Robbins, Tom.
Jitterbug Perfume
Bantam Books, New York: 1984
- $200
First Printing. A perfectly Fine copy in a perfect dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 342pp. Robbins's fourth comic novel. Q19928
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The Short Novels of John Steinbeck. With an Introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson.
Steinbeck, John. Originally published as "New Edition Completely Reset in 1963, this is the eleventh printing of 1979. A Fine copy in quarter dull blue cloth, black paper boards, in a Near Fine glossy cherry red dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with one short closed tear top front spinefold at crown. 527pp. Clean and unmarked copy. Surprisingly uncommon in the trade now. Q19892- $95
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Megaliths.
Caponigro, Paul. First Printing. A Very Fine copy in grainy off-white canvas cloth, decorated endpapers, in a Very Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. Unpaginated. An aesthetic documentation in black and white of the ancient monuments and structures across the British Isles, presented in flat (uncoated) plates, with an introductory essay "Stones on the Land" by Caponigro, with site descriptions and bibliography at end. This copy SIGNED (no inscription) by the photographer on the half title page. Q19926- $750
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Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer.
Norman, Dorothy. First Printing. A Fine copy in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. Vertical offset line to center of free front endpaper, else as new. 254pp. with Chronology, Notes and Index at end. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, many by Stieglitz. Q19907- $145
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The Points of My Compass. Letters from the East, the West, the North, the South.
White, E.B. First Printing. Hall A24. A Fine copy in quarter black cloth, dark gray paper covered boards, in a Fine brown, black and green dustwrapper, not price-clipped (spine slightly toned). 240pp. One of 6000 copies distributed by The New Yorker, identified as such with a tipped-in leaf before the title page. Q19922- $55
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Bambi.
Salten, Felix. Originally published first in America in 1928, this is a later printing, with 1929 showing on title page, 1928 on copyright page. A Very Good copy in dull green cloth, darkly toned at spine, lacking the dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers, 293pp. with illustrations in text by Kurt Wiese. Foreword by John Galsworthy. No dustwrapper. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. A reading copy. Q19903- $40
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Hugo, Richard. Three Volumes, all first editions, all first printings. All Fine in glossy black and white wrappers. 79pp./70pp./63pp. Three full collections by this highly admired poet of the American Northwest. Q19939- $25
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Amazonia. [Text by Torben Ulrik Nissen].
Abell, Sam. Exhibition Catalogue. A Fine copy in dark blue-black heavy wrappers, as issued, a paperbound original.96pp. A collection of color photographs of wildlife in the Amazon Basin. This copy is INSCRIBED (to a third party), and SIGNED by both Abell and Nissen on the title page. Q19937- $35
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Three Tragedies. Blood Wedding. Yerma. Bernarda Alba.
Lorca, Federico Garcia. Possibly later issue. A Very Good copy in pale blue cloth, in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. Cloth is faded at spine and extremities, with scattered white spots to covers. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Authorized Translations by James Graham-Lujan and Richard M. O'Donnell, with an Introduction by author's brother Francisco Garcia Lorca. English only. The dustwrapper, co-designed by Lustig, differs from the other, this exampled being in black and white, with sand, moon, cross and crumpled paper motifs. Q19931- $100
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Hard Candy.
Williams, Tennessee. First Printing. Originally published in 1954, this is the New Trade Edition. Near Fine in black cloth, stamped in bronze and silver at spine, in a Very Good dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with light wear to heel. Small stain spot to top of textblock. 220pp. Q19894- $35
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The Collected Poems of Yvor Winters. With an Introduction by Donald Davie.
Winters, Yvor. First British Edition, First Impression. A Fine copy in carob brown paper covered boards, in a Fine pale greenish dustwrapper printed in brown, not price-clipped. 230pp. The lapsed Modernist who became the curmudgeonly Stanford professor. Q19918- $40
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Death in the Afternoon
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