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The Color Of Water
by James McBride
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother.The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in "orchestrated chaos"...
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Christ In Concrete
by Pietro Di Donato
An uncompromising yet beautiful portrait of the life of Italian immigrants on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the 1920s, Christ in Concrete is the story of a twelve-year-old boy who must support his family after his father's untimely death.
One L
by Scott Turow
"A wonderful book...it should be read by anyone who has ever contemplated going to law school. Or anyone who has ever worried about being human." -The New York Times It was a year of terrors and triumphs, of depressions and elations, of compulsive work, pitiless competition, and, finally, mass hysteria. It was Scott Turow's first year at the oldest, biggest, most esteemed center of legal education in the United States. Turow's experiences at Harvard Law School, where freshmen are dubbed One Ls, parallel...
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Inscribed Books & Ephemera
THE LADY IN KICKING HORSE RESERVOIR
by HUGO, Richard
New York: Norton, (1973). First Edition. Wraps. About Fine. Softcover issue. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet "For Gary Cooper/one more nice man/from Norton/with pleasure at our first/meeting and looking ahead/to many more/Warmly/Dick Hugo." Books inscribed at length by Hugo are uncommon, and this is an interesting one as this title was the first of Hugo's to be published by Norton who went on to publish his work until the poet's death helping greatly to enlarge his audience.
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CA$432.19
WAR STORIES. POEMS ABOUT LONG AGO AND NOW
by NEMEROV, Howard
Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, (1987). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a glass ring on the front cover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page to poet William Meredith: "for Bill,/This little book/in thanks for his big one/with love,/Howard."
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CA$172.88
Angling Sketches (Inscribed By Industrialist William E. Dodge to Another Industrial giant)
by Lang, Andrew
London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1891. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. W. G. Burn-Murdoch. 12mo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY INDUSTRY GIANT WILLIAM E. DODGE (1832-1903), to fellow industry giant, John Stewart Kennedy (1830-1909), on the FEP, and dated Jan. 1892. Bound in original green cloth, with man fishing on front panel, stamped in gilt on front panel; beveled edges, black coated end papers. 176 pages, 4 pages of ads. With 3 etchings and numerous illustrations by W. G. Burn-Murdoch. Internally,...
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CA$484.05
The Longfellow Birthday-Book
by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (Inscribed)
Illustrated. Frontispiece. 12mo. Original pictorial cloth. Boston, 1881. First Edition. Presentation copy inscribed by Longfellow on the front flyleaf, "Fanny C. Stone with kind regards of H.W.L." [Frances Coolidge Stone was a friend of Longfellow's daughter Alice. She was the daughter of Eben F. Stone of Newburyport, MA, who served in the Massachusetts Senate in the 1850s and was a U.S. Congressman in the 1880s.]Longfellow has also signed his name on page 63 under his birthday listing for February...
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CA$1,728.75
The Building of the City Beautiful
by Miller, Joaquin (SIGNED)
Trenton: Albert Brandt, 1905. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Revised edition. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY JOAQUIN MILLER ON FEP. 12mo; publisher's red cloth, decorated in gilt; a fine copy in a very good dust jacket, with a couple of short closed tears.
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CA$484.05
From Cotteswold and Beyond. Poems
by Baddeley, W. St. Clair (SIGNED)
Painswick: E. F. Millard. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. 96 pages; original blue cloth, printed in gilt. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON FEP and dated April 24, 1923. Internally clean; light wear at extremities. Very good+.
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CA$172.88
Rois De France. Original Manuscript
by Fort, Paul
Paris, 1930. Unbound. Paul Fort's original manuscript, neatly and beautifully written in ink; quarto, 79 leaves of heavy cream paper and laid loose into a green portfolio. Paul Fort drew much of his inspiration from the Middle Ages, and the aballad form that he used almost exclusively was taken from the same period. He filled some forty volumes with his delicate ballads. He was also active in the theatre, even before the turn of the century, writing some plays himself and producing what were...
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CA$4,840.50
Livre D'Esperance, La Joie Francaise Vaincra Les Temps Sans Joie
by Fort, Paul (SIGNED)
Paris (c. 1932): Armand Jules Klein. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Dernier. Folio. Unpaginated, original pictorial wrappers, printed in black and green; Dernier portrait by Paul Fort. Number 11 of 300 copies printed for friends of the author. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY PAUL FORT TO MADAME CHRISTIAN SHRAM JUNIOR, with a warm 5 line inscription, in French. A near fine copy.
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CA$345.75
Pipetown Sandy - Inscribed
by Sousa, John Philip
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1905. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good++. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY JOHN PHILIP SOUSA ON TITLE PAGE. Inscribed on the title page: "To / Mrs. M. A. Christensen / from / John Philip Sousa / 1908." Mrs. Christensen's name and address on the FEP. September, 1905 on copyright page. Original rust cloth, lettered in white on front panel; small octavo, 383 pages. A very good++ copy, with very light wear at extremities.
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CA$518.62
The Whispering Buddha
by Cowles, John Clifford (SIGNED)
Los Angeles, CA: Hollyway Publishers, 1932. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY JOHN CLIFFORD COWLES. 460 pp. Original pink cloth, decorated in gilt; pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket is worn at extremities, with small loss at spine ends.
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CA$345.75
Shakspere (Shakespeare) Allusion Books; Part I A.D. 1592-98, Published for the New Shakspere Society
by Ingleby, C. M., Esq., M.A., LL.D. (Inscribed)
London: N. Trubner & Co, 1874. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. Inscribed by the author on front wrapper, which is bound in; 12mo, 3/4 tan leather over marbled boards; 188 pages. Laid in is a copy of a letter from Humphrey Moseley, 3 pages, concerning allusions to Shakespeare. Uncut, internally very clean and bright. Bookplate of Jerry Melton. A very good + copy.
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CA$484.05
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.
by AYN RAND (Inscribed)
FIRST EDITION. SIGNED. PRESENTATION COPY. [#24 OF 700]Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.With Additional Articles by Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan and Robert Hessen. 8vo. Original black cloth-backed green cloth, in custom made Greenbriar slipcase. The New American Library (1966). First Edition. Limited to 700 numbered copies signed by the author. This copy #24. Presentation copy inscribed by Rand on the half-title, "To . . . Cordially – Ayn Rand 4/30/75." Fine. Scarce.
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CA$4,840.50
Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein with Two Shorter Stories.
by STEIN, GERTRUDE
First Edition. Limited to 500 copies. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by Stein on the front endpaper, dated Oct 20, 1933, shortly before she returned to America after a thirty-year absence.Small 8vo. Original printed orange wrappers in scarce publisher's slipcase, Paris: Plain Edition (1932).Wrappers and slipcase lightly soiled, o/w fine.
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CA$3,457.50
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La Mano Di Dio [The Left Hand of God]
by Barrett, William E. (SIGNED)
Milan: Edizioni Librarie Italiane, 1956. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Octavo. 419 pp. First Italian Edition. SIGNED AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM E. BARRETT TO HIS WIFE. Fine in a Near Fine Dust Jacket.
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CA$345.75
DEATH DU JOUR
by REICHS, Kathy (SIGNED)
New York: Scribner, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO MYSTERY COLLECTOR ARTHUR PARSON BY KATHY REICHS ON TITLE PAGE. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 379 pp.
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CA$89.90
Plastic Surgery of the Nose, Ear and Face
by Fruhwald, Victor (Dr.) (SIGNED)
Vienna: Wilhelm Maudrich, 1932. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition in English; SIGNED AND INSCRIBED to a fellow surgeon. Octavo, 86 pages, 6 pages of ads at rear; 88 illustrations. Original brown cloth, decorated in gilt. Light wear at extremities, a little fraying at spine ends. Internally very clean; a very good copy, inscribed on FFEP.
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CA$345.75
FELLOW FEELINGS. POEMS
by HOWARD, Richard
New York: Atheneum, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Foxing to top and side edges. Very Good. The issue in wraps. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page to the poet William Meredith: "For Bill/w affection/Richard."
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CA$138.30
PARNASSUS ON WHEELS (Inscribed Association Copy)
by Morley, Christopher (SIGNED)
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1919. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. SIGNED, INSCRIBED TO RAYMOND E. RUBICAM AND DATED BY CHRISTOPHER MORLEY ON FFEP. Raymond E. Rubicam was an American advertising pioneer who co-established the Young & Rubicam Advertising Co., 190pp., bound in 1/4 green cloth over gray paper covered boards lettered in dark green, spine gilt; light wear to extremities. A very good copy.
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CA$484.05
OTHER SKIES
by CIARDI, John
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with a tanned spine. Author's second book. INSCRIBED revealingly at length by the poet on the front endpaper to the poet William Meredith: "Bill--/This is an uneven book -- some of/the poems were written at a time/when I wasn't sure I'd live to/finish them, and many still need/revising. But please accept it/in token of something we both remember./And with all good wishes./John/June 9, 1980."
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CA$432.19
THE HOLLAND SUGGESTIONS. A Novel of Suspense
by DUNNING, John (SIGNED)
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY JOHN DUNNING ON TITLE PAGE. Inscribed to bookselller Charles Parkhurst. ALSO SIGNED AND INSCRIBED "IF EVERYBODY HAS A TREASURE-HAUL BOOK INSIDE THEM, THIS HAS BEEN MINE" BY JOHN DUNNING ON AN OLD ALGONQUIN BOOKS BOOKMARK without personalization. Old Algonquin Books is owned by John and Helen Dunning. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 220 pp. This is Dunning's first novel.
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CA$1,037.25
REAL PEACE
by NIXON, Richard
New York, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with a small tear at the bottom front and a few rather faint scratches. Privately published edition limited to 1000 copies, preceding the trade edition published by Little, Brown and usually seen signed by Nixon on the front endpaper. This edition was intended for a select group of government officials and opinion leaders in the United States and abroad. We have handled several copies of this title, one or two of which also...
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CA$691.50
NIXON: Volumes One and Two; The Education of a Politician 1913-1962 | The Triumph of a Politician 1962-1972
by Ambrose, Stephen E.; (Richard M. Nixon)
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989). First edition. Two volumes: first printing of volume two, second printing of volume one. BOTH VOLUMES INSCRIBED BY AMBROSE. The first two volumes in Ambrose's Nixon trilogy. Illustrated with photos. Volume one: Slight lean at top of spine still very good to fine in bright, near fine dust jacket. Volume two: Spine ends and corners lightly bumped, boards gently edge rubbed, barely perceptible nick midway in rear board, and very faint offset on the pastedowns from the...
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CA$622.35
THE CITY OF SATISFACTIONS
by HOFFMAN, Daniel G
New York: Oxford University Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with a sunned spine. Poet's third book, INSCRIBED to poet William Meredith: "For Bill, my most faithful/reader/Dan." Laid in is an author's compliments card.
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CA$86.44
The Witchery of Rita and Waiting for Tonti
by Robinson, Will H. (SIGNED)
Phoenix AZ: The Berryhill Co, 1919. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. SIGNED, INSCRIBED AND DATED BY WILL H. ROBINSON TO HIS BROTHER ON FFEP. 12mo, 71 pp. Bound green cloth spine over green printed boards. Minor edge wear; faint pencil marks rear endpapers; a very good copy.
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CA$138.30
Le coeur est un chasseur solitaire. (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.)
by Carson McCullers
INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPYFirst French Edition of McCullers first book. One of 100 hors commerce copies, of a total edition of 2750 copies printed on velin blanc suedois. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For Francis Ambriere from Carson McCullers."Francis Ambrière was a French author. He was selected for the Prix Goncourt in 1940, for his book Les Grandes Vacances.Soft cover. Fine. Traduit de lAnglais par Marie-Madeleine Fayet. Preface de Denis de Rougemont 8vo. Original printed wrappers....
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CA$2,074.50
