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SOME OF OUR FAVORITE BOOKS
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Val Lewton: The Reality of Terror by Joel E. Siegel. Hardback in jacket published by Viking Press in 1973. Condition is very good in very good jacket: light sunning to jacket, some edge wear with 2-inch tear on front lower edge; light wear to binding edges, corners slightly bumped, minor soiling to front free endpaper, book has a slight smoky smell. $75
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The House That Glue Built by Clara Andrews Williams, with illustrations by George Alfred Williams. Hardback published by Frederick A. Stokes Company in 1905. Condition is fair: rubbing, light soiling and sunning to pictorial binding, corners and spine ends bumped, edges worn, previous owner's name on front pastedown, light soiling and foxing to pages, book has a smoky smell, some pages have been cut apart with pieces glued into their places on background pages, other pieces have been cut apart but not glued in (almost all pieces are present, although a few may have been glued onto pages where they don't belong); sold as is. $75
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Night Terrors & Other Tales by Lisa Morton. Paperback first edition published by Omnium Gatherum in 2020. Condition is fine. Books are signed and can be personally inscribed. $13.99
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Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945 to 1990 by Linda Hunt. Hardback first edition in jacket published by St. Martins Press in 1991. Condition is good in very good jacket: light edge wear to jacket, no price is present on jacket front flap (possible book club edition, or jacket may have been trimmed), sticker residue to spine bottom; minor edge wear to binding, book has a slightly bowed front board, highlighting to one page. $150
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Rosario + Vampire Season One (10 volume set) by Akihisa Ikeda. Paperbacks published by Viz Media beginning in 2008 (most of these are later printings). Overall condition is very good: light wear to covers and slightly bent corners, several volumes have light soiling or scuffing to the bottom edge, Volume 2 has slight rippling, probably from water damage (no staining is present, though). $40
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I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2 volume set) by S. T. Joshi. Hardback first edition published by Hippocampus Press in 2010. Books are near fine in fine jackets; both books have a very slight spine slant. $200
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Have you ever noticed the big safe full of books behind Iliad's front counter? We get asked about it frequently. "Is it really old?" is a common question (the answer: no, we bought it new just a few years ago). But most customers want to know what kind of books merit storage in a safe (we think of these as the rarest of our rare books), so in this column we'll pick one book every month and tell you about it. This month's book is...
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Many Happy Returns: An Unofficial Guide to Your Income-Tax Problems by Groucho Marx, with illustrations by O. Soglow. Hardback in jacket published by Simon & Schuster in 1942. Condition is very good in good jacket. jacket is sunned and stained, light edge wear with small chips at corners and spine ends; light staining to binding, corners and spine ends slightly bumped, foxing to endpapers, store label on front free endpaper. $250
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And click here to read an interview that VoyageLA did with Lisa about the history of the Iliad.
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Happy 7th Birthday to Zeus and Apollo! Former employee Kevin sent us this adorable shot of the boys as babies. We apologize for the excessive cuteness.
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