Barolo to Valpolicella: The Wines of Northern Italy
by Nicolas Belfrage
London: Mitchell Beazley, 2004. Very Good/Very Good. [London]: Mitchell Beazley, [2004]. Fully Revised and Updated. Octavo; publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xvii,[1],356pp.; illus. throughout. Light shelfwear to jacket margins, spine panel a shade sunned, dampstaining and color bleed to jacket verso along bottom edge, very faintly affecting cloth of front board; corners tapped, textblock lightly finger-soiled, else... Read More
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A Sermon, Delivered Before the Convention of the Clergy of Massachusetts, in Boston, May 26, 1796
by Jeremy Belknap
Boston: Samuel Hall, 1796. Good. Boston: Samuel Hall, No. 53, Cornhill, 1796. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 29,[3]pp. (lacking half title page, otherwise collated complete). First two leaves separated but present, contemporary ownership at head of the same, faint dampstaining, else a Good or better copy. Sermon listing the "afflictions of the gospels" in the United States,... Read More
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![Two Poems [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/170/565/1699565170.0.m.jpg)
Two Poems [Limited Edition]
by Marvin Bell
Iowa City, IA: Hundred Pound Press, 1965. Very Good. Iowa City, IA: Hundred Pound Press, 1965. First Edition, Limited to 50 copies of which this is no. 37. Small, slim octavo (19.5cm); publisher's tan printed wrappers; [18]pp. Moderate wear to wrapper margins, brief soil to upper cover and faint sticker scar slightly affecting text, uneven toning to rear... Read More
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![[Sammelband] Theron, Paulinus, and Aspasio [WITH] An Essay on the Nature and Glory of the Gospel of Jesus Christ](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/985/750/1517750985.0.m.jpg)
[Sammelband] Theron, Paulinus, and Aspasio [WITH] An Essay on the Nature and Glory of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
by Joseph Bellamy
Washington, PA: John Colerick, 1798. Very Good. First Colerick Editions. Two volumes bound in one; 12mo (19cm.); full contemporary tree calf, red gilt-lettered spine label. Corners softened, front free endpaper separated but present, textblock rather toned and a bit foxed, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else Very Good and sound. Contents as follows: 1. "Theron,... Read More
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Archive of Correspondence from Iowa Poet Marvin Bell to Charles Simic
by [Charles Simic] Marvin Bell
Iowa City, IA et al., 1970. Very Good +. Iowa City, IA, Spain, Vermont, Tangier: 1970-1977. Archive of fourteen pieces of correspondence from the Iowa poet Marvin Bell (1937-2020) to the late Poet Laureate Charles Simic (1938-2023). Previous mail folds, some wrinkling, else Very Good or better. Collection is comprised of twelve typed letters signed and two autograph... Read More
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![A Deadly Place to Stay [Dorothy Hughes' copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/029/313/1521313029.0.m.jpg)
A Deadly Place to Stay [Dorothy Hughes' copy]
by Josephine Bell
New York: Walker and Company, 1982. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Walker and Company, 1982. First Edition. Ownership signature of mystery writer Dorothy B. Hughes to title page. Octavo. 224 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket shows general rubbing and spine lightly sunned. Boards show light shelfwear and spine ends... Read More
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![Cumberland Parish: Lunenberg County, Virginia 1746-1816; Vestry Book 1746-1816 [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/635/952/1378952635.0.m.jpg)
Cumberland Parish: Lunenberg County, Virginia 1746-1816; Vestry Book 1746-1816 [Signed]
by Landon C. Bell
Richmond, VA: The William Byrd Press, Inc., Printers, 1930. Very Good +. Richmond, VA: The William Byrd Press, Inc., Printers, 1930. First Edition. Inscribed by Bell to Colonel Christopher B. Garnett on front free endpaper. Tall octavo. 633 pages. Fold-out map; black and white portrait. Navy cloth stamped in gilt. Light wear to extremities. Binding is... Read More
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![Mr. Sammler's Planet [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/198/958/1586958198.0.m.jpg)
Mr. Sammler's Planet [Signed]
by Saul Bellow
New York: The Viking Press, 1970. Near Fine/Very Good +. New York: The Viking Press, 1970. First Edition. Signed by Saul Bellow without inscription at front free endpaper. Octavo. 313 pp. Printed dust jacket. Blue boards with textured white and blue spine stamped in black; blue topstain and endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket lightly worn with a few very... Read More
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I Love You, I Love You, I Love You
by Ludwig Bemelmans
New York: Viking Press, 1942. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Viking Press, 1942. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth, pink topstain, pictorial endpapers, in pink pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); 207pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket margins quite rubbed and worn with some closed tears and small losses just slightly touching text, spine panel faded to almost white, perished... Read More
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Hansi
by Ludwig Bemelmans
New York: The Viking Press, 1934. Very Good. New York: The Viking Press, 1934. First Edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Bemelmans throughout. Illustrated boards. Lacks dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with general staining and scuffing. Binding sound. Mild spotting to interior; overall Very Good.
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The High World
by Ludwig Bemelmans
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth, illustrated endpapers, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.75); [10],113pp.; four color plates, two of them double-paged, as well as half-tone text illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins with brief spots of old tape repair... Read More
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![A Short History of Valentinus Gentilis the Tritheist, Tryed, Condemned, and put to Death by the Protestant Reformed City and Church of Bern in Switzerland, for Asserting the Three Divine Persons of the Trinity, to be [Three Distinct, Eternal Spirits, &c.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/697/577/1630577697.0.m.jpg)
A Short History of Valentinus Gentilis the Tritheist, Tryed, Condemned, and put to Death by the Protestant Reformed City and Church of Bern in Switzerland, for Asserting the Three Divine Persons of the Trinity, to be [Three Distinct, Eternal Spirits, &c.]
by Benedictus Aretius; Robert South [trans.?]
London: E. Whitlock, 1696. Very Good. London: Printed, and Sold by E. Whitlock, near Stationers-Hall, 1696. First English Edition. Small octavo (17cm.); full contemporary speckled paneled calf, spine in five compartments; [16],134,[2]pp. (collated complete). Leather quite dried, especially at margins and spine with exposure at corners and top spine chord, textblock a bit toned and foxed, two early... Read More
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Five Men and Pompey: A Series of Dramatic Portraits
by Stephen Vincent Benet
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1915. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1915. First Edition, First Issue. 12mo. 47 pages. Printed purple-gray dust jacket pasted into brown boards at spine, as issued, though now separated per notes below. Dust jacket lightly chipped at spine ends, toned along spine, and coloring of exterior has largely... Read More
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They Burned the Books
by Stephen Vincent Benet
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1942. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1942. First Edition. Octavo. 25 pages. Plain blue paper dust jacket. Red boards stamped in black. Housed in black slipcase with title label to spine. Dust jacket is lightly worn along edges with toning to spine and around flaps. Boards... Read More
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The Great Magoo
by Ben Hecht; Gene Fowler; Herman Rosse [illus.]
New York: Covici-Friede / Van Rees Press, 1933. Very Good. New York: Covici Friede / Van Rees Press, 1933. First Edition. Octavo; black cloth boards stamped in green; 208pp; illustrated in color including a full-page illustration on title page. Very light scuffing to front board, spine ends slightly bumped, spine is cocked, dust soiling to text block edges,... Read More
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![The Great Magoo [Signed and Inscribed by Fowler]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/720/766/1687766720.0.m.jpg)
The Great Magoo [Signed and Inscribed by Fowler]
by Ben Hecht; Gene Fowler; Herman Rosse [illus.]
New York: Covici-Friede / Van Rees Press, 1933. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Covici Friede / Van Rees Press, 1933. First Edition. Octavo; black cloth boards stamped in green; pictorial dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; 208pp; illustrated in color including a full-page illustration on title page. Boards are slightly worn with bumping to corners and spine ends,... Read More
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![Exposé de la méthode hydrothérapique: Histoire, théories, technique, applications cliniques [TOGETHER WITH] Sixteen-page manuscript draft for a lecture by Beni-Barde](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/487/043/1511043487.0.m.jpg)
Exposé de la méthode hydrothérapique: Histoire, théories, technique, applications cliniques [TOGETHER WITH] Sixteen-page manuscript draft for a lecture by Beni-Barde
by Dr. Beni-Barde [Joseph-Marie-Alfred]
Paris: Masson et Cie, 1905. Very Good. Paris: Masson et Cie., 1905. First Edition. Large 8vo; pp. [4], xv, [1], 454pp.; original buff printed wrappers (a bit a faint dampstaining along top edge and some soil spots); cracking to spine paper at crown without loss, else a very good, sound copy. Presumably the author's copy with an eight-page... Read More
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![The Open Door and the Mandates System: A Study of Economic Equality Before and Since the Establishment of the Mandates System [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/943/416/1581416943.0.m.jpg)
The Open Door and the Mandates System: A Study of Economic Equality Before and Since the Establishment of the Mandates System [Signed]
by Benjamin Gerig; William E. Rappard [fwd.]
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1930. Very Good. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1930. First Edition. Signed by Benjamin Gerig with brief inscription to previous owner at front free endpaper. Octavo. 236 pp. + advertisements. Black and white charts and illustrations. Green cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Light shelfwear to boards, corners bumped, minor... Read More
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![The Life and Art of Lois Mailou Jones [Signed by Jones and Benjamin]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/070/272/1721272070.0.m.jpg)
The Life and Art of Lois Mailou Jones [Signed by Jones and Benjamin]
by [Lois Mailou Jones] Tritobia Hayes Benjamin
San Francisco, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1994. Near Fine/Near Fine. San Francisco, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks, [1994]. First Edition Stated. Large quarto (31cm); publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; xvii,[1],142pp.; illus. throughout. Very light shelf wear, brief black ink spot to textblock fore-edge, else Very Good to Near Fine. Signed by both Loïs Mailou Jones and the author Tritobia... Read More
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The Life and Art of Lois Mailou Jones [Signed by Jones and Benjamin]
by [Lois Mailou Jones] Tritobia Hayes Benjamin
San Francisco, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1994. Near Fine. San Francisco, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks, [1994]. First Edition Stated, Wrapper Issue. Large quarto (30.5cm); publisher's glossy pictorial card wrappers; xvii,[1],142pp. Old price sticker to rear cover, light surface scratches to wrappers; a Near Fine example. Signed by both Loïs Mailou Jones and the author Tritobia Hayes Benjamin on title page.... Read More
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Benjamin Tompson 1642 - 1714, First Native-Born Poet of America: His Poems. Collected with an Introduction of Howard Judson Hall
by Benjamin Tompson; Howard Judson Hall [intro.]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1924. Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1924. Limited Edition of 400 copies, this being #277. Octavo. 164, [4] pp. Black cloth over blue-gray paper covered boards with paper title label to spine. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Light shelfwear to boards and binding is sound.... Read More
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The Great Western Railway in West Cornwall
by Alan Bennett
Southampton: Kingfisher Railway Productions, 1988. Very Good. Southampton: Kingfisher Railway Productions, 1988. First Edition. Signed. Quarto (27x22x0.5cm); 80pp. Ninety-four B&W reproductions of documentary photographs, maps, timetables, and railway ephemera. Photographic card wrappers. Card wrappers show some touches of shelfwear at edges and a bit of sunning near the card spine, which is uncracked. Textblock unmarred and unmarked... Read More
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Insanity Runs in Our Family
by Hal Bennett
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1977. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1977. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in black unclipped dust jacket; x,[2],299pp. Ex-United States Air Force with usual internal markings as well as a Library of Congress surplus rubber-stamp to front free endpaper, moderate wear to dust jacket margins,... Read More
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Paul
by E.F. Benson
J.B. Lippincott Company: Philadelphia, 1906. Very Good -. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's tan decorative cloth stamped in black and red; [2],363pp. Extremities rubbed with some brief exposure at corners and spine ends, cloth darkened along margins, especially spine, brief discoloration to rear cover, rear hinge cracked but holding; Good or better... Read More
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The Inheritor
by E.F. Benson
London: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd, 1930. Very Good +. London: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd, 1930. First Edition. Octavo. 286 pages + publisher's "Summer 1930 List." Pink boards stamped in black. Lacks dust jacket. Boards are lightly worn with brief exposure and spine and top edge toned. Binding gives a little with some separation along spine, but... Read More
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