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Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press.: 1993
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 354
ISBN: 038530825
Condition: Near Fine
8vo. 440 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Very Good+ metallic jacket, clean and unmarked, binding tight, with minimal general shelf wear to dj, no chips, tears or marks. First Edition July 1993. Biography of Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. Illustrated with a center section of black and white photos. Based on years of research and countless interviews with family, friends, neighbors, lovers and fellow musicians. Insights include Jagger's bisexual history, marriages to Bianca Jagger and Jerry Hall, his affairs with Marianne Faithful, Carly Simon, Linda Rondstadt and sexual escapades with numerous ... View more info
Price: $13.00
Publisher: MO, Andrews and McMeel, MO. 1996. First Edition.: 1996
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 676
ISBN: 0836210360
Condition: Fine
8vo. 246 pgs. Fine condition softcover. Black and white photographs throughout. An entralling biographical, bibliographical resource and reference guide. Thematically organised in five sections plus appendices: The Real World of Anne Rice, The Unreal World of Anne Rice, On Anne Rice, Chiaroscuro - Anne Rice and the Cinema and A Look at the Books. ISBN 0836210360. #676. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New Hampshire, The Golden Quill Press.: 1960
Edition: No Additional Printings Indicated
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 542
Condition: Near Fine
64 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Very Good+ condition jacket. Blue cloth boards, white leather spine with gilt lettering and decoration. Very slight rubbing to bottom corners. White dustwrapper with uncut front flap, blue decoration and lettering. Upper edge of jacket has a tiny closed tear and corner chip. SIGNED and inscribed "Cordially ever, Madeline Benedict" on front endpaper. Clean and unmarked. By the author of "Spring Will Not Fail" and "Fleet as the Swallow's Dip". #542. View more info
Price: $18.00
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1956
Edition: Revised Edition.
Seller ID: 1661
Condition: Very Good
48 pgs. Very Good condition softcover, pamphlet bound, paper wraps. Light tea colored spot to top edge of text block near spine, otherwise clean and unmarked with minimal wear. Sepia toned frontis portrait of the author. A biography and select bibliography, with an index of essays and stories. No. 33 in the bibliographical series of supplements to "British Book News" on Writers and Their Work. General Editor Bonamy Dobree. #1661. View more info
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Co., Boston. 1963. First Edition.: 1963
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 376
Condition: Very Good
8vo. 245 pgs. Very Good+ hardcover in Very Good jacket. Maroon cloth, illustrated frontis portrait. Dust jacket has several small closed tears and chips, with protective cover. Illus. with black and white plates. Biography of Sir Francis Bacon in five parts: Prologue, Lord Bacon's Reputation; An Elizabethan Eden 1561-1579; The Struggle to rise 1579-1613; Bacon Ascending 1613-1620; impeachment 1621; A Noble Five Years 1621-1626. #376. View more info
By: Boyd, Ernest
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York and London, Harper & Brothers Publishers: 1927
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1591
Condition: Very Good
8vo. 265 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover quarter bound in green buckrham cloth with green boards and matching title piece on spine. Stated First Edition. Slight darkening to spine at edges, wear to cloth of upper spine end. Paper over front hinge cracked, underlying binding remains intact. Clean and unmarked throughout. Jacket is present but in fragments, pieces are separated at the paper folds, held in place in a clear archival cover. With a refreshing attitude of "appreciative irreverence", a literary Friar's Roast of sorts, biographical commentaries and critiques are presented fo... View more info
By: Campbell, Killis
Price: $32.00
Publisher: Cambridge Massachusets, Harvard University Press: 1933
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2541
Condition: Good
238pgs. Good condition brown cloth hardcover, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, usual ex-library markings in the usual places, former owner name on copyright page and preface, otherwise clean throughout, binding tight. Cornerstone biography and literary commentary on Edgar Allan Poe, his personal life, personality, eclectic education and background and his sometimes self-revelatory body of work. Sections: The Mind of Poe, Contemporary Opinion of Poe, The Poe-Griswold Controversy, The Backgrounds of Poe, Self-Revelation in Poe's Poems and Tales, The Origins of Poe and The Poe Canon. #2541... View more info
By: Caveney, Graham
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Bantam Books.: 1999
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 1487
ISBN: 0767902785
Condition: As New
8vo. 216 pgs. As New hardcover in As New jacket, clean and unmarked. Black and white cover art.The first fully illustrated tribute to Allen Ginsberg, the best-known American poet of the post-war generation, mother of the Beats, and walking embodiment of Western counterculture. ISBN 0767902785. #1487. View more info
By: Cuny, Hilaire
Price: $13.00
Publisher: New York, Paul S. Eriksson, Inc.: 1966
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 1062
Condition: Very Good+
8vo. vi. 192 pgs. Very Good+ cloth hardcover in Very Good jacket. Cloth has slight rubbing to corners. Dust jacket exhibits overall light shelf wear, with light rubbing to paper at edges and corners. Otherwise, clean, sound and unmarked. The first sections of the book cover his nature, background and early career, followed by his more advanced contributions, the potentialites of his research and his last years. The remainder of the text is devoted to selected writings, notes, research topics, lectures and reflections, followed by a chronological outline of his life, a glossary, bibliography an... View more info
By: Deems Taylor, John Tasker Howard, Ray Lev, Dorothy Berliner Commins [Stephen Foster]
Price: $13.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1946
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 2521
Condition: Good to Very Good
222 pgs. Good to Very Good hardcover, green boards, red cloth spine. General wear to cloth and boards at edges and corners, lettering to spine somewhat faded, rubbing to paper edges and shallow scuffing of boards. Binding sound, internally clean and unmarked. Contents: Foreword by Deems Taylor, Stephen Collins Foster by John Tasker Howard, Open Thy Lattice Love, Oh! Boys Carry Me 'Long, Hard Times Come Again No More, Ellen Bayne, Oh! Susanna, Away Down Souf, Lou'siana Belle, Old Uncle Ned, My Brudder Gum, Nelly Was a Lady, Oh! Lemuel!, Camptown Races, Angelina Baker, Nelly Bly, Ring De Banjo, ... View more info
By: Feuer, Lewis S.
Price: $16.00
Publisher: New York, Basic Books, Inc.: 1974
Edition: First Edition.
Seller ID: 631
ISBN: 0465018718
Condition: Very Good
8vo. ix. 374 pgs. Very Good condition hardcover in Very Good jacket. Brown cloth, blue lettering to spine and matching color to top of text block. Dust jacket has light rubbing to corners of spine, in protective cover. Black and white photographs. Contents include: The Social Roots of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Social, Generational, and Philosopical Sources of Quantum Theory, Generational Movements and 'Scientific Revolutions', Conflict of Scientific Schools, Index. "In this absorbing intellectual history we come to know Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, de Broglie, and many others not as ... View more info
By: Frost, Robert with Louis Untermeyer
Price: $16.00
Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston Inc: 1963
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1903
Condition: Very Good
ix.388pgs. Very Good cloth hardcover in Very Good jacket. Cream-colored cloth with slight general age-darkening and smudginess. Internally pristine. Jacket has a scattering of small edge tears and rubs to the paper, original price intact. Tucked inside is a bookmark for the Episcopal Academy Festival of Books illustrated by Rick Kinscherf '63. The personal, insightful and sometimes blatantly candid letters of Robert Frost to his longtime friend Louis Untermeyer beginning in 1915 through to shortly before his death in 1961. #1903. View more info
By: Gilbert, Suzie
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, HarperCollins: 2009
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 2442
Condition: Fine
340 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, As New condition, clean and unmarked first printing of first dition. Illustrated with finely detailed drawings by Laura Westlake. By the author of Hawk Hill. If you enjoy reading about wildlife rehabilitation and the dedicated rehabbers who make it possible, this well written personable and poignant chronicle will become a favorite. Jacket blurb: "Gilbert chronicles the years of her chaotic household-cum-bird-hospital with delightful wit...Often funny, sometimes painful, Gilbert's encounters with these beautiful creatures reveal profound truths not... View more info
By: Highfield, Roger and Carter, Paul
Price: $13.00
Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 1993
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 932
ISBN: 0571167446
Condition: Fine
8vo.xii. 355 pgs. Fine grey hardcover in very good+ dust jacket. Jacket has light rubbing at corners, else fine. Biograpy of Albert Einstein presents a startling new portrait of his private life. Includes black and white photograhs, family tree, references and bibliography. ISBN 0571167446. #932. View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.: 1920
Seller ID: 1498
Condition: Very Good
111 pgs. Very Good condition small cloth hardcover, light shelf wear. Owner name on front endpaper along with paper residue from a previous clipping or insert. Frontis page with vintage photo portrait of Gray, with shallow crease and 1/4 inch tear to bottom edge. Poems interspersed with commentary, biographical and bibliographical information. Poems quoted in whole or in part: Sonnet on the Death of Richard West, West's Ode to May, Ode on the Spring, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, Hymn to Adversity, Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat (Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes), The Alliance... View more info
By: Jonsell, Bengt, Gunnar Broberg, Gunnar Eriksson and Bertil Nordenstam
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Stockholm, Atlantis: 1991
Seller ID: 1470
ISBN: 9174869736
Condition: Near Fine
8vo. 141 pgs. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket, clean and unmarked, faint trace of shelf wear to spine ends of jacket and small closed tear to upper edge. Text is in Swedish. Illustrated throughout with drawings, paintings, portaiture and photos. Sections: Forord, Broderna Bergius och det bergianska arvet (Bengt Jonsell), Olof Swartz (Bertil Nordenstam), Johan Emanuel Wikstrom (Gunnar Broberg), Veit Brecher Wittrock (Bengt Jonsell, Bergianska siftelsen under vart sekel (Bengt Jonsell, Bergianska stitelsen (P.J. Bergius), Personregister, Forfattarpresentationer. ISBN 9174869736. #1470. View more info
By: Kassindja, Fauziya and Bashir, Layli Miller
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, Delacorte Press: 1998
Edition: Review Copy.
Seller ID: 829
ISBN: 0385318324
Condition: Very Good
8vo. 528 pgs. Very Good in black paper wraps as issued (softcover). Very light edge wear. Advance reading copy from uncorrected proofs. Memoir of a West African woman, who upon her father's death faced a forced marriage and the ritual female mutilation customary to her people. Fleeing for to America, she recounts her imprisonments and efforts towards asylum. ISBN 0385318324. #829. View more info
By: Krist, Gary
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace & Co., NY.1994.: 1994
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 408
ISBN: 0151820643
Condition: Fine
8vo. 257 pgs. Fine hardcover in Near Fine jacket. First Edition. Blue boards and blue cloth spine, silver lettering. Decorated endpapers. Very slight rubbing to upper spine corner of dust jacket, else fine. Uncommon short stories of common lives. ISBN 0151820643. #408. View more info
Price: $13.00
Publisher: London, Brockhampton Press: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1384
ISBN: 1860199615
Condition: As New
4to. 120 pgs. As New hardcover in As New dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with period paintings, portraits, woodcuts and drawings. Contents: Background and Early Years, Yeats the poet, Searching for an Identity, Maturity, Personal Recollections, Late Flowering and Death, The Poems, Index of First Lines, Further Reading. ISBN 1860199615. #1384. View more info
By: Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press: 1999
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Seller ID: 2470
ISBN: 0312205872
Condition: Fine
215 pgs. Fine hardcover in Fine jacket, first printing of first edition in pristine condition. A classic read for book lovers, sellers and collectors alike. The authors of Used and Rare continue their adventures in their quest for rare and out-of-print books, delving into ephemera such as Bram Stoker's notes for Dracula, , the Bloomsbury Group, a Sotheby's auction experience, hypermoderns and internet bookselling. See also our book#2469. ISBN# 0312205872. #2470. View more info
