Amigo
by Schweitzer, Byrd Baylor
New York: Macmillian, 1963. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. Garth Williams. 41pp. Quarto [26cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. The backstrip and bottom corner of the rear board are bumped and all corners have slight wear. The dust jacket has been taped in small places on the edges that have slight rips, the tape is only on... Read More
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Poems, Performance, Pieces, Proses, Plays, Poetics (PPPPPP)
by Schwitters, Kurt; Edited and translated by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 251pp. Quarto [26 cm] Black cloth over boards with a silver stamped title on the spine. The bottom edges of the covers are a bit scuffed. The jacket is lightly soiled, faded at the spine, and has a 1" closed tear in the top edge of the rear... Read More
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Recueil de Planches, sur Les Science, Les Arts Liberaux, et Les Arts Méchaniques, avec Leur Explication (Dictionnaire des Sciences) - 11 volumes in 6 books
by [Science Encyclopedia] Diderot, Denis; Jean Le Rond d'Alembert; Claude Tchou
Paris: Cercle du Livre Précieux, 1966. Reprint. Leather bound. Very Good. ***Will require extra postage due to weight (it is very heavy), shipping outside of the United States is greatly discouraged!!! Folio [39 cm] Ex-library with several discreet library marks (including very faint library numbers on the spines). Sprinkled calf with 7 compartments in gilt on the spines.... Read More
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Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-Fishery; Including Researches and Discoveries on the Eastern Coast of West Greenland, Made in the Summer of 1822, in the Ship Baffin of Liverpool
by Scoresby, William; [Charles Nordhoff]
Edinburgh: Archibal Constable and Co. / Hurst, Robinson and Co, 1823. First edition. Hardcover. Good +. XLIII; 472pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Rebound in blue cloth; red leatherette title label on spine with gilt lettering. Mild soiling to front board. Textblock is age toned and sporadically foxed with a smattering of pencil notations. Ownership marks on the title page, including... Read More
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Antique Porcelain Digest
by Scott, Cleo M. and G. Ryland Scott Jr.
Bath, Great Britain: The Ceramic Book Company, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 180 pp. Quarto. [28 cm]. Red paper over boards with gilt title stamped on front board and spine. Slight toning to pages. Missing dust jacket. Previous owner's used bookplate on front paste down. An immersive dive into the world of porcelain, containing over 750 color photos... Read More
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In the Village of Viger
by Scott, Duncan Campbell
Boston: Copeland and Day, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. 135pp. Sextodecimo [18 cm] Light brown cloth covered boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine, and a brown ink stamped title and vignette on the front cover. Deckled fore and bottom edges. Very good. The extremities are gently rubbed and bumped. Uncut pages. The endsheets are lightly foxed. There... Read More
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Sustainable Capitalism: Essential Work for the Anthropocene
by Scott, Inara (Editor)
Salt Lake City, UT: The University of Utah Press, 2024. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. New. 289pp. Octavo [23cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Capitalism has been linked to climate change, racism and slavery, wealth inequality, and the decline of democracy. At the same time, capitalism may have been instrumental in lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, facilitating vast... Read More
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Michael L. Scott: "Places of Our Time
by Scott, Michael L.; Mary Moore Grimaldi (Text)
New York: Sherry French Gallery, 1990. First edition. Paperback. Very slim square octavo [21.5 cm] Stapled pictorial wraps. Very good condition. A catalogue of an exhibition held at the Sherry French Gallery, October 3 - October 27, 1990. The works of Michael L. Scott can be found in the established public collections of the Art Academy of Cincinnati, the... Read More
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Scottsboro Boy
by [Scottsboro Rape Trial] Patterson, Haywood; Earl Conrad
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Minus. 309pp. Octavo [22 cm] Beige cloth over boards. The spine ends are bumped and the covers are cocked. In a price-clipped dust jacket with several small losses from the edges. Hayward Patterson's account of being falsely accused of raping two white women aboard a... Read More
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An Honest Try (An Essay in Bronze)
by Scriver, Bob
Kansas City, MO: The Lowell Press, 1997. Second printing. Hardcover. 91pp. Slim quarto [31 cm] Blue cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Decorative endpapers. Near fine, with gently bumped spine ends and light rubbing at the corners of the covers. In a very good dust jacket, with moderate surface wear, and a 3/4" closed... Read More
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Healing War Trauma: A Handbook of Creative Approaches
by Scurfield, Raymond Monsour; Katherine Theresa Platoni
New York / London: Routledge, 2013. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 318pp. Octavo [23cm]. Illustrated wraps. Light soiling to wraps. "Details a broad range of exciting approaches for healing from the trauma of war. The techniques described in each chapter are designed to complement and supplement cognitive-behavioral treatment protocols and, ultimately, to help clinicians transcend the limits... Read More
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Aladdin
by Seale, Yasmine (translator); Paulo Lemos Horta (editor)
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. 118pp. Octavo [21.5cm]; black paper boards with gilt cover decoration and title on spine. A dynamic French-Syrian translator, lauded for her lively poetic voice, tackles the enchanted world of Aladdin in this sparkling new translation. Long defined by popular film adaptations that have reductively portrayed Aladdin as... Read More
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Sweet Medicine
by Seals, David; Herman J. Viola (Editor)
New York: Orion Books, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. 250pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 green cloth with purple paper covered boards and a silver stamped title on the spine. Near fine. There are a couple of barely perceptible stains on the bottom edge of the text block. In a very good dust jacket, with light rubbing. There is an indented... Read More
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Pleasant Grove Utah East Stake History
by Searle, June Gourley [Compiler]. Bliss Jarvis Brimley [Editor]. Jim Walker [Photographer]
[Pleasant Grove, UT and Provo, UT]: [Pleasant Grove Utah East Stake and the Brigham Young University Press], 1990. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 264 pp. Quarto [28 cm]; perfect bound pictorial cover. A bit of shelfwear and smudging to the covers and edges. Internally clean and sharp. Illustrated with many black and white photographs throughout. Nice black and... Read More
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Diary of a Cat
by Sears, Jack
[Salt Lake City, UT], 1934. Paperback. 19pp. Octavo. White stapled wrappers with illustration. Fine. Text and illustrations by Utah author/artist, Jack Sears, probably best known for his work on 'Thundercave'.
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Cat Drawings
by Jack Sears
[Salt Lake City], 1943. First edition. Paperback. Jack Sears. 48pp. Sextodecimo. White stapled wrappers with illustration. Fine. Text and illustrations by Utah author/artist, Jack Sears, probably best known for his work on 'Thundercave'.
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The Birds of Siberia: A Record of a Naturalist's Visits to the Valleys of the Petchora and Yenesei
by Seebohm, Henry
London: John Murray, 1901. First edition thus. Hardcover. 512pp. Octavo [23 cm] Light brown cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles, a silver stamped cross on the spine, and a green, white and brown ink stamped bird vignette on the front cover. Top edge gilt. Good. The covers are rubbed and mildly soiled and darkened. The front cover is... Read More
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Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade 50th Anniversary. Milton Wolff, Post Commander. Roby Newman, Playwright, son of vet Robert Colodny. David Laub, Mathematics Instructor, Associates of VALB. Madge Stormogipson, M. D. Served 22 months in the hospital at Jinotega, Nicaragua. Viola Schuetrum, for the Dr. Jules Hene International Unit. Guest of Honor, Pete Seeger. Bay Area Post Veterans of the Jarama front, February, 1937. San Francisco Mine Troupe. Recently returned from a successful tour in Nicaragua. Benefit Medical Aid to Central America. VALB & Associates Ambulances For Nicaragua Project. Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Centennial Hall. 22292 Foothill Boulevard, Hayward. February 22, 1987. 12:00 o'clock noon
by Seeger, Pete
Original edition. Ephemera. Slim octavo [21 cm] Folded sheet of yellow paper printed in red. Very good condition, with a large darkened patch on the front wrap.
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The Granitian 1930
by Seely, Minerva; Hubert Van Dam
Salt Lake City, UT: Published by Students of Granite High School, 1930. Original edition. Hardcover. 140pp. Quarto [27.5 cm] Brown and blue patterned cloth with lettering and ornamentation embossed and stamped in gilt and blue. Very good. The edges of the spine and covers are lightly bumped and rubbed. The last several pages have stains in the inside margins.... Read More
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Heila: A Personal History
by Seibt, Helia
Paperback. Very good. 208pp. Quarto [27 cm] Pale blue illustrated wraps. There is an 8" crease in the rear wrap. A personal history which begins in Pielisensuu, Ranta Mutala, Finland, winds through Germany, Denmark and Sweden, and culminates in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Underworld: Sites of Concealment
by Seidel, Peter (Photographs); Manfred Sack and Klaus Klemp (Texts)
Santa Monica, CA: Hennessey + Ingalls Art + Architecture Books, 1997. First American edition. Paperback. Very Good +. 143pp. Square quarto [30 cm] Pictorial wraps. Light surface wear to the wraps. Text in German and English. May require extra postage. Published on the occasion of the touring exhibition "Unterwelten.
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My Place on Earth
by Selby, Alice May
1984. Hardcover. SIGNED. 372pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Beige buckram with gilt stamped titles and a gilt stamped floral vignette on the front cover. Very good. The covers are slightly soiled, and there are multiple very tiny stains on the bottom edge of the front cover. The edges of the covers are very lightly bumped. There is a very small... Read More
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The Democrats: A Critical History
by Selfa, Lance
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2008. Paperback. New. 296pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Pictorial wraps. "Offering a broad historical perspective, Selfa shows how the Democratic Party has time and again betrayed the aspirations of ordinary people while pursuing an agenda favorable to Wall Street and U.S. imperial ambitions. He examines the relationship between party leaders and social movements, from the... Read More
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Display. In the Night Kitchen
by Sendak, Maurice
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers. Ephemera. 11 1/2 by 17 inches. Book display for advertising "In the Night Kitchen." With toning, light soiling, and glue staining to the reverse, as this was formerly mounted to a backer board. Sendak's fantastical "In the Night Kitchen" has been the subject of censorship cases due to the nudity of the main... Read More
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Danger is My Business: An Illustrated History of the Fabulous Pulp Magazines
by Server, Lee
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 144pp. Quarto [29 cm] Shiny illustrated paper over boards. Bottom fore-edge corners of covers gently bumped. In the matching dust jacket, with only minor shelf wear. Superbly illustrated, "Danger is My Business" documents the birth of American pop fiction, from horror and science-fiction to mysteries, Westerns, and... Read More
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