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SOME OF OUR FAVORITE BOOKS
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe, illustrated by Harry Clarke. Hardback without jacket published by Tudor Publishing Co. in 1933. Condition is good: all plates are present; binding is lightly sunned on spine, some wear and soiling, corners slightly bumped, binding cracked at several points. $100
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Santa Barbara and Around There by Edwards Roberts and H C. Ford (illustrations). Hardback published by Roberts Brothers in 1886. Ex-library book in good condition: binding is sunned on spine, light wear and soiling to binding, corners and spine ends slightly bumped, library label on front free endpaper and cataloguing note on title page, previous owner's stamp on front pastedown, binding is cracking at several points. $75
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Battle Angel Alita: Last Order Volume 15: Last Angel Standing by Yukito Kishiro. Paperback first edition in English published by VizMedia in 2011. Condition is very good:very minor wear to wraps, corners slightly bent. $100
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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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The Godfather Family Album by Steve Schapiro, edited by Paul Duncan. Signed hardback quarterbound in leather, in clamshell case, published by Taschen in 2008. Numbered 719/1,200, signed by Schapiro. Condition is fine (with light soiling to case). $1,250
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We've just listed a number of amazing J. D. Salinger collectibles: we've got the original first publications (in issues of New Yorker and Harper's) of seven stories from Nine Stories, "Franny" from Franny and Zoey, "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," and one uncollected short story. We've also got some lovely design magazines, a lot of collectible car magazines, some wonderful vintage mystery magazines, and other cool stuff - check it out!
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Thanks to customer Carla Finnemore for these adorable shots of the boys!
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