![Wheel of Fortune [original title: Le ambizioni sbagliate]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/865/502/1606502865.0.m.jpg)
Wheel of Fortune [original title: Le ambizioni sbagliate]
by Alberto Moravia; Arthur Livingston [trans.]
New York: The Viking Press, 1937. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Viking Press, 1937. First American Edition. Octavo. 549 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price present. Green boards stamped in gilt; red topstain. Dust jacket chipped and creased with several short tears; general rubbing and spotting. Boards worn at extremities with fading to edges and general... Read More
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The Indifferent Ones
by Alberto Moravia; Aida Mastrangelo [trans.]
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1932. Very Good -/Very Good -. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1932. First American Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth, terracotta topstain, in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 327pp. Fragile jacket quite chipped and worn with loss at spine crown touching text, spine panel rather faded, ragged splitting to front flap fold, general... Read More
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Questioned Documents: A Study of Questioned Documents With an Outline of Methods by Which the Facts May Be Discovered and Shown
by Albert S. Osborn; John H. Wigmore [intro.]
Rochester, NY: Lawyers' Co-Operative Publishing Co, 1910. Good. Rochester, NY: Lawyers' Co-Operative Publishing Co., 1910. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's maroon gilt-lettered cloth, grey topstain; xxiv,501pp.; photographic illus. throughout, five stereoviews printed on three leaves loosely inserted as issued in chemise mounted to rear pastedown. Some shelf wear to cloth margins, spine gilt significantly dulled, both hinges cracked... Read More
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Cattività - Captivity
by Marco Delogu; Edoardo Albianti
Rome: Edizioni Punctum, 2005. Very Good. Rome: Edizioni Punctum, 2005. First Edition. Signed by photographer on title page, which is gathered with text at the end rather than the beginning of the volume. Octavo; unpaginated [76pp + xiii]. Sixty-two full-page photographs in color and B&W. Ancillary text in parallel Italian and English. Coated paper on boards; sewn gatherings.... Read More
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![Dictionaire Hermetique, contenant L'Explication des Termes, Fables, Enigmas, Emblemes & manieres de parler des vrais Philosophes [Two volumes in one]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/504/075/1720075504.0.m.jpg)
Dictionaire Hermetique, contenant L'Explication des Termes, Fables, Enigmas, Emblemes & manieres de parler des vrais Philosophes [Two volumes in one]
by [Alchemy] Anonymous [William Salomon and Nicolas Salomon, attr.]
Paris: Chez Laurent D'Houry, rue Saint Jacques, 1695. Very Good -. Paris: Chez Laurent D'Houry, rue Saint Jacques, 1695. First Edition. 12mo. xii, 216; 119pp.; collated and complete. Contemporary calf; five raised bands and gilt decoration to spine; edges sprayed red. General wear; exposure to corners; chipped at spine ends; front joint cracked but holding; internally sound. Previous... Read More
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A Modern Mephistopheles and A Whisper in the Dark
by Louisa May Alcott
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1889. Very Good. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1889. First Thus, first printing with Alcott receiving authorial credit, as the true first edition was issued under the umbrella of the publisher's "No Name" series which withheld authorial credits. Octavo. 350 pp. Mustard boards stamped in red and gilt; floral endpapers. Boards edgeworn with brief exposure; general spotting... Read More
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From Crime Scene to Courtroom Drama: Reporting Crime-Courts and Legal Issues
by Jane Alden
Pennsylvania: Jane Alden, 2005. Very Good. Pennsylvania? Jane Alden, [2005]. Second Edition. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's comb-bound printed card wrappers; [12],314pp. Some light soil and wear from handling, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Self-published account of the author's thirty years of experience as a crime reporter in the United Kingdom, though at the time of publication... Read More
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Emancipator Extra: Tract No. 6 - The Tyrant Paupers; Or, Where the Money Goes!
by [Joseph Warren Alden]
Boston: J.W. Alden, 1843. Very Good -. Boston: J.W. Alden, 1843. First Edition. Octavo. 4 pp. Printed wraps. Dated October 12, 1843. Stained and soiled. Scarce abolitionist pamphlet, ending with colorful language, calling out the slaveholding Tyrant Paupers, who have "applied their horse-leech-suction to the pockets of every free laborer... and hatched the great cockatrice egg... Read More
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A Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions with Occasional Notes
by Timothy Alden
New-York: J. Seymour / S. Marks, printer, 1814. Very Good. New-York: s.i. [J. Seymour / S. Marks, printer], 1814. Mixed Editions. Five volumes; 12mos; uniformly bound in full contemporary tree calf, spines recently reinforced, new labels; engraved frontispieces at head of each title, Vols. II-V adorned with short quotes in Hebrew and other non-Roman alphabets. Leather touched up... Read More
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![A Rude Awakening [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/534/864/1407864534.0.m.jpg)
A Rude Awakening [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Brian W. Aldiss
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978. Very Good/Very Good. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Aldiss loosely laid in at front. Octavo; 206pp. Illustrated dust jacket with £4.50 price intact; book in sea-blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket shows a couple dime-sized chips at top and bottom of back panel, with another small... Read More
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![A Soldier Erect; or, Further Adventures of the Hand-Reared Boy [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/105/356/1405356105.0.m.jpg)
A Soldier Erect; or, Further Adventures of the Hand-Reared Boy [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Brian W. Aldiss
London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1971. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1971. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in white pictorial dust jacket; 272pp. Very minor spine lean, a hint of shelf wear, else a fresh, Very Good to Near Fine copy. Bookplate signed by the author for a private collector laid in. The continued sexual escapes... Read More
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Prudence Palfrey
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874. Very Good. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1874. First Edition. Octavo. 311 pages. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Brown endpapers. Boards worn at extremities with exposure, including to top inch of front joint. Front hinge starting but binding is sound. Bookseller ticket to front... Read More
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The Story of a Bad Boy
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co, 1870. Very Good. Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. First Edition, First State with "scattered" on page 14 and "abroad" on page 197. Octavo. 261 p. + 23 p. publisher's advertisements with "The Uncle Sam Series" to first page. Frontispiece with tissue guard + additional black and white illustrations including one additional black... Read More
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The Dignity Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of South Africa: Cases and Materials, Volumes I & II
by Drucilla Cornell [et al]
New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. Two Volumes. Stated First Edition with full numberline. Octavo (9.25" x 6.25"); I: xvi, 170p, II: xvi, [171]-995p. Illustrated dustjackets over black paper-covered boards with silver lettering to spine. Jackets bumped at corners and spine ends, but with no chips, tears, or marks.... Read More
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The Equinox: The Official Organ of the A. A. The Review of Scientific Illuminism / Vol. I, no. vii, March, MCMXII
by [Aleister Crowley] [Eliphas Levi] "Soror Virakam" [ed.]
New York: Samuel Weiser, 1972. Good +. New York: Samuel Weiser, 1972. Reprint. Large, thick octavo; publisher's white pictorial cloth; [viii],424pp+18plates; illus. Cloth and textblock margins soiled, minor ink staining to covers, with water staining at corners and prelims, else a Good or better, internally clean and sound copy. Facsimile of the March, 1912, issue of Aleister... Read More
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The Equinox: The Official Organ of the A. A. The Review of Scientific Illuminism / Vol. I, no. v, March, MCMXI
by [Aleister Crowley] [Eliphas Levi] "Soror Virakam" [ed.]
New York: Samuel Weiser, 1972. Good +. New York: Samuel Weiser, 1972. Reprint. Large, thick octavo; publisher's white pictorial cloth; [vi],176,[1],[14](ads)pp; illus. Cloth and textblock margins soiled with minor water staining to corners and blue ink to spine and rear, else a Good or better, internally clean and sound copy. Facsimile of the March, 1911, issue of... Read More
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![The Equinox: The Official Organ of the A. A. The Review of Scientific Illuminism / Vol. I, no. vi, September, MCMXI [WITH] Special Supplement: The Rites of Eleusis](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/026/754/1715754026.0.m.jpg)
The Equinox: The Official Organ of the A. A. The Review of Scientific Illuminism / Vol. I, no. vi, September, MCMXI [WITH] Special Supplement: The Rites of Eleusis
by [Aleister Crowley] [Eliphas Levi] "Soror Virakam" [ed.]
New York: Samuel Weiser, 1972. Good +. New York: Samuel Weiser, 1972. Reprint. Large, thick octavo; publisher's white pictorial cloth; [vi],170,vi,124,[10](ads)pp; illus. Cloth and textblock margins soiled, ink staining to covers, with minor water staining at corners, else a Good or better, internally clean and sound copy. Facsimile of the September, 1911, issue of Aleister Crowley's occult... Read More
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The Kingdom of This World
by Alejo Carpentier; Harriet de Onis [trans.]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's decorative boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); [8],150pp. Dust jacket and boards rubbed at margins, jacket spine panel toned and quite brittle with extensive tape repair to verso, ownership signature to front free endpaper; About... Read More
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![Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse [Four Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/871/550/1689550871.0.m.jpg)
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse [Four Volume Set]
by Aleksandr Pushkin; Vladimir Nabokov [trans.]
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964. Very Good. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1964]. First Edition. Four volumes; octavos; publisher's pale blue cloth, red and gilt spine titling; portrait frontispiece at head of Vol. I. Spines sunned, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown of Vol. IV; overall a Very Good set, albeit lacking the original dust jackets. ... Read More
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Ferrari 360 Modena
by Alessandra Finzi and Saveria Tolomeo [eds.]
Milano: Automobilia, 1999. Very Good/Very Good. [Milano]: Automobilia, [1999]. First Edition. Slim quarto (28.5cm); publisher's boards in glossy photo-illustrated dust jacket; 85pp.; full color photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, dust jacket very slightly dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Trilingual contents in Italian, English, and French.
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![Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration January 20, 2009 [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/560/709/1606709560.0.m.jpg)
Praise Song for the Day: A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration January 20, 2009 [Inscribed and Signed]
by Elizabeth Alexander
Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2009. Very Good -. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2009. First Graywolf Printing, with full numberline. 12mo; publisher's dark blue staplebound card wrappers lettered in silver foil; [28]pp. Wrappers and textblock rather warped and creased from overhandling, light wear and a bit of thumbsoiling to top page edges just entering margins on a... Read More
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![The Venus Hottentot [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/321/697/1721697321.0.m.jpg)
The Venus Hottentot [Signed]
by Elizabeth Alexander
University Press of Virginia: Charlottesville, VA, 1990. Very Good. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1990. First Edition. Slim octavo (22cm); publisher's blue gilt-lettered boards; viii,[2],52pp. Corners bumped, rubber-stamp to front free endpaper, else Very Good, albeit lacking dust jacket. Signed by the author on title page.
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![Miscellanies of The Fuller Worthies' Library in Four Volumes. Vol. I. Containing The Poems of Lord Bacon... [with] Vol. II. Containing Andrew's 'Anatomie of Basenesse'... [Volumes I and II only]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/805/076/1615076805.0.m.jpg)
Miscellanies of The Fuller Worthies' Library in Four Volumes. Vol. I. Containing The Poems of Lord Bacon... [with] Vol. II. Containing Andrew's 'Anatomie of Basenesse'... [Volumes I and II only]
by Alexander B. Grosart [ed.]; Francis Bacon, Jeremy Taylor, John Bale et al. [contribs.]
London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1871. Very Good. London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1871. First Edition with a stated limitation of 156 copies. Two octavo volumes. 596 & 625 pp., with running pagination along bottom edge and individual volumes with their own pagination along top. Bound in modern black cloth with gilt stamping to spine and new endpapers.... Read More
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![Kupenda: Love Poems [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/632/867/1721867632.0.m.jpg)
Kupenda: Love Poems [Signed]
by Kwame Alexander
Alexandria, VA: Black Words, 2000. Near Fine/Very Good +. Alexandria, VA: Black Words, 2000. First Edition. Signed by Kwame Alexander with brief inscription at front free endpaper. Octavo; photo-illustrated dust jacket; black boards stamped in gilt; 54pp. + appendices. Light rubbing and toning to dust jacket; boards show light shelfwear; binding sound and pages unmarked. Near Fine in... Read More
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Henry Ossawa Turner
by Henry Ossawa Turner; Dewey F. Mosby; Darrel Sewell; Rae Alexander-Minter
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art / Rizzoli International Publications, Inc, 1991. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art / Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1991. First Trade Edition. Quarto. 308 pp. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Dark blue blind-stamped boards. Green endpapers. Jacket lightly shelfworn with a small smudge at top of front... Read More
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