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1998ref. 45353NY: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1998. First American edn. 8vo pp. xii 435. Notes index. Illustrated in color and black and white. About fine in very slightly soiled dj. An analysis of songs stories images of frightening monsters. Warner wants us to reconsider the consequences of our notions about masculine identity and about racial stereotyping. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
1886ref. 43386Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1886. Thirteenth edition. champ. 8vo pp. 244 1 page of adv. Bound in green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Illustrated throughout. A fine copy. See BAL 21135 for the first edition of 1878. Inscription on end paper. Warner offers a nostalgic lok at growing up on a farm.: "One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience thogun it needs some practice to be a good one. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
1856ref. 10234NY: Appleton 1856. First US edn. 8vo pp. 516 adv. A nice tight copy. Wright II. 2646 BAL 21263 BAL printing C no sequence established; Binding 1 no sequence established. Appleton unknown books
1856ref. 11326NY: Appleton 1856. First US edn. 8vo Pp. 516 adv. A nice tight copy with some minor external wear. Wright II. 2646 BAL 21263 BAL printing C no sequence established; Binding 1 no sequence established. Appleton unknown books
1856ref. 10301NY: Appleton 1856. First US edn. 8vo pp. 516 adv. A nice tight copy. Wright II. 2646 BAL 21263 BAL printing A no sequence established; Binding 2 no sequence established. Appleton unknown books
1946ref. 22831London: Collins 1946. 2nd impression. 8vo pp. 48. Series: Britain in pictures Illustrated with 8 plates in colour and 30 in B&W. Cover little worn o/w VG. A brief history of the "Public" schools in Britain among them Eton Rugby Westminster Harrow etc. Collins unknown books
1982ref. 35391NY: Viking 1982. 8vo pp. 177. Donor's presentation on flyleaf. A nice copy in slightly soiled and price-clipped dj. Autobiographical vingnettes. Viking unknown books
1919ref. 202375Scott and Seltzer 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering & decoration under black & blue illustrated dust jacket priced $1.75 color frontispiece 372 pp. Edgewear to DJ and small chips to corners of top of spine panel; book itself has foxing and moderate spine slant from reading. A time-travel romance in which a High Priest of the Pharoahs is transported to modern Europe. "As the conflagration across the water continued to spread and the armies of the nations locked in deadly combat surged back and forth across the face of Europe Rames grew anxious as to America's being drawn into the maelstrom and the difficulty which might ensue for him to get back to the secret chamber in the Theban hills. Scott and Seltzer hardcover books
1940ref. 569219Westerville Ohio: The Intercollegiate Association for Study of the Alcohol Problem / The American Issue Publishing Company 1940. Softcover. Very Good. Vol. XXXVIII No. 2. Small slim octavo. 35-63pp. With several illustrations. Stapled self-wrappers. Owner name on front cover vertical crease splits at the spine ends and lower staple mostly pulled about very good. Features the article "Outgrowing Liquor Culture" by editor Harry S. Warner as well as another article also by Warner claiming that Europe before the rise of totalitarianism was moving towards temperance "When Mid-Europe Was Going Democratic Students and Youth Were Increasingly Non-Alcoholic". The International Student was the official magazine of The Intercollegiate Association for Study of the Alcohol Problem. The Intercollegiate Association for Study of the Alcohol Problem / The American Issue Publishing Company unknown books
1922ref. 453365New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1922. Hardcover. Fine. Third edition fifth printing. Octavo. 541pp. Blue cloth gilt. Owner's name front pastedown a touch of rubbing else fine. Thomas Y. Crowell Company hardcover books
1972ref. 107414New York: International Universities Press 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Volume V only. Hardly visible rubbing on the boards else a fine copy in an about fine dustwrapper with one short tear near the crown. International Universities Press hardcover books
1937ref. 590135London: Boriswood 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Gutter starting small bookstore label on rear pastedown spine ends lightly bumped else a near fine copy in a very good age-toned dust jacket with small chipping and minor loss on the spine ends. Author's first book a dystopian novel. Boriswood hardcover books
2001ref. 579618New York: New York Review Books 2001. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Introduction by Adam Mars-Jones. Fine in pictorial wrappers. New York Review Books unknown books
1944ref. 554941Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company 1944. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in fine dust jacket with very nominal wear. J.B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
1955ref. 556322New York: W.W. Norton and Company 1955. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed near fine dust jacket with a few very short tears. A man returns to his childhood home. A nice copy. W.W. Norton and Company hardcover books
1957ref. 561433New York: Comet Press Books 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with toning rubbing and edgewear. Author's first book. Comet Press Books hardcover books
1957ref. 564184New York: Comet Press Books 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. An ink mark on the front free endpaper else near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with fading on the spine rubbing and edgewear. Author's first book. Comet Press Books hardcover books
ref. 550624Hardcover. Fine. Circa 1900. Half-tone portrait reproduced from a photograph measuring 2” x 3” on unprinted cardstock mount. Fine. The image depicts a seated Warner in a white dress holding a book. Inscribed. Signed by Warner on the mount beneath the image: "With the best wishes of Anne Warner." Warner novelist short-story writer and humorist was born in St. Paul Minnesota. She settled in Europe where she had been traveling with her children and wrote a number of popular satiric novels see Blain Feminist Companion to Literature in English p. 1133. hardcover books
1982ref. 532561New York: The Viking Press 1982. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. 177pp. Fine in an about fine dust jacket with some toning. The Viking Press hardcover books
1985ref. 533658Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated with color plates. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight rubbing and edgewear. Colin Smythe hardcover books
1928ref. 500347London: Chatto & Windus 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 88pp. Decorated paper-covered boards with publisher's printed paper label on spine. Top edge and spine slightly faded very thin chip at crown of spine else a near fine partially unopened copy in very good dust jacket with moderate wear and browning on spine a thin chip at top edge and both panels have begun to separate at spine joints and both flaps archivally mended on the verso. Publisher's extra printed spine label tipped-in at last page of text as issued. Author's second book of poetry. Uncommon in dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1928ref. 500345London: Chatto & Windus 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 88pp. Decorated paper-covered boards with publisher's printed paper label on spine. Endpapers and few pages of text lightly foxed else near fine in very good or better dust jacket with light tanning and spotting on the spine and two nicks at crown. Publisher's extra printed spine label tipped-in at last page of text as issued. Author's second book of poetry. Uncommon in dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1950ref. 470109New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 759pp. Near fine with some bumping at the corners in bright near fine dust jacket lightly worn at the corners and with a hint of sunning to the spine. Inscribed by editor Joseph Warner Angell to bibliographer Donald Gallup in the year of publication: "For Donald Gallup With many thanks for all you have done for me- Sincerely yours Joe Angell. 15 October 1950." A nice copy inscribed to the noted scholar. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1971ref. 502731Dublin: The Dolmen Press 1971. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Slim octavo. 39pp. Unprinted wrappers with integral pictorial dust jacket. Light wear and a small erasure mark on the half-title near fine. Also prints a selection of poems by Allingham. The Dolmen Press unknown books
1947ref. 506031Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company 1947. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Spine mildly cocked near fine in a near fine rubbed dust jacket. J.B. Lippincott Company hardcover books