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Sinful Summer
San Diego: Corinth Publications, 1968. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Candid Reader CA915. Near Fine. Wraps faintly rubbed. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The story of a writer struggling to write a lesbian novel who ends up using his wife and her friend for inspiration. More
The Man Who Made Gold
New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1931. Hardcover. Drawings by G.K. Chesterton. Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.50), rubbed and with some black stains. Black cloth, rubbed, bumped at the corners. Firmly bound with a forward lean, clean internally. A Chesterbelloc novel about a man who discovers a...... More
Madeline and the Bad Hat
New York: The Viking Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($3.50), large chip at the front board, small chips and tears throughout. Red buckram, rubbed and frayed at the edges and corners. Square, bound with some reading wear, small stains throughout. The third Madeline..... More
8 Poems
New York: Associated American Artists, 1965. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by June Hildebrand. Designed by Robert Anthony. Limited to 100 copies signed by Benedikt, Hildebrand, and Anthony. Fine in a Very Good portfolio, a few stains on the boards, bumped at the corners. Green wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean..... More
City of Thieves
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. More
The Poems of Arthur Christopher Benson
London: Bodley Head, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good in light green boards, lightly rubbed, faintly soiled at spots. Square and sturdily bound with a gilt top edge. A selection of poems from six previous works, "Le Cahier Jaune," "Poems," "Lyrics," "Lord Vyet and other Poems," "The Professor and othe..... More
Trent's Last Case
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Good, lacking the jacket. Blue cloth, rubbed at the bottom edge with some rubbing through to the boards, stained at the top-left of the front board and head of the spine. Bound with a forward lean, front hinge cracked after the..... More
This Is My Beloved
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.95), rubbed at the edges with a couple closed tears and chips, toned on the back panel. Quarter red cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square, bound with some reading wear and a...... More
The American Poetry Review (6 Issues)
Philadelphia: World Poetry, Inc., 1997. Paperback. Vol. 26/No. 1-5 and Vol. 27/No. 6. Very Good. Lightly toned from age, mailing label on the front page, clean otherwise. A nice small collection that features poems and interviews by some of the 20th century's most notable poets, including Sharon Olds, Czeslaw Milosz..... More
In Praise of What Persists
New York: Harper & Row, Publlishers, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Berg on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($14.95). Quarter cream buckram with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of twenty-four essays about the influences of various authors..... More
Reinhart in Love
New York: Ballantine Books, 1965. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. U6034. Very Good. Wraps lightly rubbed and scuffed. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Berger's second novel and the second in the Carlo Reinhart series. More
Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons
New York: Penguin, 2019. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps creased at the back. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. More
The Demolished Man
London: The Science Fiction Book Club, 1954. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Fine in an about Near Fine jacket, toned and soiled at the spine, lightly rubbed at the edges. Brown cloth with a silver gilt panel on the spine. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise. Bester's Hugo..... More
The Life of John Marshall
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. Hardcover. Four volumes in two, each with the signature of MLB Hall of Famer Bill Veeck. Very Good. Half leather binding, rubbed at the edges and corners, toned at the spines. Square and firmly bound with gilt top edges, clean internally. An early edition of..... More
The Religious Experience of Revolutionaries
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($6.95), crossed out in pencil, lightly rubbed. Red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, speckled edges, former owner's name on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Bianchi's study..... More
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
Norwalk: Easton Press, 1971. Hardcover. Edited and with an Introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson. Illustrated by Paul Landacre. Near Fine. Blue leather, faintly rubbed at the bottom corners, with gilt lettering and designs. Square and firmly bound with gilt edges, sewn-in bookmark, clean internally. More
Death Is an Early Riser
New York: Scribner's, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned, rubbed at the edges. Blue-green buckram, toned at the gutter, with blue lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a dark blue top stain, former..... More
My Miss Nancy
Macon: J.W. Burke Co., 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Pictorial paper on the boards, heavily rubbed, split through at the spine. Square, front hinge cracked at the title page, gift inscription on the front endpaper. An account of the "tomboyish and tumultuous childhood" of Lady Astor, the first woman to..... More
The Eagle and the Lion; The Tragedy of American-Iranian Relations
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (no price), bumped and rubbed at the edges, a few shallow chips and tears. Black cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a few stains at the edges..... More
The Trap
London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (10s 6d net), generally toned. Beige cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's signature on the front endpaper, some foxing at the fore-edge and endpapers, clean otherwise..... More
First Poems
Nottingham: Henry B. Saxton, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Birkin on the front endpaper. Good, lacking the jacket. Quarter brown cloth, chipped at the foot, with blue paper on the boards and a rubbed pastedown on the spine. Square, bound with some reading wear, toned at the endpapers, clean..... More
Poems North & South - A Cold Spring
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. Hardcover. Early Printing. Very Good in a Good jacket, clipped, small tears and chips at the edges, creases throughout, a scar at the foot of the spine. Blue cloth, soiled, toned at the spine, white ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and..... More
Hawaiian Life of the Pre-European Period
Salem: Peabody Museum of Salem, 1940. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Wraps faded at the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An account of pre-European Hawaiian life with special attention paid to their houses, fisheries, sports, instruments, and plates. More
The Poems of William Blake
London: Chatto and Windus, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Edited and arranged with a Preface by John Sampson. Very Good. Vellum on the boards, generally soiled, boards flared. Square and firmly bound with a gilt top edge, former owner's signature on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. A collection of Blake's writings..... More