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Taylor, Phoebe Atwood.
Death Lights a Candle. An Asey Mayo Mystery.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1960. 1st printing. 304 pages. Signed by the author.
First published in 1932.
Warmly inscribed and signed by the author on blank front flyleaf; signed on the
title page, and signed as Alice Tilton on the verso of the half-title page
listing her books. Very good hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket. #27749.
$325
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Taylor, Phoebe Atwood.
Punch with Care: An Asey Mayo Mystery.
Jacket design by Robert Ritter. New York: Norton, 1969? Reissued. 215 pages.
First published in 1946, this is an undated printing.
Very good hardcover in worn and rubbed dust jacket. ISBN 0393086089.
#26017. $25
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Thummel, Moritz August von, and
Friedrich Nicolai.
Wilhelmine, by Thummel. And, The Life and Opinions of Master
Sebaldus Nothanker, by Friedrich Nicolai.
Translated by John R. Russell. Columbia, South Carolina: Camden House, 1998. x, 157
pages. Masterworks of the German Rococo and Enlightenment. Translation of
Nicolai's Leben und dei Meinungen des Herrn Magister Schaldus Nothanker.
As new hardcover. ISBN 1571131450. #24335. $35
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Tow, R., Jr. (Pseudonym of Arto
DeMirjian, Jr.).
Ducks at the Scene of the Crime.
New York: Book Elan, 2006. 1st edition, 1st printing. 167 pages. The third
mystery novel featuring Donald MacCorkindale Byrd in the a.k.a Ducks Series.
Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 0962793647. #28343.
$15
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Twain, Mark (pseudonym of Samuel L.
Clemens).
The Innocents Abroad; or, The New Pilgrims' Progress.
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1911, 1912. Authorized edition. 16 mo (small
books). 2 volumes (320, 335 pages). Tauchnitz Collection of British Authors,
1812 and 1813. Title page publication date is 1879. Rear cover of volume 1
lists May 1912 Tauchnitz Editions, and volume 2 lists December 1911 editions.
Volume 2 has a 31-page listing of Tauchnitz editions dated April 1, 1913,
lacking pages 29-30.
Good wrappers (soft cover); front covers of both volumes partially detached,
damp stain on lower right-hand corner of volume 1; both volumes have a purple
stamp on front cover from a bookstore in Naples. #26843. $40
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Tymms, Ralph.
German Romantic Literature.
London: Methuen, 1955. 1st printing. v, 406 pages. Index. Bibliography.
'In this book the emphasis lies on the evolution of romantic ideas and
practices in Germany, in the establishment and formulation of romantic theory
by its first exponents.' - Foreword. Chapters on Friedrich Schlegel and August
Wilhelm Schlegel, Novalis, Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim, Zacharias Werner,
Heinrich von Kleist, etc. Very good hardcover. #24834. $25
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Usher, Gray.
Death Goes Caving.
London: John Long, 1959. 1st printing. 190 pages.
Good hardcover; all edges slightly stained and foxed, small black line on top
edge, some stains (foxing?) on bottom margin of rear pages. #26761. $22.50
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