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Agra Publications, 1996. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine. Very scarce. Fine in stiff card wraps; 4to, 170 pp. Many black & white photos (all portraits of men and women who participated in the World War II Greek resistance), with text in Greek. From the library of renowned British novelist John Fowles, with his personal bookplate on the flyleaf. Laid in is a letter from the author to Fowles, thanking him for his kind letter and discussing a meeting she had with him in Athens. The Greek resistance fighters in World War II play a major role in Fowles' magnum opus "The Magus.

R.L. Polk & Co., 1976. 1st Edition . Near-fine with a touch of shelf wear, otherwise bright and clean inside and out.

New York: Scribners, 1932. First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. New edition (first published in 1904) with a new preface by Darrow. Near-fine with ownership stamp at bottom corner of flyleaf and slight sunning to spine, otherwise clean and tight. In a near-fine dust jacket--$2.00 price intact--with a touch of wear. An excellent copy.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. A fine copy with small bump at top of rear board, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. In a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy of this title, basis for the iconic 1982 film.

McGraw-Hill, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good with minor soiling to boards. Interior clean and tight with slight tanning near the top edge of a few pages from small slips of paper (now removed) used to mark those spots. An excellent copy of this early work on the history of computers.

John Murphy, 1860. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Very good in red boards with slight soiling. Name written on front pastedown and small mark on flyleaf, otherwise clean and tight. A nice copy of a very scarce book.

San Francisco: H.W. Faust, 1903. Soft cover. Very good plus. 17th Edition. "With general information pertaining to all amusements, banks, buildings, churches, city offices, clubs, consuls, courts, express offices, fraternal societies, federal offices, ferries, halls, hotels, labor unions, libraries, mails, military matters, newspapers, post offices, schools, societies, street cars, state offices, streets, theatres, telegraph offices, and a fine lithograph map of the city." Very good plus in original stiff yellow wraps with two staples. A touch of rubbing to edges and spine, and a bit of creasing to rear cover. Interior clean and unmarked (144 pages). Fold out map in rear is near-fine and rare thus. An excellent copy of an extremely scarce item.

Secker & Warburg, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A fine copy, bright and clean inside and out. In a very good plus dust jacket (price intact) with a closed tear at the top of the front panel and a touch of wear at the top of the spine. An excellent copy of Cohen's first novel.

Monogram Books, 1965. First Thus . Very good in card wraps with sunning of about an inch around the edges. Interior clean and unmarked. Variant from the plain wrappered edition--these covers are lime green with an illustration on the front.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. 1st Edition . A fine copy, bright and clean inside and out. In a near-fine dust jacket (price clipped) with a touch of rubbing to spine ends and a couple of tiny closed edge tears. A beautiful copy of this rather scarce title.

Petaluma: Springset Gordon Setter Kennels, 1987. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A fine copy, bright and clean inside and out. In a near-fine dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear. A beautiful copy, difficult to find in dust jacket.

Macmillan, 1947. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Stated first printing of this scarce title, whose author was the inspiration for Ian Fleming when he named his famous secret agent. A fine copy, bright and clean inside and out. In a very good plus dust jacket (front flap clipped at top and bottom, but $3.75 price intact along top side edge as usual) with minor loss at spine ends and corners, and slight rubbing at the folds. A superior copy of a title that is rapidly becoming difficult to find in collectible condition.

Carlton Press, 1967. 1st Edition . Near-fine with small ink mark to fore-edge, otherwise bright and clean. In a very good dust jacket with minor chipping at the spine ends and corners. SIGNED ON THE FLYLEAF: "Samuel Goldberg formerly Young McGowan." Directly above this is written, in a different hand: "To D. William Johnson, Sportsman and Collector, from." In the lower right corner of the page is affixed a gold "Young McGowan" sticker.

London: Michael Joseph, 1938. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good plus/Very Good. Rare autobiography of one of the greatest flyweight boxers of all time. Very good plus with one corner bumped, book plate on front pastedown, and a touch of creasing to top corner of first 50 pages, otherwise clean and bright inside and out. In a very good dust jacket (price intact) with wear at the spine ends and corners, a bit of fading to spine, and some soiling to rear panel. Wilde was a Welsh professional boxer who competed from 1911 to 1923. Often regarded as the greatest British fighter of all time, he was the first official world flyweight champion and was rated by American boxing writer Nat Fleischer as well as many other professionals as "the Greatest Flyweight Boxer Ever." Wilde earned various nicknames such as "The Mighty Atom," "Ghost with the Hammer in His Hand" and "The Tylorstown Terror" due to his bludgeoning punching power, and he would often… Leer más

San Francisco: Self-published, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Number 32 of a limited edition of 1,000 copies, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the flyleaf and INSCRIBED BY ALICE FAYE opposite her photo following the dedication page. Fine in a fine dust jacket; a beautiful signed copy.

San Francisco: Self-published, 1978. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Number 6 of a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Fine in a near-fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the flyleaf. A beautiful signed copy.

New York: Dial Press, 1963. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing with no additional printings listed on copyright page. Near-fine with a touch of darkening to top edge of boards, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. In a near-fine dust jacket ($3.50 price intact) with minor rubbing at the spine ends and tanning to interior of spine (not visible from the exterior). A beautiful copy of this very influential book about U.S. race relations.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near-fine with a touch of soiling to bottom of front board and usual tanning to page edges, otherwise bright and clean. In a near-fine example of the fragile dust jacket ($1.50 price intact) with slight wear at the corners and minor rubbing to the back panel. SIGNED BY JACK SCHAEFER on the flyleaf. Schaefer's second novel, follow-up to the immensely successful Shane. Very rare signed.

Cambridge: Stone & Kimball, 1893. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very good plus. No. 37 of a Limited Edition of 50 copies SIGNED by Stone and Kimball on the limitation page. Introduction by Eugene Field. Very good plus in grey boards with light rubbing to extremities; clear archival tape repair to inside edge of first two pages, otherwise clean and tight. Bookplate on front pastedown of Charles Lemuel Nichols, who wrote bibliographies and books on prinitng in the early 1900s. Not only was the the first hardcover book published by Stone & Kimball, it was also the first published bibliography of first editions of only American authors and is significant thus.

Random House, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a fine dust jacket, INSCRIBED "To Ruth, With best wishes, Woody Allen" on the half-title page. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. A beautiful signed copy.