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  • Publisher: VIKING PRESS NEW YORK
  • Date published: 1946
HBDJ, 1946 ON TITLE & Copyright PAGE, First Edition. 1st printing, STATED 1ST PUBLISHED BY VIKING PRESS SEPT. 1946 BK IS NF-/ DJ GOOD, AS-IS, DJ HAS WEAR, SCUFF ON DJ SPINE, , RUB EXTREMITIES TINY TEARS CHIPS, BACK OF DJ ILLUSTRATION MISS HICKORY & 2 LARGE BLACK BIRDS AT THEIR NEST ,BEIGE & RED FLORAL Hard Cover color Pictorial cloth Binding COVER , GOLD JOHN NEWBERRY ROUND STICKER FRONT OF DJ. 123 PGS ,,STATED 1ST PUBLISHED BY VIKING PRESS SEPT. 1946, 1947 NEWBERY MEDAL When great Granny Brown packed Up & Moved 2 the Women's City Club in boston, Miss Hickory was faced with the Problem of Spending a Severe New Hampshire Winter Alone. This MITE NOT HAVE BEEN SO BAD, IF SHE HAD NOT BEEN A COUNTRY WOMAN, WHOSE BODY WAS APPLE-WOOD TWIG, & whose Head was Hickory NUT, ALSO, IF HER HOUSE HAD BEEN BUILT OF STRONGER MATERIALS THAN CORNCOBS
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  • Publisher: Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Fiske Enterprises
  • Date published: 1979
  • ISBN: 9780918432445
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce Fiske Enterprises, 1979 HBDJ, Oversized Red Boards with Gold Gilt titles, Stated 1st edition, November 1979, , over 300 Vintage Fotos, NF+/FINE-, Light Rub wear, DJ protected clear Mylar, 288 pgs, INDEX, 12 x 9.25. ,extraordinary collection of photographs tracing a century of history in the little town the Indians once called "Cahuengna" that later became famous the world over as the seductive capital of the film industry. Hollywood's absorbing story included ""The beginnings of the city," "The beginnings of the movies," and "The beginnings of the myth.". Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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  • Publisher: KNOPF ALFRED
  • Date published: 1944
HBDJ, Dust Jacket shows tears and wear. Some staining on pages. Nicely illustrated. Inscribed: For Nancy Doran with my best wishes sincerely Mildred Jordan April 17, 1944. 1944 ON TITLE & COPYRIGHT PG, , STATED 1ST EDITION, VG+/VG, TINY CHIPS TEARS DJ EXTREMITIES,The book has mild cover and corner wear as well as mild wear at the spine edges. DECORATED CLOTH CVR FLORAL WITH 2 BIRDSThe book has mild cover and corner wear as well as mild wear at the spine edges. There is a tiny ding on the spine. The dust jacket is in fair condition. There is visible wear of front and back covers. There are small splits at the dust cover corners. There are small tears at the dust cover spine edges with several small tears along the top dust cover edge. There is a ding on the dust cover spine and a light crease as well at the bottom edge. There is discoloration at the dust cover book fold edges, Boards are done in a Fraktur-like folk art style , longtime staple in Pennsylvania Dutch households . A series of short stories about a young girl who enjoys making shoo-fly with her mother, going to the market, and talking to her pop. Present-day Story ofa cheerful hardworking Pennsylvania Dutch farmer & His Family & friends as they work & Play Thruout the various Seasons. Homely chores & Simple Pleasures assume new dignity & meaning as the story Unfolds.
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  • Publisher: New York Franklin and Watts
  • Date published: 1960
HBDJ, 1960 STATED 1ST PRINTING, MILD DJ EDGEWEAR FADE, VG+/VG, UNPAGINATED, , TALL, Slim TALL quarto, illustrated, publisher's PINK cloth lettered in black ON SPINE CVR & FRONT,, decorative endpapers (moderate soiling, toning and rubbing mostly to edges, else very good). Pictorial dust jacket ( TINY chips, toning and fading AT DJ SPINE, rubbing, else VERYgood or better). Most of the Things a Small Child Does & Knows & Loves have an UP & DOWN TO THEM. WITH A RHYTHM, A RHYME, & A SWING, AUTHOR HAS PUT THEM TOGETHER. Here For a Little Boy Or Girl are the Moon, the Sun, a Smile, a Clock on a Shelf, ALL OF THEM UP. DOWN IS THE OTHER WAY AROUND. Fun of Digging a Hole, or Pushing ones Foot inside a Boot, Or watching the Rain drops Fall. READ ALOUD BOOK
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  • Publisher: Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
  • Date published: 1979
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, 1979 HBDJ,Oversized , Stated 1st edition,November 1979, , over 300 Vintage Fotos, VG+/VG+, Light Rub wear. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
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  • Publisher: KNOPF ALFRED
  • Date published: 1944
HBDJ, 1944 ON TITLE & COPYRIGHT PG, , STATED 1ST EDITION, VG+/VG, TINY CHIPS TEARS DJ EXTREMITIES,The book has mild cover and corner wear as well as mild wear at the spine edges. DECORATED CLOTH CVR FLORAL WITH 2 BIRDSThe book has mild cover and corner wear as well as mild wear at the spine edges. There is a tiny ding on the spine. The dust jacket is in fair condition. There is visible wear of front and back covers. There are small splits at the dust cover corners. There are small tears at the dust cover spine edges with several small tears along the top dust cover edge. There is a ding on the dust cover spine and a light crease as well at the bottom edge. There is discoloration at the dust cover book fold edges, Boards are done in a Fraktur-like folk art style , crumb-crowned pastry that has been a longtime staple in Pennsylvania Dutch households . A series of short stories about a young girl who enjoys making shoo-fly with her mother, going to the market, and talking to her pop. Present-day Story ofa cheerful hardworking Pennsylvania Dutch farmer & His Family & friends as they work & Play Thruout the various Seasons. Homely chores & Simple Pleasures assume new dignity & meaning as the story Unfolds.
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DUTTON ,, 2009. HBDJ, 1st U.S, edition , 1st Printing, 2009, #1 INTACT NUMBER LINE,Signed in the presence of the seller. Unread. Fine in Fine Jacket., by the author Bram Stoker's great Grandnephew DACRE , Dracula Historian ,The story begins in 1912, 25 years after the events described in the original novel. Dr. Jack Seward, now a disgraced morphine addict, hunts vampires across Europe with the help of a mysterious benefactor. Meanwhile, Quincey Harker, the grown son of Jonathan and Mina, leaves law school to pursue a career in stage at London's famous Lyceum Theatre. The production of Dracula at the Lyceum, directed and produced by Bram Stoker, has recently lost its star. Luckily, Quincey knows how to contact the famed Hungarian actor Basarab, who agrees to take the lead role. Quincey soon discovers that the play features his parents and their former friends as characters, and seems to reveal much about the terrible secrets he's always suspected them of harbouring. But, before he can confront them, Jonathan Harker is show more. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine.
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  • Publisher: Elkin Mathews & Marrot
  • Date published: 1930
London, UK: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1930. First UK Edition, First Printing, Limited Edition #45/900. Hardcover. Octavo, 66 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Tan spine with black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, has mild shelving wear, mild wear along the extremities, chipping along the fore corners and spine head and tail edges, open tears along the spine head and tail edges, stains on the front and rear covers, and moderate age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the extremities, a dent on the rear tail edge, mild age-toning along the head and tail edges, and bending wear along the spine tail edge. Textblock has splitting to the gutter from the title page to page 4 and page 24-45, staining on the end-pages and pastedowns, mild wear along the edges, and moderate age-toning throughout. Signed flat by Lord Dunsany on publisher's limitation page, limited edition #45/900. DL consignment. Shelved Room C. Only numbers 1-100 of the 900 limited editions of "The Old Folk of the Centuries" were signed by the author. 1388634. Special Collections.
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  • Publisher: Mycroft and Moran, Sauk City, Wisconsin, sister publishing house to Arkham House
  • Date published: 1965
Mycroft and Moran, Sauk City, Wisconsin, sister publishing house to Arkham House, 1965 B/W Illustrated Endpapers Of London Map of Solar Pons Small scuff Mark, B/W Photo of Derleth Back DJ Taken by Edgar Obma, HBDJ, 1965, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, Dates Match on Title & Copyright Pg, BOOK CVR G00D- / VG- Dustjacket Condition AS-IS, Front Cover LARGE obtrusive DAMP Stain & Light Wear, BACK CVR DAMP STAIN ALONG EDGE, 1st LIMITED Edition of 3,000 Copies, , 1st Printing , Dates Match on Title & Copyright Pg, Interior Nice Tight Clean Light Wear , FOX, 282 Pgs, Fox Stains to Endpapers, Plain Black Binding Cloth Cover is Hollison Black Novelex, DJ LIGHT RUB, WEAR, Tiny Chips & Tear Extremities & Spine Ends, Crease Fold Front Right side of DJ has Thin Horizontal splice Out of in. Back DJ Lightly Foxed & Light Scuff , has Photo of Sypnosis of Author, , Spine Cvr is Titled & Designed Decorated in Black & Gold Gilt has some Rub. Wear, , 5 1/4 X 7 3/4 IN.Duodecimo [19 cm] Black cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped spine , in Spooky B/W & Orange DustJacket of Sherlock Holmes Standing Beside Orange Lamp & Dr. Watson Seated Holding his Eye Glasses, , Seated in Room Looking Out Window at Castle Like House with Full Moon Above & a Man can be Seen in its Lighted Window at Night, DJ art by Frank Utpatel, The steadily expanding devotees of the Sherlock Holmes of Praed Street will hail with delight this crowning volume in a series of collections which have now pastiched the entire quintet of the Master's adventures, When August Derleth wrote Arthur Conan Doyle in 1928 to ask if there were to be any more Sherlock Holmes stories, he was given a curt "no". Thus was born Solar Pons, the twentieth century flag carrier for Mr. Holmes and the brainchild of Derleth. . Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good.
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  • Publisher: Random House,NY MODERN LIBRARY
  • Date published: 1994
HBDJ, A true 1st ed by MODERN LIBRARY, with the correct number line. YEAR 1994, MODERN LIBRARY EDITION STATED, 1st ed, WITH #1 INTACT IN Number Line, SIGNED , 1994 NEAR Excellent condition. There is nothing wrong with this copy. It feels as tight as the day it came off the presses
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  • Publisher: Doubleday, This is a BOOK CLUB EDITION
  • Date published: 1965
Doubleday, This is a BOOK CLUB EDITION, 1965 HBDJ, 1965, Early Reprint, 253 PGs, Book VG Condition and Dust Jacket in VG- Condition with minor wear around the edges DJ & Tiny Chips , Light Soil Back DJ , Interior NiCE tight Clean. Beige Grey Cloth Lettered in Black on SPine light Wear, Publishers RedDye Stain on Top Pgs Edges . Gothic Mystery set in both Mediaeval Rome and the present day, which includes the classic elements of the Genre; murder, and haunting from a phantom.. Signed by Author. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover.
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  • Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, NY
  • Date published: 1935
Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1935. HardBack NODustJacket, Stated 1st Edition, 1935, 1st Printing, NF-/GOOD +, NOJACKET, Dates Match on Title & Copyright Page, Green Cloth wiTh decorative Yellow Label lettered in Black on Front, Cover with SUNNED Spine on Cover & Extremites Sunned, Interior Nice tight Clean Light FoX & Wear, Cover light Rub, Wear Scuff & Label on Spine with Black Lettering Shows Sunning, 231 PGS + Notes Publ. 7.25" x 5.25", The cover has some discoloration from sunning. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover.
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  • Publisher: MODERN LIBRARY random house
  • Date published: 1963
Inner Hinges Starting Slightly, Grey & White Rockwell Kent Endpapers, CAPOTE Native of New Orleans, HBDJ, 1963, 1ST MODERN LIBRARY EARLY ISSUE,VG+/VG, , IN Brown Dustjacket Titled in White with sScuff & Rub Extremities, RED Embossed CLOTH WITH GOLD GILT Spine TITLES, Chosen by Author with Introduction by Mark Schorer, CAPOTE Native of New Orleans, 460 pgs + LIST OF Titles Thru G79 Wisdom of Israel , spine ends DJ TINY Chips wear
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  • Publisher: COLLINS LONDON UK
  • Date published: 1954
HBDJ, OCTOBER 1954 , 1st English BRITISH Edition, 2ND Impression, 511 PGS , THICK GREEN TWEEDHardback. Dust jacket. Very good indeed in slightly edge-nicked, unclipped, very good dust jacket.TINY SPECK SOIL Outer pgs edge BTM, RETURNABLE ANY REASON WITHIN 20 DAYS FROM RECEIPT. Inspired by the 1947 New York Times articles detailing items taken from the Collyer's Brownstone after their deaths. An unusual mystery NOVEL centered around two elderly brothers in NY, SEYMOUR HOLT , Brilliant Ruthless Elder Brother, Younger 1 Randall Holt, Softer & More Attractive,, who appear to be living in poverty when they had scads of money in the bank, and the bank official examining the strange requests made in their wills. Classic novel. being an increasingly well respected and energetically applauded offering it is proudly presented with great FAREWELLO, Class
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  • Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN NY
  • Date published: 1937
HBDJ, 1937 On TITLE & Copyright Pg, 1st edition , Oblong Green Cloth Illustrated Cover has WHITE SPOT FRONT CVR, also some light smudges. Illustrated B/W & Green Endpapers, BACK FLAP AD WHAT TO DO ABOUT MOLLY, Text block and pages tanned from age and shelf-wear. Text and color illustrations clean.Hardcover, UNPAGINATED, SIGNED on Title & Inscribed Copyright Pg By Flack, INNER DJ FLAP $1.50 ,, Buffy, a plump, Noisy, Greedy little robin who lives in an Beautiful Round NEST in Apple Tree in New Hampshire leaves home for an adventure.Chronicles the journey of a robin who travels from Georgia to New Hampshire to make his home. Full of facts about the habits and lives of robins.
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  • Publisher: Modern Library, New York,
  • Date published: 1933
HBDJ, 1933, 1ST MODERN LIBRARY , EARLY ISSUE, VG+/GOOD-, AS-IS, REPAIRED MENDED TEAR SPLIT TO DJ SPINE EDGE, BACK & VERSO OF DJ LISTS 225 TITLES & PRE ZIP CODE COUPON, Inner DJ Flap MENDED SEPARATION TINY PriceClipped but 95 Cents Intact, Great DJ design by Reichl !, Orange & White Rockwell Kent Endpapers, The BURGUNDY CLOTH WITH GOLD GILT book is in very good, clean, fresh, gently read condition with an intact binding, a good cover with some bumped covers, and no rips, tears, stains, or marks other than the author's signature INSCRIPTION on the pre-title page and, the book owner's name above, also written by the author. The dust jacket is dingy, torn, tattered and fragile EXTREMITIES CHIPS WEAR; its front flap is completely separate and the jacket has ink writing on its cover. 'hardcover' binding on this 6-3/4 by 4-1/4 inch book is actually a tightly woven 'balloon' cloth over a very thin, stiff but flexible 'board'. We believe this book is bound in Modern Library's binding style #7, tanning to dj spine, SMALL INK MARK FRONT OF DJ. , It is the central story, that of Melanctha, the Negro girl, which is the most original and compelling of the three...It is perhaps the first American story in which the Negro is regarded as a human being and not as an object for condescending compassion or derision
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  • Publisher: Alfred Knopf, NY,
  • Date published: 1987
  • ISBN: 9780394562728
Alfred Knopf, NY,, 1987. HBDJ, 1987, stated 1st edition, DATES Match on Title & Copyright page, PC, F/F-, AS-IS, 134 pgs, Ivory tweed cloth with Facsimile Signature in gold gilt of HEPBURN on Front, DJ light , wear & slight darkening edges DJ, Interior very light wear nice tight Clean, very tightly bound. No writing or markings inside the book other than the actress signature. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.
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  • Publisher: Borzoi Books/ Alfred A. Knopf NY
  • Date published: 2004
  • ISBN: 9780375414572
Borzoi Books/ Alfred A. Knopf NY, 2004. HBDJ, 2004, Stated First Edition, 1st Printing, Dates Match on Title & Copyright page, BRAND NEW, UNREAD! CONDITION: Near Mint, The dust jacket is in very fine/new condition, showing no shelf wear, not price-clipped. blue embossed Cloth with Gold Gilt Titles on Spine, The book is in very fine/new condition, very tightly bound. No writing or markings inside the book other than the autograph. No remainder. No pages are missing or bent. Not ex-library, 959 pgs, + Index. the 42nd president of the United States reveals, for the first time and in his own words, how he sees his life and career. MY LIFE is a 900+-page work that is ambitious in scope, yet very conversational in tone. Clinton speaks fondly of his early years in Hope, Arkansas, . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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  • Publisher: Alfred Knopf, NY,
  • Date published: 1987
  • ISBN: 9780394562728
Alfred Knopf, NY,, 1987. HBDJ, 1987, stATed 1st edition, DATES MaTcH oN Title & Copyright page, PC, F/F-, AS-IS, 134 pgs, Ivory tweed cloth wIth Facsimile Signature in gold gilt of HEPBURN on Front, DJ light , wear , Interior very light wear nice tight Clean, very tightly bound. No writing or markings inside the book other than the actress signature. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.
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  • Publisher: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons,
  • Date published: 1953
HBDJ, 1953, 1ST U.S. EDITION, 1st Printing, Very Scarce in any format. VG/VG, Smal tiny chips Tears DJ Extremities, Book has BURGUNDY red boards with yellow spine lettering, an unclipped DJ, no fading, has some edgewear and minor chips. Very seldom seen in this first Putnam's edition. A bit of soiling to the page edges, no other internal marks or writing. Very rare signed!. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo -, 300 pgs,Jacket shows a small bit of edge wear. In a brodart protective wrapper. ( Hermits of Harlem Collyer Brothers, Homer and Langley COLLYER, Mary E. Wood, Ella Wendel, Madison Square Mystery, Mary & William Colgate Colby, Hetty Green's Daughter, Sylvia Green Wilks, ETC ) Fascinating exploration of some of the world's most famous recluses, including the Collyer brothers, the Leary sisters, Emily Thorn, Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope and others. Eighteen in total, eccentric and mostly rich. including the wealthy Collyer brothers who lived alone together surrounded by dark legends and an age-old collection of rubbish into which they tunnelled and at last died. Fascinating exploration of some of the world's most famous recluses,
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