![Wait for What Will Come [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/030/423/1686423030.0.m.jpg)
Wait for What Will Come [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Barbara Michaels [pseud. Barbara Mertz]
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1978. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1978. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; two-toned (blue cloth over green boards stamped in gilt), green pastedowns and flyleaves; pictorial dust jacket by Charles Geer with $8.95 price intact; 282pp. Board corners and spine ends very lightly bumped, some soil... Read More
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![Red Land, Black Land: The World of the Ancient Egyptians [Signed Bookplate Laid In]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/720/108/1680108720.0.m.jpg)
Red Land, Black Land: The World of the Ancient Egyptians [Signed Bookplate Laid In]
by Barbara Mertz
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1966. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1966. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's terracotta decorative cloth, pictorial spine stamped in silver foil; pictorial price clipped dust jacket; eight black and white photographic plates, illustrations throughout textblock. Very light bumping to spine ends, light toning throughout textblock, binding is sound and textblock unmarked, some shelf... Read More
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![Silhouette in Scarlet [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/586/816/1667816586.0.m.jpg)
Silhouette in Scarlet [Inscribed and Signed]
by Elizabeth Peters [pseud. Barbara Mertz]
New York: Congdon & Weed, 1983. Very Good/Very Good+. New York: Congdon & Weed, 1983. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket by Arthur Shilstone retaining original price; [8],216pp. Light dust-soil to rear jacket panel, brief spotting to cloth spine ends, hairline crack to front hinge, ghost of a price sticker to front free... Read More
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The Lost Upland
by W.S. Merwin
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. Very good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First Edition stated. Octavo (24cm). Pictorial dust jacket with unclipped $22.00 price. Brown publisher's cloth binding with title stamped in gilt on spine. Green topstain. 307 pp. Dust jacket toned with faint dampstain on lower front panel. Some creasing to edges.... Read More
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![The First Four Books of Poems: A Mask for Janus / The Dancing Bears / Green with Beasts / The Drunk in the Furnace [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/730/324/1718324730.0.m.jpg)
The First Four Books of Poems: A Mask for Janus / The Dancing Bears / Green with Beasts / The Drunk in the Furnace [Signed]
by W.S. Merwin
New York: Atheneum, 1975. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Atheneum, 1975. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's linen in black unclipped dust jacket; x,261pp. Very light shelf wear to jacket margins, textblock edges rather foxed, else Very Good and sound. Signed by the author on half title page and dated Oct 1982, New Haven.
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The Disarmament Illusion: The Movement for a Limitation of Armaments to 1907
by Merze Tate; Bernice Brown Cronkhite [fwd.]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. Very Good. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. First Edition. Octavo; 398pp. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt; no dust jacket. Mild scuffing and bumping to boards; binding sound; sparse but regular pencil markings and annotations; bookseller ticket to front pastedown (Gerard A. Haagens: Books from Everywhere, 597 Fifth Ave, NY); a... Read More
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Essai sur la Morale de Descartes
by [Descartes] Pierre Mesnard
Paris: Boivin & Cie, 1936. Very Good. Paris: Boivin & Cie, 1936. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cream printed card wrappers; 234pp. Minor shelf wear and moderate soil to wrappers, textblock uniformly toned and brittle, later (1977) ownership inscription inside upper cover, else Very Good and sound.
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![This Strange Eventful History [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/566/324/1673324566.0.m.jpg)
This Strange Eventful History [Signed]
by Claire Messud
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. Very Good/Very Good. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Octavo (23.5cm); [xvi],428pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $29.99 price intact; boards in light blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly shelfworn at corners and spine ends, with flattened creasing to top corner of... Read More
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![[Original Photo Album] U.S.A. & Honolulu](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/855/235/1715235855.0.m.jpg)
[Original Photo Album] U.S.A. & Honolulu
by Elizabeth K. Metcalf
Hawaii, California et al., 1895. Very Good. Hawaii, California, et al: ca. 1895. Oblong quarto (21cm); black cloth crudely rebacked with linen, sheep corners, upper cover lettered in gilt ("Photographs") with added manuscript paper label, "Elizabeth K. Metcalf / U.S.A. & Honolulu"; [25] stiff card leaves to which are mounted a hundred and thirty-three (133) photographs, nearly all... Read More
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![The Middle Passage (A Triptych of Commodities) [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/606/154/1377154606.0.m.jpg)
The Middle Passage (A Triptych of Commodities) [Signed]
by Paul Metcalf
Highlands, NC: The Jargon Society, 1978. Very Good +. Highlands, NC: The Jargon Society, 1978. First Edition. Signed by Metcalf on title page without inscription. Octavo. Unpaginated. Printed wraps. Light toning and a touch of wear to edges of wraps. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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![Washington Republican - Friday, July 9, 1847 ["Honor to the Brave." Free Barbecue]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/557/028/1715028557.0.m.jpg)
Washington Republican - Friday, July 9, 1847 ["Honor to the Brave." Free Barbecue]
by [Mexican War; Indiana; Barbecue] Calvin Frary [ed.]
Salem, Indiana: Washington Republican / Calvin Frary, 1847. Very Good -. Salem, IN: Washington Republican, 1847. Folio (55cm); removed; 4pp. Stain to upper corner; general wear, staining and smudging; Good to Very Good. Uncommon Indiana newspaper here celebrating the return of veterans of the Mexican War including the Washington Rifles, Posey Guards, Hoosier Boys, Lawrence Greys, Lanesville Legion, Spencer... Read More
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Contact Warhol: Photography Without End
by Andy Warhol; Peggy Phelan; Richard Meyer
Stanford and Cambridge: Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University and the MIT Press, 2018. Very Good. Stanford and Cambridge: Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University and the MIT Press, 2018. First Edition. Quarto (30.5x24.5x2.5cm); 232pp, including bibliography. Contact sheets reproduced ad infinitum, with many additional background and documentary images of Warhol-istic monkey business on every page. Photographic... Read More
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Peter Cain
by Peter Cain; Beau Rutland; Collier Schorr; Richard Meyer
New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2017. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2017. First Edition. Quarto (30x26x2cm); 162pp, including list of exhibitions and bibliography. Color images of Cain's work throughout, with additional background, personal, and studio photographs. Photographic dustjacket. Black boards with blacker lettering on spine and front panel. Both jacket and volume pristine. ... Read More
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![Staves Calends Legends [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/009/561/1699561009.0.m.jpg)
Staves Calends Legends [Inscribed]
by Thomas Meyer
Charlotte, NC: Jargon Society, 1979. Near Fine/Near Fine. Charlotte, NC: Jargon Society, 1979. First Trade Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; unpaginated. Light dust-soil, else a Fine example. Issued as Jargon 88. Inscribed on half title page, "For K & J from T in Highlands / 28 November 1992.
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![The Weight of Oranges [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/467/559/1699559467.0.m.jpg)
The Weight of Oranges [Signed]
by Anne Michaels
Toronto: Coach House Press, 1985. Near Fine. Toronto: Coach House Press, [1985]. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 52pp. Very light shelf wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. Signed and dated 2 Sept 98 by the author on title page. The Canadian author's first book, a poetry collection that was awarded the Commonwealth... Read More
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![The Point of Touching: A Chapbook of Poems [Limited Edition, Signed by Hettich and Daniels]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/766/562/1699562766.0.m.jpg)
The Point of Touching: A Chapbook of Poems [Limited Edition, Signed by Hettich and Daniels]
by Michael Hettich; Jim Daniels [intro.]
Candia, NH: John LeBow, 2002. Fine. Candia, NH: John LeBow, 2002. First Edition, Limited to 10 presentation copies bound in cloth out of a print run of 200 copies total. Slim octavo (23.5cm); publisher's green cloth, green decorative paper paste-on to upper cover; 26pp.; frontispiece. A Fine copy signed by Hettich and Daniels on colophon in rear. ... Read More
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![The Phoenix, Vol. 1, nos. 1-6, June-November, 1914 [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/178/751/1373751178.0.m.jpg)
The Phoenix, Vol. 1, nos. 1-6, June-November, 1914 [Inscribed and Signed]
by Michael Monahan [ed.]
South Norwalk, CT: Michael Monahan, 1914. Very Good. South Norwalk, CT: Michael Monahan, 1914. First Edition. Six volumes bound in one; contemporary maroon cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, original pictorial wrappers bound in. Spine ends a bit rubbed, corners bumped with brief exposure, contemporary gift inscription to front pastedown, else Very Good, contents fine. Inscribed and signed by the... Read More
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![Bukowski: Photographs 1977-1987 [Signed by Bukowski with doodle]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/685/558/1699558685.0.m.jpg)
Bukowski: Photographs 1977-1987 [Signed by Bukowski with doodle]
by Michael Montfort; Charles Bukowski [poem & intro.]
Hamburg: Graham Mackintosh / Grauwert Gallery, 1987. Very Good +. Hamburg, Germany: Graham Mackintosh / Grauwert Gallery, 1987. First Edition, Limited Issue of 26 copies hardbound in boards by Earl Gray. Quarto; cloth-backed photo-illustrated boards; unpaginated; twenty-four black and white photographs by Montfort accompanied by an introduction the poem, "Click Click..." by Bukowski. Slight outward bow to boards with a few... Read More
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![Threats Instead of Trees [Signed by Ryan]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/971/917/1600917971.0.m.jpg)
Threats Instead of Trees [Signed by Ryan]
by Michael Ryan; Stanley Kunitz [fwd.]
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. Very Good+/Near Fine. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. First Edition. Signed by Ryan at title page without inscription. Octavo. 66 pp. Illustrated price-clipped dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. A hint of wear to jacket margins, else Near Fine condition.
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![In The Bronx and Other Stories [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/782/560/1699560782.0.m.jpg)
In The Bronx and Other Stories [Inscribed and Signed]
by Jack Micheline
New York: Sam Hooker Press, 1965. Very Good. New York: Sam Hooker Press, 1965. First Edition Stated. Small octavo (19.5cm); publisher's white decorative card wrappers; viii,86pp. Light dust-soil to wrappers, else a Very Good example. Inscribed and signed on half title page, "12/17/65 / For Don / Jack Micheline." Early short story collection by the San Francisco... Read More
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![La Frange d'Ecume [Limited Edition, Signed by Bohbot and Herman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/034/724/1716724034.0.m.jpg)
La Frange d'Ecume [Limited Edition, Signed by Bohbot and Herman]
by Michel Bohbot; Francoise Herman [illus.]
Paris: A Parole Donnee, 1979. Near Fine. [Paris]: "A Parole Donnée," [1979]. First Edition, Limited to 72 copies of which this is no. 2 of 12 hors commerce copies. Small square quarto (16.5cm); loose as issued in grey printed dust jacket housed in original tan cloth chemise and slipcase; [16]pp.; silkscreened frontispiece and two plates of blind embossed... Read More
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The Swift Years: The Robert Oppenheimer Story
by [Robert Oppenheimer] Peter Michelmore
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1969. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. 273 pp. Black and white photographs. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt and blue; blue topstain. Unclipped dust jacket shows general rubbing with light wear to edges. Boards rubbed at extremities; spine ends nudged.... Read More
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The Case of Mrs. Wingate
by Oscar Micheaux
New York: Book Supply Company Publishers, 1945. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Book Supply Company Publishers, 1945. Fifth Printing. Octavo. 519pp. Color frontispiece. Illustrated dust jacket. Dark red cloth boards stamped in gilt; tan topstain; illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket chipped with several tears along edges, long closed tear running vertically from bottom edge a little over halfway up... Read More
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![[Promotional Card] The Original Ink Spots](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/351/120/1703120351.0.m.jpg)
[Promotional Card] The Original Ink Spots
by Mickey Mantle's Holiday Inn; [The Original Ink Spots with Charlie Fuqua, John Taylor, Adriel McDonald, and Abel DeCosta]
Joplin, MO: Mickey Mantle's Holiday Inn, 1960. Very Good. Joplin, MO: Mickey Mantle's Holiday Inn, [ca. 1960]. Broadside; unused tent card (14.5x14.5cm) for a later iteration of the influential vocal group The Ink Spots, who had broken up in 1954, and here are led by original member Charlie Fuqua under the slightly misleading name "The Original Ink Spots."... Read More
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Rolling Stone, No. 19, October 12, 1968
by [Mick Jagger] Jann Wenner [ed.]
San Francisco, CA: Straight Arrow Publishers, 1968. Near Fine. San Francisco, CA: Straight Arrow Publishers, 1968. First Edition. Tabloid format; photo-illustrated self-wrappers; 31pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Toning to wrapper edges, else Near Fine. Early issue of Rolling Stone featuring an interview with Mick Jagger shortly before the release of Beggars Banquet.
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