The Indian Captive; or a Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Zadock Steele. Related by Himself. To Which is Prefixed an Account of the Burning of Royalton
by [CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE] STEELE, Zadock
Springfield: The H.R. Huntting Company, 1908. Limited Edition. Reprint; no. 56 of 526 copies. 12mo. Cloth-backed boards with printed paper spine label; xiv,166pp; frontispiece, folding map. A tidy copy, straight and tight in the original binding; board corners mildly rubbed - Very Good or better, lacking the slipcase. Attractively reprinted from the scarce 1818 Montpelier edition. Includes a new... Read More
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Race Relations in the British Commonwealth and the United Nations
by CARADON, Lord
Cambridge: University Press, 1967. First Edition. 12mo (18.25cm.); original blue stitched wrappers printed in red; [2],24pp. Light toning to wrapper extremities, else Very Good and sound. Smuts Memorial Lecture, originally delivered August 8, 1966.
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Ain't You Got A Right to the Tree of Life? The People of Johns Island, South Carolina - Their Faces, Their Words, and Their Songs. Recorded and Edited by Guy and Candie Carawan
by CARAWAN, Guy and Candie; Robert Yellin (et al), photographs; Charles Joyner, preface; Bernice Johnson Reagon, afterword
Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1989. First printing of the Revised and Expanded Edition. Quarto; cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 240pp; illus. Fine copy in a crisp, unworn dustwrapper. A much expanded and updated version of the Carawans' 1966 classic, included many new photographs by Ida Berman, Gary Hamilton, and others.
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![Fonti per la Storia del Risorgimento Italiano Negli Archivi Nazionali di Parigi: I Rifugiati Italiani, 1815-1830 [Cover title: I Rifugiati Italiani in Francia]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/911/371/1294371911.0.m.jpg)
Fonti per la Storia del Risorgimento Italiano Negli Archivi Nazionali di Parigi: I Rifugiati Italiani, 1815-1830 [Cover title: I Rifugiati Italiani in Francia]
by CARBONE, Salvatore
Roma: Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento Italiano, 1962. First Edition. Octavo (25.5cm.); publisher's card wrappers in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xxi,[3],202pp. Light shelf wear, jacket extremities rather toned, contemporary ownership rubberstamp to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Published as the Institute's Biblioteca Scientficia, Serie II, Vol. XLIII.
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Redefining Revolution
by CARDAN, Paul [pseud. Cornelius Castoriadis]
[London]: Solidarity, n.d., ca. 1974. First Edition. Quarto (26cm.); original white pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 24pp.; illus. Price cancel to upper cover (20p). Near Fine. Solidarity Pamphlet no. 44.
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The Crisis of Modern Society
by CARDAN, Paul [pseud. Cornelius Castoriadis]
[North London: Solidarity, n.d., 1971?]. First Edition. Quarto (25.25cm.); original green printed staplebound wrappers; 14pp.; printed mimeographed. Minor wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. Solidarity Pamphlet no. 23. Speech originally delivered by Castoriadis, co-founder of the movement "Socialisme ou Barbarie," in May, 1965.
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Vida Perdida. Memorias I.
by CARDENAL, Ernesto
Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003. First Mexican Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 446pp. Slight rolling to wrappers at corners, else Near Fine, free of markings or excessive wear. First volume of the Nicaraguan poet's memoirs, this Mexican printing was preceded by the Barcelona edition (1999).
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Zero Hour and Other Documentary Poems
by CARDENAL, Ernesto
New York: New Directions, 1980. First American Edition. First printing. Small octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 106pp. Clean, tight and Near Fine in the original dustwrapper, unclipped, lightly toned at extremities, still Near Fine.
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With Walker in Nicaragua and Other Early Poems 1949-1954
by CARDENAL, Ernesto; Jonathan Cohen, transl
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1984). First Edition. First printing. Cloth issue. Octavo; black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 111,(1)pp. Fine, in a fine, original and unclipped dustwrapper. An apparently unread copy.
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Songs of Beginnings
by Careme, Maurice; Zoe Lantelme Belth (Trans.)
Boston: Branden Press, 1974. First edition. Original blue wrappers; small 8vo. 38 pp. Inscribed by Translator. Noted translation of the Belgian poet's work. Very good. Rare. Inscribed by Author(s).
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![New University Thought [Spring/Autumn/Winter, 1962; September-October, 1963; December-January, 1963-64]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/893/183/1562183893.0.m.jpg)
New University Thought [Spring/Autumn/Winter, 1962; September-October, 1963; December-January, 1963-64]
by [CAREY, NICOLETTE, ed., et al.]
Detroit: New University Thought Publishing Company, 1962-64. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Five issues in printed card wrapper; 168pp, 80pp; [72]pp; 64pp; 72pp. Lightly rubbed at edges, else Very Good or better. Five issues, including special issues on "Peace" and "Civil Rights." The spring 1962 issue on peace includes numerous articles on nuclear weapons. Winter 1962... Read More
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MY LIFE AS A FAKE
by Carey, Peter
New York: Knopf, 2003. First American edition. An Advanced Reader's Edition in illustrated (Chip Kidd designed) wrappers of this fine novel by a two-time winner of the Booker Prize. Carey mixes fact and fiction as he borrows (including some lines from the poems) from the Ern Malley affair: an Australian poetry magazine, 'Angry Penguins', published in the 40's poems... Read More
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![Oscar and Lucinda [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/588/601/788601588.0.m.jpg)
Oscar and Lucinda [Signed]
by CAREY, Peter
London: Faber and Faber, 1988. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo; blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; 512pp. Signed by Carey on the title page. Hint of tanning to text edges (as is common with this title) else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1988, and basis for... Read More
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The Tax Inspector
by CAREY, Peter
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First American Edition. Trade issue. Signed by Carey on title pagge. Octavo; cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 279pp. Fine, tight copy. In original dustwrapper, unclipped, unworn, fine.
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![For Lilias [...] and Aunt Diana](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/089/150/800150089.0.m.jpg)
For Lilias [...] and Aunt Diana
by CAREY, Rosa Nouchette
New York: John W. Lovell Company, n.d. (ca. 1900). Popular Edition" (spine foot). Octavo (19cm.); original bright blue cloth, upper spine embossed in gilt; 399,[1],208,[14](ads)pp.; 8 engraved plates. Spine a touch darkened, contemporary ownership signature to front pastedown, else About Fine. Two of the author's numerous domestic novels for young girls bound in one volume as issued, possibly forming... Read More
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Gentle Subsidy
by CAREY, Steve
[Bolinas]: Big Sky, [1975]. First Edition. Regular issue, one of 724 copies. Octavo; pictorial wrappers; [55]pp. Wrappers unevenly faded on front cover, else fine and unmarked. There was a simultaneous issue of 26 signed, lettered copies.
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![The Games Were Coming [Bound Galley Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/567/584/1360584567.0.m.jpg)
The Games Were Coming [Bound Galley Copy]
by [CARIBBEANA] ANTHONY, Michael
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. First American Edition. Octavo (28cm); publisher's galley sheets, comb-bound into printed card covers; pp.1-68a. Light wear and dustiness to covers and text edges, with a few faint, tiny stains to front cover; Very Good+. The Trinidadian author and historian's first novel (initially publshed by Andre Deutsch in 1963), a cycling novel set against the... Read More
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![The Caribbean Poem: An Anthology of 50 Caribbean Voices [Inscribed by Neville Dawes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/600/039/1683039600.0.m.jpg)
The Caribbean Poem: An Anthology of 50 Caribbean Voices [Inscribed by Neville Dawes]
by [CARIBBEANA] DAWES, Neville and Anthony McNeill (editors); SEYMOUR, A.J. (foreword)
N.p. [although likely Kingston, Jamaica]: Carifesta / Quikprinters Limited, 1976. First Edition. Octavo (21.25cm); printed card wrappers, stapled; [7],8-112pp. Inscribed by co-editor Neville Dawes on the preliminary leaf to Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Marquez: "For: Roberto Marquez / with fraternal greetings / Neville Dawes / Kingston, 1976." Light wear and gentle sunning to wrappers, with... Read More
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![Hudibras. Plates I-XII (complete) [from] Hogarth Restored: the Whole Works of the Celebrated William Hogarth](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/605/168/545168605.0.m.jpg)
Hudibras. Plates I-XII (complete) [from] Hogarth Restored: the Whole Works of the Celebrated William Hogarth
by [CARICATURE - GREAT BRITAIN] HOGARTH, William (after); Thomas Cook, Engraver
London: T. Cook, 1806. Later Edition. The complete series, plates I-X uncut as issued. These are the Thomas Cook re-engravings, ca. 1806. Plate marks 21-1/4" x 14" on 24" x 17" sheets; printed on heavy wove paper. Occasional shallow chipping, soiling, & foxing to extremities; images fresh and unfoxed; Very Good. A fresh and attractive set of Hogarth's illustrations... Read More
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Giants Should be Gelded
by CARLAW, Bogart
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 277pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in the exceedingly scarce unclipped dustwrapper, lightly soiled and with a few closed tears, still bright, and on the better side of VG. Depression-era realist novel portraying the tribulations of a nine-foot-tall giant... Read More
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![The Moonflower Vine [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/283/035/1666035283.0.m.jpg)
The Moonflower Vine [Review Copy]
by CARLETON, Jetta (novel); Betty Crumley (design)
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962. First Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy with publisher's promotional pamphlet and two sheets of typed, folded instructions for reviewers. Octavo (21.5cm); green cloth spine over light green paper-covered boards, with titling and decoration stamped in gilt and green on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 352pp. Light foxing to... Read More
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Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment
by CARLIN, Richard and Kinasha Holman Conwill, eds.; Smokey Robinson, foreword
New York: Smithsonian, 2010. First Edition. Quarto. Silver cloth boards in dust jacket; 265pp. Author's inscription to title page, signed by Zita D. Allen. Mild age toning to margins of textblock, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Trivial shelf wear to jacket. Near Fine. Published by the National Museum of African American History and Culture, covering, at time of... Read More
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![Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Novel [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/835/256/1016256835.0.m.jpg)
Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Novel [Inscribed]
by CARLSON, Ron
New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1984. Second printing. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; 219,[3]pp. Inscribed to Minnesota author and poet John Calvin Rezmerski on the title page: "For John / with every good wish! Ron Carlson / 2000." Tiny price sticker to rear wrapper, with some very faint curl beginning to wrapper extremities; Near Fine, unread copy. The author's first... Read More
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![The Hotel Eden: Stories [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/077/256/1016256077.0.m.jpg)
The Hotel Eden: Stories [Inscribed]
by CARLSON, Ron
New York: Penguin Books, 1998. First Paperback Edition. First Printing. Octavo; photo-illustrated wrappers; 224pp. Inscribed to Minnesota author and poet John Calvin Rezmerski on the title page: "For John - with high hopes for his own work / Ron Carlson / 2000." Small price sticker to rear wrapper, some toning to inner edges of wrappers, with pinpoint wear to... Read More
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Louis Loucheur and the Shaping of Modern France 1916 - 1931
by CARLS, Stephen D.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 339pp. Bit of dusting to top edge, else fine and unmarked in crisp, unworn dustwrapper; Near-New.
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