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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
by Hillenbrand, Laura
New York: Random House Publishing Group, 2001. Advance Reading Copy. Softcover. Fine. New York: Random House Publishing Group, 3-06. Advance Reading Copy. Fine. Advance reading copy, promotional information on the back cover, b&w photographs within.
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CA$34.58
![2 copies of 12 Windmill Press proofs [Presentation to Frank N. Doubleday] : with The Windmill Press, 172/650 [John Gallsworthy's speech at the opening, Frederic Melcher's copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/180/624/1461624180.0.b.jpg)
2 copies of 12 Windmill Press proofs [Presentation to Frank N. Doubleday] : with The Windmill Press, 172/650 [John Gallsworthy's speech at the opening, Frederic Melcher's copy]
by Linford, Madeline and Galsworthy, John
Kingswood, Surrey: William Heinemann Ltd. - The Windmill Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1927. Press Proof; First Printing. Hardcover. The first copy has a 3" split, without loss, along the front of the spine at head and a tiny spot to a page with offsetting to the adjacent page. The second copy has a 1/2" closed tear, without loss, to the leather at the spine head, a 5/15" split, without loss, to leather at the spine tail and a pinpoint spot to a page. Common to both copies:...
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CA$269.68
My Mother: Demonology
by Acker, Kathy
New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. Proof copy. Paperback, light blue wraps. Very slight wear on corners, otherwise in near fine condition. Laid in is a folded proof of the publisher's dust jacket, with black ink stamp in verso. Kathy Acker's thirteenth novel, My Mother: Demonology is an exploration of love, desire and power, that takes the character back to her childhood's memories and experiences. This experimental and boundary pushing novel, composed of fragments and references to cult and canonical...
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CA$259.53
At the Bottom of the River
by Kincaid, Jamaica
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Unrevised, Uncorrected Proofs in plain, mustard-yellow wrappers. Kincaid's first book, a collection of short stories. Uncommon in this format, and in excellent condition other than what was done to it in FSG's mailroom: a small photocopy of the dustjacket copy proof, with ISBN, publication date, and price, was taped to the inner front cover. Once FSG would get these proofs from Crane Duplicating Service, they'd put an ink...
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CA$136.92
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by HELL, Richard
New York: Scribner, 1996. Signed on the title page by Richard Hell. First edition / First printing. Uncorrected proof. Illustrated wrappers. Fine. The author's first novel. Member of several early Punk groups: Neon Boys, Television and the Heartbreakers. Leader of the Voidoids, seminal Punk-Rock group.
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CA$159.04
Trust Me. Short Stories - Signed Review Copy
by Updike, John (SIGNED)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. Octavo. SIGNED BY JOHN UPDIKE ON FFEP without personalization. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. 302 pp. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A perfect copy.
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CA$103.72
![The Sunday Woman; Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini; Translated from the Italian by William Weaver [Advanced Galley Copy//Advance Uncorrected Proof]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/178/372/940372178.0.b.jpg)
The Sunday Woman; Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini; Translated from the Italian by William Weaver [Advanced Galley Copy//Advance Uncorrected Proof]
by Fruttero, Carlo; Lucentini, Franco
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. Paperback. Very Good -. 338 leaves; 28 cm. Orange wrapper with publisher's HBJ emblem repeated across it. White label on front wrapper identifying it as an Advance Uncorrected Proof of The Sunday Woman with a probable date of publication of Sept. 29, 1973. Stamped at the head of the title page: "Apr 12 1973." With a letter to Anne Winsey signed by Bill Jerram, sales representative, asking her to read it and give him her opinion regarding its...
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CA$163.19
THE CROSSKILLER
by MONTECINO, Marcel
NY: Arbor House, 1988. FINE condition in FINE covers. NY. Arbor House. SOFTCOVER. 1988. UNCORRECTED PAGE PROOFS as issued by publisher for the hardcover edition, April 1988. AS NEW, bound in red stiff paper wraps. Square and tight, UNREAD, NO spine crease. Author's first novel. Features LAPD Detective Jack Gold. Stored in Archival sleeve.. Uncorrected Proof. Softcover. Fine/Fine Original Wraps.
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CA$69.15
SOME SLIPS DON'T SHOW
by Fair, A. A. (Erle Stanely Gardner)
New York: William Morrow, 1957. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good+. Octavo. A fine review copy with Sep 23, 1957 date stamp on rear flap of dust jacket. In a very good+ dust jacket with minimal edge wear. 189 pp.
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CA$103.72
The Preservationist
by David Maine
Trade paperback edition, an Advance Reading Copy, published by St. Martin's Press, 2004. This would appear to be an unread, unused copy. There are no former ownership marks, no writing, no creases to the cover or spine. the text is clean, the binding is tight and square. As is the case with ARCs, there are interesting details on the marketing campaign planned for the book printed on the back cover. 224 pages, perfect bound. The attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory, not a stock photo.
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CA$4.15
Canopus in Argos: Archives Documents Relating to the Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire
by Lessing, Doris
NY, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Very Good +. 8vo. 171pp. Red wraps. Edge of text block lightly foxed. Uncorrected proof.
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CA$34.58
CIMARRON
by Ferber, Edna
New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc, 1930. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Advance Review Copy. 388pp. Bound in original printed wrappers; a very good+, clean, bright copy.
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CA$138.30
Drop City
by Boyle, T. C
New and Unread Advance Reading Copy (ARC) Ships W/USPS Tracking.
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CA$12.57
Alexandra
by Crowley, Aleister (edited by Anthony Naylor)
"This edition is limited to 350 numbered copies- this copy unnumbered" Mandrake Press, Oxon, 1991, 8vo., unpaginated. [48] Introduction by Keith Richmond; edited by Anthony Naylor. Bound into attractive paper black boards (portfolio)with green endpapers; gilt title stamped on spine.. Ex-libris -English bibliophile & Aleister Crowley scholar Nicholas C. Bishop-Culpeper with his book label neatly affixed to front pastedown.Inv. # 62518 bds 2023
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CA$172.88
The Polar Regions in their Relation to Human Affairs. Bowman memorial lectures.
by GOULD, LAURENCE M
New York; The American Geographical Society; 1958.. First Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. iv, 54; 16 pages of b/w. photographic plates, 3 b/w. text maps, 1 large folding bathymetric map of the Arctic Basin, bound in original grey cloth, title lettered in blue on spine, good copy.
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CA$27.12
Ariel: Poems
by Plath, Sylvia
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Review copy, with publisher's slip loosely laid in. Near Fine, in a Very Good dust jacket with price intact. Light strip of sunning to to edge of cloth, mainly at spine. The dust jacket shows toning and soiling. The review slip shows a small strip of toning to the top edge and light curve at the left edge. A very lovely copy, rare with publisher's review slip laid in.
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CA$1,175.55
Karluk.
by MCKINLAY, WILLIAM LAIRD
New York; St. Martin's Press; 1977.. First US Edition; Lge. 8vo; pp. xiv, 170; endpapers, 3 maps, 48 illustrations, index, original grey cloth, gilt title on spine, dustjacket, with the bookplate stamp of Charles Warren Bonython (noted Australian conservationist, explorer and author) on front endpaper, very good copy. The book tells the story of the Karluk, the leading ship of Stefansson's Arctic Expedition of 1913-18.
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CA$40.68
THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE a Novel
by Hunter, Evan
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1954. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Octavo. Review copy with Advance Copy card laid-in. 309pp., (1)pp. Bound in pictorial dust jacket over plain wrappers, top edge stained black. A very good copy with owner name ffep. Author's first book. The story of a teacher who finds himself in a war, a fight for his life against teen-age gangsters.
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CA$242.02
TEN NORTH FREDERICK
by O'HARA, John
New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good+/Very Good+. Octavo. Review Copy. Very good+ dust jacket over wrappers with newspaper clippings tipped-in ffep and verso of front cover. Front dust jacket flap with $3.95 price and 11/55. Dust Jacket by Sam Sugar. 408 pp. National Book Award Winner 1956.
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CA$207.45
JOSEPHINE: NAPOLEON'S EMPRESS
by FORESTER, C. S
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1925. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Review copy with review slip tipped-in ffep. A very good+ copy in original purple cloth with gilt lettering spine. All twelve black and white plates are present. Bookplate front paste-down. vii, 246 pp.
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CA$172.88
The Sirian Experiments: The Report by Ambien II, of the Five
by Lessing, Doris
NY, NY: Alfred Knopf, 1980. First edition, uncorrected proof. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. 288pp. Peach colored wraps. Uncorrected Proof. Light soiling to edge of text block and wraps. Upper cover creased.
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CA$27.66
A Train of Powder
by West, Rebecca
New York: The Viking Press, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. Milton Merlin's Review Copy, with publisher's slip laid in; purchased by Charles Parkhurst from Mr. Merlin's estate. A fine copy, in a very good dust jacket, with price of $3.75 on front flap.
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CA$207.45
The Birth of Venus
by Sarah Dunant
Advance Uncorrected Bound Proof. Glossy wraps in fine new condition, clean and unmarked.
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CA$27.66
THE STERILE CUCKOO
by Nichols, John
New York: David McKay Co, 1965. First Edition. Original Wraps. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. ADVANCE PROOF COPY. Author's first book. 210 pp. Bound in blue wrappers printed in red. A lovely copy.
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CA$138.30
![A Question of Upbringing - PROOF COPY [A Dance to the Music of Time] - housed in a bespoke solander / clamshell box.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/597/740/1337740597.0.b.jpg)
A Question of Upbringing - PROOF COPY [A Dance to the Music of Time] - housed in a bespoke solander / clamshell box.
by POWELL, Anthony
Heinemann, 1950. Proof Copy. Softcover. VG++. Ultra rare proof copy. 124 x 185cm, 230pp. Publisher's original buff paper wraps with titles and "PROOF COPY" to the front cover and titles and publisher's windmill device to the spine, 230pp. The wraps have been printed on the verso of an unused illustration from a previous Heinemann book, Dog Days by K F Barker, so that parts of a bull terrier in full colour can be seen on the inside of the covers. The verso of the title page states "First Published...
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CA$4,758.05
