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London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition, first printing. "Stave I" on page [1] and every single textual point uncorrected as per Calhoun and Heaney. Todd's first impression, first issue with 15mm between wreath and left blindstamping, unbroken "D." Title page printed in preferred red and blue, dated 1843 in.....

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Chicago: Literary Times - Cyfoeth Publications, 1965. First edition. Copy number 3 of 5 [from an edition of 500] of Bukowski's private "Author's Edition," with a typescript signed by Bukowski stapled in at the center. According to Aaron Krumhansl, "As late as the early 1970s Bukowski still retained multiple copies.....

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947. First edition, first printing. The dedication copy of the author's first published novel, signed and inscribed by Robert A. Heinlein in the year of publication "with best wishes to my nephew Lawrence Lewis 'Buddy' Heinlein [signed] Robert Heinlein Nov. 1947" with an arrow pointing.....

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New York: The Viking Press, 1933. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth binding stamped in orange and green. Fine, with faint touches of edge wear to cloth, in a unclipped dust jacket with a small chip to the crown and a faint patch of rubbing to the.....

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New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black and white Art Deco style boards over white cloth spine lettered in black. Near Fine with toning to pages and top and bottom edges of covers. In a Very Good first issue dust jacket.....

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New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1934. First edition, first printing. vi, 599 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with navy stamping on spine, lettered in gilt, black topstain. Near Fine with slight sunning to spine, pages toned with age; author and bookseller Larry McMurtry's copy with his bookplate on paste.....

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. First American edition, first printing with a handwritten inscription by Alice B. Toklas of her legendary "Haschich Fudge" recipe written across one and a quarter blank pages at the rear of the book. Pretty rad indeed. Bound in publisher's original orange cloth boards over.....

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Huntington Woods, MI: Phantasia Press, 1980. One of a limited 26 lettered copies signed and dated by Stephen King, bound in aluminum-coated cloth, sometimes called "The Asbestos Firestarter." Near Fine with trivial soiling and trivial wear. A very bright copy of this legendary rarity. The holy grail for Stephen King.....

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New York: The John Day Publishing Company, 1931. First edition, first printing, first issue with "The John Day Publishing Company, Inc." on copyright page. Error "flees" that was present in the first three printings on p. 100, line 17. [vi], 375, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt.....

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[New York]: [Dead Language Press], [1962]. First edition. Signed by Jack Smith on verso of front wrap, inscribed to poet Kirby Congdon "To Kirby with choked up strangled emotions...... Jack." [20] pp. Illustrated with 19 gelatin silver contact prints, comprising 18 photographs by Smith mounted on yellow pages, and one.....

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Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. First edition, first printing. 357 [1, blank] pp. with title page vignette of Thoreau's hut at Walden and map facing p. 307 with S.W. Chandler imprint. Bound without ads (no priority), in publisher's ribbed brown cloth decorated in blind with titles in gilt on spine.....

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London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. An absolutely superlative copy of the first British edition, first printing of Orwell's iconic novel. Bound in publisher's pale green cloth with maroon lettering to spine. Trace erased pencil to front free endpaper and rear pastedown, still easily Fine with bright cloth and stamping, vivid.....

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