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See More... Aiken, Conrad THE CLERK'S JOURNAL.
Being the Diary of a Queer Man. An Undergraduate Poem together wih A Brief Memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs and T.S. Eliot New York, NY The Eakins Press 1971 4to. three-quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket, slipcase (iv), 26, followed by facsimile, (4) pages
Limited to 2300, this being one of the 300 copies handbound and signed by the author. An undergraduate poem of Conrad Aiken with a brief memoir of Harvard and a facsimile of the original manuscript with comments by Dean Briggs. Dust jacket and slipcase spines slightly sunned.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 96841

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See More... Aiken, Conrad THE CLERK'S JOURNAL.
Being the Diary of a Queer Man. An Undergraduate Poem together wih A Brief Memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs and T.S. Eliot New York, NY The Eakins Press 1971 4to. cloth (iv), 26, followed by facsimile, (4) pages
Limited to 2300 copies, this being one of the 2000 printed on Andorra Text. An undergraduate poem of Conrad Aiken with a brief memoir of Harvard and a facsimile of the original manuscript with comments by Dean Briggs.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 96842

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See More... (Alger, Horatio) Mayes, Herbert R. ALGER, A BIOGRAPHY WITHOUT A HERO.
New York Macy-Masius 1928 8vo. cloth. 241 pages.
First edition. Biography followed by a list of books written by Alger. Of course, this biography turned out to be a hoax written for fun by Mayes but taken as a serious work. Covers rubbed and spine age darkened.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 64250

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See More... (American Authors) (CONFIDENTIAL.)
N.P. n.p. n.d. 12mo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages.
A small pamphlet calling for the creation of a union-like organization of the "American Authors and Literature". With the names of W. D. Howells, Thomas W. Higginson, Charles D. Warner, Moncure D. Conway, George W. Cable, Julian Hawthorne, James Erant Wilson, and Charles Burr Todd printed at the end. Once folded into thirds.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 102364

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See More... (Authors Club) THE AUTHORS CLUB.
New York Authors Club 1909 small 8vo. original half creme colored cloth over boards, paper spine label. 85 pages.
Rules of the Club, membership, etc. Covers soiled.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 97267

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See More... (Badcock, Jonathan) SELECTIONS FROM THE FANCY; OR TRUE SPORTSMAN'S GUIDE BY AN OPERATOR
With a Foreword by George Plimpton & Etching and Drawings by Randy Jones. Barre, MA Imprint Society 1972 8vo. quarter leather, patterned paper-covered boards, all edges speckled, paper-covered slipcase xvi, 136 pages
Limited to an edition of 1950 copies, this being out of series. It is signed by illustrator Randy Jones, whose bawdy pen-and-ink drawings are scattered through the book. Original etching has been laid-in. Text is usually attributed to Jonathan Badcock, one of the foremost sporting journalist during the early 1800s. The authorship is thoroughly discussed in Plimpton's Foreword. Leather is lightly rubbed in places along the spine, slipcase also has light wear along edges.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 93975

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See More... Baker, Carols FORTY YEARS OF PULITZER PRIZES
N.P. Grolier Club 1956 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages.
Reprinted from the Princeton University Library Chronicle, Volume XVIII, No. 2, Winter, 1957. Covers faded along edges.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 328

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See More... Bannowsky, Phillip AUTOPLANT, A POETIC MONOLOGUE. WITH AUTOPLANT POEMS.
(Newark) Broken Turtle Books (2007) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 67 pages.
First edition. "Bannowsky journeys from assembly-line dismemberment to redemption, from student agitator and autoworker to teacher, poet, and activist."
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 94627

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See More... Barnes, James J. AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS AND POLITICIANS THE QUEST FOR AN ANGLO-AMERICAN COPYRIGHT AGREEMENT, 1815-1854.
Columbus Ohio State University Press (1974) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xv, 311 pages.
First U.S. edition.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 8253

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See More... Barnes, James J. AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS AND POLITICIANS THE QUEST FOR AN ANGLO-AMERICAN COPYRIGHT AGREEMENT, 1815-1854.
London Routledge & Kegan (1974) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xv, 311 pages.
First edition. A study of American politics in action.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 21551

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See More... Barns, Florence Elberta. TEXAS WRITERS OF TODAY.
Detroit Gale Reseach Company 1971 small 8vo. cloth 513+(1) pages
Reprint. Foreword by Robert Adger Law, a professor at the University of Texas. Listing of modern Texas authors with quotations from their works. Index of names by primary subject. Bibliography and a fold-out literary map of Texas.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 77879

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See More... Battesin, Martin C. (editor) BRITISH NOVELISTS, 1660-1800
2 Volumes Detroit, MI Gale Research Company (1985) 4to. cloth xviii, 325+(1); x, 327-700 pages
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 39: Parts 1 & 2. A two-volume set of biographies with cumulative index of the British novelists between 1660 and 1800. Illustrated endpapers of eight British novelists of the time. Signature of previous owner J.C. Beasley on half-title page in brown pen. Shaken.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 96627

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See More... Bayard, Thomas F. AGAINST EXECUTIVE INTERFERENCE WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF LOU ISIANA.
Washington GPO 1875 small 8vo. self paper wrappers, stitched. 43 pages.
Speech given in the Senate by Delaware's Senator on Saturday, March 20, 1875. Cover foxed. Vertical fold in center of pamphlet.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 66085

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See More... Beach, Joseph Warren AMERICAN FICTION 1920-1940.
New York The Macmillan Co. 1942 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 371 pages.
Second printing. Articles on Dos Passos, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck and others. Top spotted.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 378

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See More... Benson, Alden R. LOTUS LILIES.
N.P. Privately printed n.d. 8vo. cloth-backed boards, top edge gilt, dust jacket. (xii), 176 pages.
B1-4692. Well printed with decorations in green ink by Star Publishing Co. of Wilmington. Presentation "To Mr. & Mrs H.W. Cullen, most respectfully yours, Alden R. Benson, Dover, Del. October, 9th, 1924". Spotting of endpapers and pastedowns and boards.
Price: $ 18.00 other currencies Order nr. 65978

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See More... (Bird & Bull Press) Adelman, Seymour CHANGING PATTERNS IN THE FUNCTION OF TRAVEL AGENCIES
Philadelphia Taylor & Hessey (1977) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 23, (3) pages.
Limited to 400 numbered copies printed by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press. A humorous trip to England where the author meets many of the famous authors of the 19th century. Presentation from the author on the first blank page.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 3564

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See More... Bird, Robert Montgomery CITY LOOKING GLASS, A PHILADELPHIA COMEDY, IN FIVE ACTS.
Edited, with An Introduction, by Arthur Hobson Quinn. New York The Colophon 1933 square 8vo. cloth, paper spine label, dust jacket. xxii, 138, (3) pages.
First edition. (BAL 1177). Limited to 465 copies printed by the Pynson Printers. Jacket is chipped at spine ends with small tears. Piece missing at head of spine. Unusual to find still in jacket.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 43897

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See More... Black, Alexander TIME AND CHANCE
Adventures with People and Print New York Farrar & Rinehart (1937) 8vo. cloth, dustjacket, top edge colored (x), 338 pages
This is a biography of when Alexander Black was a police-court stenographer and of some things that happened to him while he was Sunday Editor of the New York World. Paste-down endpapers are foxed heavily near the hinges; dust jacket has several small chips and tears with some paper loss at the spine ends. Illustrated by the author.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 91800

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See More... Black, Jeannette D. and William Greene Roelker (editors) A RHODE ISLAND CHAPLAIN IN THE REVOLUTION LETTERS OF EBENEZER DAVID TO NICHOLAS BROWN. 1775-1778.
Providence Rhode Island Society of the Cincinnati 1949 tall 8vo. quarter cloth with paper covered boards. xxxi, 82 pages.
First edition, limited to 900 copies. Preface by Lawrence Wroth. Three illustrations. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 480

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See More... Blake, William. SONGS OF INNOCENCE.
Yellow Springs, OH Kahoe & Company 1928 small 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. (vi), 28 pages.
Printed and bound at The Antioch Press. Twenty-one poems by the eighteenth-nineteenth century English artist/poet. Cover rubbed at edges, soiled. Covers rubbed with wear along spine. Name in ink on free endpaper.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 44887

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See More... (Bookbinding) CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF RECENT BOOK-BINDINGS, 1860-1890. EXECUTED BY AMERICAN, ENGLISH AND FRENCH BOOK-BINDERS.
New York The Grolier Club 1891 12mo. original stiff paper wrappers. 61 pages.
Asaf Handlist 11. Five-page introduction followed by descriptions of the books in the exhibition. The last two pages contain a complete list of mosaic bindings executed by the late Trautz-Bauzonnet. Wear along edges.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 54001

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  Brodbeck, May, James Gray, Walter Metzger AMERICAN NON-FICTION, 1900-1950
Westport Greenwood Press (1970) 8vo. cloth. x, 198 pages.
Reprint of the 1952 first edition. A look at the development of American philosophy, journalism and American social thought.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 61190

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See More... Brooks, Van Wyck NEW ENGLAND: INDIAN SUMMER, 1865-1915
New York E.P. Dutton & Co. 1940 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xii), 557 pages.
Reprint of the first edition.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 15675

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  (Browning, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert) TWENTY-TWO UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING AND ROBERT BROWNING ADDRESSED TO HENRIETTA AND ARABELLA MOULTON-BARRETT
New York The United Feature Sydicate 1935 8vo. quarter leather, paper-covered boards, slipcase xii, 89, (3) pages
Limited to an edition of 1188. Printed at Crosby Gaige's Watch Hill Press. Unopened. Leather cracked and worn slightly at ends of spine. Slipcase worn on corners and partially split at head and heel.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 93623

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See More... Bruccoli, Matthew J. (editor) THE ONLY THING THAT COUNTS, THE ERNEST HEMINGWAY / MAXWELL PERKINS CORRESPONDENCE 1925-1947.
(New York) Scribner (1996) 8vo quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket (viii), 367 + (1) pages
First edition. 30 years of letters exchanged on a variety of topics show how much book publishing has changed over time. Hemingway frequently reports about the ups and downs of being a writer. Remainder mark.
Price: $ 16.00 other currencies Order nr. 91601

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