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This book has not been opened or read. There are no marks of any kind in or on it.
It is bright blue with plain covers and black design and lettering on the spine.
The dust jacket is clean and clear with minor shelf wear at the edges and a 1/2" tear on the back.
Alice in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
The Hunting of the Snark
A Tangled Tale
Phantasmagoria
Nonsense from Letters
Original black and white illustrations by John Tenniel and Henry Holiday
439 pages
Large type
9 1/2" x 7 1/2"
Published by Castle, New Jersey. Undated; probably 2011.

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This is Bennett's 14th novel, published in 1907.
"A thrilling suspense and romance tale with a fantasy city as a locale."
Includes two pages in four-colour
Original dust jacket, badly discoloured and with one small tear at spine.
Green Boards with Black Writing: Pristine
Inside Front Cover, someone has stamped 'Made in Great Britain' (very small)
Binding fully intact.
All other pages pristine; apparently never read.

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This is a stated thirteenth printing of the first edition of Dr. Dolittle's Garden, the 8th book of the the classic children's series written and illustrated by the English writer Hugh Lofting (1886-1947). It is about a physician who communicates with animals.
This copy was printed in the US.While there is some shelfwear to the dust jacket, there is no evidence that anyone read the book. It is in mint condition.
Note: I also have Dr Dolittle's Zoo, and The Story of Dr Dolittle listed here. If you'd like all three, I can reduce the prices and combine shipping.

The Ebony Tower, by the English Author John Fowles (1926-2005), is a collection of five novellas and short stories with interlacing themes, each built around a medieval myth: The Ebony Tower, Eliduc, Poor Koko, The Enigma and The Cloud. It is .The Ebony Tower: Henry Breasley is an elderly painter whose secluded retirement is invaded by a brash young artist commissioned to write a biographical study of the great man.In Eliduc, a hero goes into exile in England, leaving his wife behind. While in exile, he falls for the daughter of a local king. Poor Koko: An elderly writer has borrowed a country cottage from friends in London. On the first night of his stay, the house is burgled. Poor Koko tells of his encounter with the burglar.In The Enigma, a British MP, disappears without trace. Was foul play involved, or did he fake his own disappearance? In The Cloud, a seemingly idyllic picnic in the south of France for a group of English family and friends hides deeper, troubled undercurrents. The Enigma and The… Leer más

This is a first edition of The Far Lands, by the American writer James Normal Hall (1887-1951), who is best known for the Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy. It was published in 1950.
It is the fictional re-telling of the settlement of Hawaii seen through the eyes of the legendary figures found in Hawaiian mythology. A group of Tongans are in search of their promised lands; the story details the struggles they overcome and describes their faith in their ability to find their final home island. Maui is the main character and the story tells of his life from childhood to old age. It is a story of thrilling adventure.
It is 298 pages, unadorned except that each chapter title is printed in blue. This book's original owner had the covers wrapped in light plastic. The only wear is to the dust jacket and covers; all of it is shown in the photos. The book has a slight smell of must but it is currently being stored with a scenter. The inside of the book is pristine.

God's Grace
is the final novel (his eighth) by American author Bernard Malamud (1914-1986). The novel, which was published in 1982, focuses on Calvin Cohn, the supposed sole survivor of thermonuclear war and God's second Flood, who attempts to rebuild and perfect civilization amongst the primates that make their way onto a tropical island.
This is a first edition, stated second printing.
The dust jacket is unclipped. It has a tiny bit of shelfwear and a small spot on the spine.
Except for a tiny bit of fading to the fabric at the top of the spine, the book is like new—perfect condition.

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In nine chapters, The Golden Scarecrow presents nine stories of nine children, united by location. A tenth story of a tenth life, divided into Prologue and Epilogue, provides a different sort of unity. They are both gentle and horrible tales.
This book is an exercise in entering into the minds/hearts of children
The premise is that children come into this world with a knowledge of the world they have left behind and a spiritual link to it through a companion just referred to as their Friend. Some adults are able to mature without losing their Friend and some children push him away when they are still small. It needs the heart of a child and a willingness to believe in things we can't see.
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884 - 1941) was one of the most popular authors of his time. He wrote 36 novels, and five volumes of short stories; his most famous novel is Rogue Herries.
The Golden Scarecrow was first published by Cassell in 1915, then the copyright was transferred to MacMillan.
Condition: Pristine
The… Leer más

This is a leather-bound mint-condition copy of Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales, published in 2011.
It is the 201 fairy tales and 10 legends written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the German academics and folklore collectors who, from 1812 to 1857, published the world's most famous fairy tales.
Bound in burgundy leather with an inlaid foil design. Bound-in silk bookmark, gold-trimmed pages.
652 pages, with no adornment, other than one portrait of the brothers.
This book is brand new and has not been read; I don't think it's ever been opened. Its flawless--pristine.

This is a mint-condition copy of Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales, published in 1993.
It is the 201 fairy tales and 10 legends written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the German academics and folklore collectors who, from 1812 to 1857, published the world's most famous fairy tales.
Bound in navy blue leather with an inlaid foil design. Bound-in silk bookmark, gold-trimmed pages.
652 pages, with no adornment.
This book does not appear to have been read; it's in perfect condition.

This is a first edition (UK) of Haroun and the Sea of Stories, a children's novel written in 1990 by the British writer Salman Rushdie. After Iran's Ayatollah Khomeni issued a fatwa against Rushdie over The Satanic Verses
two years earlier, Rushdie was in hiding, and under protection. This meant that he was separated from his son, and he wrote these stories for him. The boy was 12 at the time. It is a phantasmagorical story that begins in a city so old and ruinous that it has forgotten its name, and it is an allegory for problems that exist in society, from the viewpoint of the young Haroun. The dust jacket (unclipped) of this copy has minor shelfwear, mostly yellowing of the white corners on the inside flaps and back. The book itself (218 pages) does not appear to have been read. There is a faint mark on the front cover--it's not a scratch and may come off. The outside of the pages edges have darkened a little. Otherwise perfect.

The House on the Strandis a Gothic tale which Du Maurier wrote in 1969. In it, the central character, who lives a dreary married life, agrees to test a sinister drug that transports him back to 14th century Cornwall, where he becomes absorbed in the lives of people he meets there, to the extent that the two worlds he is living in start to merge.
In 1969, it was published in the UK by Gollancz and by Doubleday in the US. This is the first edition of the US printing.
No dust jacket. Plain beige boards with maps of Cornwall instead of endpapers.
The pages are all creamy white and clear. It is completely free of marks of any kind. Pristine condition.

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This is a stated first edition of Italian Folk Tales, the best-selling collection selected and retold by the Italian author Italo Calvino (1923-1985). The English translation was first published in 1980 and it was on the New York Times Top Ten Best Books list for that year. It is 200 tales, of fantasy and mystery, romance and adventure.
In 1982, it was issued in paperback. This is one of those copies. It is very high quality, with lovely paper and many woodcut illustrations. It has not been opened or read and is in near-perfect condition; its only flaw is to the right edge of the front cover, where the paper is frayed a little, from improper storage. The inside is pristine.

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This is a stated first printing (1988) of The King of the Fields, a novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991), the Polish-American writer who is one of 13 American citizens to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Singer wrote in Yiddish and had his work translated, usually by Saul Bellow. It is a fictional exploration of primitive history, about an age of superstition and violence in a country emerging from the darkness of savagery. This book has not been read. The price is clipped off the dust jacket but it is otherwise in mint condition.

Laugh in the Dark, August 1971, 38 PagesThis is a copy from the first printing (blue cover).
The cover is by Kim Deitch; I'm not sure about the back cover—it looks like 'Flendale'. Inside, Rory Hayes, Spain Rodriguez, Bill Griffith, Clay Wilson, Justin Green, Larry Fuller, George Metzger, Michael McMillan and Willie Mendes.
The only flaw in this copy is that someone crossed out the original price of .50 and replaced it with .60.

Merton of the Movement, Only Run, October 1972, 44 pagesMerton of the Movement was printed once, as a run of 20,000, in October of 1972.
Its four contributors were members of Dan O'Neill's Air Pirates collective: Cover by editor Bobby London, plus Ted Richards, Gary Hallgren and Shary Flenniken.
The only flaw in this copy is that someone crossed out the original price of .50 and replaced it with .60.

This is a first edition (1991) of Murther and Walking Spirits, the second-last novel by the brilliant Canadian novelist Robertson Davies (1913-1995). It is a ghost story; after a film critic is murdered, his ghost attends a strange film festival. While the attendees see actual films, the critic's ghost sees films detailing the lives of his ancestors—one was a Tory during the American Revolution, another who was a carpenter who married a blue-blooded woman. The films deal with more and more recent subjects until the novel is brought to a modern-day conclusion.
This is a perfect copy, with an unclipped dust jacket. The edges of the jacket are starting to darken a little, but there are no marks of any kind in or on the book.
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This is an unread (stated) first edition of The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, an illustrated novel by Italian writer Umberto Eco. It was first published in Italian in 2004; in English in 2005. The title is taken from the title of an Italian edition album of an episode of the American comic strip Tim Tyler's Luck.
It is about a book dealer who loses his memory and has to go back through his life to regain his identity. This involves studying The Mysterious Flame, which is filled with images from books, magazines and comics.
It is plain orange boards with gold lettering on the spine. There are hundreds of illustrations, and comic book clippings, mostly in color. The dust jacket is unclipped; there is the tiniest amount of shelfwear to the top of the jacket. There are no marks anywhere in or on it.
This book has not been opened. It is in mint condition.

Anatole France (Francois-Anatole Thibault, 1844-1924) was a French poet, journalist and best-selling novelist. He was considered the ideal French man of letters and, in 1921, won the Nobel Prize in Literature.France wrote 25 novels; Penguin Island (1908) was his 21st.
It is a sprawling satirical novel about a fictitious island, inhabited by great auks, that existed off the northern coast of Europe. A wayward Christian missionary monk lands on the island and sees the upright, unafraid auks as a sort of pre-Christian society of noble pagans. Mostly blind from reflections from the polar ice and deaf from the roar of the sea, having mistaken the animals for humans, he baptizes them. This causes a problem for The Lord, who normally only allows humans to be baptized. After consulting with saints and theologians in Heaven, He resolves the dilemma by converting the baptized birds to humans with only a few physical traces of their ornithological origin,and giving them each a soul. Thus begins the… Leer más

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban (1561 – 1626) was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General, as Lord Chancellor of England and as legal advisor to Queen Elizabeth I. His works are credited with developing the scientific method and remained influential through the scientific revolution.
Bacon argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature. Most importantly, he argued science could be achieved by use of a skeptical and methodical approach whereby scientists aim to avoid misleading themselves. Although his practical ideas about such a method, the Baconian method, did not have a long-lasting influence, the general idea of the importance and possibility of a skeptical methodology makes Bacon the father of the scientific method.
Bacon published three volumes of essays; the last contained 58 essays—all are contained in this book. It also contains his famous The New Atlantis, an incomplete… Leer más

Skull Comics #3, November 1971, 36 pagesThere were 6 numbers of Skull Comics printed between 1970 and 1972 and there are several of them available online—except for #3.
This copy is from the first printing (of 10,000), as evidenced by the registration mark in a scarlet pentagon on the back cover.
The cover features a rare horror illustration from Spain Rodriguez.
Back Cover, Greg Irons, plus Tom Veitch, Richard Corben, Jack Jackson and Dave Sheridan.
Both covers are in color.
Page 18 and the top of Page 19 are ruined (scissors).
A price of .60 has been written on the cover's top-right corner.