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Seven Keys To Baldpate

By: Biggers, Earl Derr

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlop: 1913

Seller ID: 128vul

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A famous author comes to a summer mountain resort in the dead of winter determined to find peace and quiet to write his next book. But before his first night is out, a steady stream of unexpected visitors begin to fill the hotel... men and women with stories of love, loss, and flight... none of them telling the truth. Before the week is out, there will be gunfire, bribery, fights in the snow, and hidden truths unmasked. "Seven Keys to Baldpate" is a mystery that will leave you guessing to the end. Earl Derr Biggers penned "Seven Keys to Baldpate" long before he created his most...
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Sex and Death to the Age 14

By: Spalding GRAY [inscribed]

Price: $70.00

Publisher: New York, Vintage Books: 1986

Seller ID: mwm27

ISBN: 0394742575

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Sincerely Ronald Reagan

By: Reagan, Ronald; Irene Von Damm

Price: $900.00

Publisher: Illinois, Green Hill Publishers: 1976

Seller ID: yzz163

ISBN: 0916054055

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Signed by Ronald Reagan on front blank paper. Notation by Mel Hancock stating that Ronald Reagan signed the book at the Republican State Convention in Springfield, MO. in June,1976. Hancock went on to become a four term congressman from Missouri.
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Sing a Song of Safety

By: Irving Caesar, Gerald Marks

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Irving Caesar: 1937

Seller ID: bg08

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Inscribed on the half title page.
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Sister Age

By: Fisher, M. F. K.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred a Knopf Inc: 1983

Seller ID: 66fg

ISBN: 0394530667

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Solon H. Borglum / A Man Who Stands Alone- Signed

By: A. Mervyn DAVIES

Price: $50.00

Publisher: CT, Pequot Press: 1974

Seller ID: 40hzh

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Inscribed by Monica Borglum Davies; Sculptor's daughter & author's wife. Covers are mottled by damp, else square and tight.
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Image for Speech of Mr. Webster of Massachusetts on the Subject of the Three Millions Appropriation and the Loss of the Approprations Bill for Fortifications of the Last Session. Delivered in the Senate of the United States January 14, 1836

Speech of Mr. Webster of Massachusetts on the Subject of the Three Millions Appropriation and the Loss of the Approprations Bill for Fortifications of the Last Session. Delivered in the Senate of the United States January 14, 1836

By: Daniel Webster [Inscribed]

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Washington D.C., Gales and Seaton: 1836

Seller ID: 145v

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Very Good

16 pp. original self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Slight creasing to edged, else a very good copy. Scarce. Inscribed by Webster on the front wrapper, "R.M. Sherman From the Author, Feb. 16, 1836." American imprints 42372. Sabin 102297. Housed in a custom-made binder.
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Summer and Smoke

By: Williams, Tennessee

Price: $700.00

Publisher: New York, Signet Books # D2019: 1948

Seller ID: 85hgo

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

One of Tennessee Williams' most subtle and tender works, Summer and Smoke explores the conflict between the hedonistic body and the lofty spirit. Set in Mississippi, Alma Winemiller, the minister's daughter, has grown up loving the boy who lives next door: John Buchanan, the doctor's son, is a wild, adventurous, mischievous pleasure seeker. He spends the hot Mississippi summers drinking, gambling, and romancing. His only religion is the anatomy chart on his wall, and what it teaches him about man's needs: food, truth, and lovemaking. Alma, on the other hand, is quiet, eccentric, and high-strun...
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Tales of Old Flatbush

By: John J. Snyder

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Brooklyn NY, John J. Snyder: 1945

Seller ID: 29pxv

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

In 1903 Snyder Ave. in Flatbush Brooklyn was named after the old Dutch Snyder family, . Author, John J. Snyder, is a descendant.
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The Art of Baton Spinning - Volume 1- Elementary

By: C.W.BENNER [signed] and Paul Painter

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chicago, Gamble Hinged Music Company: 1938

Seller ID: bh8g

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

The Art of Dreaming

By: Castaneda, Carlos

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Norwalk, CT, Easton Press: 1993

Seller ID: taod324

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

The eighth book about Castaneda's apprenticeship with the Yaqui Indian sorcerer Don Juan Matus. Castaneda maintains his vivid sense of wonder as Don Juan escorts him into a new world of mystery and magic; he offers a crisp presentation of esoteric ideas. Taking control of one's dreams, says Don Juan, is the key to a sorcerer's power. But what kind of sorcerer? Don Juan makes a distinction between the ancients, who manipulated the world for personal power, and moderns-- such as himself-- who search for freedom. Castaneda must thread his way between these two opposing camps, balancing his thirst...
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The Art of Handgun Shooting

By: Captain Charles Askins Jr.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: NY, A.S. Barnes & Co.: 1941

Seller ID: cfg38

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Charles Askins, Jr., was an American lawman, US Army officer, and writer. He served in law enforcement -US Forest Service and Border Patrol- in the American Southwest prior to the Second World War. Askins was controversial for the relish with which he described the numerous fatal shootings in his law enforcement and military careers, stating he had killed 27 men. Because he was involved in numerous shootouts along the US - Mexico border, and due to his stated practice of not keeping track of African-Americans and Hispanics, the actual number of killings he committed was potentially much highe...
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The Big Kill

By: Mickey Spillane

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Signet Books #915: 1951

Seller ID: 30po

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Fair

The rain clawed at the windows of the bar. Hammer was angry and wanted to be left alone. But when he sees a desperate guy abandon his kid in a bar just to step outside and get blown away, Hammer's mood switches from bad to worse. By the time he reaches the dead body, he knows he will have to pound his way through a world of thugs and wiseguys to find out how a reformed ex-con got desperate enough to die like that. What Hammer doesn't know is how a beautiful woman will figure in-- and how many bullets justice will take. front cover separated.
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The Careless Clock

By: Mark Van Doren [signed]

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Wm. Sloane: 1947

Seller ID: mvd5

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom

By: Gardner, Erle Stanley

Price: $150.00

Publisher: NY, Pocket Books Inc.: 1953

Seller ID: 10pba

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Perry returns to his office late one night and finds an attractive woman climbing into his balcony window. She claims to be Virginia Colfax, the secretary of Ed Garvin who has an office next door to Perry's. Ms. Colfax says that she climbed into Perry's office in order to escape from Garvin's hot tempered wife but Perry later learns that Garvin is married to two women. Garvin and second wife Lorrie are sent to Mexico by Perry until he can clear up the matter but when Garvin's first wife, Ethel, is murdered there's an even bigger mess on the scene. And just who in the world is Virginia Colfax, ...
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The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece

By: Gardner, Erle Stanley

Price: $150.00

Publisher: NY, Pocket Books Inc.: 1956

Seller ID: mv11

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A man's wife is divorcing him after he is caught sleep walking with a knife near her bed. When his stepbrother is found dead stabbed with the knife, he is charged with murder and is accused of using his sleepwalking as a cover-up. Adapted from the novel, and aired on CBS in 1957 on the Perry Mason TV series.
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The Chinese Parrot

By: Biggers, Earl Derr

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: New York, Collier Books: 1926

Seller ID: mlfd87

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The Chinese Parrot (1926) is the second novel in the Charlie Chan series of mystery novels by Earl Derr Biggers. It is the first in which Chan travels from Hawaii to mainland California, and involves a crime whose exposure is hastened by the death of a parrot. The story concerns a valuable string of pearls which is purchased by a wealthy and eccentric financier. The handsome young son of the jeweler is assigned to shepherd the transfer of the pearls to the financier's vacation home in a desert area of California. Because of his long association with the owner of the pearls- before joining the...
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The Diner's Companion- Signed

By: Maurice C. Dreicer

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Crown Publishers: 1955

Seller ID: xox10

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Maurice C. Dreicer, a gastronome visited more than 60 countries in a 40- year quest for the perfect steak. Dining out is a fine art. To get the most enjoyment for your time and money, you need to know not only how to plan and where to go for fine food and drink in general, as well as for unusual specialties, but you must also know how to command attention, service, comfort complete satisfaction. Maurice C. Dreicer (called by a prominent columnist the "Pulitzer Prize Committee of One in the nourishment field") has been an outstanding' authority and writer for more than a quarter of a c...
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The Divine Comedy - In Three Volumes

By: Baskin, Leonard; Dante Alighieri, Translated By Thomas G. Bergin

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York, Grossman Publishers: 1969

Seller ID: 164ooo

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Inscribed presentation by Leonard Baskin on ffe of volume I. Laid in is Yale University's invitation to the opening of the exhibition concerning the making of this Grossman edition of 'The Divine Comedy'. Three volumes housed in an slipcase.
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The Dragon Murder Case Signed

By: S. S. Van Dine

Price: $1,100.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribners Sons: 1933

Seller ID: 147vvy

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The Dragon Murder Case is a 1934 mystery film adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. S. Van Dine, starring Warren William as private detective Philo Vance; Warren William's first starring role. Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone for Warner Bros. Wonderful idea to give a party with people who dislike each other. Late at night everyone decides to go into the pool, except Stamm, who is drunk. Montague dives in as does Greeff and Leland, but only Greeff and Leland come out. Montague is no where to be found so Leland suspects foul play and calls the cops. Luckily, Philo is with the D.A. and ...
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The Edwin Pope Collection

By: Michener, James A.; Pope, Edwin

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Dallas, Texas, U.S.A., Taylor Pub: 1988

Seller ID: vlp40

ISBN: 0878336095

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

James Michener wrote the introduction for the book and signed it on the half-title page. Edwin Pope was an American journalist known for his sports writing at the Miami Herald, where his work appeared from 1956 until his death in 2017. He was called "the best writer of sports in America".
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The Farmers Hotel

By: O'HARA, JOHN

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1951

Seller ID: 4vg3

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The Forest Lovers

By: Hewlett, Maurice

Price: $350.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1898

Seller ID: xz98

Binding: Half-Leather

Condition: Near Fine

'The Forest Lovers' is set in France during the Romantic era, and the experiences of Prosper le Gai in the mysterious forest of Morgraunt. Prosper is a happy-go-lucky guy intent only upon adventure. A confirmed bachelor, happenstance suddenly compels him to marry a poor servant-girl in order to rescue her from being hanged as a witch, or handed over to a false monk. In the end his wife, Isoult la Desireé, proves to be the long-lost daughter of the Countess Isabel, Countess of Hauterive and Lady of Morgraunt. The motive of the story is the triumphant progress of Isoult's love for her knig...
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The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar

By: Stover, Eric

Price: $325.00

Publisher: Germany, Scalo Verlag AC: 1998

Seller ID: x34

ISBN: 3931141764

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

This book is the harrowing account of genocide by Eric Stover, with photographs by Gilles Peress, of how-- from a hell of mud and decomposing bodies-- investigator Haglund began to piece together victims' identities and the terrible ways they died. Over 40,000 Muslim refugees were living in and around Srebenica when it fell to the Serbs, under General Ratko Mladic in July 1995. Of the men who fled, or were rounded up by Serb troops, many were never seen again. Stover talks to the surviving families, women and children, including the women of Srebrenica still clinging to the hope that their men...
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The Hays Office

By: Will H. Hays [Raymond Moley]

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: 1945

Seller ID: 14bn

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A prominent politician, Will Hays gave up his political ambitions after serving as U.S. postmaster general to become the motion picture industry's morality czar. Hays set up a strict movie production code that saved Hollywood from government censorship by imposing limits on acceptable screen behavior; it became the basis for an early industry movie rating system. The author, Raymond Moley, argues that the centralization of film standards in the Hays Office actually leads to greater freedom in film by creating federal standards rather than State and local control of content. Extensive index an...
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The Hundred Brothers

By: Antrim, Donald

Price: $25.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Crown: 1997

Seller ID: dc11

ISBN: 0517703106

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

housed in a publisher's near fine slipcase.
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The Latent Heterosexual

By: Chayefsky, Paddy

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Random House: 1967

Seller ID: vw39

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Chayefsky's 'The Latent Heterosexual' is about a gay middle aged novelist who has a hit, gets married for tax purposes, and finds himself enjoying the straight life. Chayefsky would not allow the work to be produced on Broadway, opting instead to open it at the Dallas Theater Center. It opened there to critical acclaim, with Zero Mostel and Jules Munshin starring, and Burgess Meredith directing.
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the man who left home

By: Paul, Louis

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, the Black Cat Press: 1938

Seller ID: lp5.

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Coth spine. Edges rubbed. Unumbered of 149. Additionally inscribed by Norman Forgue, book's designer.
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The Movement to Americanize the Immigrant - Inscribed 1st Edition

By: Edward George Hartmann, Phd.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press: 1948

Seller ID: br25xx

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Columbia University Press, Hardcover 1st ed.,1948. Inscribed by author. America's response to the arrival, 1880-1910, of new immigrants from Europe was 'The Americanization Movement', A community effort to promote resettlement and assimilation. Classes in English and American civics were provided with the intention of promoting patriotism and acculturation. The programs' original sponsors came from the non-profits, religious groups, and the business community; however governmental agencies soon took primary control, thereby codifying & nationalizing the entire process. Insightful, with pros & ...
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The Muses are Heard

By: Capote, Truman

Price: $500.00

Publisher: New York, Reader's Digest Association: 1957

Seller ID: 94pzz

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Volume Two, the spring 1957 offerings from Reader's Digest. For the Truman Capote completist. This signed Truman Capote Reader's Digest book is one of a kind.
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