Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), generally toned, lightly rubbed at the edges, an irregular piece of loss at the lower spine. Red buckram, toned at the spine, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a faded top stain, former owner's return label inside the front board, clean otherwise. Hargrave's innovative experimental novel that presents "[e]vents happening in different parts of the same English industrial village...together in time, just as in a symphony complementary themes reach the ear from strings and brasses.....

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Creeley on the title page. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.95), a few stains at the foot of the spine. Yellow buckram with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A unified collection of poetry from Creeley, one with "more flexibility and informality of tone and a darting variation in feeling" than his previous collections.

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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Full number line. Near Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($19.95), lihglty rubbed at the edges. Quarter blue buckram with pale purple paper on the boards, faded in spots at the edges and front joint. Square and firmly bound, former owner's bookplate inside the front board, clean otherwise. Includes the laid-in "Personal Leadership Application Workbook. The true first printing of the first book in Covey's "Habits" series.

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New York: Bouwerie Editions, 1972. First Edition. Paperback. Limited to 300 copies. Signed by Creeley on the title page. Very Good. Brown wraps toned and bumped at the edges and corners. Firmly bound with three staples, clean internally. A reproduction of Creeley's notebook entries from June 7, 1970 through June 19, 1970.

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London: William Heinemann, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. Stamped "presentation copy" on the title pages. About Very Good. Blue cloth, toned at the spines, lightly rubbed and bumped. Bound with some reading wear and forward leans, hinges cracked in Vol. II. One of 600 copies of the first printing, this set from the personal library of Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Maurice Sendak.

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($9.95). Quarter blue cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Possibly the best collection of Carver stories. Includes the much anthologized "Gazebo," "Little Things," and the titular "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love."

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New York: B.W. Huebsch, Inc., 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Association copy, inscribed by Anderson to his first wife, Cornelia. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (priced at $3.00 on the spine), generally toned. Brown boards with yellow ink lettering on the spine and front. Square, firmly bound but the hinges are starting, toned pages, a few light stains at the top edge, clean otherwise. Anderson's fragmentary memoir separated into four parts and with detailed notes. A long-out-of-print work recently republished by the University of Michigan Press as part of its Sweetwater Fiction: Reintroductions series.

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New York: Macmillan Company, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Translated by Lovett F. Edwards. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, rubbed and with some creases at the edges, toned and with some soiling particularly on the back panel. Black buckram, faded at the head, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the top edge, gift inscription inside the front board, clean otherwise. Andric's historical novel about the Mehmed Pasa Sokolvic Bridge in Visegrad, one of the main works responsible for Andric's winning the Nobel Prize.

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New York: Modern Library, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped (95 cents), generally toned, lightly rubbed, chip in the lower-center of the spine. Brown balloon cloth with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a dark top stain, former owner's name on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. The first Modern Library printing of Conrad's thrilling novel of love and adventure in the South Seas.

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New York: Viking Press, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.95). Black paper on the boards with silver lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A coming-of-age tale of friendship set during the Seige of Leningrad.

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New York: Harper and Row, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.50), chipped at the lower-right corner of the front panel, rubbed and toned at the back. Quarter yellow buckram with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of six stories and a novella, one of which is a previously unpublished Sir Henry Merrivale story. Colonel March and Dr. Fell also appear in the others.

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New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. About Very Good. Early leather binding with five raised bands, dulled gilt on the spine, rubbed at the hinges. Square and firmly bound but with the first few leaves becoming loose, original cloth cover bound-in at the rear, bookplates inside the front board and on the front endpaper. Crane's attempt at a romance novel, with contemporary critics calling it "vacuous trifle," and "as inane a story of summer resort flirtations as was ever written."

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