Guenevere: A Play in Five Acts
by Stark Young
New York: Grafton Press, 1906. Very Good. New York: Grafton Press, 1906. First Edition. Small, slim octavo; publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 82pp. Light shelf wear to cloth margins, scattered foxing to endpapers, textblock a bit toned and brittle, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Scarce five-act play published the same year as the author's first... Read More
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The Complaint; or, Night Thoughts
by Edward Young
New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1856. Very Good-. New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1856. Reprint. Small octavo (15cm.); publisher's grey decorative gilt-stamped cloth, all edges gilt; 326pp.; engraved frontispiece, text printed within decorative floral border throughout. Cloth rather rubbed with coin-sized loss to upper cover exposing board beneath, textblock rather foxed throughout, else a Good to Very Good... Read More
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My Brother Jonathan
by Francis Brett Young
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Edition. Octavo. 439 pages. Frank McIntosh-illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in yellow, purple, and gilt. Unclipped dust jacket is heavily rubbed and chipped along edges with an additional hole to rear panel. Boards worn along edges with brief... Read More
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![The Tourist's Pocket Map of Pennsylvania Exhibiting its Internal Improvements, Roads Distances &c [cover title: Mitchell's Map of Pennsylvania]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/703/990/1673990703.0.m.jpg)
The Tourist's Pocket Map of Pennsylvania Exhibiting its Internal Improvements, Roads Distances &c [cover title: Mitchell's Map of Pennsylvania]
by Samuel Augustus Mitchell and James Hamilton Young
Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1839. Very Good. Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell , 1839. Later issue with 1831 copyright and 1839 under publisher information. 12mo. Full hand-colored fold-out map (38x32.5cm) housed in original embossed red leather binding with gilt stamping to front. Light wear to extremities and binding is sound. Later gift inscriptions to pastedown. Mild toning to edges... Read More
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After the Banquet
by Yukio Mishima; Donald Keene [trans.]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. First American Edition. Octavo. 271pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth over blue paper-covered boards stamped in gilt and red; red topstain. Unclipped dust jacket toned along edges with light wear and a couple minor nicks to spine ends. Boards show light... Read More
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Freedom and Community
by Yves R. Simon; Charles P. O'Donnell [ed.]
New York: Fordham University Press, 1968. Very Good. New York: Fordham University Press, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. 201 pp. Dark blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Light rubbing to edges of boards, touch of dust soiling along top edge, and gilt dulled along spine. Binding sound, ownership inscription to front free endpaper,... Read More
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Istituzione Antiquario-Lapidaria o sia Introduzione allo studio delle antiche Latine Iscrizioni in tre Libri Proposta
by [Francesco Antonio Zaccaria]
Roma: A spese di Venanzio Monaldini Mercante di Libri. Nella Stamperia di Giovanni Zempei, 1770. Very Good. Roma: A spese di Venanzio Monaldini Mercante di Libri. Nella Stamperia di Giovanni Zempei, 1770. First Edition. Octavo. 12mo. xl; 532pp. Quarter vellum over blue paper-covered boards; pink paper title label to spine. Ex-library with old (ca. 1900?) stamps and markings... Read More
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Riders of the Purple Sage: A Novel
by Zane Grey; Douglas Duer [illus.]
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1912. Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1912. First Edition, First Printing with "Published, January, 1912" on copyright page and date in Roman numerals on title page. Octavo; publisher's tan cloth stamped in brown and gilt, color pictorial paste-on to upper cover; [8],334pp.; frontispiece and three leaves of plates (collated complete).... Read More
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![The Lucy Variations [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/124/273/1700273124.0.m.jpg)
The Lucy Variations [Signed]
by Sara Zarr
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Little, Brown and Company, [2013]. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's boards in unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; [6],304pp. Moderate wear and light soil to dust jacket and textblock margins, old "Signed by the Author" sticker to upper panel, slight spine lean; overall Very Good.... Read More
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October Earthquake: Yom Kippur 1973
by Zeev Schiff; Louis Williams [trans.]
Tel Aviv: University Publishing Products Ltd, 1974. Very Good/Very Good. Tel Aviv: University Publishing Products Ltd., 1974. First English-language Edition. Octavo. 319 pp. Photographic dust jacket with $12 price present. Dark blue boards stamped in gilt. Jacket edgeworn with a few shallow chips and tears at folds and spine ends, with tape repair to verso; light dampstain... Read More
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Creatures of Light and Darkness
by Roger Zelazny
London: Faber and Faber, 1970. Very Good +/Very Good. London: Faber and Faber, 1970. First UK Edition. Octavo; 187pp. Illustrated dust jacket; black cloth boards stamped in gilt. Light wear to edges of unclipped dust jacket with mild creasing, toning, and a few minor nicks. Boards show light shelfwear; binding sound; sparse spotting to top edge of text... Read More
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Beijing's Economic Statecraft During the Cold War, 1949-1991
by Shu Guang Zhang
Washington, DC / Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Very Good. Washington, DC / Baltimore: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's glossy pictorial boards; xiv,[2],477pp. Corners and spine ends bumped, brief soil to textblock fore-edge, very occasional pencil marginalia, else Very Good and sound. ... Read More
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Dust Tracks on a Road
by Zora Neale Hurston; Maya Angelou [fwd.]; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. [ed.]
New York: HarperPerrenial, 1991. Very Good/Very Good +. New York: HarperPerrenial, 1991. First Thus. Octavo (21 cm), xii, [278]pp. Illustrated publisher’s dust jacket with price intact ($22.95/$29.95 CAN). Boards full bound in dark green bonded leather with gilt stamping on the spine. Dust jacket has some very light soiling and minor bumps to the head and tail of... Read More
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![Le Ultime Ore di Napoleone a Sant'Elena: Ottave [Fantasia]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/416/383/1681383416.0.m.jpg)
Le Ultime Ore di Napoleone a Sant'Elena: Ottave [Fantasia]
by [Napoleon Bonaparte] Giuseppe Zuccherini
Pistoia: Tipografia Cino, 1843. Very Good. Pistoia: Tipografia Cino, 1843. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's stitched mustard wrappers printed within typographically decorative border with putti at each corner; 36pp. Evidence along spine of having been removed from larger volume, including contemporary ink pagination at top corner of each leaf recto, light soil, textblock a bit foxed, else Very... Read More
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![Barely and Widely [Limited Edition, Signed to Hugh Seidman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/687/684/1700684687.0.m.jpg)
Barely and Widely [Limited Edition, Signed to Hugh Seidman]
by Louis Zukofsky
New York: Celia Zukofsky, 1958. Very Good. New York: Celia Zukofsky, 1958. Limited Edition of 300 numbered and signed copies, this being number 79. Oblong octavo (12cm x 16.3cm); blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine; front cover from paperback edition retained and tipped-in; 73pp in Zukofsky's facsimile handwriting. Boards rubbed with a couple light bumps along... Read More
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![A Test of Poetry [Inscribed and Signed to Hugh Seidman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/180/568/1699568180.0.m.jpg)
A Test of Poetry [Inscribed and Signed to Hugh Seidman]
by Louis Zukofsky
Brooklyn, NY: Objectivist Press, 1948. Very Good/Very Good. Brooklyn, NY: Objectivist Press, 1948. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's cloth in gray printed dust jacket retaining original price ($3.00); viii,165pp. Light shelf wear, faint scattered soiling to dust jacket, spine panel a bit toned and cloth unevenly faded, else a Very Good and sound copy. Inscribed and... Read More
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![Notes of a Nude Model and Other Pieces [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/115/212/1691212115.0.m.jpg)
Notes of a Nude Model and Other Pieces [Inscribed and Signed]
by Harriet Sohmers Zwerling
New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2003. Very Good. New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2003. First Edition. Small, slim 12mo (18cm); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 103pp. Light wear and dust-soil to margins, rear cover lightly damp spotted, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page together with her 212 phone number. Memoirs of... Read More
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