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The Mercury Story Book
(Woolf, Virginia) Priestley, J. B.
London: Longmans Green, 1929.
Price: $95.00
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Lovely copy of Abbey's uncommon third book. Very clean and bright. Book shows very minor wear to corners, slight dustiness to top of pages, overall straight and tight, no writing. Unclipped dust jacket has some wear and small tears to bottom front panel and light wear along gutter of jacket spine. Bright and unfaded. One of the nicer copies of this fragile jacket we have seen.

Fire on the Mountain
Abbey, Edward
New York: Dial Press, 1962.
Price: $750.00
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Small 8vo. 160 pp. A collection of stories by this South African writer. Small prior owner name to inside front pastedown. general light wear and blemishes to cloth covers. A good copy in good dustwrapper with two lines underscored in the text on the inside front flap. With numerous small chips to edges. Still, a decent copy of an uncommon title.

Dark Testament
Abrahams, Peter
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1942.
Price: $100.00
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Wide 8vo. First edition of this early novel by the author of The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula. A near fine copy in bound illustrated wraps. Drawings by Robert Kushner. 145 pp.

Kathy Goes To Haiti
Acker, Kathy
Toronto: Rumour Publications, 1978.
Price: $40.00
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First edition in bound wrappers. Clean near fine condition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper.

Kathy Goes To Haiti
Acker, Kathy
Toronto: Rumour Publications, 1978.
Price: $100.00
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8vo. 128 pp. Design by Enrico Chandoha and Stanislaw Sobolewski. A near fine copy in bound illustrated wrappers. This copy stamped "Advance Proof Copy" on the first endpaper.

Great Expectations (Advance Proof Copy)
Acker, Kathy
San Francisco: Re/Search, 1982.
Price: $65.00
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8vo. Correct first edition of this early work by Acker. 91 pp. This copy Signed by Frederick Ted Castle, founder of the TVRT Press. This copy in fair condition with heavy staining to pages and offsetting to a couple of pages where a newspaper article reviewing Acker's Don Quixote has been laid in. Sold as-is.

The Childlike Life of The Black Tarantula (Signed by Publisher Frederick Ted Castle)
Acker, Kathy
New York: TVRT, 1975.
Price: $45.00
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Second edition of this early novel by Acker. A clean near fine example in bound illustrated wrappers. 115 pp. Illustrations by Michael McClard.

I Dreamt I Was A Nymphomaniac Imagining
Acker, Kathy
New York: Traveler's Digest, 1980.
Price: $85.00
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Early reprint edition of this novel by the author of Kathy Goes To Haiti. A near fine copy in small bound wrappers. This copy Signed by Frederick Ted Castle, the founder of the TVRT Press.

The Childlike Life of The Black Tarantula by The Black Tarantula (Signed by Frederick Ted Castle)
Acker, Kathy
New York: TVRT Press, 1978.
Price: $75.00
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Small 8vo. 201 pp. An early novel by Acker. This copy Signed by Frederick Ted Castle who founded the TVRT Press. Two pages with slight binding flaw else a very good plus copy in bound photo-illustrated wrappers. Uncommon title.

The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec (Signed by Frederick Ted Castle)
Acker, Kathy
New York: TVRT Press, 1978.
Price: $85.00
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Large ocatvo. Unpaginated. Illustrated by Robert Kushner. A clean, tight near fine copy in stiff decorated wrappers.

The Persian Poems
Acker, Kathy and Robert Kushner (Janey Smith)
New York: Bozeau of London Press, 1980.
Price: $50.00
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The Last Letter of James Agee To Father Flye
Agee, James
Northampton: Mandragora Press / David Godine, 1969.
Price: $40.00
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8vo. First edition of Albee's Pulitzer Prize Winning play for 1994. A fine copy in dustwrapper.

Three Tall Women
Albee, Edward
New York: Dutton Books, 1995.
Price: $25.00
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Small 8vo. 92 pp. Algren documents his love affair with the city of Chicago. Expanded from a piece in Holiday Magazine. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper. Some offsetting to paper else a very good copy in gray cloth binding with black spine in very good price intact dustwrapper.

Chicago: City On The Make (Inscribed)
Algren, Nelson
Garden City: Doubleday, 1951.
Price: $150.00
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First edition of the author's first book. This copy in good condition with wear to covers. Prior ownership stamp to inside front pastedown and a handwritten price on the half-title page. While condition of this book is ordinary, it is very nicely INSCRIBED by Algren to friend and fellow New York artist, Richard Merkin on the front endpaper. Algren has added his customary drawing of a cat next to the inscription. Lacking rare dustwrapper. Inscribed copies of this title are by no means common.

Somebody In Boots (Inscribed)
Algren, Nelson
New York: Vanguard Press, 1935.
Price: $1,250.00
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Story Magazine October 1934
Algren, Nelson, Anderson, Edward, Laughlin, James et al
New York: Story Magazine, 1934.
Price: $35.00
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First edition. One of 125 copies published to coincide with an exhibition entitled Painted Photographs 1840-1940. A 15 pp short story. SIGNED by the New Yorker writer. A fine copy in near fine paper wrapper with small sticker residue to front cover. Strangely uncommon.

After The Gold Rush
Als, Hilton
East Hampton: Glenn Horowitz, 1997.
Price: $150.00
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
Alvarez, Julia
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1991.
Price: $75.00
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Tortuga
Anaya, Rudolfo A.
Berkeley: Editorial Justa Publications, Inc., 1979.
Price: $45.00
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True first edition of this collection of Chicano writings edited by Anaya and Marquez. Published in bound wrappers as New America Volume 4 Number 1. SIGNED by Anaya. A fine copy. Writers include Anaya, Alberto Alvaro Rios, Denise Chavez and many more.

Cuentos Chicanos
Anaya, Rudolfo A. And Marquez, Antonio, Editors
Albuquerque: New American Library, 1980.
Price: $55.00
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