This Day in History: 1854 : "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson is published [1854]

• 1854 : "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson is published

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	1 TENNYSON, Alfred Lord. Lady of Shalott. NY Franklin Watts 1968 Hardcover Illustrated by Bernadette Watts. First American edition. Near fine in a very good (minor edge wear, small chip at base of rear panel) dust jacket. Price: 50.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2 TENNYSON, Alfred, Lord. Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Cambridge Limited Editions Club 1974 Selected and introduced by John D. Rosenberg. Illustrated with wood engravings by Reynolds Stone. This copy is number 22 of a limited edition of 2,000 copies. SIGNED by the illustrator. Some separation of the front hinge after the front free end paper, else fine in a near fine (trace shelf wear) slipcase. Price: 45.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

This Day in History: Wizard of Oz

1939 : Sneak previews of The Wizard of Oz

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	1. (L. Frank Baum) HEARN, Michael Patrick (editor). Annotated Wizard of Oz: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. NY Clarkson N. Potter 1973 051750086 8 Hardcover With 44 four-color plates, 129 two-color drawings and 38 black and white illustrations by W. W. Denslow. Introduction, notes, and bibliograph y. First edition. Near fine in a very good (minor edge wear), price clipped dust jacket. ISBN: 051750086 8. Price: 35.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. (Lisbeth Zwerger) BAUM, L. Frank. Wizard of Oz. NY North-South Books 1996 1558586385 Hardcover Illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger. Second printing. Fine in a very near fine, price clipped dust jacket. ISBN: 1558586385. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3. BAUM, L. Frank. Land of Oz: A Sequel to The Wizard of Oz. Chicago Reilly & Lee 1932 Hardcover Black and white illustrations by John R. Neill. A reprint edition. Very good in a very good (light shelf wear, a few short closed edge tears) dust jacket. Price: 65.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4. BAUM, L. Frank. Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman: A Sequel to The Wizard of Oz. Chicago Reilly & Lee 1904 Hardcover Black and white illustrations by John R. Neill. A reprint edition. Near fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket. A bright, celan, well preserved copy. Price: 35.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5. BAUM, L. Frank. Little Wizard Stories of Oz. NY Schocken Books 1985 0805240055 Hardcover Introduction by Michael Patrick Hearn. 42 color plates illustrated by John R. Neill. First printing thus. Ex-library copy with typical markings, else very good in a near fine dust jacket that has no library markings. ISBN: 0805240055. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	6. BAUM, L. Frank. Wizard of Oz. Chicago Reilly & Lee 1956 Hardcover Color illustrations by W. W. Denslow. A reprint edition. Gift inscription on half-title page, else near fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

Born on this Day: Hunter S. Thompson

1929 : Hunter S. Thompson is born

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	1. THOMPSON, Hunter S. Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie: Gonzo Papers, Vol. 4. NY Random House 1994 0679424474 Hardcover Illustrated. First printing. Fine in a very near fine (small corner crease to front flap) dust jacket. ISBN: 0679424474. Price: 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. THOMPSON, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, 1968-1976 (The Gonzo Letters, Volume II). NY Simon & Schuster 2000 068487315X Hardcover Edited by Douglas Brinkley. Foreword by David Halberstam. First printing. Fine in a near fine (light vertical crease to front flap), price clipped dust jacket. ISBN: 068487315X. Price: 100.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3. THOMPSON, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72. San Francisco Straight Arrow Books 1973 0879320532 Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket With illustrations by Ralph Steadman. Black and white photographs. First printing. Very good in a very good (fair sized chip in upper corner of rear panel, edge worn) second state (no white border around the photograph on rear panel) dust jacket. Price: 100.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4. THOMPSON, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72. San Francisco Straight Arrow Books 1973 0879 320532 Hardcover With illustrations by Ralph Steadman. Black and white photographs. Third printing. Very good in a very good (edge worn with a few short closed edge tears) second state (no white border around the photograph on rear panel) dust jacket. ISBN: 0879 320532. Price: 50.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5. THOMPSON, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973 0879320532 Third Printing Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket With illustrations by Ralph Steadman. Black and white photographs. Remainder mark on bottom edge, else very good in a very good (minor shelf wear, fading along the spine) second state (no white border around the photograph on rear panel) dust jacket. Price: 45.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	6. THOMPSON, Hunter S. Rum Diary: The Long Lost Novel. NY Simon and Schuster 1998 Paperback Fine Thompson's novel, written in 1959, published now for the first time. Advance reader's excerpt (paperback). Forty-seven pages. Fine in glossy pictorial wraps. Price: 75.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

This Day in History: Erle Stanley Gardner is born [1889]

1889 : Erle Stanley Gardner is born

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1. GARDNER, Erle Stanley. Case of the Crying Swallow: A Perry Mason Novelette and Other Stories. NY William Morrow 1971 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket First edition. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Price: 25.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

This Day in History: John Coltrane dies [1964]

1964 : John Coltrane dies

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1. COLE, Bill. John Coltrane. NY Schirmer Books 1976 0028706609 Hardcover First printing. Previous owner's name on title page, trace foxing to top and fore edges, else very good in a near fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0028706609. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

This Day in History: Billie Holiday Dies [1959]

1959 : Billie Holiday dies

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	1. DE VEAUX, Alexis. Don't Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday. NY Harper & Row 1980 0060216298 Hardcover First edition. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else near fine in a near fine (lower corner of front flap is clipped) dust jacket. ISBN: 0060216298. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. MARGOLICK, David. Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday, Cafe Society, and an Early Cry for Civil Rights. Philadelphia Running Press 2000 0762406771 Hardcover Fine Black and white photographs. Foreword by Hilton Als. First printing. SIGNED by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0762406771.; Signed by Author Price: 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

Disneyland Opens On This Day [1955]

1955 : Disneyland opens

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	1. BLITZ, Marcia. Donald Duck. NY Harmony 1979 0517529610 Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket Color and black and white illustrations throughout. First edition. Fine in an about fine dust jacket that has a tiny closed tear at the top of the front panel. Price: 55.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. BOWLES, Jerry. Forever Hold Your Banner High!: The Story of the Mickey Mouse Club and What Happened to the Mouseketeers. Garden City Doubleday 1976 0385116225 Hardcover First edition. Near fine in a very good (light shelf wear) dust jacket. ISBN: 0385116225. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3. BROWN, Margaret Wise. Little Pig's Picnic and Other Stories. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1939 Hardcover Very Good Color illustrations by The Walt Disney Studio. First edition. Minor shelf wear, else very good in illustrated boards. No dust jacket. Price: 10.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4. EMERSON, Caroline D. Mickey Sees the U.S.A. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1944 Hardcover Near Fine Color illustrations by The Walt Disney Studio. First edition thus. Previous owner's name on verso of front free endpaper, else near fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket. Price: 50.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5. HAMILTON, Bruce (editor). Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse in Color. NY Pantheon 1988 0394575199 Hardcover 1930s Disney comic strip classics. Color illustrations throughout. First edition. Light vertical crease to front free endpaper, else near fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0394575199. Price: 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	6. KEY, Alexander. Escape to Witch Mountain. Philadelphia Westminster Press 1968 Hardcover Made into the 1975 Disney film. Illustrated by Leon B. Wisdom, Jr. First edition. Slightest hint of a spine slant, faint foxing to fore edge, else near fine in a near fine (trace foxing to rear panel and flap edges) dust jacket. A reasonably well pr eserved and attractive copy. Price: 400.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	7. PURNELL, Idella (retold by). Walt Disney's Bambi. Boston: D. C. Heath and Company, 1944 Hardcover Near Fine Adapted from Felix Salten. Color illustrations by The Walt Disney Studio. First edition thus. Previous owner's name on verso of front free endpaper, else near fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

This Day In History: Beatles record "All You Need Is Love" (1967)

1967 : Beatles record "All You Need Is Love"
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	1. BURT, Rob and WELLS, Michael (concept). Beatles Musical Pop Up. NY Bonanza 1985 051749633X Hardcover Illustrations by Mike Peterkin and Peter Campbell. Paper engineering by Ian Honeybone. First American edition. All pop-ups are intact and in good working order. Sound chip playing "Hey Jude" is no longer working, else near fine in glossy illusta trated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. ISBN: 051749633X. Price: 75.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. GOODGOLD, Edwin & CARLINSKY, Dan. Complete Beatles Quiz Book. NY Bell 1982 0517387700 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket A reprint edition. First printing thus. About fine in like dust jacket. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3. HEMENWAY, Robert. Girl Who Sang with the Beatles and Other Stories. NY Knopf 1970 Hardcover The author's first book. First edition. Very good in a very good (minor wear) dust jacket. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4. HIERONIMUS, Dr. Robert R. Inside the Yellow Submarine: The Making of the Beatles' Animated Classic. Iola Krause Publications 2002 0873493605 Paperback Illustrated. First edition (paperback). As new in illustrated wraps. ISBN: 0873493605. Price: 12.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5. MARCHBANK, Pearce (editor). With the Beatles: The Historic Photographs of Dezo Hoffmann. London Omnibus Press 1982 0711901112 Paperback Black and white photographs throughout. First edition (paperback). About fine in oversized pictorial wraps. ISBN: 0711901112. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	6. SCHAFFNER, Nicholas. Beatles Forever. Harrisburg Cameron House 1978 0811702251 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket 400 illustrations - mostly black and white. Fourth printing thus. Bottom corners slightly bumped, else fine in a very near fine dust jacket. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	7. WILK, Max. Beatles: Yellow Submarine. NY Signet (New American Library) 1968 Paperback Color illustrations throughout. First printing thus (mass market paperback). Near fine in illustrated wraps. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

This Day In History: Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal is published (1857)

1857 : Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal is published
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	1. BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Baudelaire as a Literary Critic: Selected Essays. University Park Pennsylvania State University Press 1964 Hardcover Introduced and translated from the French by Lois Boe Hyslop and Francis E. Hyslop, Jr. First edition thus. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Intimate Journals of Charles Baudelaire. Hollywood Marcel Rodd 1947 Hardcover Translated from the French by Christopher Isherwood. With an introduction by W. H. Auden. First edition thus. Near fine in a very good (short closed edge tear at base of front panel, age darkened) dust jacket. Price: 50.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3. BAUDELAIRE, Charles. My Heart Laid Bare and Other Prose Writings. London Soho Book Company 1986 094816607X Paperback Translated from the French by Norman Cameron. Edited with an introduction by Peter Quennell. First edition thus (paperback). Uniform age toning to page edges, else very good or better in printed wraps. ISBN: 094816607X. Price: 100.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4. BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal. Chicago University of Chicago Press 1998 0226039250 Hardcover Fine A bilingual edition (French and English). Translated from the French by Norman R. Shapiro. Engravings by David Schorr. First printing thus. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0226039250. Price: 25.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

Born on this Day: Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher Stowe

Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher Stowe
Writer, born in Litchfield, Connecticut, USA, the daughter of Lyman Beecher . Raised by her severe Calvinist father, she was educated and then taught at the Hartford Female Seminary (founded by her sister Catherine Beecher ). Moving to Cincinnati with her father (1832), she
began to write sketches and short fiction,... biography.com/search/article.do?id=9496479

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	1. BEECHER, Catherine E. and STOWE, Harriet Beecher. American Woman's Home. Hartford Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 1996 0917482042 Paperback Seventh printing thus (paperback). About fine in illustrated wraps. ISBN: 0917482042. Price: 35.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Oldtown Folks and Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories (two volumes). NY AMS Press 1967 Hardcover Complete in two volumes. A reprint edition. Both volumes are ex-library copies with typical markings, else very good in brown cloth. No dust jackets. Price: 50.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine. NY AMS Press 1967 Hardcover A reprint edition. Ex-library copy with typical markings, else very good in brown cloth. No dust jacket. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Poganuc People. Hartford Stowe-Day Foundation 1987 0917482069 Paperback Second printing thus (paperback). Fine in illustrated wraps. ISBN: 0917482069. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Religious Studies: Sketches and Poems. NY AMS Press 1967 Hardcover A reprint edition. Ex-library copy with typical markings, else very good in brown cloth. No dust jacket. Price: 50.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	6. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Stories and Sketches for the Young. NY AMS Press 1967 Hardcover A reprint edition. Ex-library copy with typical markings, else very good in brown cloth. No dust jacket. Price: 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	7. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Stories, Sketches and Studies. NY AMS Press 1967 Hardcover A reprint edition. Ex-library copy with typical markings, else very good in brown cloth. No dust jacket. Price: 35.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

Born on this Day: Jerzy (Nikodem) Kosinski

Jerzy (Nikodem) Kosinski
Writer, born in Lodz, Poland, USA. He had a horrific childhood hiding from the Nazis during World War 2, and a tenuous existence under the Stalinists in Poland. He studied at the University of Lodz (1950 BA; MAs 1953, 1955) and did postgraduate work in sociology at the Polish Academy of Sciences (1955–7). Emigrating... biography.com/search/article.do?id=9368591

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	1. (Jerzy Kosinski) TEICHOLZ, Tom (editor). Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski. Jackson University Press of Mississippi 1993 0878056262 Paperback First paperback edition. Fine in pictorial wraps. ISBN: 0878056262. Price: 10.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. KOSINSKI, Jerzy. Devil Tree. NY Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973 0151253285 Hardcover Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket First printing. Small red ink stain at the upper corner of the front board and on the fore edge, else near fine in a near fine dust jacket that also has red ink stains on verso and front flap; also a bit of soiling on front panel. Price: 20.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3. KOSINSKI, Jerzy. Devil Tree: Revised and Expanded Edition. NY St. Martin's 1981 0312197942 Hardcover First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0312197942. Price: 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4. KOSINSKI, Jerzy. Hermit of 69th Street: The Working Papers of Norbert Kosky. NY Holt 1988 0805006117 Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Price: 15.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5. KOSINSKI, Jerzy. Painted Bird. Boston Houghton Mifflin 1965 Hardcover Second printing. Near fine in a very good (light foxing), price clipped dust jacket. Price: 100.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	6. KOSINSKI, Jerzy. Pinball. NY Bantam 1982 0553050079 Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket First printing. Fine in a very near fine (small tear at upper right corner of the front panel) dust jacket. Price: 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart

Born on this Day: Donald Trump

Donald (John) Trump
Real estate developer, mogul. Born Donald John Trump, on June 14,
1946, in Queens, New York, the fourth of five children of Frederick C.
and Mary MacLeod Trump. Read Full Biography Article: biography.com/search/article.do?id=9511238

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	1. TRUMP, Donald J. with LEERHSEN, Charles. Trump: Surviving at the Top. NY Random House 1990 0394575970 Hardcover Fine First printing. SIGNED by Donald Trump. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0394575970. Price: 400.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2. TRUMP, Donald J. with LEERHSEN, Charles. Trump: Surviving at the Top. NY Random House 1990 0394575970 Hardcover Fine First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0394575970. Price: 45.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3. TRUMP, Donald J. with SCHWARTZ, Tony. Trump: The Art of the Deal. NY Random House 1987 0394555287 Hardcover Fine Black and white photographs. Seventh printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0394555287. Price: 30.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4. TRUMP, Donald J. with SCHWARTZ, Tony. Trump: The Art of the Deal. NY Random House 1987 0394555287 Hardcover Fine Black and white photographs. First edition. Hint of foxing to top and fore edges, else fine in a fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0394555287. Price: 45.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	5. TRUMP, Donald J. with SCHWARTZ, Tony. Trump: The Art of the Deal. NY Random House 1987 0394555287 Hardcover Black and white photographs. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0394555287. Price: 35.00 USD Add to Shopping Cart