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PEARCE, DONN.
Cool Hand
Luke.
8vo, original denim blue cloth; dust
jacket, few short closed tears, scattered
creasing and rubbing with shallow abra-
sions.
FIRST EDITION
.
NewYork: Scribner’s (1965)
[400/600]
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PERKINS, FREDERIC B.
Scrope;
or, the Lost Library.
Printed in double
columns. Tall 8vo, original gilt-stamped
green cloth, few small stains, rebacked
with original spine laid-down; ownership
inscription to front free endpaper, Lawrence
Solomon bookplate laid-in.
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1874
[700/1,000]
FIRST EDITION
.
Considered the first bibliomystery,
encompassing much about antiquarian books
and booksellers. Scarce at auction, with no
copies traced in two decades. Hubin, p.315.
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POE, EDGAR ALLAN.
The
Murders in the Rue Morgue and
Other Tales of Mystery.
Illustrated with
6 plates and pictorial endpapers with stills
from the Universal motion picture star-
ring Bela Lugosi. 8vo, publisher’s red cloth,
front cover and one corner of rear cover
mottled; dust jacket, rear panel with some
edge chips, front panel with chip to one
corner, folds rubbed, edges creased; fore-
edges with four small brown dents.
FIRST
PRINTING OF THE PHOTOPLAY EDITION
.
NewYork: Grosset & Dunlap, [1932]
[600/900]
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