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HELL'S ANGELS: The
Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. By
Hunter S. Thompson |
Random House: New York, 1971, 1st edition,
1st printing. Book condition: very good plus; some color-bleeding on rear
pastedown (shown in image); color- bleeding on top page edges; silver and red
print on spine very bright, no flaking or color loss; name and address of
William W. Landis, Jr. written in pen on front fly-leaf. William Landis
was the son of Miriam Manning Landis of Sharon, Connecticut was managing
director of High Fidelity Magazine, and her father was a staff writer for Life
Magazine. Dust jacket: near fine condition; $4.95 price intact; no
perceptible paper loss; the lightest fading to dust jacket spine.
Price: $450.00
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BEN SHAHN
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SHAHN. The Penguin Modern Painters. Editor: Sir Kenneth
Clark. American Editor: Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Made in Great
Britain. Colour plates printed by John Swain & Son, Ltd.,
London and Barnet. Text pages printed at The Baynard Press,
London. Published by Penguin Books Limited. West Drayton,
Middlesex, England. 1947. |
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I AM CHARLOTTE
SIMMONS. Farrar Straus Giroux: New York, 2004. Stated, First
Edition, First Printing. Original binding and dust jacket.
Original price present. Condition of book: near fine.
Condition of dust jacket: near fine.
Signed by Tom Wolfe on title page.
Price: $45.00 |
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BETWEEN A ROCK AND A
HARD PLACE by Aron Ralson. Atria Books: New York, London, Toronto,
Sydney, 2004; first edition, first printing. Association copy:
lengthy inscription by author to family who owned climbing shop near
fateful journey. Book in near fine condition. Dust jacket in
near fine condition. Original price still intact.
Price: $95.00 |
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THEN AND NOW by W. Somerset
Maugham, A Novel of the Renaissance. Doubleday & Company,
Inc.: 1946, Garden City, NY, first edition. Stated first edition
on title page.
Condition: Book is in very good plus
to near fine condition; very, very light sunning to spine; some
rubbing. Dust jacket is fair, price-clipped, but, for the most
part, present. |
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I AM SPOCK by Leonard
Nimoy. Hyperion: New York, 1995, first edition, first printing, as
printed on copyright page.
Condition. Book: original
boards and black cloth spine in silver print; near fine condition.
Dust jacket: original price still present; no tears or chips; some very
slight scuffing. |
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VOLTAIRE IN LOVE by
Nancy Mitford. Illustrated. Harper & Brothers: New York,
1957, stated first edition on copyright page |
Original blue cloth
binding with gold and red print; 320 pages; in original price-clipped
dust jacket; one abrasion on front cover; lightly sunned spine; small
abrasion on front endpaper. Book, in general, very good
condition. Dust jacket in good plus condition. |
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THE JUNIPER TREE and
Other Tales from Grimm. Selected by Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak.
Translated by Lore Segal, With four tales translated by Randall
Jarrell. Pictures by Maurice Sendak. Farrar, Straus and
Giroux: New York, First Edition, 1973. Two volumes, both in
original dust jacket and housed in an illustrated slipcase. Books
are in fine condition; dust jackets are in fine condition and not
price-clipped; both books in original brown cloth with gold print;
slipcase is in near condition with a few smudges on orange paper. |
| FIFTY YEARS A RANCHER
by Charles Collins. Teague. The Recollections of half a Century
Devoted to the Citrus and Walnut Industries of California and to
Furthering the Cooperative Movement in Agriculture. Second
Edition, December 1944. Published privately in cooperation with
the California Walnut Growers Association. Original blue cloth
binding, gold print on front cover; 199 pages; illustrated; no dust
jacket. Book in near fine condition; clean and bright pages; very
light sunning to spine. |
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| THE CHOIRBOYS by Joseph
Wambaugh. Delacorte Press: New York: 1975, stated First
Printing. Signed by Joseph Wambaugh. Book in original blue
cloth covers; gold and silver print on spine; 346 pages. Book is
in near fine condition; dust jacket is in near fine condition and
original price still on jacket. First Edition, First Printing. |
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| BONANZA QUEEN: A Novel of Virginia
City by Zola Ross. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.: Indianapolis -
New York, 1949, first edition. Original brown cloth covers with
gold print on cover and spine; original dust jacket, with original price
still intact. Book is in near fine condition. Dust jacket is
in very good plus condition with some tiny loss of paper at
corners. It was a man's world Serena Courtelot faced when she
first arrived in Virginia City, Nevada, in the days of the silver
boom. With all the recklessness and assurance of her sixteen
years, she regarded it as her open sesame to love and riches. |
PLAYER PIANO
A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 1st edition of 1st book.
Published 1952, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Original green cloth binding, 295 pages
Condition of book: very good plus; light sunning to spine;
tight spine; clean, bright pages. Silver print on spine still bright; no
flaking.
Condition of dust jacket: very good with small chips at
corners; touches of discoloration at corners, top and bottom of spine; light
sunning to spine. $3.00 price still on inside front flap of jacket.
Price:
$1,000.00
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THE FLOATING OPERA
By John Barth
Appleton - Century - Crofts, Inc. New York, 1956. 1st edition of first book
Original tan cloth binding with black print on spine; 280
pages; with the number (1) on last page. Condition: binding very strong; pages very bright and clean;
small, round abrasion to upper right-hand corner of front endpaper; bump to
lower right-hand corner of front cover; overall, near fine
Condition of dust jacket: bright with a light dusting; two
small spots on front; "$3.95" price still present on front flap;
little or no fraying; overall, very good plus to near fine
Price:
$850.00
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THE COLLECTOR
by John Fowles
First American Edition. Little, Brown and Company: Boston, Toronto, 1963.
Original brown cloth binding; gold print on spine; 305 pages;
yellow endpapers
Condition: very good, with some tape marks on end papers;
spine strong; pages bright. Dust jacket in near fine condition; two light tape marks on
inner flaps; original "$4.95" price
Price:
$450.00
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UP FROM SLAVERY
An Autobiography. Booker T. Washington
First edition, first printing. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901.
1901 on title page and 1901 on copyright page. Norwood Press: J.S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith,
Norwood, Mass., USA. Original burgundy cloth binding; 330 pages, with index;
binding is strong and pages bright and clean; spine lightly sunned; and
one-quarter inch closed tear on head of spine; otherwise book is in very good
condition. Portrait page opposite title page with original tissue between
pages.
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