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So Here Cometh White Hyacinths : Being a Book of the Heart Wherein is an Attempt to Body Forth Ideas and Ideals for the Betterment of Men, Eke Women, Who Are Preparing for Life by Living

By: Hubbard, Elbert; Illustrated by Jules Gaspard

Price: $29.00

Publisher: Roycrofters : 1907

Seller ID: 15321

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

161 pages; 12mo (7.25") 19 cm; Published in the year 1907, by Roycrofters, an amazing publishing house where paper was made by hand, printing was by handpress, bindings were handsewn, and books were beautiful. This edition is bound in rich brown suede leather with yapp edges, title and decor stamped in black on front, dark brown moire-cloth liners, 161 heavy-duty pages, brown page-marker ribbon, monochrome decorative initials and headers. ; Frontispiece b/w portraits of Elbert Hubbard and Alice Moore Hubbard by Jules Gaspard. ; A book of wisdom and advice from one of the most well-known freeth...
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Tom Brown's School Days : By an Old Boy

By: Hughes, Thomas; Illustrated by Arthur Hughes, Sydney Prior Hall

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Macmillan & Company : 1882

Seller ID: 23519

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

406 pages; 12mo (7.5") 19 cm; Hardcover, green cloth decorated in black and gilt, [xxii] + 376 + 8 pages, 406 total pages, dark brown glossy endpapers, several dozen b/w illustrations including 8 full-page. ; Illustrated by Arthur Hughes and Sydney Prior Hall. Originally published 1857. This is 6th edition, with new preface, 1882. ; Largely based on his own school life, this popular novel launched a new genre, the English school story, and influenced many future novels including the Harry Potter series. ; Clean, unmarked, intact book. Moderate wear to extremities. Top edge sunned. Spine cloth ...
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Markham Affair, the : (1e, 1st Edition, 1925)

By: Hyatt, Stanley Portal

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Edward J. Clode : 1925

Seller ID: 21349

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

310 pages; 12mo (7.75") 20 cm; Hardcover, olive green cloth, gilt lettering, 310 pages. ; 1st edition, 1925. Same date. Mystery thriller. ; Best known as author of The Old Transport Road and Diary of a Soldier of Fortune, Stanley Portal Hyatt (1877-1914) was famed English-born African trader and adventurer. ; Almost no wear. Spine slightly faded but still readable. Very small old book label (Stewart Kidd, Booksellers and Stationers, Cincinnati) on rear endpaper. Lacks jacket. Scarce in any condition.
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Maya's Own Words, the : An Anthology Comprising Abridgements of Popol-Vuh, Rabinal, Solola, Chumayel, Totonicapan

By: Irving, Thomas Ballantine

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Labyrinthos : 1985

Seller ID: 22261

ISBN-13: 9780911437140

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

102 pages; 4to (11") 28 cm; Tall dark red softcover, [x] + 102+ 24 pages, 2 small maps of Maya region, 12 color and monochrome photos on glossy plates, with captions. Includes appendix of music for Rabinal-Achi ballet, scored for drums and trumpets. ; Edited for the modern reader by Thomas Ballantine Irving, stated. Complete subtitle: "An Anthology Comprising Abridgements of the Popol-Vuh, Warrier of Rabinal, and Selections from the Memorial of Solola, the Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel, and the Title of the Lords of Totonicapan." ; Book is clean and tight, no marks but touch of shelfwear, l...
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Celtic Fairy Tales : Enchanting Fairy Tales from the Celtic Tradition

By: Jacobs, Joseph; Illustrated by John D. Batten

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing : 2014

Seller ID: 21619

ISBN-13: 9781629142272

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

267 pages; 4to (10.25") 26 cm; Sturdy hardcover, green boards, green endpapers, [xvi] + 267 glossy pages, endnotes, illustrated decorative initials, 48 wonderful b/w illustrations including 8 full-page illustrations, 24 Celtic fairy tales from Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall. ; Originally published 1892. This is a beautiful facsimile reprint, 2014. ; Only a touch of exterior wear. No marks or major defects. Lacks jacket.
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Dead Solid Perfect

By: Jenkins, Dan

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Atheneum : 1974

Seller ID: 23721

ISBN-13: 9780689106200

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

234 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; Hardcover, green cloth over spine, red boards, orange endpapers, [xvi] + 234 pages. ; First edition stated, jacket priced, no dimple. Classic humorous novel by noted amateur golfer and senior writer at Sports Illustrated. Blurb: "Dead Solid Perfect uses the sporting life [professional golf] as a touchstone for all that's glittering and raunchy, courageous and funny, frightening and tender in today's America." ; Book shows only very light wear. No marks, no major defects. Jacket is intact, not clipped, with light sunning, light wear to upper edge. ; Laid in: "Crooke...
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Man Dead : A Novel

By: Jepson, Selwyn

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Doubleday & Company : 1951

Seller ID: 24260

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair in Poor dust jacket

188 pages; 8vo (8.5") 23 cm; Hardcover, dark blue-gray tweed cloth, top edge inked red, 188 pages. ; Author was chief of espionage operations for British army during World War 2. This is one of his many political thriller novels noted for their realism. (Amazonbuyers please note: This is NOT a book-club-edition; rather it is a "Crime Club Selection" which "has not appeared in any form" prior to this printing) ; We have graded this item Fair. Cloth is sunned and spotted. Library stamps on bottom and front endpaper. Rear endpaper has library pockette. Library mark painted on heel. Small chip to ...
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Sexy Mini Joke Books : Call of the Wild, Gags a Go Go, Giggle Gassers, Hanky Panky, Lads and Lassies, Viva La Sex, Zany Zex

By: Jones, David

Price: $75.00

Publisher: S. R. I. Publishing Company : 1968

Seller ID: 24194

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

48 pages; 24mo (5.5") 13 cm; Small softcovers, 48 pages per volume, chock full of short jokes and single-panel b/w cartoons of a lewd, raunchy, bawdy nature. Plenty of nude ladies, tits and boobies. ; Thislot includes: 1) Call of the Wild, LL-21, lavender cover, 182 cartoons and jokes. 2) Gags a Go Go, LL-22, gray, 112. 3) Giggle Gassers, LL-23, beige, 223. 4) Hanky Panky, LL-24, tan, 222. 5) Lads and Lassies, LL-25, yellow, 231. 6) Viva La Sex, LL-26, orange, 266. 7) Zany Zex, LL-27, green, 224 cartoons and jokes. Total of 1360 jokes and cartoons. ; Almost no sign of use, except "Lads and Las...
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Errol Obb Nem Beszelni : We Don't Talk About It

By: Kajan Tibor Valogatasa

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Mora Ferenc Ifjusagi Konyvkiado : 1981

Seller ID: 24162

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

108 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; HUNGARIAN text throughout. Hardcover, pink and black boards, 113 b/w cartoons about today's youth, most full-page. ; Endpapers show faint sticker ghosts and a touch of foxing. Plastic coating on boards shows some wrinkles, as issued. No other defects.
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A Living

By: Kaloustian, Heidi

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Heidi Kaloustian : 2010

Seller ID: 17580

ISBN-13: 9780998356419

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

17 pages; 8vo (8.5") 22 cm; Green softcover, 20 textured pages numbered to 17, 5 full-page color illustrations. ; A beautiful short story written and illustrated by Heidi Kaloustian, 2010. 'My father made his living gutting houses.' ; No defects. Scarce.
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Poetical Works of John Keats, the : Oxford Edition, Edited with an Introduction and Textual Notes

By: Keats, John, with H. Buxton Forman

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge : 1906

Seller ID: 21995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

568 pages; 12mo (7.5") 19 cm; Hardcover, white vellum (untanned leather) over spine and tips, pale red cloth over boards, [lxxvii] + 491 pages, 568 total pages, top edge gilt, gilt title and decor on spine, index of first lines, 2 b/w portraits on glossy plates, over 200 poems, footnotes throughout. Spine title Keats' Works in gilt over red circle. ; Originally published 1819. This edition 1906.; Very little wear. Vellum slightly sunned on spine but quite readable. One small ink spot on rear board. Small sticker ghost on front endpaper. No other defects. Quite attractive. (Amazonbuyers please ...
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Elet Konyve : Book of Life 1892-1942

By: Kemeny Gyorgy, George Kemeny

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Magyars in America : 1944

Seller ID: 23944

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

240 pages; 8vo (9") 23 cm; HUNGARIAN text throughout, except appendix with 27 translations by Watson Kirkconnell and others. Softcover, gray covers decorated in gold and blue, 240 pages, anthology of about 200 original short poems. ; Portrait drawn by John Kemeny. Kemeny Gyorgy (1875-1952) was poet laureate of Hungary. This book includes a choice selection drawn from fifty years of his output. ; Almost no wear, but edges are slightly sunned, pages are a bit yellowed from age, rear cover (which is blank apart from printing data) has several small spots. Pages clean, no marks. Binding tight. ; L...
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Kill and Tell : (1e, 1st Edition, Signed)

By: Kienzle, William X.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Andrews & McMeel : 1984

Seller ID: 21926

ISBN-13: 9780836261202

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dust jacket

249 pages; 8vo (8.25") 21 cm; Hardcover, black cloth, brown endpapers, [viii] + 249 pages. Inscribed and SIGNED by author Bill Kienzle on title page. ; Book shows only a touch of shelfwear. No other defects apart from autograph. Jacket has light edgewear, small hole in spine panel, not affecting any text. ; Father Koesler Series; Vol. 6
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Cujo : First Paperback Editiom, 1982

By: King, Stephen

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Signet/New American Library : 1982

Seller ID: 22481

ISBN-13: 9780451117298

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

304 pages; 12mo (7") 18 cm; Black paperback, silver lettering, drooling fangs on front cover, [xii] + 304 + 4 pages. ; Copyright 1981. This is first paperback edition, 1982. ; Rabid dog terrorizes mother and her four-year-old son. ; Light wear. A touch of foxing to top and fore-edge.
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Knickerbocker's a History of New York : From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, Author's Revised Edition, Complete in 1 Volume

By: Knickerbocker, Diedrich (Washington Irving)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: David McKay Company : 1870

Seller ID: 19736

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

414 pages; 12mo (7.5") 19 cm; Hardcover, tan leather over spine and corners, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt, 414 pages, fake footnotes throughout, foreword by 'Seth Handaside'. 2-page publisher catalog in rear. ; Humorous fiction skewering pompous historical style of the era. Originally published 1818. This is 2nd edition, 1848, later printing, about 1870. ; Subtitle concluded: 'Containing, among many surprising and curious matters, the unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the disasterous projects of William the Testy, and the chivalric achievements of Peter the Headstron...
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All the Funny Folks : The Wonder Tale of How the Comic-Strip Characters Live and Love Behind the Scenes

By: Lait, Jack; Illustrated by Louis Biedermann

Price: $185.00

Publisher: World Today : 1926

Seller ID: 23050

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

112 pages; 4to (11.75") 30 cm; Tall hardcover, green cloth, front paste-down (two gents racing horses) illustrated in full color, 112 pages, each with full-color illustrations. Two pages in front show all the characters, including Jiggs, Maggie, Dinty Moore, Tillie the Toiler, Krazy Kat, Offissa Pup, Barney Google, Ma Katzenjammer, Pa Perkins, Abe Kabibble, Rheba Mine Gold, Detective Owl Eye, Toots and many more. ; Warning: silly humor and horse racing. Copyright by King Features Syndicate, 1926. ; Rhyming story by Jack Lait. Illustrated by Louis Biedermann, featuring comic character-creations...
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Call of the Wild : Open Season Cartoons

By: Lamb, Clyde

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Register & Tribune Syndicate : 1958

Seller ID: 24222

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

48 pages; 32mo (4.75") 12 cm; Small oblong softcover, 48 unnumbered pages, 47 full-page b/w single-panel cartoons about hunting and fishing. ; Cartoons collected from Clyde Lamb's series, Open Season, 1957-1958. Printed by Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul, Minnesota. Warning: the usual sexism. ; Quite worn. Small spots here and there. Inside rear cover has partial address penned in old ink. All pages turn, everything is readable, binding is intact. Quite scarce in any condition.
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They Shall Run : Harriet Tubman Poems (Signed)

By: Lansana, Quraysh Ali

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Third World Press : 2004

Seller ID: 21644

ISBN-13: 9780883782576

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

56 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Hardcover, black boards, [viii] + 56 pages, 2 b/w photos, 40 original poems. Inscribed and SIGNED by author on title page. ; No defects to book or jacket.
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Never Trust a Cowbird : Signed

By: Laycock, George

Price: $25.00

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : 1966

Seller ID: 24420

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dust jacket

140 pages; 8vo (9.25") 23 cm; Hardcover, gray boards, 140 pages, index, 25 b/w photos. Halftitle page inscribed and SIGNED by author. ; First edition stated, with full number line. Warning: racist. ; True tales and humorous anecdotes about 22 animal and insect species of North America: mule, goat, border collie, longhorn cattle, crawfish, redwing blackbird, cotton boll weevil, screech owl, pileated woodpecker and more. ; Book shows almost no wear. Small bump to lower rear board. Owner emboss on titlepage. No marks apart from autograph. Jacket has eight small chips and closed tears to edges, lo...
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Warblin's Fro' an Owd Songster : Warblings from an Old Songster, Poems and Songs in the Lancashire Dialect

By: Laycock, Samuel; Illustrated by Charles Auty

Price: $26.00

Publisher: W. E. Clegg : 1893

Seller ID: 20710

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

420 pages; 8vo (8.75") 22 cm; Hardcover, brown cloth over beveled boards, black rules, gilt lettering and decor, [xvi] + 376 + [xxii] + 6 pages, 420 total pages, top edge gilt, pale yellow endpapers, frontispiece portrait photo of author with tissue guard, about 160 original poems, 14 full-page b/w illustrations by various artists. ; Introduction and author bio by W. Trevor. Published in Oldham by W. E. Clegg; in London by Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co; in Manchester by John Heywood and by Abel Heywood & Son. ; Originally published 1864, revised 1866. This is 3rd edition, greatly expa...
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Category: Literature & Fiction