Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875
by Carol Armstrong
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press / An October Book, 1998. Very Good +/Very Good +. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press / An October Book, 1998. First Edition. Octavo. 511 pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black boards with spine lettered in gilt. Dust jacket rubbed along edges with mild dust soiling. Boards lightly faded... Read More
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Archie Armstrong's Banquet of Jests. Reprinted from the Original Editions, Together with Archy's Dream, Printed in the Year 1641
by Archie [Archibald] Armstrong
Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1872. Very Good. Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1872. Reprint, one of 225 copies printed on "Ordinary Paper," from a full print run of 252. Octavo; 384pp. Frontispiece detached but present; illustrated title; pages ruled in red. Contemporary half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards; five raised bands and gilt decoration to spine; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers.... Read More
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![Engineer History Mediterranean Theater Fifth Army Vol I, II, and Appendices - Confidential [Three volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/539/046/1672046539.0.m.jpg)
Engineer History Mediterranean Theater Fifth Army Vol I, II, and Appendices - Confidential [Three volume Set]
by United States Fifth Army
[N.p.]: United States Fifth Army, 1945. Very Good. [N.p.]: United States Fifth Army, 1945. First Edition. Three small quarto volumes. Photographs and illustrations throughout, including many maps. Illustrated wraps with a "Declassified" sticker dated 1948 to front of each. Light edgewear, toning, and scuffing to wraps. First 25 pages of volume II nearly fully detached but present; bindings... Read More
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100 Years of Negro Freedom
by Arna Bontemps
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1961. Very Good +/Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1961. First Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 276pp. Eight (8) illust. plates, collated complete. Boards full bound in robin egg blue cloth with blue and gilt stamping to spine, wrapped in publisher's illustrated jacket with price intact ($3.50). Jacket rubbed, scuffed and creased... Read More
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![Five Black Lives [Dust jacket title: 5 Black Lives]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/901/449/1677449901.0.m.jpg)
Five Black Lives [Dust jacket title: 5 Black Lives]
by Arna Bontemps [intro.]; Venture Smith, James Mars, William Grimes, etc. [contrib.]
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. Very Good +/Near Fine. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (23 cm); 240pp. Boards full bound in brown cloth with silver stamping to spine, wrapped in publisher's cream, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket lightly creased and bumped at margins. Board corners and spine ends gently bumped with minor offsetting from... Read More
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Beam and Fiber Optics
by J.A. Arnaud
New York: Academic Press, 1976. Very Good. New York: Academic Press, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. 447 pages. Black and white illustrations. Grey boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Light edgewear to boards. Binding is sound. Some light staining to edges of text block but interior otherwise unmarked. Overall very good.
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![West Point's Scientific 200: Celebration of the Bicentennial. Biographies of 200 of West Point's Most Successful and Influential Mathematicians, Scientists, Engineers, and Technologists [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/615/263/1703263615.0.m.jpg)
West Point's Scientific 200: Celebration of the Bicentennial. Biographies of 200 of West Point's Most Successful and Influential Mathematicians, Scientists, Engineers, and Technologists [Inscribed and Signed]
by Chris Arney
Lexington, SC: Palmetto Bookworks, 2002. Very Good. Lexington, SC: Palmetto Bookworks, [2002]. First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies. Quarto (28cm); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; xxvi,291pp. Light shelf wear, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page.
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The Story of a Lion Hunt
by Arnold Wienholt; Humphrey Wienholt [intro.]; Walter Seed [illus.]
London & New York: Andrew Melrose, Ltd, 1922. Very Good. London & New York: Andrew Melrose, Ltd., 1922. First Edition. Octavo. 252pp. Six illustrations including frontis with tissue guard; photographs. Dark red cloth stamped in gilt; topstain. No dust jacket. Stained; edgeworn with chipping to spine ends; gilt at spine dulled. Binding sound; spotting to endpapers; bookseller ticket... Read More
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Life-World and Consciousness: Essays for Aron Gurwitsch
by [Aron Gurwitsch] Lester E. Embree [ed.]
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1972. Very Good. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1972. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's reddish-brown gilt-lettered cloth; xxx,610pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Cloth unevenly sunned at extremities, spine more noticeably so, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Festschrift of twenty-seven philosophical papers including contributions by Maurice... Read More
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![Essays in Memory of Aron Gurwitsch, 1983 [Inscribed and Signed by Embree]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/174/359/1522359174.0.m.jpg)
Essays in Memory of Aron Gurwitsch, 1983 [Inscribed and Signed by Embree]
by [Aron Gurwitsch] Lester Embree [ed.]
Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology / University Press of America, 1984. Very Good. Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology / University Press of America, 1983 [c. 1984]. Octavo; publisher's olive green leatherette, gilt-lettered spine; xxii,562pp.; woodcut portrait frontispiece. Brief soil to top textblock edge, lacking both free endpapers (?), contemporary ownership signature to... Read More
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Jonoah and the Green Stone
by Henry Dumas; Eugene B. Redmond [arrangement]
New York: Random House, 1976. Very Good/Very Good +. New York: Random House, 1976. First Edition Stated with full RH number line. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket by Mike Stromberg retaining original price ($7.95); xxi,[1],168pp. Light shelf wear, textblock top and fore-edge quite foxed, else a Very Good, straight and sound example. Scarce first... Read More
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The Story of the Negro Retold
by Carter G. Woodson and Charles H. Wesley; James Lesesne Wells [dust jacket art]
Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc, 1959. Very Good/Very Good. Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1959. Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket; blue-green cloth boards stamped in black; 472pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Dust jacket chipped along edges with slight sunning to spine. Boards show light edgewear; binding sound; pages unmarked; a... Read More
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![The Trashing of America [Inscribed by Plymell and Levine]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/443/560/1699560443.0.m.jpg)
The Trashing of America [Inscribed by Plymell and Levine]
by Charles Plymell; Les Levine [cover art]
New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1975. Very Good. New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1975. First Edition. Signed by Plymell and Levine with personalized inscriptions at title page and Levine's reading "Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them and then you destroy yourself. Les Levine." Quarto; 122pp. + photographs; illustrated wraps... Read More
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![Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War [Signed by Joukowsky and Burns]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/195/860/1620860195.0.m.jpg)
Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War [Signed by Joukowsky and Burns]
by Artemis Joukowsky; Ken Burns [fwd.]
Boston: Beacon Press, 2016. Very Good/Very Good +. Boston: Beacon Press, 2016. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xv,[1],255pp.; illus. Light wear to jacket and board margins, textblock fore-edge lightly finger-soiled, else Very Good or better. Signed by both Joukowsky and Burns on title page with brief inscription by the former. ... Read More
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The Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Library of Congress
by Arthur Dunkelman; Ralph E. Ehrenberg, Norman Fiering, and John Lombardi et al. [essays]
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2007. Near Fine/Near Fine. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2007. First Edition. Quarto. 236 pp. Color photographs and reproductions throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Dark brown cloth stamped in gilt. Touch of rubbing to edges of dust jacket. Mild shelfwear to boards. Binding sound and pages unmarked; Near Fine. The Kislak collection includes nearly... Read More
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Textbook of Friendship
by Arthur Conan Doyle; Christopher Morley [ed.]
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); [6],366pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, a few small chips at spine crown, spine panel a bit sunned, top textblock edge dust-soiled, else a Very Good, bright and... Read More
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![The Price: A Play [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/542/231/1671231542.0.m.jpg)
The Price: A Play [Signed]
by Arthur Miller
New York: The Viking Press, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Viking Press, 1968. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); [viii],116pp. Blue and gold dust jacket with $4.50 price intact; boards in blue and black cloth with blue, green, and white lettering to spine; yellow topstain. Jacket lightly rubbed along edges with a faint thumbprint to front panel and... Read More
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![Situation Normal... [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/924/601/1507601924.0.m.jpg)
Situation Normal... [Signed]
by Arthur Miller
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944. First Edition. Signed by Arthur Miller at title page without inscription. Octavo. 179 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price present. Yellow boards stamped in black and red. Dust jacket chipped along edges with general soiling and smudging and tape mending... Read More
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The Horns of Ramadan
by Arthur Train
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); [12],291pp. A few small chips and closed tears to jacket extremities occasionally touching text without loss of meaning, spine panel rather toned with two small spots of blue paint (?),... Read More
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Death of a Swagman
by Arthur W. Upfield
Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1945. Very Good. Garden City, NY: Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1945. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cream cloth, black spine titling; 221pp. Cloth rather foxed, spine toned, internally clean and sound. Overall a Very Good copy, albeit lacking jacket. Forms part of the Australian... Read More
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The Orchestration of Color: The Paintings of Arthur B. Carles
by Arthur B[eecher] Carles; Barbara Ann Boese Wolanin; Mercedes Carles Matter; [et al.]
New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2000. Very Good. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2000. First Edition. Quarto (29x23x1.5cm); 184pp, including bibliography. Richly illustrated throughout with full-page color plates and many background, reference, and documentary images. Illustrated card covers with a purple ground. Some slight signs of storage pressures on covers: faint scuffing of coating (without color loss),... Read More
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![The Reefs of Taprobane: Underwater Adventures Around Ceylon [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/465/830/1502830465.0.m.jpg)
The Reefs of Taprobane: Underwater Adventures Around Ceylon [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Arthur C. Clarke; Mike Wilson [photo.]
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957. First U.S. Edition. Bookplate signed by Arhtur C. Clarke loosely laid in at front. Tall octavo. 205 pp. Color and black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $5.00 price present. Blue and orange boards with spine stamped in black; illustrated... Read More
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Jobs, Machines, and Capitalism
by Arthur Dahlberg; Edward Alsworth Ross [fwd.]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. Very Good +/Fine. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. 252 pp. Large colored chart to rear pocket; b&w illustrations. Printed dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket with $3.00 price stamped to front flap and else bright and remarkably well preserved. Boards show light shelfwear and gilt... Read More
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The Gladiators: A Novel - The Danube Edition
by Arthur Koestler; Edith Simon [trans.]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. First thus. Octavo. 319 pages. Printed dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt. Koestler's first book, originally published in 1939, is the story of Spartacus and the slave revolt of 73-71 BCE. First in Koestler's political trilogy of idealism gone wrong,... Read More
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The Use and Training of the Human Voice: A New Approach to the Bio-Dynamics of Voice and Speech
by Arthur Lessac; David Simon, Robert Arnout, and Peter Kunz [illus.]
[New York]: [s.i.], 1960. Very Good. [New York]: [s.i.], 1961. Second printing. Large octavo. 265 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Toning to edges; mild curling to corners. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good. "Second Printing" stated on copyright page though with following notice printed on title page - "This preliminary printing is for... Read More
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