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DEN OF LIONS: Memoirs of Seven Years. Terry Anderson. DEN OF LIONS: Memoirs of Seven Years.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc. (1993). First edition. SIGNED by the author, who for seven long years was in darkness and chains, not knowing when, if ever, he would be free. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket.

[Book #42947]       Price: $60.00
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THE TEXAS BLUEBONNET. Jean Andrews. THE TEXAS BLUEBONNET.
Austin: University of Texas Press, (1986). First edition. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. SIGNED and INSCRIBED "To Audrey, with many bluebonnets, Jean Andrews" on title page. Fine in fine dust jacket.

[Book #37668]       Price: $45.00
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INVESTMENT FOR APPRECIATION: Forecasting Movements in Security Prices / Technique of Trading in Shares for Profit. L. L. B. Angas. INVESTMENT FOR APPRECIATION: Forecasting Movements in Security Prices / Technique of Trading in Shares for Profit.
New York: Somerset Publishing Co. 1936. First edition, INSCRIBED, "For Herbert B. Elliston from L. L. B. Angas." Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas was born into a family with a banking background. He was educated in both England and France and earned a Master of Arts degree at Oxford University before joining the British army at the beginning of World War I during which he served in France and Italy, earning him the Military Cross and Croix de la Guerre. Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Herbert Berridge Elliston was a foreign correspondent for various newspapers before becoming financial advisor to the Chinese Government. Later he was financial editor of the Christian Science Monitor, then joined the staff of the Washington Post where he eventually rose to editor of the newspaper. He was co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize for "Editorial Writing" in 1949 (Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners, Heinz & Erika Fischer, 2002). INVESTMENT FOR APPRECIATION gives "Allying analysis of what makes the markets work with a study of the 'technique' of trading"--from the 1999 reprint version. Dark blue cloth boards, gilt stamped spine; illustrated with graphs; seven appendices. Good with spine a little shaken and bottom outside edges of boards mottled (old damp stain?); otherwise clean and tight. With 8-page, map-folded brochure laid in advertising book, "This book, we have no hesitation in claiming, is the best ever written on Investment for profit." ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED.

[Book #54595]       Price: $150.00
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BABY OF THE FAMILY. Tina McElroy Ansa. BABY OF THE FAMILY.
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1989). First edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Review copy with publisher's information and photo laid in. Top page edges slightly darkened near spine, otherwise fine in dust jacket.

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HERE'S HOW! HERE'S HOW AGAIN! and NOBLE EXPERIMENTS: Three volumes in dust jackets. Norman Hume Anthony, as Judge Jr. HERE'S HOW! HERE'S HOW AGAIN! and NOBLE EXPERIMENTS: Three volumes in dust jackets.
New York: John Day Co. (1928 -1930). First edition of the latter two titles in the series and third printing of HERE'S HOW!, the first in the series. ALL THREE IN DUST JACKETS. Small (32mo), varying colored boards. Second volume lacks front free endpaper and is cracked at front spine gutter, otherwise all three are near fine. In good or better dust jackets with evidence of sticker removal to front panels. First volume with lower third of spine missing and mottling from old water stain to rear panel. Scarce books. Scarcer still in dust jackets. A TRIO OF PROHIBITION ERA COCKTAIL BOOKS.

[Book #54743]       Price: $1,500.00
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THE ARMINARM ECOLOGUES; With the Hexercises (for the Heclogues): Pieces. W. Antony, , David Mus. THE ARMINARM ECOLOGUES; With the Hexercises (for the Heclogues): Pieces.
(La Quercia, Italy: John Van Sickle and Giulia Battaglia, 1971). First edition. Number 116 of 180 numbered copies. An additional 20 copies were printed on varying colored paper. THIS COPY INSCRIBED TO PRIZE-WINNING POET ANTHONY HECHT, "For Anthony Hecht, with great esteem, this volume that provoked my life-long study of poetics in pastoral + epic + in poetic sequences, represented by its latest installment -- the accompanying pamphlet, 'Virgil vs....' vindicating [illegible]. John Van Sickle, New York, 01-12-13." Beneath which is pasted Van Sickle's personal stamp. The only accompanying pamphlet present is the prospectus, INSCRIBED "For AH--the original brochure--JVS." Large, quarto volume, nearly folio-sized, 9.25 x 12.75"; gray-brown paperwraps printed in black on front only. Slightly overhanging edges mildly worn with touch of loss to head of spine, still near fine. Scarce to rare signed. ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED.

[Book #54273]       Price: $200.00
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ZIP: A Novel of the Left and the Right. Max Apple. ZIP: A Novel of the Left and the Right.
New York: Viking Press, (1978). First edition. Review copy with slip, photograph and publisher's letter laid in. INSCRIBED and dated on front endpaper. Laid in is a TLS from Apple "...I also remember that years ago when you were at The New Republic you were, I think, the first person ever to mention my work in a magazine--not the kind of thing anyone forgets..." Fine in fine dust jacket.

[Book #30775]       Price: $100.00
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THE TIME OF THE GRINGO. Elliott Arnold. THE TIME OF THE GRINGO.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Top page edges soiled and light shelf wear, otherwise fine in bright dust jacket with closed edge tear and light wear to spine ends and tips.

[Book #38199]       Price: $45.00
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A FRENCH ETON, OR MIDDLE CLASS EDUCATION AND THE STATE. Matthew Arnold. A FRENCH ETON, OR MIDDLE CLASS EDUCATION AND THE STATE.
London: Macmillan, 1864. First edition. Arnold argues for a state system of middle-class education. Red pebbled cloth over limp boards; lettered in gilt. Minor cover wear but still very good or better.

[Book #49962]       Price: $150.00
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THE KENTUCKY TRACE. Harriette Simpson Arnow. THE KENTUCKY TRACE.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition. A novel of the American revolution. Fine in fine dust jacket.

[Book #38143]       Price: $45.00
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MY LIFE AS A MATADOR: The Autobiography of Carlos Arruza. Carlos Arruza, Barnaby Conrad. MY LIFE AS A MATADOR: The Autobiography of Carlos Arruza.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First edition. Very good with faint foxing and some wear along the edges, most noticeably at the spine ends. In a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and soiling, and small chips at the spine ends and corners.

[Book #50780]       Price: $45.00
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THE LETTERS OF LORD AND LADY WOLSELEY: 1870-1911. Sir George Arthur. THE LETTERS OF LORD AND LADY WOLSELEY: 1870-1911.
New York/London: Doubleday, Page/William Heinemann, 1922. First edition. The Doubleday, Page issue, with Doubleday on spine. Good to very good with minor wear on corners and spine ends and spine shaken, lacking dust jacket.

[Book #50461]       Price: $50.00
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FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN POETRY: A Tribute to Marie Bullock. John Ashbery. FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN POETRY: A Tribute to Marie Bullock.
(Winston Salem): Palaemon Press, 1984. First edition. The only edition of this set of 22 broadside poems, printed in red and black, with each broadside SIGNED by the poet. Reportedly one of only 50 unnumbered copies. Issued as a tribute to the founder and president of the Academy of American Poets, Marie Bullock. Each broadside measures about 9 x 14"; laid in a marbled paper portfolio with printed label on front cover. Fine.

[Book #53650]       Price: $2,500.00
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SELECTED POEMS. John Ashbery. SELECTED POEMS.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1967). First edition. Second state with "Now reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press. c[opyright] 1959, 1962, 1957, and 1960 (respectively) by John Ashbery" pasted onto copyright page. According to the printer, there were 1000 copies total: 250 of the first state, 250 of the second state and 500 of the third state. Fine in fine dust jacket with just a tiny rub at lower front spine fold. A beautiful, bright copy.

[Book #35556]       Price: $120.00
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SOME TREES. John Ashbery. SOME TREES.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956. First edition of the poet's first regularly published book. In the Yale Series of Younger Poets, with a foreword by W.H. Auden. Award-winning poet Anthony Hecht's copy with his ownership signature on front endpaper. The book is fine in near fine dust jacket with shallow chip at head of spine, one small unobtrusive tear, and tanning at spine and folds and top edges. POET ANTHONY HECHT'S COPY.

[Book #53616]       Price: $750.00
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A WAVE: Poems. John Ashbery. A WAVE: Poems.
New York: The Viking Press, (1984). First edition. INSCRIBED by prize-winning poet Ashbery to Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht and wife on title page, "for Tony and Helen with love, John Ashbery / May 23,1984." Spots of excess ink to fore-edges of last several leaves (appears to be a production error), otherwise crisp and fine in fine, wrap-around pictorial dust jacket with just one inconspicuous tear.

[Book #53732]       Price: $250.00
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THE LITTLE FLOWERS OF SAINT FRANCIS. Saint Francis Assisi, T. Okey. THE LITTLE FLOWERS OF SAINT FRANCIS.
London: The Medici Society, (1930). First edition thus. Very good with rubbing along the edges and faint offset to the endpapers, but otherwise in excellent condition. Dust jacket is tanned and split along the spine (but repaired with archival tape on verso), with several small closed tears and a chip to the top of the rear panel. Scarce in dust jacket.

[Book #51581]       Price: $60.00
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THE LIVELY YEARS: 1920-1973. Brooks Atkinson, Albert Hirschfeld. THE LIVELY YEARS: 1920-1973
New York: Association Press, (1973). First edition. Brooks on 82 plays from the period with Hirschfeld's drawings. Fine in lightly soiled, very good dust jacket with rubbing along the edges and spine ends but still an attractive copy with no chips or tears.

[Book #51198]       Price: $45.00
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CALYPSO SONG BOOK. William Attaway, Lyle Kenyon Engel, William Charmatz, illustrator. CALYPSO SONG BOOK.
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1957). First edition. The authentic folk music of the Caribbean. Music and lyrics to 25 songs with an introductory text by Attaway. Edited and compiled by Engel, with illustrations by Charmatz. Near fine in like dust jacket toned at spine and with a few tiny edge nicks.

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APG 162.1 (2004). Margaret Atwood. APG 162.1 (2004) Author Price Guide. (Dickerson: Quill & Brush, 2004). Includes a facsimile of the author's signature; a brief biographical sketch; a list of the author's first editions (American and British) current to the date of publication of the guide, with entries for limited and trade editions; number of copies (if available); how to identify the first edition; and estimated values with and without the dustwrapper (if applicable). Issued as a PDF file. Click HERE for a complete list of our individual Author Price Guides or for information about ordering the complete set on CD.
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VAN GOGH: A Self-Portrait. Auden W. H. VAN GOGH: A Self-Portrait.
Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, (1961). First edition. "Letters revealing his life as a painter," selected and with foreword by W.H. Auden. Illustrated with 8 tipped-in color plates of paintings and 24 drawings in black and white. Bright and fine in very good dust jacket with creased tear to top edge rear panel internally mended with archival tape, corners and spine ends very lightly nicked, and spine scuffed (not affecting any lettering).

[Book #54492]       Price: $45.00
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THE DANCE OF DEATH. W. H. Auden. THE DANCE OF DEATH.
(London): Faber & Faber, (1933). First edition. One of only 1200 copies in the first printing. Green paper-covered boards stamped in black on front and spine. Near fine with few inconspicuous nicks to paper covering; in near fine dust jacket with clean tear to spine internally repaired with tape. A nice bright copy of his third book, a play.

[Book #35592]       Price: $125.00
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THE AGE OF ANXIETY. W. H. Auden. THE AGE OF ANXIETY.
London: Faber & Faber, (1948). First British edition of his Pulitzer Prize winner. Preceded by the American edition published the previous year, Fine in slightly aged dust jacket with spine just a bit darkened. Nice copy. Only 3,000 copies.

[Book #43662]       Price: $100.00
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APG 180.0 (2007). W. H. Auden. APG 180.0 (2007) Author Price Guide. (Dickerson: Quill & Brush, 2004). Includes a facsimile of the author's signature; a brief biographical sketch; a list of the author's first editions (American and British) current to the date of publication of the guide, with entries for limited and trade editions; number of copies (if available); how to identify the first edition; and estimated values with and without the dustwrapper (if applicable). Issued as a PDF file. Click HERE for a complete list of our individual Author Price Guides or for information about ordering the complete set on CD.
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A CERTAIN WORLD: A Commonplace Book. W. H. Auden. A CERTAIN WORLD: A Commonplace Book.
New York: Viking Press, (1970). First edition. Quotations selected and with commentary by Auden; arranged in alphabetical sequence on topics ranging from "Accedie" to "Writing." Auden described this work as the closest he would ever come to writing an autobiography. It was, he wrote, "a map of my planet." Uncorrected proof in tall, narrow, somewhat soiled yellow paperwraps with partial glass ring on front cover, 3 inches of mostly clear tape at bottom of spine, fore-edge of the slightly over-hanging front cover understandably nicked, and final blank page partially glued to inside rear cover. Prospective publication date and price of "May 28, 1970" and "$8.95" written on front cover. Scarce in this format.

[Book #49554]       Price: $150.00
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