The Drawings and Letters of Daniel Wadsworth Coit, An Artist in El Dorado. Edited, with a Biographical Sketch by Edith M. Coulter
by Daniel Wadsworth Coit; Edith M. Coulter [ed.]
San Francisco, CA: Printed for the Book Club of California by the Grabhorn Press, 1937. Very Good. San Francisco, CA: Printed for the Book Club of California by the Grabhorn Press, 1937. First Edition, from a limited run of 325 copies. Folio. 31pp. + eight plates with accompanying descriptions. Tan cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards; printed paper... Read More
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![The Ballads of Robin Hood [Limited Edition, Signed by Gentleman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/295/959/1673959295.0.m.jpg)
The Ballads of Robin Hood [Limited Edition, Signed by Gentleman]
by David Gentleman [illus.]; Jim Lees [ed.]
Cambridge: The Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1977. Near Fine. Cambridge: The Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1977. First Thus; Limited Edition of 1600 copies signed by Gentleman, this being #1183. Tall octavo. 206 pp. Black and white and color illustrations. Green cloth over paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Publisher's newsletter laid... Read More
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![The Reader's Guide to Barsoom and Amptor [Signed, with Additional TLS and Signed Bookplate]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/826/736/1450736826.0.m.jpg)
The Reader's Guide to Barsoom and Amptor [Signed, with Additional TLS and Signed Bookplate]
by David G. Van Arnam; Larry Ivie [essay & map]; Donald A. Wollheim [intro]; Roy G. Krenkel [illus]; Al Williamson [illus.]; Robert Stewart [illus.]
New York: Richard Lupoff, 1963. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Richard Lupoff, 1963. Second Printing. Signed by Lupoff, the publisher, with lengthy inscription under copyright. Additional signed typed letter from Lupoff in envelope with replied-to letter, along with original publisher's announcement for the first edition in another envelope and a later-added separate bookplate signed by Lupoff without inscription. ... Read More
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The Milk and Honey Route: A Handbook for Hobos
by Dean Stiff [pseud. Nels Anderson]; Ernie Bushmiller [illus.]
New York: Vanguard Press, 1931. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Vanguard Press, 1931. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($1.50); xiii,[3],13-219pp. Dust jacket margins chipped and worn, especially along top edge of rear panel with long closed tear, light dust-soil, cloth corners and spine ends a bit bumped, else... Read More
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Le Filippiche di Demostene con sue Osservazioni, e Prefazione Istorica Scritte dal Francese nel volgare Italiano
by Demosthenes; [Niccolo] Felletti [trans.]
Venezia [Vencie]: Steffano Monti, 1715. Very Good. Venezia [Venice]: Per Steffano Monti, 1715. First Thus. Octavo (17.5cm); full contemporary parchment, manuscript spine titling; [8],92,108 [i.e. 208],160,[42]pp. (lacking final blank, else collated complete); one engrave plate, woodcut title page device, initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout. Binding rather soiled and worn with losses at spine ends, textblock rather shaken in... Read More
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![Au Siècle des Libertins et des Folles Marquises: Les Plus Belles Pages Galantes du XVIIIe Siècle [Collection "L'Art d'Aimer"]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/519/662/1338662519.0.m.jpg)
Au Siècle des Libertins et des Folles Marquises: Les Plus Belles Pages Galantes du XVIIIe Siècle [Collection "L'Art d'Aimer"]
by Denis Diderot; et al.
Paris: Éditions Georges-Anquetil, 1920. VG-. Paris: Éditions Georges-Anquetil, ca. 1920. Octavo (23cm.); later maroon cloth, red gilt morocco spine label; viii,728,[16](ads)pp. Bottom margins of both covers discolored from exposure to damp, text block uniformly toned, else Good to Very Good overall. Anthology of 18th-century French erotic and romantic literature. Authors include Diderot, Laclos, Casanova, Molière, the Marquis... Read More
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![The Shadow that Scares Me [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/851/278/1703278851.0.m.jpg)
The Shadow that Scares Me [Signed]
by Dick Gregory; James R. McGraw [ed.]
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21.5cm); illustrated dust jacket with $4.50 price intact; blue cloth boards and black spine with silver lettering; 213pp. Jacket is shelfworn, with a few tiny tears and some creasing along edges, along with some dust soiling and... Read More
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From the Back of the Bus [Signed]
by Dick Gregory; Hugh Hefner [intro.]; Bob Orben [ed.]
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1962. Very Good -. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1962. First Edition, stated. Signed by Dick Gregory with brief inscription at preliminaries. Octavo. 125pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated wraps. Wraps worn with splits along spine; curling to corners. Binding holding; spotting to endpapers; else unmarked; Good to Very... Read More
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The Art of West African Cooking
by Dinah Ameley Ayensu; Diane Robertson [illus.]
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1972. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Octavo; 145pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket rather chipped and worn with sunning to spine. Boards worn along edges; corners bumped; binding sound; ownership inscription to... Read More
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Zap Comix No. 1
by Don Donahue [pub.]; R. Crumb [illus.]
San Francisco: Apex Novelties, 1968. Very Good +. [San Francisco]: Apex Novelties, [1968]. Second Printing. Slim octavo (25cm); 23pp. Publisher’s illustrated staple-bound wraps. Bears 35¢ price and states “Printed by Don Donahue” at rear. R. Crumb’s black-and-white cartoons throughout. Wraps lightly rubbed with brief instances of foxing. Wraps otherwise remarkably bright with sharp corners. Binding sound. Textblock and... Read More
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![Frederic Remington and the Spanish-American War [Limited Edition, Signed by Douglas Allen]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/094/719/1486719094.0.m.jpg)
Frederic Remington and the Spanish-American War [Limited Edition, Signed by Douglas Allen]
by Douglas Allen; Frederic Remington [illus.]
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1971. Near Fine. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971. Limited Edition of 150 copies signed by Allen, this being #56. Large octavo. 178 pp. Color frontispiece; black and white illustrations throughout. Half brown calf and cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Boards show light edgewear; touch of... Read More
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After the Death of an Elder Klallam and Other Poems
by Duane McGinnis [Niatum]; Mary Morez [illus.]
Phoenix, AZ: Baleen Press, 1970. Very Good. Phoenix, AZ: Baleen Press, [1970]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; [10],53pp.; illus. throughout. Light shelf wear to wrapper margins, gift inscription to half title page, else Very Good and sound. First book by poet and playwright Duane Niatum, a member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe. ... Read More
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The Apple of Discord
by Earle Ashley Walcott; Alice Barber Stephens [illus.]
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1907. Very Good. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, [1907]. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth, color pictorial paste-on to upper cover; [8],436pp.; frontispiece, five plates (collated complete). Light shelf wear, spine a bit cocked, dark spotting along textblock edges, front hinge rather weak but holding, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy. ... Read More
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The Telephone Book
by Ed Friedman; Robert Kushner [illus.]
New York: Power Mad Press / Telephone Books, 1979. Very Good +. New York: Power Mad Press / Telephone Books, 1979. First Edition; one of 1000 copies printed simultaneously with signed limited edition. Square octavo (21cm); 296pp. Stiff pink printed wraps. Wraps bumped; rear panel creased. Binding sound. Textblock shows some foxing; endsheets and interior pages remain clean.... Read More
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A Dish of Apples
by Eden Phillpotts; Arthur Rackham [illus.]
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921. Very Good +/Very Good -. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1921]. First Trade Edition. Octavo. 75 pp. 3 full-page mounted color illustrations with tissue guards; numerous black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Rose-gray cloth stamped in brown. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket chipped and creased, with largest patch of loss along top edge... Read More
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Tarzan and the Golden Lion
by Edgar Rice Burroughs; J. Allen St. John [illus.]
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1923. Very Good-. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1923. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's mustard cloth ("olive" according to Heins), upper cover and spine lettered in dark green; [8],333,[3]pp.; frontispiece, seven leaves of plates printed in sepia (collated complete). Moderate scuffing to cloth margins including shallow damage along top edges from biopredation, textblock lightly... Read More
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The Beasts of Tarzan
by Edgar Rice Burroughs; J. Allen St. John [illus.]
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1916. Very Good. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1916. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's olive gilt-lettered cloth; [8],336pp.; pictorial title page and frontispiece, text illus. throughout. Boards lightly worn at spine ends, faint soil and discoloration to cloth, gilt significantly dulled, some finger-soil to early leaves, brief split to front hinge, else a Very... Read More
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![Memory of Fire: III. Century of the Wind. Part Three of a Trilogy [Inscribed and Signed by Belfrage]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/927/013/1595013927.0.m.jpg)
Memory of Fire: III. Century of the Wind. Part Three of a Trilogy [Inscribed and Signed by Belfrage]
by Eduardo Galeano; Cedric Belfrage [trans.]
New York: Pantheon Books, 1988. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Pantheon Books, [1988]. First U.S. Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; xviii,301pp. Moderate wear and light wrinkling to jacket margins, two small white paint spots to upper board, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Inscribed and signed "Cedric" by... Read More
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Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
by Eduardo Galeano; Cedric Belfrage [trans.]
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1973. First U.S. Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 313 pp. Dust jacket edgeworn with minor chipping; general surface scratching; faint pen marks to rear; spine sunned. Boards show light edgewear, corners bumped. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free... Read More
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![Eduard Blutig's Der Stiefelknecht [The Stupid Joke] [Limited Edition, Signed by Gorey as Mrs. Regera Dowdy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/562/558/1699558562.0.m.jpg)
Eduard Blutig's Der Stiefelknecht [The Stupid Joke] [Limited Edition, Signed by Gorey as Mrs. Regera Dowdy]
by [Edward Gorey] Eduard Blutig; Mrs. Regera Dowdy [trans.]; O. Mude [illus.]
N.p.: Fantod Editions, 1990. Fine. N.p.: Fantod Editions, 1990. First Separated Edition, Limited to 500 copies of which this is an unnumbered example. Small oblong 12mo (12.5x15.5cm); publisher's grey pictorial staple bound card wrappers; [32]pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear at spine ends, else Fine. Signed by Gorey on colophon in rear as Mrs. Regera Dowdy. Toledano A100.... Read More
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The Tin Fiddle
by Edward Tripp; Maurice Sendak [illus.]
New York: Oxford University Press, 1954. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Oxford University Press, 1954. First Edition. Oblong octavo; unpaginated. Illustrations by Sendak throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price present; red cloth boards stamped in black; brown endpapers. Dust jacket lightly chipped and showing several short closed tears along edges; some general smudging. Boards shelfworn with light... Read More
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![A Sermon Preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Thomas Cary, to the Pastoral Care of the First Church in Newbury-Port, May 11, 1768 [Half title: Mr. Barnard's Sermon at the Ordination of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Cary] [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/457/968/1599968457.0.m.jpg)
A Sermon Preached at the Ordination of the Rev. Thomas Cary, to the Pastoral Care of the First Church in Newbury-Port, May 11, 1768 [Half title: Mr. Barnard's Sermon at the Ordination of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Cary] [Inscribed]
by Edward Barnard; et al.
Boston: Edes and Gill / Bulkeley Emerson, 1768. Very Good. Boston: Printed by Edes and Gill, in Queen-Street, for Bulkeley Emerson of Newbury-Port, 1768. First Edition. Small octavo (21cm.); removed; 47,[1]pp. ([A]-F4, collated complete). Scattered foxing to textblock, leaves trimmed affecting author inscription at head of half title ("A. Eliot / The auth[...]), else Very Good and sound. ... Read More
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The New World of Words: Or, Universal English Dictionary. Containing An Account of the Original or Proper Sense, and Various Significations of all Hard Words derived from other Languages, viz. Hebrew, Arabick, Syriack, Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, British, Saxon, Danish, Dutch, &c. as now made use of in our English Tongue
by Edward Phillips; John Kersey [ed.]
London: Printed for J. Phillips, at the King's-Arms in S. Paul's Church-Yard; N. Rhodes, at the Star, the Corner of Bride-Lane, in Fleet-street; and J. Taylor, at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1706. Very Good +. London: Printed for J. Phillips, at the King's-Arms in S. Paul's Church-Yard; N. Rhodes, at the Star, the Corner of Bride-Lane,... Read More
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Telepathy: In search of a lost faculty
by Eileen J. Garrett; Eugene Rollin Corson [intro.]
New York: Creative Age Press, 1941. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Creative Age Press, 1941. Presumed First American Edition, no additional printings listed. Octavo; publisher's pictorial cloth in matching price-clipped dust jacket; xxx,210pp. General shelf wear to jacket and cloth extremities, jacket margins a bit toned, remnants of previously-removed ex libris to front pastedown, else a Very Good,... Read More
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The Piano Teacher
by Elfriede Jelinek; Joachim Neugroschel [trans.]
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. First American Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; [4],280pp. Dust jacket creased along edges. Boards show light shelfwear; spine ends nudged; touch of sunning and couple smudges to edges; else Very Good and sound, The... Read More
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