![Lineups [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/498/563/1699563498.0.m.jpg)
Lineups [Limited Edition]
by Paula and Charles North
New York: Paula North, 1972. Very Good. [New York]: Paula North, 1972. First Edition, Limited to 200 copies. Quarto; original white printed side-stapled wrappers; [46]pp.; line drawings interleaved with list-like poems. Wrappers quite dust-soiled, light wear to margins, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy of the Norths' first book.
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![The War in Cuba [Salesman's Dummy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/482/047/1632047482.0.m.jpg)
The War in Cuba [Salesman's Dummy]
by Gonzalo de Quesada; Henry Davenport Northrop
Chicago: Imperial Publishing Co, 1896. Very Good +. Chicago: Imperial Publishing Co., 1896. Salesman's dummy copy. Octavo (21 cm); mixed pagination + 2pp ads + 12pp unused order sheets; illus. throughout; 40 plates. Boards full bound in taupe cloth with red, white, gilt, and black pictorial stamping. Green floral endsheets. Boards generally scuffed and lightly soiled with wear... Read More
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The Elder Peter Bruegel, 1528(?)-1569
by Peter Bruegel; Aldous Huxley [essay]; Jean Videpoche [notes]
New York: Wiley Books Co, 1938. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Willey Book Co., 1938. First American Edition, stated First Printing. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's two-toned boards in mustard pictorial dust jacket; 55pp.; chiefly plates throughout, six (including frontispiece) in color. Some minor chipping and wrinkling to jacket extremities, spine panel quite sunned, rear panel a bit dust-soiled,... Read More
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Splendor Solis: Alchemical Treatises of Solomon Trismosin, Adept and Teacher of Paracelsus
by Solomon [Salomon] Trismosin; J.K. [notes]
Des Plaines, IL: Yogi Publication Society, 1990. Very Good +. Des Plaines, IL: Yogi Publication Society, 1990. Reprint. Tall octavo; 104pp. Black and white illustrations. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt; text being a facsimile reprint of the Kegan, Paul, Trench, Tubner London publication of 1920. Mild rubbing to boards; binding sound; pages unmarked; Very Good or better.... Read More
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![Lewis Carroll: Photos and Letters to His Child Friends [Limited Edition, Signed by the publisher]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/430/456/1702456430.0.m.jpg)
Lewis Carroll: Photos and Letters to His Child Friends [Limited Edition, Signed by the publisher]
by Lewis Carroll; Guido Almansi [ed.]; Brassai and Helmut Gernsheim [notes]
Franco Maria Ricci: Parma, Italy, 1975. Very Good. Parma, Italy: Franco Maria Ricci, 1975. First Thus, Limited to 3000 copies of which this is no. 47. Folio (35.5cm); publisher's black gilt-lettered cloth, photographic paste-on to upper cover, housed in two-toned cloth clamshell case; 213pp.; photographic illustrations tipped to text throughout. Moderate wear to cloth margins, spine a shade... Read More
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![Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem [Signed by Nelson]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/862/107/1700107862.0.m.jpg)
Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem [Signed by Nelson]
by Marilyn Nelson; Pamela Espeland [notes]
Asheville, NC: Front Street, 2004. Very Good -/Very Good -. Asheville, NC: Front Street, 2004. First Edition Stated. Slim octavo (24.5cm); publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 31pp.; illus. throughout. Ex-Edmund Burke School Library with usual markings, margins rubbed, upper jacket panel a bit soiled with faint surface scratches, old Signed by the Author sticker; overall Good... Read More
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The Essays, Humor, and Poems of Nathaniel Ames, father and son, of Dedham, Massachusetts, from their almanacks 1726-1775
by Nathaniel Ames; Sam. Briggs [notes]
Cleveland, OH: Sam. Briggs / Short & Forman, 1891. Very Good. Cleveland, OH: [Sam. Briggs / Short & Forman], 1891. Octavo; publisher's green cloth, printed paper spine label; 490pp.; frontispiece, five leaves of plates including folding facsimile and map, text illus. throughout. Light scuffing to cloth extremities, spine label rather toned and dust-soiled, front hinge cracked but holding,... Read More
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An Address, delivered to the candidates for the baccalaureate in Union College, at the anniversary commencement, 30 July, 1806
by Eliphalet Nott
Cambridge: W. Hilliard, 1806. Good. Cambridge: W. Hilliard, 1806. First Edition. Octavo; disbound; 16pp. ([A]4 B4, collated and complete). Title page (serving as upper cover) and following leaf separated but present, textblock rather foxed, trimmed contemporary gift inscription "to Mary Cook" along top margin of title page, else a Good, sound copy of an uncommon pamphlet. Oration... Read More
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Beaux Traits de Dévouement, d'attachement conjugal, de piété, de courage, de magnitude, etc., qui ont eu lieu pendant la Révolution Française, avec les discours les plus remarquables, prononcés en diverses circonstances; le plaidoyer en faveur de Louis XVI; le testament du roi-martyr; la lettre de Marie-Antoinette à madame Elisabeth, et un grand nombre d'anecdotes peu connues
by P.-J.-B. [Pierre-Jean-Baptiste] Nougaret
Paris: E. Cretté, 1828. Very Good. Paris: E. Cretté, 1828. Seconde Édition, revue avec soin, corrigée et augmentée. Two volumes; 12mo (17.5cm.); full contemporary mottled sheep, gilt spine with black gilt inlays, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; xi,[1],367; [4],358pp.; engraved frontispieces, six leaves of plates. Extremities rather scuffed, both spine crowns a bit pulled with cracking along spine... Read More
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Original Photo Album from an Indian nurse's training days
by [India] [Nursing school]
Kasauli, India: [s.i.], 1956. Very Good. Kasauli, India: [s.i.], 1956-57. Oblong quarto; original string-tied decorated silver boards filled nearly to completion with one hundred seventeen (117) black and white photographs with captions to most written in manuscript. Boards rather soiled with light edgewear. Binding sound. A few photographs missing; some marginal chipping; tape repair to every page near... Read More
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![The Chautauqua School of Nursing Year Book 1912 [wrapper title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/314/971/1701971314.0.m.jpg)
The Chautauqua School of Nursing Year Book 1912 [wrapper title]
by Chautauqua School of Nursing
Jamestown, NY: Chautauqua School of Nursing, 1912. Very Good. Jamestown, NY: Chautauqua School of Nursing, 1912. First Edition. Octavo; 56pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Light wear to edges with slight curling to corners; binding sound; short tear to bottom edge of final leaf of text, ownership inscriptions in pen to preliminaries; Very Good. Scarce... Read More
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Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays
by Michael Oakeshott
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1962. Near Fine/Very Good-. London: Methuen & Co Ltd, [1962]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); publisher's cloth in printed dust jacket retaining original price (35s net); [8],333pp. Dust jacket lamination quite chipped along flap folds, spine panel and margins toned, small hole mid-spine not approaching text, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper; overall... Read More
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Pictorial letterhead advertising Japanese tea with postally used pictorial envelope
by Oakford & Fahnestock, Inc
Peoria, IL / Shizuoka, Japan: Oakford & Fahnestock, 1935. Very Good. Peoria, IL / Shizuoka, Japan: Oakford & Fahnestock, 1935. Printed and pictorial letterhead for this midwest grocery wholesale company addressed to a D.L. Wilger of Sterling, IL, and signed in text by the company's Japan-based agent K. Nagashima, advertising the company's latest batch of tea. Previous mail... Read More
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume One
by Alan Moore; Kevin O'Neill; Ben Dimagmaliw; Bill Oakley
La Jolla, CA: America's Best Comics, 2000. Very Good +/Very Good +. La Jolla, CA: America's Best Comics, 2000. Stated First Printing. Tall octavo. Unpaginated. Color illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Dark blue boards stamped in silver. Blue ribbon. Dust jacket gently rubbed along edges. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages clean and... Read More
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![Oates in Exile [Signed bookplate laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/715/900/1655900715.0.m.jpg)
Oates in Exile [Signed bookplate laid in]
by Joyce Carol Oates
Toronto: Exile Editions, 1990. Very Good +/Very Good +. Toronto: Exile Editions, 1990. First Edition. Slim octavo (23 cm); 188pp. Publisher's red illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($23.95). Boards full bound in bright red cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Black endsheets. Jacket generally scuffed rubbed and bumped with superficial scratches to surface. Boards bumped at corners... Read More
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![Such Beauty [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/176/558/1666558176.0.m.jpg)
Such Beauty [Signed]
by Joyce Carol Oates
Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, Publisher / Firefly Press, 1989. Near Fine. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, Publisher / Firefly Press, 1989. Limited Edition of 436 copies, this being one of 10 "ad personam" copies signed by Oates and specially bound in wrappers; this copy designated as "for the publisher." Single sheet folded and bound in printed wraps.... Read More
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![A Garden of Earthly Delights [Signed bookplate laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/358/878/1664878358.0.m.jpg)
A Garden of Earthly Delights [Signed bookplate laid in]
by Joyce Carol Oates
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1967. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); [viii],440pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; boards in green cloth with dark green and white lettering to spine; red topstain. Jacket rubbed and creased along edges with a few shallow closed tears, sunning to spine, and scuffs... Read More
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![A Scandalous Woman [Signed bookplate laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/085/434/1685434085.0.m.jpg)
A Scandalous Woman [Signed bookplate laid in]
by Edna O'Brien
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974. Near Fine/Very Good +. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (20 cm); 191pp. Boards bound in denim blue cloth with green and gilt stamping to spine, wrapped in publisher's intact pictorial jacket (£2.50). Jacket generally scuffed and superficially scratched with bumps and light toning at margins. Verso lightly toned. Board corners... Read More
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![Saints and Sinners [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/973/374/1686374973.0.m.jpg)
Saints and Sinners [Signed]
by Edna O'Brien
London: Faber and Faber, 2011. Near Fine. London: Faber and Faber, 2011. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; vii,[1],208pp. Just About Fine. Signed and dated in year of publication by the author on title page.
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![Country Girl [Signed by O'Brien]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/512/839/1684839512.0.m.jpg)
Country Girl [Signed by O'Brien]
by Edna O'Brien
London: Faber and Faber, 2012. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Faber and Faber, 2012. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); 339pp. Publisher’s photographic dust jacket with £20 price intact; boards bound in black cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Clean black endsheets. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Jacket shows superficial scratching on rear with bumping to spine and bottom edge; crease to bottom... Read More
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In Bitterness and in Tears: Andrew Jackson's Destruction of the Creeks and Seminoles
by Sean Michael O'Brien
Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. Near Fine/Very Good +. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xv,[1],254pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine.
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![Psychic Observer: Journal of Spiritual Science - Vol. XXXIII, Nos. 1-7 (January - November 1972) [Seven issues bound together]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/575/750/1615750575.0.m.jpg)
Psychic Observer: Journal of Spiritual Science - Vol. XXXIII, Nos. 1-7 (January - November 1972) [Seven issues bound together]
by The Psychic Observer
Washington, DC: Psychic Observer, ESPress, Inc, 1972. Very Good. Washington, DC: Psychic Observer, ESPress, Inc., 1972. First Editions. Octavo (21.5cm). Seven consecutive issues with original wraps, bound together in tan cloth with white stamping to spine. Black and white illustrations. Ex-library with internal institutional stamps and markings to endpapers; stamps to covers of each issue. Issues perhaps slightly... Read More
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![Psychic Observer: Vol. XXXIV, Nos. 1-6 (January 1973 - October-November 1973) [Six issues bound together]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/168/348/1615348168.0.m.jpg)
Psychic Observer: Vol. XXXIV, Nos. 1-6 (January 1973 - October-November 1973) [Six issues bound together]
by The Psychic Observer
Washington, DC: Psychic Observer, ESPress, Inc, 1973. Very Good. Washington, DC: Psychic Observer, ESPress, Inc., 1973. First Editions. Octavo (22cm). Six consecutive issues in original wrappers, bound together in tan cloth with white stamping to spine. Black and white illustrations. Ex-library with internal institutional stamps and barcode mounted to rear free endpaper. Issues slightly and uniformly trimmed with... Read More
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A Compendium of Alchemical Processes: Extracted from the writings of Glauber, Basil Valentine, and Other Adepts
by [Occult] Johann Rudolf Glauber; Basil Valentine et al. [contrs.]
York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc. / The Aquarian Press, 1981. Very Good. York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, Inc. / The Aquarian Press, 1981. Reprint. Octavo; 154 + 19pp. of modern alchemical experiments. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt; no dust jacket as issued. Mild spotting and rubbing to boards; binding sound; soiling along top edges, interior unmarked;... Read More
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Hermetic Philosophy and Alchemy: A suggestive inquiry into "The Hermetic Mystery" with a dissertation on the more celebrated of the alchemical philosophers
by [Occult] M.A. Atwood; Walter Leslie Wilmhurst [intro.]
New York: The Julian Press, 1960. Near Fine. New York: The Julian Press, 1960. Revised Edition. Large octavo; 597pp. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt; charcoal topstain; mustard endpapers. Lacks dust jacket. Boards show very light shelfwear; binding sound; pages unmarked; Near Fine.
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