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Featured items that Bluebird Books plans to bring to RMBPF 2010.
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Bluebird Books
Eric Mayer
8201 S. Santa Fe #245 Littleton CO 80120
303-912-4559
www.bluebirdbooks.com
books@bluebirdbooks.com
Classic Fiction and Literature, Modern Library Editions, Books about Birds
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Author: Victor Hugo
Title / Sub-Title: Les Miserables: 2 Volume Set
Publisher Data: New York: The Heritage Press, [undated].
Description (including price): Author's immortal work in a very handsome
2-volume set. Undated, with references to earlier editions published
1938; these copies likely published c. 1950s-1960s. Translated from the
French by Lascelles Wraxall. Illustrated by Lynd Ward. With introduction
by Andre Maurois. Book I contains Volumes I, II and III. Book II
contains IV and V. Book I with sunfaded spine, some smudges on edges;
plus 2 of the first pages are creased and crumpled. Book II in clean,
bright, undamaged (Near Fine) condition. With publisher's Sandglass
informative flyer about this work laid in. No slipcase is present. Item
72574. PRICE: $26.00
Genre/Category: Classic Fiction and Literature
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Author: Mikhail Sholokhov
Title / Sub-Title: And Quiet Flows the Don: 4 Volume Set
Publisher Data: Moscow, Russia: Foreign Language Publishing House,
[undated].
Description (including price): Remarkable, hard-to-find undated 4-volume
set of Sholokhov's masterpiece, each with its own unique illustrated
dust jacket. Each volume 16 mo. (5-3/4"-6-3/4" tall). Translated from
the Russian by Stephen Garry (revised and completed by Robert Daglish).
Single page detailing Key to Principal Characters laid in. All books in
full brown cloth covers w/author facsimile signature on front cover. All
are solid and tight, but beginnings of spine crack, Volume 1 (Vol 1
condition="Good"). Vol 2 has rubberstamping inside back cover, otherwise
interiors clean, bright and unmarked. Author photo on flypage, Vol 1.
Each has its own purple ribbon bookmark. DJs chafed and scuffed, espec
at extemities; and each now protected in removable mylar cover. Item
72492. PRICE $95.00.
Genre/Category: Classic Fiction and Literature
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Author: John James Audubon
Title / Sub-Title: Birds of America
Publisher Data: New York: Macmillan Company, 1967.
Description (including price): Recreation of Mr. Audubon's landmark work
(first published 1827-1830) in a quarto-sized edition. With 435 gorgeous
prints of the species featured in the original. With foreward and
descriptive captions by William Vogt. Contains facsimile of one of the
title pages from an original issue of this work. In full blue-green
cloth covers w/silver decorations and printing, cover and spine; minor
wear, extremities. Soiling at volume's edges; interior free of markings.
Dust wrapper has 2 lenghty closed tears + several small closed tears but
is intact; with unclipped original $12.50 flap price. Now in removable
mylar protector. Stated 8th printing. 435 pgs, xxvi. Item 72625. PRICE
$39.00.
Genre/Category: Birds and Wildlife
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Author: John O'Hara
Title / Sub-Title: Appointment in Samarra
Publisher Data: New York: The Modern Library, [undated]
Description (including price): Good copy of author's first novel [1st
published 1934]; with a new foreword by O'Hara. In full blue cloth
covers w/decorative red & gilt panels frt and spine. This edition bears
1953 date, but issued by Modern Library c.1962. Interior clean, with no
inkings or bookplates. Edge topstained red by publisher. Priceclipped
dust jacket chafed and with small missing bits, espec along hinge & at
head & tail of spine; in removable mylar protector. Reverse of DJ lists
365 titles in ML catalog. Toledano binding #8. ML #42.3. Item 72585.
PRICE $16.50.
Genre/Category: Modern Library Editions
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Author: John Gribbin
Title / Sub-Title: The History of Western Science 1543-2001
Publisher Data: London: The Folio Society, 2006.
Description (including price): Gorgeous volume traces the people and
their discoveries. In decorative light blue and gilt design front & rear
covers. Top edge bright gilt. Interior liberally dotted with pictures,
is clean, bright & unmarked. Slipcase in generally good shape, but with
small corner tears. Item 72152. PRICE: $65.00
Genre/Category: Geology and Science
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