Sunday, Monday and Always
by Dawn Powell
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. First Edition. Octavo (21.3cm); [vi],213pp. Illustrated dust jacket; yellow boards with blue cloth spine and yellow lettering. Price-clipped jacket a bit shelfworn, with a couple tiny chips and tears along edges and rubbing at corners and spine ends; spine sunned; light toning to rear panel... Read More
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The Bride's House
by Dawn Powell
New York: Brentano's, 1929. Very Good. New York: Brentano's, 1929. First Trade Edition with no additional printings to copyright, preceded by a signed limited edition. Octavo. 296 pages. Red boards stamped in gilt and blue-green. Blue endpapers. Lacks dust jacket. Boards worn along extremities with brief exposure and slightly heavier fraying/loss to top of spine. Spine... Read More
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Poetic Associations: The Nineteenth-century English Poetry Collection of Dr. Gerald N. Wachs
by Stephen Weissman; Stuart Curran; James Chandler; Catherine Uecker; Eric Powell
Chicago: University of Chicago Library, 2017. Very Good/Very Good. Chicago: University of Chicago Library, 2017. First Edition. Dustjacket is clean and crisp with no chips, tears, or marks. Very slight curve to front board at fore-edge. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not an ex-library copy.
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Don Quixote, U.S.A.
by Richard Powell
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's red cloth in an illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($4.95); 280pp. Light scuffing along cover edges, light soiling to cloth spine and cover. Interior text is clean and binding is in good condition. Very Good copy... Read More
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Don't Catch Me
by Richard Powell
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); [6],314pp. Old damp stain to jacket slightly affecting cloth underneath (though not textblock), light shelf wear; overall a Good to Very Good copy in the uncommon dust jacket.... Read More
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Whom the Gods Would Destroy
by Richard Powell
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [6],378pp. General minor edge wear to jacket and cloth extremities, most notably shallow chipping along top margin of rear flap, spine very slightly cocked, light dust-soil, discreet ownership inscription to half title, else... Read More
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Prince of Darkness and Other Stories [Signed]
by J.F. Powers
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. First Edition, stated. Signed by Powers without inscription and dated May 1947 at front free endpaper. Octavo. 277 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.75 price present. Gray boards stamped in black and red. Dust jacket chipped along... Read More
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Dinner at Deviant's Palace [Limited Edition, Signed by the Author]
by Tim Powers
Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2001. Near Fine/Near Fine. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2001. Limited Edition of 750 copies signed by Tim Powers at limitation page, this being #217. Octavo. 252 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $40.00 price intact. Navy boards stamped in magenta. Touch of rubbing to top of dust jacket spine. Front board bows slightly. Binding... Read More
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In Defence of Sensuality
by John Cowper Powys
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1930. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1930. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 314 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with "$3.00" price present. Red boards stamped in black and silver. Dust jacket chipped at extremities with a 2" closed tear along bottom edge of rear joint and toning to spine. Boards... Read More
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The Verdict of Bridlegoose
by Llewelyn Powys
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1926]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in tan pictorial clipped dust jacket; ix,[10]-204pp. Moderate wear and toning to jacket margins including a few tiny chips at corners and spine ends, rear jacket panel more significantly toned, corners nudged, else a Very Good,... Read More
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Apples Be Ripe
by Llewelyn Powys
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930. Very Good/Good +. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930. First US Edition. Octavo (19 cm); 304pp. Publisher's black cloth-bound boards with red stamping in publisher's salmon illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket generally dust soiled, chipped, rubbed, and worn with all corners clipped. Spine darkened and ends show minor loss. Abrasion... Read More
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Make Thyself Many [Signed Limited Edition]
by T.F. Powys
London: Grayson & Grayson, 1935. Very Good/Very Good. London: Grayson & Grayson, 1935. Limited First Edition of 285 copies, with 250 available for sale of which this is number 96. Octavo (22.4cm); illustrated dust jacket with 10/6 price intact; boards in blue cloth with green lettering and decoration; blue topstain; [32]pp. Jacket lightly rubbed along edges with a... Read More
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Soliloquies of a Hermit
by Theodore Francis Powys
London: Andrew Melrose Ltd, 1926. Very Good +/Very Good. London: Andrew Melrose Ltd, 1926. Revised Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white decorative dust jacket printed in green retaining original price (6s. net); vi,[2],120pp. Light shelf wear to jacket margins, spine panel foxed, very occasional pencil checkmarks and underlining to text; Very Good overall. Small cancel tipped to title... Read More
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[Broadside] Proclamation of Emancipation. Names of Members of Congress who voted for the resolution to submit to the Legislatures of the several states the amendment to the Constitution of the United States prohibiting slavery forever
by [Abraham Lincoln] W.H. Pratt
Denver, CO: Issued by Halsey M. Rhoads, 1900. Very Good. Denver, CO: Issued by Halsey M. Rhoads, [ca. 1900]. Later printing. Broadside with calligraphic portrait of Abraham Lincoln in which the script of the Emancipation Proclamation forms the image within a decorative frame, surrounded by the names of the members of Congress who voted for the amendment of... Read More
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The Prattonia 1968
by [Pratt Institute] Gail Fowler, Ted Shaine, and Jeffrey Cohen [design]; Armen Khachadourian [photography]
Brooklyn, NY: Pratt Institute, 1968. Very Good. Brooklyn, NY: Pratt Institute, 1968. First Edition. Quarto; unpaginated. Photographs and illustrations, many color. Photo-illustrated boards. Light wear to edges and joints; moderate general rubbing. Binding sound; some wrinkling to pages, else unmarked; a Very Good copy of this Pop Art-styled yearbook (of sorts) for the Pratt Institute, clearly influenced by... Read More
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Murder Goes to the Dogs
by Timothy Brace [pseud. of Theodore Pratt]
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1938. Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1938. First Edition, stated. Octavo; 254pp. Publisher's green cloth with black lettering. Missing dust jacket. Boards lightly bumped at corners and spine ends with a bit of rubbing, else quite clean and sturdy with solid lettering. Some toning to endpapers and interior as... Read More
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Platon und der Logische Eleatismus
by Gerold Prauss
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co, 1966. Very Good. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1966. Octavo. 226 pp. + 2 pp. advertisements. Dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Light vertical crease at top of front and back boards, with a touch of fading and minor shelfwear along edges. Binding is sound. Previous... Read More
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La Carne, la Morte e il Diavolo: Nella Letteratura Romantica [Limited Edition]
by Mario Praz
Firenze [Florence]: R. Carabba, 1930. Very Good. [Firenze]: R. Carabba, [1930]. First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 274. Octavo; slightly later textured cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine; x,505pp.; twelve leaves of plates featuring thirteen illustrations (misnumbered fourteen in the table of contents and the title page but collated complete). Moderate wear... Read More
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Hermann von Helmholtz
by [Hermann von Helmholtz]; Leo Koenigsberger; Frances A. Welby [trans.]; Lord Kelvin [preface]
Oxford, UK: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1906. Very Good. Oxford, UK: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1906. First English language Edition. Large octavo; terracotta cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt; 440pp. Three plates including frontis, complete. Light edgewear; patchy spotting; binding; spotting to endpapers, else unmarked; a Very Good copy.
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The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall: Volume I.
by John Marshall; Joseph P. Cotton Jr. [ed.]; Alpheus Thomas Mason [preface]
New York: Da Capo Press, 1969. Very Good. New York: Da Capo Press, 1969. Reprint. Octavo. 462 pp. Red boards stamped in gilt. Volume I only. Boards worn along at extremities with brief exposure to bottom corners. Binding is sound. Ownership inscriptions to endpapers but pages otherwise unmarked.
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O!
by Jess [pseud. Burgess Franklin Collins]; Robert Duncan [pre-face]
New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1960. Very Good+. New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); pictorial staplebound card wrappers; [16]pp.; illus. throughout. Wrapper margins a bit toned, else Very Good to Near Fine. Collection of poems and collages by the artist known simply as Jess, opening with a "pre-face" by his life partner,... Read More
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Legendes du Guatemala [Signed]
by Miguel Angel Asturias; M. Francis De Miomandre [trans.]; Paul Valery [preface]
Marseille: Les Cahiers Du Sud, 1932. Very Good. Marseille: Les Cahiers Du Sud. 1932. First French Edition, from a total print run of 1000 copies, this copy one of 100 copies printed on alfa and stamped "SP." Signed at front free endpaper by Asturias to French screenwriter and director Carlo Rim with brief inscription. Octavo. 135 pp. Black... Read More
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SCUM Manifesto (Society for Cutting Up Men)
by Valerie Solanas; Vivian Gornick [intro.]; Maurice Girodias [preface]
New York: The Olympia Press, 1970. Very Good +. New York: The Olympia Press, 1970. Second Printing. 12mo; 52pp. Advertisement illustrations to rear. Photo-illustrated wraps. Edges of wraps rubbed; small nick to front wrap and front free endpaper; binding sound; pages unmarked; a Very Good or better copy of Solanas' radical feminist manifesto, arguing that men have ruined... Read More
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Send Another Coffin
by F.G. Presnell
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1939. Very Good/Good. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1939. First Edition. Octavo; [vi], 278pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; black cloth with blue lettering and rules. Jacket shows a number of sizeable chips and tears along edges, with the top 1.25" of spine lost and some general smudging, creasing,... Read More
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[Display Placard] War Is the Health of the State
by [Anarchism - Black Mountain Press]
Corinth, VT: Black Mountain Press, 1970. Near Fine. Corinth, VT: Black Mountain Press? ca. 1970. Stiff card broadside placard (17.5x30cm) printed in red on yellow stock. Just a hint of wear to margins, brief ink note on verso ("Anarchist 1970"), else a Near Fine, bright example. Placard attributed to the 1970s anarchist printing house the Black Mountain... Read More
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