![The Complete Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with Portraits, Illustrations, and Facsimiles in Eleven Volumes [Edition de Luxe] [Note signed by Longfellow dated 1877 mounted to volume I]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/874/755/1669755874.0.m.jpg)
The Complete Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with Portraits, Illustrations, and Facsimiles in Eleven Volumes [Edition de Luxe] [Note signed by Longfellow dated 1877 mounted to volume I]
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, 1904. Very Good. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, 1904. Edition de Luxe, limited to 750 copies, this being #633. Eleven octavo volumes. Illustrations, including frontis with tissue guard to each volume. Bound by the Riverside Press in three-quarter dark blue morocco; ruled in gilt; five raised bands... Read More
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![The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Two volume set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/540/498/1722498540.0.m.jpg)
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Two volume set]
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company / The Riverside Press, 1879. Very Good. Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company / The Riverside Press, 1879. Reprint. Two quarto volumes (32cm); full morocco stamped in blind and gilt; five raised bands; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; 488; 489-928pp. Wear to boards with chips and exposure to corners; scuffing; a couple short splits... Read More
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![Ascending and Other Poems [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/248/519/1693519248.0.m.jpg)
Ascending and Other Poems [Inscribed and Signed]
by Richard A. Long
Chicago: Richard A. Long, 1975. Very Good. [Chicago?]: [Richard A. Long], 1975. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green printed staple bound card wrappers; [32]pp. Wrapper margins a bit toned, scattered foxing, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Inscribed and signed on title page, "For Betty / with best wishes / Richard A. Long." Poetry collection by... Read More
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A Guerrilla Diary of the Spanish Civil War
by Francisco Perez Lopez
London: Andre Deutsch, 1972. Very Good/Very Good. London: Andre Deutsch, 1972. First UK Edition. Octavo. 275 pp. Printed dust jacket; brown boards stamped in gilt. Map endpapers. Dust jacket rubbed and toned along edges with some general light wrinkling and smudging. Boards lightly shelfworn. Binding is sound. Foxing to edges of text block and preliminaries, but... Read More
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Christ's Embassadors Furnished with His Own Means and Arguments, to Persuade Men to be Reconciled to GOD. A Sermon, Delivered at the Ordination of the Reverend Mr. Levi Hart, at Preston, N. Society, November 4, 1762. With the Charge then given him
by Benjamin Lord
Providence: William Goddard, 1763. Good. Providence, in New-England: William Goddard, 1763. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 44pp. (lacking half title and final blank, otherwise collated complete); decorative initials and head- and tail-pieces. Stitching mostly perished, margins rather chipped and worn though with no loss of text, textblock heavily dampstained; a Good copy only. One of the earliest Providence... Read More
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The Complete Poetical Works of Lord Byron
by Lord Byron; Bliss Perry [ed.]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1905. Very Good+. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1905. Cambridge Edition. Octavo (21cm); contemporary three-quarter green calf over marbled paper-covered boards, two green gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, spine in six compartments ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers; 1055pp.; portrait frontispiece. Light rubbing to edges, spine very slightly... Read More
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New York Head Shop and Museum
by Audre Lorde
Detroit: Broadside Press, 1974. Very Good +. Detroit: Broadside Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo; 56pp. Printed wraps. Mild wear to edges; binding sound; pages unmarked; Very Good or better. Includes "Sewerplants Grow in Harlem," "Revolution Is One Form of Social Change," and "Blackstudies" among others. Uncommon.
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My Friend Tree
by Lorine Niedecker; Walter Miller [linocuts]; Edward Dorn [intro.]
Scotland: The Wild Hawthorn Press, 1962. Near Fine/Very Good +. Edinburgh, Scotland: The Wild Hawthorn Press, 1962. Second Edition. Oblong octavo; unpaginated. Illustrated dust jacket over plain stapled wraps. Printed card with Dorn's introduction laid in. Toning and rubbing to edges of jacket; binding sound; pages unmarked; Near Fine in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Niedecker's... Read More
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The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality
by Lorraine Hansberry; Danny Lyon [photo.]
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. Very Good -. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. Second Printing. Quarto (27.5cm); pictorial wraps; 127pp; black and white photographs, predominantly by Danny Lyon, throughout. Covers shelfworn with bumping to corners, a few scuffs and faint creases to surface, and chipping at spine ends. Opens flatly between pp 30-31, but binding is... Read More
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The Movement: Documentary of a Struggle for Equality
by Lorraine Hansberry [text]; Danny Lyon [photo.]
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964. First Edition, cloth issue. Quarto. 127 pp. Black and white photographs, predominantly by Danny Lyon, throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $4.95 price present. Black paper-covered boards with white cloth spine stamped in black. Dust jacket shows moderate to heavy chipping with several... Read More
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A Dog of Flanders
by Louisa De La Rame [aka Ouida]; Edmund H. Garrett [illus.]
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1893. Very Good. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1893. Reprint. Octavo. 245 pp. Six black and white illustrations by Garrett, complete. Beige cloth stamped in purple, green, and gilt. Decorative endpapers. Boards worn along edges with brief exposure and minor fraying; general soiling with some smudging. Binding is sound. Small chip to front... Read More
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![Parental Legacies, Consisting of Advice from a Lady of Quality to Her Children. Delivered in the last stage of a lingering illness. Translated from the French [With] A Father's Legacy to his daughters](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/910/908/1355908910.0.m.jpg)
Parental Legacies, Consisting of Advice from a Lady of Quality to Her Children. Delivered in the last stage of a lingering illness. Translated from the French [With] A Father's Legacy to his daughters
by [Louis-Antoine Caraccioli]; John Gregory; S[amuel] Glasse [trans.]
Boston: Joseph Bumstead, 1804. Good. Boston: Joseph Bumstead, 1804. First American Edition. Small octavo; original full sheep, red gilt spine label; viii,296[i.e. 299]pp. Leather rather dried and scuffed at extremities, some peeling to upper cover, lacking front endpapers, long shallow loss along bottom margin of title page and first leaf of text not quite touching text, extensive contemporary... Read More
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Extraordinary Life of Marie Louise Brault
by Louis Bouhier; W.S. Reilly [trans.]
Westminster, MD / Montreal, Canada: Newman Book Shop / Joliet Institute Reg'd, 1941. Very Good/Very Good-. Westminster, MD / Montreal, Canada: Newman Book Shop / Joliet Institute Reg'd, [1941]. First English Language Edition. Octavo (23cm); publisher's cloth in white printed dust jacket retaining original price ($3.50); xiii,[1],306pp.; portrait frontispiece and plates throughout. Jacket margins quite chipped and worn... Read More
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![Souvenirs of Military Life in Algeria [Two volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/840/132/1575132840.0.m.jpg)
Souvenirs of Military Life in Algeria [Two volumes]
by [Louis Charles Pierre ] The Comte de Castellane; Margaret Josephine Lovett [trans.]
London: Remington and Co Publishers, 1886. Very Good. London: Remington and Co Publishers, 1886. Second Edition in English. Two octavo volumes. 244 & 260 pp. Color fold-out map to front of volume I. Brown cloth boards stamped in gilt and black. Boards moderately worn along edges with brief exposure and general scuffing. Hinges starting but binding holding. Front... Read More
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![Days of the Commanders [Signed by Lamprey]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/930/485/1612485930.0.m.jpg)
Days of the Commanders [Signed by Lamprey]
by Louise Lamprey [pseud. of Lunnette Emeline Lamprey]; Florence Choate & Elizabeth Curtis [illus.]
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1923. Very Good. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1923. First Edition. Signed by Louise Lamprey with brief inscription at half title. Octavo. 368 pp. Illustrations, some in color. Blue cloth stamped in gilt; illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket. Boards worn with some scuffing and rubbing; corners bumped. Binding sound. Foxing to... Read More
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Louise Lawler and Others
by Louise Lawler; Philipp Kaiser; [et al.]
Basel and Ostfildern-Ruit: Kunstmuseum Basel and Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2004. Very Good/Very Good. Basel and Ostfildern-Ruit: Kunstmuseum Basel and Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2004. First Edition. Quarto (26.5x22.5x2c); 160pp, including biographical chronology and bibliography. Densely illustrated throughout. Green photographic pictorial jacket with exceptionally deep flaps. White boards with green lettering on spine and front panel. Jacket is clean and... Read More
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Rigadoon
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine; Ralph Manheim [trans.]
n.p. [New York]: Delacorte Press, 1974. Near Fine/Very Good +. N.p. [New York?]: Delacorte Press, 1974. First American Edition. Octavo (22 cm); xi, 273pp. Boards in mustard cloth with gilt and brown stamping and decoration, wrapped in publisher's intact pictorial jacket ($8.95). Jacket sunned at spine and joints with minor rubbing to margins and light dust soiling. Board... Read More
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North
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine; Ralph Manheim [trans.]
New York: Delacorte Press, 1972. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Delacorte Press, 1972. First American Edition. Octavo (22 cm); 454pp. Boards bound in bright blue cloth with silver stamping, wrapped in publisher's intact jacket ($10.00). Green top stain and endsheets. Jacket toned at all margins, spine, and joints, with rubbing, creasing, and minor chips overall. Board... Read More
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![Quarternote Chapbook Series Volume I: October, Lost River, First Things to Hand, The Wrong End of the Rainbow, and Music Like Dirt [All Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/348/645/1699645348.0.m.jpg)
Quarternote Chapbook Series Volume I: October, Lost River, First Things to Hand, The Wrong End of the Rainbow, and Music Like Dirt [All Signed]
by Louise Gluck, James Tate, Robert Pinsky, Charles Wright, and Frank Bidart
Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, 2004. Near Fine. Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, 2004. First Editions. Each volume signed by the poet at title page without inscription. Five octavo volumes; stapled wraps. Housed in red cloth slipcase stamped in gilt. Very light rubbing to extremities; Near Fine. The volumes constitute #3 of the publisher's long-running Quarternote Chapbook Series; scarce thus... Read More
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![32 Tetes Sous le Meme Bonnet [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed by Mitelberg]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/791/561/1699561791.0.m.jpg)
32 Tetes Sous le Meme Bonnet [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed by Mitelberg]
by Louis Mitelberg [a.k.a. Tim]; Pierre Ferrary and Daniel Roman [eds.]
Paris: Edite Aux Depens de Quelques Bibliophiles, 1947. Very Good -. [Paris?]: Édité aux dépens de quelques bibliophiles, 1947. First Edition, Limited to 1200 copies of which this is no. 354. Slim quarto; original pictorial staple bound wrappers in pictorial chemise, loose as issued; 14pp. + 32 leaves of plates, also loose as issued (collated complete). Exterior chemise... Read More
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![Jérôme Paturot: A la Recherche d'une Position Sociale [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/639/736/1343736639.0.m.jpg)
Jérôme Paturot: A la Recherche d'une Position Sociale [Limited Edition]
by Louis Reybaud; Gabriel Brunet [pref.]; Livia Dubreuil [illus.]
Paris: Éditions Stock, 1949. Near Fine. Paris: Éditions Stock, [1949]. First Thus. Limited to 3000 copies of which this is no. 261. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; xxii,478pp.; frontispiece etching by Van Rompaey, headpieces by Livia Dubreuil. Corners very slightly bumped, else Fine. Forms part of the series "Cent Romans Français." Satirical novel first published in 1843.... Read More
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The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea. The William James Lectures Delivered at Harvard University, 1933
by Arthur O. Lovejoy
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957. Very Good +. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957. Sixth Printing. Octavo. 382 pp. Red cloth with gilt stamping to spine; missing dust jacket. Light wear, toning, and scuffing to boards; rubbing at head of spine. Binding is sound. Ownership inscriptions in pencil to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked. A... Read More
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Rugs of the Wandering Baluchi
by David Black and Clive Loveless
London: David Black Oriental Carpets, 1976. Very Good+/Very Good. [London]: David Black Oriental Carpets, [1976]. First Edition. Slim quarto (26.5cm); publisher's cloth in glossy black photo-illustrated dust jacket; [2],32pp. + 42 leaves of full color photographic plates. Moderate wear and chipping to jacket margins, corners nudged, else Very Good and sound.
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![The Only Good Apple in a Barrel of Spies [Dorothy Hughes' copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/655/914/1386914655.0.m.jpg)
The Only Good Apple in a Barrel of Spies [Dorothy Hughes' copy]
by Marc Lovell
Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1984. Very Good +/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1984. First Edition. Ownership inscription of American mystery writer Dorothy B. Hughes to front free endpaper. Octavo. 185 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. White boards stamped in purple. Dust jacket rubbed along... Read More
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![Butchers and Other Stories of Crime [Upper jacket title: Butchers & Other Stories of Crime] [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/797/179/1362179797.0.m.jpg)
Butchers and Other Stories of Crime [Upper jacket title: Butchers & Other Stories of Crime] [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Peter Lovesey
London: Macmillan, 1985. Very Good+/Very Good+. London: Macmillan, 1985. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pale grey dust jacket printed in black and red; 207pp. Light shelf wear, textblock lightly toned, else Very Good or better. Bookplate signed by the author laid in.
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