On True and False Ideas, New Objections to Descartes' Meditations and Descartes' Replies
by [Rene Descartes]; Antoine Arnauld; Elmar J. Kremer [trans.]
Lewiston, UK: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990. Very Good +. Lewiston, UK: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1990. First Thus. Octavo. 199 pp. Black boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. A couple minor smudges to boards and corners slightly bumped. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked.
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Under Dispute
by Agnes Repplier
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924. First Edition. Octavo (18.1 cm), [vi], [335]pp. Cream publisher's dust jacket with navy printing and price intact. Boards bound in blue cloth with gilt stamping on the spine and a blind-tooled emblem on the front cover. Dust jacket discolored on spine and back cover, with some... Read More
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[Broadside] Camp Fire!
by [Dakota Territory] [Grand Army of the Republic]
Jamestown, Dakota Territory: s.i., 1885. Very Good. Jamestown, Dakota: n.d., [ca. 1885]. Small printed broadside handbill (19.5x15cm.) trimmed and mounted to leaf of ruled paper (21x16.5cm.), evidently removed from a larger scrapbook (see below). Old fold lines and light dust-soil, contemporary manuscript note along left-hand edge trimmed with some loss of meaning, else Very Good. Unrecorded hand... Read More
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Revlon presents Softint Proteinized Creme Hair Color [cover title]
by [Fashion] [Revlon]
New York: Revlon, Inc, 1962. Very Good. New York: Revlon, Inc., 1962. First Edition. Quarto. Bifolium. Seventeen hair color samples mounted to interior. Light edgewear; punctures from hair mounts to rear; general surface scratching, overall Very Good. This trade catalog includes Revlon's "Predict-A-Mat" chart to interior, indicating how stylists and patrons can change their natural Light Blonde hair to, say,... Read More
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Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde: The new wave in old processes
by Lyle Rexer
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002. Very Good/Very Good. [New York]: Harry N. Abrams, [2002]. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's cloth in glossy pictorial dust jacket; 159pp.; illus. throughout. Moderate edge wear from handling, light soil to textblock extremities, else Very Good and sound.
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The Heart's Garden, the Garden's Heart
by Kenneth Rexroth
Cambridge, MA: Pym-Randall Press, 1967. Very Good +/Very Good. Cambridge, MA: Pym-Randall Press, 1967. Limited First Edition of 300 clothbound copies (700 issued in paper). Octavo. 48 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with original $4.00 price present. Green boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is moderately worn and toned along edges with some light general rubbing. Boards... Read More
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The Illustrious Dunderheads
by Rex Stout [ed.]; William Gropper [illus.]; Frank Sullivan [intro.]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition, stated, with no additional printings noted. Small octavo (19.3cm). Illustrated dust jacket with $1.75 price intact; boards in red-orange cloth with black lettering and decoration; [xviii],192pp; Illus. throughout. Jacket shows a few tears along top front, with small chips / tears... Read More
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Ancorajes [Inscribed and Signed]
by Alfonso Reyes
Mexico: Tezontle, 1951. Very Good. Mexico: Tezontle, [1951]. First Edition Stated, Limited to 1000 copies. Slim octavo (22cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers printed in black and green; 132pp. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good, unopened example. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper. Collection of... Read More
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Memorias de Cocina y Bodega [Inscribed and Signed]
by Alfonso Reyes
Mexico: Tezontle, 1953. Very Good+. [Mexico]: Tezontle, [1953]. First Edition Stated, Limited to 1000 copies. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cream pictorial wrappers printed in brown and black; 177pp.; illus. Light dust-soil and toning to wrapper margins, else a Very Good to Near Fine, internally unopened copy. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper. Delightful essay... Read More
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Parentalia: Primer Capitulo de Mis Recuerdos [Inscribed and Signed]
by Alfonso Reyes
Mexico: Los Presentes, 1954. Very Good-. Mexico: Los Presentes, 1954. First Edition Stated. Small, slim octavo (18cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers printed in black and fuchsia; [4],74pp. Wrappers lightly rubbed and dust-soiled, textblock starting to separate from wrappers along front hinge, else a Good to Very Good, internally fresh and unopened copy with errata slip laid in.... Read More
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Vision de Anahuac (1519) [Inscribed and Signed]
by Alfonso Reyes
Mexico: Colegio de Mexico, 1953. Very Good. Mexico: [Colegio de Mexico], 1953. Fourth Edition. Slim octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's peach card wrappers printed in black and green; 62pp. Light wear and dust-soil to wrapper margins, spine faded, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound, unopened copy with typed errata slip laid in. Inscribed and signed by the author... Read More
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Arbol de Polvora [Inscribed and Signed]
by Alfonso Reyes
Mexico: s.i., 1953. Very Good. Mexico: s.i., 1953. First Edition. Small octavo (16.5cm.); publisher's peach pictorial card wrappers printed in green and black; 136pp. Wrappers lightly and unevenly toned, spine faded, else a Very Good, fresh and unopened copy with errata slip laid in. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper.
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Homero en Cuernavaca [Inscribed and Signed]
by Alfonso Reyes
Mexico: Tezontle, 1952. Very Good. [Mexico]: Tezontle, [1952]. First Edition Stated. Slim octavo (20cm.); publisher's grey pictorial card wrappers; 44pp. Light wear to wrapper margins, a hint of dust-soil, else a Very Good, fresh and unopened copy. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper. Small poetry collection by the notable Mexican novelist and... Read More
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The Narrow Land: Folk Chronicles of Old Cape Cod
by Elizabeth Reynard
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1934. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. 326 pp. Black and white illustrations and photographs. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in green and gilt. Unclipped dust jacket worn along edges with minor chipping and a few tears, brief tape mending... Read More
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A Prize Essay on the Preparation and Application of Manures
by Joseph Reynolds
Boston: J.H. Eastburn's Press, 1858. Very Good. Boston: J.H. Eastburn's Press, 1858. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's pale peach printed wrappers; 21pp. Ex-New York State Library with only their small early 20th century rubber-stamp to front cover and no other institutional markings, wrappers rather dust-soiled, faint vertical crease to front cover, else Very Good, internally sound. At head of... Read More
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Odes and Address to Great People
by [Thomas Hood] [John Hamilton Reynolds]
London: Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, 1825. Very Good. London: Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy, 1825. This copy is from the personal library of journalist and language expert William Safire. First Edition. 12mo; vi, [2], 136 pp. Rebound in blue cloth with marbled paper. Lettering stamped in gold on spine. Small library stamp for St. Charles College Library in... Read More
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Separate Way [Hugh Seidman's Copy]
by Charles Reznikoff
New York: The Objectivist Press, 1936. Very Good/very good. New York: The Objectivist Press, 1936. First Edition. Octavo; 37pp. Printed dust jacket with $1 price intact. Yellow cloth boards with paper label to spine. Mild rubbing and toning to dust jacket; a few bumps and occasional spotting to boards; binding sound. Hugh Seidman's ownership stamp to preliminaries, else... Read More
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Going To and Fro and Walking Up and Down [Hugh Seidman's Copy]
by Charles Reznikoff
New York: s.i., 1941. Very Good/Very Good. New York: [1941]. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in grey dust jacket; [8],63pp. Light wear and toning to jacket margins including tiny chip at spine crown, uneven dust-soil to cloth boards, else Very Good and sound. Provenance: Ownership rubber-stamp of New York City poet Hugh Seidman (1940-1923), among other things... Read More
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Death on the Boat Train
by John Rhode
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1940. Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1940. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's decorative cloth, orange-red topstain; [6],282pp. Very light shelf wear, spine a bit cocked and cloth a shade sunned, else Very Good and sound. A Dr. Lancelot Priestley crime novel.
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Death at the Dance
by John Rhode
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1952. Very Good-/Very Good-. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1952]. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); publisher's boards in red photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); [6],243pp. Jacket and boards rather rubbed, jacket crudely reinforced with old brown paper backing, spine a bit cocked; overall Good to Very Good in the uncommon... Read More
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Twelve-Tribe Nations and the Science of Enchanting the Landscape [Signed Limited Edition]
by John Michell and Christine Rhone
Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes Press, 1991. Very Good. Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes Press, 1991. First Edition, Limited Issue of 120 copies with publisher's mounted bookplate to pastedown signed by both authors. Octavo. 192pp. Black and white illustrations. Publisher's green cloth stamped in red and gilt; no dust jacket as issued. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Touch of shelfwear and... Read More
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![La Vie et les Oeuvres Spirituelles de Ste. Terese de Iesus. Fondatrice des Carmes deschaussez [Tome I only]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/786/159/1629159786.0.m.jpg)
La Vie et les Oeuvres Spirituelles de Ste. Terese de Iesus. Fondatrice des Carmes deschaussez [Tome I only]
by [Teresa of Avila] Francisco de Ribera
Lyon: Claude Rigaud & Claude Obert, 1628. Very Good. Lyon: Chez Claude Rigaud & Claude Obert, 1628. Volume one only. Small, thick octavo (17.5cm.); original unadorned parchment; [12],715,[53]pp. (collated, presume complete); engraved title page, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout. Parchment rather soiled and worn at margins with biopredation and small losses to rear cover, spine darkened, three... Read More
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Israel With Love [Inscribed to William Safire]
by Dorothy Rice
Beverly Hills, CA: Glen House Communications, 1992. Very Good/Very Good. Beverly Hills, CA: Glen House Communications, 1992. First Edition. Signed by Rice to William Safire on front free endpaper with inscription, "To William Safire with love Dorothy Rice." Tall quarto. 144 pages. Full color illustrations and photographs. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt.... Read More
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The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc, 1940. Very Good/Near Fine. Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., 1940. First Edition, stated. Octavo; 312pp +1 ads. Illustrated laminated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact (jacket was issued in both laminated and unlaminated states); book in publisher's gray pebbled cloth with red lettering. Red topstain. Jacket is clean and crisp with a bit... Read More
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Jungle Tales of Tarzan
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1919. Very Good. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1919. First Edition. Octavo; [x], 319pp. Fives sepia plates including frontis, all present. Publisher's orange cloth with black lettering. Missing dust jacket. Boards a bit edgeworn with nudging at spine ends and a few scuffs and smudges to surface. Spine darkened and a bit cocked.... Read More
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