South Africa: "Resettlement" - The New Violence To Africans
by [SOUTH AFRICA] [APARTHEID]
London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd, 1969. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.75cm); stapled wrappers; 46,[2]pp; illus. Pinpoint wear to extremities, else Fine. Discussion of the South African government's policy of mass "resettlement," which uprooted hundreds of thousands of people and moved them to so-called "homelands." One of the pillars of apartheid.... Read More
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Apartheid's War Against Angola: An Account of South African Aggression Against the People's Republic of Angola
by [APARTHEID] HOLNESS, Marga
New York: Centre Against Apartheid, United Nations, 1983. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 24pp; illus. A Fine copy. Richly-illustrated pamphlet, prepared by the UN Special Committee against Apartheid, giving a brief account of aggression by South Africa towards the People's Republic of Angola. "The People's Republic of Angola has been the worst victim of apartheid aggression,... Read More
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Myths and Attitudes: An Inside Look at the Coloured People [Inscribed]
by [APARTHEID] VAN DER ROSS, R. E.
[Cape Town]: Tafelberg, 1979. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Black paper-covered boards in orange dust jacket; cartographic endpapers; [viii],116pp; ad to rear jacket panel. Inscribed by the author on title page, 1981, to J. Wayne Fredericks, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1961-67. Lightly rubbed at extremities, else Fine. Jacket rubbed at edges, small perforation and tear... Read More
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I Write What I Like
by [APARTHEID] BIKO, Steve
San Francisco: Harper & Row, [1978]. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Tan paper-covered boards, backed in light brown cloth, in black dust jacket; viii,216pp. Slight rubbing at lower edge, minor mark to fore-edge, else Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed, mildly toned along extreme edges, with price label to front panel: Very Good or better. Biko (1946-1977)... Read More
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Krakatit
by ČAPEK, Karel [Trans: Lawrence Hyde]
New York: Macmillan, 1925. First American Edition. Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's blue cloth with geometrically decorated golden paper title labels to spine and front board. Lacking dustjacket. 408pp. Light bumping to spine ends, some scuffing to the edges of the cloth on the spine, fading to paper title label, otherwise clean, bright and strong. Handsome and solid. Internally clean. Cited... Read More
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Alcools: Poems 1898-1913 [Inscribed]
by APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume (poetry); William Meredith (translation; foreword); Francis Steegmuller (introduction; notes)
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1964. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling and decoration stamped in gilt on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 242pp. Inscribed by author on front endpaper: "For Alice and David Halliday with affection and esteem from their friend Guillaume / June 1976". Signed by translator, William Meredith, on title page. Light rubbing... Read More
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Badenheim 1939
by APPELFELD, Aharon (Dalya Bilu, transl)
London: J.M. Dent & Co, [1980]. First U.K. Edition. Small octavo. Maroon cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 148pp. Neat ownership signature to front endpaper, else Fine in unclipped dustwrapper. British issue, printed from American sheets (originally published in America by Godine, 1980).
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Not So Much Love of Flowers, Poems 1969-1972
by Appel, Allan
West Branch IA: Toothpaste Press, 1975. First edition. One of only 26 copies (of 501 total) issued in hardcover; hand-cased and signed by the author, of which this is Copy C of the 26 lettered and signed copies. Orange-red cloth covers with paper spine label; tall 12mo. Harvard College Library embossed stamp on front end paper, with the library's... Read More
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The Raw Edge
by APPEL, Benjamin
New York: Random House, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 384pp. Inscribed to Ben Shahn and family on front endpaper: "On the edge of the Assinpunk [sic] 1958 - to a fellow author; Bernarda; and kids / Ben Appel." Endpapers slightly browned, light wear to board edges; Very Good or better in the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed... Read More
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Why the Japanese Are the Way They Are
by APPEL, Benjamin
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1973]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in yellow photo-illustrated dust jacket; [8],151pp.; maps. A few closed tears to jacket extremities, the longest approx. 1.5" to spine crown, spine a bit faded, top textblock edge dust-soiled, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Unsigned gift inscription in Italian to Bernarda Shahn on front... Read More
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The People Talk
by APPEL, Benjamin
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1940. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; brick red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 502pp. Some offsetting to pastedowns and endpapers, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, and states "Second Printing" along the lower edge of the front flap; rubbed at the extremities, with several short... Read More
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But Not Yet Slain
by APPEL, Benjamin
New York: A.A. Wyn, Inc, 1947. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; Dustjacket; 183pp. Mild soil to boards and jacket; light wear at spine ends; small chip missing at bottom of two leaves; else pages are clean and unmarked. Good or better condition. A novel about Washington politics during the post-New Deal era. It follows the optimistic Matt Wells who... Read More
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The People Talk
by APPEL, Benjamin
New York: Johnson Reprint, 1972. Facsimile Reprint. Octavo (22cm). Green cloth boards, lettered in silver and gold; 502pp. Facsimile reprint of the 1940 Dutton edition, inscribed on title page to artist Bernarda Bryson Shahn: "Happy birthday bernarda so you can hear the peoples of the world talk and talk as a jet-setter over all the continents, Love, Ben Appel,"... Read More
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Appel's Appels [Inscribed]
by APPEL, Karel [Christiaan] (artwork); John H. Devlin (introduction)
[Canada]: Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Limited, [1972]. Softcover, bilingual text (French and English). Quarto (34cm); pictorial paper wrappers; 80pp; black-and-white and colorful photographs and illustrations throughout. Inscribed by author on front endpaper: "To Geoffrey Molder amité C.K. Appel / 28 Nov 78 NYC". Modest shelf-wear and soil, with tiny nick to lower rear panel, and inked note to... Read More
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Recollections of College Life, at Marshall College, Mercersburg, Pa., from 1839 to 1845: A Narrative, with Reflections
by APPEL, Rev. Theodore
Reading, PA: Daniel Miller, 1886. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm). Original gilt-lettered olive-green beveled cloth-covered boards (hardcover); floral endpapers; viii,[9]-348pp. A quite fresh and attractive copy, with gilt bright on spine and cover, text clean, fresh and unmarked; Near Fine. The author was a graduate of Marshall College and a long-time faculty member of Franklin & Marshall College following... Read More
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Recollections of College Life, at Marshall College, Mercersburg, Pa., from 1839 to 1845: A Narrative, with Reflections
by APPEL, Rev. Theodore
Reading, PA: Daniel Miller, 1886. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm). Original gilt-lettered blue-gray beveled cloth-covered boards (hardcover); floral endpapers; viii,[9]-348pp. Slight rubbing to covers, still a fresh copy; Near Fine. In variant binding of blue-gray cloth (we have also noted copies in olive green cloth and brown cloth). The author was a graduate of Marshall College and a long-time... Read More
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![Out in Inner Space: A Psychoanalyst Explores The New Therapies [Inscribed & Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/265/886/1054886265.0.m.jpg)
Out in Inner Space: A Psychoanalyst Explores The New Therapies [Inscribed & Signed]
by APPELBAUM, Stephen A.; George Leonard, foreword
Garden City: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1979. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xxii,529pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, spine a shade faded, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Inscribed and signed in the year of publication: "To Denise, Here's to joyful inner spaces. Stephen A. Appelbaum.
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Esterne. Appiano Alessandrino Delle guerre esterne de Romani
by [APPIAN] APPIANUS; Alessandro Braccesi (trans.)
Venice: Pietro di Nicolini da Sabbio, 1538. Octavo (16cm). Early nineteenth-century half red leather and marbled paper over boards, titled in gilt on spine, all edges sprinkled red; blue marbled endpapers; fol. 1-191,[1]; relief frame on title page. Brief but numerous contemporary manuscript annotations throughout. Printed in an Italic typeface. General moderate wear, front hinge completely cracked but for... Read More
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![Italia Perversa [Part One: Stalin's Orphans / Part Two: The Mosque / Part Three: Destroying America]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/896/371/1294371896.0.m.jpg)
Italia Perversa [Part One: Stalin's Orphans / Part Two: The Mosque / Part Three: Destroying America]
by APPIGNANESI, Richard
London: Quartet Books, 1985-6]. First Edition. Three volumes; octavo (22cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's simulated cloth and pictorial dust jackets; illus. Long closed tear to pp. 62/3 of the first volume without loss of meaning, third volume textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good or better collection. Complete set of the Canadian author's epic trilogy.
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Acts of Integration, Expressions of Faith: Madness, Death and Ritual in Melanau Ontology
by APPLETON, Ann L.
Phillips, ME: The Borneo Research Council, 2006. First Edition. Octavo. Printed, glossy card wrappers (softcover); 361pp; illus. Fine and unmarked copy. Published as Borneo Research Council Monograph no.9.
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![Following Gravity [Inscribed, Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/454/680/1651680454.0.m.jpg)
Following Gravity [Inscribed, Review Copy]
by APPLEWHITE, James
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980. First Edition. First Printing, review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Octavo (23.5cm); orange cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [xiv],[2],3-67,[7]pp; illus. Inscribed on title page, "For Sam Baker / with all good wishes. / James Applewhite". Lightly sunned edges, else Fine. Dustwrapper has sunning to spine panel and... Read More
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Chronic Schizophrenia: Explorations in Theory and Treatment
by APPLEBY, Lawrence et al., eds.; Karl Menninger, foreword
Glencoe, IL: Free Press, [1960]. First Edition. Octavo (21.75cm.); publisher's two-toned cloth in blue price-clipped dust jacket; xv,[1],368pp. Light chipping to jacket extremities, small loss at spine crown, white spine lettering toned, else Fine in Very Good jacket.
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![The Oranging of America and Other Stories [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/035/265/1527265035.0.m.jpg)
The Oranging of America and Other Stories [Inscribed]
by APPLE, Max
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); orange paper and navy blue cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in orange on spine; dustjacket; viii,152pp. Inscribed to a noted book representative on the front endpaper: For Adena Siegel / Best regards / Max Apple / Feb.14, 1984." Heel a little dusty, upper corners bumped (though still sharp);... Read More
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The Oranging of America and Other Stories
by APPLE, Max
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Orange paper and navy blue cloth-covered boards, titled in orange on spine; dustjacket; viii,152pp. Pushed at spine ends, light foxing to top edge, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $7.95), lightly rubbed and spine-sunned, minor discoration to front flap, else Very Good or better. The author's first collection... Read More
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History of the Fifth Massachusetts Battery. Organized October 3, 1861. Mustered Out June 12, 1865
by APPLETON, Nathan (et al, eds)
Baltimore: Butternut & Blue, 1996. Reprint. Octavo. Pictorial cloth; xxi,991pp. Fine. Photographic facsimile reprint of the 1902 Boston edition, with a new introduction by Kenneth R. Dombroski. NEVINS I:129.
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