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    Bass, Rick:  The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. First Edition. Near fine in 1/4 maroon cloth and paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine with light dust staining to the top edge of the text block. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. A limited first edition which is numbered 31 out of only 100 copies and signed by the author on a tipped-in page prior to the fly title page. A collection of three novellas by Bass. Picked by Amazon books as one of the best books of nature/natural history for 1997 and winner of the 1998 Mountains & Plains Booksellers award.
    TB05706  $75.00




  • Bass, Rick:  The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 maroon cloth and paper covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine with 1st FEP creased at lower corner. In a fine dust jacket. A collection of three novellas by Bass. Picked by Amazon books as one of the best books of nature/natural history for 1997 and winner of the 1998 Mountains & Plains Booksellers award.
    TB05701  $20.00



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    Bousono, Carlos:  Teoria de la Expresión Poética.  Madrid: Biblioteca Romanica Hispanica, (1956). Second Edition. Near fine in 1/4 speckled, tan leather and green cloth covered boards with two raised bands on the spine with a dark brown leather title block with gilt text in the compartment. A 12mo of 7 3/8 by 5 3/16 inches with a 1/4 inch closed tear to the leather at the heel of the spine and with rubbing to the leather title label on the spine. There is a book shop label affixed to the front paste down over the printed end sheets. 354 pages including an index. Printed in the Spanish. The title page is printed in black and red. The title translates to "Theory of Poetic Expression". The author received the Spanish Academy’s Fastenrath Prize for this work. (Britannica.com)
    TB31789  $35.00



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    Brooks, Van Wyck:  The Flowering Of New England.  Boston: The Limited Editions Club, 1941. Limited Edition. Near fine in heavily embossed with oak leaves on dark green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 10 by 7 inches with the top edge of the text block stained a dark red. Without a dust jacket as issued, but the book is contained in a good+, black, paper covered slipcase with a paper label on its spine. One of only 1,500 copies numbered and signed by the illustrator. This copy is out of series as it lacks a number, but it is signed by Ray J. Holden and marked "Printer's Copy" at the lower margin of the limitation page. 468 pages including an index and illustrated throughout with drawings by R. J. Holden. Originally published in 1936 this title won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1937. It is one of the few which has been continually republished since.
    TB32238  $150.00



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    Cather, Willa:  One of Ours.  No place listed.: No publisher listed, No date. Unstated Edition. Fine in heavy paper, printed wraps over an adhesive binding. A quarto of 11 by 8 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. This title won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Unpaginated containing 19 chapters.
    TB31428  $25.00




  • Daniel, John:  The Trail Home.  New York: Pantheon, 1992. First Edition, First printing. Fine In a fine dust jacket. A new young writer and winner of the Wallace Stegner Fellowship award.
    TB01304  $10.50



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    De Bernieres, Louis:  Corelli's Mandolin.  New York: Pantheon Books, (1994). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and black paper covered boards with gold text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 8 3/4 by 5 3/4 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 437 pages of text. In 1995 it won the Commonwealth Writers Prize. This title was adapted into a movie in 1994 where it was set on the Greek island of Cephalonia during the Italian, Nazi and Communist occupation during the Second World War. It starred Nicolas Cage, John Hurt and Penélope Cruz.
    TB30935  $35.00




  • Dexter, Pete:  Paris Trout.  New York: Random House, 1988. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and decorated paper covered boards. In a fine dust jacket. Winner of the National Book Award for 1988 and a nominee for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
    TB05285  $31.50



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    Evanovich, Janet:  One for the Money.  New York: Charles Scribner's S, 1994. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 white cloth and purple paper covered boards with blue text stamped on the spine. An octavo of 9 1/8 by 6 1/8 inches with spots of foxing to the top edge of the text block. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. The author's first book of mystery. Previously she had been an author of pulp romances. Only 17,000 copies of this printing were produced. 290 pages of text. This title won the 1995 Dilys Award. A very clean, tight and bright copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32191  $80.00



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    Frazier, Charles:  Cold Mountain.  New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and paper covered boards with copper colored text stamping on spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" with a prior owner's name at the upper edge of the first free end page. In a fine un-clipped dust jacket. The jacket is the first state jacket with quote by John Berendt on the silver colored seal on the front panel. With the misprint "man-woman" instead of "mad-woman" on line 16, page 25. A book which has been compared to Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms. Some reviews even claimed it to be the novel of the century. The book quickly went to a seventh printing within two months of its release. It eventually became the winner of the 1997 National Book Award. 356 pages of text with map end sheets.
    TB26369  $80.00



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    Goodwin, Doris Kearns:  No Ordinary Time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II.  New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, (1994). 40th Printing. Fine in heavy printed paper wraps over an adhesive binding. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 759 pages including an index, acknowledgments, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated from black and white photographs in two sections within the book. Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995 for this title.
    TB30433  $20.00




  • Horgan, Paul:  The Centuries of Santa Fe.  New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1956. First Edition, First printing. Near fine in black cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine & with a prior owner's name at upper edge of the 1st FEP. In a very good+ dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap with just light wear at the ends of the spine area. This Pulitzer Prize winning author and winner of the Bancroft Prize chronicles the three centuries of the city of Santa Fe.
    TB12035  $14.00



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    Keneally, Thomas:  Schindler's List.  New York: Touchstone Books, (1993). First Edition, First Printing. Fine in heavy pictorial paper wraps over an adhesive binding. An octavo of 8 3/8 by 5 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. This is an advance review copy with the publisher's letter laid-in at the front of the book making the announcement that it is the book created to tie-in with the Steven Spielberg's motion picture. 397 pages of text and illustrated with vignettes as chapter headings.
    TB32127  $20.00



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    Kennedy, John F.:  Profiles in Courage.  New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. Reprint of July, 1957. Very good+ in 1/4 black cloth and blue cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine with rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and with what looks to be a paint stain of 1/4 by 1 inch long at the upper edge of the front board and minor foxing to the rear end sheets due to a reaction with the glues used in binding. In a good, unclipped ($3.95) dust jacket with numerous chips of varying depths around the edges of the panels and with heavy rubbing to the fold to the front flap. Signed and inscribed by John F. Kennedy on the first free end page and dated "1959". Laid-in at the front of the book is a typewritten note from the family indicating the circumstances of how the prior owner met then Senator Kennedy at a book signing event in 1959. 266 pages containing an index, text and a section of images from earlier works of art and from black and white photographs. Senator Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for biography for this title in 1957. The code on the copyright page of "J-H" indicates the book was printed in July of 1957.
    TB32241  $5000.00



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    Kennedy, William:  Ironweed.  Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, 1999. Collector's Edition. Fine in full light brown leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and with gilt tool work on both the front and rear boards. The end papers are silk with a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All three edges of the text block are in gilt. An octavo measuring 9" tall by 5 3/4" without a dust jacket as issued. Signed by the author on the specially tipped-in second free end page. Laid in is the publisher's note card describing this title and the author. 227 pages of text. Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A beautiful, tight, clean copy with no names, dates, notations or former owner's book plates.
    TB24403  $125.00




  • Kingsolver, Barbara:  Pigs in Heaven.  New York: Harper Collins, 1993. First Edition, First printing. Fine, In a fine dust jacket. Reprinted seven times in the hardbound edition. Winner of the 1993 L. A. Times Book Award.
    TB03105  $12.25



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    Lash, Joseph:  Eleanor And Franklin The Story of their relationship based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers.  Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1981. Limited Signed Edition. Fine in full dark blue leather covered boards with extensive gilt tool work on the boards and with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and tool work in the compartments. There are silk end papers with a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All edges of the text block are gilt. An thick octavo measuring 9" by 6" containing 897 pages including an index, references and text. Signed by the author on the third free end paper. With a foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and an introduction by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. A limited edition reissue of this Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the marriage between the Roosevelts. An extremely bright, crisp and clean copy with no prior owner's names, dates, inscriptions or book plates.
    TB24455  $135.00



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    Leaf, Monro, and Robert Lawson:  Wee Gillis.  New York: The Viking Press, 1938. First Edition, Limited Edition. Fine in tan burlap cloth covered boards with gilt on green leather title labels on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto of 10 by 7 inches with illustrated end sheets. Without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book is contained within a good, decorated tan paper covered slip case with the title in green on the closed end of the slip case. There is a 2" piece of the slip case missing from the top edge. One of only 525 copies signed by both Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson on the limitation page. Unpaginated, but containing 65 pages of text and black and white illustrations. Written by Munro Leaf with illustrations by Robert Lawson, the same team to create The Story of Ferdinand. Winner of the 1939 Caldecott Honor award.
    TB29857  $250.00




  • Lennon, J. Robert:  The Light of Falling Stars.  New York: Riverhead Books, 1997. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 cloth and paper covered boards. In a fine dust jacket. The author's first book which takes place in Montana following a plane crash. Winner of the $5,000 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award which was also won by Snow Falling on Cedars.
    TB05926  $40.00



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    Lopez, Barry:  Arctic Dreams.  New York: Charles Scribners, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Fine in 1/4 white cloth and purple paper covered boards with bold silver colored text stamped on the spine. A small quarto of 9 3/16 by 6 1/8 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page without an inscription or date. Co-winner of the National Book Award. 464 pages including an index, bibliography, appendices and text. Illustrated with maps.
    TB33384  $95.00



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    Malone, Dumas:  Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty..  Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and a gilt seal on the front board. An octavo measuring 8 3/4 by 5 3/4 inches. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with three short closed tears to the upper edge of the spine area with related creasing and light rubbing and with rubbing and flecking of the colors at the lower corners of the spine area and at the fore corners of the front panel. 545 pages including an index.
    TB28661  $15.00



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    Matthiessen, Peter:  The Snow Leopard.  Franklin: The Franklin Library, 1978. First Edition. Fine in full tan leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and tool work in the compartments and with gilt tool work on the boards. The edges of the text block are gilt, the end sheets are silk and there is a matching placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. There are minor touches of wear to the tips of the boards and minor fading to the leather on the spine. Without a dust jacket as issued. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" containing 348 pages including an index, chapter notes and text. This printing is the true first edition of this book. It was the winner of the 1979 National Book Award. 348 pages including an index.
    TB29410  $100.00



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    McCourt, Frank:  Angela's Ashes A Memoir.  New York: Scribner, (1996). First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in 1/4 maroon cloth and maroon paper covered boards with bright gilt text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/8 by 6 1/8 inches with green end sheets with very minor rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket which shows modest crimping to the ends of the spine area. Signed by the author on the title page without a date or inscription. The Winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. 363 pages of text. An extremely handsome, clean and tight copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32094  $185.00



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    McCullough, David:  John Adams.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. First Edition. Fine in black and brown paper covered boards with elaborate gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 9 1/8 by 6 1/4 inches. In a fine unclipped dust jacket. There are no names, dates or inscriptions or any defects to this volume. 751 pages including an index, list of sources, text and illustrated with reproductions of color and black and white contemporary art. Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
    TB32840  $50.00



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    Michener, James:  Tales of the South Pacific.  Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1986. Franklin Library Edition. Fine in dark blue leather covered boards with gilt text and decorations stamped between four raised bands on the spine. With gilt tool work on both boards and marbled paper end sheets. The edges of the text block are in gilt and there is a silk placement ribbon sewn into the binding. Michener won a Pulitzer for this title in 1948. One of the volumes from The Franklin LIbrary's collection of The Pulitzer Prize Classics. 415 pages of text with illustrations by Philippe Weisbecker.
    TB26166  $75.00



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    Miller, Arthur:  Death of a Salesman.  New York: The Viking Press, 1977. First Edition, Signed Limited Edition. Near fine in heavy brown cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and a gilt facsimile of the author's signature on the front board and with illustrated end sheets. A small octavo measuring 8 1/16 by 5 1/2 inches with the cloth on the spine slightly faded and with a small prior owner's book plate on the front paste down. Without a dust jacket as issued; however, the book is contained within a near fine cloth covered slip case. One of only 500 special autographed editions with this copy identified as number 308 and signed by the author on the fly title page. This title brought Miller an international reputation as it became his second Broadway success after All My Sons (1947). Many consider it his masterpiece and perhaps the best play written by an American. The play was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1949 in the drama category. 139 pages of text and script. Illustrated with eight plates from black and white photographs. An exceptional copy of an award winning play.
    TB31420  $500.00



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    Morison, Samuel Eliot:  John Paul Jones A Sailor's Biography.  Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1959. Second Printing. Near fine in blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on a blue title background on the spine and with a gilt decoration of a sailing ship on the front board. An octavo of 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches. In a very good+ price clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and wear to the ends of the spine area with no chips or tears. Morison won a Pulitzer Prize for biography for this title in 1959. 453 pages including an index, bibliography, appendices, text. Illustrated with a frontispiece image of Jones' bust from a photograph and with 15 plates with images from contemporary works of art and from photographs as well as maps and charts.
    TB32843  $60.00



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    Morris, Edmund:  The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.  New York: Coward, McCann Geoghegan, Inc., (1979). Third Printing. Fine in black cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A thick octavo measuring 9" by 6", In a good, unclipped dust jacket with two 1/2" closed tears to the upper edge of the front panel, shallow chipping from the ends of the spine area and a large 3" deep chip from the lower edge of the rear panel. The author won a Pulitzer Prize for this outstanding biography of Theodore Roosevelt. 886 pages including an index, chapter notes, bibliography, text and illustrated with 39 black and white photographs. Overall an extremely handsome and very collectable, later printing copy of this monumental biography.
    TB26820  $60.00



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    Porter, Catherine Anne:  The Collected Stories of Catherine Anne Porter.  Franklin Center, Penn.: The Franklin Library, 1976. A Limited Edition. Fine in full dark blue leather covered boards with four raised bands on the spine with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and with gilt tool work on both the front and rear boards. The end papers are silk with a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. All three edges of the text block are in gilt. An octavo measuring 8 5/8 by 5 5/8 inches. 536 pages of text. Illustrated with drawings by George Jones. A beautiful, tight, clean and crisp copy with no names, dates, notations or former owner's book plates.
    TB30622  $25.00



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    Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan:  The Yearling.  Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1984. Limited Edition. Fine in gilt decorated, full bright red leather covered boards with gilt text and decorations stamped between three raised bands on the spine and with marbled end papers and gilt edges to the text block with a silk placement ribbon bound-in at the head of the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6". One of the volumes in The Franklin Library's collection of Pulitzer Prize Winners. The author won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939 for this title. 380 pages of text with illustrations by Thomas B. Allen. A beautiful volume with no names, dates, plates or notations.
    TB30055  $50.00



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    Steinbeck, John:  The Grapes of Wrath.  New York: The Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. Very good in illustrated beige cloth covered boards with brown text on the spine, line drawings in brown on the front and rear boards and with illustrated end sheets. The top edge of the text block is stained a pale yellow, but is dust stained. The lower 1/4 inch of the edges of the spine and boards are soiled and the fore edge of the text block shows a number of small foxing stains. The dust jacket is the original first edition jacket with both the price ($2.75) and "First Edition" slugs in place on the front flap. Overall the jacket is in poor condition with the entire spine area missing and with heavy rubbing to the folds and edges of the panels. Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1940 with this novel of the Depression Era, dust bowl immigrants to California from Oklahoma. 619 pages of text. (Goldstone & Payne, A12) The 1940 movie version of the book was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Fox, it was directed by John Ford, and starred Henry Fonda. A true high spot of American literature.
    TB31733  $800.00



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    Taylor, Robert L.:  The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters.  Franklin Center: Franklin Press, 1979. Franklin Edition. Fine in decorated full red-brown leather covered boards with two raised bands on the spine and with gilt text and decorations stamped in the compartments and on the front and rear boards. The end papers are silk there is a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine and all edges of the text block are gilt. A Pulitzer Prize winning novel of 1959 and one of the volumes in the Franklin Press' series of books of Pulitzer Prize winners. A fascinating novel of a father and son's cross country trip to the California gold fields in 1849. 478 pages of text with illustrations by Charles Hamrick.
    TB26739  $80.00




  • Tyler, Anne:  The Accidental Tourist.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition, First printing. Fine a very crisp clean copy. In a fine dust jacket. Winner of the 1985 National Book Critics Award and a 1986 nominee for the L.A. Times Book Award.
    TB00134  $20.00



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    Warren, Robert Penn:  All The King's Men.  New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company and by The First Edition Library, 1946. Facsimile First Edition Library Reprint. Fine in dark red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5 1/4". In a fine unclipped dust jacket which is an facsimile copy of the original. Both the book and its jacket are housed in a slip case covered with light gray cloth and with reproductions of the front and rear panels of the dust jacket attached to the panels of the slip case. 464 pages followed by four blank leaves. Warren won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for fiction with this title. The book was also the basis for a movie of the same name which was produced in 1949. It was an Academy Award winner.
    TB32936  $65.00




  • Watson, Larry:  Montana 1948.  Minneapoli: Milkweed Edition, 1993. First Edition. Fine, In a fine dust jacket. A winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and the 1994 Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award. Reportedly only 7,500 copies of the first edition were printed.
    TB05655  $75.00




  • Watson, Larry:  Montana 1948 (1st UK).  London: Macmillan Company, 1995. First Edition. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards. In a fine dust jacket. A winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and the 1994 Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award. Published in the UK two years after the hugely succesful US edition was released.
    TB06288  $30.00




  • Wideman, John Edgar:  Fever.  New York: Henry Holt, 1989. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 blue cloth and green decorated paper covered boards with dark blue stamping on the front board and on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. The author's 5th book, Sent for You Yesterday, was a PEN-Faulkner Award winner. His 6th, Brothers and Keepers, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. This is the author's 9th book.
    TB05480  $21.00




  • Wideman, John Edgar:  Reuben.  New York: Henry Holt, 1987. First Edition, First printing. Fine in 1/4 black cloth and paper covered boards with blue text stamping on the front board and on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. The author's 5th book, Sent for You Yesterday, was a PEN-Faulkner Award winner. His 6th, Brothers and Keepers, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
    TB05479  $14.70



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    Wilder, Thornton:  The Bridge of San Luis Rey.  Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1976. Limited Edition by The Franklin Library. Fine in highly decorated dark brown leather covered boards with gilt text and dark green and gilt decorations stamped between the five raised bands on the spine with gilt and dark green tool work on both boards, gilt edging to the text block and with a sewn-in silk placement ribbon. The corners of the spine and of the boards show a tiny amount of rubbing. Without a dust jacket as issued. A Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction in 1928. 148 pages of text with full color illustrations by William Maughan. With no names, dates, notations or book plates.
    TB30673  $60.00






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