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The Demolished Man

The Demolished Man by Bester, Alfred

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$505.00
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Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA
Title
The Demolished Man
Author
Bester, Alfred
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Chicago: Shasta, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), lightly soiled, a scuff under the author's name on the front panel, a thin tidemark on the rear panel. Quarter blue cloth with red paper on the boards, some rubbing to the paper. Square and firmly bound with a dark blue top stain, a few stains at the fore-edge and endpapers, clean otherwise. Bester's Hugo Award-winning science fiction detective novel, one so great that the post-modern master Thomas Pynchon wanted to adapt it into an Opera as part of his Ford Foundation Fellowship.
Better Times Than These

Better Times Than These by GROOM, Winston

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Title
Better Times Than These
Author
GROOM, Winston
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Summit Books, 1978. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Advance Reading Copy. Printed wrappers. Creasing and edgewear thus very good. A Vietnam War novel, the first book by the author who went on to write *Forrest Gump*. Inscribed by Groom to Gloria Jones, widow of his friend James Jones: "To Gloria - You'll get the nice copy later, but I wanted you to have this one now. It's special and so are you - all love, Winston April, 1978." A sort of dedication copy. The book was dedicated to both Groom's father, and to James Jones, who had died in 1977.
WAITING FOR A CROWN OR, THE EARLY YEARS OF KING DAVID

WAITING FOR A CROWN OR, THE EARLY YEARS OF KING DAVID by (Edis Searle)

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Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB
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WAITING FOR A CROWN OR, THE EARLY YEARS OF KING DAVID
Author
(Edis Searle)
Seller
Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
NY: Thomas Nelson, 1874. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Uncommon juvenile retelling of the King David story from the Bible. Author unidentified in this title but deduced from title page declaration "By the author of 'Hetty's Resolve;' ' Great Things Done by Little People;' etc., etc." 8vo, dark blue cloth decorated with pictorial vignette in balck and gold, illustrated with 26 b&w plates, printed in England. Gift inscription dated 1874 in contemporary florid hand. Covers uniformly darkened a bit, moderate wear at corners and hinges, still solidly bound, foxed at prelims and rears. WorldCat lists only 6 collections with this edition with the American title.
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PARIS ITS SITES, MONUMENTS AND HISTORY by Lansdale, Maria Hornor

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Seller: Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books
Title
PARIS ITS SITES, MONUMENTS AND HISTORY
Author
Lansdale, Maria Hornor
Seller
Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description
Philadelphia: The John Winston Co,, (1898). A captivating collection of information about a broad array of things Parisian, with a nice introduction by Hilaire Belloc. Well-illustrated and with folding map bound in at the back. While this is certainly a nice addition to the body of information available on Paris, one of the most compelling reasons to add it to your collection is the lovely example of a publisher's binding. Green cloth with an elaborate gilt cover motif, top edge gilt. This copy is particularly extraordinary in that it retains its original green oil cloth dust wrapper, with gilt titled spine. To find a book of this vintage in the dust wrapper is most unusual. The dust wrappers were, indeed, wrappers to protect the book from dust. There is no advertisement..no cover art..nothing. Just heavy oil cloth with a title to protect a beautiful book. Housed in original dark green slipcase.
Alimony: The American Tragedy [Signed & Inscribed; Typed Letter, Signed, Laid in]

Alimony: The American Tragedy [Signed & Inscribed; Typed Letter, Signed, Laid in] by WILNER, Charles

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Title
Alimony: The American Tragedy [Signed & Inscribed; Typed Letter, Signed, Laid in]
Author
WILNER, Charles
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: Vantage Press, [1952]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in green and brown dust jacket; xiii,[1],329pp. Jacket very chipped and worn with some paper flaws to front flap affecting text with loss of meaning of a few words, rear flap excised and affixed to pastedown as issued. Near Fine in Good or better jacket. Inscribed and signed "To A. Stewart Phillips, with kindest regards. - Charles Wilson - Sept. 22, 1952." Author bio blurb (presumably from rear jacket flap) affixed to front pastedown as issued, beginning with the assurance that "Dr. Charles Wilner, author of Alimony: The American Tragedy, is not a misogynist." With typed letter signed by Wilner to the same A. Stewart Phillips, whose contents are of a rather aggressive nature: "Some time in 1935 when I visited you at your office relative to some button business, I happened to remark to you, that I was planning to write books. I can not [sic] help but to reflect, upon your facial expression laughing, me being an author." Wilner insists that Phillips eat crow, and describes his intention of writings "my two final volumes of about 1500 printed pages titled 'Women and Race,'" though OCLC reveals that Alimony was the author's only published work.
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A Wave [Prospectus] by Ashbery, John; Will Barnet (illus.)

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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books
Title
A Wave [Prospectus]
Author
Ashbery, John; Will Barnet (illus.)
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: 451 Books, [2002]. First Edition. Sewn wraps, printed in red; 12mo. 16 pp. Eight photo-lithographs by Will Barnet. Prospectus for the first publication of 451 Books, with a cover caption "451 Books", consisting of all the illustrations of the final edition and the limitation page on inside rear cover with the signatures of Ashbery and Barnet reproduced. The published edition in a small Folio size, in a linen box, and sold by Ursus Books of NYC was in an edition of 90. (A suite of 30 were published with each of the prints numbered and signed by the artist). This is the prospectus only. "A Wave" is the title poem of one of the poet's essential collections first published in 1984. Thread loose, else fine.
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Katherine Mansfield: The Memories of LM

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Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
Title
Katherine Mansfield: The Memories of LM
Seller
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, [1971] First U.S. edition. Cloth. Octavo. Very good in price-clipped dust jacket.

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