[Rarebooks] FS: Ten Items Discounted with an Additional 20% Discount available

[Stephen Johnson]

*Greetings to All*.
 *Subject to the terms set forth below, today and tomorrow we offer the 10
below-described works at substantial  discounts.*
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*If you buy more than one book from this list, we will discount the
purchase prices (of your items purchased) set forth below by 20%.  Simply
let us know that you have received this Extra Discount email.*

*Subject to the terms set forth below, today and tomorrow we offer the 10
below-described works at  substantial  discounts.*
1.  Wright, Lyle H.; Smith, Geoffrey D.
American Fiction 1774-1850; American Fiction 1851-1875; American Fiction
1876-1900; American Fiction 1901-1925

San Marino, CA and Cambridge, UK: The Huntington Library and Cambridge
University Press, 1969,1965, 1966, 1997. First Edition and Second Revised
Edition. Hardcover. A Very Good or better copy of American Fiction from
1774 through 1925 with the first volume being the Second Revised Edition
(which improved on the first revised edition and provided additional
information), the second volume being the first edition, second printing
with the Additions and Corrections being appended (rather than given in a
separate volume), the third volume being the first edition, first printing,
and the fourth volume being the first edition, first printing, thus the
complete work of this bibliography of American Fiction. The first three
volumes were prepared by Lyle H. Wright and the fourth and final volume by
Geoffrey D. Smith, each with the assistance of others. The first three
volumes still wear their original dust jackets and the fourth has no dust
jacket. All of the Volumes and jackets are in reasonably nice condition
with the closed page blocks showing varying amounts of soiling and marking
and the jackets showing some soiling and some wear and tear. Altogether a
Very Good or better complete set of this notable Bibliography of American
Fiction published from 1774 through 1925. A Very Good or better set.
[PLEASE NOTE: This a heavy set and the Buyer's postage cost will exceed
that quoted by this site.]. Very good / very good. Item #2885

Price: *$325.00  NOW AVAILABLE FOR $125.00*
2.  FLANDREYSY, J. de; BOUZANQUET, G.
LE TAUREAU CAMARGUE SON ELEVAGE LA COURSE PROVENÇALE [THE TAURUS CAMARGUE,
ITS BREEDING, THE PROVENCAL RACE]

Paris: Les Éditions du Cadran, 1925. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing, bound in red
quarter-leather with the spine buttressed (some general rubbing and marking
and some minor cracking to the joint ends, some scuffing to the leather,
light bend line to the first several leaves) with a beautiful marbled
pastedown and facing free endpaper at the front and back, prior owner's
elegant bookplate to the front pastedown. This is one of only 1,000 copies
issued and is thoroughly illustrated. Due the volume's size (approximately
13 inches X approximately 10 inches) and and weight, Buyer's shipping cost
will exceed that quoted by this site. A Very Good or better copy of this
rather uncommon work. Very good. Item #2825

Price: $250.00     NOW AVAILABLE FOR $75.00


3.  Haskell, Hugh; Moss, Sterling [Foreword]
Colin Chapman Lotus Engineering: Theories, Designs & Applications

London: Osprey, 1993. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A Very Good
+ or better copy of the first edition, first printing (some toning and
spotting to the closed page block's edges - primarily to the top edge) in a
Near Fine dust jacket with only slight wear (tiny tear at the front flap's
upper right corner, some toning/spotting to the recto's extremities). In
this book, Hugh Haskell takes the reader through Colin Chapman's
engineering principles, design doctrines, and innovations that made
powerful Formula One cars, as well as power boats and more, more powerful
while decreasing components. Hardcover copies in a condition as nice as is
this copy are quite uncommon to the market. Very good + / near fine. Item
#2868

Price: $115.00    NOW AVAILABLE FOR $35.00


4.  Francis, Dick
Comeback [SIGNED 2X]

London: Michael Joseph, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
Michael Joseph, London, 1991. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket
Condition: fine. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine copy of the first
edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED TWICE BY DICK
FRANCIS - once on the tipped-in half title and again on the title page;
Dick Francis's thirteenth novel. A Fine copy, SIGNED TWICE BY DICK FRANCIS.
QUITE SCARCE INDEED. Fine / fine. Item #2852

Price: $95.00   NOW AVAILABLE FOR $35.00


5.  Wouk, Herman
The Hope [Signed]

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993. First Edition, First
Printing. Hardcover.
A Near Fine copy of the first trade edition, first printing (slight curve
to the front board, slight soiling the page block bottom's leading edge) in
a Fine dust jacket, SIGNED BY HERMAN WOUK on the title page; Wouk's
historical novel about pivotal events in the state of Israel taking place
from 1948 to 1967 which includes Wouk's portrayal of a number of real-life
leaders of Israel, including David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Dayan, Golda Meir,
Mickey Marcus, Yigael Yadin, Ariel Sharon, and Motta Gur. The Washington
Post once described Wouk (a prolific writer and a rather private person) as
"the reclusive dean of American historical novelists". A Limited Edition of
300 copies also was published. Signed copies of the trade edition are
rather uncommon. A Near Fine copy, SIGNED BY HERMAN WOUK. Near fine / fine.
Item #2878

Price: $65.00      NOW AVAILABLE FOR $25.00
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6.  Morris, Wright
Here is Einbaum [Signed]

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Edition, First Printing.
Hardcover.
A Very Good + copy of the first edition, first printing (some tiny spots to
the closed page block's top edge, tiny nick to the rear board's bottom
edge), in the Publisher's original acetate dust jacket, being copy 116 of
226 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray and signed by Wright Morris on
the Limitation Page. A Very Good + copy, SIGNED BY WRIGHT MORRIS. Very good
+ / very good. Item #2874

Price: $45.00   NOW AVAILABLE FOR $20.00


7.  O'Brian, Patrick
The Commodore

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. A
Fine copy of the first edition, first printing (some tiny pushes to the
leading corners, tiny foxing spots to the closed page block's upper edge),
in a Fine dust jacket; the seventeenth novel in O'Brian's famed
Aubrey-Maturin series of works, and a well-received novel. Fine / fine.
Item #998. Fine / fine. Item #998

*Price: $45.00 *  * NOW AVAILABLE FOR $20.00  *


8.  Price, Reynolds
Nobel Norfleet [Signed]

New York: Scribner, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A Fine,
Superior, copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket,
SIGNED BY REYNOLDS PRICE on the title page and there inscribed by Price as
follows: "Brian // [angled slash mark] // Reynolds Price", and without the
"Autographed Copy" sticker on the dust jacket. We seldom see signed copies
in a condition as nice as is this copy. A Fine, Superior, copy, SIGNED BY
REYNOLDS PRICE. Fine / fine. Item #2865

Price: $45.00   NOW AVAILABLE FOR $20.00


9.  Muller, Marcia
The Shape of Dread [Signed]

New York: The Mysterious Press, 1989. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover.
A Fine copy of the first edition, first printing, in a Fine dust jacket,
SIGNED by Marcia Muller on the title page; Muller's tenth Sharon McCone
mystery. Of the book, Sue Grafton stated: "Marcia Muller if the founding
'mother' of the contemporary female hard-boiled private eye. With 'The
Shape of Dread', she refines her already considerable contribution to the
Genre. This is Marcia Muller at her best and Sharon McCone at her most
engaging." A Fine copy, SIGNED BY MARCIA MULLER. Fine / Fine. Item #2873

Price: *$35.00  **NOW AVAILABLE FOR $12.00*


*10.  *Cather, Willa
My Antonia

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover.
A Very Good copy of the first edition, first printing, second state with
the illustrations printed on text paper. [The first state of the first
printing has the illustrations on glossy coated paper. As Willa Cather
objected to the glossy paper, the balance of the first printing was printed
on the same paper used on the text pages. It is thought that 2,500 copies
were printed on coated paper and that only 1,000 copies were printed on the
same paper as was used for the text.] This copy is somewhat askew and shows
rubbing the the spine ends and board corners as well as mild damage to the
spine panel, a few margin tears (not affecting the text), prior owner's
signature in pencil to the half title, and a couple of stray marks to the
rear free endpaper's verso. As the first printing was not substantial,
copies of the first edition, first printing in either state are QUITE
UNCOMMON TO SCARCE. A Very Good copy. QUITE UNCOMMON TO SCARCE. Very good.
Item #2877

Price: $525.00   NOW AVAILABLE FOR $350.00


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With Thanks for your consideration of the above and
Best Wishes,
Stephen
Allington Antiquarian Books


Stephen Johnson
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