Caillebotte au Jardin, la Période d'Yerres (1860-1879)
by [CAILLEBOTTE, Gustave] WITTMER, Pierre; Bernard Lorenceau, foreword
[Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau]: Editions d'Art Monelle Hayot, [1990]. First Edition. Folio (30.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 344pp.; color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, some minor finger-soil to textblock, else Very Good or better. Includes excerpts from "Traité de la Composition et de l'Ornement des Jardins" by L.E. Audot, 1859. Text entirely in French.
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![Strong in Their Pride and Free" [And] Excerpts from the Remarks of Hon. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota in the Senate of the United States, Friday, March 18, 1955](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/861/952/1356952861.0.m.jpg)
Strong in Their Pride and Free" [And] Excerpts from the Remarks of Hon. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota in the Senate of the United States, Friday, March 18, 1955
by CAIN, Harry P. and Hubert H. Humphrey
Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1955. Octavo (22cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 15pp.; text in double columns. Some wear and shallow creasing to wrapper extremities, else Good or better. Contemporary pencil note on upper cover: "This is the /fuller/ of the texts!
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Three Of Hearts
by CAIN, James M.
London: Robert Hale, 1949. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); red-orange cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 405, [3]pp. Spine-sunned, lightly shelfworn, with offsetting from dustjacket lettering onto front cover; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 10'6 net), spine-sunned and shelfworn, with creasing, tears, and small nicks, with a larger chip to upper left corner... Read More
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The American Mercury, Vol. VI, no. 21, September, 1925
by [CAIN, James M. et al., contr.] MENCKEN, H.L., ed
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. First Edition. Large octavo (25.75cm.); original green card wrappers printed in blue and black, yapp edges; xxiv,127,[1],xlviiipp. Wrapper extremities a bit chipped and worn, else Very Good and sound. Includes James M. Cain's short play "The Hero.
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Do You Remember.............
by CAIN, Johnnie Mae
Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [iv],100pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.95), with some scattered foxing to extremities. The Louisiana-born author's first book of poetry, presented as a collection of memories from her life and marriage. Cain also wrote a novel, White... Read More
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Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes. Drawings by Alexander Calder
by CALDER, Alexander; James Johnson Sweeney, ed
New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. First, Limited Edition. Regular" issue, one of 700 copies (there were an additional 60 signed and numbered copies issued with an original drawing). Quarto (32cm). Tan linen over canary-yellow paper-covered boards; titled in red on spine, with pictorial decorations to front and rear covers, xx,129,(5)pp. A straight, attractive copy with a few stray spots... Read More
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![The First Picture Book: Everyday Things for Babies [Signed Bookplate]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/293/288/1681288293.0.m.jpg)
The First Picture Book: Everyday Things for Babies [Signed Bookplate]
by CALDERONE, Mary Steichen (preface); Edward Steichen (photographs); John Updike (afterword)
New York: Fotofolio / Whitney Museum of American Art, [1991]. Octavo (22cm); blue-gray cloth spine over white paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 65pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustations throughout. Bookplate signed by John Updike laid in. Tiny red mark to rear cover, with light rubbing to board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper has... Read More
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![The Bastard [Inscribed to Richard Johns]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/460/415/1461415460.0.m.jpg)
The Bastard [Inscribed to Richard Johns]
by CALDWELL, Erskine; Ty Mahon, illus
New York: Heron Press Incorporated, 1929. First Edition. One of 900 numbered copies on Mellow Book, bound in Holliston Cloth (of a total edition of 1100). Inscribed on front free endpaper to American poet and editor Richard Johns. Octavo (25.5cm.); original purple gilt-lettered cloth; 199pp.; frontispiece and 5 plates; title page printed within purple decorative border. Unprinted acetate protector.... Read More
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![Broadside: In Defense of Myself [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/529/438/1444438529.0.m.jpg)
Broadside: In Defense of Myself [Limited Edition, Signed]
by CALDWELL, Erskine
[Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press, 1982. First, Limited Edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.30. Broadside, with text letterpress printed in black on white deckle-edged stock, measuring 23.5cm x 33cm (9" x 13"). A Fine copy. Facsimile reprint of Caldwell's privately printed 1929 statement concering the suppression of his debut novel, The Bastard, and... Read More
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A House in the Uplands
by CALDWELL, Erskine
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1946]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],238pp. Very light wear to jacket extremities, spine lettering rather faded, else Near Fine overall. Novel on the "decay of Southern gentry" (upper jacket flap).
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Say, Is This The U.S.A.
by CALDWELL, Erskine (text); BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret (photographs)
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (31cm); black and white photo-illustrated boards; 182pp; illus. Gently spine-sunned, modest wear to spine ends and corners, with a few faint scuffs to covers; contents clean, with hinges sound; solidly Very Good, lacking the dustjacket. The third collaborative effort between Caldwell and Margaret Bourke-White, with text by... Read More
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Some American People
by CALDWELL, Erskine
New York: Robert M. McBride, 1935. First printing. Small octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 266pp. Signed by Caldwell on half-title (presumably later, as the signature is in felt-tip pen). Cloth scuffed at base of spine, else a Near Fine copy in somewhat soiled jacket, darkened on spine and with brief loss at crown (not affecting text); just Very Good. Caldwell's... Read More
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![A Message For Genevieve [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/855/249/658249855.0.m.jpg)
A Message For Genevieve [Limited Edition, Signed]
by CALDWELL, Erskine (story); MORANG, Alfred (illustration)
Mount Vernon: Old Colony Press, 1933. First, Limited Edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Caldwell and illustrator Alfred Morang. Slim octavo (17cm); light brown stapled wrappers, with titles printed in black on front cover; [4], 11, [1]pp; illus. A few faint stress creases, else a Fine copy of this scarce and fragile chapbook. A single story, written... Read More
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Tenant Farmer
by CALDWELL, Erskine
New York: Phalanx Press, 1935. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 30pp. Negliglble external dusting, else a bright, tight apparently unread copy in the original printed wrappers; Near Fine. Non-fiction account of farm tenancy and sharecropping in the Depression-era South; first in a series of political pamphlets by prominent authors commissioned by this radical publisher. Not, strictly... Read More
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God's Little Acre
by CALDWELL, Erskine
New York: The Viking Press, 1933. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth with titling and rule stamped in orange and green on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 303pp. Topstain faded, with trivial soil to same and to rear pastedown, with a tiny nick to fore-edge of rear board; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly sunned overall, with... Read More
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Southways. New Stories by Erskine Caldwell
by CALDWELL, Erskine
New York: Viking Press, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm). Blue cloth boards, lettered in red and blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; blue top-stain; 206pp. Slight discoloration to cloth on spine, else a fine, tight copy, with top-stain deep and even. In an especially crisp example of the dustwrapper, unclipped and with just a hint of toning at... Read More
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![We Are The Living [Limited First Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/345/867/601867345.0.m.jpg)
We Are The Living [Limited First Edition]
by CALDWELL, Erskine
New York: The Viking Press, 1933. First, Limited Edition. One of 250 signed copies. Octavo (19.5cm); orange-tan cloth, with titling and rule stamped in brown and green on spine and front panel; slipcase; top edge gilt; 264pp. Number 171 of 250 copies, signed by Caldwell on the limitation page. Very fine copy in slightly worn but complete publisher's slipcase,... Read More
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![Inside: The Chelsea Hotel [Inscribed to Sondra Lee]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/726/441/1244441726.0.m.jpg)
Inside: The Chelsea Hotel [Inscribed to Sondra Lee]
by CALFEE, Julia (photographs); KRATOCHVIL, Antonin (editor)
Brooklyn: Powerhouse Books, 2008. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (31.5cm); light gray boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in white on spine and black on front cover; dustjacket; unpaged; illus. Inscribed by the photographer to Broadway star Sondra Lee on the title page: Sondra / unique in all ways / a true friend / Julia Calfee."... Read More
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![Spirits and Ghosts: Journeys through Mongolia [Inscribed to Sondra Lee, with an Original Signed Photo]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/727/441/1244441727.0.m.1.jpg)
Spirits and Ghosts: Journeys through Mongolia [Inscribed to Sondra Lee, with an Original Signed Photo]
by CALFEE, Julia (photographs); KRATOCHVIL, Antonin (editor)
New York: Powerhouse Books, 2003. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (29.5cm); photo-illustrated boards; dustjacket; 165,[3]pp; illus. Inscribed by the photographer on the dedication page, to Broadway star Sondra Lee: "For Sondra / who has the spirit and the energy / Julia Calfee." Strip of yellowing to lower edge of front board, else Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket,... Read More
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Weekly News Letter, Vol. 2, no. 40, Oct. 28, 1960
by CALIFORNIA LABOR FEDERATION, AFL-CIO
[San Francisco]: California Labor Federation, 1960. First Edition. Quarto bifolium (28cm.); text in triple columns. Stock quite toned due to inferior paper quality, else Very Good and sound. Contents chiefly covering the upcoming election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, and the threat of a recession.
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Broadside: Of the People, For the People, By the People
by [CPUSA] [CALIFORNIA]
Oakland: Alameda County Committee, Communist Party, 1937. First Edition. Original printed broadside, with text offset printed in black on beige stock, measuring 28cm x 45.25cm (11" x 17.75"). A few old folds smoothed out, some very subtle toning to extremities, with a brief notation written at upper left margim; Near Fine. Broadside printed by the Alameda County... Read More
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A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West
by [CALIFORNIA FICTION] NORRIS, Frank
New York: Doubleday, Page, 1903. First Edition. First printing.Blanck's issue "A", with sheets bulking to 7/8". Octavo (23cm). Original gilt-stamped red cloth (hardcover); 272pp; teg. Fore edge untrimmed. A clean, solid, bright copy with some mild dulling & discoloration to spine; Very Good. Ownership signature to front endpaper, else clean and fresh internally, with frontis. and three plates, one... Read More
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Vandover and the Brute
by [CALIFORNIA FICTION] NORRIS, Frank
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Ribbed orange-brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 354pp. Mildly dulled on spine and with a bit of dusting to boards, still a straight, solid, Very Good copy. The last novel published under Norris's name, originally written in 1895 while he... Read More
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Vandover and the Brute
by [CALIFORNIA FICTION] NORRIS, Frank
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Ribbed orange-brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 354pp. Aside from some inconspicuous spotting to text block fore edge, a very clean and bright copy, Near Fine and unusual thus. The last novel published under Norris's name, originally written in 1895 while... Read More
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On the Level. Published by Carpenters for a Stronger Union. No. 2 (April 1974) - State Convention Report
by [CARPENTER'S UNION - CALIFORNIA]
Sausalito: Carpenters for a Stronger Union, 1974. Octavo pamphlet. Staple-bound, printed paper self-wrappers; 16pp. Fine. Irregularly-issued newsletter of a progressive rank-and-file faction within the California Brotherhood of Carpenters; this issue devoted to a highly critical review of the union's state convention. Publication continued at least through v.5 (1985) according to NYPL cataloguing data.
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