![[Broadside] Burlesque in Harlem](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/331/750/1701750331.0.m.jpg)
[Broadside] Burlesque in Harlem
by [T.N.T. Pictures Corp.]; [William Alexander]; Dewey Markham, George Wilshire, Vivian Harris, Dick Barrow, Jo Jo Adams et al.
New York: T.N.T. Pictures Corp, 1949. Very Good. New York?: T.N.T. Pictures Corp, n.d. but 1949. Broadside printed in brown ink. Mild toning to edges; a few wrinkles; Very Good or better. Promotional broadside for the 1949 film directed by William Alexander and featuring singers, comedians, and dancers. The film and its associated ephemera constitute a scarce record of Black... Read More
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![The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/823/583/1716583823.0.m.jpg)
The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need [Signed]
by Andrew Tobias
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. First Edition with full HBJ letter code on copyright page. Octavo (21cm); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket by Seymour Chwast retaining original price ($5.95); [14],163pp.; illus. and charts throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins including small closed tear at spine crown, front... Read More
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![The Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D. [Eight Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/661/737/1582737661.0.m.jpg)
The Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D. [Eight Volume Set]
by Tobias Smollett; John Moore [memoir]; James P. Browne [ed.]
London: Bickers and Son, 1872. Very Good. London: Bickers and Son, 1872. New Edition. Eight volumes; octavos; uniformly bound in full contemporary gilt-tooled tree calf, elaborate gilt spines in six compartments, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; portrait frontispiece at head of Vol. I. Spines a bit dried, light wear to margins and joints, contemporary ownership ex libris of... Read More
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![The Story of Washington: The National Capital [Great Cities of the Republic]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/419/307/1402307419.0.m.jpg)
The Story of Washington: The National Capital [Great Cities of the Republic]
by Charles Burr Todd
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889. Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's pictorial cloth; xviii,416pp +4 ads.; frontis with tissue guard, plates, vignettes, and fold-out maps throughout, all present. Boards bumped at corners and rubbed along edges, with some tugging and fraying to spine ends, darkening to spine, and a few general light... Read More
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A History of the Mathematical Theory of Probability: From the Time of Pascal to that of Laplace
by Isaac Todhunter
Cambridge: Macmillan and Co, 1865. Very Good. Cambridge, UK: Macmillan and Co., 1865. First Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's green cloth with spine stamped in gilt; 624pp. Wear to extremities with bumping and brief exposure to corners; repair to previously chipped spine ends with color fill-ins; patchy rippling to rear. Binding sound; previous owner's bookplates and bookseller ticket to... Read More
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![The Trial of the Generals: Selected Journalism 1980-1990 [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/827/229/1618229827.0.m.jpg)
The Trial of the Generals: Selected Journalism 1980-1990 [Signed]
by Colm Toibin
Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1990. Very Good +. Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1990. First Edition. Octavo (21.5 cm); 197pp. Soft bound in publisher's pictorial cover with author photograph on front panel. General scuffing and minor bumping, with shelf wear to bottom edge. Ink transfer to verso of front cover, pages otherwise clean. A Very Good or better copy.... Read More
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The South
by Colm Toibin
New York: Viking, 1990. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Viking, 1990. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 238 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $18.95 price intact. Black and light blue boards stamped in copper. Gray endpapers. Remainder mark to bottom edge of text block. Dust jacket rubbed along edges with some wear to extremities, rubbing to rear panel,... Read More
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![The South [Signed bookplate]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/043/156/1618156043.0.m.jpg)
The South [Signed bookplate]
by Colm Toibin
New York: Viking, 1991. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Viking, 1991. First American Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 238pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with author photo on back flap and price intact ($18.95). Boards quarter bound in light blue paper and dark blue cloth with gilt stamping. Fore edge deckled. Gray endsheets. Jacket generally creased and rubbed... Read More
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![Beauty in a Broken Place [Signed Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/961/101/1650101961.0.m.jpg)
Beauty in a Broken Place [Signed Limited Edition]
by Colm Toibin
Dublin: The Lilliput Press, 2004. Near Fine. Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2004. Limited Edition, signed by the author and number 47 out of 55 copies on limitation page. Octavo (20.6 cm); [viii], 77pp. No dust jacket as issued. Boards full bound in black cloth with white paper labels pasted on front and spine with blind stamped borders. Gray endsheets.... Read More
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![The Irish Famine [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/773/219/1618219773.0.m.jpg)
The Irish Famine [Signed]
by Colm Toibin
London: Profile Books, 1999. Very Good +. London: Profile Books, 1999. First Edition. 16mo (15 cm); 91pp. Publisher's illustrated card wrappers with author photo on back panel. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped with minor scuffs to covers and light soiling to page edges. Erased pencil to top corner of first page. A Very Good or better copy.... Read More
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![The Heather Blazing [Signed bookplate]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/546/148/1618148546.0.m.jpg)
The Heather Blazing [Signed bookplate]
by Colm Toibin
London: Picador, 1992. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Picador, 1992. First UK Edition. Octavo (22.2 cm); [vi], 245pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with author photo on back flap and price intact (£14.99). Boards full bound in black cloth with gilt stamping. Jacket generally creased, scuffed and rubbed with no tears and light toning to verso top margin.... Read More
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![Martyrs and Metaphors [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/327/220/1618220327.0.m.jpg)
Martyrs and Metaphors [Signed]
by Colm Toibin
Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1987. Very Good +. Dublin: Raven Arts Press, 1987. First Edition. Slim Octavo (21 cm); 20pp. Staple bound, french flap light blue wrappers with red and black printing. Lightly sunned at margins with general soiling and ghost of removed adhesive/sticker on back panel. Staples rusting and page edges and corners rubbed. Overall a Very... Read More
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El Senor Bliss
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Barcelona: Ediciones Minotauro, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. Barcelona: Ediciones Minotauro, 1984. First Spanish Edition ("Primera edicion: diciembre de 1984" stated). Oblong octavo (15.5cm); [103]pp., illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket over matching illustrated boards. Bilingual, with Tolkien's original illustrations and handwritten text on recto and Spanish translation on verso. Jacket corner clipped, with some rubbing and curling along top... Read More
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![[The Lord of the Rings] The Fellowship of the Ring](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/717/080/1720080717.0.m.jpg)
[The Lord of the Rings] The Fellowship of the Ring
by J.R.R. Tolkien
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1957. Very Good/Very Good. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1957. Seventh impression. Octavo; first volume in trilogy only. 423pp. Color fold-out map to rear. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket with seventh impression stated at top of front flap; red cloth boards with spines stamped in gilt; red topstain. Dust jacket... Read More
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The Remarkable Events of Dhyana Teacher To-Lun
by [To-Lun]; Kuo Tak; Hwa Kuo Che & Tam Kuo Ching [trans.]
Hong Kong: [s.i.], 1954. Very Good. Hong Kong: [s.i.], [ca. 1954]. First Edition. Octavo. 85 pp. Black and white photographs. Printed wraps with "Buddhist Lecture Hall, San Francisco, CA" stamped to front. Wraps faded along edges, chipped at base of spine, light rubbing to edges with some vertical creasing. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Scarce pamphlet detailing... Read More
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![Jac. Philippi Tomasini De Tesseris Hospitalitatis, Liber singularis, In quo jus hospitii universum, apud veteres potissimum, expenditur [Bound with: Episcopi Aemoniensis Titus Livius Patavinus]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/972/172/1680172972.0.m.jpg)
Jac. Philippi Tomasini De Tesseris Hospitalitatis, Liber singularis, In quo jus hospitii universum, apud veteres potissimum, expenditur [Bound with: Episcopi Aemoniensis Titus Livius Patavinus]
by Giacomo Filippo Tomasini
Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii [Andreas Frisius], 1670. Very Good. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Sumptibus Andreae Frisii [Andreas Frisius], 1670. Two volumes bound in one; 12mo; full contemporary blind-embossed parchment, faint manuscript spine titling; [12],227,[25]; 125,[17]pp. (both volumes collated complete); added engraved half title page to first volume, two folding plates, steel engravings throughout text. Parchment uniformly dust-soiled, brief ink... Read More
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Mars His Idiot
by H.M. Tomlinson
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1935. Very Good/Very Good. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1935. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price (7/6 net); [6],298pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including tiny chip at spine crown, brief wrinkling and light dust-soil to rear panel, corners tapped, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy in... Read More
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Personalities
by Tom Savage; Alice Notley [cover illus.]
New York: Jim Brodey Books, 1978. Very Good. New York: Jim Brodey Books, 1978. First Edition, Limited to 200 copies. Slim quarto (28cm); publisher's staplebound pictorial double card wrappers; [14]ll.; text printed mimeograph from typescript on rectos only. Wrappers rather dust-soiled and upper staple starting to separate; overall a Very Good copy of the New York School poet's... Read More
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Tangerine #4, April 1983
by Tom Weigel [ed.]
New York: Andrea Doria Books, 1983. Very Good. New York: Andrea Doria Books, 1983. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's clear acetate wrappers staplebound over pictorial self-wrappers; unpaginated; text printed mimeograph from typescript. Upper acetate wrapper starting to split along fore-edge, brief oxidation at staples, else Very Good overall.
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![Thomas Hobbes, der Mann und der Denker [alt. title: Hobbes Leben und Lehre]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/217/499/1493499217.0.m.jpg)
Thomas Hobbes, der Mann und der Denker [alt. title: Hobbes Leben und Lehre]
by [Thomas Hobbes] Ferdinand Tönnies
Osterwieck: Verlag von A.W. Zickfeldt, 1912. Very Good. Osterwieck: Verlag von A.W. Zickfeldt, 1912. Zweite, erweiterte Auflage der Schrift "Hobbes Leben und Lehre" (Second, enlarged edition of "Hobbes Leben und Lehre"). Octavo; publisher's brown textured cloth, front cover and spine lettered in gilt, all edges marbled; xvi,249pp. Boards a bit rubbed and corners bumped, gilt rather significantly dulled,... Read More
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Power & Manoeuvrability: The International Implications of an Independent Scotland
by Tony Carty [ed.]; Alexander McCall Smith [ed.]
Edinburgh: Q Press, 1978. Very Good/Very Good. Edinburgh: Q Press, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. 185 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket edgeworn with some general rubbing. Boards show light shelfwear and faintly bowing at fore-edge. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Early work co-edited by the author of the... Read More
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![John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island and the Story of His Career from the Early Records [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/825/831/1582831825.0.m.jpg)
John Eliot's First Indian Teacher and Interpreter Cockenoe-de-Long Island and the Story of His Career from the Early Records [Signed]
by [Cockenoe-de-Long Island] [John Eliot] William Wallace Tooker
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1896. Very Good. New York: Francis P. Harper, 1896. First Edition, Limited Issue of 215 copies, this being #83. Signed by William Wallace Tooker to Brooklyn numismatist Frank Sherman Benson. Octavo. 60 pp. Frontis and facsimile production of 1669 Indian Primer title page, both with tissue guard. Dark green cloth stamped in gilt.... Read More
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![Touching Ground, Taking Root: Theological and Political Reflections on the Philippine Struggle [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/059/730/1567730059.0.m.jpg)
Touching Ground, Taking Root: Theological and Political Reflections on the Philippine Struggle [Signed]
by Edicio De La Torre
Quezon City, Philippines: Socio-Pastoral Institute, 1986. Very Good. Quezon City, Philippines: Socio-Pastoral Institute , 1986. First Edition. Signed by De La Torre with brief inscription to previous owner at title page. Octavo. 215 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Light wear and general creasing to wraps with mild curling to edges. Binding is sound. Pages... Read More
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![A Flora of the State of New-York, comprising full descriptions of all the indigenous and naturalized plants hitherto discovered in the state; with remarks on their economical and medicinal properties [Two volume set] [Series title: Natural History of New York] [Spine title: Botany]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/925/415/1722415925.0.m.jpg)
A Flora of the State of New-York, comprising full descriptions of all the indigenous and naturalized plants hitherto discovered in the state; with remarks on their economical and medicinal properties [Two volume set] [Series title: Natural History of New York] [Spine title: Botany]
by John Torrey
Albany, NY: Carroll and Cook, Printers to the Assembly, 1843. Very Good. Albany, NY: Carroll and Cook, Printers to the Assembly, 1843. First Edition. Two quarto volumes; publisher's embossed brown cloth with gilt stamping to front and spine; yellow endpapers; 484pp., 72 plates; 572pp., 90 plates, one folding; all uncolored; complete. Engraved half titles. Boards scuffed with chipping... Read More
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Deep Valley
by Dan Totheroh
New York: L.B. Fischer, 1942. Very Good +. New York: L.B. Fischer, 1942. First Edition. Octavo. 312 pages. Green cloth stamped in white and black. Lacks dust jacket. Light edgewear to boards. Top rear corner bumped. Binding is sound. Bookseller ticket to rear pastedown. Pages otherwise unmarked. Totheroh published few novels, though he was... Read More
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