WOOLSEY, Theodore; et. al.]
[1855].
Price: $1,000.00
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[YALE CLASS OF 1851 AUTOGRAPH ALBUM]
[SILLIMAN, Benjamin; WOOLSEY, Theodore; et. al.]
[1851].
Price: $1,250.00
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Illustrated with 31 photographs. SIGNED by the famous aviator on the center of the front free endpaper. Ink name and 1932 date at the top of the front endpaper with a note at the bottom of that page in the same hand describing the circumstances that led to the purchase of this autographed book during an August 1932 appearance by Earhart at a department store in Los Angeles.
THE FUN OF IT. RANDOM RECORDS OF MY OWN FLYING AND OF WOMEN IN AVIATION
EARHART, Amelia
New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932.
Price: $2,000.00
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THE NAKED AND THE DEAD
MAILER, Norman
New York: Rinehart and Company Inc., (1948).
Price: $3,500.00
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RELIGIOUS DRAMA: MEDIAEVAL AND MODERN
ELIOT, T. S.
New York: House of Books, Ltd., 1954.
Price: $1,250.00
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MEMOIRS. YEAR OF DECISIONS and YEARS OF TRIAL AND HOPE
TRUMAN, Harry
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1955 & 1956.
Price: $8,500.00
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Quarto (8" x 11") bound in full blue synthetic leather with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover consisting of a quote by Truman. Illustrated with numerous facsimiles of Truman's writing, drawings, and photographs in color and black and white. This is one of only 250 numbered copies. Instead of a number, Truman has written the initials "J.W.S." of the recipient of the copy. Further the book is INSCRIBED by Truman as President below the initials "To: Hon. John W. Snyder,/From: The President./White House./August 9, 1952." In addition, in the blank margin beneath the color frontispiece photograph of Truman at his desk, the President has written: "From one goodl friend to another!" Snyder was appointed U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in 1946 by his close personal friend President Harry S. Truman, with whom he had served in World War I. He developed programs to promote greater efficiency within the Treasury Department, including a streamlining of the Internal Revenue Service, which assured a more impartial administration of tax laws, and a reform of the federal accounting system. Snyder resigned at the end Truman's term. There is a full-page color photograph of Truman and Snyder in the book, as well as several mentions of Snyder in the text. Snyder has highlighted these with pencil, including this passage: "Took Ross, Snyder and Rosenman to the 'House' for lunch.... Told the three of them that they were most in my confidence and that I wanted frank and unadulterated statements of facts to me from them--and that when they could not treat me on that basis, they would be of no use to me."
MR. PRESIDENT. THE FIRST PUBLICATION FROM THE PERSONAL DIARIES, PRIVATE LETTERS PAPERS AND REVEALING INTERVIEWS OF HARRY TRUMAN
(TRUMAN, Harry) HILLMAN, William
New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, (1952).
Price: $6,000.00
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Illustrated with photographs. Truman's account of his experiences after leaving the White House. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the former President on the half title page: "from/Harry Truman/to/Ben Ellerbeck/kind regards/9-25-63."
MR. CITIZEN
TRUMAN, Harry
(New York): Bernard Geis Associates, (1960).
Price: $750.00
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Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED by the subject as First Lady on the front endpaper. Laid in is a letter from Kennedy's social secretary on White House stationery dated 23 June 1962 forwarding the book.
JACQUELINE BOUVIER KENNEDY
[KENNEDY, Jacqueline (Jackie)] THAYER, Mary Van Rensselaer
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961.
Price: $1,500.00
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SET THIS HOUSE ON FIRE
STYRON, William
New York: Random House, (1960).
Price: $600.00
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Poet's second book, published in England before America. SIGNED by the author on the title page where he adds at the bottom of the page "June 21, 1996."
READING THE SPIRIT
EBERHART, Richard
New York: Oxford University Press, 1937.
Price: $200.00
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