Chile De "Forsvunna" Politiska Fangarna: Repressions utveckling, Chile 1973-1976

Stockholm: Chilekommittens Smaskriftserie, 1977. Octavo (21cm); white wraps offset printed in black, stapled; 31pp; illus. Touch of edgewear, else Fine. A Swedish language pamphlet bringing attention to the plight of Chilean political prisoners during the reign of Augusto Pinochet. No copies in OCLC.

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Original Poster: "Joe Levy, Multi Millionaire Property Developer [...] Whose Side Are The Police On?

N.p, n.d. [London: All London Squatters, ca 1974?]. Original silkscreened poster, printed in navy blue on yellow stock, measuring 52cm x 65cm (20.5" x 25 5/8"). Edgeworn and creased, with tears at the margins and shallow loss to three of four corners (none affecting image); Very Good. Poster calling attention to the plight of those evicted from the Camden... Read More

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Magdalena Abakanowicz: Confessions. Sculpture and Drawings, October 19 - November 19, 2005

by ABAKANOWICZ, Magdalena

New York: Marlborough, 2005. First Edition. Slim quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers; 40pp.; color photographic illus. throughout. A hint of wear, else Fine.

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Pakistan's Drift into Extremism: Allah, the Army, and America's War on Terror [Inscribed & Signed to the Late Arthur Obermayer]

by ABBAS, Hassan; Jessica Stern, foreword

Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, [2005]. Octavo (22.5cm.); original glossy photo-illustrated card wrappers; xvii,[1],275pp. Small bump to bottom fore-edge corner, else Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author on p. [1]: "For / Mr. Arthur Obermayer, A man whom I hold in high respect. Thank you for your friendship. With personal regards, Yours sincerely, Hassan / Sep 17, 2004. ... Read More

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The Naxalites

by ABBAS, Khwaja Ahmad

Delhi: Lok Publications, 1979. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 112pp. Light external wear, still Near Fine in a lightly worn jacket. The prolific author/filmmaker's fictional documentation of the Indian communist youth movement of the Seventies and Eighties; the basis for Abbas's 1980 award-winning Bollywood film of the same name. Uncommon in the trade.

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Berenice Abbott: American Photographer

by ABBOTT, Berenice (photographs; commentary); Hank O'Neal (text); John Canaday (introduction)

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1982. First Edition. First Printing. Folio (36.5cm); red cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 255pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations. An Artpress Book. Light pin-point impressions to rear cover; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, designed by Kornelia Kurbjuhn, unclipped (priced $59.95), lightly spine-tanned, with pin-point impressions to rear panel and... Read More

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BITS 10

by Abbott, Lee et al. (ed.); Albert Goldbarth, Joseph Bruchac, Reg Saner, William Jay Smith and others

Cleveland: Case Western, 1979. First Edition. Sewn illustrated wrappers. Poetry anthology with short poems Sheila Nickerson, Doyle Wesley Walls, Peter Wild, William Jay Smith, John Druska, Jared Carter, Leonard Nathan, Jim Handlin, Robley Wilson, Jr., Red Saner, Merry Speece, Albert Goldbarth, Scott Simmer, John Fandel, Dennis Trudell, Jean Balderson, Frank Short, William Hoagland, Sonia Gernes, and Joseph Bruchac. Near... Read More

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The Poetry, Life and Opinions of Sa'adu Zungur

by ABDULKADIR, Dandatti

Zaria: Northern Nigerian Publishing Company, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; 109pp. Includes bibliography. Corners bumped, with consequent creasing to wrapper edges; text clean, tight and unmarked. Good.

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The Comic History of England [with] The Comic History of Rome

by A'BECKETT, Gilbert Abbott; [John] Leech, (illus.)

London: Punch Office, 1847-48. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Full tan calf, tooled in gilt at board edges, spine, and turn-ins, all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; xii,320pp; xii,394pp; xii,308pp; 30 hand-colored etchings and numerous in-text wood engravings by John Leech. Straight volumes, with faint staining to bindings at lower spine and board corners, not affecting interiors; lower joints splitting; internally... Read More

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The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empire, 1415-1980

by ABERNETHY, David B.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dustjacket; viii, 524pp. Minor foxing to top edge of text block, boards, and dust jacket, interior unaffected. Mild shelf wear and soiling to jacket, else a tight, unmarked, clean copy. Near Fine.

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Problems of Hourly Rate Uniformity (Industry-Wide Collective Bargaining Series, no.14)

by ABERSOLD, John R.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press / Wharton School, 1949. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 60pp. Private library catalog label on front cover, else clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good or better. A volume in the "Industry-Wide Collective Bargaining Series," issued under the auspices of the Labor Relations Council of the Wharton School of Finance.

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Moremi: An Epic of Feminine Heroism

by ABIRI, J.O.O.

[Ibadan, Nigeria: Onibonoje Press, 1970]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original pictorial staplebound wrappers; [6],70pp.; illus. Pinpoint wear to extremities, else Fine. Epic poem based on the deeds of the Yoruba woman Moremi, who saved her village from foreign invaders. Published as a school reader, with a glossary of difficult words and textual questions at the end of the text.... Read More

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The Abortionist

by [ABORTION] DR. X. [With] FREEMAN, Lucy [Pseud: Dr. Nathan Rappaport]; Morris Ernst (introd)

London: Gollancz, 1962. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22cm). Publisher's maroon cloth, titled in gilt to spine; dustjacket; 220pp. Tight, clean copy; about Fine. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, slightly rubbed on rear panel, else crisp, clean example, Very Good or better. Simultaneously published in the U.S. by Doubleday. Pseudonymously published tell-all memoir of Dr. Nathan... Read More

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Le Mari Imprévu [La Vieille Roche]

by ABOUT, Edmond

Paris: Hachette, 1865. First Edition. Octavo. Contemporary gilt-decorated morocco over marbled boards, spine in six compartments; 424 (2)pp. Bookplate, private shelf label and ownership signature of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Thomas Jefferson's great-grandson and minister plenipotentiary to France from 1892-1893. Slight rubbing to board edges; sun-darkening to spine, with a bit of dryness and minor flaking to leather; still a... Read More

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L'Homme a L'Oreille Cassée

by ABOUT, Edmond

Paris: Hachette, 1862. Deuxieme edition. 12mo. Morocco over marbled boards; 273pp. Spine leather dry and slightly flaking, else a tight, Good or better reading copy.

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Psychoanalytische Studien zur Charakterbildung

by ABRAHAM, Karl

Leipzig: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1925. First Edition. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, reddish-brown topstain; 64pp. Boards a bit scuffed, textblock uniformly toned, else Very Good and sound.

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Klinische Beitrage zur Psychoanalyse aus den Jahren 1907-1920

by ABRAHAM, Karl

Leipzig: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1921. First Edition. Octavo (26.5cm.); publisher's green cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],301pp. Boards rather scuffed with some exposure at corners, textblock uniformly browned, else Near Very Good and sound. At head of title: "Internationale Psychoanalytische Bibliothek Band 10.

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Klinische Beitrage zur Psychoanalyse aus den Jahren 1907-1920

by ABRAHAM, Karl

Leipzig: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1921. First Edition. Octavo (26.5cm.); publisher's black cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, all edges marbled; [4],301pp. Boards rather scuffed with some exposure at spine ends, textblock uniformly browned with a couple of leaves wrinkled, else Very Good and sound. At head of title: "Internationale Psychoanalytische Bibliothek Band 10.

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Psychoanalytische Studien zur Charakterbildung

by ABRAHAM, Karl

Leipzig: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1925. First Edition. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, reddish-brown topstain; 64pp. Near Fine but for some mild age-tanning to text.

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Call it Conspiracy

by ABRAHAM, Larry

Seattle, Washington: Double A Publications, 1985. First Thus. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's illustrated card wraps. [xvii]; 325pp. + [1pp.] ads to rear. Some spotting and soiling to page edges, some light marginal wear to the wraps, internally clean, a very good, presentable copy. An interesting attempt to outline Abraham's belief in, and study of, various 1980's conspiracy theories... Read More

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Armenian Folk Arts, Culture, and Identity [Inscribed and Signed]

by ABRAHAMIAN, Levon and Nancy Sweezy, eds.; Sam Sweezy, photography ed

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, [2001]. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.); original simulated cloth boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xi,[3],312pp.; color and black and white photographic illus. throughout. Just a hint of wear to jacket panels, else Fine. Inscribed and signed on title page: "For Kitty - Nancy Sweezy / Sam Sweezy.

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A Night of Their Own

by ABRAHAMS, Peter

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First American Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in blue pictorial dust jacket, blue topstain; 236pp. Dustwrapper spine toned, a few short chips and tears to extremities, else about Very Good. The South African author's sixth novel, set in modern South African.

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A Wreath for Udomo

by ABRAHAMS, Peter

London: Faber and Faber, 1956. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-309,[3]pp. Faint foxing to cloth, text edges, and endpapers, else clean internally; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 15s net), gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn and dust-soiled, with two tiny tears and creases; Very Good+. The Black South African... Read More

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Mother of Truth: A Story of Romance and Retribution Based on the Events of My Own Life

by ABRAMSON, Ivan (novel); POLITZER, [Irving] (jacket design)

New York: Graphic Literary Press, 1929. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); purple cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; purple topstain; dustjacket; 230pp. Hint of sunning to upper board edges and topstain, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with light wear and a few small nicks to extremities and gentle sunning to spine. A novel... Read More

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Judaism and Disability: Portrayals in Ancient Texts from the Tanach through the Bavli

by ABRAMS, Judith Z.

Washington DC: Gallaudet University Press, 1998. First Edition. First printing. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 236pp. Review copy, with publisher's material laid in. Fine in fine jacket.

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