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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![How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/164/498/1699498164.0.m.jpg)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents [Signed]
by Julia Alvarez
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991. Very Good/Very Good. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991. First Edition, first printing. Signed by Julia Alvarez with brief personalized inscription at title page. Octavo; 290pp. Illustrated dust jacket; green cloth-backed boards; peach endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed along edges with some minor soiling. Boards show... Read More
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![Los Cuentos de Juana [Limited Edition, Signed by Obregon]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/128/614/1617614128.0.m.jpg)
Los Cuentos de Juana [Limited Edition, Signed by Obregon]
by Alvaro Cepeda; Alejandro Obregon [illus.]
Barranquilla, Colombia: Editorial ACO, 1972. Very Good. Barranquilla, Colombia: Editorial ACO, [1972]. First Edition, Limited to 999 copies of which this is no. 938. Large slim folio (34cm.); publisher's white and yellow pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; 76pp.; color illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit soiled and rubbed along margins, brief foxing to upper cover, old strip of tape... Read More
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The Collected Writings of Alvin Lustig
by Alvin Lustig; Philip Johnson [intro.]; Holland R. Melson, Jr. [design and publisher]
New Haven, CT: Holland R. Melson, Jr., 1958. Very Good +. New Haven, CT: Holland R. Melson, Jr., 1958. First Edition, from a run of 600 copies. Octavo; 94pp. Photo-illustrated boards; lacks glassine wrapper. Light wear to edges and joints; mild toning to spine; binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good or better. Includes Lustig's thoughts on typography,... Read More
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![The Ability to Kill [Signed limited edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/202/895/1655895202.0.m.jpg)
The Ability to Kill [Signed limited edition]
by Eric Ambler
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1987. Near Fine/Very Good +. New York: The Mysterious Press, 1987. Limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 50. Octavo (22 cm); 214pp. Boards full bound in red cloth with gilt stamping to spine and housed in undecorated slipcase bound in the same cloth. Slipcase has minor bumps to extremities and... Read More
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![Histoire Critique du Vieux Testament [Bound with] Réponse de Pierre Ambrun Ministre du Saint Evangile, a l'Histoire Critique du Vieux Testament](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/614/060/1653060614.0.m.jpg)
Histoire Critique du Vieux Testament [Bound with] Réponse de Pierre Ambrun Ministre du Saint Evangile, a l'Histoire Critique du Vieux Testament
by Richard Simon; Pierre Ambrun
Amsterdam: Pour la Compagnie des Libraires, 1685. Very Good. Amsterdam: Pour la Compagnie des Libraires, 1685. Nouvelle Edition. Two volumes bound in one; quarto (24.5cm.); full contemporary parchment, gilt-lettered spine label; [40],667,[43]; 48pp. (collated complete); woodcut printer's device on both title pages, initials throughout. Ex-seminary with small shelf labels to spine foot and front free endpaper as well... Read More
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I Valdesi ossidano i Cristiani-Cattolici Secondo la chiesa primitiva abitanti le cosi dette valli di Piemonte: Cenni Storici
by Amedeo Bert
Torino: Gianini e Fiore, 1849. Very Good. Torino: Gianini e Fiore, 1849. First Edition. Octavo (18cm.); late 19th-century parchment, gilt-lettered spine, all edges red, marbled endpapers; [12],498pp. Parchment margins and spine a bit toned, scattered foxing to textblock, ownership signature to front free endpaper verso, else a Very Good copy. History of the pre-Reformation Waldensian ascetic sect... Read More
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Standardized Textbook of Barbering
by Associated Master Barbers of America
Chicago: Associated Master Barbers of America, 1931. Very Good -. Chicago: Associated Master Barbers of America, 1931. Revised Edition. Octavo; publisher's maroon decorative cloth embossed in white and blind; [6],310pp.; illus. throughout, many photographic. Moderate wear to cloth margins including exposure at corners and spine ends, spine a bit cocked, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else... Read More
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![A Manual for Survival: A Counter-Subversive Study Course [Signed by Bundy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/828/793/1497793828.0.m.jpg)
A Manual for Survival: A Counter-Subversive Study Course [Signed by Bundy]
by Edgar C. Bundy; Church League of America
Wheaton: The Church League of America, 1961. Very Good. Wheaton, IL: The Church League of America, 1961. Second Printing, Revised Edition, November 1961. Signed by Bundy without inscription on flyleaf. Quarto (11" x 8.5"); 218pp. Printed paper wraps over stapled textblock. Covers rubbed along edges and a bit smudged, with a 3" razor slit at bottom front not... Read More
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![[Broadside] A Love Song / The Cobler [sic]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/331/499/1638499331.0.m.jpg)
[Broadside] A Love Song / The Cobler [sic]
by [Americana - Pictorial Poetry Broadside]
Boston: s.i., 1824. Good. Boston? ca. 1824. Pictorial broadside (27x23cm.) adorned with two woodcut illustrations. Stock quite wrinkled and worn as though the leaf had been crumpled up and then ironed back out, smallish losses mid-leaf including one affecting woodcut illustration of the beautiful woman, another loss affecting text of the final two stanzas of "A Love Song."... Read More
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African Encounter: A Selected Bibliography of Books, Films, and Other Materials for Promoting an Understanding of Africa among Young Adults
by American Library Association; Esther J. Walls [chairman]; G. Mennen Williams [fwd.]
Chicago: American Library Association, 1963. Very Good. Chicago: American Library Association, 1963. First Edition. Octavo. 69 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated stapled paper wraps. Wraps worn along edges with curling to corners of covers and pages throughout. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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![The Analectic Magazine: Containing selections from foreign reviews and magazines, together with original miscellaneous compositions; and a naval chronicle [Vol. VI]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/994/287/1517287994.0.m.jpg)
The Analectic Magazine: Containing selections from foreign reviews and magazines, together with original miscellaneous compositions; and a naval chronicle [Vol. VI]
by [Americana - Periodicals]
Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, 1815. Good. Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, 1815. Six volumes bound in one; octavo; contemporary sheep over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],524,4(ads)pp.; three engraved frontispieces including two portraits, as well as added engraved title page, plus three portrait plates bound at head of separate issues, text illus. throughout. Boards rather scuffed, Ex-New Castle Library Company with their... Read More
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The Strike at Shane's: A Prize Story of Indiana
by [American Humane Education Society] Gene Stratton Porter [attr.]
Boston: American Humane Education Society, 1893. Very Good. Boston: American Humane Education Society, 1893. First Edition, Cloth Issue. Slim 12mo; publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; [2],91pp.; photo-illustrated title page. Some rubbing to spine ends and corners, textblock a bit shaken with occasional ink annotations, later manuscript inscription on front pastedown, "Property of Dover School... Gift of Iowa Co. Humane... Read More
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![On the Wings of Tomorrow [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/216/330/1408330216.0.m.jpg)
On the Wings of Tomorrow [Signed and Inscribed]
by John Quincy Ames
Nappanee, IN: E.V. Publishing House, 1939. Very Good. Nappanee, IN: E.V. Publishing House, 1939. First Edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with inscription "January 21, 1942. To Mr. Bernard Rosen in appreciation of his courteous treatment. J. Quincy Ames." Bookplate of Adele and Bernard Rosen on front pastedown. Octavo; 307pp. Publisher's green cloth with... Read More
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An African Frame of Reference
by Johari M. Amini
Chicago, IL: An IPE Publication / Institute of Positive Education, 1972. Very Good -. Chicago, IL: An IPE Publication / Institute of Positive Education, 1972. First Edition. Octavo; illustrated wraps; 8pp. Light rubbing and spotting to wraps; bent/warped and pamphlet curls and doesn't quite lay flat; binding sound and pages unmarked; Good to Very Good. Scarce work from... Read More
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![Later Trane [Signed Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/985/558/1699558985.0.m.jpg)
Later Trane [Signed Limited Edition]
by Amiri Baraka [aka LeRoi Jones]
Candia, NH: John LeBow, 2003. Very Good +. Candia, NH: John LeBow, 2003. Limited Edition of 200 copies (176 for sale). String-bound chapbook; iv,10pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Covers faintly rubbed at corners, but clean and crisp overall. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Signed by Baraka out of series on colophon at back. First of a... Read More
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![Malcolm X as Ideology [Limited Edition, Signed by Baraka]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/109/872/1717872109.0.m.jpg)
Malcolm X as Ideology [Limited Edition, Signed by Baraka]
by Amiri Baraka [aka LeRoi Jones]; Theodore Harris [illus.]
Candia, NH: John LeBow, 2008. Near Fine. Candia, NH: John LeBow, 2008. First Edition, Limited to 150 signed copies bound in Rives wrappers, this copy out of series. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's photo-illustrated stitched wrappers; [2],37pp.; full color collage frontispiece by Theodore Harris tipped inside front cover opposite title. Covers clean and crisp. Binding sound and pates unmarked. Signed... Read More
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![Two Stories: Denton's Death & Let Me Count the Times [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/621/191/1403191621.0.m.jpg)
Two Stories: Denton's Death & Let Me Count the Times [Signed]
by Martin Amis
London: Moorhouse & Sorensen, 1994. Near Fine. London: Moorhouse & Sorensen, 1994. Limited Edition, signed by Amis and numbered 30 of 326 total copies, this being one of 100 signed special edition copies, with 26 signed and lettered de luxe copies and 200 unsigned standard copies completing the print run. Tall quarto (11" x 7"); 29 pp... Read More
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A Look Round the Estate: Poems 1957-1967
by Kingsley Amis
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (22.2 cm), 57pp. Publisher's green illustrated dust jacket intact with price (18s). Boards quarter bound in green cloth and cream paper. Dust jacket lightly sunned on spine and margins slightly toned. Minor rubbing and soiling at the margins and spine... Read More
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![Bright November [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/308/561/1699561308.0.m.jpg)
Bright November [Signed]
by Kingsley Amis
London: Fortune Press, 1947. Very Good +. London: Fortune Press, [1947]. First Edition. Signed by Kingsley Amis at title page, inscribed to Michael Curtis. Octavo; 32pp. Black cloth with spine stamped in gilt; lacks dust jacket. Mild rubbing to edges; corners slightly bumped. Binding sound. A couple faint spots to endpapers, else unmarked; a Very Good or better... Read More
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Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1954. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. First American Edition Stated. Octavo. 256 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.50 price present. Brown cloth boards with spine stamped in white. Dust jacket lightly worn along edges with a few nicks and light creasing; previous owner has filled... Read More
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A Case of Samples: Poems 1946-1956
by Kingsley Amis
London: Victor Gollancz, 1956. Very Good/Very Good. London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1956. First Edition. Octavo (22.1 cm), 72pp. Publisher's cream dust jacket intact with price (15/-). Boards bound in black cloth with gilt stamping on front and spine. Ex-library with minimal markings: call number on spine and institutional rubber stamp on copyright, with no institutional markings or pasting... Read More
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What Became of Jane Austen? and Other Questions
by Kingsley Amis
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. First Edition. Octavo (22.1 cm), 223pp. Publisher's photographic black jacket with price intact (£2.40). Boards full bound in blue paper with gilt stamping on spine. Dust jacket creased and chipped with minor tears at margins and spine ends. Verso has minor previous owner repair to... Read More
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A Case of Samples: Poems 1946-1956
by Kingsley Amis
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1957. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1957. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 72 pages. Dust jacket printed in red and black over black boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is clipped at bottom of front flap, with "$3.50" stamped at top. Jacket is rubbed with light shelfwear... Read More
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