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Novidades
EYES ON RUSSIA
por BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret
- Condição
- Usado - Paper splits to hinges, covers still tight; small chip at heel of spine. Still Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1931
- Encadernação
- Hardcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Paper splits to hinges, covers still tight; small chip at heel of spine. Still Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Margaret Bourke-White. The photographer's first book, a travelogue of a trip to the Soviet Union, illustrated with photographs by Bourke-White. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper.… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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HARMONIUM
por STEVENS, Wallace
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- Usado - Having been protected by a dustwrapper for the past 100+ years, the book is in brilliant condition. The scarce dustwrapper has m
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1923
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- Hardcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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€ 4.730,00
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Having been protected by a dustwrapper for the past 100+ years, the book is in brilliant condition. The scarce dustwrapper has minor edgewear, a chip at the spine head extending slightly to the rear panel. Fine bright copy in a scarce Very Good dustwrapper. The third issue of Stevens's… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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THE LOST PILOT
por TATE, James
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- Usado - Minor crease to cover. Near Fine
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1967
- Encadernação
- Softcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Minor crease to cover. Near Fine. The more common softcover issue of Tate's first trade book, the title poem a tribute to his father who was lost during World War II over Germany five months after Tate was born. A superb Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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THE 1934 VASSARION
por BISHOP, Elizabeth (Editor-in-Chief)
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- Usado - Minor foxing to first and last few pages, no writing within. The velvet is only lightly marked. A Fine, fresh copy
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- First Edition
- Published
- [1934]
- Encadernação
- Hardcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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Poughkeepsie: Senior Class/Vassar College, [1934]. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor foxing to first and last few pages, no writing within. The velvet is only lightly marked. A Fine, fresh copy. Quarto (7-3/4" x 10-3/4") bound in velvet-covered boards. Elizabeth Bishop's senior yearbook at Vassar, of which she was the editor-in-chief. This can certainly be considered, as anyone who has… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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THE TERRIBLE CHILDREN
por HACKER, Marilyn
- Condição
- Usado - Near Fine and quite scarce
- Edição
- First Edition
- Published
- (1967)
- Encadernação
- Pictorial wraps
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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n.p.: (Samuel R. Delany), (1967). First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Near Fine and quite scarce. Twenty-six mimeographed 8-1/2" x 11" pages bound with two staples with photo-illustrated front and rear covers. Poet's extremely scarce first book, preceding her first regularly published trade volume--PRESENTATION PIECE, which won the National Book Award--by seven years. Published by Hacker's then-husband, science fiction writer… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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A BEGINNING
por [AUDEN, W. H.] HORAN, Robert
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- Usado - Covers foxed with small tear to spine. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with chipping at the spine tips and corners
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1948
- Encadernação
- Hardcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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€ 532,12
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1948. First Edition. hardcover. Covers foxed with small tear to spine. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with chipping at the spine tips and corners. Bloomfield & Mendelson B36: 1014 copies. Horan's first book, with a 4-page foreword by W. H. Auden. This copy SIGNED by Auden on the front endpaper and… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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THE DEATH OF THE NARCISSUS. Eleven Botanico-Erotic Etchings
por MOSER, Barry
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- Usado - Fine in a Near Fine box
- Edição
- First Edition
- Published
- 1970
- Encadernação
- Loose Etchings
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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€ 5.321,25
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(Easthampton, MA): [Castalia Press], 1970. First Edition. Loose Etchings. Fine in a Near Fine box. Barry Moser. Folio consisting of 14-1/2" x 11" sheets including 4 text leaves and 11 pencil-SIGNED and numbered circular etchings. Copy #35 of only 35 of Moser's first illustrated book, SIGNED additionally on the colophon page. Housed in a cloth clamshell box lettered… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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THE TEMPERS
por WILLIAMS, William Carlos
- Condição
- Usado - Some soiling and wear with slight loss of paper on spine. Very Good, lacking the uncommon glassine dustwrapper
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1913
- Encadernação
- Hardcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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London: Elkin Mathews, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Some soiling and wear with slight loss of paper on spine. Very Good, lacking the uncommon glassine dustwrapper. Original cream boards, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine (3-3/4" x 5"). Williams's second volume of poetry, and the first by a commercial publisher, after POEMS, published privately in 1909 in a very… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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THE GHETTO and Other Poems
por RIDGE, Lola
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- Usado - Pencil name on front endpaper and pencil markings by titles of many poems; inch chip at base of spine with some loss. Very Good,
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1918
- Encadernação
- Hardcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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New York: B. W. Huebsch, Inc., 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Pencil name on front endpaper and pencil markings by titles of many poems; inch chip at base of spine with some loss. Very Good, lacking the scarce dustwrapper if there ever was one. Brown boards with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Her scarce first book.… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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I'LL LEAVE IT TO YOU." A Light Comedy in Three Acts
por COWARD, Noel
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- Usado - Near Fine
- Edição
- Early Edition
- Published
- 1920 [1925]
- Encadernação
- Wraps
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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London & New York: Samuel French, Ltd., 1920 [1925]. Early Edition. wraps. Near Fine. Printed green-blue wraps (5-1/2" x 8-1/2"); 71, [1] pages plus covers. Coward's First Book and his first play produced in the West End. At the age of 20, he also performed in the role of Bobbie. The play ran for a month at the… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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WHAT THE GRASS SAYS
por SIMIC, Charles
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- Usado - Slight foxing to covers; toning to text. Very Good
- Edição
- First Edition
- Published
- [1967]
- Encadernação
- Decorated wraps
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Livreiro
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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€ 118,25
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San Francisco: Kayak, [1967]. First Edition. Decorated wraps. Slight foxing to covers; toning to text. Very Good. Joan Abelson. Decorated wraps. Poet's first book, issued in an edition of 1000 copies, this in the first state binding. Illustrated with 12 color prints by Joan Abelson.
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IT'S UP TO THE WOMEN
por ROOSEVELT, Eleanor
- Condição
- Usado - Sunning to spine tips. Near Fine in a Fair to Good dustwrapper with rubbing and some losses, without the slipcase
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1933
- Encadernação
- Hardcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Livreiro
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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€ 2.956,25
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Sunning to spine tips. Near Fine in a Fair to Good dustwrapper with rubbing and some losses, without the slipcase. A book of nationwide appeal to the women of America. It answers the questions of millions of women." This is copy #138 of only 250 numbered copies SIGNED… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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OUTCROPPINGS: BEING SELECTIONS OF CALIFORNIA VERSE
por HARTE, Bret (editor)
- Condição
- Usado - Occasional minor soiling to text. Binding about Fine
- Edição
- First Edition
- Published
- 1866
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Livreiro
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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€ 295,62
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San Francisco/New York: A. Roman and Company/W. J. Widdleton, 1866. First Edition. Occasional minor soiling to text. Binding about Fine. Twentieth century 3/4 navy morocco binding signed by Blackwell. BAL 7238: Form A or B. Harte's first book, an anthology of poetry edited anonymously by him. Contributors include Ina Coolbrith and Charles W. Stoddard.
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Forty Three Days in an Open Boat" in HARPER'S MONTHLY, December 1866 - May 1867, Volume XXXIV
por TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]
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- Usado - A clean, Fine copy
- Edição
- First Edition
- Published
- 1866-1867
- Encadernação
- Wraps
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Livreiro
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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€ 413,88
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866-1867. First Edition. Wraps. A clean, Fine copy. Half dark brown morocco with marbled boards and matching morocco corners. Notable for containing Mark Twain's first appearance in print in a national magazine, predating his first book. Published anonymously in the individual issues, the story is attributed in the table of contents to "Mark… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
€ 413,88
NEW DIRECTIONS IN PROSE & POETRY 1941
por (KEES, Weldon) LAUGHLIN, James (editor)
- Condição
- Usado - Paper spine label wrinkled, spine a bit sunned. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper
- Edição
- First Edition
- Published
- 1941
- Encadernação
- Hardcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Livreiro
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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€ 1.182,50
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Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Paper spine label wrinkled, spine a bit sunned. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. Red cloth with paper spine label. A thick volume with over 700 pages, the red cloth is considered the second issue, but it's possible that this is a contributor's copy as it belonged to the poet Weldon… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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NORTH & SOUTH
por BISHOP, Elizabeth
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- Usado - Close to Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with minor edgewear, a small chip on the front panel near the spine and a larger chip a
- Edição
- First Edition
- Published
- 1946
- Encadernação
- Hardcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Livreiro
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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€ 1.182,50
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Close to Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with minor edgewear, a small chip on the front panel near the spine and a larger chip at the rear lower corner with a closed tear extending a few inches. Bishop's first book, of which only 1000 copies were printed. Winner of… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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DAILY HOROSCOPE
por GIOIA, Dana
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- Usado - Fine
- Edição
- First Edition
- Published
- (1982)
- Encadernação
- Wraps
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Livreiro
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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€ 177,38
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Iowa City: The Windhover Press, (1982). First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Original gray wraps with title page illustrated with a linoleum cut by Thomas Kovacs. Acknowledgement slip laid in. One of 225 copies on Windhover paper of the poet's first book (following a two-poem pamphlet published by the Bowery Press) preceding the trade collection of the same title by… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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DISMANTLING THE SILENCE. POEMS
por SIMIC, Charles
- Condição
- Usado - Small stain at very bottom of corner of front cover; light wear. Very Good
- Edição
- First Edition
- Published
- (1971)
- Encadernação
- Softcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Livreiro
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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€ 118,25
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New York: George Braziller, (1971). First Edition. Softcover. Small stain at very bottom of corner of front cover; light wear. Very Good. Printed wraps. Poet's first trade book of poetry, published after two limited editions and a few translations. Issued in softcover only. SIGNED by the poet on the half-title page. There is also a 1971 signature "William… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
por YATES, Richard
- Condição
- Usado - Just about Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with the spine tanned but in this case much less severely than typically found
- Edição
- First Edition
- Published
- (1961)
- Encadernação
- Hardcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Livreiro
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1961). First Edition. Hardcover. Just about Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with the spine tanned but in this case much less severely than typically found. Advance Copy in plain printed white dustwrapper with praise from the publisher on the front and rear panels, including a blurb by Alfred Kazin. Yates's powerful… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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IN A FATHER'S PLACE
por TILGHMAN, Christopher
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- Usado - Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
- Edição
- First Edition
- Published
- (1990)
- Encadernação
- Hardcover
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Livreiro
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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€ 59,12
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. His first book, a fine collection of stories. Blurbs by Andre Dubus and Richard Ford. SIGNED by the author on the title page and additionally INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page in the year of publication: "with deep gratitude/for your enthusiastic/reading and… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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