Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence: The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time
by Alice Moore Dunbar [Nelson] [ed.]; Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Fanny Jackson Coppin, Frederick Douglass, Prince Saunders et al. [contrs.]
New York: The Bookery Publishing Company, 1914. Very Good +. New York: The Bookery Publishing Company, 1914. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's red over green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt; 512pp.; portrait frontispiece of Frederick Douglass with tissue guard. Light wear to edges; a few scuffs and smudges; binding sound; contemporary ownership inscription (Dr. S.S. Thompson) to front pastedown, else... Read More
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A Yankee Girl at the Battle of the Wilderness
by Alice Turner Curtis; Hattie Longstreet Price [illus.]
Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1929. Very Good. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. 224 pages. Frontispiece + two additional black and white plates. Green cloth stamped in black with color illustration mounted to front board. No dust jacket. Boards worn at extremities with brief exposure, most heavily a patch along top edge... Read More
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![Reveille for Radicals [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/882/828/1678828882.0.m.jpg)
Reveille for Radicals [Signed]
by Saul D. Alinsky
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946. Very Good/Very Good. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946. First Edition, first printing with no additional printings listed. Signed by Saul Alinsky at front free endpaper without inscription. Octavo. 228pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price present. Black cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt; red topstain. Several chips and tears along... Read More
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Snowball
by Ted Allbeury
London: Peter Davies, 1974. Very Good/Very Good. London: Peter Davies, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. 170 pp. Original dust jacket; red boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket lightly edgeworn with some toning and a few very short closed tears. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Author's second novel.
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A Choice of Enemies
by Ted Allbeury
London: Peter Davies, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. London: Peter Davies, 1973. First Edition. Octavo. 186 pp. Original dust jacket; purple boards stamped in gilt. Publisher's review slip laid in. Unclipped dust jacket shows light edgewear with some creasing and smudging to front flap. Boards lightly shelfworn. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Author's first book. ... Read More
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Palomino Blonde
by Ted Allbeury
London: Peter Davies, 1975. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Peter Davies, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. 150 pp. Original dust jacket; purple boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket gently worn along edges with some general rubbing. Boards show just a touch of shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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![Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960 [Black Inside Covers]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/483/291/1521291483.0.m.jpg)
Kaddish and Other Poems 1958-1960 [Black Inside Covers]
by Allen Ginsberg
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1961. Very Good. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1961. Apparent (per Dowden) intermediary between the Fifth and Sixth Printings, with black inside covers (instead of the usual white), seven-line publisher's statement on back, and no printer's statement. 16mo (6.25" x 4.75") 100pp. Printed black and white wraps with $1.50 price on back. Covers... Read More
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Christmas Epithalamium
by Hervey Allen
New York: Privately Printed for George A. Nelson, 1925. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Privately Printed for George A. Nelson, 1925. Limited edition of 295 copies. Octavo. 8 unnumbered leaves printed recto only. Cream-colored dust jacket dyed red. Red boards with white title label. Dust jacket is chipped and worn along edges with a one inch... Read More
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My Basket-ball Bible
by [Basketball] Forrest C. Allen
Kansas City, MO: Smith-Grieves Co. Publishers, 1928. Very Good/Very Good -. Kansas City, MO: Smith-Grieves Co. Publishers, 1928. Sixth Edition. Octavo. 447 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket rather worn with heavy chipping and rubbing and extensive tape repair to verso, remains intact. Boards show light shelfwear... Read More
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![Address at the Funeral of Gideon Granger, September 5, 1868 [Cover title: In Memoriam. Gideon Granger]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/573/467/1602467573.0.m.jpg)
Address at the Funeral of Gideon Granger, September 5, 1868 [Cover title: In Memoriam. Gideon Granger]
by Frederic B. Allen
Canandaigua, NY: Privately Printed, 1868. Very Good-. Canandaigua, NY? Privately Printed, 1868. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's buff wrappers printed within thick black rule; 28pp. Wrapper margins heavily toned and a bit rubbed, spine ends chipped, light dust-soil, else Good to Very Good, internally clean and sound.
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![Empty Mirror: Early Poems by Allen Ginsberg [Signed by Ginsberg with annotation]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/516/558/1699558516.0.m.jpg)
Empty Mirror: Early Poems by Allen Ginsberg [Signed by Ginsberg with annotation]
by Allen Ginsberg; William Carlos Williams [intro.]
New York: Totem Press / Corinth Books, 1961. Very Good. New York: Totem Press / Corinth Books, 1961. First Edition, second printing, with Corinth, Totem, and Jargon titles listed on p. 48. Octavo (20.2cm); stapled stiff white paper wraps with $1.25 price; 47pp. Covers crisp with light shelfwear; toning along spine and top edge, with a small stain... Read More
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Howl and Other Poems
by Allen Ginsberg; William Carlos Williams [intro.]
San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, 1958. Very Good +. San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, [1958]. Fourth Printing, stated at rear along with 75 cents price. 12mo. 44 pp. Original stiff stapled wraps. Light rubbing and toning to wraps with a crease to bottom front corner. Binding is sound. Contemporary ownership inscription and original pencil price to... Read More
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Guerrilla: A Monthly Newspaper of Contemporary Kulchur, Vol. 1 No. 1, January 1967
by Allen Van Newkirk, John Sinclair [editors]; Andre Breton, Joel Oppenheimer, Diane DiPrima, Michael McClure, et al. [contributors]
Detroit, MI: Artists' Workshop Press, 1967. Very Good -. Detroit, MI: Artists’ Workshop Press, 1967. First Edition. Newsprint tabloid format (44cm); 28pp. Black text with red graphics; 35¢ price intact. Folded horizontally, as issued. Illustrations and photographs throughout. Toned; chips appear at edges and folds but do not touch text. An overall Good to Very Good copy. ... Read More
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Blankets and Moccasins: Plenty Coups and His People, the Crows
by [Plenty Coups]; Glendolin Damon Wagner; William A. Allen
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1936. Very Good/Very Good -. Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1936. Second Printing. Octavo. 304 pp. Black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket. Decorated cloth boards; illustrated endpapers. Price-clipped dust jacket chipped with a few closed tears along edges, general rubbing. Boards show light shelfwear with some minor fraying... Read More
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Fibrilia: A Practical and Economical Substitute for Cotton. Embracing a Full Description of the Process of Cottonizing Flax, Hemp, Jute, China Grass, and Other Fibre, so that the same may be spun or woven upon either cotton or woollen machinery
by [Stephen Merrill Allen]
Boston: L. Burnett and Company, 1861. Very Good. Boston: L. Burnett and Company, 1861. First Edition. Octavo. 182 pp. Ten plates plus frontispiece with tissue guards, complete. Embossed brown cloth with copper lettering to spine; pink endpapers. Spotting and edgewear to boards. Binding sound. Ownership inscriptions and bookseller notes to preliminaries; else unmarked and a Very Good copy.... Read More
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Hawk's Nest, or, the Last of the Cahoonshees: A Tale of the Delaware Valley and Historical Romance of 1690
by James M. Allerton
Port Jervis: The Gazette Book & Job Print, 1892. Very Good -. Port Jervis: The Gazette Book & Job Print, 1892. First Edition. Octavo; 246pp +6pp appendix. Portrait frontis. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to front. Boards a bit shelfworn with light bumping to corners and spine ends, a small waterspot to front, scuffing to gilt lettering,... Read More
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New Afrikan Dinner & Inner-Attainment Sunday Dec. 23 5 to 9 pm
by Afrikan Peoples Alliance
Oakland, CA: Afrikan Peoples Alliance, 1974. Very Good. Oakland, CA: Afrikan Peoples Alliance, n.d., [ca. 1974]. First Edition. Pictorial broadside flyer (21.5x28cm) printed offset on cream stock. Previous folds, brief soiling and red dampspot to verso, else Very Good. Invitation to a fundraising dinner at the Breakfast Club on 4606 Grove St. (renamed Martin Luther King... Read More
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More Work for the Undertaker
by Margery Allingham
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1948. Very Good. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1948. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); 320pp. Publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Street-map endpapers. Missing dust jacket. Boards scuffed along bottom edge; spine a bit cocked, with a vertical crease to cloth. Opens easily between gatherings but binding sound. Scattered, light foxing occasionally along gutter... Read More
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Traitor's Purse
by Margery Allingham
New York: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran and Co, 1941. Very Good. New York: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1941. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's green decorative buckram, black titling to upper cover and spine, black topstain; [8],280pp. Light wear to cloth extremities minor soil to upper cover, spine and topstain a bit faded, contemporary bookselller... Read More
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![Ashby Manor: A Play [John Sparrow's Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/555/284/1377284555.0.m.jpg)
Ashby Manor: A Play [John Sparrow's Copy]
by William Allingham
London: David Stott, 1883. Very Good. London: David Stott, n.d. but 1883. First Edition. 12mo (16cm.); publisher's pale blue card wrappers lettered and ruled in black and red; [12],102pp. Light toning to extremities, especially spine, else Very Good and sound. Publisher's advertisement tipped to half title verso. Small unobtrusive ex libris tipped inside upper cover of the English... Read More
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![From College to Cow Country [Signed to Bonner Fellers]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/261/538/1359538261.0.m.jpg)
From College to Cow Country [Signed to Bonner Fellers]
by Leon V. Almirall
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1956. Very Good/Very Good. Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1956. First Edition. Signed by author to Fellers on front free endpaper with inscription, "To Brig. Gen. Bonner Fellers. Compliments of Leon V. Almirall." Octavo. 471 pages. Black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in red. Almirall's... Read More
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The Development of Yoruba Candomble Communities in Salvador, Bahia, 1835-1986
by Miguel C. Alonso
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Very Good. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. First Edition. Octavo (8.75" x 5.5"); xii, 200 pages. Illustrated boards. Ex-library with discarded stamp to front free endpaper and library marking blacked out on top edge, but no other library markings or additions. Light shelfwear to covers with a few faint smudges. Binding is sound... Read More
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Catalogue of the Andrew Alpern Collection of Drawing Instruments at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Columbia University in the City of New York
by [Andrew Alpern]
New York: Columbia University, Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 2010. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Columbia University, Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2010. First Edition. Oblong octavo. 133pp. Color photographs. Illustrated dust jacket. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt. Light edgewear and wrinkling to edges of dust jacket. Boards scuffed and showing patchy white... Read More
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Smash
by Hollis Alpert
New York: Dial Press, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Dial Press, 1973. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo. 343 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. White and yellow boards stamped in purple. Orange endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket shows general rubbing and is worn along edges with some shallow slight chipping. Boards stained at spine ends and edges... Read More
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Yale College in 1875: Some Statements Respecting the Late Progress and Present Condition of the Various Departments of the University, for the information of its graduates, friends, and benefactors...June 1, 1875
by [Yale College] Executive Committee of the Society of the Alumni
[New Haven]: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1875. Very Good. [New Haven]: [Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor], 1875. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 28pp. Ex-New York State Library with their contemporary rubber-stamp to title page; large patch of toning and light edge soiling to rear and flattened dog-ears to most pages. Lower stitch expired and top stitch untethered, with... Read More
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