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Peeps At People Bangs, John Kendrick [Very Good] [Hardcover] 144.18 CAD First Edition. Decorated binding; design not attributed. No DJ or initial sales price data. Very light wear to the edges; some pages loose. Some age-commensurate browning of the pages. Small bookseller's label on the FEP; otherwise, unmarked pages. More than thirty full-page illustrations in black-and-white by Edward PENFIELD. More images and/or description can be sent on request. Will insure at buyer's expense, if requested. Condition: Very Good+

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[Signed] Guess How Much I Love You Mcbratney Sam [Fine] [Hardcover] 1785.18 CAD Signed By Sam Mcbratney, First Printing, First Edition

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[Signed] Hideaway Koontz, Dean [As New] [Hardcover] 70.18 CAD First Printing. Signed by Koontz on half title page in month of publication. ""Boo! Dean R. Koontz 1/15/92"". A perfect copy. Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.

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A French Sammelband of six pamphlets: four pamphlets related to the attempted regicide of Louis XV by Robert-François Damiens, and two related to the 3710.18 CAD THE UNRAVELLING OF ABSOLUTE MONARCHY IN EUROPE. Octavo & Duodecimo (6 1/2"" x 3 13/16"", 166mm x 97mm). [Full collation, with titles, available.] With a folding etched-engraved plate between III and IV, depicting the quartering of Damiens. Bound in contemporary cat's-paw calf. On the boards, a blind fillet border. On the spine, five raised bands. In the panels, a gilt fleuron. Title (ATTENT/ S LA VIE/ DES ROY) gilt to red morocco in the second panel. Gilt fillet to the edges of the boards. Marble end-papers. All edges of the text-block red. Front board splayed and starting at the upper edge, with a loss at the head. Superficial cracking along the hinges. Some wear to the extremities. Internally very good, with some isolated stains or tanning. With an amateur pencil profile (Louis XV?) on the verso of the first free end-paper. Some early ink purchase notes to the recto of the first binder's blank. Some folds to the plate split, some repaired. The present volume purports to be a Sammelband of accounts and pro-monarchist responses two two assassination attempts on kings: Louis XV of France (5 January 1757) and José I (3 September 1758). Its spine-label identifies the book as ""attempts on the life of kings,"" yet the fifth and longest pamphlet in the collection argues that Jesuits ought to be expelled from Poland. How did that come to be included? The reasons behind the gathering of these pamphlets lie in the religio-political setting of the Enlightenment, conspiracy theories and the unraveling of absolute monarchy. The failed regicide of Louis XV was Robert-François Damiens, a wild and fanatical man. He stabbed (nicked, really) the king in broad daylight at Versailles, and so his trial was not to confirm his guilt but to uncover his motivations or motivators. Damiens was a servant at the Jesuit college in Paris, and so some said that he was acting under the orders of the Society of Jesus. Others said that he was in fact a rival Jansenist. The Parlements, regional appellate courts, in attempting to wrest power from the king, supported the Jansenists (pamphlet III, the extracts from the registers of Parlement, is particularly crucial in this). The famous plate at the middle of the volume shows the quartering of Damiens in the Place de Grève in Paris. His body had already been tortured in vivaciously grisly ways: crushing boots, sulfur poured on his regicidal hand, hot wax poured into his wounds etc. The horses had a difficult time dismembering him, so his tendons were cut. He was something of a protorevolutionary hero, since the punishment was disproportionate to the flesh-wound he inflicted. The issue hinges on a phrase that appears frequently in the tracts: la Personne sacrée du Roi. Absolute monarchy depended on the physical inviolability of the monarch, and so an assault on his person was an affront to god and the whole ship of state -- whence the baroque and public execution of Damiens. The attempt against José I of Portugal was carried out by a...

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[Signed] French Braid Anne Tyler [Fine] [Hardcover] 90.18 CAD 1st Edition. Fine in Fine DJ. Signed by Tyler.

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[Signed] The Death of Methuselah Singer, Isaac Bashevis [ ] [Hardcover] 160.18 CAD Signed limited edition, number 12 of 200 copies. A collection of twenty stories by the Nobel Prize winning author that delve into themes of mortality, desire, the supernatural, and the complexities of human relationships. 244 pages. Fine copy in near fine slipcase with sunning around edges. One of three Singer signed limited editions available from our store.

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[Signed] The Story of the Platypus. Signed Milotte, Alfred G. [Near Fine] [Hardcover] 100.18 CAD Nice book, tight and square with bright covers and spine, sturdy binding, clean unmarked interior. The unclipped jacket is bright with mild edgewear and lightly faded spine. Inscribed and signed by the author and his wife, who assisted him on the book.

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Three Letters From B R E W Stevens, Edward R. (Editor) [Fine] [Hardcover] 79.18 CAD ""Keepsake"" publication of three letters received by Edward F. Stevens, one from Emery Walker and two from Bruce Rogers. Introduction by Stevens. The letters discuss printing and the book arts with references to various printers and William Morris, among others. One of only 350 copies. Bookplate of well-known publisher David Godine on inside front cover. xvii (17) pages. Light soiling to boards. A beautifully produced book.

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[Signed] Tread the Dark: New Poems IGNATOW, David [Fine] [Hardcover] 485.18 CAD First edition. Octavo. 86pp. Maroon cloth. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket reproducing a drawing by Ignatow's wife Rose Graubart Ignatow on the front panel. From the library of the poet David Ignatow Inscribed by him to his wife: ""For Generous, tolerant, appreciative, and loving Rose, Your Dave with Love, 4/1/78"". Winner of the Bolingen Prize in Poetry. A significant association copy.

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[Signed] IT'S SIMPLE, SAID SIMON. (So, Meilo). Hoberman, Mary Ann. [Fine] [Hardcover] 80.18 CAD FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - Oblong quarto, 8-3/8 inches high by 10-1/4 inches wide. Color pictorial boards illustrated on the front & back covers by Meilo So. [38] pages, profusely illustrated in color by Meilo So. Fine. First edition. Signed by the author Mary Ann Hoberman on the title page.

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[Signed] Herblock's Here and Now Herbert Block [Very Good] [Hardcover] 64.18 CAD Herblock's second book of his editorial cartoons, covering 1953 to 1955, amply annotated as always. Herblock is the archetypical crusading liberal journalist (if a cartoonist can be a journalist). Highly respected and a winner of four (4) Pulitzer prizes, Block was nationally sydicated and published 14 books of cartoons. This is a good to very good signed 2nd printing of an excellent book for a collector. Good to very good condition, binding is tight and square, boards are flat & parallel, corners are not bumped. Dj is good has tears and creases at top and bottom of spine and boards

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High Conquest The Story of Mountaineering Ullman, James Ramsey [Very Good] [Hardcover] 56.18 CAD This book has been written during the second year of the Second World War. Men, scanning their horizons, are not searching for the snowcaps of distant ranges but for the smoke of burning cities; their eyes are not raised to the challenge of great peaks but to the drone of bombing-planes above the clouds. A mountain today means an international boundary line, a gun emplacement, a hideout for guerilla bands. The Alps, towering above shattered Europe, are the Mountains of the Axis. Olympus, where the gods dwelt, flies the swastika. DP4. beige cloth, rope/mountaineering axe on cover design, paste title on spine, 334 pages, BnW photos

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The Magus John Fowles [Near Fine] [Hardcover] 355.18 CAD Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1965 First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. The jacket showing very slight edgewear, a bit of sunning to the spine, and a little remnant from sticker removal at the top of the front flap. A very nice example of the postmodern classic, chosen by the Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the Century.

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[Signed] RUMBLING WINE BARRELS. Buti, Bruno. [Near Fine] [Hardcover] 57.68 CAD First edition. Novel of an Italian immigrant family's life in San Francisco and Amador County in 1922 during Prohibition. INSCRIBED at some length on the front endpaper including the words ""Hail to Bacchus and Eros, the Roman gods of wine and love."" Illustrated with drawings by Dug Waggoner. 355 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some spotting to edges of textblock - a splash of wine, perhaps?)

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[Signed] Paul's Blues ROREM, Ned [Fine] [Hardcover] 2035.18 CAD First edition. Quarto. [32] pages. Illustrated with a color pictorial title page by Larry Rivers reproducing Ned Rorem's ""fair hand"" score. Quarter orange cloth and pastepaper-covered boards. A fine, bright copy. Specially bound issue limited to 25 numbered copies specially bound and Signed by Ned Rorem and Larry Rivers. Prints ""Remembering a Poet,"" Ned Rorem's two-page tribute to Paul Goodman, excerpts from Ned Rorem's journal, and ""Near Closing Time,"" ""Bawling Blues,"" and ""Jail-Bait Blues,"" with lyrics by Paul Goodman and music by Ned Rorem.

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[Signed] Fifty Years' Rhymes and Reminiscences B[ARKER]., A.C. [Very Good] [Hardcover] 385.18 CAD First edition. 16mo. 212pp. Frontispiece albumen portrait of Barker. Illustrated with several plates. Forest green cloth gilt. Binding a bit cocked and with modest wear, uppder hinge with a thin split but sound, topedge a bit dust soiled, very good. Inscribed by the author: ""To Mr. Thompson, these [title] with kind regards / A C Barker/ Jany 1881."" Many of the poems were written during Barker's residence in the United States, including many references to South Carolina. A very uncommon book of Scottish poetry, featuring a handsome albumen portrait of the author.

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[Signed] The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie; With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Translated by Margaret Armour Wagner, Richard [Arthur Rackham] [Very Goo 885.18 CAD Large octavo, ix, [2], 3-159pp, [1]. Finely bound in three-quarter red morocco, red cloth-covered boards. Five raised bands, title in gilt on spine with gilt embellished compartments. Top edge gilt. Solid text block, light wear to edges of covers, some foxing throughout text. Complete with 34 full-page plates, including frontispiece. Each plate mounted to brown cardstock with captioned tissue guard. (Latimore & Haskell 37) One of 1150 limited edition copies, this one numbered 508. Signed by the illustrator, Arthur Rackham, on the limitation page. Original title of this composition by Richard Wager in German was Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of Nibelung), a collection of four German language music dramas. The four parts include: Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods).

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[Signed] The Enchanted Flavin, Martin [Very Good] [Hardcover] 135.17 CAD Original gilt-titled cloth, pictorial endpages. First edition stated with c-w code. Signed to the 2nd ffep by Flavin. Points bumped, gilt a bit dulled, bookplate and bookseller sticker. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 289 pages; Signed by Author

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[Signed] Jerry Ford, Up Close; An Investigative Biography Vestal, Bud [Near Fine] [Hardcover] 385.18 CAD Octavo, ix, 214pp. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. First edition, with no additional printings on copyright page. Orange end papers with previous gift inscription on front free end paper. Ownership blind stamp on rear end paper. In publisher's dust jacket, price clipped, light wear along top edge, an overall very good example. Signed by Gerald R. Ford on title page. A scarce signed book, with details about Gerald Ford shortly after assuming the Vice Presidency and assuming an important role in national politics.