What is Man
by Mark Twain
London: Watts & Co, 1910. Very Good. London: Watts & Co., 1910. First Trade Edition. Octavo (19.3 cm), [iv], [166]pp +4ads. Navy blue cloth bound boards with gilt stamped spine. Corners bumped, with front bottom right corner slightly exposed. Margins bumped on top and bottom of both covers and spine head and tail bumped as well. Front spine... Read More
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James Stirling: A Sketch of His Life and Works Along with His Scientific Correspondence
by [James Stirling] Charles Tweedie
Oxford, UK: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1922. Very Good. Oxford, UK: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1922. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt; no dust jacket; 213pp. Two facsimile fold-outs. Bumping and rubbing to boards; binding sound; bookplates to preliminaries; off-setting to endpapers, else unmarked; Very Good and sound. Quite scarce... Read More
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If Morning Ever Comes
by Anne Tyler
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. Stated First Edition. Octavo; [vi], 265pp. Printed gray and orange dust jacket with $4.95 price and 10/64 code intact; book in gray paper-covered boards with black cloth spine and gilt lettering. Jacket chipped at spine ends, with a few smaller tears along edges and... Read More
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![The Granite Butterfly: A Poem in Nine Cantos [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/539/566/1699566539.0.m.jpg)
The Granite Butterfly: A Poem in Nine Cantos [Limited Edition]
by Parker Tyler
New York: Bern Porter, 1945. Very Good-. [New York]: Bern Porter, 1945. First Edition, Limited to 502 copies of which this is no. 305. Quarto (29cm); publisher's pictorial wrappers, French flaps; 60pp. Rather heavy dampstaining to wrappers briefly bleeding into textblock, spine foot chipped; a Good or better copy only of this collection of Surrealist poetry.
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The Japan-Russia War [Salesman's Dummy]
by Sydney Tyler
Harrisburg, PA: The Minter Company, 1905. Good +. Harrisburg, PA: The Minter Company, 1905. Salesman's dummy copy. Octavo (23 cm); mixed pagination + 1pp ad + 4pp order sheets; illustrated throughout; 51 plates + 15 full page maps. Boards full bound in navy blue cloth with white, red, and black stamping. Green leaf endsheets with leather spine example... Read More
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City Whore
by Hogan Tylor
New York / Gardena, CA: E.L. Publishing Co., Inc, 1970. Very Good. New York / Gardena, CA: E.L. Publishing Co., Inc., [ca. 1970]. First Edition. 12mo (mass market paperback). 171 pp. + publisher's advertisements. Black and white illustrations to ads. Illustrated wraps with $2.25 price intact. Covers worn and scuffed with some foxing and staining to surface. Spine... Read More
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The Smile at the Foot of the Ladder
by Henry Miller; Gordon Cook [illus.]; Jack Werner Stauffacher [typography]
San Francisco: The Greenwood Press, 1955. Very Good. San Francisco: The Greenwood Press, 1955. Limited Edition of 500 copies. Octavo. 40 pp. Illustrated wraps. Photographs of a busts of Henry Miller affixed to front and rear endpapers. Wraps lightly edgeworn with some toning. Binding is sound. Ownership inscriptions of a Jack Pieri to front and rear... Read More
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Rugs & Carpets from Central Asia: The Russian Collections
by Elena Tzareva
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England / New York / Leningrad: Allen Lane / Penguin Books / Aurora Art Publishers, 1984. Near Fine/Very Good. [Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England / New York / Leningrad]: Allen Lane / Penguin Books / Aurora Art Publishers, [1984]. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's cloth in white unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 223pp.; photographic illus. throughout, about half in full... Read More
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They Are Still In Prison: A Report on the Arrests and Trials of Ukrainian Intellectuals 1965-1966
by [Ukraine] Prolog Research and Publishing Association, Inc
New York: Prolog Research and Publishing Association, Inc, 1967. Very Good. New York: Prolog Research and Publishing Association, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Bifolium. Rubbed at edges; marginal stain to p. 3; vertical crease; Very Good. Report from the CIA-backed New York-based Ukrainian emigre organization Prolog Research and Publishing Association giving details on the unconstitutional arrests of... Read More
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The Proletarian Revolution and Kautsky the Renegade
by Nicholai Lenin (V.I. Ulianov)
New York: Contemporary Publishing Association, 1920. Very Good. New York? Contemporary Publishing Association, 1920. 12mo; publisher's grey printed wrappers; [2],128pp. Wrappers rather soiled and a bit worn, textblock exceedingly browned due to inferior quality, else Very Good and sound.
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Wahrheit, Kunst und Natur bei Aristoteles: Ein Beitrag zur Aufklarung der metaphysischen Herkunft der modernen Technik
by [Aristotle] Karl Ulmer
Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1953. Very Good. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1953. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey printed wrappers; [8],234pp. Light wear from handling, wrappers and textblock rather toned due to inferior paper quality, contemporary ownership signature to half title page, else Very Good and sound.
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![Zuingle. The Swiss Reformer. His History and Violent Death at Cappel [No. 248]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/044/413/1654413044.0.m.jpg)
Zuingle. The Swiss Reformer. His History and Violent Death at Cappel [No. 248]
by [Ulrich Zwingli, alt. spelling Ulric Zuingle] American Tract Society
New York: Published by the American Tract Society, 1860. Very Good. New York: Published by the American Tract Society, [ca. 1860s?] First Edition. Octavo. 36 internal pages of text, with an additional three pages of running text on Robert Greathead to title page verso and each side of rear wrap. Printed wraps with "No. 248" to title and... Read More
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The Picture History of Inventions From Plough to Polaris
by Umberto Eco; G.B. Zorzoli; Anthony Lawrence [trans.]
New York: Macmillan Company, 1963. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Macmillan Company, 1963. First American Edition. Large quarto; publisher's linen in green pictorial dust jacket; 360pp.; color frontispiece, illus. throughout, many in color. Some light shelf wear to jacket extremities including a few short closed tears not approaching text, lighter portions of jacket a shade toned, else Near... Read More
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The Man Who Died on Friday [Inscribed and Signed]
by Michael Underwood
London: Macdonald, 1967. Very Good +/Very Good. London: Macdonald, 1967. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 191pp. Moderate wear and toning to dust jacket margins, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "To Dorothy, (fourth[?] for the shelf!) With love, from Michael / June, 1967.
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Crime Upon Crime [Inscribed and Signed]
by Michael Underwood
London: Macmillan, 1980. Near Fine/Very Good +. London: Macmillan, 1980. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); pictorial dust jacket with £5.50 price intact over publisher's red boards with silver lettering to spine; 190pp. White portions of jacket lightly toned, else a Near Fine copy. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "To Dorothy, 1980's second crop, with love, as always,... Read More
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The Anxious Conspirator [Inscribed and Signed]
by Michael Underwood
London: Macdonald, 1965. Very Good/Very Good. London: Macdonald, 1965. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in white pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 165pp. Dust jacket uniformly dust-soiled, spine panel toned, corners nudged, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "To Dorothy, With love, the annual offering, from Michael / November 1965.
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![The Man Who Killed Too Soon [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/871/282/1701282871.0.m.jpg)
The Man Who Killed Too Soon [Inscribed and Signed]
by Michael Underwood
London: Macdonald, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. London: Macdonald, [1968]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); publisher's boards in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 184pp. Light soil and toning to jacket margins, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper. A Richard Monk crime novel.
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Double Jeopardy [Inscribed and Signed]
by Michael Underwood
London: Macmillan, 1981. Very Good+/Very Good. [London]: Macmillan, [1981]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 189pp. Light wear and toning to jacket and board margins, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "To Dorothy, with much love, from Michael / May 1981.
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The Fatal Trip [Inscribed and Signed]
by Michael Underwood
London: Macmillan, 1977. Very Good +/Very Good. London: Macmillan, 1977. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in photo-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket; 190pp. Light shelf wear and minor dust-soil to textblock margins, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "To Dorothy, With love and a special message to be up and about again soon -... Read More
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![False Witness [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/936/655/1690655936.0.m.jpg)
False Witness [Signed]
by Michael Underwood
New York: Walker & Company, 1961. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Walker & Company, [1961]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.95); 222pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Signed by the author on title page. Provenance: From the library of... Read More
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The Bible Boy Taken Captive by the Indians
by American Sunday-School Union
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1845. Good. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, [1845]. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's navy blue sheep over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine; 35pp.; woodcut frontispiece. Boards rather worn with large loss of marbled paper from rear cover, corners exposed, repaired loss along bottom of pp. 23/4 affecting text with brief loss of meaning, textblock rather soiled... Read More
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Treasured Memories for Little Children by Their Friend Margarette
by Margarette; American Sunday-School Union
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1880. Very Good.. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, ca. 1880s. Reprint, with 1848 to copyright date, but 1122 Chestnut St. Address and binding point to later 19th-century publication. 12mo. 52 pp. Orange cloth stamped in black and gilt with "Memories" stamped to spine; floral endpapers. Light smudging and spotting to boards. Binding sound and interior... Read More
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Original Photo Album of a Male Student, 1931-1935
by Gallaudet University
Washington, DC et al., 1931. Good. Washington, DC et al: 1931-1935. Oblong folio (29x35.5cm.); hand-made album, upper cover fashioned out of a mustard-yellow blanket (or sweatshirt?) of the First National Bank of Decatur, "Bob" embroidered on the far-left; 32ll. filled to completion with two-hundred and forty (240) photographs captioned in white in images (various measurements from 3.5x4.5cm to... Read More
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![Just Looking: Essays on Art [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/416/162/1494162416.0.m.jpg)
Just Looking: Essays on Art [Signed]
by John Updike
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition, stated. Signed by the author on full title with inscription "For Albert Raman, John Updike." Quarto (10.25" x 8.25"); [x], 210pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $35.00 price intact; book in blindstamped navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket lightly... Read More
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The Poorhouse Fair
by John Updike
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First Edition, stated. Octavo (25.7cm); First-issue dust jacket with single paragraph on back flap; $3.50 price intact; blue boards and brick cloth spine with silver lettering; [vi],185pp. Jacket chipped at head of spine with partial loss of first letter; rubbing along edges and... Read More
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