Brain Wave
by ANDERSON, Poul
New York: Walker and Company, 1969. First thus. First printing of the first American hardcover edition (originally published in paperback, 1954; in cloth in the UK in 1955). Octavo. White cloth hardcover; rose-pink topstain; fore edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 164pp. Spine ends bumped, else a tight, Near Fine copy, with the topstain even and unfaded. In the original dustwrapper, price-clipped,... Read More
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![Praising the Prophet: Joseph Smith and the Restoration in History and Verse [Inscribed & Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/297/434/968434297.0.m.1.jpg)
Praising the Prophet: Joseph Smith and the Restoration in History and Verse [Inscribed & Signed]
by ANDERSON, Sharon Price
Orem, UT: Time Lines, Etc., 2005. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 102pp. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on title page: "May you enjoy learning about this amazing man and the work he bagan," signed, undated. With additional gift inscription from "Karen" to "John." Fine copy, free of markings or wear.
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![Nearer the Grass Roots ... And by the same author, an account of a journey, Elizabethton [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/387/044/1057044387.0.m.jpg)
Nearer the Grass Roots ... And by the same author, an account of a journey, Elizabethton [Limited Edition, Signed]
by ANDERSON, Sherwood; John Ira Gannon, illus
San Francisco: Westgate Press, 1929. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 221. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth-backed decorative boards, gilt-lettered spine in contemporary paper covered slipcase (not called for in Sheehy & Lohf); [4],34pp.; two-toned woodcuts by Gannon throughout. Tiny split to spine crown cloth, gilt rather dulled, some light foxing and discrete glue... Read More
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No Swank
by ANDERSON, Sherwood
Philadelphia: Centaur Press, 1934. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); original black cloth, gilt-lettered spine; ix,[1],130pp. Spine gilt a bit dulled, offsetting to endpapers, else Very Good or better, lacking the dustwrapper. Collection of essays, including "Meeting Ring Lardner," "Prize Fighters and Authors," and "Gertrude Stein.
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The South: The Black and White, and Other Problems Below the Mason and Dixon Line
by ANDERSON, Sherwood
N.p. [New York?], [1926]. First Edition Thus. Small, square quarto in wrappers; [8pp]. Fine, apparently unread copy. A Sherwood Anderson rarity. This finely-printed keepsake on thick paper appears to be the only separate appearance of an article which first appeared in Vanity Fair for September, 1926. Later reprinted in Hello Towns (SHEEHY 333), but this printing not noted by... Read More
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Horses and Men: Tales, long and short, from our American life
by ANDERSON, Sherwood
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1923. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); orange cloth, with title label mounted at upper spine, and publisher's logo embossed on front cover; orange topstain (first issue, per Ahearn); dustjacket; xiv,347,[5]pp. A few small patches of paper adhesed to crown and base of spine, hint of offsetting to pastedowns, else cloth and contents are quite... Read More
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Tar: A Midwest Childhood
by ANDERSON, Sherwood
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First Trade Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket, blue topstain; xviii,346pp. Jacket extremities and spine rather toned and a bit rubbed, especially along flap folds; still, a Very Good, solid copy. Autobiographical novel of childhood and family life in the Midwest. HANNA 80.
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No Swank
by ANDERSON, Sherwood
Philadelphia: Centaur Press, 1934. First Edition. First printing; trade issue. Small octavo (19.5cm.); original black cloth, dustjacket; ix,[1],130pp. Light offsetting to endpapers, a Near Fine copy. The jacket is clipped, with nicks and short tears to the extremities; VG. Collection of literary essays, including "Meeting Ring Lardner," "Prize Fighters and Authors," and "Gertrude Stein." Quite uncommon in dustjacket.... Read More
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Perhaps Women
by ANDERSON, Sherwood
New York: Horace Liveright, [1931]. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in pink dust jacket illustrated with woodcut by J.J. Lankes; 143pp.; two-toned (cream and black) frontispiece (dust jacket woodcut repeated) and title page. Jacket a bit toned, especially at spine, a few short closed chips and tiny tears along extremities, else Very Good and sound. Collection of essays... Read More
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Marching Men
by ANDERSON, Sherwood
New York: John Lane Company, 1917. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); vertical-ribbed crimson cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 314pp. Spine gilt slightly dulled, bookplate to front pastedown, with some faint dampstaining to lower board edges and front joint; Very Good+ and clean throughout. Dustjacket is chipped and worn along the edges,... Read More
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Song of the Earth Spirit [Inscribed, Review Copy]
by ANDERSON, Susanne; David R. Brower (foreword; general editor)
San Francisco and New York: Friends of the Earth / McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1973]. First Edition. Review Copy, with publisher's typed review slip (stamped Dec 10 1973), typed photograph grant and release contract (with 'Send to' and "Victor de Keyserling' inked to sheet), publisher's typed press release, and T.L.s. from author laid in. Quarto (29cm); yellow cloth-covered boards, with... Read More
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Bundi Painting
by ANDHARE, S.K. (text); Karl Khandalavala (editor); Sadashiv Gorakshkar (associate editor); Usha Bhatia (editor)
New Delhi: R.L. Bartholomew, 1984. Orange paper folder (37.5cm), with colorful pictorial paper label on cover, and maroon ribbon tie; loosely tucked into the folder are seven colorful plates and one six-panel text pamplet. No.26 in the Lalit Kala Series Portfolio, with the efforts of honorary editor Karl Khandalavala, honorary associate editor Sadashiv Gorakshkar, and assistant editor Usha Bhatia.... Read More
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Le Paris des Polytechniciens: des ingenieurs dans la ville. Collection Paris et Son Patrimoine
by ANDIA, Béatrice de
Paris: Délégation À L'Action Artistique de la Ville de Paris, 1994. First Edition. Quarto. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 299pp; illus. Fine and unmarked in crisp, unworn dustwrapper; near-new. Text entirely in French.
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Badges of Imperial Russia: Military, Civil, Religious
by ANDOLENKO, Serge; Robert Werlich, ed. & trans
Washington DC: Quaker Press, 1983. Second Printing. Quarto (28.5cm x 22.5cm). Black leather boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on cover and spine; 216pp; illus. Very Good copy; slightly bumped corners; slight soiling to top cover, else tight. Catalogue of military, civil, and religious badges of Imperial Russia. 765 items with images and descriptions.
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FILM NOIR
by Andrews, Bruce
Providence: Burning Deck, 1978. First Edition. Chapbook. One of 350 numbered copies printed by the Waldrops at their press. By one of the foremost proponents of LANGUAGE poetry. Minor rubbing, else fine in illustrated (by the author) wrappers. [20 pp.].
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FILM NOIR
by Andrews, Bruce
Providence: Burning Deck, 1978. First Edition. Chapbook in illustrated (by the author) wrappers; [20 pp.] Review copy, printed sheet with blurbs and copy laid in. One of 350 numbered copies printed by the Waldrops at their press. By one of the foremost proponents of LANGUAGE poetry. Minor wear, moderate rubbing. Easily very good.
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Vowels
by ANDREWS, Bruce
New York: 0 Press, 1976. First Edition. Edition of 250 copies. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; [44]pp. Hint of rubbing and dusting to covers, still a very Near Fine copy, with little evidence of use. Early collection by Andrews, best known as co-founder and editor of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine (1978-83).
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The Debate Over Health Security: the political economy of health care
by ANDREWS, Charles
Oakland: Needle Press, 1994. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 82pp. Complete, clean and unmarked; Very Good or better. Includes special coverage of the 1994 initiative to enact the California Health Security Act single-payer healthcare plan.
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Haymarket. August 1976
by ANDREAS, Joel (et al)
Los Angeles: Haymarket, 1976. Stapled self-wraps; [12pp]. Fine. House organ of the The Haymarket, a socialist community co-operative bookstore and coffee house located on Parkview Street in Los Angeles. Publication details uncertain, though this issue announces an expansion "to include fiction, poetry, criticism, and anything else of interest." Cover illustration by Joel Andreas, taken from his full-length comic book... Read More
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Addresses by His Excellency Governor John A. Andrew, Hon. Edward Everett, Hon. B.F. Thomas, and Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, Delivered at the mass meeting in aid of recruiting, held on the common under the auspices of the Committee of One Hundred and Fifty, on Wednesday, August 27, 1862
by ANDREW, John A., Edward Everett et al.
Boston: J.E. Farwell and Company, 1862. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); removed; 16pp.; text in double columns. Title page separated and rather chipped and worn at extremities, the whole rather wrinkled; a Good copy only. SABIN 1469.
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The Distribution and Life-History of Calanoides Acutus (Giesbrecht)
by ANDREWS, Keith J. H.
[Discovery Reports], 1966. Folio (31cm). Red buckram, with gilt spine title; [117]-197,[1]pp; black and white diagrams. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian Institution. Straight and sound, though rebound: Very Good. Stamped "U.S.N.S. Eltanin" and "Property U.S.A.R.P." on spine. From the collection of the oceanographic research ship USNS Eltanin,... Read More
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Medicine Woman
by ANDREWS, Lynn V.; Daniel Reeves & Fritz Scholder, illus
New York: Harper and Row, 1981. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 204pp. Miniscule spot of rubbing to cloth at base of spine, else a fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $13.95 on front flap), mildly toned at flap-edges but still very Near Fine. A very nice copy. Andrews' first... Read More
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The Perfect Tribute
by ANDREWS, Mary Raymond Shipman
New York: Scribner's, 1906. First Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's dark brown cloth spine over grey paper covered boards, titled and decorated in dark brown to front board. 47pp. Some scuffing and wear to edges and extremities, light discoloration and soiling of the boards with bookboard just becoming visible at the corners. A strong, solid copy. The first edition in... Read More
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Women of the South in War Times
by ANDREWS, Matthew Page
Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Co, 1920. Second printing. Small octavo. Red cloth hardcover, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; xx,[1]-556pp. Tight, straight and clean; the spine gilt has oxidized somewhat but is still perfectly legible. Hagiographic in tone and filled with nostalgia for the Lost Cause, but still a standard popular account of womens' role... Read More
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The Phonographic Reader: A Complete Course of Inductive Reading Lessons in Phonography
by ANDREWS, S. P.; Augustus F. Boyle
New York: Andrews & Doyle, 1848. Eleventh edition. 12mo (19cm). In original boards, printed with title on front and ads on rear, with leather spine; plain endpapers; 60pp. A sturdy copy, with gentle wear to boards: Very Good or better. A popular title, designed for use with the Complete Phonographic Class-book, the Phonographic Reader went into 16 editions between... Read More
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