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  • Fur Grosvaters Leiblinge. OTTO FISCHER-TRACHAU.
    FISCHER-TRACHAU, OTTO

    Fur Grosvaters Leiblinge

    Dresden: Verlag von O. & R. Becker, n.d. [1907]. First Edition. Quarto; publisher’s pictorial color boards; in German; many illustrations printed in color; very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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  • A Place In Thy Memory. MRS. S. H DEKROYFT.
    DEKROYFT, MRS. S.H

    A Place In Thy Memory

    New York: Trow, Printer, 1868. Later edition (one of many) of an apparently self-published book. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author, “ ‘A Place in thy memory, dearest, and a memory in thy prayers!’ ” S. Helen DeKroyft. March 30th 1868.” Contemporary owner (or recipient’s) signature below. Original cloth; spine.....

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  • The Mill On The Floss. GEORGE ELIOT.
    ELIOT, GEORGE

    The Mill On The Floss

    Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1860. First Edition; three volumes; publisher’s cloth; without the ad leaf in volume one (Carter’s first state); publisher’s catalogue in volume three; endpapers replaced at what appears to be an early date (evidenced by matching foxing on the preliminaries); minor cloth wear; scattered foxing; a very good set.....

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  • Blood Sport. DICK FRANCIS.
    FRANCIS, DICK

    Blood Sport

    London: Michael Joseph, 1967. First Edition, Nearly fine in a very good dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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  • Thunderball. IAN FLEMING.
    FLEMING, IAN

    Thunderball

    London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. First Edition. Fine a price-clipped dust jacket with very minor wear. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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  • Bright Days in the Old Plantation Time. MARY ROSS BANKS.
    BANKS, MARY ROSS

    Bright Days in the Old Plantation Time

    Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1882. First Edition. Black dialect fiction. Wright 286. Publisher’s illustrated cloth; comically depicting a dandified black man in front of a slave cabin. A nearly fine copy. This book relates a version of the “Brer Rabbit, Brer Wolf and Tar Baby” story, immortalized by Joel Chandler.....

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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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  • Letters and Social Aims. RALPH WALDO EMERSON.
    EMERSON, RALPH WALDO

    Letters and Social Aims

    Boston: James R. Osood, 1876. First Edition; BAL’s probable earliest state of page 209. Meyerson’s identified second printing, differing in the spelling of a single word. Publisher’s greyish brown cloth; about fine. Tipped into this copy is a tipped-in inscription in Emerson’s hand, “T.G. Appleton, Esq. from the Author.” The.....

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  • Lucy Gayheart. WILLA CATHER.
    CATHER, WILLA

    Lucy Gayheart

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First Edition; one of 749 numbered copies signed by the author; nearly fine in a rubbed publisher’s slipcase. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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  • The Four Beliefs. ROBERT FROST.
    FROST, ROBERT

    The Four Beliefs

    Hanover, New Hampshire: Graphic Arts Workshop, n.d. [1944]. First Edition. 250 copies were printed. One sheet folded; minor spotting; nearly fine. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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  • Thunderball. IAN FLEMING.
    FLEMING, IAN

    Thunderball

    London: Jonathan Cape, 1961. First Edition. Nearly fine a very good dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centenary: 1859-1959. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, ADRIAN CONAN DOYLE.
    [DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN]. DOYLE, ADRIAN CONAN

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Centenary: 1859-1959

    London: John Murray, 1959. First Edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with minor chips. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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