![The Island Means Minago [Title from cover: Poems from Prince Edward Island]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/843/363/1321363843.0.m.jpg)
The Island Means Minago [Title from cover: Poems from Prince Edward Island]
by ACORN, Milton
Toronto: NC Press, 1975. First Edition. Paper issue. Small octavo; pictorial card wrappers;122pp. Light rubbing to wrappers; text paper slightly tanned, else tight and unmarked, Near Fine. Governor-General's Award winner.
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![The Island Means Minago [Title from cover: Poems from Prince Edward Island]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/840/363/1321363840.0.m.jpg)
The Island Means Minago [Title from cover: Poems from Prince Edward Island]
by ACORN, Milton
Toronto: NC Press, 1975. First Edition. Cloth issue. Small octavo; cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 122pp. Tight and unmarked, but age-toning to cheap paper stock. In lightly edge-rubbed dustwrapper, Near Fine. Governor-General's Award winner.
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I Shout Love and on Shaving Off His Beard. Illustrations by Michael Sowdon
by ACORN, Milton
Toronto: Village Book Store Press, 1971. First Edition. Square 12mo. Unprinted gray card wrappers with pictorial dustjacket; unpaginated [80pp]. Fine in fine jacket. Collects the two long poems of the title. By the acclaimed Canadian poet and political activist.
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![African Short Stories and Other Poems [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/854/187/844187854.0.m.jpg)
African Short Stories and Other Poems [cover title]
by ACQUAAH, Daniel
Roxbury, MA: Scoham Bookshelf, [1974]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original green printed staplebound wrappers; unpaged. Fine. Collection of six folktales and poems, including "An Ecstasy of African Witchcraft" and "The Story of Palm Wine.
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Student Protest and The Law II; The 1970 Scene
by [ACTIVISM] VARIOUS [POWER, Eugene; HOLLOWAY, John P.; STEVENS, Walter W. et al]
Ann Arbor, Michigan: The Institute of Continuing Legal Education, August 20th-21st, 1970. First Edition. Quarto. 29pp. Bound in a Smead Pressboard Binder. 278pp. printed to rectos only. Clean, strong and bright, internally clean, a very good, solid copy. Essentially all of the relevant literature for a two day course on student protests on US campuses, divided into... Read More
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![Obstruction of Armed Forces [89th Congress, 2d Session, Report no. 1908]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/764/952/1356952764.0.m.jpg)
Obstruction of Armed Forces [89th Congress, 2d Session, Report no. 1908]
by UNITED STATES CONGRESS - COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES
Washington: G.P.O., 1966. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); self-wrappers; 16pp. Several faint vertical folds, the whole rather dust-soiled and a bit wrinkled, long closed tear to first leaf (serving as upper cover) touching text without loss of meaning. Good or better only. Report delivered by the Representative from Texas Joe Richard Pool regarding a bill to amend the Internal Security... Read More
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Testimony of Captain Nikolai Fedorovich Artamonov (Former Soviet Naval Officer). Hearing before the COmmittee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives...September 14, 1960
by [NICHOLAS SHADRIN] COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES
College Park: The University of Maryland, 1947. First Edition. Octavo pamphlet. Staple-bound, pictorial paper wrappers; i-v, pp1903-1920. Complete, clean and unmarked; Very Good or better. Artamonov (later Shadrin) defected from the Soviet Navy in 1959, becoming a valuable CIA asset during the Cold War. He was kidnapped by KGB agents in 1975.
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Bound volume of author's copies of Henry Moir's writings on actuarial science
by [ACTUARIAL SCIENCE] MOIR, Henry
V.p., v.d.. Sammelband. Octavo (22.5cm); cloth covers, containing eleven bound pamphlets, offprints, and extracts. Thin cracks to endpapers at front hinge; one bound article trimmed close at bottom edge; a sound, Very Good volume. Moir (1870-1937) was a leading figure in the insurance industry both in his native Great Britain and in the United States, to which... Read More
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BELIEFS AND BLASPHEMIES
by Adair, Virginia, H.
New York: Random House, 1998. First edition. Advanced uncorrected proof copy in blue and white printed wraps. In shrink-wrap with publisher mailing label on front of the shrink-wrap. The second collection for this octogenarian poet. Fine in Wraps.
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ANTS ON THE MELON
by Adair, Virginia, H.
New York: Random House, 1996. First edition. An unusual copy in that it has two jackets, one supplied. The jacket as published is on uncoated red textured paper and priced at $21. The supplied jacket is coated and is priced at $20, and stamped on back "PROOF". (These are generally only for internal use in advance of publication.) The... Read More
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Pilgrimage into Depth
by ADAM, Antoinette
Philadelphia: Hemlock Press, 1961. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 57pp. Signed by the author on half-title. Ownership signature to front pastedown. Slight darkening to endpapers at gutter, else Near Fine in a lightly worn, price-clipped jacket. Devotional poems, "of Christian faith and service, written in India and America by a practicing nurse" (from jacket copy).
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Art of the Third Reich
by ADAM, Peter (text); Phyllis Freeman (editor); Bob McKee (design); Uta Hoffman (photo editor)
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1992. First Edition. Quarto (27cm); gray cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in light gray on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-332pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and colorful illustrations throughout. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Trace soil to rear cover; Very... Read More
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Molly's Dog. A Story by Alice Adams
by ADAMS, Alice
Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, Publisher, 1983. First, Limited Edition. Regular issue. Number 28 of 64 copies in wrappers, from a total edition of 100 copies (There was a simultaneous lettered issue in boards). Octavo (23cm); olive-green thick-paper French wrappers, with paper title label to front cover; 22pp. Title page designed by Lance Hidy; binding by Carolyn Coman. An... Read More
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Molly's Dog. A Story by Alice Adams
by ADAMS, Alice
Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, Publisher, 1983. First, Limited Edition. Regular issue. Number 31 of 64 copies in wrappers, from a total edition of 100 copies (There was a simultaneous lettered issue in boards). Octavo (23cm); olive-green thick-paper French wrappers, with paper title label to front cover; 22pp. Title page designed by Lance Hidy; binding by Carolyn Coman. An... Read More
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![Broadside: Alaska [Inscribed to William B. Ewert]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/499/535/1402535499.0.m.jpg)
Broadside: Alaska [Inscribed to William B. Ewert]
by ADAMS, Alice
[Minneapolis]: The Toothpaste Press / Bookslinger Editions, 1982. First Edition. One of 70 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.16. Broadside, with text letterpress printed in dark brown and sky blue on cream rag paper, measuring 10" x 13.25" (25.5cm x 33.75cm). Inscribed by Adams to fine press published William B. Ewert along the lower margin.... Read More
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Return Trips: Stories
by ADAMS, Alice
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Pale purple paper-covered boards backed in grey, in black pictorial jacket; [x],195,[3]pp. One or two minute spots to rear board, Near Fine. In unclipped, Near Fine jacket (priced 14.95).
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Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
by ADAMS, Ansel; Mary Street Alinder
Boston: A New York Graphic Society Book; LIttle, Brown & Company, 1986. Third printing. Quarto (27.5cm). Red cloth, cream pictorial dust jacket; [xiv],400pp; black and white illustrations. Sound but slightly cocked, gently bumped at corners, internally bright and clean: Very Good. Jacket lightly rubbed and toned at edges, tiny perforation at lower rear corner, else Very Good or better.... Read More
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Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
by ADAMS, Ansel with Mary Street Alinder
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1985. First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 400pp; illus. Trace of sun-fading to extremities of boards, but generally a tight, Near Fine copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper. Posthumously-published autobiography, completed by Alinder and extensively illustrated from Adams' photographs.
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![The Address of Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts, on the Life, Character, and Services, of William H. Seward. Delivered by Invitation of the Legislature of the State of New York, in Albany, April 18, 1873 [Cover title: Memorial Address]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/613/952/1356952613.0.m.jpg)
The Address of Charles Francis Adams, of Massachusetts, on the Life, Character, and Services, of William H. Seward. Delivered by Invitation of the Legislature of the State of New York, in Albany, April 18, 1873 [Cover title: Memorial Address]
by ADAMS, Charles Francis
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue card wrappers printed within heavy funereal rule; 47pp. Tiny chip at spine foot, extremities a bit toned and dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Address delivered by the Boston politician and diplomat on the life and works of the abolitionist and late former Governor of... Read More
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An Address on the Occasion of the Opening of the New Town Hall, in Braintree, July 29, 1858
by ADAMS, Charles Francis
Boston: William White, 1858. First Edition. Slim octavo (24cm.); publisher's pink wrappers printed within decorative rule; 86pp. Upper cover slightly soiled, spine ends partly perished, lacking rear cover, faint contemporary gift inscription at head of upper cover from an Alee (?) French. Good overall, internally fine. Address by the son of John Quincy Adams providing a sketch of the... Read More
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
by ADAMS, Douglas
New York: Harmony Books, 1981. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); black paper-covered boards and teal cloth backstrip, with titling and decorations stamped in metallic pink on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [vi],250pp. Slight forward lean, faint foxing to text edges, with some gentle sunning to upper and lower backstrip; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $7.95), lightly... Read More
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So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish. The Hitch Hikers' Guide to the Galaxy, 4
by ADAMS, Douglas
London: Pan, 1984. First Edition. First impression. Octavo; cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 191pp. A Fine, apparently unread copy in a crisp and clean, but price-clipped, dustwrapper, Near Fine.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by ADAMS, Douglas
New York: Harmony Books, 1980. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); navy blue paper-covered boards and purple cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in metallic blue on spine; dustjacket; [viii],215,[1]pp. Slight forward lean, hint of foxing to upper edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $6.95), showing some light surface wear, and a tiny nick to upper... Read More
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![Congaree Sketches [Inscribed to Annabel Morris Buchanan]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/217/513/1699513217.0.m.jpg)
Congaree Sketches [Inscribed to Annabel Morris Buchanan]
by ADAMS, E.C.L. [Edward Clarkson Leverett]; Paul Green (introd)
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1927. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on front endpaper: "Mrs. Annabel Morris Buchanan from the author with sincere good wishes," signed "Ned Adams," datemarked Columbia, SC, 1934. Small octavo (20cm). Black cloth spine over orange-tan cloth-covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket (in pieces) laid-in; xvii,117pp. A tight, clean copy, tightly bound and textually unmarked;... Read More
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Potee's Gal. A Drama of Negro Life Near the Big Congaree Swamp
by ADAMS, E.C.L. [Edward Clarkson Leverett]
Columbia SC: The State Co, 1929. First, Limited Edition. First printing; no. 7 of 250 signed copies. Small, slim octavo (20cm). Maroon cloth; dustjacket; 49pp. Fine copy in the scarce dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 on front flap), crisp and unworn, very Near Fine. Dialect drama by a white Southern author, interesting primarily for its controversial back-story. By... Read More
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