Encyclopèdie d'Histoire Naturelle, ou Traité Complet de Cette Science d'aprés les Travaux des Naturalistes les Plus Eminents de Tous les Pays et de Toutes les Epoques. Crustacés—Mollusques—Zoophytes
by CHENU, [Jean-Charles]; Eugène Desmarest
Paris: Marescq et Compagnie; Gustave Havard, [n.d.]. First Edition. Quarto (29cm). Quarter leather, marbled paper-covered boards, tooled in gilt on spine, all edges sprinkled brown; marbled endpapers; [viii], 312pp; 48 plates. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian Institution. Purple stamp of the William H. Floyd Collection to t.p. verso. Straight... Read More
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The Romance of an Honest Woman [Gill's Home Novels]
by CHERBULIEZ, Victor
Boston: William P. Gill and Company, 1874. 12mo (18cm). Green cloth series binding, stamped in black and gilt on front and spine; yellow endpapers; 368pp. 1875 inscription of M. L. Chapin on front free endpaper. A bright, sound copy, rubbed at edges: Very Good. Translation of an 1866 novel by Charles Victor Cherbuliez (1829-1899), a popular Swiss-French novelist. ... Read More
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Psychosomatic Medicine. Theory, Physiology, and Practice [2 vols]
by CHEREN, Stanley, MD (ed.)
Madison: International Universities Press, 1989. First Edition. Two octavo volumes. Cloth boards (hardcovers); dustjackets; 977pp. Volume I is fine in fine dust jacket. Volume II is fine in very good dust jacket with small tears at base of spine.
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The Waters Reborn [Signed]
by CHERKOVSKI, Neeli
Los Angeles & Fairfax: Red Hill Press, 1975. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm); original printed card wrappers; [38]pp. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Gentle sunning to spine, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Second book of verse by the late California poet and memoirist. 82720.
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![My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers [Presentation Copy, Inscribed to Cleanth Brooks]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/832/232/1574232832.0.m.jpg)
My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers [Presentation Copy, Inscribed to Cleanth Brooks]
by CHERRY, Kelly
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1990. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on front free endpaper: "To Cleanth Brooks / being able to sign this book for you is one of the great pleasures of my life - with warmest good wishes & much admiration," signed "Kelly," dated in year of publication. Additionally signed by Cherry on the... Read More
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[Text in Russian] Zhivopis' Avtonomnykh Respublik RSFSR (1917-1977)
by CHERVONNAIA, S.M.
Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1978. First Edition. Quarto (26.5cm.); publisher's cloth in green pictorial dust jacket; 207pp. & [40] leaves of plates, many in color. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and rubbed with one-inch closed tear at top of upper flap fold, spine crown rather frayed, else Very Good and sound. Monograph on socialist realist painting in the Soviet Union. ... Read More
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Bomber Pilot
by CHESHIRE, Leonard
London and New York: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd, [n.d.]. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [4],5-136pp; photographic frontispiece with black-and-white halftones througout. Date (1943) pencilled to title page. Light rubbing of cloth to spine ends and board edges, with corners lightly nudged, and foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper, price-clipped,... Read More
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Essays and Speeches
by CHESNUTT, Charles W. [Edited: Joseph McElrath; Robert C. Leitz; Jesse S. Crisler]
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. Reprint. Octavo. 25.5cm. Publisher's illustrated card wraps. 592pp. Clean and sharp, light marginal wear, a very good, handsome copy. Internally clean. An exhaustive collection of Chestnutt's writings on African American issues and achievements.
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The Sexual, Marital, and Family Relationships of the English Woman
by CHESSER, Eustace et al.
New York: Roy Publishers, n.d., ca. 1950s. First American Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in grey dust jacket, black topstain; xxxvi,[2],642pp.; illus. Chipping and small losses along jacket extremities, the whole rather toned, corners bumped, else Very Good in About Very Good jacket.
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The Cash Intrigue: A Fantastic Melodrama of Modern Finance
by CHESTER, George Randolph; M. Leone Bracker, illus
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, [1909]. First Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); original blue cloth embossed in gilt; [6],391pp.; frontispiece, 5 plates. Extremities a touch rubbed, spine very slightly cocked, else Very Good or better. BLEILER (1972), p. 76. Not in Hanna or Smith.
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The Father Brown Book: Stories of G.K. Chesterton Immortal Detective
by CHESTERTON, G.K. [Gilbert Keith] and Andrew Scotland (editor)
London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1959. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (29cm); light blue cloth covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; 144pp.; crown of spine lightly pushed, Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced 6/- net) with minor nicks and tiny tears to edges; minor rubbing/soil to rear panel; Very Good+. The stories have... Read More
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The Virgin Blue (Signed copy)
by CHEVALIER, Tracy
New York: Penguin, 1997. First Edition. First Printing. Signed by the author on title page; Octavo (19.5 cm); blue wrappers; 257pp,(iv); a Fine paperback. Author's first novel, "When Ella Turner moves to southwestern France with her husband, her life is disrupted by strange dreams. Bewildered by her unwelcoming neighbors- with the exception of the attractive but wolfish Jean-Paul-... Read More
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A History of Singapore
by CHEW, Ernest C.T. and Edwin Lee, eds
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; xx,442pp. Advance copy with publisher's slip laid in. Mild spotting to top edge, copy tight, unmarked with trivial soil to front board. Jacket showing some shelf wear, minor sunning to spine. Very Good.
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Dreamers' House [Signed by both authors]
by CHEYNEY, Ralph and Lucia Trent
Chicago: Robert Packard & Company, 1931. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); green cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 58pp, [2]. Signed by Cheyney and Trent in green ink on the front endpaper. Hint of sunning to crown, with light offsetting to endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.50), rubbed and dusty,... Read More
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Chhangchha's Love Poems
by CHHANGCHHA, Jaya
Kathmandu, Nepal: Multi Graphic Press, 2005. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 72pp. Fine copy, appears unread. Bilingual edition, with facint text in English and Nepalese.
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THE EAGLE OF PROMETHEUS
by Chiari, Joseph
Aldington, Kent: The Hand & Flower Press, 1953. First edition. 69 pp. Small 8vo. Near fine in original wrappers. British poet born in France.
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The Chicago Conspiracy Trial. The Chicago Conspiracy vs. the Washington Kangaroos : Official Pogrom
by [CHICAGO 8] CERF, Christopher and Michael Frith (eds)
New York: Grove Press / Domesday Books, 1969. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Original stapled pictorial card wrappers; 24pp; illus. Mild edge-wear, faint crease at upper corner; Very Good. Satirical coverage of the 1969 trial of the Chicago Eight, done in mock baseball-program format. Includes halftone portraits of the co-conspirators (team name: "The Chicago Conspiracy") and the prosecutors (team... Read More
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Poster: Strike "87" - Support the Real Bears
by [NFLPA STRIKE] [CHICAGO]
[Chicago: S.i., 1987]. Original poster, with text and team photo offset printed on white stock, measuring 42.5cm x 28cm (16.75" x 11"). A Fine copy. A relic of the month-long NFL players' strike during the 1987 season. During the brief period that NFL players went on strike, owners were forced to hire replacements to come in and play the... Read More
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World Series of Amerikan Injustice - Chicago Conspiracy vs. Washington Kangaroos. Opening Day Sept 24, 1969 at the Chicago Grass Courts / Adams and Dearborn
by [CHICAGO 8 TRIAL] [UNDERGROUND COMIX] [RODRIGUEZ], Spain (artist)
[Chicago: I.W.W. Printing Co-Op, 1969]. Illustrated broadside, 44cm x 28cm (17" x 11"). Offset lithograph, printed in black on white stock. Old horizontal fold; mild toning in margins, else Near Fine. A well-preserved example. Signed in plate, "Spain," lower right. Chicago I.W.W. printer's bug. Satirical broadside issued to announce the opening of the trial of the Chicago 8... Read More
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A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937-1945
by CHICKERING, Roger, Stig Förster, and Bernd Greiner, eds
Cambridge University Press, 2005. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; x, 392pp. Publisher's slip laid in. Minor foxing to top edge of textblock and jacket, mild dust soiling to top edge of boards, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Trivial external wear to dust jacket. Near Fine. In publisher's series "Publications of the German Historical Institute. ... Read More
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Heintz
by CHIDSEY, Alan Lake; F. Moylan Fitts, illus
Kingsport, TN: Southern Publishers, 1945. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 155pp. Mild bumps to corners, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed at extremities, VG to NF. Lighthearted portrayal of a German-American civil servant during WW2, illustrated with humorous drawings by Fitts. Not in Hanna.
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Long Lance: The Autobiography of a Blackfoot Indian Chief
by CHIEF BUFFALO CHILD LONG LANCE (pseud Sylvester Clark Long); Irwin Cobb, fwd; Norman Mommens, illus
London: Faber and Faber, 1956. Reissue (first published 1928). Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 241pp; illus. Spots of fading to cloth at spine ends, else Fine. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, else bright and crisp, Near Fine. One of the more noteworthy (and tragic) literary hoaxes of the 20th century. "Chief Long Lance," who achieved celebrity through... Read More
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Long-Term Treatment of Psychotic States
by CHILAND, Colette and Paul Bequart
New York: Human Sciences Press, [1977]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in blue-green pictorial dust jacket; 696pp.; illus. Some wear to jacket extremities, top textblock edge rather foxed, contemporary ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown and all three textblock edges, else Very Good and sound.
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Statistical Series no. 81: Statistics on Public Institutions for Delinquent Children: 1964
by [CHILD WELFARE - JUVENILE DELINQUENCY] TOWNSEND, Alair A. (ed)
[Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - Welfare Administration, Children's Bureau, 1965. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound wrappers (softcover); 39pp. Fine. Summary analysis of findings, followed by statistical tables on "...the 245 public institutions for delinquent children that reported for the fiscal year 1964.
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Extraterrestrial Archaeology; Incredible Proof We Are Not Alone
by CHILDRESS, David Hatcher
Stelle, Illinois: Adventures Unlimited, 1994. First Edition. Qurto. 26cm. Publisher's original photographic card wraps. 301pp. + [10pp] ads to rear. Clean and bright, some very light edgewear, a near fine copy. Internally clean. A visually rich, rather glossy attempt to prove with photographic evidence that "many of the planets and moons of our solar system are in some way... Read More
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