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MR. BRIDGE with MRS. BRIDGE
by CONNELL, Evan S
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
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- October 1981
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- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$156.30
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Berkeley: North Point Press, October 1981. First Edition. Wraps. Near Fine. Two "Advance Page-Proof" copies (11" x 8") of this re-issue as a boxed set of Connell's best-known novels.
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$156.30
CATHEDRAL
by CARVER, Raymond
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- Used - Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1983
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$93.80
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. Although his previous collection achieved some popularity, this title is really Carver's breakthrough and break-away (from the restraints of Gordon Lish's style) book. In it, Carver moved beyond the constraining label of minimalism to mine an emotional depth not present in his… Read more about this item Item Price
$93.80
FAMOUS PEOPLE I HAVE KNOWN
by McCLANAHAN, Ed
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition
- Published
- (1985)
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- Softcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$93.80
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New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1985). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Advance Review Copy Excerpt of the Southern author's second book, "a seriocomic autobiography in the form of a gallery of portraits of the great and small Ed McClanahan encountered in thirty peripatetic years of wandering the fringes of the academic and literary worlds." Cover art by Robert Crumb.… Read more about this item Item Price
$93.80
THE AMERICAN STORY. TEN BROADCASTS
by MacLEISH, Archibald
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- Used - Close to Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1944)
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$43.80
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New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pierce, (1944). First Edition. Hardcover. Close to Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. A collection of radio dramas about America. An Advance Review Copy with slip laid in.
Archibald MacLeish was not only a well-known poet but also served as Librarian of Congress, appointed by Franklin Roosevelt, a position he used to reorganize… Read more about this item Item Price
$43.80
AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF THE LORD
by MATTHIESSEN, Peter
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- Used - A little wrinkling to the spine and soiling. Near Fine
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- First Edition
- Published
- (1965)
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- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$375.00
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New York: Random House, (1965). First Edition. Wraps. A little wrinkling to the spine and soiling. Near Fine. Advance Copy in pictorial wraps replicating the dustwrapper design. Scarce issue of this remarkable novel about how a tribe of Stone Age natives in the Amazon are affected by various Americans. SIGNED on the half-title page by the author.
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$375.00
DANCING AFTER HOURS (Advance Excerpt)
by DUBUS, Andre
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1996)
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- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$31.30
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(New York): (Alfred A. Knopf), (1996). First Edition. wraps. Fine. Wraps. Advance Reading Copy of his last collection containing 3 stories, each separated by a titled cover in a different color: "All the Time in the World," "The Timing of Sin," and "Out of the Snow." With an introduction by Gary Fisketjon.
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$31.30
THEY WHISPER
by BUTLER, Robert Olen
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition
- Published
- (1994)
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- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$18.80
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New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1994). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Advance Complimentary Copy in pictorial wraps.
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$18.80
BELIEVERS
by BAXTER, Charles
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1997)
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- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$25.00
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New York: Pantheon Books, (1997). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Advance Reader's Copy in pictorial wraps reproducing the art of the dustwrapper.
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$25.00
KILLER DILLER
by EDGERTON, Clyde
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1991
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- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$31.30
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Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Press, 1991. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Advance Copy in pictorial wraps with a card from the publisher laid in. SIGNED by the author on the title page.
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$31.30
MARK TWAIN: LIFE AS I FIND IT. ESSAYS, SKETCHES, TALES, AND OTHER MATERIAL, THE MAJORITY OF WHICH IS NOW PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM FOR THE FIRST TIME
by [TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]] NEIDER, Charles (editor)
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- Used - Long mended tear to upper left corner of the front cover. Very Good
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- First Edition
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- (1961)
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- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$75.00
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Garden City, NY: Hanover House (Doubleday & Company, Inc.), (1961). First Edition. Wraps. Long mended tear to upper left corner of the front cover. Very Good. Unocrrected Galley Proof in tall wraps with a printed note from the publisher stapled to the front cover. From the library of a former READER'S DIGEST editor with a note from her… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
THE ANAGRAM DETECTIVES
by SCHIER, Norma
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1979
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- Softcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$93.80
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New York: The Mysterious Press, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. An anthology of detective fiction with the writers' names in anagram. Introduction by Stanley Ellin. Original unbound sheets with a photocopy of a note from the publisher stating that this is one of 8 sets of unbound, folded, and gathered signatures to be used for review purposes.… Read more about this item Item Price
$93.80
NINE BELOW ZERO
by CANTY, Kevin
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition
- Published
- (1999)
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- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$18.80
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New York: Doubleday, (1999). First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Pictorial wraps. Advance Reading Copy with promotional material laid in of the author's third book and second novel.
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$18.80
INTO THE GREAT WIDE OPEN
by CANTY, Kevin
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1996)
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- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$18.80
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New York: Doubleday, (1996). First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Pictorial wraps. Bound Galley with a form letter from the publisher laid in of author's second book and first novel.
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$18.80
INTO THE GREAT WIDE OPEN
by CANTY, Kevin
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1996)
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- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$18.80
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New York: Doubleday, (1996). First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Pictorial wraps. Advance Reading copy of author's second book and first novel.
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$18.80
WALKING THE BOUNDARIES. POEMS 1957 - 1974
by DAVISON, Peter
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Published
- [1974]
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- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$125.00
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New York: Atheneum, [1974]. First American Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Galleys consisting of 7" x 9" loose sheets stapled in the upper left corner. An uncommon format, likely existing in just a handful of copies, this from the library of poet William Meredith, though there are no ownership notations.
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$125.00
MARGINS. A SEQUENCE OF NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
by BOOTH, Philip
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- Used - Mild sunning to the top edge. Near Fine in a lightly soiled, Near Fine dustwrapper
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- First Edition
- Published
- (1970)
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$125.00
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New York: The Viking Press, (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. Mild sunning to the top edge. Near Fine in a lightly soiled, Near Fine dustwrapper. INSCRIBED and SIGNED: "Inscribed, far inland, for/William Meredith,/whose long/and generous/concern/for these poems/has been one/of the margins.../Philip Booth/April 16th/1971." With two corrections in the text, noted by Booth on the title page. An Advance Reading… Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
AN ANTHOLOGY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRAZILIAN POETRY
by BISHOP, Elizabeth and BRASIL, Emanuel (W. S. MERWIN)
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- Used - Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
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- First Edition
- Published
- (1972)
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$2,187.50
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Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1972). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Edited with an introduction by Bishop with translations by her, Paul Blackburn, June Jordan, Galway Kinnell, James Merrill, W. S. Merwin, Mark Strand, Richard Wilbur, and others. This copy SIGNED by both Bishop and Brasil on the title page as well as W. S.… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,187.50
THE DOUBLE MAN
by AUDEN, W. H
- Condition
- Used - Some browning and chipping, as could be expected, but overall in Very Good condition and quite scarce
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- First Edition
- Published
- (1941)
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- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$500.00
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New York: Random House, (1941). First Edition. Softcover. Some browning and chipping, as could be expected, but overall in Very Good condition and quite scarce. Bloomfield & Mendelson A24a: 2000 copies printed, precedes the English edition. This copy is likely an Advance Review Copy and consists of loose signatures, never bound. In pencil on the title page is… Read more about this item Item Price
$500.00
FURIOUS SEASONS
by CARVER, Raymond
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1977
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- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$250.00
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Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Carver's second collection of stories, one of 1200 copies of the issue in pictorial wraps of a total edition of 1300. This is a Review Copy with the publisher's slip laid in.
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$250.00
SHADOW PLAY
by BAXTER, Charles
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- Used - Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- (1993)
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- Softcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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$31.30
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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1993). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Advance Reader's Copy in pictorial wraps reproducing the art of the dustwrapper. SIGNED by the author on the title page.
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$31.30
