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FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. JULY/AUGUST, 1994. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 7/8. (NATHANAEL WEST, STEPHEN LONGSTREET)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, ed. (James Pepper, Robin H. Smiley, Stephen Longstreet.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Los Angeles, Firsts Magazine: 1994

Seller ID: 21810

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

56 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Fifteen Collectable Film Books; When Books are Seen in Films (Prop Books); Collecting Nathanael West (with informal checklist); A Talk with Stephen Longstreet; Points ; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (Boni & Liveright); Books into Film (The Stunt Man). Interior - soft crease down middle of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, a few small very soft wrinkles, soft crease down middle of covers.
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FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. MARCH, 1995. VOLUME 5, NUMBER 3. (EVELYN WAUGH, EDGAR ALLAN POE.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, ed. (Nicholas Burrows, Robin H. Smiley, Clair Shulz.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, Firsts Magazine: 1995

Seller ID: 22850

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good -

56 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: The Best of the British: Collecting British Novelists of the Nineties (with an informal checklist of first editions); Remainders of the Day, Part I: What are Remainders?; Collecting Evelyn Waugh (with an informal checklist); Finding Edgar Allan Poe (a previously undiscovered poem); Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (G.P. Putnam's Sons); Books into Film ('The Horses Mouth'). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light edge wear, minor rubbing/soiling, two 2" liquid...
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FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. SEPTEMBER, 1994. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 9. (MALCOLM COWLEY, EDMUND WILSON, LEWIS AND CLARK, ALDOUS HUXLEY.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, ed. (Peter Coveney, John Henley, Phil Wikelund, Roslyn Lindquist, Clair Schulz, Robin H. Smiley.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, Firsts Magazine: 1994

Seller ID: 21811

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

60 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Shapers of American Culture (Malcolm Cowley and Edmund Wilson - with selected checklists); Lewis and Clark, Fact and Fiction; Collecting Aldous Huxley (with selected checklist); Are Best-Sellers Collectable? - Part 2; New York Times Fiction Best-Sellers, August 1952-August 1962; Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (Bobbs-Merrill); Books into Film (MASH). Interior - very small bump to top corner of pages, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, very light rubb...
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FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. JUNE, 1994. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 6. (SUE GRAFTON, TONY HILLERMAN.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, ed. (Ralph B. Sipper, Ellen Nehr, Ernie Bulow, Judi Johnson.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Los Angeles, Firsts Magazine: 1994

Seller ID: 21809

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

56 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Kinsey Milhone's Uncharted Itinerary; Bibliomysteries; Collecting Tony Hillerman (with informal checklist); Mystery Lineup (recent mystery writers); Points; A Collector' s Guide to Publishers (Simon and Schuster); Books into Film ('Build My Gallows High' - 'Out of the Past') Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, very light rubbing on rear cover, a few small very soft wrinkles, two small corner creases, soft crease down front cover.
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FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. MAY, 1995. VOLUME 5, NUMBER 5.

By: Smiley, Kathryn, ed. (Robert E. Skinner, Richard M. Weatherford, Diane Peterson, Larry Blumenfeld.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, Firsts Magazine: 1995

Seller ID: 21819

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

60 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Searching the Limits of the Form (Douglas C. Jones - with checklist); The Arthur H. Clark Company (a Western Americana press); Collecting Wallace Stegner (with informal checklist); The Future of the Western; Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (Duell, Sloan and Pearce); Books into Film ('The Searchers') Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, light rubbing on rear cover, a few small very soft wrinkles, one tiny corner crease.
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FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. NOVEMBER, 1994. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 11. (KENNETH MILLAR, a.k.a. ROSS MACDONALD, MARGARET MILLAR, LAWRENCE BLOCK.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, ed. (Robin H. Smiley, James T. Seels, J.D. Singh.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, Firsts Magazine: 1994

Seller ID: 21813

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

60 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Beyond the Genre: Kenneth and Margaret Millar (Kenneth Millar, best known as Ross Macdonald, and his wife Margaret, mystery and detective authors - with informal checklists); Guilty Pleasures (readers write about favorite books); Collecting Lawrence Block; Lawrence Block: A Selected Checklist of Fiction and Nonfiction, 1961-1994; Crime in Canada (Canadian crime writers); Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (Macmillan); Books into Film (The Big Clock). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership...
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FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. MAY, 1994. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 5. (CHESTER HIMES, CAPTAIN JAMES COOK.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, ed. (Robin H. Smiley, Robert E. Skinner, Jean Marie Parmer.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Los Angeles, Firsts Magazine: 1994

Seller ID: 21808

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

48 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Are Best-Sellers Collectable?; New York Times #1 Best Sellers, Fiction List 1942-1952; Collecting Chester Himes (with informal checklist); An Exploration of Captain James Cook; Books into Film (Midnight Cowboy). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, a few small very soft wrinkles.
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FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. OCTOBER, 1994. VOLUME 4, NUMBER 10. (PHILIP K. DICK, MICHAEL WHELAN.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, ed. (S.M. Mossberg, James Blaylock, Anne R. Dick, Michael Whelan.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, Firsts Magazine: 1994

Seller ID: 21812

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good -

56 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Giants in Our Midst (new science fiction writers); The Young Giants: A Selected Checklist; Collecting Philip K. Dick: So It Would Be Funny; The Good Days (excerpt from Ann R. Dick's book); Philip K. Dick: An Informal Checklist; Michael Whelan: A Sense of Wonder (fantasy artist); Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (Little, Brown); Books into Film (The Andromeda Strain). Interior - two small ink notations on page 28, otherwsie clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, min...
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FIRSTS: THE BOOK COLLECTOR'S MAGAZINE. MAY, 1996. VOLUME 6, NUMBER 5. (WESTERN ISSUE - A.B. GUTHRIE, AMERICAN INDIANS.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, editor. (Larry Blumenfeld, Robert E. Skinner, Lew and Nancy Buckingham.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, Firsts Magazine: 1996

Seller ID: 21829

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

76 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: The Civilization of the American Indian: A Landmark Series from the University of Oklahoma; A Checklist of The Civilization of the American Indian Series; Collecting A.B. Guthrie, Jr. (with checklist); A Tribute to Jeff C. Dykes (collector, educator, bookman - with checklist); Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (The Dial Press); Books into Film ('Giant' by Edna Ferber - film by George Stevens). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, a few...
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FIRSTS: THE BOOK COLLECTOR'S MAGAZINE. JANUARY, 1996. VOLUME 6, NUMBER 1. (CIVIL WAR FICTION - STEPHEN CRANE.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, editor. (Larry Olpin, Michael Quigley, Charles Michaud.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, Firsts Magazine: 1996

Seller ID: 21826

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

60 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Collecting American Civil War Novels; Collecting Stephen Crane; Stephen Crane: A Checklist; In Pursuit of Fugitives (obscure articles and literary contributions); Points: A Collector's Guide to Publishers (Smith and Haas); Books into Film ('The Red Badge of Courage'). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, a few small very soft wrinkles.
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FIRSTS: THE BOOK COLLECTOR'S MAGAZINE. APRIL, 1996. VOLUME 6, NUMBER 4. (M.F.K. FISHER - BASEBALL BOOKS - HEMINGWAY & STEINBECK.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, editor. (Robin H. Smiley, Allen Ahearn, Roger Gozdecki, Al Navis.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, Firsts Magazine: 1996

Seller ID: 21828

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

76 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Collectors' Blue Chips, Part One (Hemingway & Steinbeck); Transcendant Gastronomy: Savoring the Works of M.F.K. Fisher; M.F.K. Fisher: A Checklist; Take Me Back to the Ball Game (nonfiction baseball books); Points; A Collector's Guide to Publishers (W.W. Norton); Books into Film ('The Razor's Edge'). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, a few small very soft wrinkles.
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FIRSTS: COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS. NOVEMBER, 1995. VOLUME 5, NUMBER 11. (ELLIS PETERS/EDITH PARGETER - HISTORICAL MYSTERIES NUMBER.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, editor. (Robin H. Smiley, Barbara G. Peters.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, First Magazine: 1995

Seller ID: 21824

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

64 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: What Caesar Saw: Sleuthing in Ancient Rome (Lindsey Davis, John Maddox Roberts, Ron Burns, Steven Saylor); Collecting Edith Pargeter/Ellis Peters (Brother Cadfael, etc.); Edith Pargeter: A Checklist; History and Mystery: A Natural Pairing; Points; Books into Film ('The Name of the Rose'). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, a few small very soft wrinkles, one small corner crease.
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FIRSTS: THE BOOK COLLECTOR'S MAGAZINE. FEBRUARY, 1996. VOLUME 6, NUMBER 2. (HOLLYWOOD NOVELS - ELMORE LEONARD.)

By: Smiley, Kathryn, editor. (Tom Rusch, Robert E. Skinner, Robin H. Smiley, Christine Bell.)

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Tucson, Arizona, Firsts Magazine: 1996

Seller ID: 21827

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

64 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover (magazine format). B&w illustrations. Articles: Collecting the Hollywood Novel; Collecting Elmore Leonard; Elmore Leonard: A Checklist; How to Read a Books (Without Affecting Its Condition); Points; Books into Film ('Hombre'). Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing, a few small very soft wrinkles.
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NORTHWESTERN APPROACHES: THE FIRST CENTURY OF BOOKS.

By: Smith, R.D. Hilton. Foreword by Samuel Rothstein.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Victoria, B.C., Adelphi Book Shop: 1969

Seller ID: 28425

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

67 pp, 9 5/16" H. Brown simulated leather boards with gold lettering on spine, gold illustration on front board. B&w plates. "First published as the complete issue of the 'British Columbia Library Quarterly' for January 1969. Now published by the Adelphi Book Shop Ltd. in an edition of 750 copies, May 1969." "This is not a bibliography, nor is it a pemmican history of the early northwest, although in some ways it shares the nature of both. It is a series of informal lectures, slightly expanded and re-arranged, on the books written by the explorers of British Columbia and ...
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF STEPHEN LEACOCK.

By: Spadoni, Carl. (Stephen Leacock.)

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, ECW Press: 1998

Seller ID: 29517

ISBN: 1550223658

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

714 pp, 10 1/4" H. Medium blue cloth with silver lettering on spine, silver portrait on front board. Contents: Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; Location Symbols; Illustrations; Separate Publications; Contributions to Books; Contributions to Periodicals (Newspapers, Magazines, Journals, Annuals); Reports of Speeches and Lectures; Lectures Given; Interviews; Authorized Adaptations, Separately Published; Translations; Recordings by Leacock, Braille, Talking Books, and Films; Encyclopedia Articles; Contributions in Serial Articles and Books by Others; Lost Leads; Index. Tiny bump...
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WALTER CRANE.

By: Spencer, Isobel.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1975

Seller ID: 27917

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

208 pp, 11 1/8" H. B&w and colour illustrations. "More than any other artist of the time Walter Crane appears at the center of the great surge of interest in the decorative arts in the late nineteenth century. He was the driving force behind the Arts and Crafts movement, a children's book illustrator, designer of textiles, tiles, stained glass and ceramics, and a painter who enjoyed a reputation on the Continent as the most popular of the Pre-Raphaelites. Long before his name came to be associated with Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott as the outstanding artists for the nursery...
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THE LIFE AND WORK OF KATE GREENAWAY.

By: Spielman, M.H. & Layard, G.S.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Bracken: 1986

Seller ID: 29910

ISBN: 0946495793

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

301 pp, 9" H. Kate Greenaway "studied art at South Kensington and the Slade, where her fellow students were Lady Butler and Helen Allingham. To start with, she worked as an illustrator and drew Valentine and Christmas cards, as well as black and white pictures for various books. Her great breakthrough came in 1877 when she met Edmund Evans and showed him the collection of drawings and poems that she had assembled. These were published by Evans as 'Under the Window', which was a runaway success and was followed by the many childrens books for which she is best known. Among these are 'M...
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Image for THE OSBORNE COLLECTION OF EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOKS, 1566-1910: A CATALOGUE. VOLUME I &THE OSBORNE COLLECTION OF EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOKS, 1476-1910: A CATALOGUE. VOLUME II. 2 VOLUME SET.

THE OSBORNE COLLECTION OF EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOKS, 1566-1910: A CATALOGUE. VOLUME I &THE OSBORNE COLLECTION OF EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOKS, 1476-1910: A CATALOGUE. VOLUME II. 2 VOLUME SET.

By: St. John, Judith. Introduction by Edgar Osborne.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Toronto Public Library: 1975

Seller ID: 28673

ISBN: 0919486258

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Volume I - 562 pp, ISBN 0919486258. Volume II - pagination runs from 563-1138 pp, ISBN 0919486541. 2 volume set - 10" H, decorative cloth boards, gilt lettering on spines, b&w and colour illustrations. Card laid in volume II stating "A Presentation Copy for The Friends of the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books and The Lillian H. Smith Collection". "This Catalogue is a record of early English children's books in the Osborne Collection, Boys and Girls House, Toronto Public Libraries." The catalogue is arranged under the headings: Aesop and other fabulists; Myth...
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Image for A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANADIANA: BEING ITEMS IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF TORONTO, CANADA, RELATING TO THE EARLY HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CANADA. PLUS: FIRST SUPPLEMENT & SECOND SUPPLEMENT (IN FOUR VOLUMES INCLUDING INDEX). SIX VOLUME SET.

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANADIANA: BEING ITEMS IN THE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF TORONTO, CANADA, RELATING TO THE EARLY HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CANADA. PLUS: FIRST SUPPLEMENT & SECOND SUPPLEMENT (IN FOUR VOLUMES INCLUDING INDEX). SIX VOLUME SET.

By: Staton, Frances M.; Tremaine, Marie; Boyle, Gertrude M.; Alston, Sandra; editors. Introductions by George H. Locke and Henry C. Campbell.

Price: $500.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Toronto Public Library / Metropolitan Toronto Library Board:

Seller ID: 28717

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

6 volume set, bound in maroon cloth with green title blocks/gilt lettering on spines, 10" H. B&w reproductions. Volume I - A Bibliography of Canadiana: Being Items in the Public Library of Toronto, Canada, Relating to the Early History and Development of Canada - 1965 reprint, 828 pp + errata page (bound in). Volume II - Ditto: First Supplement - published 1959, 333 pp + errata page (bound in). Volume III - Ditto: Second Supplement, Volume 1, 1512-1800 - published 1989 (ISBN 0887730299 - for all four volumes of the Second Supplement), 353 pp + erratum slip (laid in at rear). Volume IV...
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DETECTIVE FICTION. READER'S GUIDES. THIRD SERIES.

By: Stevenson, W.B., compiled and introduced by.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, National Book League / Cambridge University Press: 1958

Seller ID: 13652

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good

32 pp, 7 1/4" H. Contents: Introduction; Titles Mentioned in the Introduction; Reading List - The Old Masters; The Moderns; Books about Detective Fiction; Index of Titles. Interior - staples are rusty, othewise clean and tight. Exterior - top corner of book is bumped causing light creases throughout, light fading to spine, minor rubbing.
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