Great Books of the Western World (54 volumes)
by Hutchins, Robert Maynard; Mortimer J. Adler
Chicago, London, Toronto: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., William Benton, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo [24 cm] Brown hardcovers with gilt stamped titles against various colors of ink stamped backgrounds on the spines. Gilt stamped decorations on the spines. All volumes are in very good condition. Occasional light rubbing to the covers. Creasing to the preliminary pages of volume 39.... Read More
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Aleister Crowley: The Beast Demystified
by Hutchinson, Roger
Edinburgh and London: Mainstream Publishing, 1998. First UK edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 216pp. Octavo [24 cm] Black paper over boards. Text block nice and square. In the dust jacket, with rubbing and light scratching to the surface. In this biography, Hutchinson offers an agnostic view of Aleister Crowley, hinting that the obscurity which surrounds his reputation was... Read More
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After Many a Summer
by Huxley, Aldous
London: Chatto and Windus, 1939. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 314pp. Octavo [19.5 cm] Brown cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Publisher's brown top stain. With darkened strips to the endpapers and toning to the pages, else very fresh. In the dust jacket, which is torn in half. The story of a... Read More
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Brave New World
by Huxley, Aldous
New York: HarperCollins, 2006. Reprint. Paperback. New. 259pp. Octavo [20.5cm]. Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "Aldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order—all at the cost of our freedom,... Read More
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Ape and Essence
by Huxley, Aldous
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 205 pp. Octavo. [21 cm]. Navy blue cloth over boards with light blue stamped author initials on front board and blue and gilt stamped decorations and title on spine. Deckled edges. Pages slightly sunned. With original dust jacket, which is in very good condition with some... Read More
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The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
by Huxley, Aldous
New York: Harper Perennial, 2009. Reprint. Paperback. New. 185 pp. Octavo [20.5 cm]; Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "Among the most profound explorations of the effects of mind-expanding drugs ever written, here are two complete classic books--The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell--in which Aldous Huxley, author of the bestselling Brave New World, reveals the mind's remote... Read More
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The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Nelson Algren's copy)
by Huxley, Elspeth; [Nelson Algren]
London: Chatto & Windus, 1959. Second Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Good +. 288pp. Octavo [22 cm] Green paper over boards. The spine and boards show light edgewear. The front free endpaper has the partial remains of a previous owner's bookplate. In the dust jacket, designed by Rosemary Grimble, with a loss from the paper at the foot of the... Read More
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Down There (La Bas): A Study in Satanism
by Huysmans, J. K. (Joris-Karl); Translated by Keene Wallis; Introduction by Robert Baldick
New Hyde Park, NJ: University Books, 1958. Reprint; First University Books printing). Hardcover. Very Good. 317pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Red cloth over boards with gilt lettering against black ink stamped backgrounds on the backstrip. With light wear to the spine and boards. No dust jacket. A novel dealing with Satanism, set in France, first published amid controversy in... Read More
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A Garden of Pleasant Flowers: Being a description of the most familiar of our English Garden Flowers from the famous collection of John Parkinson
by Hyatt, Alfred H. (Chosen and arranged by)
London and New York: Philip Wellby; Scott-Thaw Company, 1904. Garden Lover's Series edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 208pp. Sextodecimo [15.5 cm] 1/4 beige cloth with with grayish-tan paper over boards. Handful of small splits to the cloth along the joints of the spine. Spine label with a small chip and a bit of the title effaced. Two minor stains... Read More
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Oriental Lowestoft Chinese Export Porcelain: Poecelaine de Cie des Indes
by Hyde, J.A. Lloyd
Newport, Monmouthshire: The Ceramic Book Company. Hardcover. Very good. 166 pp. Folio. [31 cm]. Blue paper over boards with gilt title stamped on front board and spine. Peach endpapers. Previous owner's used bookplate on front paste down. Scuffing to head of spine and slight scuffing to fore edges. "With special reference to the Trade with China and the... Read More
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Mormonism: Its Leaders and Designs
by Hyde, John
New York: W. P. Petridge & Company, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 335; [24]pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Red cloth over boards with lettering and decorative stamping in gilt and blind. Pale yellow endpapers. The extremities are moderately bumped, rubbed, and darkened, and an animal has chewed off the bottom fore edge corner of the front cover. The endpapers... Read More
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Southern Cross: A Novel of the South Seas
by Hyde, Laurence. Introduction by Rockwell Kent
Los Angeles, CA: The Ward Ritchie Press, design by Joseph Simon, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 255 pp. Duodecimo [18 cm]; red cloth over black paper boards. Gilt titling to spine, graphic device stamped in red on the front cover. A dramatic and chilling tale, told in wood engravings by the English-born Canadian filmmaker, painter, and graphic... Read More
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Southern Cross: A Novel of the South Seas
by Hyde, Laurence. Introduction by Rockwell Kent
Los Angeles, CA: The Ward Ritchie Press, design by Joseph Simon, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 255 pp. Duodecimo [18 cm]; red cloth over black paper boards. Gilt titling to spine, graphic device stamped in red on the front cover. Previous owner's signature and date in ink in a neat hand on the front free endpaper. There... Read More
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Philip Hyde: A Glen Canyon Portfolio
by Hyde, Philip
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1979. Paperback. Thin folio [35.5 cm] White and black illustrated wraps. Fine. Still under the original shrink-wrap. Philip Hyde (1921-2006) was a leading landscape photographer and conservationist. He attended Ansel Adams' photography program at the California School of Fine Arts in 1947, studying under photographers such as Edward Weston, Minor White, Imogen Cunningham and Dorothea... Read More
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Philip Hyde: A Glen Canyon Portfolio (with There Was a River by Bruce Berger)
by Hyde, Philip; Bruce Berger
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1979. Very Good +. Folio [36 cm] Includes: A twelve page essay, four pages of comments by Philip Hyde, a one page list of the photographs, and twenty leaves of photo-offset lithographic plates [35.5 cm x 28 cm] housed in a portfolio of white and black photographically illustrated wraps. The rear of the portfolio... Read More
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Missionary Song Book For Use of Elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, in the Missionary Field, Being a Choice Selection of the Most Popular Songs in the Southern States Mission
by [Hymnal]
Chattanooga, TN: The Southern States Mission, 1899. Paperback. Good. 232pp. Twenty-fourmo [12 cm] Red cloth wraps with a black ink stamped title on the front cover. Text block almost completely pulled away from the spine (still holding at the front). Cloth just a hair frayed at the edges. Light rippling to cloth of rear wrap. Staining to recto... Read More
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Whitney Centennial 1889-1989: Whitney's First 100 Years
by {Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints] [Idaho]
Preston, ID: Whitney Ward, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. 771pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Brown hardcover with a gilt stamped title on the front cover. Light wear to text block edges. The fore-edges of several pages at the rear are a little creased. Internally clean and bright. May require extra postage due to weight. Compiled by Whitney Ward Centennial Book Committee.... Read More
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Soviet Architecture of Today: 1960s - early 1970s
by Ikonnikov, A. (Text); Translated by B. Meerovich
Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 190pp. Quarto [29 cm] Light brown cloth over boards. Pictorial endpapers. Color plates. English text. The book is near fine. In an illustrated thin card slipcase, in very good condition, with moderate wear to the extremities, and a short split at the head of the spine. Will require extra postage if... Read More
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La Pucelle d'Orléans: Poëme en vingt-un chants (The Maid of Orleans: Poem in Twenty-One Songs) - 2 volumes
by Voltaire; Duplessis Berthault (Illustrator)
Paris: Leclere, Libraire-Éditeur, 1865. Later printing. Leather Bound. Very Good. xv, 211; 169pp. Quarto [25.5cm]. 3/4 leather with marbled boards. Gilt stamped lettering on spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Gilt topstain. Mild scuffing to extremities. Light, sporadic moisture staining to the leather of each volume. Textblocks a bit wavy. Bookplate affixed to each front free endpaper. In the... Read More
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Some Jurassic Ammonites From Central Saudi Arabia- Contributions to Paleontology (Geological Survey Professional Paper 643-D)
by Imlay, Ralph W.
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1970. Paperback. Very thin quarto [29 cm] Stapled gray and black printed wraps. Very good. Ex-library. The wraps are lightly soiled, discolored and creased. There are two small closed tears in the fore edge of the front wrap. The front wrap also has an ink stamp and two numerical notations in black marker. The... Read More
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Jar City (A Reykjavik Thriller)
by Indridason, Arnaldur; Bernard Scudder (Translator)
New York: Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Minotaur, 2005. First American edition. Hardcover. SIGNED. 274pp. Octavo [ 21.5 cm] Black paper covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Very good plus. The edges of the spine and covers are gently rubbed and bumped. The dust jacket is in very good condition. Scratched and lightly rubbed.... Read More
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![The One Big Union Monthly. New Series [Second Series]. Run of 13 nearly consecutive monthly issues, spanning from January 1937 (Vol. 1, No. 1) to February 1938 (Vol. 2, No. 2)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/329/844/1690844329.0.m.jpg)
The One Big Union Monthly. New Series [Second Series]. Run of 13 nearly consecutive monthly issues, spanning from January 1937 (Vol. 1, No. 1) to February 1938 (Vol. 2, No. 2)
by [Industrial Workers of the World / I.W.W. / IWW]. Various illustrators, including: Pashtanika, "Dust" [Wallin], [Fred] Jerger, Art Young, Ralph Chaplin, James Cody Zwein[?] [Zweig?], "Otto", "Bingo", "IXION", Raymond Corder, Eugene Barnet, Daniel Bishop,
Chicago, Illinois: Industrial Workers of the World [IWW / I.W.W.], 1938. Magazine. Good. Thirteen issues. All issues: 34 pp.; small quarto [27 cm]; saddle-stapled in illustrated wrappers. Profusely illustrated. Rare. Condition is mostly Good or slightly worse, some Very Good. Some age-toning (occasional brittling) to paper is consistent throughout. Some wear, minor splitting, and chipping around edges... Read More
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The Industrial Pioneer. Volume 1, Number 1. February, 1921
by [Industrial Workers of the World / I.W.W. / IWW] Contributers include: Tom Barker, Jack Gaveel, Chas. J. Miller, A. Lozovsky, George Andreytchine, James Kennedy, G. Cannata, John Martin, "A Rebel Girl", John E. Nordquist, "Operator", "Card No. 247770, H.
Chicago, Illinois: Industrial Workers of the World [I.W.W. / IWW], 1921. Magazine. Good. 64 pp. Quarto [26.5 cm]; saddle-stapled, printed and illustrated wraps. Some splitting (less than one inch) at the fold at the head and foot of the wraps. Internal age toning. Light wear to edges and corners with some small bumps, chips, and splits. Corners bumped... Read More
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Twenty-Five Years of Industrial Unionism
by [Industrial Workers of the World / I.W.W. / IWW]. Contributors: [William] Covington Hall, James P. Thompson, Roger N. Baldwin, Ralph Chaplin, C. E. Payne, Tom Conners, F. W. Thompson, Ed Delaney, Clifford B. Ellis, Joseph Wagner, John A. Gahan
[Chicago, Illinois]: [Industrial Workers of the World / I.W.W. / IWW], 1930. First edition. Pamphlet. Good. 79 pp. Octavo [22 cm]; saddle-stapled in illustrated cardstock wrappers. Prominent vertical fold/crease throughout. Bump to the top left corner of the cover with a small one-inch split. Light age toning, bumps, creases, minor stains, but still an unmarked and internally clean... Read More
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The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels (Signed by Rackham)
by Ingoldsby, Thomas; Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1907. Limited large paper edition. Hardcover. Arthur Rackham. SIGNED. 549pp. Quarto [29 cm] Vellum binding with gilt stamped titles and vignettes on the spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Tied with a ribbon at the fore-edge. Illustrated endpapers. Title page printed in red and black. Very good. Boards bowed (as is common... Read More
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