The Divine Pilgrim
by AIKEN, Conrad
Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1949. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 288pp; illus. Light rubbing to board edges, with tanning to edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper, price-clipped, lightly tanned, with shelf-soil, 0.5" tears to lower rear spine fold and panel edges, tiny... Read More
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Time in the Rock: Preludes to Defintion
by AIKEN, Conrad
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); brown cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; brown topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 138pp. Light shelf-wear with rubbing to board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50), tanned, with 2.5" tears to front spine fold and 1.5" tear to lower rear spine... Read More
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King Coffin
by AIKEN, Conrad
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in blue decorative dust jacket; [8],343pp. Jacket extremities rubbed with a few short closed tears, spine crown verso reinforced; Very Good and sound. Novel of a man plotting "the perfect crime--against an unsuspecting victim" (upper jacket panel).
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Bring! Bring! and Other Stories
by AIKEN, Conrad
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in black dust jacket printed in yellow; 240pp.; title page within decorative border printed in blue. Spine quite faded (as usual), clean tear to bottom 2 inches of upper jacket flap fold. Fine in Very Good jacket.
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Mr. Arcularis. A Play
by AIKEN, Conrad
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22.5cm). Black cloth-covered boards, titled in white on spine; dustjacket; xii,83pp. About Fine in a slightly toned and foxed, but unclipped dustwrapper with a few scuffs and clear tape remnants to verso; Very Good.
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The Kid
by AIKEN, Conrad
New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, 1947. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; tan cloth, with titles stamped in blue on spine; dustjacket; 32, [4]pp. Some offsetting from flaps onto endpapers, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with hint of sunning to spine and a faint damp mark to lower right corner of front panel. Aiken's narrative poem... Read More
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The Morning Song of Lord Zero: Poems Old and New
by AIKEN, Conrad
New York: Oxford University Press, 1963. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original embossed boards in green pictorial price-clipped dust jacket printed in blue; [6],130pp. Residue from previously removed label to upper jacket cover, spine a bit faded, a few shallow chips to extremities, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket.
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Turns and Movies and Other Tales in Verse
by AIKEN, Conrad
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original limp drab boards, spine lettered in black; green-grey pictorial dust jacket; [10],90,[2]pp. Jacket spine entirely perished, flap folds tender, especially that of upper flap; About Very Good in exceedingly fragile, incomplete dust jacket. Forms part of the New Poetry Series.
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Blue Voyage [Limited Edition, Signed]
by AIKEN, Conrad
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 125 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.30. Octavo; 3/4 brown textured paper over black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; top edge gilt; lacking original publisher's slipcase, but housed in a handsome custom slipcase; 318pp. Light wear to board edges, else... Read More
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Aime Cesaire [Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature]
by [AIMÉ CÉSAIRE] DAVIS, Gregson
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. First Edition. First impression. Octavo; cloth hardcover, dustjacket; 208pp. Fine, unmarked copy in a barely edge-rubbed dustwrapper.
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Leyes de California aprobadas en la Sesta Sesion de la Legislatura, Que Comenzó el Dia Primero de Enero del Año de 1855, y Conluyó el Dia Septimo de Mayo del Mismo Año en la Ciudad de Sacramento
by AINSA, Agustin [trans.]
Sacramento: B. Redding, Impresor del Estado, 1855. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). In contemporary sheep, blind roll around outer perimeter of boards, titled in gilt on red and black leather spine labels; plain endpapers; x,354pp. A straight, bright copy, slight dirt to binding, front joint cracked through but holding, minor foxing to some leaves but otherwise clean: Good... Read More
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The Collaborators
by AINSLIE, Rosalynde and Dorothy Robinson
London: Anti-Apartheid Movement, [1963]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original red pictorial staplebound wrappers; 31pp. Fine. Small leaflet laid in requesting "Technical and scientific books and magazines for Cuba.
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The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies: General Index and Additions and Corrections
by AINSWORTH, Fred C. and Joseph W. Kirkley
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1901. Octavo (23cm). Rebound in later black library buckram; L,[2],12442pp. Binder's ticket to front pastedown. Rebound but sturdy and clean: Very Good. Index volume only. [62301].
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The Tower of London. A Historical Romance
by AINSWORTH, William Harrison; George Cruikshank (illus)
London: Richard Bentley, 1840. First Edition. Octavo. 3/4 dark green morocco by Riviere; spine in six compartments, blank compartments decorated with gilt florets; marbled endpapers, matching the marbled boards; xvi;[1]-439; engraved frontis + [39] inserted leaves of engraved illustrations by Cruikshank, not reckoned in pagination; 58 additional woodcut illustrations in-text. Plates in the second state per Cohn. Mild rubbing... Read More
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CRAZY HORSE No. 59
by Ai, Ralph Burns and Lisa Lewis (editors)
Little Rock: Crazy Horse Assoc./University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Winter 2000. First Edition. Large octavo; illustrated wrappers; 133pp. Price sticker on the front cover, else Fine. A substantial selection of poems by Tony Hoagland pp.19-35 among the highlights of this volume.
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SOUNDS BEFORE SLEEP
by Aitchison, James
London: Chatto and Windus with The Hogarth Press, 1971. First edition. 32 pp. Scottish poet's first book; a volume in the Phoenix Living Poets series. Fine, appears unread, in a very lightly spine-sunned else fine dust jacket.
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Bundi Painting
by [LALIT KALA AKADEMI]
New Delhi: Barada Ukil, 1959. Softcover. Quarto (34.5cm); sewn green paper wrappers with colorful front cover illustration; [n.p.]; with 10 numbered full-page colorful plate illustrations, each tissue-guarded. Sixth publication in the Lalit Kala Series of Indian Art, with honorary editor Karl Khandalavala and assistant editor Helen Chandra. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist... Read More
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The Open Veins of Jerusalem
by AKASH, Munir and Fouad Moughrabi (eds)
Arlington, MA: Jusoor Press, 2005. Second edition. Octavo (23cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 290pp. Fine, unmarked copy in unworn dustwrapper; a new-appearing copy. Edited volume of essays on the history of Arab-Israeli relations within and around the city of Jerusalem; contributors include Israel Shahak, Rashid Khalidi, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Karen Armstrong, others.
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Hindu Psychology. Its Meaning For The West
by Akhilananda, Swami
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965. 4th printing. Small octavo; green cloth boards; 241pp. Very good with short tear to upper margin of half-title.
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Exact Methods in Linguistic Research. Translated from the Russian by David G. Hays and Dolores V. Mohr
by AKHMANOVA, O.S. (et al)
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1963. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 186pp; inclues bibliography. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly rubbed and edgeworn jacket, Very Good.
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Ajayi The Bishop
by AKINLADE, E. K[ola]
Ibadan, Nigeria: Onibonoje Press & Book Industries, 1973. First Edition. First Impression. Slim octavo (18cm); publisher's laminated illustrated wrappers, stapled; 22pp; illus. Spine lightly sunned, mild wear to extremities; Near Fine. Nigerian author's story for the Junior African Literature Series (no.7), relating the tale of a young village boy who is captured and sold into slavery, and who eventually... Read More
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What Great Men Do - Esther The Queen (Junior African Literature Series, no. 9)
by AKINLADE, Kola
Ibadan: Onibonoje Press & Book Industries, 1973. First Edition. 12mo. Illustrated card wrappers; 61pp; illus. Fine, unmarked copy. Primary reader for African schoolchildren, a retelling of the Biblical story of Esther. Text in English; includes vocabulary lessons at rear. OCLC, 6cc (of which 2 in North America).
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Russian Modernism: Cross-Currents of German and Russian Art, 1907-1917
by AKINSHA, Konstantin, ed
New York: Prestel / Neue Galerie, New York, 2015. First Edition. Quarto (29cm x 24cm). Red cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 208pp; illus. Near Fine copy; bumbed back corner, else appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper; wrinkled upper corner of back panel, else appears new. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Russian Modernism:... Read More
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![[Poster] Amsterdammers / Verdedig het Hart van Amsterdam geen terreur van stadsbestuur weest solidair met de Nieuwmarktbuurt vandaag wij, morgen jullie! [Citizens of Amsterdam, protect the heart of the city by saying No to the terror of the City Council...]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/972/754/1181754972.0.m.jpg)
[Poster] Amsterdammers / Verdedig het Hart van Amsterdam geen terreur van stadsbestuur weest solidair met de Nieuwmarktbuurt vandaag wij, morgen jullie! [Citizens of Amsterdam, protect the heart of the city by saying No to the terror of the City Council...]
by GEZAMENLIJKE AKTIEGROEPEN
Amsterdam: Gezamenlijke Aktiegroepen, [1975]. Original photo-illustrated poster (59.5x42cm.) printed offset in red and black on white stock; tack holes to upper corners, the whole a bit wrinkled with previous fold lines, else About Very Good overall. Black text over a heart-shaped photograph printed in red of a demolition scene. Poster summoning citizens of the Amsterdam to protest on March... Read More
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The Death of Achilles [Signed, Limited]
by AKUNIN, Boris
Gladestry: Scorpion Press, 2005. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Signed, Limited #60 of 80 copies. Octavo (22.5cm); blue leather spine over blue marble paper covered boards; blue topstain; 330pp.; Fine.
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