Prize Stories 1961: The O. Henry Awards
by Richard Poirier [ed.]; Tillie Olsen, Arthur Miller, John Updike et al [contrs.]
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1961. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1961. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in black decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($3.95); 332pp. Moderate wear to jacket extremities, brief tape repair to jacket spine verso, corners bumped, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Annual anthology of American short... Read More
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The Cry of the Watchmen of Mount Ephraim! Being the substance of a discourse, delivered at the Universal Meeting-House, in Portsmouth, New-Hampshire: on Thursday, Dec. 25, 1794: and now published at the request of the wardens in behalf of the Society, usually worshipping in said place
by George Richards
Portsmouth: John Melcher, 1795. Very Good. Portsmouth: John Melcher, 1795. First Edition. Octavo; removed, remnants of old spine leather present; 46pp. ([A]3 B-F4, lacking half title but otherwise collated and complete). Textblock rather spotted, else Very Good and sound. Uncommon New Hampshire Christmas sermon: "Alas! O wretched men that we are! The strongest powers of mortal vision,... Read More
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![Evidence: 1944-1994 [Signed by Avedon]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/481/918/1686918481.1.m.jpg)
Evidence: 1944-1994 [Signed by Avedon]
by Richard Avedon; Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik [essays]; Mary Shanahan [ed.]
New York: Random House / Eastman Kodak, 1994. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House / Eastman Kodak, 1994. First Edition. Signed by Richard Avedon at photo spread preceding title with brief inscription to previous owner. Folio. 183pp. Photographs throughout, some color. Printed dust jacket; illustrated boards. Dust jacket lightly scuffed and smudged with toning along spine. Boards... Read More
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![The Kasidah of Haji Abdu el-Yezdi, Translated and Annotated by His Friend and Pupil Sir Richard Burton [Limited Edition, Signed by Kettelwell]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/952/229/1503229952.0.m.jpg)
The Kasidah of Haji Abdu el-Yezdi, Translated and Annotated by His Friend and Pupil Sir Richard Burton [Limited Edition, Signed by Kettelwell]
by Richard Burton; John Kettelwell [illus.]
New York: Brentano's, 1926. Very Good +. New York: Brentano's, 1926. First Thus, Limited to 50 copies of which this is no. 32. Quarto; publisher's parchment over blue boards, front cover and spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, housed in custom cloth slipcase; xiii,[1],169pp.; twelve full-page illus., text printed within decorative border throughout. Boards recased with renewed... Read More
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Kings of the Hill: Power and Personality in the House of Representatives [Signed and inscribed by Dick and Lynne Cheney to Bob Schieffer]
by Richard B. Cheney & Lynne V. Cheney; Gerald R. Ford [fwd.]
New York: Continuum, 1983. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Continuum, 1983. First Edition. Octavo (23.4cm); illustrated dust jacket with $14.95 price intact; boards in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine; [xvi],226pp; photos. Jacket rubbed along edges with a few stray light smudges. Boards nudged at spine ends. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by both... Read More
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![The Game of Golf and the Printed Word, 1566-1985: A Bibliography of Golf Literature in the English Language [Limited Edition Signed by Donovan, Murdoch, and Wind] [Herbert Warren Wind's Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/458/566/1699566458.0.m.jpg)
The Game of Golf and the Printed Word, 1566-1985: A Bibliography of Golf Literature in the English Language [Limited Edition Signed by Donovan, Murdoch, and Wind] [Herbert Warren Wind's Copy]
by Richard E. Donovan and Joseph S.F. Murdoch; Herbert Warren Wind [intro.]
Endicott, NY: Castalio Press, 1988. Near Fine. Endicott, NY: Castalio Press, 1988. First Edition, Limited to 20 special presentation copies of which this is no. 7, presented to Herbert Warren Wind. Octavo; publisher's full green pictorial goat blocked in gilt, gilt-lettered spine in four compartments, all edges gilt, illustrated endpapers; xvi,[2],657pp. Very mild cockling to textblock, else a... Read More
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![A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night with Introductory Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay Upon the History of The Nights [WITH] Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night With Notes Anthropological and Explanatory [Sixteen Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/722/248/1579248722.0.m.jpg)
A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, Now Entitled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night with Introductory Explanatory Notes on the Manners and Customs of Moslem Men and a Terminal Essay Upon the History of The Nights [WITH] Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night With Notes Anthropological and Explanatory [Sixteen Volume Set]
by Richard F. Burton [trans.]
Benares: Printed by the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers Only, 1885. Very Good. Benares: Printed by the Kamashastra Society for Private Subscribers Only, 1885-8. First Editions, First Issue retaining copyright holder's name on title page versos. Ten volumes + six-volume supplement; large octavos; uniformly bound in publisher's black cloth, first ten volumes embossed in gilt, latter six in... Read More
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah
by Richard F. Burton; Bayard Taylor [intro.]
New York: G.P. Putnam & Co, 1856. Very Good +. New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1856. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 492 pp. Two lithographs with tissue guard (Sketch of Medinah and additional title); fold-out map of Burton's route. Original brown publisher's cloth, recased, brown endpapers. Originally published in three volumes the year prior in England, here condensed... Read More
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Black Country Meat Chronicle No. 2, November, 1969
by Richard J. Miller and Alvin Stinton [eds.]
Birmingham, England: B.M.C. Press, 1969. Very Good. [Birmingham, England: B.M.C. Press, 1969.] First Edition. Tall, slim folio (33cm); publisher's string-tied pictorial spirit-printed wrappers; [80]pp.; contents printed using different duplication processes on various colored stock, including mimeographed and spirit-printed with occasional collage elements. Moderate wear and soil to wrappers, else a Very Good example. Very scarce local Birmingham... Read More
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![[Fluxus] TDR: Tulane Drama Review, Volume 10 Number 2](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/008/567/1699567008.0.m.jpg)
[Fluxus] TDR: Tulane Drama Review, Volume 10 Number 2
by Richard Schechner & Michael Kirby [Eds.]
Tulane: Tulane University Press, 1965. Very Good. Tulane: Tulane University Press, 1965. First Edition. Octavo (20.3cm); printed wraps; 247pp; illus. & photos, with two foldouts. Covers lightly edgeworn with some toning along spine and a few scuffs to rear along top edge. Spine creased with binding opening easily to p. 94, but binding secure. Foldouts intact and crisp.... Read More
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Queen Zixi of Ix, or, The Story of the Magic Cloak
by L. Frank Baum; Frederick Richardson
New York: The Century Co, 1905. Very Good -. New York: The Century Co., 1905. First Edition, First State with terra-cotta illustrations on pages 169-236. Small quarto. 303 pages. Color illustrations by Richardson throughout. Green pictorial cloth stamped in red and black. Boards are worn at extremities with exposure, soiled overall with minor damp staining to both covers,... Read More
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Talladega College: The First Century
by Maxine D. Jones and Joe M. Richardson
Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 1990. Very Good/Very Good. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 1990. First Edition. Octavo; 340pp. Illustrated dust jacket; blue cloth boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket and boards lightly rubbed; binding sound; dust soiling to edges of text block; interior else unmarked; a Very Good copy.
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![A Bestiary [Bookplate Signed by Wilbur Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/996/422/1582422996.0.m.jpg)
A Bestiary [Bookplate Signed by Wilbur Laid in]
by Richard Wilbur; Alexander Calder [illus.]
New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. First Thus - Pantheon Books Edition, stated, with full numberline. Large quarto; publisher's cloth in dust jacket retaining original price; [10],74pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket flaps curling a bit as expected, else clean and crisp with no chips, tears, or marks. Very faint concave bow to... Read More
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A Bestiary [Signed by Wilbur]
by Richard Wilbur; Alexander Calder [illus.]
New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. First Pantheon Books Edition, stated, with full number line. Large quarto; publisher's cloth in dust jacket retaining original price; [10],74pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear and soil to jacket, corners tapped, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Signed Richard Wilbur on title page.
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![The Comanche Barrier to South Plains Settlement: A century and a half of savage resistance to the advancing white frontier [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/826/802/1687802826.0.m.jpg)
The Comanche Barrier to South Plains Settlement: A century and a half of savage resistance to the advancing white frontier [Signed]
by Rupert Norval Richarson
Glendale, CA: The Arthur W. Clark Company, 1933. Very Good +/Very Good -. Glendale, CA: The Arthur W. Clark Company, 1933. First Edition. Signed by Pauline and Rupert Richardson at half title with inscription to a Helen and Bill. Octavo. 424pp. + advertisements. Black and white photographs and illustrations including frontispiece with tissue guard, complete. Plain cream dust... Read More
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Ellsworth Kelly: Relief Paintings 1954-2001
by Ellsworth Kelly; Sarah Rich
New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2001. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 2001. First Edition. Tall quarto (30.5x25.5x1cm); 43pp. Twelve full-page color plates, with additional frontispiece and 9 background reproductions and photographs. Heavy card dustjacket illustrated with Kelly's 2001 "Yellow on Yellow." Boards covered in yellow linen, with volume title stamped in blind on spine... Read More
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![A Taste of the Antarctic [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/161/388/1387388161.0.m.jpg)
A Taste of the Antarctic [Signed]
by Michael Richey
[N.p.]: Privately Printed for Nicholas Sheetz at the Martin Art Yonno Press, 1997. Near Fine. [N.p.]: Privately Printed for Nicholas Sheetz at the Martin Art Yonno Press, 1997. Limited Edition of 80 copies, this being #24. Signed on limitation page by Rickey. Additional ownership inscription to previous owner on front free endpaper. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. Wood engraving by... Read More
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Cocksure [Signed bookplate laid in]
by Mordecai Richler
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1968. First Canadian Edition. Octavo (21.3 cm), 250pp. Publisher's bright yellow illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($5.95). Boards bound in black cloth with silver stamping on spine. Fore-edge deckled. Dust jacket sunned on spine, with minor rubbing, tears, and creases at margins and... Read More
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Brothers Of No Kin And Other Stories
by Conrad Richter
New York: Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, Inc, 1924. Very Good +. New York: Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, Inc., 1924. First Edition. Octavo. 340 pp. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Lacks dust jacket. Touch of rubbing to extremities and binding sound. Bookseller ticket to rear pastedown and pages otherwise unmarked. Author's first book.
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Gerhard Richter
by Gerhard Richter
Essen, Germany: Museum Folkwang, 1972. Very Good. Essen, Germany: Museum Folkwang, 1972. First Edition. Quarto (29.5cm); publisher's green limp cloth wrappers lettered in gilt; 154pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light wear to margins, else Very Good and sound. Catalog to accompany the exhibition of Gerhard Richter's works on display at the German pavilion at the 36. Biennale... Read More
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Gerhard Richter: Eine Privatsammlung / A Private Collection
by Gerhard Richter
Dusseldorf, Germany: Richter Verlag, 2004. Fine/Near Fine. Dusseldorf, Germany: Richter Verlag, 2004. First Edition. Quarto (29cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 135pp.; full color illus. throughout. Very light shelf wear, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. Catalog accompanying an exhibition at the Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga and the Museo do Chiado.... Read More
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Die Grenzen der Naturwissenschaftlichen Begriffsbildung. Eine logische Einleitung in die historischen Wissenschaften
by Heinrich Rickert
Tubingen: Verlag von J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1902. Very Good. Tübingen: Verlag von J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1902. First Edition. Octavo; mid-century card wrappers, element of original binding mounted to upper cover, manuscript spine title; x,743pp. Wrappers and textblock quite toned, later ownership signature to title page, else Very Good and sound.
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![Oracle of Southern California [Cover title: So. Calif. California], Vol. 1, no. 8, December, 1967](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/587/565/1699565587.0.m.jpg)
Oracle of Southern California [Cover title: So. Calif. California], Vol. 1, no. 8, December, 1967
by Rick Strauss [ed.]
Los Angeles, CA: Oracle of Southern California, 1967. Very Good+. Los Angeles, CA: Oracle of Southern California, 1967. First Edition. Tabloid format (38cm); color pictorial self-wrappers, disbound as issued; 31pp.; color illus. throughout. Newsprint toned else Very Good or better without mail fold. Vibrant single issue of this offshoot of the San Francisco Oracle edited by Allen... Read More
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The Far Cry
by Henry Milner Rideout
New York: Duffield and Company, 1916. Very Good. New York: Duffield and Company, 1916. First Edition. Octavo. 273 pp. Red cloth boards stamped in white. No dust jacket. Boards lightly worn with mild spotting; rubbing, heaviest to spine. Spine slightly cocked. Binding is sound. Spotting to edges of text block and endpapers; light marginal spotting to rest of... Read More
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![The Lady of the Heavens [alt. title The Ghost Kings]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/194/083/1610083194.0.m.jpg)
The Lady of the Heavens [alt. title The Ghost Kings]
by H. Rider Haggard
New York: Frank F. Lovell Company Publishers, 1909. Very Good. New York: Frank F. Lovell Company Publishers, [1909]. First American Edition, published the year prior in the UK as The Ghost Kings. Octavo. 342 pp. Olive cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards rather worn at extremities with brief exposure and minor fraying. Slight collapse along spine... Read More
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