![The Water Colley [Limited Edition, Signed by the printer]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/820/099/1573099820.0.m.jpg)
The Water Colley [Limited Edition, Signed by the printer]
by Richard Jefferies
Market Drayton: Tern Press, 1984. Near Fine. Market Drayton: Tern Press, n.d. [ca. 1984]. First Thus, Limited to 90 copies of which this is no. 26. Slim 12mo; publisher's decorative paper-covered boards, woodcut pictorial element mounted to upper cover; [26]pp.; two-toned woodcut illus. throughout. Spine foot a bit bumped, else a Near Fine example. Lovely keepsake... Read More
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Documents Accompanying the Bill for the Relief of Isaac Briggs. Presented the 18th March, 1808
by Isaac Briggs; Thomas Jefferson
City of Washington: A. & G. Way, 1808. Very Good. City of Washington: A. & G. Way, 1808. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); removed; 5,[1]pp. Light foxing, spine nearly split, else Good to Very Good, despite slightly musty odor. Exceedingly uncommon pamphlet reproducing three pieces of correspondence between President Thomas Jefferson and American engineer Isaac Briggs. Briggs had... Read More
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![The American Atlas 1776 [with second facsimile title:] The American Atlas: A Geographical Description of the Whole Continent of America: Wherein are Delineated at Large, its Several Regions, Countries, States, and Islands; and Chiefly British Colonies..](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/368/446/1588446368.0.m.jpg)
The American Atlas 1776 [with second facsimile title:] The American Atlas: A Geographical Description of the Whole Continent of America: Wherein are Delineated at Large, its Several Regions, Countries, States, and Islands; and Chiefly British Colonies..
by Thomas Jefferys
London: Times Newspaper Limited in Association with the Royal Geographical Society and David Paradine Developments Limited, 1976. Near Fine. London: Times Newspaper Limited in Association with the Royal Geographical Society and David Paradine Developments Limited, 1976. Limited Edition reprint with a stated print run of 200 numbered copies, though this copy unnumbered. Folio. Unpaginated but with 30 hand-colored... Read More
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Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia; with the Appendixes -- Complete
by Thomas Jefferson
Baltimore, MD: Printed by W. Pechin, corner of Water & Gay-Streets, 1800. Very Good. Baltimore, MD: Printed by W. Pechin, corner of Water & Gay-Streets, 1800. Early Edition. Quarto. 194, [2], 53, [1] pp; pagination error to pp. 23-52 as called for. Includes eye draught of Madison's cave, fold-out of Manahoacs and Powhatans, and half-page map of Ohio... Read More
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Notes on the State of Virginia, with an Appendix
by Thomas Jefferson
Newark, NJ: Printed by Pennington & Gould, 1801. Very Good. Newark, [NJ]: Printed by Pennington & Gould, 1801. "Third American Edition" (i.e., sixth or seventh U.S. edition). Octavo. 392 pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece by Scoles, eye draught of Madison's Cave, map of the Ohio River. Bound in 20th-century blue-gray cloth with red leather spine label. Pencil erasure marks... Read More
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Phantasmicom 10, November, 1972
by Jeffrey D. Smith [ed.]
Baltimore: Jeffrey D. Smith, 1972. Very Good. Baltimore: Jeffrey D. Smith, 1972. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's white pictorial staplebound wrappers; 76pp.; illus. throughout, textblock printed mimeograph on various colored paper. Wrappers a bit soiled, light wear, else Very Good. Penultimate issue of this Baltimore-based science fiction fanzine. This issue devoted in part to the works of... Read More
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Star-Gazer
by Benjamin Musser; J. Graydon Jeffries
Montpelier, VT: The Driftwood Press, 1934. Very Good. Montpelier, VT: The Driftwood Press, 1934. First Edition. Signed by Jeffries on second free endpaper without inscription. Octavo. Unpaginated. Frontis portrait. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Full title continues, "Biographical essay on the early days and handicap of the poet J. Graydon Jeffries together with seventeen of 'Jimmie's' exquisite poems." ... Read More
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A Case of Books: (For Theodore I. Terhune)
by Bruce Graeme [pseud. Graham Montague Jeffries]
London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) LTD, 1946. Very Good. London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) LTD, [1946]. First Edition. Undated but publication year provided by OCLC. Octavo (19cm). Red publisher's cloth binding. 173 pp. Cloth binding faded on spine and top front edge. Corners bumped. Sticker from a U.S. Forever Stamp on front pastedown next to small... Read More
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Collection of Twelve Real Photo Postcards of the Running of the Bulls in Spain
by J. Elosúa; et al.
Zaragoza, Pamplona, et al.: v.p., 1930. Very Good. Zaragoza et al: v.p., ca. 1930s. Collection of twelve real photo postcards; light wear and a hint of dust-soil, else a Very Good or better collection. One example with the rubberstamp of Zaragoza photographer J. Elosúa, "Fotógrafo Taurino"; another with the rubberstamp of a Pamplona photographer (Gerardo Zaragu[?]); the remaining... Read More
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Musik Kommunikation Ideologie: Ein Beitrag zur Kritik der Musikpädagogik
by Michael Jenne
Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Verlag, 1977. Very Good. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Verlag, [1977]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's yellow card wrappers; 202pp. Light wear from handling, brief soil at bottom fore-edge corner and rear wrapper, else Very Good. At head of upper cover: "Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung.
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Rahel: Her Life and Letters
by [Rahel Varnhagen] Mrs. [Kate] Vaughan Jennings
London: Henry S. King & Co, 1876. Very Good. London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876. First Edition. Octavo. 268 + 48 pp. advertisements. Frontis portrait with tissue guard. Green cloth with beveled edges stamped in black and gilt; dark topstain; brown endpapers. Light wear to edges with very faint general spotting. Rear hinge starting but binding sound.... Read More
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Show Card and Poster Technique
by Edgar M. Jenson
Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1934. Very Good. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1934. Large quarto (29cm); publisher's black post-bound cloth, upper cover lettered in green with owner's name (V.K. Newcomer) in gilt along bottom edge; mixed pagination, including thirty-nine (39) plates; twenty (20) pieces of original artwork; and twenty-two (22) mounted elements including programs, magazine... Read More
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![Dragons [Dragon-Themed Binder Compiled by Godmother for grieving Goddaughter]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/750/241/1686241750.0.m.jpg)
Dragons [Dragon-Themed Binder Compiled by Godmother for grieving Goddaughter]
by [Grief - Dragons - 90s Internet - New Jersey]
New Jersey, 1998. Very Good. New Jersey, 1998. Green plastic three-ring binder with collaged covers and spine. [114] plastic sheaths filled to completion with all dragon-themed mythological summaries, Chinese restaurant menus, poetry, artwork, astrology, dragon boat racing, Stevie Nicks tributes, debates about Christian metal band Stryper, Puff the Magic Dragon, etc.; principally printed from the internet along with... Read More
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![Critical Essays on the Seventeenth Century [Three Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/276/974/1587974276.0.m.jpg)
Critical Essays on the Seventeenth Century [Three Volume Set]
by J.E. Spingarn [ed.]
Boomington: Indiana University Press, 1957. Near Fine/Very Good. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957 [Second, 1963, Printings]. Three volumes; small octavos; publisher's cloth in grey printed Oxford University Press dust jackets. Light wear to jacket margins including a few tiny chips, spines toned, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound set.
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![Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery [Signed by Steinem and Kasten]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/073/064/1723064073.0.m.jpg)
Enslaved: True Stories of Modern Day Slavery [Signed by Steinem and Kasten]
by Jesse Sage and Lori Kasten [eds.]; Gloria Steinem [fwd.]; Michelle Slattery, Abuk Bak, Jill Leighton et al [contrs.]
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. First Edition. Signed by Gloria Steinem and Liora Kasten at title page with two other unidentified inscriptions. Octavo; photo-illustrated dust jacket; light gray boards stamped in gilt; 218pp. Light wear and creasing to dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with bumping to spine ends; binding sound; pages... Read More
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![Memoirs of the Court of England during the Reign of the Stuarts, including the Protectorate [Four Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/060/040/1720040060.0.m.jpg)
Memoirs of the Court of England during the Reign of the Stuarts, including the Protectorate [Four Volume Set]
by John Heneage Jesse
London: Richard Bentley, 1846. Very Good -. London: Richard Bentley, 1846. Second Edition. Four volumes; octavos (22.5cm); contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, all edges marbled, matching marbled endpapers; steel engraved frontispieces at head of each volume. Leather rather rubbed and dried, half of the spine onlays missing, 20th-century ownership ex libris of Joseph Toy Curtiss to... Read More
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![The Seasons of Jesse Stuart: An Autobiography in Poetry 1907-1976 [Limited Edition, Signed by Stuart]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/233/407/1573407233.0.m.jpg)
The Seasons of Jesse Stuart: An Autobiography in Poetry 1907-1976 [Limited Edition, Signed by Stuart]
by Jesse Stuart; Wanda Hicks [ed.]
Danbury, CT: Archer Editions Press, 1976. Near Fine. Danbury, CT: Archer Editions Press, 1976. First Edition, Limited Issue of 489 copies signed by Jesse Stuart at limitation page, this being #210. Oblong quarto. 229 pp. Tan cloth boards stamped in black; brown endpapers. Light rubbing to edges of boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Near Fine. ... Read More
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![Famous Criminals and Their Trials: Intimate Revelations Compiled from the Papers of Sir Richard Muir, Late Senior Counsel to the British Treasury [Jessica Mitford's copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/672/036/1549036672.0.m.jpg)
Famous Criminals and Their Trials: Intimate Revelations Compiled from the Papers of Sir Richard Muir, Late Senior Counsel to the British Treasury [Jessica Mitford's copy]
by [Jessica Mitford] Sidney Theodore Felstead; Lady Muir [ed.]
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. Very Good. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 382pp.; half-tone illustrations. Seattle Police Department Bureau of Identification card laid in dated 1915 identifying a "D. Mayhew" an alleged poisoner, with mugshot photo mounted to verso. Light wear to extremities with some mild scuffing. Binding is sound... Read More
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The Heritage of Macon County, North Carolina, 1987
by Jessie Sutton [ed.]
Winston-Salem, NC: Macon County Historical Society / History Division, Hunter Publishing Company, 1987. Fine. Winston-Salem, NC: Macon County Historical Society / History Division, Hunter Publishing Company, 1987. First Edition. Large quarto; publisher's black cloth, large blind-embossed gilt paste-on to upper cover, gilt spine titling; ix,[1],630pp.; black and white photographic illus. throughout, text printed in triple columns. A hint... Read More
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![Lettera d'un Buon Amico de' Gesuiti ad un Prelato Palatino [with] A Dottrina de' Gesuiti Posta al Confronto di quella de Gentili](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/950/044/1632044950.0.m.jpg)
Lettera d'un Buon Amico de' Gesuiti ad un Prelato Palatino [with] A Dottrina de' Gesuiti Posta al Confronto di quella de Gentili
by [Jesuits]
Lugano, CH: A Spese di Giuseppe Bettinelli di Venezia / Nella Stamperia Privilegiata della Suprema Superiorita' Elvetica nelle Prefetture Italiane, 1760. Near Fine. Lugano, CH: A Spese di Giuseppe Bettinelli di Venezia / Nella Stamperia Privilegiata della Suprema Superiorita' Elvetica nelle Prefetture Italiane, 1760. First Edition. Two octavo volumes bound together. 44; 94pp. 20th-century binding with patterned paper-covered... Read More
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Regulae Societatis Iesu. Auctoritate Septime Congregationis Generalis auctae
by [Society of Jesus]
Romae: In Collegio Romano eiusdem Societatis, 1616. Very Good. Romae: In Collegio Romano eiusdem Societatis, 1616. Small octavo; full contemporary limp vellum, faint manuscript spine titling; [48],298,[2]pp (collated complete); woodcut Jesuit device to title page, title page printed within elaborate woodcut border, typographically decorative initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout. Parchment darkened and a bit worn along margins, very... Read More
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Proprium Sanctorum per Bohemiam, Moraviam, et Silesiam. Adjunctis festis propriis Societatis Jesu in usum sacerdoti ejusdem societatis. Accedunt decreta sacrorum rituum congregationis
by [Society of Jesus]
Vetero-Pragae [Prague]: Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae, in Collegio Societatis JFSU ad S. Clementem, 1732. Very Good. Vetero-Pragae [Prague]: Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae, in Collegio Societatis JFSU ad S. Clementem, 1732. Small, thick octavo; full contemporary gilt-ruled roan, spine in six compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; [32],532pp. (collated complete); woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Leather a bit dried, shallow chip at... Read More
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Brand New: Art & Commodity in the 1980s
by Gianni Jetzer [ed.]
New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2018. Very Good +/Near Fine. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2018. First Edition. Quarto. 192 pages. Color illustrations throughout. Printed dust jacket. Glossy white boards. Published in conjunction with the 2018 gallery exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed at edges. A touch of smudging to boards... Read More
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The Prairie: A Tale
by J. Fenimore Cooper; F.O.C. Darley [illus.]
New York: W.A. Townsend and Company, 1859. Very Good. New York: W.A. Townsend and Company, 1859. Later Edition. Octavo; publisher's brown pictorial gilt-stamped cloth; ix,[1],[9]-479pp.; steel-engraved frontispiece and added title page, vignettes throughout. Moderate scuffing to cloth extremities with brief exposure at corners and spine ends, frontispiece and added title page rather foxed, two early leaves dog-eared, else... Read More
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J.G. Herder on Social and Political Culture
by J.G.Herder; F.M. Barnard [trans.]
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge at the University Press, 1969. Very Good. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge at the University Press, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. 330 pp. Green cloth boards with spine stamped in blue and gilt. Green topstain. No dust jacket. Minor shelfwear and a few faint scuffs to boards. Binding is sound. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper, but... Read More
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