Paul on Mars Hill: Or, A Christian Survey of the Pagan World. A Sermon, preached at Newburyport, June 21, 1815, at the Ordination of the Reverend Messrs. Samuel J. Mills, James Richards, Edward Warren, Horatio Bardwell, Benjamin C. Meigs, and Daniel Poor, to the office of Christian Missionaries
by Samuel Worcester
Andover: Flagg and Gould, 1815. Very Good. Andover: Flagg and Gould, 1815. First Edition. Octavo; stitched self-wrappers; 44pp. (collated complete). Light foxing and dust-soil to margins, else a Very Good and sound, partly unopened copy. Congregationalist minister's assessment of Ancient Civilization, warning his listeners that, "Dazzled with the splendours, particularly of ancient Greece, we are apt... Read More
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Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including the Borderers, a Tragedy
by William Wordsworth
London: Edward Moxon, 1842. Very Good. London: Edward Moxon, 1842. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's dark brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, yellow glazed endpapers; xi,[1],405,[1],[6](ads)pp. Light shelf wear to cloth extremities, spine very lightly faded, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown and ownership signature of a Marion Campbell to front free endpaper, else a Very Good, clean and sound... Read More
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International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers on Strike Against New England [Collection of Three Strike Placards]
by International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers
Boston: International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers, 1968. Very Good. [Boston]: International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers, n.d. but 1968. Collection of three silkscreen strike placards (55.5x35.5cm.) printed on rectos only. The three examples show various levels of use, the most heavily worn example quite toned and soiled with shallow losses along corners, else a Very Good collection overall. ... Read More
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Henok: Journal of Historical and Philosophical Thought, Vol. 1
by Wosene Yefru [ed.]
Washington, D.C.: Ethiopian Research Council, 1990. First Edition. Very Good. Washington, D.C.: Ethiopian Research Council, 1990. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on title page. Octavo (9" x 6"); 161p. Covers bumped at top corner, with light shelfwear but no chips or tears. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. First Volume of a scholarly journal "to help narrate... Read More
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Nature's Way: A Comedy in Two Acts
by Herman Wouk
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1958. Near Fine/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1958. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in decorative price-clipped dust jacket by Remy Charlip; [4],134pp. Light wear and dust soil to dust jacket, rather dark finger soiling to jacket verso not visible externally; a Near Fine copy in Very Good... Read More
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The Glory: A Novel [Signed Limited Deluxe Edition]
by Herman Wouk
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. Near Fine. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994. Deluxe Limited First Edition of 200 copies, of which this is #148. Octavo (24cm); [xii],685pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, housed in matching blue slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. Boards are sturdy and square with light bumping at spine ends.... Read More
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Pennsylvania: A Guide to the Keystone State
by Compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Pennsylvania [WPA]
New York: Oxford University Press, 1946. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Oxford University Press, 1946. Second Printing. Octavo. 660pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations, map to rear pocket. Illustrated dust jacket. Light green boards stamped in red; front map endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket lightly wrinkled with chipping and creasing along edges; spine toned. Boards show light edgewear... Read More
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Instruction sur la Contribution Fonciere
by M. [Jean Francois] Royer-Desgrantes and M. Guedy; Justine Giroud [printer]; Jean-Baptiste Letourmi [Letourmy] [wrappers]
Grenoble: Ve. Giroud & Fils, 1792. Very Good. Grenoble: Imprimé & se vend...chez Ve. Giroud & Fils, Impr. Libr. place aux Herbes, 1792. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); blockprinted wrappers No. 135 by Orleans printer Jean-Baptiste Letourmi (a.k.a. Letourmy); xxiv,271pp.; decorative head- and tail-pieces, tables throughout text. Light wear to wrapper margins including brief biopredation along top edge of... Read More
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Collected Poems [Signed and Inscribed]
by James Wright
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. Very Good/Very Good +. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. Stated First Edition. Octavo (24cm); 215pp. Publisher’s pictorial dust jacket with $7.95 price intact; boards bound in charcoal cloth with gilt and silver stamping to spine; mustard yellow endsheets. Dust jacket gently bumped; spine slightly toned. Jacket rear panel toned with some... Read More
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Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David [Signed]
by Lawrence Wright
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. First Edition. Signed by Lawrence Wright without inscription at title page. Octavo. 345 pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black and blue boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges with mild surface scratching. Boards with... Read More
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The Outsider
by Richard Wright
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953. First Edition, stated, with publisher's B-C code. Octavo (22cm); illustrated dust jacket with $3.95 price intact; decorated boards with black cloth spine and gray lettering; [vi],405pp. Jacket edgeworn with a few closed tears at folds and edges of rear panel, with some adjacent... Read More
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Poor, Black and in Real Trouble: A Novel [Inscribed and Signed]
by Jerome Dyson (Wright)
Baltimore, MD: Community Residence Center, 1976. Very Good +/Very Good. Baltimore, MD: Community Residence Center, 1976. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($7.95); [10],308pp. Light toning and a few chips and closed tears to dust jacket margins, corners nudged, else a Very Good and sound copy overall. Warmly inscribed and signed... Read More
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The Throne of Saturn
by S. Fowler Wright
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1949. Very Good/Very Good. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1949. First Edition. Octavo; viii, 186pp. 3062 copies printed (3000 stated on colophon at back). Original dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; book in Holliston Black Novelex cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket a bit scuffed along folds and at spine ends, but crisp with... Read More
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Planet Stories - Summer 1945
by W. Scott Peacock [ed.]; Wilbur S. Peacock; Emmett McDowell [contribs.]; Harry Lemon Parkhurst [illus.]
New York: Love Romances Publishing Co, 1945. Good. New York: Love Romances Publishing Co., 1945. Octavo; 128pp. Pulp magazine. Illustrated paper wraps. Front cover cleanly separated along spine, held with two small pieces of clear tape hinged over spine and onto back; shallow tears and creasing along overhung fore-edge, with creasing to front spine corner and an inch... Read More
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Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham; Selina Hastings [intro.]; Michael Kirkham [illus.]
London: The Folio Society, 2011. Near Fine. London: The Folio Society, 2011. First Thus. Large octavo. 579 pp. Color illustrations. Illustrated boards; dark red endpapers. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Boards tight in binding and pages unmarked. Slipcase with light rubbing along open and top edges, else sound and stable. A Fine copy in a Near Fine slipcase.... Read More
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Jennifer Lorn: A Sedate Extravaganza
by Elinor Wylie
New York: George H. Doran Company on Murray Hill, 1923. Very Good/Very Good. New York: George H. Doran Company on Murray Hill, 1923. First Edition, issue B with title page a cancel as usual. Octavo. 302 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Tan cloth stamped in gilt over marbled boards. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn with mild general soiling and spine... Read More
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Volcanic Heavens: Essays on Wyndham Lewis's Painting & Writing [Limited Edition, Signed by Edwards]
by Wyndham Lewis; Paul Edwards [ed.]
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1996. Near Fine/Near Fine. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1996. First Edition, Limited to 126 deluxe signed copies of which this is no. 46. Octavo; publisher's cloth over pictorial paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label, in original clear acetate dust jacket; [2],194pp.; 12 leaves of plates, about half in color. Just... Read More
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Snooty Baronet
by Wyndham Lewis; Bernard Lafourcade [ed.]
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. Very Good. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. Limited Deluxe Edition. Octavo (23.5 cm); 313pp. Publisher's illustrated boards with yellow cloth spine and paper spine label; yellow endpapers. Boards are sturdy and square with light edgewear along bottom. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the editor on tipped-in leaf... Read More
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Tarr: The 1918 Version [Limited Edition]
by Wyndham Lewis; Paul O'Keeffe [ed.]
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. Near Fine/Fine. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. First Black Sparrow Edition, Limited to 126 deluxe copies of which this is no. 52. Large octavo; publisher's cloth over pictorial paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label, in original slightly opaque acetate dust jacket; 425pp.; illus. A Near Fine copy of this... Read More
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![Creatures of Habit and Creatures of Change: Essays on Art, Literature and Society 1914-1856 [Limited Edition Signed by Edwards]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/210/134/1626134210.0.m.jpg)
Creatures of Habit and Creatures of Change: Essays on Art, Literature and Society 1914-1856 [Limited Edition Signed by Edwards]
by Wyndham Lewis; Paul Edwards [ed.]
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. Very Good. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. Limited First Edition, numbered 54 of 126 deluxe copies on limitation statement at rear. Octavo (235cm); 425pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards and maroon cloth backing with paper spine label; clear acetate jacket. Boards lightly shelfworn with a small, faint stain at top edge. Acetate jacket... Read More
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Vultures in the Sun [Signed]
by Brian Wynne Garfield
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. Very Good+/Very Good. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1963. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Octavo (22 cm); 183pp. Boards in oatmeal and orange cloth with black and orange stamping to spine, wrapped in intact pictorial jacket ($3.95). Orange top stain and fore-edge deckled. Jacket rubbed and bumped at margins with minor creases... Read More
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The Rosemary Touch: A Novel About the Advertising Business
by Lois Wyse
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1974. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1974. Stated First Edition. Inscribed in blue ink by author on front free endpaper to journalist William Safire: "For William Safire -- My op ed favorite -- / Lois Wyse." Octavo; 258 pp. Pictorial dust jacket with original $6.95 price. Maroon cloth... Read More
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Mao's Generals: Chen Yi and the New Fourth Army
by Lanxin Xiang
New York: University Press of America, Inc, 1998. Very Good. New York: University Press of America, Inc., 1998. Octavo. 223pp. Black boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Bumping and light wear to edges and spine. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy.
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Auspicious Ju-i Scepters of China 吉祥如意文物特展圖錄
by Xiasheng Chen 陳夏生
Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1995. Very Good/Very Good. Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1995. First Edition. Octavo in slipcase (volume 29x22x2.5cm; slipcase 30.5x22.5x3cm); 287pp. Full-color full-page plates for each of 130 catalogued items; images repeated as B&W thumbnails for final index of specifications. About 90 additional color and B&W photographs and documentary images in introduction. Principally in Chinese; augmented... Read More
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X-Ray Number Six: Winter 1996 [A Visit from Jake by Brautigan laid in]
by [X-Ray Book Co.] Johnny Brewton [ed.]; Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, Linda Cervon et al.
San Francisco: X-Ray Book Co, 1996. Near Fine. San Francisco: X-Ray Book Company, 1996. First Edition, limited issue of 226 copies, of which 200 were numbered, this being #101. Octavo; unpaginated. Illustrations on multi-color varying types of paper stock; envelope, cards, notes mounted throughout. Acetate covers secured in hard black plastic fasteners; yellow cover decorated in felt; "Red... Read More
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