Theodore Roosevelt in the Field
by CANFIELD, Michael R.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23.5cm). Gray cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 476pp; illus. Fine in fine dustjacket - a new-appearing copy.
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Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Marijuana
by [CANNABIS] CASTLE, C.
N.p.: Adams Apple Dist. Co, 1973. No statement of edition or printing. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; photo-illustrated wrappers; [16]pp, illus. Covers a little dusty; internally clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good.+ Introduction to marijuana history, effects, laws and legalization; includes a very basic guide to cultivation. Uncommon.
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The First Ten Years of American Communism: Report of a Participant
by CANNON, James P.
New York: Lyle Stuart, 1962. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); black boards, titled in white on spine; dustjacket; [4],5-343,[1]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, light wear to extremities, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $6.00), shelfworn, gently spine-sunned, with a triangular chip to upper front panel, and some unnecessary tape reinforcement on verso; Very Good.... Read More
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Leon Trotsky: Memorial Address "To the Memory of the Old Man
by CANNON, James P.
[New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1940]. First Edition. Small octavo (20.5cm.); pictorial staplebound self-wrappers; 15pp. Stock quite brittle and rather toned, unobtrusive contemporary rubberstamp to upper cover, small chips and short closed tears to rear cover, else Good or better overall. Address first delivered at the Trotsky Memorial Meeting in New York, August 28, 1940.
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101 Reasons to Vote Against Ronald Reagan
by CANNON, Terence; William W. Winpisinger (introd.); Peggy Lipschutz (illus.)
Chicago: National Center for Trade Union Action and Democracy, 1984. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Stapled pamphlet in white wrappers printed in red and blue; 57,[7]pp; black and white in-text illustrations. Lightly rubbed, else Near Fine.
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Canova
by [CANOVA, Antonio] LICHT, Fred, text; David Finn, photographs
New York: Abbeville Press, [1983]. First Edition. Folio (33.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; 280pp.; chiefly photographic illus. throughout, some in color. Jacket and textblock show some dust- and finger-soil, scattered spots to rear jacket panel, else Very Good and sound.
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Full Moon Dancers: Cape Poet. Spring, 2001
by [CAPE COD POETS THEATRE] GOUVEIA, José, ed
N.p.: Cape Cod Poets Theatre, 2001. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's yellow pictorial staplebound wrappers; 31pp. Just a hint of wear and soil, else Near Fine. Poetry anthology including contributions by Marge Piercy and Martin Espada. This title unlocated in OCLC as of October, 2018.
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Meteor
by CAPEK, Karel (M and R. Weatherall, transl)
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover, titles decoratively stamped in silver on spine and front cover; 255pp. A fresh, Very Good or better copy, free of markings or excessive wear, lacking the dustwrapper. Second volume of a trilogy including Hordubal (1934) and An Ordinary Life (1936).
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Our age of violence is no time to remove the Death Penalty, right? NO ON 17 says, consider a minute..
by [CAPITAL PUNISHMENT] MIDPENINSULA Coalition Against 17
Menlo Park, CA: Midpeninsula Coalition Against 17, (1972). Leaflet. Single 14" x 11" sheet folded in four to make eight panels; folded dimensions 4-1/4" x 7". Fine. Campaign leaflet issued in opposition to California's Proposition 17, a 1972 ballot measure that restored the death penalty in the state. The text reviews the language of the Proposition, then... Read More
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Darrow-Lewis Debate on the Theory of Non-Resistance to Evil
by [CAPITAL PUNISHMENT] DARROW, Clarence and Arthur Morrow Lewis
Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, N.d. [ca 1950?]. Haldeman-Julius Big Blue Book no. 904; probably a later issue, in ivory wrappers without the "BB" prefix. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 24pp. Text toned, as usual; Very Good. Transcript of a debate that took place at Chicago's Garrick Theater in 1910, with Darrow taking the affirmative, that evil should not be answered with evil,... Read More
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Poster: Etes-Vous Pour ou Contre la Peine de Mort
by [CAPITAL PUNISHMENT - FRANCE] LUXEL, Claude, et al.
Nice, France: Imprimerie Robaudi, 1958. First Edition. Original poster printed offset in bright blue on white newsprint, measuring 55.75x45.25cm.; a bit of age-toning, faint ironed-out mail folds, else Very Good to Near Fine. Flyer announcing a lecture to be followed by a debate regarding capital punishment in France, held at the Salle de l'Artistique in Nice, March 28, 1958.... Read More
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The County Kerchief [Inscribed Copy]
by [CAPITAL PUNISHMENT] DUFF, Louis Blake
Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1949. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on the front endpaper: "To Harry P. Martin / who qualifies on two counts - one, the fraternity of the book; two a friend of E.L. Deitch who gives this volume, with the aproval of / Louis Blake Duff," dated March, 1949. Octavo (20cm). Yellow cloth; dustwrapper; 224pp. Tight,... Read More
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A SAMPLER
by Caplan, Ron; David Federman
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1967. First Edition. Stapled chapbook in red illustrated wrappers; 12mo. Issued as IS.3. Poems by Caplan and Federman published by Victor Coleman at Coach House Press in an edition of 300. Top edge a bit soiled and foxed, else fine.
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House of Flowers
by CAPOTE, Truman
New York: Random House, 1968. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; beige paper over black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and publisher's logo blindstamped to front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 110, [2]; photographic frontispiece. Hint of foxing to topstain, else Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dustjacket - still bright white - with a few pinpoint rubs... Read More
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The Grass Harp
by CAPOTE, Truman
New York: Random House, 1951. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); first binding in rough beige cloth, with titles stamped in brown, green, and black on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket; [viii],181,[7]pp. Textblock sagging slightly, light wear to extremities, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, edgeworn and a bit spine-sunned, with a few tiny chips and tears, and faint sticker... Read More
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Music for Chameleons: New Writing
by CAPOTE, Truman
New York: Random House, Inc, 1980. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [xx],[3],4-262,[4]pp. Upper board corners gently tapped (but still sharp), with a few faint, tiny scuffs to text edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is priceclipped with minor creasing along lower edge, a deep vertical... Read More
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Breakfast at Tiffany's. A Short Novel and Three Stories
by CAPOTE, Truman
New York: Random House, 1958. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); canary yellow cloth; dustjacket; blue top-stain; 179pp. Ink ownership signature ("Eleanor Pope") to front free endpaper, dated 1959; top-stain slightly faded toward spine, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the original, unclipped dustwrapper, faintly creased, gently faded at spine, and with minor overall toning and wear; Very Good+. Attractive... Read More
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The Grass Harp: A Play
by CAPOTE, Truman
New York: Random House, 1952. First Edition. First Printing, one of reportedly only 500 copies (per Ahearn). Octavo; rough beige cloth, titled and ruled in gilt and green, with printed paper title label on front panel; green topstain; dustjacket; 120pp; illus. Topstain slightly faded, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly edge-rubbed, with a few short tears, and some minor... Read More
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Local Color
by CAPOTE, Truman
New York: Random House, 1950. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed patterned paper over boards; 92pp; illus. Slight rubbing to bottom board edges, else tight, clean and unmarked in the original dustwrapper, toned on spine and with some rubbing along upper edge; Very Good Plus. A fragile book, this copy quite nicely preserved but for the usual toning to jacket spine.... Read More
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The Grass Harp
by CAPOTE, Truman
New York: Random House, 1951. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); first binding in rough beige cloth, with titles stamped in brown, green, and black on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket; [viii],181,[7]pp. Neat ownership signature to front endpaper, else a tight, sharp copy, very straight and clean with none of the usual darkening to the endpapers. In the original dustwrapper,... Read More
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The Grass Harp: A Play
by CAPOTE, Truman
New York: Random House, 1952. First Edition. First Printing, one of reportedly only 500 copies (per Ahearn). Octavo; rough beige cloth, titled and ruled in gilt and green, with printed paper title label on front panel; green topstain; dustjacket; 120pp; illus. Topstain slightly faded, else about Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 on front flap), slightly edge-rubbed... Read More
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Emily Dickinson's Reading; 1836-1886
by CAPPS, Jack L.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966. First Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 230pp. Clean and sharp, with only minor wear, in a pricelipped example of the dustjacket. A very good, bright copy. Internally clean. An informative and academic survey into Dickinson's reading habits, the contents of her library, and the breadth of... Read More
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Men
by CAPRIO, Joseph
Lausanne: Pierre-Marcel Favre, 1986. First Edition. Oblong Quarto. Cloth boards in dust jacket; unpaginated. Text in French, German, and English. B&w photo illus. throughout. Faint paint marks to bottom edge of boards, trivial colored pencil marks to pastedowns and free endpapers, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Minor shelf wear to jacket. Very Good. Photographic study of male nudes,... Read More
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Gathered Sketches from the Early History of New Hampshire and Vermont; Containing Vivid and Interesting Accounts of a Great Variety of the Adventures of Our Forefathers, and of other incidents of olden time
by [CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES] CHASE, Francis (ed)
Claremont, NH: Tracy, Kenney & Co, 1856. First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's embossed cloth, titled in gilt on spine; 215pp; frontispiece, 3 unnumbered leaves of wood-engraved plates. A bit sunned on the spine, but still a tidy copy, free of markings or significant wear; Very Good. Historical sketches of the early history of New England; includes three brief... Read More
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Abby Byram and Her Father, The Indian Captives. With Some Account of Their Ancestors and a Register of Their Descendants
by [CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE] McELROY, John H. (Rev)
[no publisher or printer; originally Ottumwa, IA: Cook & Algire, 1898], 1953. First Thus. Reprinted with additions;" originally published Ottumwa, Iowa, 1898. Small octavo. Red publisher's cloth gilt; 97pp. A tight, sound copy. Front endpaper has two square sections excised, presumably to remove an earlier owner's name; old tape adhesions and three laid-down clipped obituaries to front pastedown and... Read More
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