New York: Gotham Books, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 369pp. Mild edgewear to unclipped dust jacket, with rubbing to corners. Bound in full textured brown paper over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear to binding..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1988. Paperback. 9" X 6". xiii, 322pp. Mild shelf wear to pictorial paper wraps with light rubbing and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Light creasing to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. With black-and-white photographs throughout. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From 1840 until..... More
Atglen: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 2015. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 11 1/4". 224pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial over boards. Pages are bright, clean, and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Explore the lives of over 150 of the top sideshow performers of by-gone days..... More
Bernard Geis Associates, 1969. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". xii, 212pp. Wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, toning, and chipping to covers, corners, and edges. Bound in orange cloth over boards with spine lettered in red and black. Toning and spots of soiling to covers of boards. Slight..... More
New York: Broadway Books, 2006. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xiv, 205pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. White paper over boards with spine backed in black and lettered..... More
Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". ix, 250pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Black cloth over boards with spine lettered in silver. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is..... More
Paris: Le Divan, 1923. First Edition. Paperback. This medical, historical, legal, and literary study of the chastity belt is the work of Eric John "Dirty Ding" Dingwall (1890–1986), a respected anthropologist, skeptical psychical investigator, and sexologist who earned his nickname from his research interests in erotica and sexual customs. Dingwall..... More
Buffalo: Firefly Books, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 256pp. Mild shelf wear to unclipped dust jacket with scattered rubbing to covers and light creasing to edges. Black cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Bumps to..... More
New York: Carrel Books, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6". xii, 257pp. Very mild shelf wear to unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing to covers and light creasing to edges. Black paper over boards with spine lettered in silver..... More
Thrupp: Sutton Publishing Limited, 2003. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2". x, 180pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Black cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In a dusty..... More
London: Cecil Palmer, 1927. Third Edition. Hardcover. "This is the time for ghost stories. Switch off that electric light...for much illumination is fatal to such talk as we are to have. It is a talk of ghosts, of family curses and of the inexplicable..." So does Charles George Harper (1863–1943)..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 2005. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 290pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. White paper over boards with spine backed in red and lettered in..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 3/4" X 7 3/4". 192pp. Book presents nicely in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Black cloth over boards..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xvii, 302pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers and corners of unclipped dust jacket. Light creasing to edges of jacket. Orange paper over boards with spine backed in..... More
New York: Award Books, 1970. Mass market paperback. 6 3/4" X 4 1/4". 158pp. Rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Toning to inside of covers. Age-yellowing to pages. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: For complete physical and emotional well-being..... More
New York: The Lyons Press, 2001. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 7 1/4". 192pp. Very mild wear to covers, corners, and edges. Creasing to some pages. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: From the simple fist and the boot, to the thumbscrew, rack and hallucinogenic drugs, torture..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xlii, 245pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Orange paper over boards with spine backed in gray and lettered in silver..... More
University Park, PA: The Pennsylvannia University Press, 2012. Hardcover. 9 1/4" x 7 1/8". 231pp. Extremely mild shelf wear to dust jacket. Black cloth boards with bronze lettering to spine. Binding sound and contents clean and bright. Gorgeous Beasts takes a fresh look at the place of animals in history..... More
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2014. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xviii, 317pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Blue paper over boards with spine backed in black and..... More
San Francisco: V. Vale, 1996. Paperback. 11" X 8 1/2". 123pp. Very mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Very occasional inked underlining to pages. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Memoirs of a Sword Swallower is Daniel P. Mannix's autobiography as a...... More
Nashville: Upper Rubber Boot, 2012. First Edition. Paperback. 9" X 6". 332pp. Rubbing and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Bump to top of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Every society and every generation has its version of the apocalypse: swine flu, genetic mutation..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1983. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xii, 254pp. Mild shelf wear to unclipped dust jacket, with light scattered rubbing to covers and light creasing to edges in some places. Red paper over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in metallic red. Small..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 352pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Blue cloth over baords with spine lettered in silver. Top and..... More
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2005. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xxi, 401pp. Mild shelf wear to covers and corners of unclipped dust jacket. Light creasing to edges of dust jacket. Black paper over boards with spine backed in red and lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and..... More
Goteborg: Joh. Lundens Tryckeri, 1907. Leather bound. 9" X 6 1/8". 239pp. Text in Swedish. Halfbound in black leather with what appears to be alligator or crocodile skin over boards, but cannot confirm. Spine lettered in gilt with gilt floral decorations and five raised bands. Moderate edgewear to binding, with..... More
