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The Snow Poems (Review Copy)
by Ammons, A. R.
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1977
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780393044676
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$65.00
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New York: Norton, 1977. Review copy with slip laid-in; 292pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Review Copy with Slip laid in. Item Price
$65.00
Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow
by STUART, Jesse
- Condition
- Used - VG++
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1934
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$550.00
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NY: Dutton, 1934. Dustwrapper shows a completely closed 1" tear to top of front panel. Book shows typical brown offsetting to endsheets. Previous owner's neat bookplate to front pastedown. A tight, clean (and most acceptable) copy of the author's first regularly publishe book. . First Edition. Hard Cover. VG++/VG+. Item Price
$550.00
Idyls of the King
by TENNYSON, Alfred Lord
- Condition
- Used - VG++
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1859
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$195.00
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Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1859. An unusually nice copy bound in the original dark brown vertically ribbed cloth stamped in gold (still very readable) with virtually none of the edgewear that usually plagues this title. The true first edition with the July Advertisements at the rear of the book. Dark brown endpapers. . First Edition. Hard Cover. VG++/No… Read more about this item Item Price
$195.00
Toward the Gulf
by MASTERS, Edgar Lee
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- VG++
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1918
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$225.00
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NY: Macmillan, 1918. Bound in blue cloth, stamped in gold. Shows a light bit of spotting to page edges. Housed in the original dustwrapper that shows a little chipping to spine ends and one corner (not affecting any text). Overall a most acceptable copy of the first edition in the scarce dustwrapper. 292 pp. + ads.. First Edition.… Read more about this item Item Price
$225.00
The Narrows
by PETRY, Ann
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- VG++
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1953
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$95.00
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953. Endpapers professionally restored and book tightened. Overall, a tight, clean copy of this, the first edition of the African American author's second book. Her first book, the Street, won the Houghton Mifflin Award in the year of publication. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/VG++. Item Price
$95.00
Murderers Row
by Fleming, Gordon H.
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1985
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780688048044
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$295.00
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NY: Morrow, 1985. A crisp, clean unread copy of the first edition of this scarce book on the 1927 New York Yankees. A day-to-day re-creation of the game's most illustrious season. Eyewitness accounts by Grantland Rice, Damon Runyon, Ford Frick, Ring Lardner and many other legendary sportswriters. Introduction by Waite Hoyt. 388 pp. + index. … Read more about this item Item Price
$295.00
Corelli's Mandolin
by DE BERNIERES, Louis
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine -- Price-Clipped
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1994
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780679436447
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$35.00
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NY: Pantheon, 1994. A "tragic comedy" by the noted author of "Senor Vivo and the Coca Lord". Amazingly difficult to locate in collectible condition and with no remainder mark. Basis for the movie that starred Nicholas Cage as Captain Corelli. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine -- Price-Clipped. Item Price
$35.00
Wildtrack (Assoc. Copy)
by WAIN, John
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First British Edition
- Published
- 1965
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$195.00
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LONDON: Macmillan & Co., 1965. Housed in fine dustwrapper (that match to printed boards of the book). Beautiful first British edition of this book of poems by the noted author and poet. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED to fellow poet, Reed Whittemore. Laid in is an ALS (written on both sides of the paper) to Whittemore thanking… Read more about this item Item Price
$195.00
Because I Was Flesh
by DAHLBERG, Edward
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Published
- 1963
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$55.00
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NY: New Directions, 1963. Dustwrapper shows a tiny bit of soiling to rear panel. Overall, a beautiful copy of this second printing of the noted autobiography of Dahlberg. From New Directions owner's James Laughlin's private library with his ownership label laid in.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Item Price
$55.00
Riding the Earthboy 40
by WELCH, James
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1971
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$175.00
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NY: World, 1971. This is the true first edition of the poet/novelist's first book. This book was supposedly not distributed, hence rare. "P" on ffep. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Item Price
$175.00
That Worthless Fellow Platonov
by CHEKHOV, Anton
- Condition
- Used - VG++
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Published
- 1930
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$65.00
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NY: Dutton, 1930. Dustwrapper shows chipping to extremes and some soiling. Overall, a nice copy of the first American edition of this Chekhov play -- and I can honestly say that it is difficult to find a Chekhov first in a dustwrapper.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. VG++/VG+. Item Price
$65.00
Allegiances
by STAFFORD, William
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1970
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
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$75.00
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NY: Harper & Row, 1970. Beautiful copy of this, the first edition of the poet's fourth book of poems. Laid in is a letter from a reviewer stating that this was a REVIEW COPY with the publisher's slip being misplaced. Stafford won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1953.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Item Price
$75.00
Moortown
by HUGHES, Ted
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Published
- 1979
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$35.00
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NY: Harper & Row, 1979. The first U.S. edition of this book of poems by the noted British poet. Only flaw is slight sticker removal mark to front panel. Illustrations by Leonard Baskin.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Item Price
$35.00
Cavender's House
by ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1929
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$45.00
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NY: Macmillan & Co., 1929. Tight, clean copy of this 203 pp. poem by Robinson in handsome blue, black and silver dustwrapper. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Item Price
$45.00
Psychoanalysis and Morality
by POWYS, John Cowper
- Condition
- Used - VG
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1923
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$75.00
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SF: Jessica Colbert / Grabhorn, 1923. Previous owner's neat name to ffep. Bound in grey boards with faded brown cloth spine. Light wear to spine. The first edition/first state (ltd. to 500 copies -- this is #30). Ref.: Thomas A15.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG/No Jacket. Item Price
$75.00
Lasers and Holography
by Kock, Winston E.
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- VG++
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Published
- 1969
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$75.00
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NY: Doubleday, 1969. Presumably the second edition of this important book on Lasers and Holography. A bit of edgewear, but overall book and d.w. are bright and clean. Inscribed, Signed and Dated by the author (in 1971) on the ffep. Handsome copy!. Inscribed and Signed By Author. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/VG++. Item Price
$75.00
The Feast of Lupercal
by MOORE, Brian
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- VG++
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Published
- 1957
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$95.00
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BOSTON: Little Brown, 1957. Dustwrapper shows some minor scuffing and overall edgewear but is overall bright and whole. This is the first edition of the author's hard-to-find second book.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/VG++. Item Price
$95.00
Affinities
by WATKINS, Vernon
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1963
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$35.00
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CT: New Directions, 1963. Dustwrapper shows a few chips to extremes. Otherwise a bright, clean U.S. first edition of this book of poetry. This is from the New Directions warehouse, so it has the publication date written in pencil on the ffep.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Item Price
$35.00
The Rounders
by EVANS, Max
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1960
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$295.00
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NY: Macmillan & Co., 1960. Only flaw is previous owner's neat name stamp to front pastedown (beneath d.w. flap) and second owner's name and year to ffep. Still, a tight, bright copy of the author's best known novel and basis of the Burt Kennedy movie of the same name that starred Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda.. First Edition. Hard… Read more about this item Item Price
$295.00
Touch (Inscribed and Signed)
by GUNN, Thom
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1967
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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Springtown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Item Price
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$175.00
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UK: Faber & Faber, 1967. The true first (British) edition of the author's fifth collection of poetry. Inscribed by the author to Richard Morse in 1970. Bright, tight copy.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. Item Price
$175.00
