OVERNIGHT IN THE GUEST HOUSE OF THE MYSTIC
by Allen, Dick
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984. First Edition. Paperback; narrow 8vo. 51 pp. In illustrated wrappers. Extremely fine.
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Positive Aspects of Child Psychiatry, as developed in the selected writings of Dr. Frederick H. Allen
by ALLEN, Frederick H.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1963]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in dust jacket; 300pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities else Very Good to Near Fine.
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Our Navy and the Barbary Corsairs
by ALLEN, Gardner W.
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1905. Reprint. Octavo (20cm); royal blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; xiv,354,[2]pp, with frontispiece and 15 inserted plates. Gift inscription to front endpaper; light wear to extremities, else Near Fine. "With the Compliments of The Author" slip laid in. Account of... Read More
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Bedford Village
by ALLEN, Hervey
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1944. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); light green cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in blue on spine and front cover and decoration blind embossed to front cover; dustjacket; 305pp; photographic frontispiece on glossy paper. Foxing to spine and edges, with light shelf-soil to upper edge of textblock, and offsetting to front pastedown... Read More
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Eva Luna
by ALLENDE, Isabel (novel): PEDEN, Margaret Sayers (translation)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); burgundy cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in copper on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [10], 272, [6]pp. Hint of dustiness to boards, else very Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with a bit of mild shelfwear. The Chilean author's fourth book, which weaves... Read More
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The Cartel System
by ALLEN, James S.
New York: International Publishers, 1946. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; 32pp. Pencil date to cover; foxed and sunned along edges; Very Good. "...communist analysis of differences among cartels, trusts, and combines, pointing out that conflicts of interest are continued in cartels, though not in other forms of monopoly" - SEIDMAN A44.
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The Choir Invisible
by ALLEN, James Lane
New York: Macdonald, 1898. Early reprint. 12mo (17.5cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt; [viii],361,[3]pp; 1pp publisher's ad at rear. Straight, with minor wear to extremities, occasional small spots of fingersoil: Very Good. Early reprint of this 1897 bestseller, a love story set in Kentucky.
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A Practical Treatise on the Culture and Treatment of the Grape Vine: embracing its history with directions for its treatment, in the United States of America, in the open air, and under glass structures, with and without artificial heat
by ALLEN, John Fisk
New York: A.O. Moore, 1859. Third edition, enlarged and revised. Octavo; publisher's grey-green cloth, titled in gilt on spine; pale yellow coated endpapers; 330pp + 6pp ads; frontispiece, 2 inserted leaves of plates; text illus. Cloth abraded along upper edge of front board; generally rubbed and dulled externally but still a tight, sound, internally clean copy, complete and Good... Read More
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Southwest
by ALLEN, John Houghton; Paul Laune, illus
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1952. First Edition. First printing. Limited issue; no.390 of an unspecified number of "Advance Presentation Copies" signed by the author. Octavo. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 220pp. Tight, clean, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 at base of front flap); lightly dusted with a few scuffs at joints and extremities; Very Good. ... Read More
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The Giants and the Dodgers: The Fabulous Story of Baseball's Fiercest Feud
by ALLEN, Lee
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in price-clipped dust jacket; 255pp. Front boards trivially pulled, but whole. Trivial spotting to edges of textblock, else an attractive, unmarked copy. Dust jacket showing mild age-toning to spine and margins. Minor external wear to jacket, including a few nicks and small closed tears to top and bottom... Read More
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Icastes: Marsilio Ficino's Interpretation of Plato's Sophist
by ALLEN, Michael J.B.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 317pp. Neat ink ownership signature to front endpaper, else a tight, Fine copy in original, unworn dustwrapper. A new-appearing copy.
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Moscow: Treasures and Traditions
by ALLENOV, M[ikhail] M[ikhailovich], et.al.; W. Bruce Lincoln (intro.)
Washington DC: SITES/University of Washington Press, 1990. First Edition. Quarto (30cm); red cloth in color pictorial dustwrapper; 281pp. Like New copy, still sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap; shrinkwrap is split along spine, with pinhole dent to dustwrapper in exposed section; small bumps to rear board. A lush showcase of Moscow's enduring artistic legacy (including arms/armor, religious icons, paintings, metalwork,... Read More
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Treason Complex
by ALLENDY, René
New York: Social Sciences Publishers, [1949]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; 208pp. Some general chipping and wear to jacket extremities including closed tear at top inch of spine edge, orange spine lettering rather faded, front free endpaper toned from previously removed newspaper clippings, brief ink underlining to front flap text, else About Very... Read More
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Paul Vesey's Ledger
by ALLEN, Samuel
London: Paul Breman, 1975. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); original grey pictorial wrappers; 20pp.; printed on grey stock. A Fine copy. Heritage Series, vol. 27. Selected poems from previously published collections by the Ohio-born poet and World War II Lieutenant. "Paul Vesey" refers to the pseudonym under which Allen's first book, Elfenbein Zahne (1956), was published. BAILEY, pp. 18-9. ... Read More
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Don't Drink the Water
by ALLEN, Woody
New York: Random House, 1967. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 112pp. Book is fine, with red top-stain even and unfaded. Jacket price-clipped, gently sunned on spine and a little toned at edges; "10/67" code present at base of front flap, still VG+. Allen's first book, a dramatic comedy set behind the Iron Curtain.
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Play It Again, Sam
by ALLEN, Woody
New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); red paper and black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 94, [6]pp. Faint foxing to endpaper, text edges tanned, else very Near Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dustjacket, with minimal wear to extremities. Basis for the 1972 Herbert Ross film starring Woody Allen,... Read More
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Without Feathers
by ALLEN, Woody
New York: Random House, 1975. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); blue paper and cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [x],[3],4-210,[4]pp. Light sunning to upper and lower board edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $7.95) with some trivial wear, else Fine. Breaking writing norms, Allen's second collection includes comical one-act plays, essays, and short... Read More
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What is Sin
by ALLEY, Rewi
Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound card wrappers; 25pp. Trivial external wear; a Near Fine copy. Chapbook of revolutionary poems by the prominent New Zealand communist author and sinophile.
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Yo Banfa!
by ALLEY, Rewi
Auckland: The New-Zealand China Society and the Progressive Book Society, 1976. Reprint. Third edition." Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 218pp; illus. Clean, tight and unmarked copy. Classic first-hand account, by a western observer, of the rise of Mao and the Chinese revolution. First published in Peking in 1952.
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Upsurge: Asia and the Pacific. Poems by Rewi Alley
by ALLEY, Rewi
Christchurch: Caxton Press, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 73pp. Foreword by Gordon MacArthur. Light external wear, else a tight, Near Fine copy. Revolutionary poems by the New Zealand communist poet and sinophile.
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Man Against Flood: A Story of the 1954 Flood on the Yangtse and of the Reconstruction that Followed It
by ALLEY, Rewi
Peking: New World Press, [1955]. First Edition. Octavo (20.75cm.); original linen-backed photo-illustrated boards, spine lettered in bright blue; 109pp.; 15 leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Minor edge wear, else Very Good. Photographic account of the 1954 floods, which killed approximately 33,000.
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Arts and Sciences in China, Vol. 1, no. 2, April-June 1963
by [ALLEY, Rewi, contr.] BRYAN, Derek, ed
[London], 1963. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's white decorative staplebound card wrappers printed in blue and black; 39pp.; illus. Light wear and a hint of toning to extremities, else Near Fine. Articles include "Voices from Yuan and Ming" by the New Zealand-born member of the Communist Party of China Rewi Alley.
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Build a New Education System! Build a New Society!
by [WORKERS SOLIDARITY ALLIANCE]
San Francisco: Workers Solidarity Alliance, N.d. [ca 1987]. Photocopied broadside / flyer, 11" x 8-1/2;" text in one column above two small inset illustrations. Light creasing and edgewear; Very Good. The WSA is an anarchist-syndicalist organization focused on workplace organization. Flyer text focuses on global capitalism in the wake of NAFTA.
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Women's Agenda, Vol. 1, no. 8, November/December, 1976
by WOMEN'S ACTION ALLIANCE
[New York]: Women's Action Alliance, 1976. Quarto (27.5cm.); photo-illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 15pp.; illus. Fine condition. "A special report on the National Women's Agenda Conference.
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![[Text in Yiddish] Yakov Sheyfer: Ilustrirter zamlbukh tsu zayn finf un tsvantsikstn yortsayt = Jacob Schaefer: A tribute to his memory](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/764/876/828876764.0.m.jpg)
[Text in Yiddish] Yakov Sheyfer: Ilustrirter zamlbukh tsu zayn finf un tsvantsikstn yortsayt = Jacob Schaefer: A tribute to his memory
by JEWISH MUSIC ALLIANCE
[New York: Grenich Printing Corp, 1962]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original maroon pictorial cloth; 190pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Spine a bit sunned, ends rubbed; foxing to preliminaries. Very Good and sound. Tribute to Jewish-American composer Jacob Schaefer (1888-1936), text almost entirely in Yiddish; also includes an English-language tribute (pp. 176-190) by Edith Segal, the choreographer and songwriter.
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