Original Necklace of Wallpaper and Glass Beads Made by Convalescing World War I Soldier
by By a Wounded Soldier
London: St. Thomas' Hospital, 1918. Very Good. London: St. Thomas' Hospital, ca. 1918. Original necklace of twenty-one hand-made wallpaper beads, each approx. 4cm. in length, interspersed with colored glass beads. Wallpaper beads a bit browned, else a fine piece of vernacular jewelry. Slightly later manuscript card attached to necklace stating "Necklace made of wall paper by... Read More
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![Physical Geography [Two Volume set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/984/855/1716855984.0.m.jpg)
Physical Geography [Two Volume set]
by Mary Somerville
London: John Murray, 1849. Very Good. London: John Murray, 1849. New Revised Edition. Octavos (17 cm); xii, 422; viii, 443pp; portrait frontis in Vol I. Boards half bound in calf and marbled paper; spine gilt decoration and morocco label; edges and endsheets marbled. Board corners and spine ends on both volumes rubbed and bumped with wear to joints... Read More
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The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography, Drawing, Collage
by Frederick Sommer
New Haven: Frederick and Frances Sommer Foundation / Yale University Press, 2005. Near Fine/Near Fine. New Haven: Frederick and Frances Sommer Foundation / Yale University Press, [2005]. First Edition with full number line. Large, square quarto (33cm); publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 251pp.; chiefly photographic illus., some in full color. Just About Fine.
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Register of the District of Columbia Society Sons of the American Revolution 1896
by [Sons of the American Revolution] William J. Rhees [ed.]
Washignton, DC: Printed for the Society, 1896. Very Good. [Washington, DC]: Printed for the Society, 1896. First Edition. Large octavo; publisher's white decorative cloth stamped in navy blue and silver foil, top edge silver; xxix,[3],272pp.; portrait frontispiece. Light dust-soil, spine slightly cocked and corners nudged, text block a bit toned, remnants of ownership ex libris to front pastedown,... Read More
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Abridged Pictorial Agra
by Priya Lall & Sons
Agra Cantt, India: Priya Lall & Sons, 1927. Very Good -. Agra Cantt, India: Priya Lall & Sons, 1927. Eleventh Edition. Oblong octavo (12 cm); 56pp. Illus. throughout with 25 photographs, collated complete. Stapled with paper wrappers and peek-a-boo cut out to first photograph at front panel. Rubbed and bumped at extremities with wear to spine and corners... Read More
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![The Darkness Surrounds Us [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/987/942/1695942987.0.m.jpg)
The Darkness Surrounds Us [Signed]
by Gilbert Sorrentino
Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams Publisher, 1960. Near Fine/Very Good. Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams Publisher, 1960. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's staple bound card wrappers in pictorial dust jacket; [48]pp. Dust jacket a bit rubbed and toned, else Very Good and sound. Signed by the author on front free endpaper.
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![The Sky Changes [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/420/368/1577368420.0.m.jpg)
The Sky Changes [Inscribed and Signed]
by Gilbert Sorrentino
New York: Hill and Wang, 1966. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Hill and Wang, [1966]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($3.95); 181pp. Moderate wear and brief biopredation to jacket extremities with old tape repair to verso, yellow spine lettering a bit faded, white portions foxed, else a Very Good, internally clean... Read More
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The Life of Nelson [Two volumes]
by Robert Southey
London: Printed for John Murray, Bookseller to the Admiralty and Board of Longitude, 1814. Very Good. London: Printed for John Murray, Bookseller to the Admiralty and Board of Longitude, 1814. Second Edition. Small octavo. 264; 288pp. Frontispiece to volume I; Lord Nelson signature facsimiles to volume II; half titles. Rebacked with modern calf with gilt stamping to spine... Read More
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The Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo
by Robert Southey
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816. Very Good. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816. First Edition. 12mo (17cm.); contemporary black morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers [8],232pp.; steel-engraved frontispiece and seven leaves of plates bound in rear. Boards scuffed with exposure at corners, brief smudging to... Read More
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All For Love; And The Pilgrim To Compostella
by Robert Southey
London: John Murray, 1829. Very Good. London: John Murray, 1829. First Edition. Octavo. 221 p. + advertisements. Engraved frontis. Rebacked with green leather and new title label to spine, preserving original boards. Bookplate of Harvard Professor Arthur Stone Dewing to front pastedown. Boards worn at corners with exposure and some general rubbing and scuffing to surface. Some... Read More
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![A Shuttle in the Crypt [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/554/804/1721804554.0.m.jpg)
A Shuttle in the Crypt [Signed]
by Wole Soyinka
New York: Hill and Wang, 1987. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Hill and Wang, 1987. Second Printing. Octavo (21cm); gray and blue dust jacket with $14.95 price intact; boards in blue cloth with silver lettering to spine; [x],89pp. Jacket lightly shelfworn with a bit of dust-soiling to top edge and some toning to flaps. Boards scuffed along joints.... Read More
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![Death and the King's Horseman [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/426/804/1721804426.0.m.jpg)
Death and the King's Horseman [Signed]
by Wole Soyinka
New York: Hill and Wang, 1987. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Hill and Wang, 1987. First Hill and Wang Edition. Octavo (21cm); gray and purple dust jacket with $14.95 price intact; boards in grape cloth with silver lettering to spine; [ii],77pp. Jacket bumped at top corners with toning along edges of flaps. Matching bumps to boards, with a... Read More
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![The Interpreters [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/318/107/1694107318.0.m.jpg)
The Interpreters [Signed]
by Wole Soyinka
New York: Africana Publishing Corporation, 1988. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Africana Publishing Corporation, [ca. 1988]. Reprint. Signed by Soyinka at title page without inscription. Octavo. 254pp. Illustrated dust jacket; green boards stamped in gilt. Light rubbing to edges of dust jacket, a couple smudged to rear; mild shelfwear to boards; binding sound and pages unmarked; a Near... Read More
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The Lion and the Jewel [Signed]
by Wole Soyinka
London: Oxford University Press, 1963. Very Good. London & Ibadan: Oxford University Press, 1963. Reprint. 12mo (18.4cm); illustrated card wraps; 64pp. Covers show light rubbing and bumping at corners and spine ends, with some general toning and sparse smudging to surface. Prior ownership inscription with small red check at top of initial blank, else interior unmarked. ... Read More
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![Madmen and Specialists [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/858/722/1717722858.0.m.jpg)
Madmen and Specialists [Signed]
by Wole Soynika
New York: Spotlight Drama / Hill and Wang / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971. Very Good +. New York: Spotlight Drama / Hill and Wang / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971. First Wrapper Edition. Octavo (20cm); 118pp. Publisher’s illustrated wraps with $2.45 price intact. Wraps bumped and rubbed; bottom right corner of front panel creased. Binding sound. Textblock,... Read More
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![A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/272/793/1382793272.0.m.jpg)
A Hundred and Eleven Years Without a Chauffeur [Signed]
by Muriel Spark
London: Colophon Press, 2001. Very Good +. London: Colophon Press, 2001. Limited Edition of 157 copies, of which this is number 12. Signed by Spark at limitation page. Tall octavo. 15 pages. Blue Colorplan card covers with paper label to front. Printed by letterpress on Velin Arches paper. Light edgewear to wraps. Binding is sound and... Read More
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The Ballad of Peckham Rye
by Muriel Spark
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1960. Very Good/Very Good -. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1960. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],201pp. Jacket rather worn at extremities with neat archival tape repair to verso, spine cocked, cloth faded at margins, front hinge a bit loose but holding, else a Good to Very Good copy... Read More
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The Girls of Slender Means
by Muriel Spark
London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1963. Very Good/Very Good. London: Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1963. First Edition. Octavo. 183 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Price-clipped dust jacket is lightly edgeworn with a 1" closed tear along top edge of rear panel and touch of fading to spine. Boards show light wear to extremities... Read More
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The Prisoners' Friend, A Monthly Magazine. Vol. VI., No 7., March 1854
by Charles Spear
Boston: Charles Spear, 1854. Very Good. Boston: Charles Spear, 1854. First Edition. Octavo. 289-336 pp. Pictorial wraps with portraits of English prison reformers Elizabeth Fry and John Howard to front. General wear, creasing, and smudging; ownership inscription to bottom of rear wrap. Binding sound and pages show marginal spotting else unmarked; Very Good. The Prisoners' Friend was,... Read More
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Who is Chauncey Spencer
by Chauncey Spencer
Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1975. Very Good/Very Good. Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1975. First Edition. Octavo. 150 pp. Black and white photographs. Illustrated dust jacket with $7.95 price present. Dark blue boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn with a couple shallow abrasions near crown. Boards show light shelfwear and binding is sound. Presentation bookplate... Read More
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![Ship Island and Other Stories [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/493/203/1445203493.0.m.jpg)
Ship Island and Other Stories [Limited Edition, Signed]
by Elizabeth Spencer
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. Very Good/Very Good +. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First Edition, Limited to 150 copies for distribution by First Editions Limited of which this is no. 33. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in grey pictorial dust jacket; [12],175pp. Very light shelf wear, white jacket spine lettering a shade toned, minor flaking... Read More
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The Complete Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser
by Edmund Spenser
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1908. Very Good+. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1908. Cambridge Edition. Octavo (21cm); contemporary three-quarter green calf over marbled paper-covered boards, two green gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, spine in six compartments ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers; 852pp.; portrait frontispiece. Brief scuffing to leather margins, spine very... Read More
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![The Snake [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/767/303/1605303767.0.m.jpg)
The Snake [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Mickey Spillane
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1964. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket, price hole-punched out; 192pp. Moderate shelf-wear to jacket margins, spine slightly cocked, brief marker stain to top textblock edge, old bookseller rubberstamp to front pastedown, else Very Good, internally clean... Read More
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The Big Kill
by Mickey Spillane
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1951. Very Good -. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1951. First Edition, stated. Octavo (19cm); 224pp. Publisher's blue cloth with red title squares. Missing dust jacket. Boards lightly shelfworn with some toning along edges and some scuffs to cloth. Spine very slightly cocked and quite darkened, with text still just legible.... Read More
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![Vengeance Is Mine! [Signed bookplate laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/518/395/1657395518.0.m.jpg)
Vengeance Is Mine! [Signed bookplate laid in]
by Mickey Spillane
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1950. Good +. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1950. First Edition, stated. Octavo (19.5 cm); 255pp. Publisher's blue cloth. Missing dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with some toning along edges, scattered scuffs and smudges to surface, and a few spots of biopredation along rear joint. Spine a bit cocked and darkened, with... Read More
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