Phenomenology and the Social Sciences: A Dialogue
by Joseph Bien [ed.]; Richard M. Zaner, Edward A. Tiryakian, and Paul Ricoeur et al. [contribs.]
The Hague / Boston / London: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978. Very Good. The Hague / Boston / London: Martinus Nijhoff, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. 108 pp. Printed wraps. Light rubbing and sunning to edges of wraps. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Scarce.
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Prehistoric Animals
by Joseph Augusta; Zdenek Burian [illus.]; Greta Horn [trans.]
London: Spring Books, 1957. Very Good/Very Good-. London: Spring Books, [1957]. First U.K. Edition. Folio (35cm); publisher's linen in pictorial dust jacket; 47pp. + 60 leaves of plates, many full color. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few closed tears with subsequent creasing, ownership signature to front free endpaper, long closed tear to Plate 22 (Pterodactylus), else... Read More
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Stravinsky & Balanchine: A Journey of Invention
by Charles M. Joseph
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Very Good/Very Good. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; xvii, 440pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with over speckled white boards with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is crisp with light rubbing at corners. Boards are square with bumping to corners and spine ends and some foxing along... Read More
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Laughing Anne & One Day More: Two Plays
by Joseph Conrad; John Galsworthy [Intro.]
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Stated First Edition. Small Octavo; xvii + 124pp. Navy blue boards with gold lettering on spine and title reversed out against framed gold ground on front panel, including small nautical device, which is repeated on half-title page. Missing dust jacket. Spine... Read More
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Romance: A Novel
by Joseph Conrad; Ford Madox Hueffer [aka Ford Madox Ford]; Charles R. Macauley [illus.]
New York: McClure, Phillips, & Co, 1904. Very Good. New York: McClure, Phillips, & Co., 1904. First American Edition. Octavo. 428pp + advertisements. Blue cloth stamped in gray and gilt. Boards worn along edges with brief exposure; patchy spotting to cloth sizing, principally to spine and rear; spine rubbed and toned. Slight lean to boards; hinges starting but... Read More
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Great Day: Negro Spirituals as Sung and Directed by J.T. Jones
by Joseph T. Jones; B.D. Roberts [illus.]
Delaware, OH: Cooperative Recreation Service, Inc, 1961. Near Fine. Delaware, OH: Cooperative Recreation Service, Inc., 1961. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's yellow pictorial card wrappers; 32pp.; illus. Very light rubbing to edges; binding sound and pages unmarked; Near Fine. Collection of spirituals collected by the Sunday School missionary who traveled to thirteen Southern states in his career, deepening his appreciation... Read More
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Praise the Bridge That Carries You Over: The Life of Joseph Sutton [Signed by Krech]
by [Joseph Sutton] Shepard Krech, III
Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing Co, 1981. Very Good. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing Co., 1981. First Edition, wrapper issue. Signed by Krech with brief inscription to previous owner at front free endpaper. Octavo; 209pp. Photo-illustrated wraps. Wraps quite scuffed and rubbed; binding sound; moderate to heavy foxing to edges of text block, about Very Good, uncommon signed.
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The Seat of Government of the United States: A Review of the Discussions, in Congress and Elsewhere, on the Site and Plans of the Federal City; with a Sketch of its Present Position and Prospects; also, Remarks on Monumental Structures and the Smithsonian Institution
by Joseph B. Varnum, Jr.
Washington, DC: R. Farnham, 1854. Good. Washington, DC: R. Farnham, 1854. Second Edition. Octavo. 121 pages + index. Printed wraps. Ex-library with "New York State Library" stamped to front wrap. Lacking map. Varnum was a Whig member of the New York State Assembly, and also, clearly had an interest in the plans and monuments for Washington,... Read More
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Album Chinois
by Josephine-Clemence Formentin, lithographer; after works by Hyacinthe Aubry-Lecomte, Achille Deveria, Henri Grevedon et al.
Victor Lecou: Paris, 1845. Very Good. Paris: Victor Lecou, n.d. [ca. 1845]. Presumed First Edition. Folio (34.5cm); publisher's brown cloth, upper cover elaborately stamped in gilt within blind rules, small gilt vignette to rear cover, all edges gilt, yellow endpapers; twenty (20) leaves of hand-colored lithographed plates facing explanatory text printed on versos only. Light wear to cloth... Read More
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Josh Billings: His Works, Complete. (Four Volumes in One)
by Josh Billings [pseud. Henry Wheeler Shaw]; Thomas Nast et al [illus.]
New York: G.W. Carleton & Co, 1876. Very Good-. New York: G.W. Carleton & Co., 1876. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xxxii,[33]-504pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, text illus. throughout. Boards rather scuffed at extremities, fairly ubiquitous soil throughout textblock, stock uniformly toned; a Good to Very Good, sound example. Complete humoristic tales and vignettes... Read More
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Huck Jones: A Novel of a Pre-Teenage Boy
by Marcellus N. Joslyn
New York: Exposition Press, 1957. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Exposition Press, [1957]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.50); 274pp. Light wear to jacket extremities, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Uncommon self-published young adult novel grandiosely channeling the popular creations of Mark Twain and Booth Tarkington.... Read More
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[Broadside] Opinions of the Press on Kissing
by [Journalism, Smooching]
London: s.i., 1870. Very Good. [London?]: s.i., [ca. 1870s]. Small broadside flyer (20x13.5cm) printed on laid paper. A few small closed tears at previous folds, light soil and spotting, else Very Good. Unrecorded broadside poking fun at the press and an England awash in the different newspapers that mushroomed throughout the middle of the 19th century--national, local,... Read More
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Ratio discendi et docendi
by Josephi Juvencii [Joseph de Jouvency]
Paris: J. Barbou, 1778. Very Good. Paris: J. Barbou, 1778. 16mo (6.25" x 3.25"); 234pp +5 index. Contemporary speckled calf with gilt tooling and red leather title label to spine. Marbled endpapers, with speckled red edgestain. Boards corner- and edgeworn with some cracking starting to joints, a small, old label sticker to front, and some general smudging and... Read More
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Ulysses [Signed Leaf Tipped in]
by James Joyce
Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. Very Good. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1927. Ninth printing. Extra leaf tipped in at front and signed "James Joyce Paris 2-6-28." Large octavo. 735 pp. Bound in "Greek flag blue" wraps. Housed in half morocco slipcase lettered in gilt; inner cloth chemise. Wraps worn at extremities with very slight chipping to... Read More
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Ulysses [issued with two dust jackets]
by James Joyce
London: The Bodley Head, 1967. Very Good +/Very Good. London: The Bodley Head, 1967. Seventh printing of the re-set New Edition. Octavo; 939pp. Two jackets, as issued: illustrated dust jacket with Homeric bow design to spine and additional photo-illustrated jacket featuring stills from the 1967 Joseph Strick film of the same name. Green cloth stamped in gilt; topstain.... Read More
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Fifty Spanish Poems [Jacket title: 50 Spanish Poems] [Inscribed and Signed by Trend]
by Juan Ramon Jimenez; J.B. Trend [trans.]
Oxford: Dolphin Book Co, 1950. Very Good/Very Good. Oxford: Dolphin Book Co., 1950. First U.K. Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in grey dust jacket retaining original price; 97pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed and rather toned, brief soil to spine panel, closed tear to top margin of rear panel, a few leaves clumsily opened, else a Very Good,... Read More
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Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children [Signed]
by Judith Martin; Gloria Kamen [illus.]
New York: Atheneum, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Atheneum, 1984. First Edition. Signed by Martin with inscription, "For Elizabeth Benskin, with affectionate regards, and all other highly proper sentiments, Judith Martin." Large octavo. 405 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Red boards stamped in gilt. Yellow topstain. Dust jacket worn along edges with... Read More
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The Importance of the Knowledge of the Gospel to the Salvation of Sinners, illustrated--in a Sermon, delivered at the Ordination of the Reverend Holland Weeks, to the pastoral charge of the Church in Christ in Waterbury; (Conn.) Nov. 20, 1799
by Ephraim Judson
Stockbridge, MA: H. Willard, at the Office of H. Jones & Co, 1801. Very Good. Stockbridge, MA: Printed by H. Willard, at the Office of H. Jones & Co., 1801. First Edition. Small octavo; stitched self-wrappers; 23,[1]pp.; cherubic woodcut Finis concluding p. 23. Rather dark damp staining affecting margins of the majority of leaves, else a Very Good,... Read More
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![L'Etoile du Kansas. Organe de la Republique française et universelle [Later title: L'Etoile du Kansas et de l'Iowa: Organe du Communisme libérateur des Peuples et de l'Individu] [Broken run of four issues]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/159/480/1687480159.0.m.jpg)
L'Etoile du Kansas. Organe de la Republique française et universelle [Later title: L'Etoile du Kansas et de l'Iowa: Organe du Communisme libérateur des Peuples et de l'Individu] [Broken run of four issues]
by Jules Leroux [ed.]
Neuchatel, KS: Jules Leroux, 1874. Very Good. Neuchatel, KS [and later Corning, IA]: Jules Leroux, 1874-1880. Publication sequence as follows: No. 22 (1er Aout, 1874); no. 34 (1er Juillet, 1875); T. II, no. 21 (1er Aout, 1878); and T. II, no. 45 (1er Juin, 1880). Four issues; large quartos (31.5cm); unopened self-wrappers; [8]pp. apiece, text printed in double... Read More
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Abd-Er-Rhaman in Paradise
by Jules Tellier; Brian Rhys [trans.]; Paul Nash [illus.]
Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Very Good. [Berkshire, England]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. First U.K. Edition, Limited to 400 copies of which this is no. 26. Octavo (22.8cm); 34pp. 3 plates including frontispiece. No dust jacket. Marbled paper quarter bound with blue cloth along the spine. Top edge gilt, all other edges deckled. Includes gilt stamped... Read More
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Archibald Malmaison
by Julian Hawthorne; Freeland A. Carter [illus.]
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1899. Very Good. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1899. New Edition. Octavo; 265pp. Illustrations including frontispiece with tissue guard. Green cloth decorated in gilt and dark green. Worn along edges with brief exposure; spine dulled with spotting to cloth sizing. Binding sound; contemporary ownership inscription to preliminaries, else unmarked; a Very... Read More
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Italian Frescoes: High Renaissance and Mannerism, 1510-1600
by Julian Kliemann and Michael Rohlmann; Antonio Quattrone and Ghigo Roli [photography]; Steven Lindberg [trans.]
New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 2004. Near Fine/Fine. New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, [2004]. First American Edition with full number line. Large quarto; publisher's cloth in glossy pictorial dust jacket, color pictorial endpapers; 496pp.; color frontispiece, illus. throughout. Corners nudged, else a Fine example.
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Selected Writings of Julius Guttmann
by Julius Guttmann; Steven T. Katz [ed.]
New York: Arno Press / New York Times Company, 1980. Very Good+. New York: Arno Press / New York Times Company, 1980. Octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered boards; [8],404pp. Light dust-soil to top textblock edge, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good or better. Collection of pieces by the German-born rabbi printed facsimile from the... Read More
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To Be a Slave
by Julius Lester; Tom Feelings [illus.]
New York: The Dial Press, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Dial Press, Inc., 1968. Stated First Printing. Octavo. 160 pages. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket is price-clipped, rubbed along edges, with one small closed tear each to top of front and rear panels. Spine is a touch faded. Dark grey cloth boards with... Read More
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Lawrence Durrell: Comprehending the Whole
by Julius Rowan Raper [ed.]; Melody L. Enscore [ed.]; Paige Matthey Bynum [ed.]
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1995. Very Good/Very Good. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1995. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; [xiv], 193pp. Illustrated dust jacket over white faux leather boards with black lettering. Jacket is crisp with light edgewear but no chips, tears, or marks. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. ... Read More
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