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The Day Jesse James Was Killed

By: Breihan, Carl W.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick Fell, Inc., Publishers: 1961

Seller ID: 2195335

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author. Pages heavily toned Jacket heavily toned, jacket edges heavily rubbed, bottom right front corner of jacket taped. 1961 Hard Cover. xxvi, 235 pp. a wealth of material never before published, which casts new light on many aspects of the James' activities and motives, gleaned from rare newspaper accounts of the day, letters and photographs obtained from members of the James family and personal reminiscences of their friends and neighbors. Black and white photographs included.
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Annie and the Wild Animals

By: Brett, Jan

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1985

Seller ID: 2303607

ISBN: 0395510066

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Signed by author on bookplate. Spine and top corner of front wrapper creased. 1985 Large Softcover. We have more books available by this author!. Unpaginated. When Annie's cat disappears, she attempts friendship with a variety of unsuitable woodland animals. The borders of the pages foretell the emergence of spring and the birth of kittens.
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Awake and Rehearse

By: Bromfield, Louis

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1928

Seller ID: 2286117

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Limited edition, #467 of 500 copies. Signed by author and hand-numbered. Lacks slipcase, but includes a second jacket that appears original and follows the same design pattern as the one beneath, with a different color scheme and thicker paper. Silver jacket beneath is affixed by the flaps to the insides of the boards, and is split down the spine with some chipping. Book and outer jacket are excellent. 1928 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 314 pp. Silver cloth spine over boards, silver jacket with red titles and rules under grey jacket with black titles and rules, elab...
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Modern Girls: A Novel

By: Brown, Jennifer S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, New American Library: 2016

Seller ID: 2306654

ISBN: 045147712X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

First edition. Review copy. Signed by author with inscription. A fine copy. 2016 Trade Paperback. 366 pp. Author's first novel. A dazzling debut novel set in New York Citys Jewish immigrant community in 1935... How was it that out of all the girls in the office, I was the one to find myself in this situation? This didnt happen to nice Jewish girls. In 1935, Dottie Krasinsky is the epitome of the modern girl. A bookkeeper in Midtown Manhattan, Dottie steals kisses from her steady beau, meets her girlfriends for drinks, and eyes the latest fashions. Yet at heart, she is a dutiful daughter, livin...
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Come Away with Me: A Novel

By: Brown, Karma

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Mira: 2015

Seller ID: 2306504

ISBN: 077831832X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by author without inscription. 2015 Trade Paperback. An unexpected journey leads one woman to discover that life after loss is possible, if only you can find the courage to let go One minute, Tegan Lawson has everything she could hope for: an adoring husband, Gabe, and a baby on the way. The next, a patch of black ice causes a devastating accident that will change her life in ways she never could have imagined. Tegan is consumed by griefnot to mention her anger toward Gabe, who was driving on the night of the crash. But just when she thinks she's hit rock bottom, Gabe reminds her of the...
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Attic Treasures: Out of the Dust Came Memories of Yesterday That Initiate Four Romances of Today

By: Brunstetter, Wanda E.; Shuttlesworth, Tammy; Spaeth, Janet; Tracy, Pamela Kaye

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Ohio, Barbour: 2004

Seller ID: 2287925

ISBN: 1593102739

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Signed without inscription on bookplate by Wanda E. Brunstetter. Bookplate pictures Amish buggy and Gott segen eich! [Pennsylvania Dutch] God bless you!. Spine and corners of rear wrapper creased, envelope with handwritten letter from author laid in. 2004 Trade Paperback. 345 pp. Lydia Dunmore is preparing to move from her country house to a retirement home in the city and has invited her four granddaughters to choose something to keep from her attic of long-forgotten treasures. Sheila seeks a doll she played with as a child, Kimber is intrigued by an old fishing tackle box, Lauren cherishes a...
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The Flavor of Honeoye Falls, 1838-1988

By: Bullock, Anne

Price: $10.00

Publisher: ., Anne Bullock: 1988

Seller ID: 2307416

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Signed by author with inscription. Association copy. Light general wear. 1988 Trade Paperback. 82 pp. This is a collection of articles of some historic nature; historical and architectural notes on homes and buildings in the Village of Honeoye Falls; Fires-big and small; some newspaper articles that sparked curiosity; Village Trivia; Civil War Letters; some biographical information; notes from old diaries; and some information gathered from talking with friends who are long time residents of this village and some dear old-timers who are getting fewer and fewer as time goes on.
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Lightfoot the Deer (Burgess Quaddies Green Forest Series Book 1)

By: Burgess, Thornton W. [Waldo]

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and Company: 1921

Seller ID: 2140934

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

1925 printing. Near fine in fair to good jacket. Inscribed & signed by author on title page ('Your story friend, Thornton W. Burgess 1926.'). This inscription is typical of Burgess, and therefore likely this was not inscribed to a friend of his. Nonetheless, signed copies of Burgess's early works are rather uncommon, especially in original jackets. Ink name on front endpaper, jacket stained & toned with minor loss from corners. Good. 1921 Hard Cover. viii, 205, [2] pp. 8vo. The first book in Burgess's Green Forest Series. Color illustration mounted on front board (repeated on front jacket pane...
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A Light Shines in God's Country: Humorous & Heartwarming Stories from Our Home to Yours

By: Burns, Irene

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Lake Mary, Creation House: 2007

Seller ID: 2289173

ISBN: 1599792427

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Inscribed and signed by author. An exceptional copy. 2007 Trade Paperback. A woman who gives birth to nine children knows what she is talking about when it comes to child-rearing. In her first book, Irene Burns shares funny, sad, and motivating stories about raising children that, without a doubt, will encourage young mothers and fathers. Burns, who recently celebrated fifty years of marriage with husband, Don, chronicles the faith, financial struggles, and details of the obstacles with children she and the family endured, as well as the victory and joy that accompanied each trial and season o...
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Heavenly Bodies

By: Byatt, A.S.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Emory University: 1999

Seller ID: 2200682

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Limited edition, one of 175 copies. Includes publisher's envelope. 1999 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 13, [1] pp. A short work by A.S. Byatt, the Booker Prize winning author of Possession and other novels. Originally published in The Sunday Times on December 20, 1998, and re-released in this limited edition to mark the occasion of the 1999 Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature.
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Babel Tower

By: Byatt, A.S.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1996

Seller ID: 2270820

ISBN: 0701137185

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages moderately toned due to the type of paper used by the publisher. 1996 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 618 pp. In Babel Tower a cast of striking characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early 1960s. Frederica (the heroine of Virgin in the Garden and Still Life) now teaching English at an art college, is hiding herself and her son Leo from a violent husband; her urge towards freedom later leads to an angry, humiliating divorce case. Her...
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Angels and Insects

By: Byatt, A.S.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1992

Seller ID: 2270821

ISBN: 0701137177

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages moderately toned due to the type of paper used by the publisher. 1992 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 292 pp. In two breathtakingly accomplished novellas, A. S. Byatt explores the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are both popular manias and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion.
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Passions of the Mind: Selected Writings

By: Byatt, A.S.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1991

Seller ID: 2270822

ISBN: 0701138475

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket spine head and spine base lightly bumped. Pages moderately toned due to the type of paper used by the publisher. 1991 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 346 pp. Whether she is writing about George Eliot or Sylvia Plath; Victorian spiritual malaise or Toni Morrison; mythic strands in the novels of Iris Murdoch and Saul Bellow; politics behind the popularity of Barbara Pym or the ambitions that underlie her own fiction, Byatt manages to be challenging, entertaining, and unflinchingly committed to the alliance o...
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A Whistling Woman

By: Byatt, A.S.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 2002

Seller ID: 2270824

ISBN: 0701173807

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages moderately toned due to the type of paper used by the publisher. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 422 pp. This electrifying new novel forms the triumphant conclusion to the great Frederica quartet depicting the forces in English life from the early 50s to 1970. While Frederica -- the spirited heroine of Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower -- falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life and those o...
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Sugar and Other Stories

By: Byatt, A.S.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1987

Seller ID: 2270825

ISBN: 0701131691

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages moderately toned due to the type of paper used by the publisher. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 248 pp. A.S. Byatt's short fictions explore the fragile ties between generations, the dizzying abyss of loss and the elaborate memories we construct against it, resulting in a book that compels us to inhabit other lives and returns us to our own with new knowledge, compassion, and a sense of wonder.
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Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice

By: Byatt, A.S.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1998

Seller ID: 2271601

ISBN: 0701168234

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed and dated (November 12th 1998) by author. A very nice copy. We have more books available by this author!. 232 pp. A new volume of stories from A.S. Byatt is always a joy, and this one is rich and rare indeed. The collected stories deal with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion -- the mysterious absences at the heart of the fullest lives, in settings ranging from the heat of Provence in summer to the cold forests of Scandinavia, from chalk-strewn classrooms to herb-scented hillsides, from suburban streets to rocky wilds.
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Little Black Book of Stories

By: Byatt, A.S.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 2003

Seller ID: 2271603

ISBN: 0701173246

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. A very nice copy. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 279 pp. Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two middle-aged women walk into a forest, as they did when they were girls, confronting their childhood fears and memories and the strange thing they saw -- or thought they saw -- so long ago. A distinguished male obstetrician and a young woman artist meet in a hospital. But both of them have very different ideas about body parts, birth and death. An innocent member of an evening class turns out to have her own dec...
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The Biographer's Tale

By: Byatt, A.S.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 2000

Seller ID: 2271606

ISBN: 0701169451

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket spine head very lightly bumped. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 265 pp. In this witty, Borges-like fiction, A.S. Byatt weaves a dazzling fiction out of one man's search for fact. Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas G. decides to study the messiness of 'real life'. Doing nothing by halves he sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But a 'whole life' is hard to find. How do we put the idea of a person together? Everywhere he looks he finds fragments and gaps: bones and husks, boxes of m...
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Rochester's Orchestra: A History of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and Its Educational Programming, 1922 to 1989 [with] 1943-1944 Radio Concerts by the

By: Cahn, William L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, Citizens for a Quality Philharmonic: 1989

Seller ID: 2305380

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1989 Trade Paperback. vi, 79, 33 pp. A history of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and its educational programming, 1922 to 1989, with an appendix on radio concerts by the Rochester Civic Orchestra, 1943-1944.
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Mama's Little Girl: A Brief Story [with] 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 Photograph of Author and Family

By: Caldwell, Erskine

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Mount Vernon / Portland, The Bradford Press: 1932

Seller ID: 2305597

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Limited edition, #33 of 75 copies, signed by author on limitation page, and by illustrator beneath frontispiece. Laid in is a photograph, at the center of which appears to be Erskine Caldwell, with the others in the photo ostensibly his family. On the reverse is written 'Back to nature! May 22d - '32' in handwriting that appears quite similar to known examples of Caldwell's ('Back' in particular matches nearly exactly the same word in a 1940 letter auctioned by Heritage). Minor loss from corner of front wrapper and corner of first page, fore edge corners a bit creased. 1932 Soft Cover. We have...
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Up and Down and Around: A Publisher Recollects the Time of His Life

By: Canfield, Cass

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Harper's Magazine Press / Harper & Row: 1971

Seller ID: 2276395

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Inscribed, signed, and dated by author on front endpaper, with recipient's name erased ('with my warm regards, Cass Canfield, Oct 1971'). Jacket edges rubbed with minimal loss from spine head and foot. We have more books available by this author!. xiii, [3], 272 pp. 8vo. A biography of the president and chairman of Harper & Brothers / Harper & Row, who was responsible for launching the careers of James Thurber, E.B. White, and John Updike. Canfield also advocated for the right to birth control, and chaired the executive committee of Planned Parenthood.
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

By: Capote, Truman

Price: $2,250.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1965

Seller ID: 2263973

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Limited edition, #285 of 500, signed & numbered by Capote on colophon, which states 'Of the first edition of In Cold Blood five hundred copies have been printed on special paper and specially bound.' Lacks slipcase issued with this edition, but is only the more attractive for it (the slipcase was a rather plain red paper over cardboard). 1965 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 343 pp. 8vo. Finely rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full brown morocco with gilt titles, rules, and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The collector who had these rebound include...
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Death in the Long Grass

By: Capstick, Peter Hathaway

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press / The Buckingham Mint: 1977

Seller ID: 2304430

ISBN: 0312186134

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Limited edition, #681 of 5000 copies, hand-numbered and signed by author on limitation page. An exceptional copy. 1977 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xv, 297 pp. Maroon full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Black-and-white photographs throughout text. Few men can say they have known Africa as Peter Hathaway Capstick has know it -- leading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. And...
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Death in the Dark Continent

By: Capstick, Peter Hathaway

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, St. Martin's Press / The Buckingham Mint: 1983

Seller ID: 2304431

ISBN: 0312186150

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Fine

Limited edition, #681 of 5000 copies, hand-numbered and signed by author on limitation page. An exceptional copy. 1983 Full-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. xi, [3], 238 pp. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Black-and-white photographs throughout text. Critically acclaimed as a master of adventure writing for Death in the Long Grass and Death in the Silent Places, former professional hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick takes us back to Africa to encounter the worlds most dangerous big-game animals. Af...
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The Speed of Light

By: Carlson, Ron

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, HarperTempest: 2003

Seller ID: 2199491

ISBN: 0380978377

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Signed by author without inscription. First edition. Very good. Very Good. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 280 pp. Summer.Baseball.Car Baseball.Sock Ball.Wall Ball.The Time Tower: can you get older faster?The speed of light: can it be measured?A carp, washed up in the riberbank: what's inside? Larry, Witt, and Rafferty have a whole summer to play all the different kinds of baseball, to build structures in the backyard, to find out what makes the world tick. We've got to keep busy, says Witt. I want to know everything. Not just part. Larry doesn't want to know wha...
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Plan B for the Middle Class: Stories

By: Carlson, Ron

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton & Company: 1992

Seller ID: 2269565

ISBN: 0393033708

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. A bit smoky. 1992 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 223, [1] pp. 8vo. A collection of stories about midlife includes tales of a single mother who keeps house on an aircraft carrier and a new father who is seduced by a motorcycle. By the author of Truants.
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Truants: A Novel

By: Carlson, Ron

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton & Company: 1981

Seller ID: 2281549

ISBN: 0393013839

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author with inscription, For Esta and Bob from their friend, Ron Carlson. Front jacket panel clipped with price intact. Very faint odor of smoke. 1981 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 255 pp. Collin Elder and Louisa Berg, having trouble with their fathers, quit their home situations for life on the road and meet eighty-four-year-old Will Clare while searching for a future in the streets of Utah and Nevada.
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The Hotel Eden: Stories

By: Carlson, Ron

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton & Company: 1997

Seller ID: 2269564

ISBN: 0393040682

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('For Steve, who has been true! Your friend, Ron Carlson'). A bit smoky, page ridges faintly foxed. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 224 pp. 8vo. A dozen stories feature a young man who discovers that Eden is not a permanent residence, a baseball player who accidentally becomes a killer, and a teenager from Phoenix who experiences an unsettling sexual awakening.
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Tyrannosaur Faire

By: Carper, Steve

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Rochester, New York, Planet Lactose: 2008

Seller ID: 2300983

ISBN: 0979856507

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

First edition. Signed by author with inscription, Nancy, for words of wisdom and inspiration when I needed them. 4/25/08. A fine copy. 2008 Trade Paperback. vi, 192 pp. Local author. Bold ideas combined with down-to-earth characters mark this collection from one of the unsung innovators of the sf short story. Set in both the near and far reaches of time and space, Steve Carpers stories defy conventional classification. Read them as part science fiction, part fantasy, part mainstream and slipstream. They gambol easily among the classic themes of the field from dinosaurs to space travel to wish-...
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Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith

By: Carter, Jimmy

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Times Books / Random House: 1997

Seller ID: 2298306

ISBN: 0812932366

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1997 Trade Paperback. xvii, [1], 252, [2] pp. 8vo. A companion to Living Faith. Former President Jimmy Carter has won the respect and affection of millions for his long career as a humanitarian, a peacemaker, and a model of faith in action. The Sunday school classes he leads at his hometown church in Plains, Georgia, are legendary. 'These weekly sessions . . . are remarkable for the ability of regular folks to walk in, grab a seat, and exchange views with the thirty-ninth president of the United States,' says The New York Times...
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