A Sermon preached at the Church in Brattle Street, Boston, December 18th, 1808, the Lord's Day after the Publick Funeral of his Excellency James Sullivan, Governour of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
by Buckminster, Joseph S.
Boston: J. Belcher, Printer, 1809. First Edition Thus. Pamphlet. Good.. First Edition Thus. Pamphlet. Governor of Massachusetts from 1800-1808, James Sullivan (1744-1808), was born in Berwick, Maine (then part of the District of Maine). A nice copy of this rather uncommon imprint. Hint of foxing at preliminaries, light toning at text block edge, disbound (as typically found), else... Read More
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The Divine Origin of the Craft of the Herbalist
by Budge, E.A. Wallis
London: The Society of Herbalists, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover. Noted Egyptologist Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge discusses earliest Orient herbals in Egypt, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria; their role as foundations of Greek herbals and subsequent dissemination through Asia and Europe, additional Gods as herbalists, divine medicines, water as divine element, oils and unguents.... Read More
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Hand-Bound Books: The Old Method of Bookbinding. A Guide for Amateur Bookbinders
by Buffum, Clara
Providence, RI: The Akerman-Standard Company, 1935. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good+ in Wraps. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Light wear at edges (less than typically found), minor toning on spine, small water stain at top right corner, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Brown overlapped paper wraps with printed decorative elements. 8vo. 68pp. Index. Illus. (b/w plates). Signed by... Read More
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If We Take
by Bukowski, Charles
[Los Angeles]: Black Sparrow Press, 1970. First Edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine in Wraps.. First Edition. Original Wraps. INSCRIBED by Bukowski to Harold Norse: "12 -27 - 69 / For Hal Norse - / We've both been / through the fire, / dear friend, and / there's more to come - / more fire more o / so... Read More
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Crossroads of the Pacific - Oahu
by Hawaii Tourist Bureau
Honolulu, Hawaii: Hawaii Tourist Bureau, 1959. Very Good+. Featuring an image of the Island of Oahu and traditional Hulu dancer on the cover, inside depicts a map of the island with mountainous regions, major roadways and text providing information useful to tourists. The pocket size brochure states above the map "Territory of Hawaii" so the map is dated... Read More
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Fishing for a Discharge
by Buren, Colonel Van
Valparaiso, IN: Sandlin's Books and Bindery, Inc, 1993. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue leather boards, onlay leather decorative elements, silver gilt, printed endpapers, frontispiece, string with fishhook attached with the word discharge at the end, loose leaf corrective sheet. 71x48mm. 29pp. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 30 of... Read More
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A Treasure Chest of Wisdom: Jewels of Thought. The Tablets of Aeth in Verse: A Supplement to the Tablets of Aeth in the Light of Egypt, Volume II
by Burgoyne, Thomas H.
Denver, CO: H.O. Wagner, 1967. Reprint (supplement). Staplebound Wraps. Very Good+. Reprint (supplement). Staplebound Wraps. The Hermetic Brotherhood of Light, a group closely associated with - or possibly even the same as the better-known Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, of which Burgoyne was the Secretary. The Wagner's published a reprint of Burgoyne's work in 1963 and subsequently published this... Read More
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The Works of Edmund Burke [Complete in Twelve Volumes]
by Burke, Edmund
London: John C. Nimmo, 1887. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Overall, a handsome set of Burke's philosophical and political writings. Light shelf/edge wear, some tips through, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Halfbound, brown leather spine and tips, five raised bands, gilt lettering, marbled endpages, frontispieces, tissueguards. 8vo. Var. pag. Illus. (b/w plates).
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Signals in the Animal World
by Burkhardt D.; et al.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Good+ DJ. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Very minor shelf wear, touch of toning along bottom edge of boards, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light to moderate shelf/edge wear, several small, closed tears, light soil/spotting, else clean and bright. Yellow cloth boards, black ink... Read More
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“Electronic Computing Circuits of the ENIAC." [Proceedings of the I.R.E., Vol. 35, No. 8]
by Burks, Arthur W.
New York: Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, 1947. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good-. First Edition. Original Wraps. Subject text at: 756-767pp. Burks was a senior engineer on the team that developed the ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose electronic computer. A rather monumental paper. "The ENIAC performs the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square-rooting,... Read More
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The Smugglers of Chestnut
by Burleigh, Clarence B; Bridgman, L. (illus)
Augusta, ME: E. E. Knowles & Co, 1891. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. No DJ, as Issued. First Printing. Hardcover. Presentation copy. Inscribed by author, "Hon. Selden Connor, With the sincere regards of The Author." Selden Connor was an officer in the 19th Maine Reg., wounded in The Wilderness and a Brevet Brigadier General. He was also Governor... Read More
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The Dead [Special Edition]
by Burman, Jack
Toronto, Canada: The Magenta Foundation, 2010. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine Archival Box. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Foreword by Martha Hanna. "Canadian photographer Jack Burman has created a hypnotic collection of still-lifes of long-departed but painstakingly preserved people, specimens and skeletons—dehumanized but very human; flawed but very beautiful. Exquisitely captured, Burman’s post-mortem documentation addresses not only death, but... Read More
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Rent Strike: St. Pancras 1960
by Burn, Dave
London: Pluto Press, 1972. First Printing. Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. First Printing. Original Wraps. Minor shelf/edge wear, light even toning, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed paper wraps. Small 8vo. 26pp plus adverts.
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In The Closed Room
by Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Smith, Jessie Willcox (illus)
New York: McClure, Phillips, 1904. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ.. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Lovely illustrations by Smith. BAL 2100. Overall, a handsome copy of this minor classic. Light shelf wear, front hinge starting, hint of spoting at rear pastedown, several spots of minor soiling at boards, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards,... Read More
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Memoirs of the United States Secret Service. [compiled by permission form the Department Records] with Accurate Portraits of Prominent Members of the Detective Force, Some of their Most Notable Captures, and a Brief Account of the Life of Col. H.C. Whitley, Chief of the Division
by Burnham, Capt. Geo. P.
Lee & Shepard: Boston, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ.. First Edition. Hardcover. Laid in mms letter, on Treasury Dept. letterhead, by John Wilkie dated May 1, 1901 (while he was the head of the United States Secret Service from. Famously, and using the name "Fred S. Ellmore" ("Fred Sell More") Wilkie wrote of the Indian... Read More
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Spun Aluminum Bra Engineering Drawing
by Burnham, Dave (art)
Everett, MA: Roland Teiner Co, 1952. Poster. Fine. Poster. Printed in the saturated blue of engineering blueprints, though on heavier stock. Their focus during WW2 had been largely military and, as the war ended, they were apparently brainstorming ideas about product areas... This was, very likely, an engineer's joke that was 'good enough' that the company printed them... Read More
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Jelliffe: American Psychoanalyst and Physician and His Correspondence With Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung
by Burnham, John C. (Jelliffe Biography); William McGuire (Correspondence Editor); A. R. T. D'Amore (Foreword); Oliver Sacks, former owner
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. First Edition. Hardcover. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a... Read More
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The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. With Critical and Biographical Notices
by Burns, Robert; Cunningham, Allan (ed)
Philadelphia, PA: Porter & Coates, 1885. Rebound/Fine Leather. Hardcover. Near Fine. No DJ. Rebound/Fine Leather. Hardcover. A very handsome binding on this classic Burns volume, the result is a beautiful and very readable collection. Tight, bright and unmarred. Halfbound, red leather spine and tips, five raised bands, gilt lettering and decorative elements, marbled endpages, text block edges marbled,... Read More
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Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America
by Burns, Stanley, MD
Altadena, CA: TwelveTrees Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Text and notes at the rear of the volume include Death in America: A Chronology, an illuminating and sobering commentary on morbidity and mortality in the United States, including the colonial era. Burns is an ophthalmologist and is currently a Clinical... Read More
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Thomas Hamlin Hubbard:. Bvt. Brigadier General U.S. Vols
by Burrage, Henry S.
Portland, ME, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Very Good DJ.. First Edition. Hardcover. Seldom found in DJ (as it is unprinted). A very handsome copy. Minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows small chip at head and tail, else clean. Navy cloth boards, gilt lettering, in blind decorative elements, frontispiece. 8vo. 66pp. Illus. (b/w... Read More
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Book-Hunter, etc. with a memoir of the author
by Burton, John Hill
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1882. New Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. New Edition. Hardcover. Cracked spine at joint, else intact, minimal shelf/edge wear, light tonnig, else tight, bright and unmarred. Full blue leather with gilt lettering, decorative element, frontispiece. 8vo. 427pp. Illus. (b/w, sepia). Index.
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The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi
by Burton, Richard F., translator, [author]
New York; New Haven, CT: Limited Editions Club, Yale University Press, Printing Office, 1937. Limted Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Limted Edition. Hardcover. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi (1880) is a long English language poem written by "Haji Abdu El-Yezdi," a pseudonym of the true author, Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), a well-known British Arabist and explorer. In... Read More
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The Anatomy of Melancholy, now for the first time with the Latin completely given in translation and embodied in an all-English text [two volumes]
by Burton, Robert; Paul Jordan-Smith; Floyd Dell; Oliver Sacks, former owner
New York: George Doran, 1927. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine (No DJ). Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Previously owned by Oliver Sacks. S.T. Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian, who with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. Coleridge coined many familiar words... Read More
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The Anatomy of Melancholy:. Now for the first time with the Latin completely given in translation and embodied in an all-English text
by Burton, Robert; Dell, Floyd (ed); Jordan-Smith, Paul (ed)
Tudor Pub. Co, 1938. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ. Reprint. Hardcover. Originally published in 1621, this is a strangly readable and engaging tome. As noted in the preface, translated into modern terminology, Burton's title would read, "An Analysis of Morbid Psychology." A rather handsome copy of this rather uncommon volume. Includes laid in letter. Light shelf wear,... Read More
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Recently Discovered Invertebrates
by Burt, Stephen
Portland, ME: Stephen Burt/Wolfe Editions, 2010. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Black cloth boards. Small 8vo. np. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 8 of 20.
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