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ELEVEN ISSUES FROM VOLUME 1 OF THE FIVE CENT WIDE AWAKE LIBRARY, 1878-1884

ELEVEN ISSUES FROM VOLUME 1 OF THE FIVE CENT WIDE AWAKE LIBRARY, 1878-1884 by Tousey, Frank

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Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC
Title
ELEVEN ISSUES FROM VOLUME 1 OF THE FIVE CENT WIDE AWAKE LIBRARY, 1878-1884
Author
Tousey, Frank
Seller
David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
New York: Frank Tousey, Publisher, 1884. 8-1/4" x 11-1/2". Most are 32pp, two with 16pp [as issued], one with 64pp [as issued]. Caption titles. Each title page has a large engraved illustration of the featured story, some illustrations within text. Despite the poor quality of the paper, each issue is complete and tells the story advertised on the first page. Light to moderate wear with some chipping, some with staples or stitching in left margin, occasional edge reinforcements, some clipped corners. A few issues partly uncut. Issue No. 546 lacks one leaf of advertisements. Good+. No. 14 Shorty in Luck [1878] No. 29 One of the Boys of New York: or, The Adventures of Tommy Bounce [1878] No. 56 Shorty Junior [1879] No. 68 Mulligan's Boy [1879] No. 183 Chips and Chin Chin [1879] No. 461 The Shortys' Trip Around the World [1881] No. 476 Stuttering Sam [1882] No. 503 Tommy Bounce, Jr., in College [1882] No. 534 The Shorty's Out For Fun [1882] No. 546 Pickle & Tickle [lacks one leaf of advts.] [1883] No. 598 Cheeky and Chipper; or, Through Thick and Thin [1884] "Frank Tousey's 'Five Cent Wide-Awake Library' marketed half-dime books to boys between 1878 and 1896 and produced over a thousand different stories. The Wide-Awakes were also a northern Republic[an] youth organisation of local chapters, associated with Lincoln's 1860 election. Although the group was meant to represent up-to-date young Americans, it became disturbingly paramilitary. . ." ["Young America: Dime Novels and Juvenile Authorship" by Laurie Langbauer, Victorian Popular Fictions, Volume 4: Issue 2 (Autumn 2022), page 106; The Edward T. LeBlanc Dime Novel Bibliography project website.].
TIMEQUAKE

TIMEQUAKE by Vonnegut, Kurt

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Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA
Title
TIMEQUAKE
Author
Vonnegut, Kurt
Seller
Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780399137372
Condition
Fine
Description
NY: Putnam, 1997. First edition, first prnt. One of a small number of specially bound and signed copies prepared for distribution to friends of the author and publisher. Bound in white cloth with red endpapers with glassine dustjacket. Signed by Vonnegut on the limitation page as issued. Minimal wear at the spine ends of the fragile glassine dustjacket; otherwise, an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with a mylar cover. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Vonnegut's last novel published during his lifetime.
Ocima: Svet Kolem Nas.

Ocima: Svet Kolem Nas. by HAK, Miroslav

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Ocima: Svet Kolem Nas.
Author
HAK, Miroslav
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Ursus Books (United States)
Description
1947. HAK, Miroslav. Ocima: Svet Kolem Nas. Introduction by Lubomir Linhart. 15 pp. Illustrated with 46 full-page reproductions of Hák's photographs. 4to., original wrappers with photo reproduction on front and back cover. [Praha]: Ceskoslovenske Filmove Nakladatelstvi, 1947. First edition. A fine copy of this scarce and important Czech photobook with an introduction by Linhart in Czech and English. Birgus, Tschechische Avantgarde-Fotografie 1918-1948, page 285.
Silver Swan Studios New York

Silver Swan Studios New York

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Title
Silver Swan Studios New York
Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Silver Swan Studios, 1930. First Edition. Limp Leatherette Porftolio. Handles. Metal Snaps to Secure Closed. Very Good. N.d., circa 1930s. Oblong, 25.5 by 33 cm. Introductory sheet, followed by 39 enumerated pages, with a Christmas card, and envelope, on every page. Pages themselves provide cost information, based on volume of order. Wide variety of Xmas card designs, with varying sizes as well. As one would expect with Christmas and Season's Greetings cards, there's a heavy dollop of nostalgia and sentimentality informing the cards, but also encountered are beautiful scenery, humor, silhouettes, Art Deco elements, cut-outs, shallow relief, etc. Most cards are folded, and sometimes double folded. The album itself is squarely from the Art Deco heyday, given the Art Deco abstract pattern of the tissue guards, as one for instance. Condition: Moderate wear to binder. Intro sheet chipped and torn, detached from the binder, and brittle. Leaf with P. 1/2 also detached and more lightly chipped. Last two leaves with some chipping, and minor loss of text on final leaf. The cards and envelopes themselves are all present and in fine condition.
Blue Thirst (Signed)

Blue Thirst (Signed) by Durrell, Lawrence

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Title
Blue Thirst (Signed)
Author
Durrell, Lawrence
Seller
Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1975. First Edition. Fine/About Fine. octavo, 56 pages; number 163 of 250 copies, signed by the author. An as new copy in a nearly fine original acetate dust jacket, with a short closed tear at foot of front fold.
Vega and Other Poems

Vega and Other Poems by Durrell, Lawrence

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Title
Vega and Other Poems
Author
Durrell, Lawrence
Seller
Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Woodstock: The Overlook Press, 1973. First Edition. Fine/Fine. octavo, 54 pages; publisher's black cloth, spine printed in gilt. Dust jacket with price of $5.95 on front flap. A lovely copy.
ONORI E GLORIE. REGNO D’ITALIA E ANTICHI STATI ITALIANI

ONORI E GLORIE. REGNO D’ITALIA E ANTICHI STATI ITALIANI by Antonio Spada

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Title
ONORI E GLORIE. REGNO D’ITALIA E ANTICHI STATI ITALIANI
Author
Antonio Spada
Seller
Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Good binding
Description
Milano: Instituto Per La Diffusione Del Libro, 1977. Full Leather. Good binding. Signed. One of 1050 copies signed by author Antonio Spada, of which this is #366. 243 pages, with marbled endpapers. Illustrated throughout with color photographs. Full red morocco binding.~~THIS COPY OBVIOUSLY TOOK A TUMBLE AT SOME POINT. The front joint is badly cracked, though the board is holding. Good binding.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves by Anderson, Anne (Illus); Arabian Nights.

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Title
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Author
Anderson, Anne (Illus); Arabian Nights.
Seller
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Thomas Nelson, 1928 40 pgs. Pictorial boards nibbling along top edge, wear to corners and spine ends, clean and birght inside.. One of the best-known tales from The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, illustrated in color throughout by Anne Anderson. . First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Anne Anderson. 12mo.
Her Knight Comes Riding

Her Knight Comes Riding by Weaver, John V.A.

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Title
Her Knight Comes Riding
Author
Weaver, John V.A.
Seller
ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good+. 1928. Unstated edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good sound copy, light shelfwear, front board very slightly bowed, a bit of spotting on the front cover, spine cloth somewhat darkened; bookplate of MGM writer/producer Carey Wilson on front pastedown]. Novel about the collision between the romantic notions of an unsophisticated Brooklyn stenographer and the drab reality of her life and relationships. This was the first novel by this North Carolina-born poet-novelist (1893-1938), who cut his literary teeth as a book reviewer in Brooklyn and Chicago and by the mid-1920s had published several volumes of verse and also had a successful play, "Love 'Em and Leave 'Em," to his credit. Around the time this book was published, he decamped for Hollywood, where his most notable credit as a screenwriter was actually his first: as co-scenarist with King Vidor on the silent classic THE CROWD. Married since 1924 to actress Peggy Wood, he died of tuberculosis just a month shy of his 45th birthday. .
The Mating Season

The Mating Season by WODEHOUSE, P. G.

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The Mating Season
Author
WODEHOUSE, P. G.
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1949. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Orange cloth, stamped in black on boards and spine; plain endpapers; 246,[2]pp; 2pp of publisher's ads at rear. A sound copy, rubbed, with light soil to cloth, spine much sunned, lightly foxed: Good. MCILVAINE A69A.
The Maxims Of Noah; With Illustrations and Designs by Louis D. Fancher

The Maxims Of Noah; With Illustrations and Designs by Louis D. Fancher by Burgess, Gelett

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Title
The Maxims Of Noah; With Illustrations and Designs by Louis D. Fancher
Author
Burgess, Gelett
Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Orig. illustrated boards. Near fine
Description
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1913. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards. Near fine. Four full page colored illustrations and each page withing illustrated boarders. Contents and illustrations almost as new.
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Pacific Motor Boat Handbook 1938. by The Almanac of the Pilot House.

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Pacific Motor Boat Handbook 1938.
Author
The Almanac of the Pilot House.
Seller
Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition
V G.
Description
Consolidated Publishing Co., 1938. V G.. 22.5 cm. 186 pp. B/W ills and diagrams

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