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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.

Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1938. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Near fine save some light darkening to the sheets. 8vo. Later buckram, original printed wrappers bound in, untrimmed. First edition. Inscribed by Bernstein on the half-title to the dedicatee's wife, the actress Patricia Patterson: "à la meilleure partenaire de Charles à la Marmanche Pat affecteuresment Henry Bernstein." Patricia Patterson (1910-1978) made more than 20 films, including Charlie Chan Goes to Egypt. It was a case of love at first sight when she was introduced to the actor Charles Boyer by Maurice Chevalier at a wrap party for the film in 1934. Charles Boyer (1899-1978) appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976, including his celebrated performance in Gaslight (1944). The playwright Henri Bernstein (1876-1953) was associated with Boulevard Theatre. Boyer had appeared in leading roles of several film adaptations of Bernstein's plays, including Orage (1938), the film adaptation of this play (in which Boyer is listed on the cast list). The printed dedication reads: "Au grand acteur qui fut, tant de soirs, sur la scène du Gymnase, à Charles Boyer son ami H. B." WITH: Another copy: untrimmed sheets, bound uniformly in buckram, printed wrappers bound in. One of 15 copies on Van Gelder Zonen (this is No. 3).

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

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

Reading, PA Fantasy Press, 1953 HBDJ, 1953, stated 1st edition, Original Red Cloth lettered & Decorated on Spine in Gold Gilt, Cover light Rub, Wear, Interior nice tight Clean light Wear FoX, F-/NF, DJ slight rub, wear & tiny Chips & small mended tears Extremities, 256 pages, Light soil Back DJ, Tiny Tear Base DJ Spine ,Author born in Butler , Missouri in 1907 . Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

HBDJ, CHIP TO FRONT TOP & BTM EDGE DJ & Small residue, 1951 On Copyright pg,, 1st Edition, SIGNED, VG- , AS-IS, MENDED CHIP REPLACEMENTS TO EXTREMITIES OF DJ , OBLONG binding with YELLOW cloth ILLUSTRATED Boards SOME SMUDGING & Pencil mark WEAR. 4to, 39 pgs, BACK OF DJ CHIPS TO EXTREMITIES, 39 PGS, Here he reimagines for children the life of the early 19th-century performer and legendary champion leaper (Niagara Falls, etc.) Brown & RED White Illustrated Endpapers, Harlem Renaissance novelist and poet.

HBDJ, 1942 On Copyright pg,, 1st Edition, EARLY ISSUE, , NO Date on Title Page, .Early ISSUE Dustjacket $3.23 ON FLAP, VG/VG+, NOT X-LIB. Trade OBLONG binding with Brown Rust cloth ILLUSTRATED Boards. Same illus as DJ which has SMALL Blue & Silver Dolphin Sticker, . Book is very good- with some spotting on top & bottom edges of green cloth (scans available). DJ is very good+ to near fine- . Outstanding full color art by VIRGINIA LEE BURTON (CALDECOTT MEDALIST). 28 PGS,

Inner Hinges Starting Cracked, ,Green, Brown & White Illustrated Endpapers, HBDJ, 1942 On Copyright pg,, 1st Edition, 1ST PRINTING, BK GOOD with Interior pg Slight soil Foxing / DJ VG with tiny Extremities chips tears LITE Crease on back, AS-IS, SCRUFFY & SOILED OBLONG CLOTH cvr binding with GREY OATMEAL ILLUSTRATED Boards with chip btm Spine .INTERIOR PGS LITELY FOXED ,First Printing dust jacket as all titles listed on flaps are pre 1942 "Sad-faced Boy, Choo Choo, Mike Mulligan" and on the rear flap "Don Coyote" by Leigh Peck. Everyone knows that Houghton Mifflin denoted its First Printings by having the date appear on the title page. This book is the only exception and doesn't have the date on the title page. To identify it as a first it must not list subsequent printings, which this does NOT. ,Oblong Quarto, 28 PGS , Grey boards in rough condition with multiples staining/foxing marks. Dust Jacket in VG Condition like it was stored for years, dust jacket price clipped and has small "F Bon" to front top right of dust jacket in pencil. A wonderful example of a rare Burton title.

HBDJ, 1971, STATED 1ST EDITION ,with "97532468" number line, Dj With Correct Publication Code 6/72 On Rear Flap VG/VG , Light Wear FOX creases DJ, FADE TO EXTREMITIES BLACK EMBOSSE BOARDS WITH BLACK CLOTH AT SPINE CVR4 & TITLED IN WHITE, 206 pgs, Tiny chips tears DJ Extremities, 8.25 x 5.75 in. DJ mylar-protected, This book includes a signed bookplate by Hunter S. Thompson which was acquired during his book-signing tour for The Rum Diary. Basis for the acclaimed 1998 Terry Gilliam film starring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro. Bound in dark grey cloth; woven black cloth spine; silver lettering to spine in original Steadman illustrated dust jacket has small DJ Spine tear at Base ,Thompson's classic second & most lauded book, launching his unique brand of stoned & intoxicated yet inspired "Gonzo journalism". the savagely comic account of what happened to the country in the 1960's -- told through the narration of a strange, drug-crazed journey to Las Vegas. based on two trips to Las Vegas, Nevada, that Hunter S. Thompson took with attorney and Chicano activist Oscar Zeta Acosta in March and April 1971. Thompson wrote that he concluded their March trip by spending some 36 hours alone in a hotel room "feverishly writing in my notebook" about his experiences.

HBDJ, Stated 1st Published 1974, 1st edition. Signed by Christopher Milne on title page and dated 1992. Very good book in GREEN BV/W very good- dust jacket. No other markings to text. Binding is firm. Boards are clean. Dust jacket is mildly shelfworn. If you know Winnie the Pooh, and who doesn't, this book is a little diamond, a book full of great details, a book which gives a unique view of the Christopher Robin myth. A happy book about a happy childhood in the twenties and thirties in London and in SusseX