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  • The Sand Hills of Jutland. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN.
    ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN

    The Sand Hills of Jutland

    Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1860. First American Edition. Very light spotting and wear; about fine. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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  • The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars. SHERLOCKIANA, ANTHONY BOUCHER.
    [SHERLOCKIANA]. BOUCHER, ANTHONY

    The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars

    New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. First Edition. Very good in a splitting dust jacket with tears and chips. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author (as Boucher) in 1941. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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  • Pylon. WILLIAM FAULKNER.
    FAULKNER, WILLIAM

    Pylon

    New York: Smith & Haas, 1935. First Edition. One of 310 numbered and signed copies. Spine faded, else minor wear; very good in a stained and broken slipcase. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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  • Mr. Dooley's Opinions. F. P DUNNE.
    DUNNE, F.P

    Mr. Dooley's Opinions

    New York: R.H. Russell, 1901. First Edition. Ownership stamp on endpaper; slight offsetting from the dust jacket onto endpapers, else a fine bright copy in a professionally restored dust jacket with its price changed in print by the publisher. The sage of Ar-rchey Road gives his views on a variety.....

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  • An 'Undiscerniing Critic" Discerned. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.
    DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN

    An 'Undiscerniing Critic" Discerned

    San Francisco: Beaune Press, 1968. First Edition with an introduction by Dean Dickensheet and the Guiterman poem. Inscribed by the publisher to S.F. bookseller David Magee. Wrappers; one of 222 copies; nearly fine. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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  • The Cruise of the Albatross or When was Wednesday the Tenth? A Story of the South Pacific. GRANT ALLEN.
    ALLEN, GRANT

    The Cruise of the Albatross or When was Wednesday the Tenth? A....

    Boston: Lothrop Publishing, 1898. First Edition. Contemporary gift inscription; very good. An uncommon Allen title. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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  • An Army Doctor's Romance. GRANT ALLEN.
    ALLEN, GRANT

    An Army Doctor's Romance

    London: Raphael Tuck, n.d. [1894]. First Edition. Publisher’s stiff wraps; the front cover of which is a chromolithograph as is one of the illustrations. Some spotting and foxing; very good. In the “Breezy Library.” Allen was born and spent his early years in Ontario and is generally accepted to be.....

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  • Detective Stories Gone Wrong: The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs by Luke Sharp. SHERLOCKIANA, ROBERT BARR.
    [SHERLOCKIANA]. BARR, ROBERT

    Detective Stories Gone Wrong: The Adventures of Sherlaw Kombs by Luke Sharp

    London: The Idler, 1892. Volume I of this magazine; bound in contemporary half-leather; owner’s inscription; the shabby binding is worn. One of the earliest Sherlockian parodies and illustrated by George Hutchinson, who had recently illustrated the 1891 Ward, Lock edition of A Study in Scarlet. These issues were originally published.....

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  • A Penny For The Poor. BERTOLT BRECHT.
    BRECHT, BERTOLT

    A Penny For The Poor

    New York: Hillman-Curl, 1938. First Edition in English; first American edition. Translated from the German by Desmond I. Vesey. Verses translated by Christopher Isherwood. Inscribed by the author in 1946 to Saul Bellow’s especially close friend and attorney (as well as the model for Harvey Simkin in Herzog), “for Sam.....

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  • The Battle of College Point...Dedicated to the Contestants...by...John Kendrick Bangs, L. F. JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
    BANGS, JOHN KENDRICK

    ...The Battle of College Point...Dedicated to the Contestants...by...John Kendrick Bangs, L. F....

    No place of publication: privately printed, 1897. First Edition. Publisher’s wrappers; BAL 733 (locating a single copy), noting that 100 copies were “Issued as a souvenir of a picnic given by Harper & Brothers for their employees.” Inscribed inside the front wrapper by an executive or editor at the publishing.....

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  • A Woman Intervenes. ROBERT BARR.
    BARR, ROBERT

    A Woman Intervenes

    London: Chatto & Windus, 1895. First Edition. Some foxing; very good plus. Presentation copy; with the author’s lengthy inscription on the half-title, “Dear Edith [Watson. likely a cousin]; I intended you to have my new book ‘Over the Border’ to take with you to America, but it will not be.....

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  • Madeline. LUDWIG BEMELMANS.
    BEMELMANS, LUDWIG

    Madeline

    New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. First Edition. Very good or better in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with some tiny interior tape mends. In a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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