Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosexual Desire
by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. First Edition. Octavo. 244 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket shows light wear to edges with a few minor nicks; general smudging and scuffing. Boards with mild shelfwear and spine ends nudged. Binding sound. Ownership inscription to front... Read More
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Mrs. Seely's Cook Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery with chapters on domestic servants their rights and duties and many other details of household management
by Mrs. L. Seely [Lida Seely]
London: The Macmillan Company, 1902. Very Good -. London: The Macmillan Company, 1902. First Edition. Octavo (21 cm); xii, 432pp+1ad. Illustrated throughout with black and white plates, including frontis. Boards full bound in dark brown cloth with red and black decoration and gilt stamping. Wrapped in a vernacular added dust jacket in cream muslin, sewn to itself at... Read More
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The Paradox of Hate: A Study in Ritual Murder
by Morton Irving Seiden
New York: South Brunswick, 1967. Very Good/Very Good. New York: South Brunswick, 1967. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; 258pp.; black and white photographs and illustrations. Ex-B'Nai B'rith Hillel Foundation of Pittsburgh with their rubber-stamp and gift ex libris accomplished in typescript to front pastedown, call number to spine; dust jacket worn along... Read More
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![Destiny in Dallas [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/431/614/1700614431.0.m.jpg)
Destiny in Dallas [Signed]
by Shirley Seifer
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1958. Very Good/Good. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1958. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.95); 288pp. Jacket margins quite chipped and worn, ragged splitting along rear flap fold, later sticker ("Special Texas Edition") to front panel; overall a Very Good copy in Good only jacket. Signed... Read More
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Romain Rolland, l'Homme et l'Œuvre
by Paul Seippel
Paris: Librairie Paul Ollendorff / Société d'Éditions Littéraires et Artistiques, 1913. Very Good. Paris: Librairie Paul Ollendorff / Société d'Éditions Littéraires et Artistiques, 1913. Second Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); contemporary red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [2],302pp.; photographic frontispiece. Spine a bit faded, textblock uniformly toned, contemporary ownership inscription in pencil on front flyleaf, else Very Good and sound. Account... Read More
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Moses Ascending
by Sam Selvon
London: David-Poynter, 1975. Very Good-/Very Good. London: David-Poynter, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. 149pp. Printed dust jacket. Black cloth stamped in gilt. Light wear and creasing to unclipped dust jacket; general rubbing. Boards edgeworn with some bumping; binding sound. Extensive underlining, highlighting, and dog-earing of pages by either Professor Roberto Marquez of University of Massachusetts Amherst or Howard Winn... Read More
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A Brighter Sun: A Novel
by Samuel Selvon
London: Allan Wingate, 1952. Very Good +/Very Good. London: Allan Wingate, 1952. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (11s 6d net); 236pp. Light edge wear to jacket margins, spine panel a bit toned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, light foxing to textblock; a Very Good or better example. ... Read More
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Max Beckmann: The Self-Portraits
by Peter Selz
New York: Gagosian Gallery and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc, 1992. Very Good. New York: Gagosian Gallery and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1992. First Edition. Quarto (30.5x24.5x1.5cm); 118pp, including bibliography. Fifty-seven full-page reproductions of paintings and drawings, with photographic frontispiece. Heavy illustrated card covers with Beckmann reproduction on front, deep French flaps, over sewn gatherings. Covers are clean and... Read More
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![Annual Catalogue of the Mansfield Female Seminary: The Number of Boarders Limited to Thirty-Five [wrapper subtitle: For the Session of 1861-2]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/190/292/1722292190.0.m.jpg)
Annual Catalogue of the Mansfield Female Seminary: The Number of Boarders Limited to Thirty-Five [wrapper subtitle: For the Session of 1861-2]
by [Ohio] [Women's Education] Mansfield Female Seminary
Mansfield, OH: Jno. F. Glessner, Printer, Shield and Banner Office, 1862. Very Good. Mansfield, OH: Jno. F. Glessner, Printer, Shield and Banner Office, 1862. First Edition. Octavo; blue coated wraps printed in gilt; 16pp. Light wear; toning to title page; Very Good. Uncommon early record of the Ohio women's school with lists of faculty, students, courses of study,... Read More
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Kenny's Window
by Maurice Sendak
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. First Edition. Small square quarto; unpaginated. Illustrations by Sendak throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price present; brown cloth-backed boards stamped in black. Edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with a few short tears. Moderate wear to boards with minor fraying at extremities;... Read More
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Tuberculosis of Bones and Joints
by N. Senn
Philadelphia: The F.A. Davis Co., Publishers, 1892. Very Good. Philadelphia: The F.A. Davis Co., Publishers, 1892. First Edition. Octavo. 504 pp. + publisher's catalog to rear. Illustrations. Dark green cloth board stamped in gilt; decorative endpapers. Boards rather scuffed and stained with white discoloration at edges of rear board; minor fraying to spine ends. Binding sound. Ownership inscription... Read More
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Working for Diaghilev
by [Sergei Diaghilev]; Sjeng Scheijen [ed.]
BAI: Schoten, 2004. Near Fine. Schoten: BAI, 2004. First Edition. Quarto (11" x 9"); 271pp. Publisher's patterned red cloth with gilt lettering and mounted full-color illustration. No dust jacket, as issued. English language text throughout. Boards are clean, sturdy, and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Published to accompany the eponymous exhibition at the Groninger... Read More
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![[Title in Yiddish] Dos Untererdishe Rusland [Underground Russia]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/861/645/1684645861.0.m.jpg)
[Title in Yiddish] Dos Untererdishe Rusland [Underground Russia]
by Sergei Stepniak aka Sergey Mikhaylovich Stepnyak-Kravchinsky; Avraham Frumkin [trans.]
New York: Max Maisel, 1921. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Max Maisel, 1921. First Yiddish-Language Edition in a later dust jacket, translated by Frumkin. Octavo. 253pp. Text in Yiddish. Printed dust jacket with later date (1929), presumably a later issue, though we have been unable to locate any other copy in dust wrapper for comparison. Red pebbled cloth... Read More
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[Title in Yiddish] Dos Untererdishe Rusland [Underground Russia]
by Sergei Stepniak aka Sergey Mikhaylovich Stepnyak-Kravchinsky; Avraham Frumkin [trans.]
New York: Max Maisel, 1921. Very Good. New York: Max Maisel, 1921. First Yiddish-Language Edition, translated by Frumkin. Octavo. 253pp. Text in Yiddish. Red pebbled cloth lettered in black. Bookplate of Cincinnati Rabbi Samuel Wohl to front pastedown. Patchy wear along spine; corners bumped. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy. Uncommon Yiddish edition of... Read More
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![An Equal Music [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/539/954/1688954539.0.m.jpg)
An Equal Music [Signed]
by Vikram Seth
New Delhi: Viking / Penguin Books India, 1999. Very Good+/Very Good+. New Delhi: Viking / Penguin Books India, 1999. First Edition. Octavo (25 cm); 380pp. Boards in maroon cloth with gilt stamping to spine, wrapped in publisher's intact pictorial jacket (Rs 500). Jacket generally scuffed with rubbing and bumping to margins and light soiling overall. Board corners and... Read More
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[Vinyl Record] Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
by T.S. Eliot; Robert Donat [speaker]; Alan Rawsthorne [musical setting]
New York: Angel Records, 1954. Very Good. New York: Angel Records, n.d., ca. 1954. First Thus. Original 33 1/3 ten-inch record housed in sleeve and publisher's lidded box (26x26cm.) accompanied by pictorial bifolium (23.5x23.5). Box a bit scuffed a margins with one panel starting to split, bifolium very slightly wrinkled from handling, else a Very Good example. ... Read More
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![The Clam Shell [Signed and inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/358/172/1655172358.0.m.jpg)
The Clam Shell [Signed and inscribed]
by Mary Lee Settle
New York: Delacorte Press, 1971. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Delacorte Press, 1971. First US Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 255,[1]pp. Publisher's price-clipped illustrated dust jacket with author photo to back panel. Boards quarter bound in olive cloth and black paper. Blue endsheets. Jacket generally scuffed and rubbed with spine sunned and margins toned. Spine ends and... Read More
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The Clam Shell [Signed bookplate laid in]
by Mary Lee Settle
London: The Bodley Head, 1971. Very Good +/Very Good. London: The Bodley Head, 1971. First UK Edition. Octavo (20.3 cm); 256pp. Publisher’s pink and white dust jacket intact with price (£2.00). Boards full bound in blue paper with gilt stamping on spine. Dust jacket slightly sunned and lightly soiled; has small tears, creases, and rubbing at all margins... Read More
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There's a Wocket in My Pocket!
by Dr. Seuss
New York: A Bright & Early Book, from Beginner Books, A Division of Random House, Inc, 1974. Very Good. New York: A Bright & Early Book, from Beginner Books, A Division of Random House, Inc., 1974. First Edition, first printing with full number line. Octavo. Unpaginated. Original glazed paper over boards. No dust jacket as issued. Color illustrations... Read More
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I Can Read with My Eyes Shut
by Dr. Seuss
New York: Beginner Books, A Division of Random House, Inc, 1978. Very Good. New York: Beginner Books, A Division of Random House, Inc., 1978. First Edition, first printing with full numberline. Octavo. Unpaginated. Glossy paper over boards. No dust jacket as issued. Color illustrations throughout. Light wear to edges with a couple bumps and scrapes along edges; minor... Read More
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![Freedom and the Union: Speech of William H. Seward, in the Senate of the United States, in Vindication of Freedom and the Union. In Senate, Wednesday, Feb. 29, 1860 [with] State of the Union. Speech of William H. Seward in the Senate of the United States, January 12, 1861 [with] Speech of William H. Seward, for the Immediate Admission of Kansas Into the Union; Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 9, 1856](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/532/375/1445375532.0.m.0.jpg)
Freedom and the Union: Speech of William H. Seward, in the Senate of the United States, in Vindication of Freedom and the Union. In Senate, Wednesday, Feb. 29, 1860 [with] State of the Union. Speech of William H. Seward in the Senate of the United States, January 12, 1861 [with] Speech of William H. Seward, for the Immediate Admission of Kansas Into the Union; Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 9, 1856
by William H. Seward
Albany / Washington, DC: Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers / Congressional Globe Office, 1861. Very Good. Albany / Washington, DC: Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers / Congressional Globe Office, 1856-1861. Three pamphlets bound as one, removed from larger volume. Octavo. 12pp.; 16 pp.; 15 pp. Printed wraps. Light edgewear to wraps with some fraying along spine. Binding... Read More
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Collection of Six Original Signed Drawings for the Limited Editions Club Edition of "Pride and Prejudice
by [Jane Austen] Helen Sewell
New Jersey, 1940. Fine. [New Jersey?]: [ca. 1940]. Collection of six original pen drawings signed and captioned in pencil, all uniformly framed (drawings: 20x11.5cm; frames: 29.5x23cm.). Light yellowing of stock else Fine, not examined out of frames. The collection includes: a) The probability of a rainy season b) Such very superior dancing c) Wickham's affection for Lydia ... Read More
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All My Pretty Ones
by Anne Sexton
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First Edition, first printing stated. Octavo (22cm). Pictorial dust jacket with unclipped $3.00 price intact. Publisher's black cloth binding on spine with striped gray and white paper over boards. Black endpapers. 68pp. Dust jacket has some rubbing and a few minor nicks and... Read More
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![God's Guiding Hand: A History of the Central India Mission, 1868-1967 [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/011/259/1605259011.0.m.jpg)
God's Guiding Hand: A History of the Central India Mission, 1868-1967 [Signed]
by Theodore C. Seybold
Harrisburg, PA: United Church Board for World Ministries of the United Church of Christ / Evangelical Press, 1967. Very Good/Very Good. Harrisburg, PA: United Church Board for World Ministries of the United Church of Christ / Evangelical Press, 1967. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in olive green pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($4.50); [8],179pp.; illus. throughout. Moderate... Read More
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Workshop and Patron in Mughal India: The Freer Rāmāyaṇa and Other Illustrated Manuscripts of 'Abd al-Raḥīm
by John Seyller
Zurich: Artibus Asiae Publishers, Museum Rietberg, 1999. Very Good/Very Good. Zurich: Artibus Asiae Publishers, Museum Rietberg, 1999. First Edition. Quarto (30.5x24x3cm); 344pp, including appendices, bibliography, glossary, and index. Illustrated with 222 photographic images in color and B&W. Note that this is the true first edition, in hardcover, not the 2008 reprint from Paul Holberton Publishing, which bears the... Read More
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