![The Chance is Higher [Limited Edition, Signed by Marcopoulos]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/599/429/1699429599.0.m.jpg)
The Chance is Higher [Limited Edition, Signed by Marcopoulos]
by Ari Marcopoulos; Jeremy Sigler [play]
New York: Dashwood Books, 2008. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Dashwood Books, 2008. First Edition, Limited Issue of 50 copies hand-numbered and signed by Marcopoulos at rear, this being #42. Grainy photographs printed on red paper throughout. Photographic dust jacket; photo-illustrated gray cloth boards; decorative endpapers. Housed in publisher's gray cloth slipcase. Mild rubbing to dust jacket; tight... Read More
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Turbott Wolfe
by William Plomer
London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1925. Very Good -. London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1925. First Edition. Octavo. 231 pp. Brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Boards show moderate wear to edges and joints with light spotting to bottom half... Read More
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![Lo Spettacolo della Natura, esposto in varj Dialoghi Non meno eruditi, che ameni, concernenti La Storia Naturale. Tomo I and Tomo II [Two volumes bound in one]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/012/339/1701339012.0.m.jpg)
Lo Spettacolo della Natura, esposto in varj Dialoghi Non meno eruditi, che ameni, concernenti La Storia Naturale. Tomo I and Tomo II [Two volumes bound in one]
by Noel-Antoine Pluche
Venezia: Presso Giambatista Pasquali, 1740. Very Good. Venezia: Presso Giambatista Pasquali, 1740. Early Italian Edition. Two octavo volumes bound in one. xxiii, 221pp, [1] page errori; vii; 248pp. 16 plates to volume I; 9 plates to volume II, complete; some fold-out; plate 8 from volume II misbound at page 122. Full vellum boards with leather spine label; red... Read More
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The Living Theatre: Beyond the Mountains
by [The Living Theatre]; Kenneth Rexroth; Harold Norse [intro.]; Oscar Williams [poem]
New York: The Living Theatre, 1951. Near Fine. New York: The Living Theatre, 1951. First Edition. Octavo. 16pp. Printed wraps. Mild rubbing to edges; Near Fine. Program guide for the opening of this Rexroth play, put on at the Cherry Theater in New York in December 1951. Scarce and a nice example of early Living Theatre material. ... Read More
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Death Sequence
by Sam Falls [photography]; Jamie Kanzler [poetry]
New York: Karma, 2014. Very Good +. [New York?]: Karma, 2014. First Edition, Wrapper Issue limited to 1425 copies. Quarto (30.5cm); publisher's black card wrappers printed in white, French flaps; [364]pp.; full color photographic illus. interspersed with poetry. Light shelf wear to wrapper margins, else Very Good or better. Photo essay of a year in the... Read More
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Gateway
by Frederick Pohl
New York: St Martin's, 1977. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: St Martin's, 1977. First Edition. Octavo; 313pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $8.95 price present. Navy boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket shows a crease and short closed tear to front panel, general rubbing, and two quite faint dampstains, visible only at verso. Boards show mild shelfwear; binding sound;... Read More
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Glossy Photographic Still from "In The Heat of the Night," Signed
by Sidney Poitier
N.p., 1967. Very Good. N.p.: ca. 1967. Glossy photographic still (25.5x21.5cm), "HN-43" handwritten code at bottom right-hand corner of image. Some wrinkling to image, shallow crease at top left-hand corner, else Very Good. Signed by Sidney Poitier with blue sharpie. Signed still from the 1967 film "In the Heat of the Night," depicting a close up of... Read More
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True Minds
by Marie Ponsot
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Pocket Bookshop / Pocket Poets Series, 1956. Very Good. San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop, [1956]. First Edition. Slim 12mo; publisher's grey card wrappers with white printed wrap around paste-on; 32pp. Wrappers unevenly toned and a bit soiled; overall Very Good. The author's first book and the fifth in Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Pocket... Read More
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Paris Moscou 1900-1930
by Pontus Hultén; Alexandre Khaltourine; V.M. Polevoï [et al.]
Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1979. Very Good. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1979. First Edition. Quarto (30x21x3cm); 580pp. Densely illustrated throughout in color and B&W. Entirely in French. Heavy graphic card wrappers over sewn textblock. A Rip Van Winkle find: volume is pristine, seemingly unperused, and, for our listing photograph, opened with une manipulation des plus délicates. Card... Read More
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The English Parnassus: Or, a Help to English Poesie. Containing a Collection of all the Rhythming Monosyllables, the choicest Epithets and Phrases. With some General Forms upon all Occasions, Subjects, and Themes, Alphabetically digested
by Joshua Poole
London: Henry Brome, Thomas Bassett, and John Wright, 1677. Very Good. London: Henry Brome, Thomas Bassett, and John Wright, 1677. Second Edition. Small octavo; contemporary gilt-tooled calf, elaborately gilt-tooled spine in six compartments, all edges stained red, supplied endpapers; [32],639,[1]pp.; A8 a8 B-2S8 (collated complete); engraved frontispiece printed on leaf [A1]. Boards sympathetically reattached though hairline crack along... Read More
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The Rape of the Lock, an Heroi-Comical Poem
by Alexander Pope
London: C. Bensley / F.J. Du Roveray et al., 1798. Very Good-. London: Printed by C. Bensley; for F.J. Du Roveray, 1798. First Bensley Edition. Octavo; full contemporary gilt-ruled calf, spine elaborately tooled in calf, blue papier-peint endpapers; xxix,[1],79pp.; engrave frontispiece (tissue-guard) and five leaves of plates. Boards scuffed at extremities, front board rather crudely reattached, else a... Read More
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The Poverty of Historicism
by Karl R. Popper
Boston: The Beacon Press, 1957. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: The Beacon Press, 1957. First American Edition. Octavo. 166pp. Printed dust jacket with $4.00 price present. Tan cloth boards stamped in black; topstain. Dust jacket chipped along edges with a few short tears; toning to edges and spine. Boards soiled along top edge; bumping to bottom corners and top... Read More
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Deux Republiques
by A. Edouard Portalis
Paris: G. Charpentier, 1880. Very Good. Paris: G. Charpentier, 1880. First Edition. Octavo (18cm.); contemporary brown morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-tooled spine, marbled endpapers; [4],356pp. Some scuffing to boards with brief exposure at corners, spine leather a shade sunned, textblock uniformly toned and a bit foxed due to inferior paper stock, shallow dampstain to fore-edge of early leaves including... Read More
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![Eliot Porter's Southwest [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/327/216/1703216327.0.m.jpg)
Eliot Porter's Southwest [Inscribed and Signed]
by Eliot Porter
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1985]. First Edition Stated with full number line. Oblong quarto (28.5x31cm); publisher's cloth in grey photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price; 25pp. + 88 leaves of photographic plates. Dust jacket rather rubbed with small chips at spine crown, light soil and faint... Read More
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A Sermon Delivered to the First Religious Society in Roxbury, December 11, 1783; being the first day of public thanksgiving, in America, after the restoration of peace, and the ultimate acknowledgement of her independence
by Eliphalet Porter
Boston: Adams and Nourse, 1784. Very Good -. Boston: Adams and Nourse, 1784. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); removed, remnants of old leather to spine; 24pp. ([A]4 B-C4, collated complete). Textblock rather browned and foxed, a few tiny chips to margins, else Good to Very Good overall. Early post-Revolutionary War celebratory sermon, opening with the lines "That appearance... Read More
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Memoires de M. de La Porte, Premier Valet de Chambre de Louis XIV. Contenant plusieurs particularités des régnes de Louis XIII. & et Louis XIV
by [Pierre] de La Porte
Geneve, 1755. Very Good. Geneve: 1755. Small 12mo (15cm.); full contemporary calf, gilt spine in six compartments, reddish-brown gilt spine onlay, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; xviii,[19]-326pp. (*12 B-N12 O7 [M4 and M6 missigned L4 and L6]). Boards a bit scuffed, tiny chips at spine ends, 20th century Lisbon bookseller ticket to front pastedown, else Very Good, internally... Read More
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![Early Negro Writing, 1760-1837 [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/187/872/1717872187.0.m.jpg)
Early Negro Writing, 1760-1837 [Signed]
by Dorothy Porter [ed.]
Baltimore, MD: Black Classic Press, 1995. Very Good. Baltimore, MD: Black Classic Press, 1995. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Octavo (23cm); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; xiii,[1],658pp. Light shelf wear and a bit of dust-soil to textblock edges. Brief corner-creasing to bottoms of a few pages near rear. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the editor without... Read More
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Sylvia Porter's Money Book: How to Earn It, Spend It, Save It, Invest It, Borrow It - And Use It To Better Your Life
by Sylvia Porter
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1975. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1975. First Edition. Signed by the author to William and Helene Safire with inscription, "To Helene and Bill / with admiration / and affection! / Sylvia / June 1975." Thick Quarto; 1105 pages. Printed dust jacket with original $12.50 price; book in lime... Read More
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![Triste Fin Que Tuvo en Mexico, Pues Fue Presto Fusilado, Don Gustavo el Fatidico, el Famosos Ojo Parado [Verso title: El Fusilamiento de Ojo Parado en la Ciudadela de Mexico]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/492/785/1683785492.0.m.jpg)
Triste Fin Que Tuvo en Mexico, Pues Fue Presto Fusilado, Don Gustavo el Fatidico, el Famosos Ojo Parado [Verso title: El Fusilamiento de Ojo Parado en la Ciudadela de Mexico]
by [Jose Guadalupe Posada]
Mexico: Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1913. Good. [Mexico]: [Antonio Vanegas Arroyo], n.d. [but 1913]. First Edition. Pictorial broadsheet (28.5x20cm) printed on pink stock. Rather significantly soiled with shallow chipping along margins not approaching text, else Good to Very Good. Elegy to the recently-murdered Gustavo A. Madero (1875-1913), also known as "Ojo Parado" due to his glass eye.... Read More
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The Mudge Pond Express
by Sam Posey
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1976. Very Good/Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. 318 pp. Black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket with $8.95 price present. Red boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket lightly chipped along edges, mild foxing and toning. Board with light shelfwear and a few minor smudges. Binding... Read More
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Kiki Smith
by Helaine Posner
New York: Bulfinch Press Little, Brown and Company, 1998. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Bulfinch Press Little, Brown and Company, 1998. First Edition. Quarto (31x25.5x2.5cm); 200pp, including exhibition list and bibliography. Illustrated with 160 color and 73 B&W reproductions and documentary images. Illustrated dustjacket; navy blue boards with metallic lapis blue spine lettering. Jacket lightly rubbed along... Read More
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![[Unused Postcard] Everything I Like Is Immoral, Illegal, or Fattening!](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/556/666/1685666556.0.m.jpg)
[Unused Postcard] Everything I Like Is Immoral, Illegal, or Fattening!
by [Wooden Postcards]
N.p., 1940. Very Good. N.p.: ca. 1940s. Original unused pictorial wooden postcard (8.5x14cm). Wood rather bowed, some scuffing and shallow scratches, small hole at top edge not touching text, else Very Good. Humorous postcard showing a seated and down-in-the-dumps woman accompanied by the quote "Everything I like is immoral, illegal, or fattening!" Verso text stamped in... Read More
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Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage
by Emily Post
New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1945. Very Good -/Very Good. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1945. New / Revised Edition, "First Printing, February, 1945" stated. Tall octavo (23.5cm); [xiv],654pp; frontis + illus. throughout. Silver and blue dust jacket with $4.00 price intact; boards in blue cloth with gilt lettering. Jacket cleanly split along much of front... Read More
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Monsieur Jonquelle, Prefect of Police of Paris
by Melville Davisson Post
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1923. Good. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1923. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's orange buckram, front cover and spine stamped in black; [6],286,[1],[2](ads)pp. Boards scuffed at extremities and black titling rather heavily flaked, especially at spine, faint damp spots to rear cover, light abrasion and some glue residue to front... Read More
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The Cantos (1-95)
by Ezra Pound
New York: New Directions, 1965. Very Good/Very Good. New York: New Directions, [1965]. Second American Collected Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (27.7cm); [iv],107pp. Photo portrait frontis by Arnold Genthe. Publisher's black and white dust jacket with $7.50 price intact; boards in black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Jacket edgeworn with a chip at top of rear flap... Read More
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