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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later Printing. In color pictorial jacket over matching pictorial boards, 8vo, 827pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: As New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING WITH COMPLETE NUMBER LINE STARTING WITH THE NUMBER 1. HARDCOVER EDITION WITH DUSTJACKET .binding is solid.NOT EX-LIBRARY COPY.text unmarked .

Hardcover. Condition: Excellent. Sorry, No international shipping on this item.Ex-Library hardcover in good condition with the usual markings and attachments. Sunned spine. Except for library markings, text block clean and unmarked. Tight binding.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Trade Sized Paperback. 9 x 6 inches.197 pages. Staple bound. With manuscript pages, short pieces, poems, photos, drawings and the first two parts of "Seven Prayers by Grandma Whittier". VERY GOOD. All corners pointed. Binding square. Without tears, bumps, creases, or chips. With slight wear from handling. Not marked and very bright and clean. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Octavo paperback. 96 pp. Contains contributions by John Holloway, Jean Rhys, James Michie, William Butler, Owen Leeming, Malcolm Cowley, Bernard Spencer and Charles Osborne. Very Good condition. No inscriptions.

Condition: Very Good. None. 495 pages. Softcover with full page, black & white photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy. Record # 750127.

Trade paperback. First paperback printing indicated. xiv, [2], 395, [1] p. Illustrations. The Sidebar articles were previoulsy published in the spring 1998 issue of MHQ (Military History Quarterly). Both fascinating and frightening, "What If? " offers in-depth reflections by military historians on the monumental events of the past and amazing speculations about what our world might be like if things had gone differently in that one singular moment in time. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Ward, Jeffrey L. (Maps) (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Edge & shelf wear. Name on ffep. Clean, tight copy. Light foxing. Good reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bound in publisher's green cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Shelf wear. Front end page excised. Small scuff mark to rear board. Pages unmarked. Poems of note include: When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be, Hymn to Science, I Tremble to Think, Alcoholic Goblins, and The Epicure. xiii, 210 p., 26 cm. …

Stapled Softcover Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Includes articles on Crime Noir, Tit Bits SF, WE Johns and juvenile SF of the 50s and WC Tuttle. Only light edge wear. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Numbered limited edition (number 35 (of 1050). Very good condition, large octavo, brown cloth, bevelled edges, title in gilt on red leather label on spine (some losses to label), book plate on front end paper and offsetting to front free end paper, untrimmed handmade paper (Dutch Rag) throughout, xx plus 213 pages. A very good earlt copy. …

hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Near Fine dust jacket. Owner imprint on title page.; 9.1 X 6.3 X 2.3 inches; 608 pages.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 608 pages.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 286 pages. 9.25x6.10x0.71 inches. In Stock.

2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with thin vertical strip of paper from mount adhering along top of first page. Begins: 'My dear Mrs Craigie | Mr Arthur à Beckett tells me that your story will soon be ready. When? I want if possible to commence with it [?] within the next fortnight. I shall have to definitely settle the matter. I hope you will let me have it very soon as I will then have it set up for you at once [last two words underlined]'.…

Hardcover. No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. 213 pages; Copy #979 of 1050. Brown buckram with; Fine Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall leather spine label. Some browning to front and rear endpapers, otherwise fine.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A limited edition copy of Abraham Cowley's poetry. A limited edition copy of Abraham Cowley's poetry. The seventeenth century poet showed promise as a poet from a young age, achieving fame for his collection entitled Poeticall Blossomes at just fifteen years old. As well as these early poems, the volume includes The Mistress, and verses on several occasions. Number 692 of 1050 copies printed on Dutch rag paper. The Nonesuch Press specialised in limited editions and private press and aimed to achieve the same standards as the private press movement, despite using commercial presses. With a sticker from a Birmingham branch of W. H. Smith to the recto of the rear endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. A little bumped to the head and tail of the spine, with some light rubbing to the spine label. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages throughout. Very Good. Not stated (illustrator). book.…

First edition (not stated) SIGNED BY ANDREW LYTLE, PETER TAYLOR, ELEANOR ROSS, AND BREWSTER GHISELIN AT THEIR RESPECTIVE CONTRIBUTIONS. xii, 331 pages. Hardcover: H 21cm x L 14cm. Dust jacket rubbed; soiling most evident to white rear panel; usual sunning/fading to spine paper and with shallow chipping at head; slight toning and faint foxing to flaps; front flap retains publisher's original price at top right corner. Brown cloth with dark stamping to spine and front board; light bumping to boards' bottom fore-edge corners. Muted dull green top edge; touch of foxing and toning to fore-edge and bottom edge. Light toning to endpapers; past booksellers' pencil notes at top of front free endpaper. Blue ink signature "Andrew Lytle" immediately underneath his printed name at his short story "The Guide" on page 191. Peter Taylor's three-line ink inscription "for Stuart | with best wishes | Peter" at top margin of page 212 at his short story contribution "A Long Fourth" (preceding its publication in his first book A LONG FOURTH AND OTHER STORIES issued by Harcourt, Brace in 1948). Blue ink signature "Eleanor Ross" (wife of Peter Taylor) is at top margin of page 286 at her short story contribution "Mr. Milkman." Brown ink signature "Brewster Ghiselin" at top margin of page 158 at his poem "Sea." Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good- dust jacket. Important anthology featuring a Preface and Acknowledgements essay both by Allen Tate with text sections divided into "Essays," "Poems," and "Stories" which include contributions by John Peale Bishop, Malcolm Cowley (essay "William Faulkner's Legend of the South" pages 13-27), Louis B. Wright, Randall Jarrell, James Ross (Eleanor Ross' brother and Peter Taylor's brother-in-law), among others. Peter Taylor's inscription might perchance be to Stuart Wright of Palaemon Press but the book's provenance prior to its acquisition from a Connecticut collector is unknown.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 5.25 x 7.75 inches. 8; 32; 36;48;36; 48 pp. Illustrated throughout with black & white reproductions of drawings, ads. Very good in original mustard cloth illustrated and lettered in black on the upper cover, rubbing to edges. Goose - Quill was a short-lived satiric literary magazine begun in 1900. This volume contains the first five numbers of the New Series published between November, 1901 and April, 1902. Irreverent articles like "Mr. Hearst and His Libidinous Newspapers" "Kipling Is Dead" "The Man from East Aurora" (a scathing indictment of Elbert Hubbard) "Why Chicago Is a Hell Upon Earth" appear herein as does work by Beirce, Wilde, Schopenhauer, et al and illustrations by W.W. Denslow and William T. Horton. This limited edition is copy number 24 of 1000 printed signed by Cowley-Brown on the colophon page. Very scarce. Signed. …

Condition: Near Fine. First edition. First edition. All four issues of the short-lived periodical in their rare original wraps. vi, 64; vi, 65-138, [2]; vi, 139-208, [6]; [iv], 209-280, [6] pp. Printed in red and black on laid paper, author portrait laid in to first three volumes. Bound in publisher's printed self-wraps. Near Fine with fragile binding, cracks to and some paper loss to spines. Short v-shaped tear to Volume I p. v, subscription slips detached from Volumes II and III. Binding cracked at Volume IV p. 225, 1-3/4 inch tear to pp. 213/214, tiny ink stain to lower margin of pp. 271-277. Contents clean and bright. Together with 6 pp. advertising brochure. Housed in a custom green cloth chemise slipcase, slightly rubbed and faded, with bookseller ticket to chemise lining. The complete run of the magazine, seldom seen in the original wrappers. The English brothers John and Horace Cowley-Brown took a stand against the vulgarity of the 1890s with The Anti-Philistine, a literary periodical combining quality writing with quality printing. Most of the contributors were American, among them Edward Saltus, Gertrude Atherton, and Ambrose Bierce. The four issues featured several of Bierce's fables and short stories, including the Civil War classic story "Chickamauga," informed by the author's own experience as a soldier. He was a good fit for a magazine intended to exalt good prose in defiance of the ignorant masses, with whom Bierce was openly locked in struggle, and in 1903 he wrote of John Cowley-Brown: "I never met him, but.he was most kind to me and my work. In one number of his magazine-the London one-he had four of my stories and a long article about me which called the blushes to my maiden cheek like the reflection of a red rose in the petal of a violet." The final issue contained Walter Blackburn Harte's essay "Why American Novels are Flabby," a delightful put-down of the upstart country's literary efforts thus far by one of its own. The magazine's motto displayed its pugnacious spirit along with some late 19th century Orientalism: "ALL THOSE WHO LOVE ALLAH WILL ADVANCE AGAINST THE ENEMY.".…