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The Mournful Demeanour Of Lieutenant Boruvka. Translated by Rosemary Kavan, Kaca Polackova and George Theiner.
by SKVORECKY, Josef.
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1973. First Edition of the English Translation. 8vo. pp. 288. bds. A fine copy in price-clipped dw. dola2821 Item Price
$100.00
Experience: A Memoir.
by AMIS, Martin.
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- First Canadian Edition
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[Toronto]: Alfred A Knopf, [2000]. First Canadian Edition. 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 406. 7 double-sided plates. quarter cloth. dw. (glass marks on front dw.). Signed by the Author. dola2740 Item Price
$100.00
Opus 300.
by ASIMOV, Isaac.
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo. pp. xv, [1], 377. quarter cloth. dw. (very slight wear to dw. corners). dola2641 Item Price
$100.00
A Writer’s Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf. Edited by Leonard Woolf.
by WOOLF, Virginia.
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London: The Hogarth Press, 1953. First Edition. 8vo. pp. x, 372. index. cloth. dw. (some discolouration to dw & tears to edges). dola2636 Item Price
$250.00
Working For The Reader: A Chronicle of Culture, Literature, War and Politics in Books from the 1950’s to the Present.
by MITGANG, Herbert.
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New York: Horizon Press, [1970]. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., 249. cloth. dw. (price-clipped). dola2609 Item Price
$100.00
Buckdancer’s Choice. Poems.
by DICKEY, James.
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- First Edition. Winner of the U.S. National book award for poetr
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Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, [1965]. First Edition. Winner of the U.S. National book award for poetry in 1966. 8vo. pp. 79, [1]. cloth. dw. (some foxing to dw. & endpapers, dw. price-clipped). dola2564 Item Price
$150.00
Tombeaux Sans Croix roman.
by VIIRLAID, Arved.
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- First Edition of the French Translation by Aario A. Marist & No
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Paris: Éditions Albin Michel, [1962]. First Edition of the French Translation by Aario A. Marist & Noel Drouzy. 8vo. pp. 443. wrs. Signed Presentation copy to Canadian scholar, journalist, & broadcaster James Eayrs. Viirland’s bookplate & another signature on front free-endpaper. dola2629 Item Price
$150.00
A Prayer For Owen Meany A Novel.
by IRVING, John.
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[Toronto]: Lester & Orpen Dennys, [1989]. First Trade Edition (published simultaneously in the US by William Morrow & Co.). 8vo. pp. 543. quarter cloth. dw. Very good copy. Signed by the Author. dola2591 Item Price
$300.00
Obscenities [Yale Series of Younger Poets].
by CASEY, Michael.
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New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo. pp. xii, 68. cloth. dw. (slight soiling to wrs. otherwise fine). dola2557 Item Price
$75.00
The Thousand And One Nights, Commonly Called, In England, The Arabian Nights’ Entertainments…A New Edition, From A Copy Annotated By The Translator, Edited By His Nephew, Edward Stanley Poole.
by LANE, Edward William [1801-1876].
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London: Bickers and Son, 1877. 3 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., [vii]-xxx, 555; xii, 578; xii, 701, [1]. numerous wood-engraved text illus. by Landells, O.Smith & others after designs by William Darbey. contemporary half calf, gilt backs (joints & extremities worn, spine labels partly chipped). elala6092 Item Price
$300.00
Take Today: The Executive as Dropout.
by McLUHAN, [Herbert] Marshall & Barrington NEVITT.
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[Toronto]: Longman Canada Limited, [1972]. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 5 p.l., 304. biblio. cloth. Very good in slightly chipped dw. dola2520 Item Price
$150.00
Verbi- Voco- Visual Explorations.
by McLUHAN, [Herbert] Marshall ET AL.
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New York…: Something Else Press, Inc., 1967. First Edition Thus, Soft cover issue. 8vo. unpaginated. several text illus. wrs. dola2521 Item Price
$75.00
The Mechanical Bride: Folklore Of Industrial Man.
by McLUHAN, Herbert Marshall.
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New York: Vanguard Press, Inc., [1951]. First Edition of McLuhan's penetrating study in the field of popular culture and the persuasive influence of communication media independent of content. McLuhan's aphorism "the medium is the message" is later elaborated in his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964). "Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the… Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
The Forest Giant.
by LE CORBEAU, Adrien [Pseud. of Rudolf BERNHARDT].
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London: Jonathan Cape, [1924]. First Edition of the English Translation by T.E.Lawrence using pseudonym J.H.Ross. 12mo. pp. 158. wood-engraved frontis. quarter cloth. Very good in slightly worn & soiled dw. (corners of dw. flaps clipped, small dampstain to lower front wr.). dola2466 Item Price
$200.00
The Secret History.
by TARTT, Donna.
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo. pp. 7 p.l., 523, [6]. illus. at beginning & end. bds. mylar dw. (dw. scuffed, lean to spine). dola2485 Item Price
$300.00
Gualta. Translated By Margaret Jull Costa.
by MARÍAS, Javier.
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[London: Cuckoo Press for John Sandoe (Books) Ltd., 1999]. First Separate Edition of the English Translation. 16mo. pp. 3 p.l., 12, [1]. wrs. Fine copy. dola2470 Item Price
$40.00
Cities Of The Red Night.
by BURROUGHS, William S.
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1981]. First Edition, Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the Author. 8vo. [2], xviii, 332. 3 illus. divisional titles. cloth. Fine copy in cloth slipcase. without dw. as issued. with the original cardboard shipping box. dola2389 Item Price
$250.00
The Mechanical Bride: Folklore Of Industrial Man.
by McLUHAN, Herbert Marshall.
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New York: Vanguard Press, [1951]. First Edition of McLuhan’s penetrating study in the field of popular culture and the persuasive influence of communication media independent of content. McLuhan’s aphorism “the medium is the message” is later elaborated in his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964). “Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained… Read more about this item Item Price
$500.00
In the Castle of My Skin with an introduction by Richard Wright.
by LAMMING, George.
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New York…: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1954. Second American Edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 312. frontis. portrait. illus. on endpapers. cloth (some browning to endpapers). Very good in slightly rubbed price-clipped dw. (slight chipping to dw. at lower edge of spine). elala5814 Item Price
$125.00
Random Roses.
by GREENTHAL, Harold (Compiler).
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- Unique typescript collection of erotic and homo-erotic verse an
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[New York: 1916 – imprint on spine]. Unique typescript collection of erotic and homo-erotic verse and tales gathered mainly from French and classical sources but also including contributions by Greenthal himself. Apparently some if not all of the translating was done by Greenthal. Authors include Catulle Mendes, Cherif Soliman, Cydno the lesbian, Errinne, sister of Sappho, Tristan Klingsor,… Read more about this item Item Price
$2,500.00