Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories
by Benson Saler; H.G. Hippenberg [ed.]; E.T. Lawson [ed.]
New York: E.J. Brill, 1993. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: E.J. Brill, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. 292 pages. Signed by author on front free endpaper with inscription, "To Paula and Abe, / with fondest regards. / - Benson." Number 56 in the Numen Bookseries - Studies in the History of Religions. Purple illustrated dust jacket over brown... Read More
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Della Guerra di Fiandra [Three Volumes in One]
by Guido Bentivoglio
Venetia [Venice]: Appresso il Ciera, 1702. Very Good. Venetia [Venice]: Appresso il Ciera, 1702. Quarto; full contemporary pig skin, gilt tan spine label, all edges speckled blue; three parts bound in one volume (collated complete); woodcut printer's devices to each title page. Boards a bit soiled, faint contemporary manuscript shelf number to spine foot, occasional light finger soil... Read More
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Opere del Cardinal Bentivoglio
by Guido Bentivoglio
Parigi [Paris]: Appresso Nicolo Redelichuysen, nella strada di S. Giacomo, alla Croce d'Oro, 1645. Very Good. Parigi [Paris]: Appresso Nicolo Redelichuysen, nella strada di S. Giacomo, alla Croce d'Oro, 1645. First Thus, "nuovamente raccolte insieme." Folio (44cm); full contemporary calf; six raised bands, gilt stamping, and red leather title label to spine; edges sprayed red; [12], 172, [6],... Read More
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Side Porch Democracy: The Middle Class at Its Best
by Wilbur Clarke Benton
Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1951. Very Good/Fair. Philadelphia: Dorrance & Company, 1951. First Edition. Signed by author on front free endpaper to former U.S. Representative and Senator from Washington Hugh B. Mitchell with inscription, "To Hon. Hugh B. Mitchell, / With compliments of / the author, / Wilbur Clarke Benton. / Mena, Ark., January 21/52." Octavo.... Read More
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The Life of Benvenuto Cellini Written by Himself (Two Volumes)
by Benvenuto Cellini; John Addington Symonds [trans.]; Royal Courtissoz [intro.]
New York: Brentano's, 1906. Very Good. New York: Brentano's, 1906. Two volumes. Octavo; Vol. I xxx + 360pp.; Vol II 387pp including index. Both volumes half-bound in brown leather with gilt seams front and back; spines with (pseudo) raised bands and gilt stamping. J.W. Meyer & Co. binding signature on verso of front free endpaper top edge. Gilt... Read More
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Big Up [Signed and Inscribed by Watts]
by Ben Watts; Emil Wilbekin [fwd.]
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003. Very Good +. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003. Stated First Edition. Folio (35cm); unpaginated. Publisher’s photographic boards with $75.00 price sticker at rear. Black-and-white and color photographs and collages throughout. Boards bumped at spine ends and corners; otherwise clean. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. A Very Good or... Read More
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La Turquie et l'Hellénisme Contemporain
by Victor Bérard
Paris: Félix Alcan, 1911. Very Good +. Paris: Félix Alcan, 1911. Sixième Édition. 12mo (18cm.); recent calf over the original cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine; xvii,[1],352pp.; map in text. Stock a bit brittle and toned, else a Very Good or better copy in sturdy and handsome new binding. Treatise on the "Macedonian question" of the late 19th... Read More
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Memoire pour le Sieur Bergasse, dans la cause du Sieur Kornmann, contre le Sieur de Beaumarchais, et contre le Prince de Nassau
by Nicolas Bergasse
Paris: s.i., 1788. Very Good. [Paris?] s.i., 1788. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm); original stitched self-wrappers, margins untrimmed, retaining the two original waste wrappers (see below), loose as issued; viii,139pp. Light wrinkling and wear, contemporary signature at bottom edge of title page, else a Very Good, marvelously preserved example. Account of the Kornmann Affair by the prosector... Read More
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A Painter of Our Time
by John Berger
London: Secker & Warburg, 1958. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Secker & Warburg, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. 238pp. Frontis. Illustrated dust jacket with 18s net price intact. Brown cloth stamped in black. Jacket lightly rubbed along edges and spine notably unfaded. Boards bumped at corners, with a few minor smudges and light fading to cloth. Binding sound... Read More
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And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
by John Berger
London: Writers and Readers, 1984. Very Good +/Very Good. London: Writers and Readers, [1984]. First Edition, stated First Impression. Octavo; publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price; [8],101pp. Very light wear to jacket margins, rear panel a shade toned, corners nudged, else a Very Good or better copy, internally clean and sound.
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The Rare Coins of America, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, and Spain
by William von Bergen
[n.p.]: William von Bergen, 1889. Very Good. [n.p.]: William von Bergen, 1889. First Edition. 12mo (16 cm); 106pp+4 memo. Illus. throughout. Boards full bound in maroon cloth with gilt stamping and blind decoration to front cover only. All edges gilt. Two-tone floral endsheets. Board extremities shelfworn with bumping and wear to corners and spine ends. Scuffing and minor... Read More
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King: A Street Story [Signed Bookplate Mounted in]
by John Berger
London: Bloomsbury, 1999. Near Fine. London: Bloomsbury, 1999. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's white decorative boards; [6],231pp. A hint of wear to extremities, else Near Fine. Upside-down Bloomsbury bookplate signed by the author affixed to front free endpaper. Part novel, part homage to a fictitious unhoused community, told from the point-of-view of King... Read More
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Death in the House
by Anthony Berkeley
New York: The Crime Club, Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1939. Very Good. New York: The Crime Club, Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1939. First Edition stated. Octavo (20 cm); [xii], 273pp. No dust jacket. Boards full bound in mauve cloth with dark blue stamping. Blue top stain and fore edge deckled. Boards worn at corners... Read More
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George Berkeley: A Study of His Life and Philosophy
by John Wild; [George Berkeley]
New York: Russell & Russell Inc, 1962. Very Good +. New York: Russell & Russell Inc., 1962. Reprint. Octavo. 552 pp. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Spine lightly sunned and boards show gently rubbing along edges. Binding sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked.
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Home Sick: New & Selected Stories [Signed]
by Lucia Berlin
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. Very Good/Very Good. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. Limited Edition of 125 hardcover trade copies numbered and signed by Berlin, this being #89. Octavo; 280pp. Clear acetate dust jacket. Red cloth over decorated paper-covered boards; paper label to spine; blue endpapers. Wear to extremities of wrapper; general rubbing. Edges of... Read More
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0 To 9, Number Three, January 1968
by Bernadette Mayer and Vito Hannibal Acconci [eds.]
New York: Vito H. Acconci, 1968. Good. New York: Vito H. Acconci, 1968. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's grey staple bound wrappers; [2],82pp. Lacking rear wrapper, upper wrapper evenly toned, else a Good copy (essentially near fine except for the missing rear wrapper), contents in clean and sound condition. Contents include poetry by Clark Coolidge, Guillaume Apollinaire,... Read More
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American Political Prints, 1766-1876: A Catalog of the Collections in the Library of Congress
by Bernard F. Reilly, Jr.
Boston: G.K. Hall & Co, 1991. Near Fine. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1991. First Edition with full number line. Large quarto; publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in white and gilt; xxi,[3],638pp.; halftone illus. throughout. Corners nudged, else a Near Fine example.
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Widowers' Houses. A Comedy
by G. Bernard Shaw
London: Henry and Co, 1893. Very Good. London: Henry and Co., 1893. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's dark olive gilt-lettered cloth; xix,[5],126,[2]pp. Very minor shelf-wear, spine a bit cocked and gilt lettering very slightly flaked, endpapers browned, else a Very Good, still quite brilliant and fresh copy. "Being Number One of the Independent Theatre Series" (upper cover). The... Read More
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The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists: Volume 1-4 [Four volume set]
by Bernard Lightman [ed.]
Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. Very Good. Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. First Editions. Four octavo volumes, complete. Black cloth stamped in gilt and violet. No dust jackets. Touch of dust soiling to top edges. Bindings sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good or better set.
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From the Center of the Earth: The Search for the Truth About China [Inscribed to William Safire]
by Richard Bernstein
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. First Edition. Octavo. 260 pages. Signed by author to William Safire on half title page with inscription, "To Bill Safire, / In friendship and / admiration. / Richard Bernstein / 11/15/85[?]" Bernstein's first book helped establish his reputation as an expert... Read More
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Money and the Economic System
by Edward Morris Bernstein
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1935. Very Good. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1935. First Edition. Octavo. 516pp. Charts and graphs. Brown cloth boards stamped in black and silver; no dust jacket. Boards worn with some smudging. Rear hinge cracked but binding holding. Bookseller stamps ad pencil scribbling to preliminaries,... Read More
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Carrying A Torch [Signed]
by Ted Berrigan
Brooklyn: Clown War, 1980. Very Good. Brooklyn: Clown War, 1980. First Edition, one of 500 trade copies. Signed by Berrigan at dedication to Harris Schiff , "For Harris, my torch-bearer, from Sister Ted," and additional inscription at base of page. Oblong octavo; unpaginated. Illustrated stapled wraps. Mild rubbing and creasing to edges of wraps; binding sound; pages unmarked;... Read More
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![The Sonnets [Inscribed to Joe LeSueur]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/778/559/1699559778.0.m.jpg)
The Sonnets [Inscribed to Joe LeSueur]
by Ted Berrigan
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1967. Near Fine. New York: Grove Press Inc., 1964. Stated First Printing of first trade edition. Slim octavo (20cm); 72pp. Stiff staple-bound printed wraps retaining $1.50 price. Wraps lightly bumped and scuffed; verso toned at edges. Binding sound. Textblock and endsheets show some foxing and toning; interior pages remain clean. Former owner and... Read More
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![So Going Around Cities: New & Selected Poems 1958-1979 [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/754/129/1721129754.0.m.jpg)
So Going Around Cities: New & Selected Poems 1958-1979 [Signed and Inscribed]
by Ted Berrigan
Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1980. Very Good. Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1980. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); illustrated wraps with Donna Dennis painting; 403pp; drawings by George Schneeman. Covers edgeworn with bumping to bottom corners and some stray smudges and scuffs to surface. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the author on first blank... Read More
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![The Sonnets [Inscribed to Harris Schiff]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/487/868/1699868487.0.m.jpg)
The Sonnets [Inscribed to Harris Schiff]
by Ted Berrigan
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1964. Very Good. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1964. Second Printing of the Grove Press Edition. Signed by Berrigan at half title with inscription, "by Ted Berrigan, this copy for Harris Schiff Sept. 29th, 1964 NYC Happy Birthday, Ted." Octavo; 72pp. Printed wraps. Light wear to edges; diagonal crease to rear; binding sound... Read More
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