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Twylight Tower : An Elizabeth I Mystery.

HARPER, KAREN · 2001 · Kalamos Books

$27.50 (€24.95 | £20.81 | ¥4,392)

New York, Delacorte Press. 2001, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 038533477X) Hardcover. Book, Elizabethan England-in all its pomp and pageantry, deadly intrigue and scandal-comes alive in Karen Harper's magnificent new novel, the third work in her acclaimed Elizabeth I mystery series. No…

ROUND THE BLACK MAN’S GARDEN.

Colvile, Zélie. · 1893 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh & London 1893. 1st Ed. [xvi] + 344pp. Port. frontis., 31 full page plates, 20 text ills., 2 folding maps with 1 in pocket at rear. Light age toning, tear to map pocket repaired to verso, sm. waterstain to leading corner of front e.ps., origi…

THE LIFE, ADVENTURES AND OPINIONS of ... Written by Himself. To which is added Advice to Prelates and Legislation ... Advice to the Lovely Cyprians ... On Matrimony ... On the Misery of Female Prostitution ... The History of the Lovely Ægyptis ... And a History of the King’s Bench Prison ...

Hanger, Col. George. · 1801 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£300.00 (€359.65 | $396.41 | ¥63,309)

Printed for J. Debrett ... 1801. 1st Ed. 2 vols. [iv] + 339pp. + [iv] + 475pp. + [iv] publ. adverts. Text engraving of a hung man. Some light browning, ex.-libris Frederick Charles Wilson, mottled calf backed marbled boards, japon corners, some wear to boards, gilt ruling with …

The Near and the Far (containing The Root and The Flower and The Pool of Vishnu)

Myers, L. H. · 1956 · Bookbarrow

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

The Reprint Society, London, 1956. First Thus, Hardcover (Original Yellow Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Myers was born in Leckhampton House, Cambridge into a cultured family; his father was the writer Frederic William Henry Myers (1843-1901) and his mother the phot…

Senor Nice: Strange Life from Wales to South America

Howard Marks · 2007 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Harvill Secker 2007 Paperback, 288pp. The long-awaited and hugely-entertaining sequel toMr. Nice. During the mid-1980s, Howard Marks had forty-three aliases, eighty-nine phone lines and companies trading throughout the world. At the height of his career he was smuggling consignm…

The CIVIL War in Art and Memory

Savage, Kirk · 2016 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New Haven, National Gallery of Art, 2016. Hardcover. A gray fabric casebound book with a gray dust jacket that has white text on the spine and a color illustration on the front cover. viii, 281 pages; illustrated in both color and black-and-white. Contents are as follows: Prefac…

Hitting the Dark Trail: Starshine Through Thirty Years of Night

Hawkes, Clarence · 1915 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1915. Twelvemo. Hardcover. Bound in dark blue cloth with gilt stamped titles. xvi, 176 pages frontispiece, plates 20 cm. Hitting The Dark Trail: Starshine Through Thirty Years Of Night (1915) is a memoir written by Clarence Hawkes. The book chro…

The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution 1770-1800

1973 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

1973. Softcover. Black wraps. 241 pp. 98 bw plates. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Washington, DC: National Portrait Gallery, 1973. Contents as follows: Pt. 1: Preludes to the Declaration -- Crispus Attucks and the Boston Massacre -- Aftermath to Attucks: portraits…

The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster in Eighteen Volumes

Little, Brown and Company · 1903 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$950.00 (€861.91 | £718.96 | ¥151,721)

Boston, Little, Brown and Co, 1903. Hardcover. Eighteen volumes, first 17 bound in brown vellum boards with top edge gilt, volume 18 is in a brown buckram (apparently bound at a different time). Each volume has gilt spine lettering with the title, volume number, and individual v…

Quarterly Journal of the American Education Society [Nos. I-VIII]

Various · 1827 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$275.00 (€249.50 | £208.12 | ¥43,919)

Boston, Published by the Board of Directors, 1827. 1827-1829; original copies, not reprints. Paperback. The original first eight volumes of this periodical, each in tan wraps with black lettering. Consecutive pagination of 244 pp. with no illustrations. Former owners of these jo…

Library of the Fine Arts: Or Repertory of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Engraving (Vols. 1-4)

Arnold, M. · 1833 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$240.00 (€217.74 | £181.63 | ¥38,329)

London, M. Arnold, 1833. Hardcover. 4 vols. Each one has marbled paper baords and leather spine. Vols. 2-3 match bindings. Vols. 1 & 4 differ in style. 2406 pp. total, 26 BW engravins, though 2 are repeated from vol. 1 to vol. 2. An early British monthly arts periodical publishe…

Amazing Stories: January, Jan. 1951

AMAZING (ROBERT ARNETTE; H. BEAM PIPER; E. K. JARVIS; CHARLES BEAUMONT; FRANCES M. DEEGAN; MACK REYNOLDS; WALTER M. MILLER) · 1951 · Books from the crypt

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Ziff-Davis. 1951. SingleIssueMagazine. Book, Vol. 25, No. 1. Pulp magazine. Edited by Howard Browne. Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones for "Empire of Evil" (short novel) by Robert Arnette [Rog Phillips]. Includes "Operation R.S.V.P." by H. Beam Piper; "Never Trust a Martian" …

Amazing Stories: December, Dec. 1948 ("Daughter of the Night")

AMAZING (RICHARD S. SHAVER; ALEXANDER BLADE - AKA R. S. SHAVER; CRAIG BROWNING - AKA ROG PHILLIPS; J. J. ALLERTON; ROG PHILLIPS; H. B. HICKEY; HOWARD BROWNE) · 1948 · Books from the crypt

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

NY, Ziff-Davis. 1948. SingleIssueMagazine. Book, Vol. 22, No. 12. Pulp magazine. Edited by Raymond A. Palmer. Cover art by H. W. McCauley for "Daughter of the Night" (novelette) by Richard S. Shaver. Includes "The Plotters" by Alexander Blade [Richard S. Shaver]; "Tillie" by Cra…

The Sabbath in Puritan New England

EARLE, ALICE MORSE · 1891 · S. Howlett-West Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and nicking to the spine ends of t…

Partners in Wonder Sf Stories By Ellison with 14 Collaborators

ELLISON, HARLAN · 1972 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, NY: Avon Books, 1972. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 1380004160. Mass Market PB. This is a mass market paperback book. Avon book number N416, with a price of .95 cents. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends…

The Judas Strain

ROLLINS, JAMES (JAMES PAUL CZAJKOWSKI ) · 2007 · S. Howlett-West Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York: William Morrow, 2007. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060763892. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The paper used for the text pages seems to vary slightly…

Klosterheim: or, The Masque.

DE QUINCEY (Thomas): · 1832 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

Edinburgh and London William Blackwood, 1832. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 176 x 105 mms., pp. 305 [306 blank, 307 - 308 adverts], including half-title, edges uncut, early 20th century binding of half chocolate morocco, linen boards, title and author in gilt on spine; rear hinge a litt…

Publii Virgilii Maonis Bucolica et Georgica, ex Antiquis Monimentis Illustrata cura, Studio, et Sumptibus Henrici Justice, Armiger, Rufforthii Toparchae.

VIRGIL. · 1757 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

[Netherlands; Hague.] [Place of publication not identified] [1757]. Small folio, 234 x 144 mms., pp. [xvi], 14 138, engraved portrait frontispiece, 8 other engraved plates, and 24 vignettes by Marco Pitteri, text engraved, 19th century half plum morocco, marbled boards (rubbed),…

The Inheritance. By the Author of Marriage.

[FERRIER (Susan Edmonstone)]: · 1824 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T. Cadell, 1824. FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes. 189 x 111 mms., pp. [ii], 387 [388 blank]; [ii], 415 [416 blank]; [ii], 35 9 [360 blank], contemporary half calf, marbled boards, early reback with new end-papers, title block in gilt on spine; so…

The MARBLE FAUN, or The Romance of Monte Beni. Illustrated with Photogravures. In Two Volumes

Hawthorne, Nathaniel [1804 - 1864] · 1894 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$165.00 (€149.70 | £124.87 | ¥26,352)

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1894. White cloth spine with red cloth boards, gilt stamped lettering & decorations. TEG. Red linen dust jackets. Matching red linen publisher's slipcase with gilt stamped titling to one side. ii, [3] - 266; [8], [267] - 527, [1…