A Song of Italy
by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
London: John Camden Hotten, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8; 66; 8; 6pp. Foolscap octavo [17 cm] Blue cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the backstrip. With "1867" at foot of backstrip. Black endpapers. With 8 pages of publisher's adverts at the front. There is a thin frayed loss to the cloth at the... Read More
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Difficult Morning (The Gateway Poets)
by Swingler, Randall; [David Emery Gascoyne]
London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1933. First edition. Good. 40pp. Slim duodecimo [19 cm] Bluish-gray paper over thin card boards, with a paper title label on the front board. Backstrip absent. Faded at the edges. No dust jacket. Ex-libris English poet, David Emery Gascoyne (1916-2001), with his inscription in pencil on the front free endsheet. His first collection... Read More
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A History of Afghanistan [Two-volume Set]
by Sykes, Percy
London: Macmillan & Co, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 411; 414pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] in blue cloth with gilt-stamped spines, ruling in blind on boards. Rubbing and light wear to boards, spines lightly toned, 1/2" tear to front joint at top of Volume II, light dampstaining to front board of Vol. II; ink name, with "Calcutta, 1941"... Read More
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Willem de Kooning Paintings
by Sylvester, David; Richard Shiff and Marla Prather (Catalogue)
Washington DC: National Gallery of Art / Yale University Press, 1994. Exhibition catalogue. Hardcover. 231pp. Quarto [31 cm] Black cloth covered boards with silver stamped titles. Near fine. The spine is subtly rolled, and there is a tiny nick in the cloth along the bottom edge of the front cover. The dust jacket is in very good condition. The... Read More
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Wilford Woodruff Sylvester: Autobiography of a Farm Philosopher
by Sylvester, Wilford Woodruff
1980. Illustrated. Hardcover. 80pp. Quarto [28 cm] Brown leatherette with gilt stamped titles. Very good. The front free endsheet is adhered to the front pastedown along the inside margin. The second page is also adhered along the inside margin. Many charming illustrations.
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The Great Beast: The Life of Aleister Crowley
by Symonds, John
New York: Rider and Company, 1955. Sixth printing. Hardcover. Good. 316pp. Octavo [23.5 cm.] Blue cloth with title and bands stamped in yellow on the backstrip. Illustrated. Spine and fore and bottom edges of boards heavily abraded. Rear endpaper is split along the hinge. As is. Includes the Gerald Yorke bibliography of the works of Crowley. The first... Read More
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Homage to Giordano Bruno (1548-1600)
by Szerlip, Barbara
1974. Paperback. 5pp. Very slim twenty-fourmo. Sewn tan and brown pictorial wraps. Near fine condition. Barbara Szerlip founded a "small press" literary magazine called Tractor as an undergraduate. She is also a two-time National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellow.
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B/RDS
by Szymkowiak, Béatrice
Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2023. Reprint. Paperback. New. 70pp. Octavo. [21.6 cm]. Illustrated wraps. From the publisher: "B/RDS endeavors to dismantle discourses that create an artificial distinction between nature and humanity through a subversive erasure of an iconic work of natural history: John James Audubon’s Birds of America (1827-1838). This process of erasure considers... Read More
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Maurice Tabard
by Tabard, Maurice; Pierre Gassmann; Rosalind Krauss; Caroline Elissagaray
France: Contrejour, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 103pp. Quarto [31cm]. Cream colored boards; lettering stamped in gray ink on spine. Toning and mild rubbing to extremities. Spine ends and corners gently bumped. Dust jacket heavily rubbed; edges mildly chipped. Text is in French. Maurice Tabard was a leading photographer of the Surrealist movement.
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Excavaciones En Arroyo Del Palo, Mayari, Cuba
by Tabio, Ernesto E.; J. M. Guarch
La Habana: Departamento De Antropologia, Academia De Ciencias De La Republica De Cuba, 1966. Paperback. SIGNED. 82; [XX]pp. Octavo [23 cm] Tan and brown wraps. Illustrated. Very good. The wraps are lightly creased and rubbed, and the rear wrap is age-toned and just a trifle soiled. The top fore edge corners of the pages are a little bumped. A... Read More
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Jorge Tacla: Out of Focus
by Tacla, Jorge; Timothy Maliqalim Simone
New York: Nohra Haime Gallery, 1989. Original exhibition catalogue. Paperback. Very good +. Thin quarto [27 cm] Illustrated thin card wraps. November 1-18, 1989.
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Whose Chick Are You
by Tafuri, Nancy
New York: Greenwillow Books, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. SIGNED Unpaginated. Quarto [26cm] Illustrated paper over boards. Illustrations were created using watercolor and brush pens. Signed by the author on the title page.
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Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
by Táíwò, Olúf mi O.
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2022. Later printing. Paperback. New. 157pp. Duodecimo [19cm]. Illustrated wraps. "“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little resemblance to the concept as first introduced by the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective.... Read More
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Preserves
by Takacs, Nancy
Salt Lake City, UT: City Art, 2004. First edition. Paperback. As NEW.
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Red Voice
by Nancy Takacs
Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2016. First edition. Paperback. New. SIGNED: 30pp. Octavo [21.5cm]; illustrated wraps. From quote by Donna J. Long on back of book: "In Red Voice, Nancy Takacs explores a voice of adventure and wisdom, of finding a way, through rough music and apppetite. Her Echo's breath is stopped by "the wrists of water lilies"... Read More
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The Worrier: Poems
by Takacs, Nancy
United States of America: University of Massachusetts Press, 2017. First edition. Paperback. New. SIGNED 68pp. Octavo [23cm]; illustrated wraps. Fortieth recipient of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. The Worrier presents the readers with a series of questions followed by poetic responses. Many of the poems contained within were published elsewhere, including Harvard Review, Tampa Review, and Helicon West... Read More
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Dearest Water
by Takacs, Nancy
Woodstock, NY: Mayapple Press, 2022. First edition. Paperback. New. 79pp. Octavo [23cm]. Illustrated wraps. "Nancy Takacs is a poet in love with places, desert areas once home to ancient seas in the Colorado Plateau in Utah, and bodies of water, like Lake Superior, and the ocean she knew as a child growing up in New Jersey. These are... Read More
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Juniper
by Takacs, Nancy
Boise, ID: Limberlost Press, 2010. First edition. Paperback. NEW. 26pp. Letterpress edition of 350 copies. Limberlost Press is a small publisher of fine poetry books Based in Boise, Idaho. They produce limited runs of unpublished work by local and nationally known poets. From the publisher: This collection of poems is infused with sage and juniper, images... Read More
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Yoshiko Takikawa
by Takikawa, Yoshiko; Masakazu Horiuchi (Text)
Tokyo: Gallery Ueda; Gallery Decor (Ueda Culture Projects, Ltd, 1990. Original exhibition catalogue. Paperback. Very good. 24pp. Very slender quarto [28.5 cm] Plain white saddle-stitched wraps, with a green and white printed dust wrapper. The front of the dust wrapper is subtly toned. Contains the essay "Yoshiko Takikawa's Glass Sculptures" by Masakazu Horiuchi.
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A Foreign Kingdom: Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture
by Talbot, Christine
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 262pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Rust-colored cloth over boards. Copy of an interview with the author tucked in. The years from 1852 to 1890 marked a controversial period in Mormonism, when the church's official embrace of polygamy put it at odds with wider American culture. In this study,... Read More
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Grinnell: America's Environmental Pioneer and His Restless Drive to Save the West
by Taliaferro, John
Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. 606pp. Octavo [24.5cm]; blue and brown paper covered boards with title in gilt on spine and publisher's colophon in gilt on front board. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn in 1849 and grew up on the estate of ornithologist John James Audubon. Upon graduation from Yale, he dug for dinosaurs on... Read More
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The House of the Lord: A Study of Holy Sanctuaries Ancient and Modern
by James E. Talmage
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1998. Reprint. Hardcover. NEW. 209pp. Oblong quarto [26.5 cm] 1/2 blue marbled buckram over tan canvas boards. Illustrated dust jacket. New. Hardcover. A special reprint of the 1912 first edition. Foreword by Harvard S. Heath. Appendix by John A. Widtsoe. Photographs showing the interior of the Salt Lake City LDS Temple by... Read More
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The Articles of Faith
by Talmage, James E.
Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 2003. Reprint. Hardcover. As NEW. 728 pp. 20cm. Black boards with brown dustjacket that emulates original leather. Foreword by James P. Harris. Text is an exact photomechanical reproduction of the first edition 'The Articles of Faith.' This reprint couples 'The Articles of Faith' with a reprint of 'Latter-Day Revelation.'.
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The Philosophical Basis of "Mormonism." An address delivered by invitation before the congress of religious philosophies held in connection with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. San Francisco, California. July 29th, 1915
by Talmage, James E.
Salt Lake City: Bureau of Information, 1915. First Edition. Paperback. 32pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Tan Printed wrappers. Very good. Minor foxing to extremities. Flake/Draper lists this printing second, after a 48pp edition., which includes an October,1915 speech given in Salt Lake City. This copy contains only the Panama Pacific speech from earlier that summer, and is the presumed first... Read More
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The Chinese Siamese Cat
by Tan, Amy; Gretchen Schields (Illustrator)
New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/very good +. Gretchen Schields. SIGNED. Thin quarto [29 cm] Blue cloth over boards. Boards slightly warped. Dampstaining to lower edges of boards and textblock. In a dust jacket with mild soiling and surface wear. Signed by the author on the title page.
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