![South to a Very Old Place [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/945/611/1721611945.0.m.jpg)
South to a Very Old Place [Signed]
by Albert Murray
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971. Very Good/Very Good. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971. First Edition. Signed by Albert Murray at half title without inscription. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket; black cloth boards stamped in gilt; blue topstain; black endpapers; 230pp. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed with a short closed tear along top edge of front panel. Boards shelfworn;... Read More
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![The Omni-Americans: New Perspectives on Black Experience and American Culture [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/882/915/1714915882.0.m.jpg)
The Omni-Americans: New Perspectives on Black Experience and American Culture [Signed]
by Albert Murray
New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey / E.P. Dutton, 1970. Very Good+/Very Good+. New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey / E.P. Dutton, [1970]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in blue and white decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($6.95); [12],227pp. Light wear to jacket margins, else a Very Good or better, bright and sound copy. Signed by the author on... Read More
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Tradition and Progress
by Gilbert Murray
Freeport, NY: Books For Libraries Press, Inc, 1968. Very Good +. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, Inc., 1968. Reprint. Octavo. 221 pp. Dark gray boards with spine lettered in gilt. No dust jacket. Part of the publisher's Essay Index Reprint Series. Boards are clean and square with very light shelfwear. Ownership inscription to front free... Read More
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Beauvais Cathedral: Architecture of Transcendence
by Stephen Murray
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. Near Fine/Near Fine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. First Edition. Quarto; 178pp. + black and illustrations bound to rear. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Brown cloth boards stamped in black and gilt. Light rubbing to edges of dust jacket and boards; binding sound and pages unmarked; Near Fine.
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![Thomas Pradzynski: Modern Realist [Limited Edition, Signed by the Artist]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/607/452/1616452607.0.m.jpg)
Thomas Pradzynski: Modern Realist [Limited Edition, Signed by the Artist]
by Thomas Pradzynski; Oliver Caldwell; Susan Snyder; Ralph Musco
San Francisco: Caldwell-Snyder Publishing, 1993. Near Fine. San Francisco: Caldwell-Snyder Publishing, 1993. Limited Edition of 200 copies signed by Pradzynski facing colophon, this being #7; two additional collector's editions mentioned as well as the trade printing. Quarto. 174 pp. Color reproductions and photographs throughout. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt with illustration mounted in front; illustrated endpapers. Housed... Read More
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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
by Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Near Fine/Near Fine. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. First Edition. Large octavo. 609pp. Black and white illustrations. Dust jacket gently rubbed along edges. Boards show light shelfwear with a few bumps to extremities. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Near Fine copy. First... Read More
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![Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/856/846/1664846856.0.m.jpg)
Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital [Signed]
by Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Very Good/Very Good. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; 609pp.; black and white illus. throughout. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn and creased with a couple minor nicks. Boards show light shelfwear with a few bumps to extremities.... Read More
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![Snickerty Nick & the Giant [Inscribed and Signed by Ford]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/159/689/1478689159.0.m.jpg)
Snickerty Nick & the Giant [Inscribed and Signed by Ford]
by Julia Ellsworth Ford; Arthur Rackham [illus.]; Witter Bynner [rhymes]; Charles Arthur Ridgway [music]
Los Angeles: Suttonhouse, 1935. Near Fine/Good +. Los Angeles: Suttonhouse, 1935. Third Printing. Quarto; publisher's cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket, in custom red cloth slipcase; [8],132pp.; three half-tone plates, text illus. throughout, sheet music in rear. Dust jacket heavily and rather crudely restored, verso backed and color touched up along margins of external extremities partially obscuring several... Read More
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Crossings: A Fairy Play
by Walter de la Mare; C. Armstrong Gibbs [music]
London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1923. Very Good/Very Good. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1923. First Edition. Octavo. 169 p. + advertisements. Final 60+ pages sheet music. Printed dust jacket. White boards with green spine label stamped in gilt. Dust jacket chipped and toned along edges, in particular at base of spine.... Read More
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Children's Drawings from the Concentration Camp of Terezín
by Státní židovské Muzeum
[Praha] / Olomouc: SZM / Moravské tiskařské závody, 1978. Very Good. [Praha] / Olomouc: SZM / Moravské tiskařské závody, [ca. 1978, per OCLC]. Side-stapled paperback (8.5" x 8.25"); 38pp. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Illustrated paper wraps. English language text. Covers lightly edgeworn with some curling at corners and light crimps near staples along spine. Faint... Read More
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The Outdoorsman Scrapbook
by [Hunting and Fishing] Ells H. Myers
Massillon, OH: Myers Enterprises, 1959. Very Good. Massillon, OH: Myers Enterprises, 1959. Quarto (28cm.); original grey post-bound pictorial card wrappers, housed in bespoke blue clamshell box, morocco gilt-lettered spine label; [4],97pp.; text printed mimeograph from original typescript. Wrappers a bit foxed and slightly soiled, minor wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. Self-published (and apparently unrecorded)... Read More
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The Way of the Pipa: Structure and Imagery in Chinese Lute Music
by John Myers
Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1992. Very Good. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 1992. First Edition. Octavo. 155pp. Black and white photographs and sheet music. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Light rubbing to edges; corners slightly bumped. Binding sound. A couple stains to top edge; interior unmarked. A Very Good... Read More
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Impeach Nixon Rebus
by [Zephyrus Image / Hermes Free Press] [Michael Myers]
San Francisco: Zephyrus Image, 1974. Near Fine. [San Francisco]: [Zephyrus Image / Hermes Free Press], [ca. 1974]. Original linocut flyer (14.5x38.5cm) printed on white stock. Previous vertical fold, else Fine. Iconic Impeach Nixon rebus ("Im + [peach] N+[ick] + [sun]") issued by the activist/artist collective Zephyrus Image run by Michael Myers and Holbrook Teter. The rebus... Read More
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![School of Fish [Signed Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/872/993/1501993872.0.m.jpg)
School of Fish [Signed Limited Edition]
by Eileen Myles
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1997. Very Good. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1997. Limited First Edition. Signed by Myles without inscription and numbered 11 of 100 signed and numbered copies on colophon at back. Octavo; 193pp. Illustrated slate paper-covered boards with gray cloth spine. Stiff mylar dust jacket. A couple small, water/coffee-spots to fore-edge of textblock not... Read More
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![Skies [Signed Lettered Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/940/704/1466704940.0.m.jpg)
Skies [Signed Lettered Limited Edition]
by Eileen Myles
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. Very Good. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. Limited First Edition. Signed by Myles without inscription and lettered J out of 20 lettered copies on colophon at back. Octavo; 213pp. Handbound by Earle Gray in illustrated blue paper-covered boards with patterned cloth spine. Stiff mylar dust jacket. Boards are clean and square... Read More
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![School of Fish [Signed Lettered Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/941/704/1466704941.0.m.jpg)
School of Fish [Signed Lettered Limited Edition]
by Eileen Myles
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1997. Very Good. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1997. Limited First Edition. Signed by Myles without inscription and lettered O out of 20 lettered copies on colophon at back. Octavo; 193pp. Handbound by Earle Gray in illustrated slate paper-covered boards with patterned cloth spine. Stiff mylar dust jacket. A few shallow water /... Read More
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The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, March 1948
by [NAACP] Roy Wilkins [ed.]
New York: NAACP / The Crisis Publishing Company, 1948. Very Good. New York: NAACP / The Crisis Publishing Company, 1948. First Edition. Quarto. 67-94pp. Photo-illustrated wraps with actress Ruby Dee featured. Wraps toned and a bit brittle with a few minor nicks and tears to edges; vertical crease through center. Splits along spine but covers holding; Very Good.... Read More
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Despair: A Novel
by Vladimir Nabokov
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966. Very Good/Very Good. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966. First U.K. Edition from the American plates. Octavo (20.5cm); publisher's boards in decorative dust jacket retaining original price (25s net); 222pp. Light wear to jacket margins, surface scratches to upper panel, uneven toning to p. [1] from removed newspaper clipping; overall Very Good and sound.... Read More
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Poems
by Vladimir Nabokov
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1959. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1959. First Edition (stated), first issue with A25 on final page. Octavo (21.5cm); [44]pp. Illustrated dust jacket with original $3.00 price intact; boards in aqua blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Jacket lightly shelfworn with a bit of dust-soiling and a few smudges... Read More
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Laughter in the Dark
by Vladimir Nabokov
New York: New Directions, 1960. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: New Directions, 1960. New Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); 292pp. Original dust jacket with $3.50 price intact; boards in blue cloth with white lettering to spine. Jacket rubbed along edges with a few scuffs to surface and along folds; tape reinforcement to spine ends on verso with a small... Read More
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Ada Or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
by Vladimir Nabokov
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. Very Good/Very Good. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969. Stated First Edition. Octavo (22cm); 589pp. Publisher’s dust jacket with $8.95 price intact; boards bound in black cloth with gilt stamping to spine; yellow endsheets. Dust jacket exterior is clean with minimal bumping along top edge; interior shows some water damage, spotting, and slight color bleed from... Read More
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1955. Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1955 (but 1958). First American Edition with 1955 to copyright page and no additional printings listed. Octavo. 319 pp. Black cloth with gray patterned paper over boards; red topstain and endpapers. Lacks dust jacket. Boards show mild wear with some bumping to edges; spine... Read More
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![History and Practice of Platinum Printing: 3rd Revised Edition [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/111/330/1546330111.0.m.jpg)
History and Practice of Platinum Printing: 3rd Revised Edition [Signed]
by Luis Nadeau
Fredericton, Canada: Atelier Luis Nadeau, 1994. Very Good +. Fredericton, Canada: Atelier Luis Nadeau, 1994. 3rd revised edition. Signed by Luis Nadeau at title page with brief inscription to photography expert and historian Larry Schaaf. Octavo. 192 pp. Illustrations, charts, and graphs. Illustrated wraps. Touch of rubbing to edges of wraps. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. ... Read More
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Arnauld and the Cartesian Philosophy of Ideas
by [Rene Descartes]; Steven M. Nadler
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. Near Fine/Near Fine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989. First Edition. Octavo. 195 pp. Printed dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket and boards show very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked.
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Public Mind: Les Levine's Media Sculpture and Mass Ad Campaigns
by Les Levine; Dominique Nahas
Syracuse: Everson Museum of Art, 1990. Very Good. Syracuse: Everson Museum of Art, 1990. First Edition. Quarto (25x28x1cm); 127pp, including bibliography. Photographic reproductions and illustrations in color and B&W throughout. Fuchsia card wrappers with black spine; window cut-out in front panel. Wrappers and textblock clean and crisp. This is the catalog of the exhibition of the... Read More
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