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London: S. Grosvenor, 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Cuts by Thomas Bewick. Fair. Quarter blue leather with red buckram on the boards, faded at the spine with chips at the head and foot and a split running up the bottom three inches. Square, bound with some reading wear, toned endpapers, newsclippings of a portrait of Bewick and one of his cuts tipped-in on the verso of the half-title, clean otherwise. A collection of forty-one fables that, according to Brown's Preface, illustrate Natural History.
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Fables
by Brown, Walter
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The Fables of Aesop (2 Vols); as First Printed by William Caxton in 1484 with Those of Avian, Alonso and Faggio, Now Again Edited an Induced by Joseph Jacobs
by Aesop; Jacobs, Joseph
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London: David Nutt, 1889. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Limited to 550 copies. Complete in two volumes, housed in a custom clamshell box. Presentation copy stamped "With the Author's and Publisher's Compliments" on the front endpaper of each volume. Very Good. Wraps toned, bumped at the corners and edges. Square and firmly bound, one of the front flyleaves loose in Volume I, some foxing to the preliminaries, clean otherwise. A literary rather than typographical reprint of Caxton's first English edition of Aesop's classic fables.
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Fabrications
by Ayrton, Michael
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- 9780030010019 / 0030010012
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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($6.95), wrinkling to the laminate throughout the jacket. Black boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Here "Ayrton deploys to the full, in these illustrated fictions cast as buttresses to unreliable reality, the cunning that informs his work in bronze and the imaginative flight that distinguished his novel The Maze Maker.
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The Face of the Man from Saturn
by Keeler, Harry Stephen
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New York: Dutton, 1933. Hardcover. Good. Fourth Printing. Inscribed by Keeler on the front endpaper. Good, lacking the jacket. Green buckram, bumped, some surface rubbing, with orange ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward lean to the spine, toned at the endpapers, starting at the front hinge.
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Facing the Chair; Story of the Americanization of Two Foreignborn Workmen
by Dos Passos, John
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Boston: Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, 1927. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Olive wraps lightly rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, bumped at the bottom-right corner, clean otherwise. A history of the crime and trial as well as a call to action to fight to save Sacco and Vanzetti from the death penalty.
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The Fall of Valor
by Jackson, Charles
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New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.75), bumped and with creases throughout, chips at the spine edges, former owner's name written on the back of the jacket. Black buckram with red ink panels with white ink lettering and rules. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, red top stain, clean internally. Jackson's second novel, his follow-up to The Lost Weekend.
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The Fallacy of Star Wars; Why Space Weapons Can't Protect Us
by Union of Concerned Scientists
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New York: Random House, 1984. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. Co-chaired by Ricahrd L. Garwin, Kurt Gottfried, and Henry W. Kendall. Edited by John Tirman. Near Fine. Wraps lightly toned, curled at the edges. Square and firmly bound, lightly toned pages, former owner's signature on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. A critical account of Reagan's Star Wars program. The book is divided into three parts: "an introduction that explains the origins of space weapons and the historic struggle over the course of American defense policy, and rewritten, updated versions, addressed to the layman, of two recent USC reports.
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Falling, May Day Sermon, and Other Poems; Puella; The Central Motion: Poems, 1968-1979
by Dickey, James
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1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A collection of three works, all inscribed by Dickey and with a TLS addressed to the inscribee. Falling is a paperback and Puella and Central Motion are hardcovers in their issued jackets. All three volumes are in Near Fine condition with minor wear, some bumping and small closed tears. While Dickey is most famous for his novel Deliverance and its film adaptation, he began his writing career as a poet and even won the National Book Award for his collection Buckdancer's Choice.
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Family Honor
by Parker, Robert B.
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Parker on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($22.95). Quarter black paper with brown paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first Sunny Randall novel.
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The Family Moskat
by Singer, Isaac Bashevis
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Translated by A.H. Gross. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.95), lightly toned and soiled, bumped at the top edge. Quarter red cloth with black cloth on the boards, pushed at the head and foot of the spine. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, a few stains at the edges, clean internally. Singer's classic work about the Moskat family in Warsaw from the late 19th century to the start of World War II.
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Family Swap
by Anonymous
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City of Industry: Collectors Publication, 1968. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. CP 21267. Near Fine. Wraps lightly toned. Square and firmly bond with toned pages, clean internally.
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The Famous Cases of Dr. Thorndyke
by Freeman, R. Austin
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped (7/6 net on front panel and spine), generally rubbed and worn, multiple closed tears and small chips, some tape repairs on the verso. Tan cloth, toned at the spine, pushed at the corners. Square and bound with some reading wear, slightly foxed at the edges and endpapers, clean otherwise. A collection of thirty-seven Dr. Thorndyke detective stories categorized as either "Inverted" or "Direct.
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Fannie Hurst; A Biographical Sketch, Critical Appreciation, and Bibliography
by Hurst, Fannie
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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1928. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. Inscribed by Hurst on the half-title. Fair. Covers present but detached from the textblock. Firmly bound with two staples, clean internally. A short volume about one of the best-selling authors of the first half of the 20th century. In addition to the critical appreciation by Grant Overton, there are essays about Hurst's novels by David O. Edwards, Heywood Brown, Winifred James, and Robert Littell.
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A Fan's Notes
by Exley, Frederick
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New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Paperback. Near Fine. Later Printing. Near Fine. Wraps faintly rubbed at the edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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A Fan's Notes
by Exley, Frederick
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New York: Random House, 1968. Paperback. Very Good. Second Printing. Very Good. Wraps faded at the spine, bumped at the edges and corners, creased at the top joint, remaindered at the bottom edge. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Fantasia
by Oliver, Wade
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Portland: The Mosher Press, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Limited to 500 copies. Near Fine. Blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, lightly toned at the preliminaries, clean otherwise. Wade's second collection of poetry, divided into sections of lyrics, travel poems, and sonnets. The poem "For Edgar Allan Poe" won England's Poetry Studies prize for poem of the year in 1935.
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The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
by Woolrich, Cornell
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Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Edited by Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (no price), lightly rubbed and soiled at the edges. Green buckram with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of eight Woolright stories with an Afterword by Barry Malzberg.
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The Fantastic Art of Boris Vallejo
by Vallejo, Boris
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New York: Ballantine, 1978. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Introduction by Lester Del Rey. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped, toned, chipped at the edges. White boards with red lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of Vallejo's work that appears alongside the work of writers like Edgar Rice Burroughs, Doc Savage, and others.
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Fantastic Adventures March 1941 Vol. 3 No. 2
by [Burroughs, Edgar Rice] Davis, B.G.
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Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1941. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Good. Wraps generally toned and soiled, bumped and creased at the edges, some shallow chips at the fore-edges. Firmly bound with a forward lean, some chips to the bottom-right corners, clean otherwise. This issue features Slaves of the Fish Men, one of Burroughs' Carson of Venus stories.
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The Far Field
by Roethke, Theodore
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1964. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Early Printing. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.50), toned at the spine and flaps, National Book Award sticker on the front panel. Quarter brown buckram with black buckram on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of previously published poems, the first release after Roethke's death in 1963.
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