OLIVER GOLDSMITH
by Black, William
NY: Harper& Brothers, 1879. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG+. 8vo, brown cloth stamped in red. Goldsmith facsimile signature tipped into title page, portrait on forntispiece page. Some loss spine ends else near fine copy. Part of The English Men of Letters series edited by John Morley.
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THE POEMS OF WILLIAM BLAKE
by Blake, William. Sampson, John (editor)
London: Chatto & Windus, 1921. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. VG+. Full vellum, lightly spotted, gilt spine titles, gte, xxxviii, 343 (3). Some foxing to endpapers, neat owner stamp front opastedown, Solid, unsophisticated copy. Printed at the Florence Press.
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THE VOYAGE HOME
by Blake, George
London: Collins, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. High-class British trash romance fiction. Worth it for the dustjacket alone!
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Forbidden Dreams
by Blake, Rebecca
NY: Quartet Books Ltd, 1984. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine, unused copy - as new, really - in fine dustjacket plainly signed by fashion photographer Blake and dated by her '84, the year of publication, on the title page. With a compliments card from Rebecca Blake Studios, 25 W 36 St, NY, NY laid-in.
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LEAVES FROM A GRASS-HOUSE
by Blanding, Don. Schiuffer, Jean Bernard (cover design)
Honlulu: Patten Company, 1923. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Distinctive grass-woven patterned covers, designed by Jean Bernard Schiffers with inset for title and author front cover. Gift inscription from Hawaii ffe. Illustrated with woodcuts by John Poole and decorations by A. S. Macleod. A lovely production in a folksy kind of way.
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THE JEWS OF THE UNITED STATES 1790-1840 A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY (3 volumes)
by Blau, Joseph L. And Baron, Salo W. (editors)
NY: Columbia University Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. An unused set each volume still in publisher's glassine wrappers in clipcase that is a wee dusty. WHY PAY MORE FOR LESS????
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SPIN DANCE
by Bliss, Paul Southworth. (Edgar Lee Masters)
Chicago: The Lakseide Press, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Matthews, Harold J. (linoleum block decorations). PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author to author Edgar Lee Masters on the ffe. Book covers a wee soiled, the dustajcket more, which is missing a chunk along the top right edge front panel.
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The Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection: Printed Books and Music, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Documents, Portraits
by (Blumenthal, Joseph)
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1970. First Edition. Blue and Tan Cloth. Almost As New. One of 600 copies bound in cloth. Signed and inscribed by printer Joseph Blumenthal. Very, very minor scuff to top spine edge. Bookplate at front pastedown. Binding tight, text clean. Model copy.
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TYPOGRAPHIC YEARS A printer's journey through a half century, 1925-1975
by Blumenthal, Joseph. (Spiral Press)
NY: Frederic C. Biel, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine copy in near fine dustjacket, inscribed by typographer and book designer Joe Blumenthal to Mike McCabe, owner of the former Lion's Head Books in Salisbury CT, the premises of which are now Johnnycake Books: "for Mike best of country neighbors. Joe Spiral April / '83" Bluemnthal in... Read More
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ROBERT FROST AND HIS PRINTERS
by Blumenthal, Jospeh. (Frost, Robert)
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New. Mint copy in slipcase, still shrinkwrapped. Limitd to 1000 copies, designed by Joseph Blumenthal, printed by A. Colish.
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ZEN IN ENGLISH LITERATURE AND ORIENTAL CLASSICS
by Blyth, Reginald Horace
Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good +. An apparently unused book, blue cloth, paper spine label, in better than very good dw with a tiny stain front panel. Neat PON ffe.
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The Decameron [3 Books]
by Boccaccio, Giovanni
Firenze: Il Magheri, 1827. Marbled boards/Leather Spines. Very Good. 1827-8. 5 volumes in 3 books. Leather spines with pressed gilt titles, marbleized paper-backed boards. Text in Italian. Wear to corners, rubbing to cover edges and spine ends and edges, remarkably clean text with only very occasional scattered foxing. Some light chipping to spine of Vol. I-II (first book),... Read More
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Travaux d'Achievment Del Dique De Cherbourg De 1830 a 1853 Par M. Jospeh Bonnin.ATLAS
by Bonnin, Jospeh (engineer)
Paris: Victor Dalmont, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to, contemporary binding, leather spine over decorated boards, 13 plates each doube-paged of Bonnin's plans for the port of Cherbourg. Engraving by Dulas. Firmly bound, scattered foxing throughout. Rare.
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TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF BIRD & BULL A Bibliography, 1958-1979
by W. Thomas Tyler and Henry Morris. Gary Parrot (bookbinder)
North Hills PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1980. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. As New. One of the 170 copies (of 350) houses in a cloth-coverd 10 x 13" clamshell box, leather spine label. The box has a recess for the book (an unnumbered copy) which has been signed on the colophon by Gary Parrot, who bound. The inner... Read More
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KISS THE BOYS GOOD-BYE
by Boothe, Clare. (Luce, Clare Boothe). Broun, Heywood (forward by)
NY: Random House, 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Uncommon copy of pre-Luce Boothe's play that followed "The Women". Intended as a "political allegory about Facism in America" according to Heywood Broun in the forward, the comedy was short-lived but made into a film in 1941 directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Mary Martin, Don Ameche and... Read More
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SUR 4
by Borges, Jorge Luis et al (contributors). Ocampo, Victoria (editor and publisher)
Buenos Aires: SUR, 1931. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. The fourth issue printed in the first year of publication, published by Victoria Ocampo. Borges was a contributor from the first issue, years before his success as a novelist. A near fine copy, in its origial glassine which has absorbed surface soiling, leaving the white paper covers remarkably... Read More
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WHAT SHALL WE HAVE TODAY
by Boulestin, X. Marcel. Laboureur, Jean Emile (dustjacket and frontispiece)
London: William Heinemann, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. First edition, first printing January 1931. Near fine copy, lacking dustjacket. Frontispiece by French artist Jean Emile Laboureur. Rust-colored cloth, slightest wear spine tips. No names, inscriptions or bookplates and desirable thus.
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A SECOND HELPING or More Dishes for English Homes
by Boulestin, X. Marcel. Laboureur, J. E. (frontispiece by)
London: William Heinemann, 1925. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. Near Fine. The scarce limited edition of this Boulestin title, only 20 copies, this numbered 6 and signed by Boulestin on the limitation page. Printed on hand-made paper, with a special frontispiece designed by J. E. Laboureur. 8vo, sides untrimmed, boards covered in distinctive bluish-gray marbleized-style linen, red stamped titles... Read More
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OMEN Volume One Number One (Introductory Issue) and Number Two
by Bowart, Walter H. (editor). Gary Snyder, Thomas Merton et al (contibutors)
Tucson: Omen Press, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. First two issues of the short-lived OMEN, prophesizing the end of the planet and advocating ecology, peace and love. Mind-expanding drug-friendly and WAY Sixties. Large format. Issue One is fine condition. Issue Two has a silver foil-laminate and is worn, internals fine. Issue Two includes the letter Thomas Merton sent... Read More
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Kazimir Malevich, 1878-1935
by Bowlt, John E.
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.: Univ of Washington Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. As new in near fine dw.
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Specimens of the Russian poets; with preliminary remarks and biographical notices. Translated by John Bowring, F. L. S.
by Bowring, Sir John (translator)
Boston: Cummings and Hillaird, 1822. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition, rebound c 1940s in 3/4 red leather, raised band, gilt compartments to spine, top edge cut and gilt, rest original. Gift inscription dated 1948 on a prelim. An attarctive, solid copy, internals near fine.
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FIRST YOU SLICE YOUR COOKBOOK
by Boxer, Arabella
NY: Hawthorn Books, 1966. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Cracknell, Alan. Way 60s design, a three-tiered menu guide, so a host can mix and match recipes. Camp!
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CALCULATIONS IN YARNS AND FABRICS
by Bradbury, Fred
Belfast: Fred Bradbury and Municipal Techinical Institute, 1906. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. staed fifth thousand on title page, second edition with a new preface to this "new edition" before the preface to the first. Short 8vo, red cloth, gilt titles, 292 + xxi. With tables and figures in how to calculate weight, warp and conditioning in different... Read More
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John Henry
by Bradford, Roark
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. First US Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Jacket toned and slightly rubbed.
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JOHN HENRY
by Bradford, Roark. Lankes, J.J. (woodcuts). (Creel, George E.) (Roosevelt, Franklin D.)
NY: The Literary Guild, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good +. Harpers' edition of The Literary Guild and first thus (stated on copyright page: there was also a trade edition.) 8vo, duotone blue, ArtDeco-patterned cloth boards, gold label title pastedown spine, in decorated dustjacket typical of The Literary Guild editions, decorated endpapers, illustrated throughout, title label nicked, dust... Read More
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