[Rarebooks] FS: 5 Modern First Editions, some SIGNED, prices greatly reduced

[Charles Agvent]

ALL PRICES ARE NET plus postage.



Price reduced:     Was $400,      Now $200

CONROY, Pat.  THE BOO. **Atlanta: Old New York Book Shop Press, 1988. 
Cloth and marbled paper over boards in cloth slipcase. Copy #9 of 250 
with a new introduction by the author and SIGNED by Conroy, Lt. Col 
Nugent Courvoisie ("The Boo") and Col. Donald Conroy ("The Great 
Santini").  Book is Fine with the original hand-lettered wrap-around 
paper label with the ink faded to a lighter color at the spine.  The 
slipcase is present and intact, but for some reason was stored 
separately from the book and is heavily spotted. (#010014)        $200.00
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Price reduced:     Was $125,     Now $30

CONROY, Pat. THE LORDS OF DISCIPLINE. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. 
First Edition. First issue dustwrapper with the James Dickey blurb.  
Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with very light wear at the spine tips. 
(#005751)        $30.00
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Price reduced:     Was $150,      Now $100

CONROY, Pat. THOMAS WOLFE. Atlanta: Old New York Book Shop Press, 2000. 
First Edition. Bound in purple cloth boards with gilt-lettered blue 
cloth spine. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by the author and by 
Barry Moser, creator of the frontispeice engraving depicting Wolfe and 
Conroy. Fine without dustwrapper, as issued. (#010055)        $100.00
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Price reduced:     Was $450,      Now $150

DOCTOROW, E.L. BIG AS LIFE. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1966). First 
Edition. His second book, in our experience more difficult to find than 
his first. Doctorow "makes serious use of a classic convention of our 
popular culture-- the great city visited by some monstrous, biologically 
unprecedented menace." The dustwrapper is lightly soiled with a few 
internal tape reinforcements and a quarter- sized triangular chip in the 
upper right corner with a resulting slight darkening of the cloth in 
that spot. All told, a very collectable copy of this rather scarce book. 
Near Fine in a Good dustwrapper. (#006716)        $150.00
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Price reduced:     Was $100,      Now $25

McPHEE, John. ORANGES. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1967). First 
Edition. An attractive copy of his third book about the botany, history, 
and industry of oranges. Mild sunning to the very edges of the book.  
Near Fine in a very lightly soiled but about Fine dustwrapper. 
(#006819)        $25.00
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