![So Going Around Cities: New & Selected Poems 1958-1979 [Inscribed to Harris Schiff and Judy Pomerantz]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/803/484/1699484803.0.m.jpg)
So Going Around Cities: New & Selected Poems 1958-1979 [Inscribed to Harris Schiff and Judy Pomerantz]
by Ted Berrigan
Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1980. Very Good. Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1980. First Edition, wrapper issue. Signed at front free endpaper "Ted Berrigan, Hand-corrected for Judy and for Harris Aug, 1980 - Tear it in half when you hate each other. Harris: p. 376, Judy: p. 383. Love, Ted," with manuscript prompts for respective poems in... Read More
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![In a Blue River [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/551/561/1699561551.0.m.jpg)
In a Blue River [Signed]
by Ted Berrigan
New York: Little Light Books, 1981. Very Good. New York: Little Light Books, 1981. First Edition, Limited Issue of 500 copies. Octavo (21.7cm); illustrated wraps with cover art by Susan Cataldo; [48]pp. Rubbing and spotting to edges of wraps; binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by Berrigan at title page with inscription to Harris Schiff and... Read More
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![His Thought Made Pockets & The Plane Buckt [Limited Edition, Signed by Berryman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/816/566/1699566816.0.m.jpg)
His Thought Made Pockets & The Plane Buckt [Limited Edition, Signed by Berryman]
by John Berryman
Pawlet, VT: Claude Fredericks, 1958. Very Good +. Pawlet, VT: Claude Fredericks, 1958. First Edition, Limited Issue of 500 copies, this being #484. Signed by John Berryman without inscription at title page. [16]pp. Sewn wraps. Housed in the original printed mailing envelope, which Berryman has also signed. Wraps tight in binding and pages unmarked. Envelope worn and creased... Read More
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The Dream Songs
by John Berryman
London: Faber and Faber, 1990. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Faber and Faber, 1990. First thus. Octavo. 427 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in white. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Price sticker to bottom of front flap. Light edgewear at spine ends of boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. The volume combines 77 Dream... Read More
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I Valdesi ossidano i Cristiani-Cattolici Secondo la chiesa primitiva abitanti le cosi dette valli di Piemonte: Cenni Storici
by Amedeo Bert
Torino: Gianini e Fiore, 1849. Very Good. Torino: Gianini e Fiore, 1849. First Edition. Octavo (18cm.); late 19th-century parchment, gilt-lettered spine, all edges red, marbled endpapers; [12],498pp. Parchment margins and spine a bit toned, scattered foxing to textblock, ownership signature to front free endpaper verso, else a Very Good copy. History of the pre-Reformation Waldensian ascetic sect... Read More
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Science et Philosophie chez Goethe
by [Goethe] Rene Berthelot
Paris: Librairie Felix Alcan, 1932. Very Good. Paris: Librairie Félix Alcan, 1932. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's green printed wrappers; [4],188pp. Minor shelf wear, later bookseller ticket inside upper wrapper, ownership signature to half title, rather extensive but erudite ballpoint pen annotations and underlining throughout. A Good to Very Good copy. Forms part of the series Bibliothèque de... Read More
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Vernacular Picture-Book Dedicated to New Jersey Music Teacher Bertha Battersby
by [Bertha Battersby] Henry S. Hulse, Jr.
Elizabeth, NY, 1956. Very Good -. Elizabeth, NJ: 1956. Large quarto scrapbook (33x26cm.); black paper over paste-paper boards; [27]ll. filled to two-thirds completion. Boards rather scuffed and toned, leaves brittle with shallow chips and tears to margins not affecting contents, preliminary leaf separated but present; overall Good to Very Good, contents remaining clean and sound. This hand-made... Read More
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![A Penny for the Poor [alt. title Threepenny Novel]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/130/326/1580326130.0.m.jpg)
A Penny for the Poor [alt. title Threepenny Novel]
by Bertolt Brecht; Desmond I. Vesey and Christopher Isherwood [trans.]
New York: Hillman-Curl, 1938. Very Good/Good. New York: Hillman-Curl, 1938. First American Edition with no additional printings listed. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50), yellow topstain; 396pp. Jacket rather worn with a number of closed tears and splitting along flap folds, old tape repair at spine ends, cloth spine very slightly toned, faint... Read More
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American Popular Illustration: A Reference Guide
by James J. Best
Westport, CT: American Popular Culture / Greenwood Press, 1984. Very Good. Westport, CT: American Popular Culture / Greenwood Press, 1984. First Edition. Octavo. 171 pp. Beige cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Some smudging and scuffing to boards. Binding is sound and pages clean and unmarked.
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![Ear Magazine New York, Vol. 1, no. 3, Summer, 1975 [Jackson Mac Low's copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/796/329/1703329796.0.m.jpg)
Ear Magazine New York, Vol. 1, no. 3, Summer, 1975 [Jackson Mac Low's copy]
by Beth Anderson and Richard Hayman [eds.]; John Cage [contr.]
New York: Ear N.Y., 1975. Very Good-. New York: Ear N.Y., 1975. First Edition. Tabloid format (42cm); self-wrappers, disbound as issued; [8]pp.; illus. Rather worn and toned with tears along old mail fold affecting text without loss of meaning, damp stain affecting upper cover; Good to Very Good only. Single issue of this uncommon newspaper devoted... Read More
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![The Informed Heart: Autonomy in a Mass Age [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/793/143/1699143793.0.m.jpg)
The Informed Heart: Autonomy in a Mass Age [Signed]
by Bruno Bettelheim
Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1960. Very Good/Very Good. Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1960. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's two-toned cloth, orange topstain, in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; viii,[2],309pp. Dust jacket rather chipped and rubbed at margins, spine panel sunned; overall Very Good and sound. Signed by the author on front free endpaper.
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![The Gentle Insurrection and Other Stories [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/821/201/1624201821.0.m.jpg)
The Gentle Insurrection and Other Stories [Signed]
by Doris Betts
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth, green topstain, in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [8],274pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few small chips and closed tears not approaching text, topstain a bit sunned and corners nudged, else a Very Good, bright... Read More
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Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories
by Doris Betts
New York: Harper & Row, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Row, [1973]. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($6.95); [10],192pp. Light wear and dust-soil to jacket with brief tape repair to verso of jacket spine ends, corners nudged, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy. ... Read More
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![[Text in Vietnamese] Giuong Buom Lên! Chuyên ve các nhà di bien và các nhà du lich noi tieng có minh hoa](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/371/434/1471434371.0.m.jpg)
[Text in Vietnamese] Giuong Buom Lên! Chuyên ve các nhà di bien và các nhà du lich noi tieng có minh hoa
by [Alexander Bezlich] A-léc-xan-dro' Be-xlích
Mát-xco-va [Moscow]: Tre Nho, 1984. Very Good -. Mát-xco-va [Moscow]: Tre Nho, 1984. First Vietnamese Language Edition. Quarto; publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; eight leaves of color pop-ups. Covers rather worn with small loss at spine foot and minor chipping along margins, old tape and glue remnants to rear cover, gift inscription to front cover and first leaf,... Read More
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![Evangeliarium Quadruplex: Latinae Versionis Antiquae seu Veteris Italicae [Four volumes in Two]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/391/272/1721272391.0.m.jpg)
Evangeliarium Quadruplex: Latinae Versionis Antiquae seu Veteris Italicae [Four volumes in Two]
by [New Testament] Josepho Blanchino Veronensi [Giuseppe Bianchini]
Romae [Rome]: Typis Antonii de Rubeis, apud Pantheon, in via Seminarii Romani, 1749. Very Good. Romae [Rome]: Typis Antonii de Rubeis, apud Pantheon, in via Seminarii Romani, 1749. First Edition. Four folio volumes (41x28cm) bound in two; full contemporary calf with seven raised bands, gilt decoration, and leather title labels to spine; sponge painted edges; marbled endpapers; half... Read More
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The History of the Early Turkish Carpet
by Kurt Erdmann; Robert Pinner [trans.]; Hanna Erdmann [bibliography]
London: Oguz Press, 1977. Very Good/Very Good. London: Oguz Press, 1977. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); publisher's boards in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; xvi,[2],101pp.; halftone photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear to jacket and board margins, shallow white paint residue along bottom edge, else Very Good and sound.
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![Approaches to Writing [Inscribed and Signed to Henry Steele Commager]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/693/991/1573991693.0.m.jpg)
Approaches to Writing [Inscribed and Signed to Henry Steele Commager]
by Paul Horgan; James Kraft [bibliography]
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1973]. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($10.00), pictorial endpapers printed in green; xi,[3],331pp. Light toning and soil to jacket, corners tapped, textblock margins rather heavily foxed, else a Very Good, sound copy... Read More
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From Baudelaire to Surrealism
by Marcel Raymond; Robert Motherwell [pref.]; Harold Rosenberg [intro.]; Bernard Karpel [bibliography]
New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc, 1950. Very Good+/Very Good. New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc., 1950. First American Edition, Cloth Issue. Small octavo (19cm); publisher's cloth in unclipped pink dust jacket printed in red; [18],427pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout including facsimiles. Light shelf wear and toning to jacket margins and spine panel, brief soil to upper cover cloth, else a... Read More
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Es-Ka Bicycles Poster Stamp
by Es-Ka Bicycles
Cheb, Czechoslovakia, 1920. Very Good. Cheb, Czechoslovakia: Es-Ka Bicycles, ca. 1920. Ephemeral poster stamp (13cm). Single thin sheet with shorn top edge; some toning to front and foxing to rear. Very Good or better. First called Elite, Es-Ka Bicycles was founded in Cheb, Czechoslovakia in 1911 by Ambros Swetlik and Heinrich Kastrup. Located in the far... Read More
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![France and Hereditary Monarchy [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/857/560/1699560857.0.m.jpg)
France and Hereditary Monarchy [Inscribed and Signed]
by John Bigelow
London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1871. Very Good. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1871. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm); publisher's bright blue gilt-lettered cloth; [4],80pp. Moderate wear to cloth margins, corners significantly bumped and spine cloth darkened though contents remain clean and sound. Very Good overall. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "Miss Olga [?]... Read More
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![President Clinton's Legacy to Africa [Signed by Hillary Rodham Clinton]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/543/637/1697637543.0.m.jpg)
President Clinton's Legacy to Africa [Signed by Hillary Rodham Clinton]
by [Bill and Hillary Clinton] Sharolyn Rosier Hyson, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, and Erieka Bennett
Washington, DC: African Communications Agency, 2001. Very Good/Very Good. [Washington, DC]: African Communications Agency, [2001]. First Edition. Square quarto (26cm); publisher's boards in unclipped green photo-illustrated dust jacket; 180pp.; color photographs throughout. Jacket a bit wrinkled and worn at spine ends, brief soil to rear panel, else Very Good and sound. Ex libris of the Black Leadership Forum... Read More
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![Spadework: A Collection of "Nameless Detective" Stories [Limited Edition, Signed by Pronzini]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/325/092/1693092325.0.m.jpg)
Spadework: A Collection of "Nameless Detective" Stories [Limited Edition, Signed by Pronzini]
by Bill Pronzini; Marcia Muller [intro.]
Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 1996. Fine/Fine. Norfolk, VA: Crippen & Landru Publishers, 1996. First Edition, Limited Issue of 350 copies signed by Pronzini, this being #40 and including a typescript page from this collection tipped in at rear. Octavo. 192pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Light brown cloth boards stamped in blue. Dust jacket crisp; boards tight in... Read More
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The Other German: Willy Brandt's Life and Times
by David Binder
Washington, D.C.: The New Republic Book Company, 1975. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Washington, D.C.: The New Republic Book Company, 1975. First Edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with brief inscription to writer and columnist William Safire. Octavo; 373pp. Printed photo-portrait dust jacket with original $12.50 price; book in beige cloth-covered boards with... Read More
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In Morocco
by Edith Wharton; Margaret Armstrong [binding]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Very Good -. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First Edition. Large octavo; 288pp. Map and photographic plates, collated and complete. Publisher's blue cloth binding designed by Margaret Armstrong stamped in red, yellow, and green; no dust jacket. Boards show moderate wear to edges; spine rubbed; corners bumped. Rear hinge cracked, else... Read More
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The Transfiguration of Miss Philura
by Florence Morse Kingsley; Margaret Armstrong [binding]
New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1902. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1902. Later printing with "Fourteenth Edition" to title page. Octavo. 81 pp. + 2 pp. series advertisements. Illustrated dust jacket. Beige publisher's cloth decorated in pink and black and with Margaret Armstrong's monogram to front. A few minor nicks to... Read More
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