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Thorndyke, Helen Louise.
Honey Bunch Her First Little Garden
New York, Grosset & Dunlap,
1924, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, Jacket: Good Plus, Book 5 of the series, 1950's reprint, brown illustrated cloth, illustrated end papers. DJ green, 1 by 1 inch V shapped chip to upper spine edge, upper and lower spine ends chipped, 1 inch chip to lower edge near spine. Faint pen mark to cover, overall wear. Inscription to f.e.p. Very clean text, tightly bound. sm 8vo, 182 pages.
(Bunch, Children's, Series, Children's, Series, Books, Vintage, Children's, Books) Cat No. 2097.
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12.50
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Lewis, D.B. Wyndham.
The Hooded Hawk or the case of Mr. Boswell
New York, Longmans, Green & Company,
1947, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, A concise biography of the life of Boswell. Reproduction of the title-page of third edition of The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (p. 149). Green cloth boards and spine, gilt illustration of hawk to lower corner, mildly faded, few lower board fade markings, gilt to spine, spine ends rubbed. Frontispiece portrait of Boswell, front hinge cracked. Binding firm, text clean. sm 8vo, 312 pp First Edition stated.
(Hooded, Hawk, First, Edition, Boswell, Biography, 18th, Century, English, Writers) Cat No. 2649.
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13.50
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Mosley, Nicholas.
Hopeful Monsters
Illinois, Dalkey Archive Press,
1990, First American Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good Plus, Jacket: Very Good, Pre-War Berlin ofthe 20's and 30's; two students, on a politically radical German Jewess meet love and go their separate ways. They come together again during the Spanish Civil War. The story takes them from Berlin to Cambridge, to Russia, to the Sahara, to a deserted monastery in the Pyrenees and final to Los Alamos and the making of the atomic bomb. DJ not price clipped, glossy white, illustrated. Pages 387 to 404 closed tear to lower right corner edge. All else clean, tight. vg+. tall 8 vo, 550 p 1st Am Ed
(Novel, First, American, Edition, World, War, Ii, Pre-War, Berlin, German, Love, Stories) Cat No. 1284.
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11.50
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Holmes John Clellon.
The Horn
London, Andre Deutsch,
1959, First English Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, Jacket: Very Good, Beat Generation writers novel of 1930-40's Jazz scene; Edgar Pool, known as The Horn. The novel vibrates to the beat of Jazz. Its atmosphere is the atmosphere of jam-sessions, its people are men and women whose lives are burnt up by drugs and alcohol, making a smoke of music. Black cloth boards & spine. DJ not price clipped, illustrated, pink lettering, upper & lower edge rubbing, small chip & closed tear to lower spine end. . Clean text, solidly bound. sm 8 vo, 243 pages
(Edition, Beat, Generation, Tenor, Sax, Musicians, Jazz, 1940's, Jazz, Era) Cat No. 965m.
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30.00
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Will, P.
The Horrid Mysteries, Two Volumes
London, Robert Holden & Co,
1927, First Edition thus ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, One of the novels named in the Northanger Canon (a list of books appearing in Jane Austen's "Northhanger Abbey") was the story of the Marquis of Grosse which was translated from the German by Peter Will and published by William Lane at the Minerva Press in London in 1796. It is said that the original edition is virtually unobtainable, and this 1927 edition stands as the earliest modern reprint. The hero of the tale, the Marquis of Grosse, becomes caught up against his will in a secret society, the Illuminati, that advocates murder, anarchy, and a preliminary form of communism. He implements various plans to foil the society: not only does he flee to other countries to escape, he sets up a rival society of fascists to demolish the Illuminati. In spite of the marquis's best efforts, he is continually drawn back in again. As is so often the case in the Gothic, there is no hope of escape for him. Two volumes, Yellow color pictorial boards, spines mildly darkened, pictorial; rubbed to spine hinges and few chips to hinge area, spine appears to have been rebacked. Each volume is number respectively to the spine and pastedown A377, A 378; also the pastedown is stamped :Please return to the Story Dept. RKO Studios, Inc. West Coast. Binding is very tight, text clean. Vol II has a closed tear across upper page end. All else very good. Protected in heavy weight brodart film. A very Scarce selection of Gothic Literature. 8 vo, 268, 231 pages First Edition Thus
(Canon, Books, Northanger, Abbey, Gothic, Horror, Marquis, Of, Grosse, Gothic, Murder, The Horrid, Mysteries, R., Will, 18th, Century, Literature, 18th, Century, Horror, Literature, Germany, Gothic, Literature, German, Translations, Rare, Gothic, Literature) Cat No. 1909.
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195.00
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