[Rarebooks] FS: Modern First Editions, some Signed, all with prices reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:   Was $75,  Now  $45

GARDNER, John. OCTOBER LIGHT. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First 
Edition. Winner of the National Book Award. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. 
(#001097)        $45.00
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Price reduced:   Was $150,  Now  $90

GRUBB, Davis. A DREAM OF KINGS. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955. 
First Edition. His second book, a Civil War novel and scarcer than his 
first and most famous book, THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER. About Fine in a 
Very Good dustwrapper with minor chips at the spine tips. (#007689)    
     $90.00
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Price reduced:   Was $75,  Now  $45

HIJUELOS, Oscar. THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE. [New York]: Farrar, 
Straus & Giroux, (1989). First Edition. Advance Copy in pictorial wraps 
of this winner of a Pulitzer Prize. Fine. (#002773)        $45.00
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Price reduced:   Was $125,  Now  $75

HIJUELOS, Oscar. THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE. Farrar, Straus & 
Giroux, (1989). First Edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. SIGNED by 
the author with the sentiment "With Songs of Love" on the half-title 
page. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with minor wear near heel of 
spine. (#005605)        $75.00
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Price reduced:   Was $125,  Now  $75

HIJUELOS, Oscar. THE MAMBO KINGS PLAY SONGS OF LOVE. [New York]: Farrar, 
Straus & Giroux, (1989). First Edition. Advance Review Copy in pictorial 
wraps of this winner of a Pulitzer Prize. SIGNED by the author on the 
half-title page. Fine. (#005842)        $75.00
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Price reduced:   Was $200,  Now  $100

SIMMONS, Dan. BANISHED DREAMS. Arvada, CO: Roadkill Press, (1990). First 
Edition. One of 300 SIGNED and numbered copies in pictorial wraps, this 
copy lettered "PC" indicating it is a printer's copy. This chapbook 
consists of selections removed by the author at the publisher's request 
from his not yet then published novel SUMMER OF NIGHT. Fine. 
(#007638)        $100.00

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