![Another Country [Uncorrected Proof Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/668/724/1699724668.0.m.jpg)
Another Country [Uncorrected Proof Copy]
by James Baldwin
London: Michael Joseph, 1963. Very Good. London: Michael Joseph, 1963. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's tan printed card wrappers; 416pp. Light wear and dust-soil, contemporary ownership signature to half title page; Very Good and sound overall. The rare uncorrected proofs to the first U.K. edition of Baldwin's runaway best-selling saga. Bixby A5.b.
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![A Sermon Delivered at Boston on Tuesday, April 2, 1799 at a Quarterly Meeting of several Churches for Special Prayer [Half title: Mr Baldwin's Sermon at the Concert of Prayer, April 2, 1799]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/616/109/1573109616.0.m.jpg)
A Sermon Delivered at Boston on Tuesday, April 2, 1799 at a Quarterly Meeting of several Churches for Special Prayer [Half title: Mr Baldwin's Sermon at the Concert of Prayer, April 2, 1799]
by Thomas Baldwin
Boston: Manning & Loring, 1799. Good. Boston: Manning & Loring, 1799. First Edition. Octavo; stitched self-wrappers; 24pp. ([A]-C4, collated complete with half title page). Spine margins quite curled, first signature badly dampstained and browned, brief contemporary note to half title page (serving as upper wrapper) and very occasional marginalia in the same hand, final leaf separated but present.... Read More
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The Unlimited Dream Company [Signed]
by J.G. Ballard
London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. First Edition. Signed by J.G. Ballard at title page with brief inscription to previous owner. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket; green cloth boards stamped in gilt; dark topstain; 223pp. Dust jacket gently rubbed along edges; bookseller stickers to front flap. Mild shelfwear to boards; binding sound; pages unmarked;... Read More
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Crash
by J.G. Ballard
London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. Very Good/Very Good -. London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; 224pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, jacket lamination significantly bubbled, boards a bit bowed, else a Very Good, bright, sound, and still quite presentable example. The author's best-known and most controversial work, basis for... Read More
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Dealing Out Death
by W.T. Ballard
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1948. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1948. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); [2],190pp. Jacket a bit brittle with numerous small chips and shallow losses along extremities very slightly touching text, most notably at spine ends, corners bumped, endpapers toned, else Very Good and sound. ... Read More
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![[Broadside] NOTICE! The use of this Park for the purpose of playing Games of Ball is strictly forbidden](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/767/186/1675186767.0.m.jpg)
[Broadside] NOTICE! The use of this Park for the purpose of playing Games of Ball is strictly forbidden
by [Baseball / Games of Ball]
United States: s.i., 1900. Very Good. United States? ca. 1900. Broadside (22x30cm) printed letterpress on newsprint. Small chips and losses at corners and along bottom edge not approaching text, textblock a bit spotted and toned, else Very Good. Fun-spoiling broadside forbidding ball games at the park, "All persons violating this requirement will be dealt with according... Read More
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Rafferty: A Harper Novel of Suspense
by Bill S. Ballinger
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21 cm); 247pp. Burgundy and black cloth quarter-bound boards with gilt stamping to spine wrapped in publisher's illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($2.75). Deckled fore-edge. Jacket generally creased, bumped, rubbed, and lightly chipped at margins with... Read More
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An Essay on Newton's "Principia
by [Isaac Newton] W.W. Rouse Ball
London: Macmillan and Co, 1893. Very Good. London: Macmillan and Co., 1893. First Edition. Octavo; red cloth stamped in gilt; green endpapers; 175pp. + advertisements. Boards lightly bumped with mild soiling, more heavily along spine. Binding sound; previous owners' bookplates to front pastedown; a Very Good and sound copy.
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![[Manuscript] All 'Illtre. e Nobile Donna la Signora C. Giuseppe Calciati gli allievi Beltrami e Ballotta insegno di grato amore per giorno suo onomastico 19 Marzo 1850 offrano e donano](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/029/601/1676601029.0.m.jpg)
[Manuscript] All 'Illtre. e Nobile Donna la Signora C. Giuseppe Calciati gli allievi Beltrami e Ballotta insegno di grato amore per giorno suo onomastico 19 Marzo 1850 offrano e donano
by [Italy - Education] Beltrami e Ballotta
Rome, 1850. Very Good. Rome? 1850. Large folio (45cm.); stitched self-wrappers with elaborate calligraphic manuscript presentation in black and blue ink to upper wrapper; [12]ll. accomplished in black and blue ink manuscript on rectos only. Moderate wear including some creasing and dust-soil to upper cover, black ink occasionally burning through stock, else a Very Good, quite impressive survival. ... Read More
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A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge
by W.W. Rouse Ball
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge at the University Press, 1889. Very Good. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge at the University Press, 1889. First Edition. Octavo; green cloth stamped in gilt; 264pp. + advertisements. Wear and bumping to boards; spine sunned. Binding sound; previous owners' and bookseller's bookplates to preliminaries; ownership inscription of Robert John Pearce to half title, else unmarked; a Very... Read More
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A History of the Ninth District Dental Society of the Pennsylvania State Dental Society
by [J.B. Balthaser]
Erie, PA, 1950. Near Fine. Erie, PA?, 1950? Octavo (23cm.); publisher's red textured cloth lettered in black; 113pp. Light foxing along textblock edges, else Near Fine. Cover title: "Dental Society History / Ninth District Dental Society / 'Old Lake Erie' / State of Pennsylvania / 1864-1950." History of the Society by one of its former presidents,... Read More
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![Anamorphoses; ou, Thaumaturgus Opticus [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/892/126/1721126892.0.m.jpg)
Anamorphoses; ou, Thaumaturgus Opticus [Inscribed and Signed]
by Jurgis Baltrusaitis
Paris: Flammarion, 1984. Near Fine/Very Good-. [Paris]: Flammarion, [1984]. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm); publisher's linen in tan pictorial dust jacket; 223pp.; illus. throughout, some in full color. Dust jacket margins a bit chipped and worn; overall a Fine copy in About Very Good jacket with reflective piece of paper laid in. Inscribed and signed on title page, "A... Read More
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![The Sea Birds are Still Alive: Collected Stories [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/761/232/1707232761.0.m.jpg)
The Sea Birds are Still Alive: Collected Stories [Signed and Inscribed]
by Toni Cade Bambara
New York: Random House, 1977. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1977. First Edition, stated, with full RH numberline to 2. Octavo (21.5cm); typographic dust jacket with $7.95 price intact; white boards with blue cloth spine and silver lettering; [x],208pp. Jacket lightly rubbed at extremities, with toning along front flap edge and a thin crease to bottom... Read More
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![The Salt Eaters [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/977/984/1695984977.0.m.jpg)
The Salt Eaters [Signed]
by Toni Cade Bambara
New York: Random House, 1980. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Random House, 1980. First Edition. Signed by Bambara with brief inscription to previous owner at front free endpaper. Octavo. 295pp. Printed dust jacket. Red cloth-backed boards stamped in gilt. Light wear and toning to edges of unclipped dust jacket; short tear to top edge of front... Read More
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Gorilla, My Love
by Toni Cade Bambara
New York: Random House, 1972. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Random House, 1972. First Edition with full RH number line. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth in brown unclipped dust jacket; ix,[3],177pp. Jacket a bit soil-spotted and margins rather chipped and worn, especially along top edge of rear panel, spine cocked, rubber-stamp to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally... Read More
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The Crow Road
by Iain Banks
London: Scribners, 1992. Very Good/Very Good. London: Scribners, 1992. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); [vi],501pp. Illustrated dust jacket with £15.99 price intact; boards in gray and black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Black topstain. Jacket rubbed along edges with a few faint creases but no chips or tears; scattered foxing to verso. Boards are square with light bumps... Read More
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The New World: Tales
by Russell Banks
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1978. Fine/Very Good+. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, [1978]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; [8],136pp. Two tiny punctures to jacket spine panel, else a Near Fine, bright and sound example. The author's second short story collection.
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![The Steep Approach to Garbadale [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/856/202/1652202856.0.m.jpg)
The Steep Approach to Garbadale [Signed]
by Iain Banks
London: Little, Brown, 2007. Very Good/Very Good. London: Little, Brown, 2007. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); [viii],390pp. Illustrated dust jacket with £17.99 price intact; boards in blindstamped red cloth with white lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp, with a couple small chips to laminate on front panel. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages... Read More
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Cut It Out
by Banksy
United Kingdom: Banksy, 2004. Very Good. [United Kingdom: Banksy, 2004.] First Edition. 12mo; publisher's glossy black card wrappers; [72]pp.; chiefly color photographs. Light shelf wear, wrappers and textblock a bit curled, original price sticker of the Shaman Drum Bookshop on rear cover; Very Good and sound overall. Banksy's third collection featuring his political graffiti art, including... Read More
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Parallel Lines: Printmakers, painters, and photographers in nineteenth-century France
by Stephen Bann
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Very Good+/Very Good. New Haven: Yale University Press, [2001]. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; ix,[1],254pp.; illus. throughout, some in color. Moderate wear to jacket extremities including brief split to bottom inch of front jacket flap fold, verso tape repaired, very minor spine lean, else Very Good, internally... Read More
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![Shroud [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/202/011/1377011202.0.m.jpg)
Shroud [Limited Edition, Signed]
by John Banville
London: Picador / Joe McCann, 2002. Fine. London: Picador, 2002. First Edition, Limited to 80 copies signed by the author of which this is no. 54 of sixty bound in cloth. Octavo; publisher's black cloth, printed paper spine and upper cover labels; [6],407pp. Fine condition. Signed by the author on colophon. The second volume in Irish... Read More
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Beautiful: Nudes by Marc Baptiste
by Marc Baptiste
New York: Universe, 2001. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Universe, [2001]. First Edition with full number line. Quarto (31cm); publisher's boards in glossy unclipped dust jacket; unpaginated; chiefly photographic illus. Moderate wear to jacket margins including small closed tear at bottom edge of upper panel, corners nudged, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Compilation of nude... Read More
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Refiguring the Body: Embodiment in South Asian Religions
by Barbara A. Holdrege and Karen Pechilis [eds.]
Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2016. Very Good. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2016. First Edition. Octavo. 368pp. Illustrated boards. No dust jacket. Light rubbing to extremities; some minor smudging. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good and sound copy.
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The Plop-a-Lop Tree
by Barbara Young [photography]; Edward Saunders [text]; Pip Simmons [ed.]
Rugby, Warwickshire, England: Jolly & Barber Printing Limited, 1994. Very Good/Very Good. [Rugby, Warwickshire, England: Jolly & Barber Printing Limited, 1994.] First Edition. Slim quarto (27.5cm); publisher's boards in yellow pictorial dust jacket; [108]pp.; chiefly color photographic illus. Moderate wear and dust-soil to jacket margins, corners bumped, faint sunning along spine panel, else Very Good, internally clean and... Read More
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![The Queen Mary Atlas [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/463/105/1700105463.0.m.jpg)
The Queen Mary Atlas [Limited Edition]
by [Diogo Homem]; Peter Barber
London: The Folio Society, 2005. Fine. London: The Folio Society, 2005. Limited Edition of 1000 numbered copies, this being #608. Two volumes; elephant folio and tall octavo; elephant folio volume bound in full-grain aniline-finish calf leather blocked with a design by David Eccles; octavo volume bound in maroon gilt-lettered cloth with paper title label mounted to front; the... Read More
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