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Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

By: Bierce, Ambrose

Price: $79.00

Publisher: Kent, OH, Kent State University Press: 2004

Seller ID: 23484

ISBN: 0873387899

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued

A small crease to the heel of the spine. Edited by Donald T. Blume, who uses Bierce's handwritten notes on his original pasteup to eliminate errors introduced in the printing of the first edition, making this the first corrected edition. Features an 89 page appendix. ; 222 pages
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Wilhelm Meister: Apprenticeship and Travels (Two Volumes)

By: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, G. T. Foulis & Company Ltd.: 1947

Seller ID: 18974

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Complete in two volumes. Translated from the German by R.O. Moon. Volume One has bumped corners. Both volumes have offsetting to the endpapers, and soiling to the rear panels. Volume Two has a bump to the tail of the spine, and a small chip to the head of the spine. Publisher's price of two guineas intact on both volumes. A landmark in the history of European literature, Goethe's novel is not only one of the key works of Weimar Classicism and the prototype for the Bildungsroman genre, but also a timeless tale of coming into one's own and a portrayal of the late-eighteenth-century theatre world...
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Kim

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: $31.00

Publisher: New York, Modern Library: 1950

Seller ID: 22274

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

First Modern Library Edition 1950 stated on the copyright page. Rubbing, and a small stain to the green cloth boards. Chipping to the head of the spine, and the top of the rear panel. An unmarked copy in a price-clipped dust jacket. Kent endpapers, and 348 titles listed on the reverse of the dust jacket. ; 345 pages
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H. R.

By: Lefevre, Edwin

Price: $421.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1915

Seller ID: 22797

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Hinges cracked, and rubbing to the black cloth. Foxing to the frontispiece, tissue guard and title page. An unmarked copy with page corner creasing. A financial novel from the noted chronicler of Wall Street. ; 336 pages
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Longsword: Earl of Salisbury

By: Leland, Thomas; John C. Stephens (Editor)

Price: $113.00

Publisher: New York, New York University Press: 1957

Seller ID: 21030

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Moderate dust soiling to the dust jacket, and a scrape to the tail of the spine. Dust smudging to the rear endpaper. Publisher's price of $4.00 on the front flap. In gray cloth boards, a very clean copy. First published in 1762, a medieval romance filled with mystery, dark dungeons, shipwrecks, abducted damsels, evil monks, and heartless villains. Considered by some scholars to be the first Gothic novel in English, a precursor to Walpole's The Castle of Otranto. Scarce in this condition. ; 161 pages
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Raintree County

By: Lockridge, Jr., Ross

Price: $421.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1948

Seller ID: 22962

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Signed by Lockridge on the half-title page. An unmarked copy in green cloth meeting all relevant points of issue. The price-clipped dust jacket is very creased to the front panel, with a closed tear at the top. A chip to the rear panel, and a crease to the front flap. The great American novel about love, tragedy, and the American Dream. The basis for the movie with Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. ; 1066 pages; Signed by Author
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This Is the Year

By: Manfred, Frederick

Price: $29.00

Publisher: Boston, Gregg Press: 1979

Seller ID: 22055

ISBN: 0839825803

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Originally published in 1947. A small crease to the rear flap. This edition includes an introduction by Max Westbrook, and a revised map of Siouxland created by the author. Siouxland was the area designated by Manfred where Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota and Iowa join. ; Gregg Press Western Fiction; 623 pages
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I and My Chimney

By: Melville, Herman

Price: $29.00

Publisher: Kerrville, TX, Herring Printing Company: 2001

Seller ID: 22733

Binding: Card Covers

Condition: Near Fine

String tied green covers. The story of a man who obsesses over his magnificent behemoth chimney, and the efforts of his wife to remodel by replacing it with a grand hallway. No copies located of this edition in OCLC. ; 36 pages
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The Devil

By: Neumann, Alfred

Price: $127.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1928

Seller ID: 23906

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

Brown cloth spine over greenish gray boards, stamped in purple to the front board and spine. A sharpie mark to the front free endpaper, bleeding through to the following endpaper. A bookseller ticket from Brentano's in Washington, D.C. to the rear pastedown, with the number 6623 written above, underneath the rear flap. A chip to the corner of the rear free endpaper. Topstain still solid. The dust jacket has shallow chipping to the spine and rear panel, and a chip to the bottom corner. Publisher's price of $3.00 on the front flap. Translated from the German by Huntley Paterson. Book and dust ja...
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The Black City

By: Sand, George; Tina A. Kover (Translator)

Price: $23.00

Publisher: New York, Carroll & Graf Publishers: 2004

Seller ID: 22737

ISBN: 0786713240

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Inscribed by Kover opposite the copyright page. Publisher's paperback original label on the front cover. The author's classic novel, set against the backdrop of France's Industrial Revolution. Covers slightly creased. ; 183 pages; Signed by Translator
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Last Exit to Brooklyn

By: Selby Jr., Hubert

Price: $67.00

Publisher: New York, Grove Press: 1964

Seller ID: 23668

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Seventh Printing. Black cloth over red patterned boards. Creasing to the front flap, else unmarked. A classic of postwar American writing, and a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens and prostitutes.; 304 pages
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Doctor Arnoldi

By: Thayer, Tiffany

Price: $199.00

Publisher: New York, Julian Messner: 1934

Seller ID: 23558

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair with no dust jacket

Gray cloth stamped in black. Illustrated endpapers. Bookplate of Finis and Mae Wilhite on the front pastedown endpaper. The front free endpaper has abrasions and two puncture holes, with the bookseller stamp of Bertrand Smith/Acres of Books/Long Beach, CA on the verso. The rear hinge is starting to split. A pull to the headband, but the binding is sound. A speculative novel about immortalism by the co-founder of the Fortean Society.; 334 pages
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One Woman

By: Thayer, Tiffany

Price: $139.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company: 1933

Seller ID: 23560

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dust jacket

Dark brown cloth stamped in blind. Illustrated endpapers and dust jacket art by John Alan Maxwell. Offsetting to the endpapers. The dust jacket has two large tears to the rear panel. Cellophane stains to the jacket, and a vertical crease to the front panel. Publisher's price of $2.50 on the front flap. Binding sound, an unmarked copy. The basis for the 1949 movie Chicago Deadline. ; 435 pages
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Allusions in Ulysses: An Annotated List

By: Thornton, Weldon

Price: $23.00

Publisher: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press: 1982

Seller ID: 23977

ISBN: 0807840890

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Reprint. Creasing to the covers, and mild sunning to the spine. Binding sound, an unmarked copy.; 554 pages
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Novels and Stories, 1950-1962

By: Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Price: $29.00

Publisher: New York, Library of America: 2012

Seller ID: 23243

ISBN: 1598531506

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Red cloth with silk ribbon bookmark sewn in. Includes an author chronology. ; 834 pages
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Novels, 1987-1997: Bluebeard, Hocus Pocus, Timequake

By: Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Price: $23.00

Publisher: New York, Library of America: 2012

Seller ID: 23244

ISBN: 1598534645

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

Edited by Sidney Offit. Red cloth with silk ribbon bookmark sewn in. Includes an author chronology. A small crease to the front panel.; 834 pages
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Stoner

By: Williams, John

Price: $23.00

Publisher: New York, Pocket Books: 1972

Seller ID: 22861

ISBN: 0671774301

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Creasing and age toning to the covers. Tanning to the pages. The quietly intense story of an English professor at a small Midwestern college. ; Mass Market PB; 214 pages
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Category: Classic Fiction