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GRESHAM, WILLIAM LIND-
SAY.
Nightmare Alley.
8vo, publisher’s
black cloth, mild shelf-wear with light
exposure to spine tips and corners, top
edges stained green; dust jacket, minor
rubbing to spine panel tips and fold cor-
ners, spine and rear panels toned slightly,
few small nicks, unclipped; contents clean
and unmarked.
NewYork: Rinehart and Company,
(1946)
[250/350]
FIRST EDITION
.
The basis for the 1947 film
starring Tyrone Power. “...Nightmare Alley, the
unremitting and darkest of noirs, is about noth-
ing less than how to make a [carnival] geek”
(Smiley, Books into Film, pp. 123-26).
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HAGGARD, H. RIDER.
She.
Dual chromolithographed plates at front, 2
pages publisher’s advertisements at rear.
8vo, original dark blue cloth, lettered and
decorated in gilt, beveled edges, cocked,
few faint scratches, small nick at spine
head repaired; slight foxing to fore-edges
though leaves unaffected.
FIRST ENGLISH
EDITION
,
FIRST ISSUE
, with uncorrected
text. McKay 5a; Sadleir 1092;Wolff 2881.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887
[400/600]
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HAGGARD, H. RIDER.
Allan
Quatermain Being an Account of His
Further Adventures and Discoveries.
Illustrated with twenty engraved plates by
C.H.M. Kerr. 8vo, publisher’s gilt-stamped
olive/brown cloth over bevelled boards,slightly
cocked, light finger-soiling; hinges tender,
occasional foxing, chiefly to fore-edges and
front and end matter.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887
[400/600]
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST PRINTING
;
meeting all
points: frontis of Quatermain with signature;
“Dongo Egere” misprint on page 17;
“Quartermain” misprint on page 78; page
[279] a list of Authorities; and page [280]
with a list of six Haggard titles. Bleiler
Checklist, p. 89; Scott 7;Whatmore F6.
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