Birds, Beasts and Flowers
by D.H. Lawrence
London: Martin Secker, 1923. Very Good/Very Good. London: Martin Secker, [1923]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards, black topstain, in mint green printed dust jacket; 207pp. Dust jacket rather dust-soiled and unevenly faded with extensive shallow chips and closed tears occasionally touching text without loss of meaning; overall Very Good, internally clean and entirely unopened. Contemporary New... Read More
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Pornography and So On
by D.H. Lawrence
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1936. Very Good/Very Good. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1936. First Collected Edition. Small octavo; publisher's cloth in purple decorative dust jacket printed in red and black, retaining original price (3s. 6d. net); 174pp. Light shelf wear to jacket and cloth margins, jacket spine toned, light foxing to textblock edges, else Very Good... Read More
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Sons and Lovers
by D.H. Lawrence
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. Very Good. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue-ish purple cloth lettered in white; [6],517pp. Light shelf wear, corners bumped and spine cloth a shade sunned, else a Very Good and sound copy, the white lettering entirely uneffaced. The author's semi-autobiographical novel based on a mother-son-girl triangle... Read More
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Sexual Behavior in Modern China: Report on the Nationwide Survey of 20,000 Men and Women
by Dalin Liu; Man Lun Ng; Li Ping Zhou; Erwin J. Haeberle
New York: Continuum, 1997. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Continuum, 1997. First English-Language Edition. Octavo. 568pp. Charts and graphs throughout. Printed dust jacket; black boards stamped in silver. Rubbing and light scuffing to dust jacket. Boards show mild shelfwear. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy.
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Mr. Meeson's Will: A Novel
by H. Rider Haggard
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's maroon cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],270,[2],12pp. Boards scuffed with some brief loss of marbled paper at extremities, textblock uniformly toned and brittle from poor paper quality, else Very Good and sound overall. Early Haggard... Read More
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Beatrice: A Novel
by H. Rider Haggard
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1890. Very Good. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890. First Edition with publisher's advertisements in rear dated 30,000/3/90 at foot of p. 16. Octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth, black glazed endpapers; [8],312,16pp. Spine cocked with cloth quite toned, chipping at spine ends, most notably at crown, corners gently tapped, else Very Good, internally... Read More
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The Wizard
by H. Rider Haggard
Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1896. Very Good. Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1896. First Edition, "Bristol Library Edition," being one of the 20,000 copies bound in brown cloth and without original wraps. 12mo. 208 + 32 pp. advertisements. Brown cloth stamped in black and gilt; charcoal endpapers. Light wear to edges and joints. Slight lean to spine but binding sound. Bookseller... Read More
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Jess
by H. Rider Haggard
London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1887. Very Good -. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1887. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red decorative cloth, front cover stamped in black, gilt-lettered spine, floral endpapers; viii,336,[8](ads)pp. Light shelf wear, spine slightly cocked and a shade faded with two faint spots from previously removed labels (presumably library markings); overall Very Good, internally clean... Read More
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Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus
by H. Rider Haggard
London: John Murray, 1918. Very Good. London: John Murray, 1918. First Edition, First State with misprints on pp. 55 and 210. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth, front cover and spine lettered in black; xii,328,[8](ads)pp. Light shelf wear to corners and spine ends, spine slightly cocked, foxing throughout, cut-out illustration, presumably from The Cornhill Magazine in which this novel was... Read More
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Eric Brighteyes
by H. Rider Haggard
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891. Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891. Early American Edition. Octavo (18 cm); iv; 319pp. Boards quarter bound in maroon cloth and brown marbled paper with gilt stamping to spine. Tan endsheets. Boards generally scuffed and shelfworn at margins with bumping to corners and spine ends. Cloth dust soiled. Portland Odd... Read More
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The Poor and the Land: Being a report of the Salvation Army colonies in the United States and at Hadleigh, England, with scheme of national land settlement
by H. Rider Haggard
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1905. Very Good. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905. First Trade Edition, Cloth Issue. Octavo; publisher's red cloth ruled and lettered in black; xli,[1],157pp.; photographic frontispiece (tissue guard), five leaves of plates. Upper cover cloth lightly discolored and soiled, corners bumped with very brief exposure, spine toned, else a Very Good copy, internally... Read More
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Smith and the Pharaohs and Other Tales
by H. Rider Haggard
New York: Longmans, Green & Co, 1921. Very Good. New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1921. First American Edition. Octavo (19cm); publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [6],316,[6](ads)pp. Light shelf wear to cloth margins, boards slightly bowed, gilt starting to dull, contemporary ownership ex libris to front pastedown, else Very Good and sound. Scott 75a; Whatmore F49/6a.... Read More
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My Fellow Laborer & The Wreck of the "Copeland" [Limited Edition]
by H. Rider Haggard
Cheltenham: Chris Coquet, 1992. Very Good. Cheltenham: Chris Coquet, 1992. First Thus, Limited to 100 cloth-bound copies of which this is no. 54. Slim octavo; publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 56pp. Front cover rather spotted and spine ends bumped else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Finely published reissue of two Haggard short stories,... Read More
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A Gardener's Year
by H. Rider Haggard
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1905. Very Good. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1905. First Edition with publisher's advertisements dated "10,000/9/04 - A.U.P." at bottom of p. 40. Thick octavo; publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt; xii,404,40pp.; frontispiece and twenty-four (24) leaves of photographs. Spine rather toned as is top third of upper cover, small chips... Read More
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Morning Star
by H. Rider Haggard
New York: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1910. Very Good. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 308 pp. Color frontispiece with tissue guard; one additional color and one black and white plate, complete. Red boards stamped in black and gilt. No dust jacket. Boards worn along edges with brief exposure to corners... Read More
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Under the Sign of [Sic]: Sturtevant's Volte-Face
by Bruce Hainley
Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2013. Very Good +. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2013. First Edition. Small quarto; publisher's limp pictorial orange cloth; 343pp.; illus. throughout. Slight spine lean, else Very Good or better. Rather free-form critical biography of the American artist Elaine Sturtevant, published a year before her death.
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Groundwork: New and Selected Poems, 1966-1996 [Signed]
by Haki R. Madhubuti [aka Don L. Lee]; Gwendolyn Brooks [fwd.]; Bakari Kitwana [pref.]
Chicago: Third World Press, 1996. Very Good/Very Good. Chicago: Third World Press, 1996. First Edition, with full numberline. Octavo (23.6cm); photo-illustrated dust jacket; boards in green cloth with gilt lettering; xxvi,329pp. Jacket lightly cockled, with rubbing at spine ends. Slight bow to front board. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the author without inscription and... Read More
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![The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation - Made by Sea or Over-land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 Yeeres Volume I through XII [Twelve Volume Set] [Alt title: Hakluyt's Voyages]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/221/262/1673262221.0.m.jpg)
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation - Made by Sea or Over-land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth at any time within the compasse of these 1600 Yeeres Volume I through XII [Twelve Volume Set] [Alt title: Hakluyt's Voyages]
by Richard Hakluyt
Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, Publishers to the University, 1905. Very Good. Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, Publishers to the University, 1903-1905. Reprint. Twelve octavo volumes, complete. Numerous folding maps and plates, complete. Bound in blue cloth stamped in gilt; top edges gilt. Mild wear to edges with a few minor splits; some general scuffing. Bindings sound. Ownership... Read More
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The Noblest Roman [Signed bookplate laid in]
by David Halberstam
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. Very Good +/Very Good +. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Octavo (22 cm); 304pp. Boards in rust red cloth with white stamping to spine, wrapped in publisher's intact pictorial jacket ($3.95). Black top stain and fore-edge deckled. Jacket generally toned and gently soiled with minor closed tears and... Read More
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Firehouse [Signed]
by David Halberstam
New York: Hyperion, 2002. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Hyperion, [2002]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards, photo-illustrated endpapers, in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; [4],201pp. Just About Fine. Signed by the author on title page. Account of September 11, 2001, from the perspective of Engine 40, Ladder 35, the firehouse near Lincoln Center on the West Side of... Read More
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Oration by Rev. Horatio Stebbins, D.D. Poem by Edward Hale, A.B.
by Horatio Stebbins; Edward Hale
Exeter, NH: William B. Morrill, Printer, 1883. Very Good. Exeter, NH: William B. Morrill, Printer, 1883. First Edition. Octavo. 23 pages. In original brown wrappers. The highly lauded Unitarian minister delivers an address on the occasion of the Phillips Exeter Academy's centennial. Stebbins was an active minister for nearly a half century, preaching against anti-Chinese legislation,... Read More
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Wind Woman
by Carol Hales
New York: Woodford Press, 1953. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Woodford Press, 1953. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); publisher's boards in blue pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); 288pp. Jacket margins rather chipped and worn, bottom two inches of front flap fold split, corners bumped; a Very Good copy only. The author's rather shlocky and controversial... Read More
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Words for the Workers; in a Series of Lectures to Workingmen, Mechanics, and Apprentices
by William D. Haley
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1855. Very Good. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1855. First Edition. Octavo. 146; 10 pp. advertisements. Embossed brown cloth with gilt stamping to spine; yellow endpapers. Mild rubbing to edges; corners bumped; a few stains; spine sunned. Binding sound and interior unmarked; a Very Good copy. Lectures from the Alton, Illinois Pastor on... Read More
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family [Signed]
by Alex Haley
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1976. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1976. Later printing. Signed by Alex Haley with brief inscription at title page. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in price-clipped dust jacket; viii,[2],587pp. Dust jacket worn along edges with general soiling and scuffing. Boards shelfworn. Binding sound; dust soiling to top edge; paperclip... Read More
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family [Signed]
by Alex Haley
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1976. Very Good -/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1976. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in price-clipped dust jacket; viii,[2],587pp. Dust jacket margins moderately wrinkled and worn with small closed tear at top edge of front panel not approaching text, light dust-soil to textblock margins, top textblock edge... Read More
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