![Soviet Writers Discuss A Bell for Adano" [in] The American Review on the Soviet Union. Vol. VII, no. 2 (Feb 1946)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/715/112/1325112715.0.m.jpg)
Soviet Writers Discuss A Bell for Adano" [in] The American Review on the Soviet Union. Vol. VII, no. 2 (Feb 1946)
by [AMERICAN-RUSSIAN INSTITUTE] HERSEY, John and Leonid Sobolev
New York: The American-Russian Institute, 1946. Digest-sized periodical (21cm). Printed gray paper wrappers; 95pp. Moderate cover soil; contents fresh and unmarked; Very Good. Official organ of the American-Russian Institute, a pro-Soviet advocacy foundation that was officially designated a communist front group in 1948. Contents of this issue include John Hersey and Leonid Sobolev ("Soviet Writers Discuss A Bell for... Read More
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Ramon: the Rover of Cuba. The Personal Narrative of that Celebrated Pirate. Translated from the Original Spanish
by [AMERICAN FICTION] [BLAKE, John Lauris]
Boston: Richardson, Lord & Holbrook, 1829. First Edition. 12mo (18cm). Modern plain buckram with gilt spine label; xii,[13]-162pp. Early perforated stamp to title page (Rhode Island Historical Society); scattered foxing and toning to text, still a complete, fresh copy, Good and sound. An anonymous early work by Blake, identified as such in the catalog of the American... Read More
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A Colony of Citizens; Revolution and Slave Emancipation in The French Caribbean 1787-1804
by [AMERICANA] DUBOIS, Laurent
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. First Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's decorated card wraps. 452pp. A clean, bright, near fine copy with minimal wear. Internally clean. An academic examination of the manner in which specifically Caribbean struggles for emancipation shaped and influenced routes towards freedom elsewhere.
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The Encomienda in New Spain
by [AMERICANA] SIMPSON, Lesley Byrd
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1950. First American Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. [xv]; [1]; 257pp. Light bumping to spine ends, a little scuffing and rubbing to the corners and extremities, with some slight dulling to the gilt, strong and solid; internally clean and fresh, inscribed by the author... Read More
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La Medicina Naturale. Rivista Bimensale. No. 17 (July-Aug 1918)
by [AMERICAN POPULAR MEDICINE - NATUROPATHY] FERRI, N.A. [Nicandro], ed
Chicago: G. Bertelli, 1918. Single quarto issue in tan paper wrappers; 16pp; illus. Wrappers present but tattered, with chips to margins; contents complete and fresh. A sound, Good copy. Apparently unrecorded Italian-language journal of naturopathy, published in Chicago under the editorship of Nicandro A. Ferri, who also published a few naturopathic titles in English including "The Behavior... Read More
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![Return to Human Decency [drop title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/487/790/844790487.0.m.jpg)
Return to Human Decency [drop title]
by AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE, NEW ENGLAND REGION
[Cambridge, MA: American Friends Service, New England Region, ca. 1957]. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm.); photographically illustrated bifolium printed on cream stock. Fine. Compilation of quotes by various newssources and scientists against nuclear bomb testing, all dated 1957. Unlocated in OCLC as of September, 2015.
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![Kantutas [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/965/312/1298312965.0.m.jpg)
Kantutas [Inscribed and Signed]
by [AMERICA LATINA] CASTRILLO, Primo
New York: [Las Americas Publishing Company], 1963. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers printed in red and black; 157pp. Light toning to wrapper extremities, especially rear cover, else Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author to a Prof. Reyes Carlionell on half title. Text entirely in English. Born in the Bolivian Andes, the author Primo... Read More
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Alabama: "Kind of Tough Living Here." A report on bad rural housing in all 67 Alabama counties
by [AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE] KAMPER, Rita (introd)
Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, [1976]. First Edition. Square quarto (22.75cm.); original photo-illustrated card wrappers; 100pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Mild wear from handling, with small loss at spine foot; internally clean, tight and unmarked - Very Good. Photo-documentary work showcasing the worst housing available in each Alabama county, including shacks located on the property of John D.... Read More
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The Ethnography of Franz Boas; Letters and Diaries of Franz Boas Written on the Northwest Coast from 1886 to 1931
by [AMERICANA] [ED: ROHNER, Ronald P.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. First Thus. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's slate grey cloth titled and decorated in red to spine and front board. Dustjacket. [xxx]; 331pp. Clean and sharp, very light bumping to spine ends and a little shelfwear; internally clean, bright red endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, 6pp of black and white photographs; in a clean and... Read More
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Every Saturday: Journal of Choice Reading Selected from Foreign Current Literature. Vols I-V (Jan 1866- Jun 1868)
by [AMERICAN PERIODICALS] ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey (ed)
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866-68. Five large octavo volumes (26cm). Publisher's embossed cloth, titled in gilt on spines; 728+802+828+828,42 [includes extra Christmas number]+828pp. Unbroken, well-preserved run; occasional toning or edgewear to text; easily Very Good overall. The first five volumes (of an eventual eight) of this substantial post-Civil War literary magazine that introduced a number of English... Read More
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Flood Tide of Empire; Spain and The Pacific Northwest, 1543-1819
by [AMERICANA] COOK, Warren L.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1973. First American Edition. Octavo. 26cm. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xiv]; 620pp. Very light wear, mostly confined to some minor bumping at the spine ends, strong and tight; internally cleand and fresh, bookplate to front pastedown, illustrated throughout; in a clean, sharp, priceclipped dustjacket with a little light... Read More
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Morals in Politics: a Collection of Essays
by [AMERICAN POLITICS] CHAMBERLIN, William; DEWEY, John; EASTMAN, Max; HOOK, Sidney
New York: New Leader Publishing Association, 1945. First edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed wrappers (softcover); 32p. Near fine.
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Manuel Neri: Early Work 1953-1978
by AMERSON, Price, et al. (text)
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto; gray cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and in blind to front cover; dustjacket; xvi,424pp; illus. Spine ends gently nudged, upper corners tapped (though still sharp), else Near Fine in a Near Fine, lightly shelfworn dustjacket. Volume published in conjunction with The Corcoran Gallery of Art... Read More
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Philine, from the Unpublished Journals of Henri-Frédéric Amiel
by AMIEL, Henri-Frédéric; Van Wyck Brooks, transl & ed; Edmond Jaloux, introd
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Fuchsia cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xil,401pp. A tight, clean copy; the spine gilt slightly dulled and the publisher's top-stain somewhat faded, else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 on front flap), dusted, a shade darker on spine panel, lightly worn... Read More
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That Uncertain Feeling: A Novel
by AMIS, Kingsley
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1955. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); red cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 254pp. Light tanning to spine and board edges, with shelf-soil, trace foxing to edges of textblock and interior, and bookshop sticker and residue to rear pastedown; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 12/6 net), tanned, with shelf-soil, and chips and... Read More
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A Look Round the Estate: Poems 1957-1967
by AMIS, Kingsley
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1968. First American Edition. Small octavo. Cloth-backed patterned paper boards; dustjacket; 49pp. Near Fine in lightly rubbed dustwrapper, unclipped but with price crossed out in ink and shadow from a remainder price sticker on inside front flap; Very Good.
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![My Enemy's Enemy [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/939/611/1391611939.0.m.jpg)
My Enemy's Enemy [Signed]
by AMIS, Kingsley
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1962. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm.); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 224pp. Author's clipped signature mounted on title page. Offsetting to half-title page, lower corners gently bumped, with light sunning to lower board edges; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 18/- net), gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn and dust-soiled,... Read More
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That Uncertain Feeling
by AMIS, Kingsley
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 247pp. Modest rubbing to spine ends and board edges, with trace foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Arline and Marvin Oberman, unclipped (priced $3.50), spine-faded, with shelf-soil and tiny tears... Read More
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![House of Meetings: A Novel [Signed, Advance Uncorrected Proof]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/286/339/1686339286.0.m.jpg)
House of Meetings: A Novel [Signed, Advance Uncorrected Proof]
by AMIS, Martin
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First Edition. Advance uncorrected proof, softcover. Octavo (21.5cm); blue paper wrappers; 247pp. Signed by author on title page. Lightly spine-sunned with trace soil; Near Fine. The author's memoir-style novel focuses on two brothers in an Arctic gulag during Stalin's rule. [85517].
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DIVERSIFICATIONS
by Ammons, A.R.
New York: Norton, 1975. First edition. First printing. A lovely copy, with the front flap clipped at the bottom as usual, not affecting price, and only a tiny spot of binding glue affecting the binding.
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![The Snow Poems [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/609/009/1515009609.0.m.jpg)
The Snow Poems [Inscribed]
by AMMONS, A.R.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1977. Second Printing. Octavo (22cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xii,292pp. Inscribed by Ammons on the half-title page: "For Julian Mason / all good wishes ever / from Archie Ammons / 10 May 86 / Old Salem." Crown gently nudged, else Fine in a Near Fine... Read More
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The Snow Poems
by AMMONS, A.R.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1977. Second Printing. Octavo (22cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xii,292pp. Crisps, clean, Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket (priced $12.50, with lower corner of front flap clipped by the publisher), with some light wear to crown. Twelfth published collection by the National Book... Read More
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DIVERSIFICATIONS [Signed]
by Ammons, A.R.
New York: Norton, 1975. First edition. First printing. Signed by poet on title page. Light spotting to top edge; Fine. Front flap clipped at the bottom as usual, not affecting price, and only a tiny spot of glue affecting the binding; Fine. A lovely copy.
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LAKE EFFECT COUNTRY
by Ammons, A.R.
New York: Norton, 1983. First edition. An uncorrected proof in orange wraps with prices written in on cover (a price correction made on the first page), in what looks like the same hand (i.e. the publisher) the word "poetry" is written on the cover; pub date written in with pencil and stamped. A perfect copy except for a small... Read More
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![OMMATEUM, With Doxology [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/912/537/1581537912.0.m.jpg)
OMMATEUM, With Doxology [Inscribed]
by Ammons, A.R.
Philadelphia: Dorrance, 1955. First edition. Small 8vo. Light red cloth in dustjacket. The poet's rare first book inscribed: "for Barbara 11-30-58" and signed in full by the author. Bookplate of Barbara H. Mallon on front paste down. 49 pp. Light soiling, else Near Fine in a dampstained dustjacket with minimal wear and two closed tears with resulting creasing on... Read More
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