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Fearless Jones

by Mosley, Walter

Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Size: 8vo 8"-9" tall; SIGNED by the author and dated at the title page, probably following a reading at Powell's Books of Portland, Oregon. This novel is set in 1950s L.A. and the search for an elusive, reclusive star, Elana Love and what happened to a used bookstore owner, Paris Minton. Sterling condition hardcover copy, gift-quality condition. Tips unbruised, spine and binding tight, pages bright and clear, paste-downs neat and tidy, and not ex-library; neither ... Read More

Milton & English Art

by Pointon, Marcia R.

Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo 8"-9" tall; Sturdy, attractive hardcover copy, spine and binding tight, pages bright and clear, and only minimal wear to covers and tips, maroon linen cloth covers, gilt lettering to spine, slight bumping to spine. Fine book-plate inside the front flap. Dust jacket fully intact, showing some edge-and shelf-wear, light chipping to bottom edge, protected in Kapco sleeve. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and ... Read More

Saudades Do Brasil: a Photographic Memoir

by Levi-Strauss, Claude; Modelski, Sylvia [Translator]

Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. Size: 4to 11"-13" tall; Heavy, oversized hardcover copy. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Dust jacket fully intact, not price-clipped, showing only minor shelf-and edge-wear. First American Edition, translated by Sylvia Modelski from the original French, the title having been taken from a 1921 title exactemente. [6], 7-223 pp. ... Read More

The Confessions of Nat Turner

by Styron, William

Description: Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo 8"-9" tall; Pulitzer Prize winner for 1968, a fine and gripping novel that is based on the true story of an 1831 slave revolt in the Deep South. This is Styron's controversial novel that was fiercely debated and critically acclaimed as "magnificent" by some a rare book that shows us our American past with great clarity. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, unmarked interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in black cloth over boards ... Read More

Lost Man's River

by Matthiessen, Peter

Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Size: 8vo 8"-9" tall; Second novel in the "Mister Watson" trilogy, following upon the extraordinary Killing Mister Watson in 1990, set again in remote Florida Everglades in the early 1900s and the search of the sons of E.J. Watson to find out who he was. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound handsomely in two-tone, ... Read More

Shem Ham & Japheth: the Papers of W.O. Tuggle, Comprising His Indian Diary Sketches & Observations, Myths and Washington Journal in the Territory & in the Capital, 1879-1882

by Tuggle, W.O.; Eugene Current-Garcia, Ed., With Dorothy B. Hatfield

Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Size: 8vo 8"-9" tall; Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Laid in is a drawn map of the Creek Nation and its Towns in the Oklahoma Territory in the late 1800s. First Edition, First Printing in octavo format, with handsomely produced cloth covers. ... Read More

The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Fifth Edition

by Drabble, Margaret, Ed

Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Size: Large 8vo 9"-10; Sterling condition hardcover copy of a stated Fifth Edition, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf-and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Gift-quality condition, inside and out. Apparently unread, spine still crackles. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and illustration on front cover. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, ... Read More

American State Papers. Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States, From the First Session of the First to the Third Session of the Thirteenth Congress, Inclusive: Commencing March 3, 1789, and Ending March 3, 1815. Class...

by Lowrie, Walter And Matthew St. Clair Clarke

Description: Good. Size: 4to 11"-13" tall; Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Rebound in black cloth with gilt lettering on spine (oddly states "Vol. I"), new endpapers. Ink-stamp of a Tennessee Historical Society on title page. Toning, scattered foxing throughout, but overall, a remarkably sturdy and bright interior. Includes tables of imports and exports, by years. ... Read More

Casket of Reminiscences

by Foote, Henry S.

Description: Fair. Size: 16mo 6"-7" tall; A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Dark blue embossed cloth decorated with gilt lettering and trim, with fraying and rubbing to spine ends and edges. Forward cock to spine. Remnant of institution bookplate to inside flap, previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper, but no other stampings; some underlining mainly first chapter only with some age-toning and smudging to text. Foote was a lawyer and Senator from ... Read More