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The River of Skulls Marsh, George [Very Good] [Hardcover] 115.13 CAD Very rare original vintage 1936 adventure novel which takes place at Canada's Ungava Peninsula. The book is overall in very good condition with some minor signs of wear and age. It comes in its original dust jacket which is in good condition with some small chips and tears and a couple of neat acid free archival repairs on the underside near the top of the spine. The front flap's detachable bookmark is still present. The jacket comes in a protective removable Brod-art wrapper. The actual blue covers of the book only have some minor soiling and wear. The binding is good and sound. The interior is lightly toned from age but mostly clean with just a few pages with some grubby marks and some light foxing. Along with that there may be the occasional page with some kind of minor imperfection such as a tiny chip or tear, creased page corner, minor interior crack, minor stain or marking, etc. Generally though, it's a nice copy. The book measures approximately 7 7/8 inches by 5 5/8 inches and is 311 pages long.

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[Signed] If I Stay Forman, Gayle [Fine] [Hardcover] 83.18 CAD SIGNED BY AUTHOR! Stated First Edition, First Printing, full number-line to 1 (Dutton, 2009)*UNREAD* Signed on the full title page, author's name only. (photo of signing event included) White Hardcovers are Fine, very clean, sharp corners. Spine is Fine. Pages are clean, very white, no folds, no writing. Dust Jacket is Fine, Price is intact. Protected in a clear archival cover. Ships in a well padded box, smoke and odor free.

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[Signed] Bud, Not Buddy (Newbery Medal, Coretta Scott King Award, Signed Bookplate) Curtis, Christopher Paul [Fine] [Hardcover] 120.18 CAD Hard cover in color illustrated dust jacket with original price intact ($15.95), Set in 1936, a young boy sets out on a search for his father. Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winner, signed by Christopher Paul Curtis on a Random House bookplate, laid in. Size: 8vo

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[Signed] Previous Convictions. Selected Writings of a Decade. Connolly, Cyril [Very Good] [Hardcover] 230.18 CAD Hard Cover, 8vo, 414pp. Condition: Very Good, but with ghost of a paper clipped to title page. Dust jacket dust-soiled and stained to spine, with some wear to edges. Now protected in mylar. ** Collection of essays by the editor of ""Horizon"" literary magazine and one-time schoolfriend of George Orwell. Includes ""The Grand Tour"", ""Impressions of Egypt"", ""On Being Won Over to Coleridge"", ""Baudelaire"", ""The Breakthrough in Modern Verse"", and The Egghead Shrinkers"". ** Inscribed to front free endpaper: ""Elizabeth, with lots of love and gratitude from Cyril. Christmas 1963. All our people are service people. It's a wonder they could spare us."" ** Provenance: By descent, from the library of Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron Glenconner (1899-1983) and his second wife Lady Elizabeth (née Powell), who were friends with various writers including Cyril Connolly, Stephen Spender and Anthony Powell. They were parents to the author Emma Tennant and Lord Glenconner's siblings included Edward Wyndham Tennant and Stephen Tennant.

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[Signed] Devil May Care Faulks, Sebastian [Fine] [Hardcover] 110.18 CAD First edition first printing of the thirty sixth novel in the James Bond series. The only James Bond novel written by this author. SIGNED by the author on the title page. In fine / fine condition.

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[Signed] No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II Doris Kearns Goodwin [Fine] [Hardcover] 95.18 CAD A very scarce title in any condition, this Rare Signed Hardcover Dustjacket 1994 First Edition: Fourth Printing is in near Fine condition. It is Signed on the front end paper by the author Doris Kearns Goodwin. The front and back covers of the book itself are in near Perfect condition and the dustjacket (not price-clipped and still showing its original retail price of $30.00) shows hardly any wear at all! The dust jacket has been placed in a Brodart protective cover for added protection. The binding is tight and is square without spine lean and the pages are white, crisp and clean and there is no writing (stamps or otherwise) in this book.

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[Signed] The King Who Saved Himself From Being Saved CIARDI, John; Drawings by Edward Gorey [Very Good] [Hardcover] 135.18 CAD Oblong 12mo, unpaginated (about 50pp.), illustrated by Edward Gorey. A very good copy, a touch shaken, with an attractive generic bookplate on the front paste-down. In a very good dust jacket with some wear at the spine ends. This copy SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Ciardi on the front free endpaper: ""For Faith Golden with the whole wish that you escape being saved against your wish. John Ciardi. Oct. 23, 1985."" Scarce signed by the poet. Note that the book is NOT signed by Gorey. Toledano B-24.

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[Signed] The Ballad of Dingus Magee (Review copy Signed Twice) Markson, David [Near Fine] [Hardcover] 200.18 CAD The author's first book, a bawdy, comic western that became the source for the movie starring Frank Sinatra. Review copy, with a postcard announcing publication SIGNED by Markson laid in. Nearly fine in very good+ p/c dw with shallow chipping atop the spine and mild edgewear to the extremities. SIGNED by the author on the title page.

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The Call Of The Wild London, Jack [Very Good] [Hardcover] 1035.13 CAD Gift inscription on half-title page, light edgewear, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket fragmentary with three pieces: front and rear covers and one flap. Solid hardcover.; Second printing, also in July 1903. Jacob Blanck; Bibliography of American Literature; BAL 11876. Illustrations by Philip R Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull; decorated by Charles Edw. Hooper. Decorated cover and dust jacket art by ""C-x"", unidentified per Minsky. First Edition, Second Printing of Jack London's classic tale of Buck the Klondike Gold Rush sled dog, with fragments of the hard-to-find dust jacket. ; 231, 2 ad pages

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[Signed] Rambles in Books Charles F. Blackburn [Very Good] [Hardcover] 73.18 CAD A very good 1/2 white leather on blue cloth with black title on label on spine Spine soiled and browned from sun, but binding is still tight and sound This copy is no 14 of a limited large paper first edition of 50 Browned end papers, but else text is clean, with no marks or damage at all 144 pp.

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[Signed] The Huntsman, a presentation copy inscribed by the author in June 1917 during the First World War, one month after publication and one month 2535.18 CAD This compelling inscribed association copy of the first edition of solider-poet Siegfried Sassoon s (1886-1967) First World War poetry collection, The Old Huntsman, is inscribed on the front free-end paper ""To Mrs. Colefax. from the author. June. 1917."" The front pastedown bears Sibyl and Arthur Colefax s bookplate. While the grey, paper-covered boards are original, the book has been skillfully re-backed. The fresher grey-paper spine and printed paper label defer to the original aesthetic while ensuring binding integrity and providing a clean shelf appearance. The original boards show moderate toning and scuffing with shelf wear to edges and corners. The contents are clean with no spotting and modest age-toning, primarily evident to the otherwise clean untrimmed fore and bottom edges. The top edge shows some shelf dust. The author s inscription and the Colefax bookplate are the only ownership marks.Sibyl Colefax (1874-1950), socialite, interior decorator, and matron of the arts, famously convened who s-who gatherings of literati, artists, politicians, and social elite. ""It was said that the only sound during the black-out in London was of Lady Colefax climbing the social ladder…"" (Brian Masters, The Times, London). Jabs aside, Mrs. Colefax was renowned for her charm, curiosity, and amicability. Aldous Huxley quipped to his brother that a large poetry reading for charity at the Colefax home in December 1917 was ""a large expensive audience of the BEST PEOPLE."" But he did attend and did read. As did many others. Sassoon had already read at the Colefax s home the previous November. ""Mrs. Colefax led him [Sassoon] to a chair and a copy of The Old Huntsman."" (Egremont, p.175). He read three poems from the collection, The Hero , They , and The Rear-Guard in his terse, grim, and serious style. It seems quite plausible that this copy is the same from which Sassoon read on the occasion. In November 1917, while Sassoon was briefly in London (absent from the Front since being wounded in April), the impromptu recitation was pushed upon him by his dinner companions, Robert Ross, Roderick Meiklejohn, and Robert Nichols, whom he had met at The Reform Club, and soon he was buffeted to the Colefax s party in Onslow Square. Reportedly, the party was mostly women, which undoubtedly discomfited Sassoon. Perhaps owing to his repressed homosexuality, Sassoon found women to be in his own words 'anti-pathetic . Whatever Sassoon s feelings, it seems that the reception of his work was warm. The inscription in this volume penned by Sassoon the month after publication clearly preceded his November 1917 recitation at the Colefax s home. Some diffidence or deference can be inferred from the use of the titular ""Mrs."" and the signature ""from the Author"", both of which formally distance Sassoon from the recipient. This is an excellent association copy between one of the First World War s most regarded poets and one of Britain s most conspicuous socialites. It is...

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[Signed] Fanny at Chez Panisse (signed by 3, drawing) Waters, Alice & Bob Carrau & Patricia Curtan & Ann Arnold [Fine] [Hardcover] 160.18 CAD SIGNED and inscribed by Ann Arnold, SIGNED (signature only) by Alice Waters and Fanny. Original drawing by Ann Arnold. Fine first edition first printing hardcover, no writing or food stains. Cream boards, dark green back strip. Jacket fine, no edge wear, not price-clipped. Illustrations by Patricia Curtan and Ann Arnold. Fanny at Chez Panisse is, among other things, a beginner's cookbook with delicious recipes. 133 pages. M05602

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Monday Tales Daudet, Alphonse. [Near Fine] [Hardcover] 114.18 CAD First Edition thus. Translated and Introduction by Marian McIntyre. Decorated binding; design not attributed. No DJ; initial sales price not provided. Edges lightly worn. Unmarked pages. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three additional full-page drawings in black-and-white by Adrien MOREAU. TEG. Protected by an archival wrapper. This book has been reissued many times in many formats, but nothing compares with owning a copy in its original first edition state. More images and/or description can be sent on request. Condition: Near Fine

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Pro-Ject [Signed] The Walden Woods Project: ""On Walden Pond"" Santoleri, Nicholas P. [Buffet, Jimmy]; [Henley, Don]; [John, Elton]; [Tyler, Steven] [Fine] 2835.18 CAD Framed with conservation glass, gray matte finish, full piece measures 28.5 x 23. Includes the original purchase receipts from 1994 and a certificate of authenticity from the artist, N.P. Santoleri, dated ""9/9/93."" This work is hand-numbered by the artist (35 of 50). It is signed in pencil along the bottom quarter of the print by the following artists: Don Henley, Elton John, Sting, Melissa Etheridge, Jimmy Buffet, and the members of Aerosmith (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer). The 50 Artists Proofs of ""On Walden Pond"" were signed by the artists who participated in the Concert for Walden Woods at Foxboro Stadium on September 6, 1993. Due to time constraints, the signatures of Aerosmith were received by the artist before a concert on Long Island, the day before the performance at Foxboro.

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[Signed] First Person Singular Haruki Murakami [Fine] [Hardcover] 785.18 CAD First UK Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Fine book in a fine unclipped dust jacket. Signed in blue by the author on the title page. Collecting 8 stories, 3 or which previously appeared in The New Yorker. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.

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The Patriot Alfred Neumann [Very Good] [Hardcover] 485.18 CAD Considered one of the greatest German plays of the 20th century and adapted into a now legendary “lost”Hollywood movie that was nominated for five academy awards, including best picture, and won for best screenplay. The Patriot, a play by Alfred Neumann. Translated from the German play “Der Patriot” and adapted by Ashley Dukes. Introduction by Hendrix Willem Van Loon. Published in 1928 by Boni & Liveright in New York City, first US edition, first printing. 142 pages. Octavo. In original cloth boards and original dust jacket. Right cut pages. OVERALL CONDITION: VERY GOOD A play about the conflicts of a Russian nobleman in a country ruled by the Mad Czar and threatened by Napoleon. Basis for one of the most elusive of all ""lost films,"" Ernest Lubitsch's 1928 production with Emil Jannings, Florence Vidor, and Lewis Stone. It was a 1930 nominee for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Stone, and two other Oscars. It won only for screenplay - a silent film in the first year of the talkies. Some fragments of the film exist but the complete version has been lost. Alfred Neumann (15 October 1895 – 3 October 1952) was a German writer of novels, stories, poems, plays, and films, as well as a translator into German. Neumann was born in Lautenburg, Germany (now Poland). He was a recipient of the Kleist Prize in 1926 and his writings were banned during the Third Reich. His novel Der Patriot was turned into a play and filmed in 1928, directed by Ernst Lubitsch. He was working in Italy when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. The Nazi party seized all his property due to his Jewish heritage. He remained in Italy until 1938 when he moved to France. Condition: VG+/Fair to Good The book is in VERY GOOD+ condition - square spine with firm hinges and joints. Colorful, unfaded boards. Minor rubbing to extremities. A few spots of soiling. Age-toned pages. Partially erased pencil markings on FFEP otherwise clean interior with no other writing and no stickers or bookplates. The dust jacket had all four flap corners clipped but price intact and is in Fair to Good- condition. Age-toned. Light rubbing with lovely pictorial cover art. Complete but with front panel detached and moderate chipping along the top of the jacket with some areas of paper loss in multiple areas.

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[Signed] Headlines [SIGNED AND INSCRIBED] GILMAN, Mildred [Very Good] [Hardcover] 335.18 CAD First Edition. Octavo, original black cloth over boards, gilt lettering, stamped in red, stained top edge, deckle edge, signed and inscribed on front free endpaper by author, ""For Marc Connelley, I'm sending you this because you used to like most of these stories when I told them to you. I mean you used to give the little girl a hand! Lovingly Mildred Gilman,"" dated Nov. 9, 1928, New York City. Hannah #1412: ""Immigrant life on Staten Island; the stories behind the tabloid headlines. Very Good, light shelf wear, pages slightly time-toned, fading to spine.

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[Signed] Fail Safe - Signed by Both Authors Burdick, Eugene, and Wheeler, Harvey [Near Fine] [Hardcover] 385.18 CAD Near fine in a very good unclipped dust jacket. Signed by both authors on the half title page. Gift inscription on first end paper, title on volume spine a bit rubbed. Jacket with an almost two inch tear on the front panel, but it is a closed tear and not all that obnoxious. Spine slightly faded, small chipping to spine end and light edge wear else where.

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The Engraved Bookplates of Eric Gill, 1908-1940 Renton, Michael [Fine] [Hardcover] 70.38 CAD A charming collection of woodcut and otherwise engraved bookplates from the hand of Eric Gill. Publication No. 181 of The Book Club of California and one of 600 copies printed for the Club. First printing of the first edition, 1986. Printed in England. 8.75 x 6 inches. Bound in red cloth hardboards, and with crisp gilt lettering to the spine. Unbumped spine head and tail, and with sharp corners. Text block firmly bound in. Attractive light olive-colored pastedowns and FEP. With 79 numbered pages, including several pages of text and 53 pages of bookplates, all on cream stock. An impressively clean interior. Either unread or gently read. With the full-pictorial dust jacket, red and black lettering and design on beige. Note there are two very small losses at the bottom edge of the DJ front. A Fine copy in a Near Fine DJ. 12 oz. A collection of reproductions of all fifty-three bookplates in their actual size engraved by Eric Gill [1882-1940] from 1908 to 1940. The book type has been set in Linotype Joanna by Nene Phototypesetters of Northampton, England. Printed at the September Press, Wellingborough, England. Bound by Smith-Settle of Otley, Yorkshire.