![Ballads [Signed by Adam and Jess]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/751/565/1699565751.0.m.jpg)
Ballads [Signed by Adam and Jess]
by Helen Adam; Robert Duncan [pref.]; Jess [pseud. of Jess Collins] [illus.]
New York: Acadia Press, 1964. Very Good. New York: Acadia Press, 1964. Limited Author's Edition of 50 copies, this being number 27. Side-stapled chapbook (20cm); illustrated card wraps; [52]pp; illus throughout. Covers lightly rubbed at corners and spine ends. Toning from glueline of tipped-in colophon affecting final few pages, else interior unmarked. Binding sound. Signed by... Read More
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![Negro Folk Tales for Pupils in the Primary Grades [Book I Only]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/249/301/1722301249.0.m.jpg)
Negro Folk Tales for Pupils in the Primary Grades [Book I Only]
by Helen Adele Whiting; Lois Mailou Jones [illus.]
Washington, DC: Associated Publishers, 1938. Very Good. Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1938. First Edition. Slim quarto; publisher's blue pictorial cloth; vii,[1],22pp.; illus. throughout. Some rubbing to cloth margins, rather ubiquitous dust-soil to both covers as well as brief damp stain to rear cover; overall Very Good, internally clean and sound. "It is hoped that... Read More
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![The Moths and Other Stories [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/168/637/1683637168.0.m.jpg)
The Moths and Other Stories [Signed]
by Helena Maria Viramontes; Narciso Pena [cover]; Yvonne Yarbo-Bejarano [intro.]
Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1985. Very Good +. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 1985. First Edition. Slim octavo (22 cm); 118pp. Softbound in illustrated pink card wrappers. Covers lightly bumped at extremities with minor soiling to front. Pages clean. A Very Good or better copy of short stories from one of Chicano literature's most prominent writers. Signed,... Read More
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![Artists in Music of Today [Signed by All Three Contributors]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/715/391/1411391715.0.m.jpg)
Artists in Music of Today [Signed by All Three Contributors]
by Helen L. Kaufmann; Eva vB. Hansl; Louis Lupas [illus.]
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1933. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1933. First Edition. Quarto (30cm.); publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket, dark blue topstain; 111pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit toned, marginal chipping occasionally touching text without loss of meaning, faint damp staining along spine edge of front jacket panel; cloth... Read More
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Ties that Bind: A Social History of the Iranian Carpet
by Leonard M. Helfgott
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. Near Fine/Very Good+. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, [1994]. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's cloth in glossy pictorial dust jacket; ix,[1],358pp.; illus. A hint of shelf wear, else Very Good to Near Fine.
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The Children's Hour
by Lillian Hellman
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 115 pp. Printed dust jacket with $2.00 price present. Tan boards stamped in maroon; brown topstain. Dust jacket with a rather large chip to bottom front corner of rear panel; chipped along edges with a couple short tears; spine... Read More
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Wanna Go Out
by Theresa Stern [pseudonym of Tom Verlaine and Richard Hell]
New York: Dot Books, 1973. Very Good +. New York: Dot Books, 1973. First Edition. 12mo. 32 pp. Original stiff pictorial wrappers. Light rubbing to wraps with a few minor scuffs. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good or better. Early poetry collaboration between Richard Meyers and Tom Miller, published just before the CBGB scene took shape... Read More
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Laughing and Crying: A study of the limits of human behavior
by Helmuth Plessner; James Spencer Churchill and Marjorie Grene [trans.]
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970. Very Good. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1970. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's green cloth, spine lettered in silver foil; xiii,[1],172pp. Cloth extremities and spine sunned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper; else Very Good and sound.
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De l'Esprit
by [Claude Adrien Helvetius]
Amsterdam: Arkstee et Merkus, 1774. Very Good. Amsterdam: Arkstée & Merkus, 1774. Two volumes; 12mo; contemporary cats paw calf, gilt spines, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled blue; [2],viii,384; [4],392pp. (collated complete including half titles); decorative head- and tail-pieces. Leather rather scuffed, joints starting to crack but holding, coin-sized loss to top fore-edge corner of first eight leaves of... Read More
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![The League of the Alps, the Siege of Valencia, the Vespers of Palermo, and Other Poems [with] The Forest Sanctuary and Other Poems [Poems by Mrs. Hemans Vol. I & II]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/662/870/1669870662.0.m.jpg)
The League of the Alps, the Siege of Valencia, the Vespers of Palermo, and Other Poems [with] The Forest Sanctuary and Other Poems [Poems by Mrs. Hemans Vol. I & II]
by Felicia Hemans
Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1827. Very Good. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1826-1827. First American Editions. Two octavo volumes. 480; 231pp. Quarter calf over marbled paper-covered boards; four raised bands; leather title labels, gilt lettering to spine; fore and bottom edges sprayed; brown endpapers. Light wear to edges and spines. Bindings sound. Gift inscriptions to... Read More
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The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955. Reprint. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); [2],140pp. Light wear to jacket and cloth margins, small abrasion to upper jacket panel from removed sticker, spine toned, else Very Good and sound. Bright example retaining the original jacket... Read More
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition with "A" on copyright, in First State dust jacket with photographer uncredited at rear panel. Octavo; 471pp. Illustrated dustjacket with original $2.75 price intact. Beige cloth with red title block to spine and black lettering. Dark topstain. Dust jacket worn... Read More
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Winner Take Nothing
by Ernest Hemingway
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First Edition with "A" to copyright page. Octavo. 244 pages. Black cloth with gold title labels to spine and front. Red topstain. Lacks dust jacket. Light shelfwear and faint staining; corners bumped with brief exposure. Binding sound. A few smudges to interior, else clean... Read More
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First Edition with "A" on copyright, in Second State dust jacket with photographer credited at rear panel. Octavo; 471pp. Illustrated dustjacket with $2.75 price present. Beige cloth with red title block to spine and black lettering; dark topstain. Dust jacket chipped along... Read More
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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976. Very Good/Very Good. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976. Reprint of the first Russian Edition, originally published in 1969. Octavo. 320 pp. Five black and white woodcuts. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue-gray boards stamped in silver and navy. Text in English though 18-page introduction by M. Mendelson printed in Russian. Dust jacket lightly chipped with mild creasing... Read More
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A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964. First Edition with A-3.64[H] on copyright. Octavo; 211 pp. 8 pp. photos, all present. Illustrated dust jacket. Marble-patterned gray paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped signature facsimile and brown cloth spine with bronze lettering dark topstain. Price-clipped dust jacket chipped along edges with a couple... Read More
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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929. First Edition, second or third printing, per Grissom, with disclaimer; in jacket B without the additional blurbs and lacking the "Katharine" misspelling. Dust jacket married based on offsetting and Grissom notes jacket B published with the sixth printing. Octavo (19.5 cm); publisher’s cloth... Read More
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Life of James Ferguson, F.R.S., in a brief Autobiographical Account, and further extended memoir
by [James Ferguson]; E. Henderson
Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co, 1867. Very Good. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1867. First Edition. Octavo; bound in modern green cloth with spine stamped in gilt; new endpapers; marbled edges; 503pp. Black and white illustrations including frontis with tissue guard. Light rubbing to boards; binding sound; pages unmarked; a Very Good and sound copy.
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![O. Henry Memorial Essay [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/563/646/1577646563.0.m.jpg)
O. Henry Memorial Essay [Inscribed and Signed]
by [O. Henry] Archibald Henderson
Raleigh: Mutual Publishing Company, 1914. Very Good. [Raleigh: Mutual Publishing Company, 1914.] First Edition. Quarto; publisher's tan cord-bound card wrappers printed in gilt, yapp edges; 32pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, three leaves of plates. Moderate wear to wrapper extremities including small loss at top fore-edge corner of upper cover, minor soil, textblock lightly foxed, else a Very Good, sound... Read More
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The Issue for Nineteen Twenty Four
by Frank Hendrick
New York: Privately Printed for Release in the Newspapers, May 19th, 1923. Near Fine. New York? Privately Printed for Release in the Newspapers of May 19th, 1923. Octavo (23cm.); staple bound self-wrappers; 23pp. Light toning to extremities, brief oxidation to spine staples, else Near Fine. Text of an address first delivered to Republicans at the Union League... Read More
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![The Photographic World and Humour of Cuthbert Bede [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/597/537/1565537597.0.m.jpg)
The Photographic World and Humour of Cuthbert Bede [Inscribed and Signed]
by [Cuthbert Bede] Bridget A. Henisch and Heinz K. Henisch
Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002. Very Good. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, [2002]. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's gray pictorial cloth; [6],ix,[1],170pp.; illus. Cloth and textblock a bit soiled, spine slightly cocked, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the authors on front free endpaper.
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American Handy-Book of the Brewing, Malting and Auxiliary Trades. A Book of Ready Reference for Persons Connected with the Brewing, Malting and Auxiliary Trades, Together with Tables, Formulas, Calculations, Bibliography and Dictionary of Technical Terms
by Robert Wahl; Max Henius
Chicago: Wahl & Henius, 1901. Very Good +. Chicago: Wahl & Henius, 1901. First Edition. 12m0; modern red cloth, renewed endpapers gilt-lettered spine, all edges gilt; 1266pp.; illus., charts and graphs throughout. Inscribed on half title from E.J. Vilsack to a Wm. J. Staff. A few minor smudges and spots to boards. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good... Read More
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The Magnificent Library of Mr. A.S. Whiton of New York City - Embracing a Very Important Collection of First Editions of Thackeray, Dickens, Lover and Lever
by Stan V. Henkels
Philadelphia: Stan V. Henkels, 1911. Good. Philadelphia: Stan V. Henkels, 1911. Octavo. 146 pages. Colored illustrated wrappers. Black and white illustrations. Catalog No. 1024. Front wrapper and front free endpaper detached but present. Lacking rear wrapper, but rest of gatherings secure in binding. Light chipping to edges throughout. Pencil annotations of prices to catalog entries throughout. ... Read More
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![Daniel [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/159/086/1602086159.0.m.jpg)
Daniel [Signed]
by Henning Mankell; Steven T. Murray [trans.]
London: Harvill Secker, 2010. Near Fine/Very Good. London: Harvill Secker, 2010. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo (24cm); [vi],279pp. Illustrated dust jacket with £12.99 price intact; black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are square and sharp. Opens easily to signature, but binding is sound.... Read More
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![Pabst Extract "Brings the Roses to Your Cheeks" [1910 Wall Calendar]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/764/491/1603491764.1.m.jpg)
Pabst Extract "Brings the Roses to Your Cheeks" [1910 Wall Calendar]
by [Pabst Brewing Company] C.W. Henning
Milwaukee: Pabst Brewing Company, 1909. Very Good +. Milwaukee: Pabst Brewing Company, 1909. Original chromolithographed wall calendar scroll measuring 58x18.5cm. when unrolled; cardboard roll along bottom edge and metal hanger present at top edge. Very light wear, one crease along bottom edge, faint damp stain to left-hand edge near bottom margin, else a Very Good or better example.... Read More
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