Floating Peril
by E. Phillips Oppenheim
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1936. Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1936. First American Edition. Octavo. 309 pp. + advertisements. Orange cloth stamped in black. No dust jacket. Light shelfwear to boards, corners slightly bumped, spine very slightly cocked with a touch of sunning. Binding sound and interior unmarked; Very Good.
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Two-Page Typed Letter Signed from Tom Wolfe regarding a promising young poet with Oppenheimer's One-Page carbon copy response
by Tom Wolfe; Joel Oppenheimer
New York, 1977. Very Good. New York: 1977. Two-page typed letter signed by Tom Wolfe to "Marianne," a member of the editorial staff of the Village Voice, recommending the work of an "unusual and talented new writer" from the Bronx named Perquida Williams. Wolfe comments, "Hers is a new sort of voice, I think, rising from out of a new chapter... Read More
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![Meaning a Life: An Autobiography [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/158/426/1717426158.0.m.jpg)
Meaning a Life: An Autobiography [Limited Edition, Signed]
by Mary Oppen
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. Very Good+/Near Fine. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. First Edition, Limited to 200 signed hardcover copies of which this is no. 161. Octavo; publisher's light blue cloth over photo-illustrated paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label, in original clear acetate dust jacket; 212pp. Light shelf wear and sunning to board... Read More
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![Finding Oprah's Roots, Finding Your Own [Signed by Gates]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/058/390/1693390058.0.m.jpg)
Finding Oprah's Roots, Finding Your Own [Signed by Gates]
by [Oprah Winfrey] Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
New York: Crown Publishers, 2007. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Crown Publishers, 2007. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (20cm); publisher's two-toned boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 191pp.; halftone illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, corners tapped, old soil to front jacket panel; overall Very Good, internally clean and sound. Signed by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on title... Read More
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Cheyenne Raiders
by Robert Jordan [as Jackson O'Reilly]
New York: Forge / Tom Doherty Associates, 2000. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Forge / Tom Doherty Associates, 2000. First Thus (stated First Forge Edition), with full numberline. Octavo. 251 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in gilt. Light edgewear and spotting to unclipped dust jacket. Boards rubbed along bottom edge, with bumping... Read More
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![Three Masonic Promotional Posters [Including]: I Love to Love a Mason 'Cause a Mason Never Tells; “I Dearly Love a Mason, Because a Mason’s ‘On the Square’!”; and Let’s End All the Discontent Elect a Mason President](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/528/904/1505904528.0.m.jpg)
Three Masonic Promotional Posters [Including]: I Love to Love a Mason 'Cause a Mason Never Tells; “I Dearly Love a Mason, Because a Mason’s ‘On the Square’!”; and Let’s End All the Discontent Elect a Mason President
by [Freemasonry] [Fraternal Organizations]
New York: Ullman Manufacturing and Bergan Publishing, 1908. Very Good. New York: Ullman Manufacturing and Bergan Publishing, 1908. Three different Masonic promotional broadside posters. Printed recto only. 6 3/4" x 9 3/4"; 7 3/4" x 9 3/4". Light rubbing to edge; short closed along edge of "I dearly love a Mason." "Let's End All Discontent" undated but... Read More
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Tourists Guide to Iraq
by Orientours
Baghdad, Iraq: Orientours, 1959. Very Good. Baghdad, Iraq: Orientours, [ca. 1959]. Oblong octavo (16.5x21cm); publisher's blue staple bound wrappers printed in dark blue; 52pp.; halftone photographs and illustrations throughout printed entirely in blue. Light soil and brief curling to wrapper margins, else a Very Good or better example. Date of publication based on newspaper appearances of Orientour advertisements,... Read More
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![[Broadsheet] The Famous Orioles](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/087/142/1703142087.0.m.jpg)
[Broadsheet] The Famous Orioles
by Jubilee Records; The Orioles
New York: Jubilee Records, 1952. Very Good. [New York]: Jubilee Records, ca. 1952. Broadsheet (28x21.5cm) featuring a photograph of five members of the pioneering Maryland doo-wop group with a list of their "Current Record Successes" to verso. A few minor nicks to edges; general soiling; horizontal center fold; previous owner has written the names of the members in... Read More
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Truth Displayed: In a series of elementary principles, illustrated and enforced by practical observations
by Benjamin Osborn
Rutland, VT: Fay and Davison, 1816. Very Good. Rutland, VT: Fay & Davison, 1816. First Edition. Thick octavo; full contemporary sheep, gilt spine, all edges stained yellow (presumably at a later date); vii,[8]-636pp. (collated complete). Minor scuffing to leather extremities, some peeling to upper cover, endpapers foxed, mid-20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else a Very Good... Read More
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The Wrong Box
by Robert Louis Stevenson; Lloyd Osbourne
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1889. Very Good. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. First Edition. Octavo. 283 p. + 16 p. publisher's advertisements dated January 1889. Red cloth boards stamped in black. Decorative endpapers Boards worn at extremities with brief exposure. Soiled at spine with some patches to boards. Moderate lean to spine. Slight surface cracking... Read More
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Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe
by Oscar Howe; Kathleen Ash-Milby and Bill Anthes [eds.]
Washington, DC: National Museum of the American Indian / Smithsonian Institution, 2022. Fine/Fine. [Washington, DC]: National Museum of the American Indian / Smithsonian Institution, [2022]. First Edition with full number line. Quarto; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; vii,[1],200pp.; full color illus. throughout. Fine condition.
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![The War Poets: An Anthology of the War Poetry of the 20th Century [Signed by Oscar Williams]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/829/699/1718699829.0.m.jpg)
The War Poets: An Anthology of the War Poetry of the 20th Century [Signed by Oscar Williams]
by Oscar Williams [ed.]
New York: The John Day Company, 1945. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The John Day Company, 1945. First Edition. Signed by editor Oscar Williams on front free endpaper. Octavo (22cm). Dust jacket with $5.00 price intact. Publisher's cloth binding. Orange topstain. 485 pp.; including sixteen pages of black and white photographs of the poets. Dust jacket shows... Read More
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![A Sermon, preached at the installation of the Rev. Jedidiah Morse, A.M. to the pastoral care of the church and congregation in Charlestown, on the 30th of April, 1789 [David Osgood's copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/080/273/1548273080.0.m.jpg)
A Sermon, preached at the installation of the Rev. Jedidiah Morse, A.M. to the pastoral care of the church and congregation in Charlestown, on the 30th of April, 1789 [David Osgood's copy]
by [Jedidiah Morse] Jeremy Belknap and David Osgood
Boston: Samuel Hall, 1789. Good. Boston: Samuel Hall, 1789. First Edition. Octavo; removed, contents entirely disbound; 32pp. [[A]4 B4 C8, collated and complete with half title). Textblock rather spotted, extremities trimmed partly affecting ownership signature of David Osgood at top margin of half title (serving as upper cover), else a Good, complete copy. Uncommon sermon delivered in... Read More
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Songs of a Worker
by Arthur O'Shaughnessy
London: Chatto and Windus, 1881. Very Good. London: Chatto and Windus, 1881. First Edition. Small octavo (17.5cm); publisher's navy blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, black glazed endpapers; xv,[1],212pp. Light shelf wear, rather extensive bubbling to cloth, 20th century ownership ex libris to front pastedown; overall Very Good, internally clean and sound.
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Music and Moonlight: Poems and Songs
by Arthur O'Shaughnessy
London: Chatto and Windus, 1874. Very Good. London: Chatto and Windus, 1874. First Edition, Later state with publisher's advertisements dated 1888 bound in rear. Small octavo (17.5cm); publisher's green gilt-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine, pale yellow endpapers; vii,[1],208,32(ads)pp. Moderate shelf wear to cloth margins, corners bumped, mid-20th century ex libris of Joseph Toy Curtiss to front pastedown; Very Good... Read More
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![Oskar Kokoschka Tells His Life-Story: An Autobiography on Record [Inscribed and Signed by Kokoschka]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/820/559/1699559820.0.m.jpg)
Oskar Kokoschka Tells His Life-Story: An Autobiography on Record [Inscribed and Signed by Kokoschka]
by Oskar Kokoschka; Hannes Reinhardt [producer]; Gottfried Sello [intro.]
Germany: Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, 1961. Very Good/Good. [Germany]: Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft, [1961]. First Edition. Large, oblong quarto (32x41cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in yellow pictorial dust jacket; [38]pp. + 33 1/3 vinyl audio record housed in sleeve bound in rear; full color plates and halftone photographic illus. Dust jacket significantly worn with long closed tear across rear panel and... Read More
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Geschichte der Fotografie in Osterreich
by Verein zur Erarbeitung der Geschichte der Fotografie in Osterreich
Bad Ischl: Verein zur Erarbeitung der Geschichte der Fotografie in Osterreich, 1983. Very Good. Bad Ischl: Verein zur Erarbeitung der Geschichte der Fotografie in Osterreich, 1983. First Edition. Two volumes; square quartos; publisher's white photo-illustrated card wrappers; 574; 220pp.; photographic illus. throughout, some in color. Text in German. Lacks publisher's slipcase. Cover extremities a bit shelf-worn and rather... Read More
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La Historia de Eva Peron: Un ejemplo de amor entre una mujer y un pueblo (2 Vols.)
by Osvaldo Raul Sanchez Teruelo [ed.]
Buenos Aires: O.R. Sanchez Teruelo, 1989. Very Good/Very Good. Buenos Aires; O.R. Sanchez Teruelo, 1989. First Editions. Two Quarto volumes (11.25" x 9"); I: [iv], 320pp, II: [iv], 321-560pp. Photos throughout. Illustrated dust jackets over textured red cloth boards with gilt and blue lettering and accents. Jackets clean and crisp, with one clean, closed 3/4" tear at top... Read More
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On a Troop Train Thru Texas: A bunch of humor, wit, and monologues
by George J. Southwick and Others
New York: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 1903. Good. New York: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 1903. First Edition. Octavo. 96 + [26] pp. publisher's advertisements. Black and white illustrations. Wraps, lacking illustrated covers, minor loss to top front corner of title and first page; spotted and soiled. Good only. One of a series of joke books from the... Read More
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Creole Talk (Trinibagianese): Trinidad and Tobago Words, Phrases and Sayings Peculiar to the Country
by C.R. Ottley
Diego Martin, Trinidad: Victory Printers, 1971. Very Good. [Diego Martin, Trinidad]: Victory Printers, 1971. First "All-in-one" Edition. Octavo; publisher's pink pictorial staplebound wrappers; 96pp. Soiling and rubbing to edges; patchy scrape with smudging and signs of overly-vigorous erasure to front; binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good. Pamphlet collecting four leaflets first published by the author... Read More
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![The Best American Noir of the Century [Signed by Penzler, Ellroy, and Thomas H. Cook]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/437/164/1684164437.0.m.jpg)
The Best American Noir of the Century [Signed by Penzler, Ellroy, and Thomas H. Cook]
by Otto Penzler [ed.]; James Ellroy [ed.]
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. First Edition. Octavo (24 cm); 731pp. Publisher’s opaque dust jacket with $30 price intact; pictorial boards. Superficial scratching to front jacket panel with slightly heavier scratch on rear. Boards show minor bumping to spine. Spotted staining to top edge and briefly to fore-edge.... Read More
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Chants de la Caravane
by S. Oudiane
Paris: L'Édition d'Art H. Piazza, 1926. Very Good. Paris: L'Édition d'Art H. Piazza, 1926. Huitième Édition. 12mo (15.5cm.); publisher's full deluxe panelled mottled morocco, gilt- and blind-tooled spine, top edge gilt, elaborate floral gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, decorative wrappers bound in; 121pp.; color frontispiece by Paul Zenker, text printed within green decorative border with red head- and tail-pieces... Read More
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Alexander Penn Woolridge
by Ruth Ann Overbeck
Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones Company, 1963. Very Good/Very Good. Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones Company, 1963. First Edition. Octavo; xiii, 74pp. Printed green dust jacket over gray boards with black lettering and illustration. Jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears with some adjacent creasing along edges. Boards are sturdy and square with bumping at head of spine. Endpapers toning from... Read More
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![Burlington West: A Colonization History of the Burlington Railroad [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/331/162/1615162331.0.m.jpg)
Burlington West: A Colonization History of the Burlington Railroad [Inscribed and Signed]
by Richard C. Overton
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941. Very Good. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941. First Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, map endpapers; xviii,[4],583pp.; frontispiece, maps, plates and text illus. throughout. Light wear to cloth margins, corners bumped, textblock slightly shaken in binding, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on half... Read More
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![Burlington Route: A History of the Burlington Lines [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/077/163/1615163077.0.m.jpg)
Burlington Route: A History of the Burlington Lines [Inscribed and Signed]
by Richard C. Overton
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First Edition, stated. Thick octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in photo-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket; xxviii,623,[1],xlpp.; maps and plates throughout. Moderate wear and wrinkling to dust jacket margins, corners gently bumped, two different contemporary ownership signatures to front free endpaper including that of inscribee... Read More
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