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The Hemingses of Monticello [Signed by Gordon-Reed]
by Annette Gordon-Reed
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008. Very Good/Very Good. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2008. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Large octavo (24cm); illustrated dust jacket with $35.00 price intact; speckled tan boards with black cltoh spine and gilt lettering; 798pp; photos & illus.; timeline endpapers. Jacket rubbed at extremities with a small dampstain over... Read More
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![Angel Hair #1 - 6 [All Published] [Volume I signed by Anne Waldman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/029/562/1699562029.0.m.jpg)
Angel Hair #1 - 6 [All Published] [Volume I signed by Anne Waldman]
by Anne Waldman, Anne and Lewis Warsh [publishers and contributors] Frank O'Hara, Barbara Guest, Denise Levertov, Gerard Malanga, Bernadette Mayer, Ted Berrigan, John Ashbery, Philip Whalen, Joe Brainard et al. [contributors]
Williamstown, MA: Angel Hair, 1969. Very Good +. Williamstown, MA: Angel Hair, 1966-1969. First Editions. Volume 1 signed by Anne Waldman "Love, Anne" at title page. Six quarto volumes, a complete run; unpaginated. First five volumes printed wraps with yapped edges; #6 illustrated wraps. Light wear to edges; a few smudges and scuffs; bindings sound; pages unmarked; Very... Read More
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The World #21, 1/71
by Anne Waldman [ed.]; Jim Carroll, Bernadette Mayer, Lou Reed et al [contrs.]
New York: The Poetry Project, 1971. Very Good. New York: The Poetry Project, 1971. First Edition. Tall, slim folio (35.5cm); publisher's white pictorial staple bound wrappers; [74]ll. printed mimeograph on rectos only. Covers significantly spotted and rather toned, contents clean and sound. Overall Very Good. Substantial who's who of the New York Poetry Project scene, including contributions... Read More
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Simple Passion
by Annie Ernaux; Tanya Leslie [trans.]
New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, [1993]. Early Printing. Slim octavo; [10],64pp. Jacket a bit soiled, contemporary ownership signature to p. [i], else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket.
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PKD: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography
by Daniel J.H. Levack; Steven Owen Godersky [annotations]
San Francisco: Underwood/Miller, 1981. Very Good. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller, 1981. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); publisher's illustrated cloth with silver lettering; 158pp. Boards are clean with light shelfwear. Spine slightly cocked. Flyleaf corner-clipped with no apparent loss of text. Foxes to edges of textblock. A couple pencil notes, else interior unmarked. Binding is sound. One of 300... Read More
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D. Caecilii Cypriani Carthaginiensis Episcopi, Totius Africae Primatis ac gloriosissimi Martyris Opera
by Saint Cyprian; Paolo Manuzio and Guillaume Morel [eds.]; Jacques Pamele [annotations]
Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Sebastianum Nivellium [Sebastien Nivelle], 1574. Very Good. Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Sebastianum Nivellium via Iacobaea sub Ciconiis [Sebastien Nivelle], 1574. "Edition altera priori castigatior." Folio (32.5cm.); full later roan decoratively ruled in black and gilt with gilt lozenge to upper cover, all edges speckled, marbled endpapers; [112],607,[3]pp. (collated complete). Leather rather dried along spine margins with... Read More
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An Impartial Account of the Nature and Tendency of the Late Addresses, in a Letter to a Gentleman in the Country
by Anonymous [attrib. Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury?]
London: R. Baldwyn, 1681. Good. London: R. Baldwyn, 1681. First Edition. Small quarto; removed pamphlet with perished stitching and gatherings subsequently loose; 40pp. (A-E4). Extremities rather toned and dust-soiled; Good overall. Scathing religious tract questionably attributed to the early Whig politician Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury (1621-1683). The tract excoriates what the author deemed... Read More
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Across the Atlantic
by Anonymous
New York: Anson D.F. Randolph & Company, 1882. Very Good. New York: Anson D.F. Randolph & Company, 1882. First Edition. Slim 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's limp tan cloth stamped in blue, red, and gilt, all edges stained red, decorative endpapers; 69pp.; pictorial title page, one map in text, text printed within red rule throughout. Some wear and toning to... Read More
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A View of the Relative State of Great Britain and France, at the Commencement of the Year 1796
by [Anonymous]
London: J. Debrett, 1796. Very Good. London: J. Debrett, 1796. First Edition. Octavo; removed [from covers]; [4],90pp. ([A]2 B-M4 N1), half title present. Some minor toning to textblock with a few cover remnants along spine, else Very Good and sound. Oft-reprinted contemporary account of the ongoing conflict between Great Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.... Read More
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Original Beauty School Student's Typescript Notebook
by [Women's Education - Beauty School] Anonymous
N.p., 1930. Very Good. N.p.: ca. 1930? Octavo (23.5x15cm.); original two-ring binder from F.W. Woolworth Co. bound in black textured paper-covered boards stamped in gilt, spine backed in black cloth tape; [48]ll. filled to completion in typescript with occasional pencil manuscript marginalia and corrections. Cloth tape starting to split along spine, boards a bit rubbed and gilt dulled,... Read More
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Pax in Bello; Or, a Few Reflexions on the Prospect of Peace, Arising Out of the Present Circumstances of the War
by [Anonymous]
London: J. Owen, 1796. Very Good. London: J. Owen, 1796. First Edition. Octavo; removed; [4],88pp. ([A]2 B-M4). Leather remnants along spine, title page a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Political tract first published in an unspecified "Morning Paper" delineating a path for peace between France and England in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars.... Read More
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Journal de Christine
by Anonymous [Philipp Joseph Schalbacher]; [Francois Jean Philibert Aubert de Vitry] [trans.]
Paris: Bossange Frères, 1825. Very Good -. Paris: Bossange Frères, n.d. [ca. 1825]. Presumed First French Edition. Oblong octavo (14.5 x 23 cm); publisher’s pictorial lilac paper-covered boards adorned with vignettes of two young girls, one skipping rope, the other playing badminton; iii,[4]-134pp.; six leaves of hand-colored aquatint plates. Ex-library with the early 20th-century gift bookplate to front... Read More
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Original Cloth Scrapbook
by Anonymous
United States, 1910. Very Good. United States? ca. 1910. Original hand-made scrapbook (28x32cm); side-stitched cloth-book, illustration mounted to upper cover; [24]pp. filled to completion with a hundred and twenty-four (124) magazine cutouts. Cloth a bit creased along margins with light soil throughout, otherwise a Very Good example, scrapbook elements clean and sound. Very sweet and rather... Read More
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Guide du Pelerin a Roc-Amadour
by Anonymous [Abbe Cheval?]
Montauban: Victor Bertuot, 1862. Very Good. Montauban: Victor Bertuot, 1862. First Edition. Octavo; [2],ix,[1],89pp; sepia-tinted frontispiece, 8 plates, 3 tinted; additional text illustrations throughout; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine in six compartments, black gilt-lettered morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. Extremities and spine bands rubbed, leather rather dry; interior fine. Pilgrim's guide to the newly restored commune... Read More
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Travel Journal recounting train and bus trip from New York City to Washington, DC and Philadelphia, PA for the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition of 1926
by [Anonymous]
1926. Very Good. Pocket notebook (16 x 8cm); 40 leaves. Handwritten notes in ink on each recto. Staple-bound at top edge with black tape covering. Perforated leaves. Cardboard backing with no front cover, possibly as issued (one stub remains on top from a torn-out sheet; unsure if this was a cover page or a blank, but journal begins... Read More
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A Century of Suggestions Addressed to the Sleepy, by One of Themselves
by [Anonymous]
[London]: Mountcastle's Library, 1858. Good. [London]: Mountcastle's Library, [1858]. First Edition. Octavo. Removed. 51 pages. Moderately soiled and worn; a good, sound copy. A mildly eccentric work, offering 100 suggestions for reform, a paragraph or two dedicated to each. Much dedicated to enlightened methods of industrial production (repealing the malt-tax to reduce drunkenness), political reform ('Australia... Read More
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An Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus
by [Ludwig Wittgenstein] G.E.M. Anscombe
London: Hutchinson University Library, 1959. Very Good/Very Good. London: Hutchinson University Library, [1959]. Small octavo (19cm); publisher's boards in blue and white decorative dust jacket retaining original price (10s 6d net); 179pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including small chip to top margin of rear panel, spine panel toned; overall Very Good and sound.
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Anselm Kiefer: Dein und Mein und das Alter der Welt: Your Age and Mine and the Age of the World
by Anselm Kiefer; Heiner Bastian
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1998. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1998. First Edition. Quarto (31.5x25x1cm); 64pp, including catalog of works. Text presented in parallel German and English. Sixty full-color reproductions, many as double spreads, one with additional gatefold. Dustjacket reproduces Kiefer painting. Volume in flecked sand-color laid paper boards with gray-brown lettering on spine and front... Read More
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Animism Volume I.
by Anselm Franke [ed.]; Sergei Eisenstein [contr.]
Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2010. Very Good-. [Berlin]: Sternberg Press, [2010]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 253pp.; illus. throughout. Moderate wear and waviness to wrappers, light soil, else About Very Good and sound. Collaboration between the Kunsthal Antwerpen; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp; the Kunsthalle Bern; the Generalie Foundation, Vienna; and the House... Read More
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My Story
by Anson Mills; C.H. Claudy [ed.]
Washington, DC: Published by the Author / Press of Byron S. Adams, 1921. Very Good +. Washington, DC: Published by the Author / Press of Byron S. Adams, 1921. Second Edition. Octavo. 431 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Printed wraps. Light rubbing to edges of wraps and binding sound. Ownership inscription to front free... Read More
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Murder's a Waiting Game
by Anthony Gilbert [pseud. Lucy Beatrice Malleson]
New York: Random House, 1972. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Random House, [1972]. First American Edition Stated. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's boards in yellow pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($4.95); [6],185pp. Jacket spine panel sunned, brief tape repair to spine crown verso with small scar from previously removed tape square, light rubbing at spine ends, else a Near... Read More
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The Woman in Red
by Anthony Gilbert [pseud. Lucy Beatrice Malleson]
New York: Smith and Durrell, 1943. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Smith and Durrell, 1943. First US Edition. Octavo (19 cm); 197pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($2.00). Boards full bound in baby blue cloth with black stamping to spine. Jacket generally scuffed, chipped and creased at edges with minor tear to rear spine joint and... Read More
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Indigenous Rights
by Anthony J. Connolly [ed.]
Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2009. Very Good. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2009. First Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's red boards lettered in black; xxxv,[1],620pp. Moderate wear from use, light fingersoil to textblock margins, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the International Library of Essays on Rights, this volume with special emphasis on Australian aboriginal rights. ... Read More
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![Swell Foop [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/668/460/1389460668.0.m.jpg)
Swell Foop [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Piers Anthony
New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2001. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2001. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Bookplate signed by Athony loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 300 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with $24.95 price intact. Blue boards stamped in red. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along... Read More
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![[Broadside] Italiani!](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/158/067/1673067158.0.m.jpg)
[Broadside] Italiani!
by [Italian-Americana] [Anticlericalism]
Boston: Il Circolo Giordano Bruno, 1893. Very Good. Boston: Il Circolo Giordano Bruno, 1893. First Edition. Hand flyer (25.5x20.5cm.) printed within black border. Previously folded, moderate wear, tears, and toning to margins with staining to right side and at middle crease, else a Very Good example overall. Flyer disseminated the 14th of February, 1893, to the... Read More
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