The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century. A Series of Lectures
by William Thackeray
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's plum blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 297,[1],2,6,6pp. Very light wear to cloth extremities, spine toned to brown, textblock rather foxed, contemporary ownership inscription to front pastedown, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy. Collection of seven lectures delivered... Read More
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Member of the Crew: Filmmaker Series #82
by Winfred Kay Thackrey
Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc, 2001. Very Good/Very Good. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2001. First Edition. Octavo; 331pp. Photo-illustrated dust jacket; black cloth boards stamped in gilt. Rubbing and light wrinkling to dust jacket. Edgewear and bumping to boards; binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy.
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A Treatise on Some of the Insects of New England, which are Injurious to Vegetation
by Thaddeus William Harris [John Amory Lowell, previous owner]
Cambridge: John Owen, 1842. Very Good. Cambridge: John Owen, 1842. First Edition. Octavo (25cm.); publisher's black cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [4],459pp. Cloth a bit rubbed, spine crown pulled, rear endpaper quite browned, stock extremities foxed, else Very Good or better. Oft-reprinted monograph by the noted entomologist and botanist. SABIN 30524. Provenance: Contemporary engraved armorial ownership bookplate of Boston... Read More
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The Path to Power [Signed]
by Margaret Thatcher
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1995. Near Fine. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1995. First Edition, Limited Issue of 3,000 copies signed by Margaret Thatcher at limitation page, this being #2,828. Thick octavo. 656pp. Black and white photographs. Bound in publisher's full navy leather decorated in gilt; all edges gilt; moiré endpapers; silk ribbon. A few minor scuffs... Read More
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They Tell No Tales
by Lee Thayer [pseud. Emma Redington Thayer]
New York: Sears Publishing Company, 1930. Very Good. New York: Sears Publishing Co., 1930. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's orange pictorial cloth stamped in black; [6],314pp. Light shelf wear, spine cocked and boards warped, light soil to boards, moderate foxing to endpapers, opens flatly between gatherings, else Very Good and sound. Mystery novel featuring the author's well-mannered "super-detective"... Read More
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Dead Storage
by Lee Thayer [pseud. Emma Redington Thayer]
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1935. Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1935. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's orange cloth lettered in black, reddish-orange topstain; [8],307pp. Moderate wear to cloth margins with brief exposure at corners and light chipping at spine ends, cloth a bit dust-soiled, spine slightly cocked, else a Very Good, internally clean and... Read More
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Paul Robeson: Bearer of a Culture - Exhibition Catalog [Signed by Paul Robeson, Jr.]
by The Paul Robeson Foundation
New York: The Paul Robeson Foundation with the New York Historical Society, 1998. Very Good. New York: The Paul Robeson Foundation with the New York Historical Society, 1998. First Edition. Signed by Paul Robeson, Jr. with brief inscription to previous owner. Octavo. 78 pp. Black and white photographs throughout. Photographic wraps. Light edgewear with slight curling... Read More
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Utopian News [Collection of Four Issues]
by The Utopian Society of America
Los Angeles, CA: The Utopian Society of America, 1935. Very Good. Los Angeles, CA: The Utopian Society of America, 1935. Four issues, including Vol. 2, nos. 6, 15, 17, & 25. Folios; self-wrappers; mixed pagination; text in three columns. Rather brittle with chips, toning, and short tears; previous mail folds; wear heavier to No. 17 with spine largely perished; pencil... Read More
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Pair of Promotional Flyers
by Green Wood Arcade Theatre
Brooklyn, NY: Green Wood Arcade Theatre, 1908. Very Good. Brooklyn, NY: Green Wood Arcade Theatre, n.d. but 1908. Two promotional broadside flyers (30.5x16 & 24.5x15cm), the larger printed on purple newsprint, the smaller on cream newsprint. Light toning and minor wear and wrinkling from handling, small closed tear at top edge of smaller flyer, else a Very Good... Read More
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Hansel and Gretel and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm
by The Brothers Grimm; Kay Nielsen [illus.]
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1925. Very Good. New York: George H. Doran Company, [ca. 1925]. Later printing. Quarto. 310 pp. 12 color plates; b&w illustrations. Repaired red cloth with mounted illustration to front; decorative endpapers. Boards worn at extremities with minor fraying; professional repair to crown with title briefly affected. Binding sound. Tape remnants to four... Read More
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Wetlands Regulation: Case Law, Interpretation, and Commentary
by Theda Baddock Fowler
ABS Consulting / Government Institutes: Rockville, 2003. Very Good. Rockville: ABS Consulting / Government Institutes, 2003. First Edition with full numberline. Quarto; 697pp. Blue faux leather with gilt lettering and illustration. Covers lightly bumped at bottom front corner and nudged at head of spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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Baby Days: A New Selection of Songs, Stories, and Pictures for Very Little Folks
by The Editor of St. Nicholas [Mary Mapes Dodge?] [intro.]
New York: The Century Co, 1916. Very Good. New York: The Century Co., 1916. Reprint. Small quarto. 192 pp. Illustrations. Red cloth boards stamped in black and gilt; illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket. Boards worn along edges with brief exposure and very minor fraying; spine ends nudged. Binding gives a little but overall holding soundly. Previous owner's bookplate... Read More
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The John Birch Society: A Conspiracy of the Fearful
by The Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A.
n.p.: The Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., 1965. Near Fine. [n.p]: The Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A, 1965. Self-wrapped staple bound pamphlet (22cm); 12pp. Wrappers gently rubbed at margins, but overall a Near Fine example with bright clean pages. Curiously paired with an opposition (read: American Nazi party) flyer for the 1965 Virginian gubernatorial election, loosely... Read More
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Moods, Cadenced & Declaimed [Upper jacket title: Moods: Cadenced and Declaimed]
by Theodore Dreiser; Hugh Gray Lieber [illus.]
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. Very Good+/Very Good+. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First Trade Edition. Thick octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in pink dust jacket printed in red and blue; xi,[3],385pp.; frontispiece, fourteen leaves of plates. Light shelf wear, chiefly at cloth spine ends, small shallow losses at top margin of rear jacket flap not... Read More
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A Treatise on Retention of Urine, Caused by Strictures in the Urethra; And of the Means by Which Obstructions of This Canal May Be Effectually Removed
by Theodore Ducamp; William M. Herbert [trans.]
New York: Samuel Wood & Sons, 1827. Very Good. New York: Samuel Wood & Sons, 1827. First English Language Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); slightly later half sheep over marbled boards, brown gilt-lettered spine label; [2],viii,219pp.; five lithographic plates. Slightly ex-Cornell with their discreet markings, boards a bit rubbed and leather dried, else Very Good, internally fine. First published... Read More
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Old Army Songs. A Collection of the Songs Sung by the Union Soldiers During the Late War
by Compiled by One Who Was There
Chicago: C.E. Ellis & Co, 1883. Good. Chicago: C.E. Ellis & Co., 1883. First Edition. 12mo. 62 pp. Stitched, lacking original wrappers. Light edgewear with a few nicks and short tears, soiled along edges, a bit wrinkled from exposure to damp. Good. Scarce collection of Civil War songs including "John Brown," "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny,"... Read More
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The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train through Asia
by Paul Theroux
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975. First UK Edition. Octavo. 342 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Magenta boards stamped in gilt; map endpapers. Touch of rubbing to edges of unclipped dust jacket with a few inoffensive spots. Boards show light shelfwear; vertical production crease along spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.... Read More
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Jack Mason, the Old Sailor. With Illustrations. For Children
by Theodore Thinker
New York: Clark, Austin & Co, 1850. Very Good. New York: Clark, Austin & Co., 1850. First Edition. Small square 12mo (11.5 cm); publisher's blue-green blind-embossed cloth, gilt spine; 96pp.; frontispiece, seven full-page illus., additional woodcut vignettes throughout. Cloth a bit mottled, corners bumped, contemporary gift and ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper and flyleaf for J.H. Haight... Read More
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Wizard of the Crow [Signed]
by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. Near Fine/Very Good+. New York: Pantheon Books, [2006]. First U.S. Edition with full numberline. Thick octavo (24.5cm); publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; [12],768pp. Very light dust-soil to jacket and textblock margins else a Near Fine copy. Signed by the author on title page.
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Alma Thomas: Phantasmagoria. Major Paintings from the 1970s. September 13 - November 3, 2001
by Alma Thomas
New York: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 2001. Very Good. New York: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 2001. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm); original scarlet blind-embossed felt over boards; 56pp.; full color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear and dust-soil to cloth, boards a bit bowed, else Very Good. Exhibition retrospective of the late painter Alma Thomas (1891-1978), the first African American... Read More
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A Child's Christmas in Wales
by Dylan Thomas
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1954. Very Good/Very Good. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1954. First Separately Printed Edition, first issue with red lettering to spine. 12mo. 31, [3]pp. Printed dust jacket with $1.50 price to front flap. Publisher's tan boards stamped in red and black Dust jacket show light chipping and toning to edges with a few minor scuffs.... Read More
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Under Milk Wood Premiere Performance Playbill
by [Dylan Thomas]
New York: Playbill, 1957. Very Good. [New York: Playbill, 1957]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's printed staplebound gilt wrappers; 56pp.; illus. throughout, including ads. Light wear from handling, tiny soil spot to rear wrapper, else Very Good and sound. Program to the premiere U.S. performance of Dylan Thomas's radio drama-turned-play "Under Milk Wood," staged at the Henry Miller... Read More
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The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into English Metre
by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, et al.
London: William Pearson, for the Company of Printers, 1713. Very Good +. London: William Pearson, for the Company of Stationers, 1713. Octavo (20cm.); full contemporary black gilt-tooled morocco, spine in six compartments, preserving both steel clasps, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; [304]pp. A few faint surface scratches to leather, spine gilt a bit dulled, else a wonderfully preserved... Read More
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The Original, Vol. 1
by Thomas Walker, M. A.
London: Henry Renshaw, 1835. London: Henry Renshaw, 1835. Armorial bookplate belonging to Nathanael Ellison on front pastedown. Ellison wrote in the top margin above the first two essays: "No. 1 and 2 were given to me soon after their publication, by the author, now deceased. Nath Ellison 4 Feb 1836." Three quarter bound in sheepskin with marbled paper.... Read More
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Hopping on the Border (The life story of a bellboy) [Inscribed and Signed with original business card laid in]
by Matt Thomas
San Antonio, TX: Naylor Company, 1951. Very Good/Good+. San Antonio, TX: Naylor Company, [1951]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); xii,170pp. Jacket margins quite chipped with long shallow losses along top edge of upper panel not touching text, additional losses to rear panel edges, light soil to front endpapers,... Read More
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