Night-World
by Robert Bloch
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972. First Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 160pp. Boards in black/blue cloth with silver stamping to spine in publisher's intact jacket ($4.95). Jacket generally scuffed and rubbed with foxing to margins. Board corners and spine ends nudged with foxing to page edges and bottom margin... Read More
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Cold Chills [Signed bookplate]
by Robert Bloch
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977. Very Good+/Very Good+. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21 cm); 178pp. Boards in orange and black cloth with silver stamping to spine, wrapped in publisher's intact jacket ($5.95). Jacket generally scuffed and rubbed with small closed tears to top margin of back panel and rear flap. Verso toned. Board... Read More
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Ehrengraf for the Defense [Signed Limited Edition]
by Lawrence Block
Royal Oak, MI: ASAP, 1994. Near Fine. Royal Oak, MI: ASAP, 1994. Limited First Edition, numbered 249 of 250 and signed by Lawrence Block, intro. author Edward D. Hoch, and artist Phil Parks on limitation notice at front. Octavo; 167pp. Mounted photo frontis. Publisher's gray cloth with silver lettering and mounted illustrations to front and back, housed in... Read More
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In The Midst of Death [Signed Limited Edition]
by Lawrence Block
Delavan, WI: G & G Books, 1995. Near Fine/Near Fine. Delavan, WI: G & G Books, 1995. Signed Limited Edition of 500 copies, of which this is no. 291. Octavo (23 cm); 164pp. Boards bound in light blue-gray cloth with silver stamping, wrapped in publisher's pictorial jacket. Jacket gently bumped at spine ends with superficial scratches to front... Read More
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The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep [Signed Limited Edition]
by Lawrence Block
New York: The Armchair Detective Library / Otto Penzler Books, 1994. Fine. New York: The Armchair Detective Library / Otto Penzler Books, 1994. Signed Limited Edition of 26 lettered copies, of which this K. Octavo (22 cm); ix; 198pp. Boards in maroon cloth with gilt stamping and decoration, printed illustration of author pasted at front cover. Housed in... Read More
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Home Is the Sailor
by Ruth Blodgett
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1932. First Edition, stated. Octavo; [vi], 349pp. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth with black lettering and bordering. Jacket rubbed along edges with a few shallow chips, tears, and creasing; spine faded, with some toning and smudging to panels; small dampstain to... Read More
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Histoire du Calendrier Romain, qui contient son origin & les divers changemens qui lui sont arrivez
by Francois Blondel
A La Haye: Arnout Leers, 1684. Good. A La Haye: Arnout Leers, 1684. 12mo; 19th-century dark brown morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt spine in five compartments; [2],400,[6]pp.; six leaves of tables (collated complete), steel-engraved emblems throughout text, including title page. Binding quite scuffed and worn along margins, joints cracked, rather large loss of spine leather, 20th-century ownership... Read More
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Hints to Horsewomen
by Mrs. Harry Allbutt [Annie Blood-Smyth]
London: Horace Cox, 1893. Good. London: Horace Cox, n.d. but 1893. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm); publisher's cloth over pictorial paper-covered boards printed in red, purple, and black; [4],81,[19](ads)pp.; photographic author portrait frontispiece, four leaves of half tone photographs, pictorial advertisements bound in rear. Boards quite rubbed and worn, upper cover a bit dampstained, rear joint starting to... Read More
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Writing on the Board
by Parker Zaner Bloser
Columbus, OH: The Zaner-Bloser Company, 1955. Very Good. Columbus, OH: Zaner-Bloser Company, 1955. Reprint. Octavo (20.5cm); publisher's comb-bound pictorial card wrappers; 96pp.; halftone photographic illus. Small crack to comb binding, light shelf wear, else Very Good. Guide by the "Penmanship Specialists" originally published in 1945 providing extensive guidance on proper blackboard handwriting complete with photographic examples... Read More
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An Introduction to the Mathematics of Ophthalmic Optics
by Paul Boeder
Fall River, MA: The Distinguished Service Foundation of Optometry, 1937. Very Good. Fall River, MA: The Distinguished Service Foundation of Optometry, 1937. First Edition. Octavo; 244pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with white stamped lettering. Boards are sturdy and square with a few light smudges to cloth and some rubbing at corners and spine ends. Endpapers a bit toned. Binding... Read More
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Brown Sugar: Eighty Years Of America's Black Female Superstars [Signed]
by Donald Bogle
New York: Harmony Books, 1980. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harmony Books, 1980. First Edition stated. Quarto (28cm). Pictorial dust jacket with $15.95 price. Black cloth to spine with brown paper over boards. Black endpapers. Black and white illustrations throughout. 208 pp. Dust jacket has minor shelf wear with rubbing on top edge. Small crease on bottom... Read More
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In Consuetudines Generales Comitatus Burgundiae Observaciones. Referuntur, et explicantur pleraeque aliae aliarum Provinciarum consuetudibnes his similes
by Henry Boguet
Lugduni [Lyon]: Apud Ioannem Pillehotte sub signo nominis Iesu, 1604. Very Good. Lugduni [Lyon]: Apud Ioannem Pillehotte sub signo nominis Iesu, 1604. First Edition. Quarto; full contemporary roan, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges stained red; [8],420,[16]pp. (collated complete); Jesuitical woodcut title page emblem, initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout. Leather rather dried and scuffed along margins, lacking... Read More
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Rugs of the Peasants and Nomads of Anatolia
by W. Bruggemann and H. Bohmer
Munchen: Kunst & Antiquitaten, 1983. Very Good/Very Good. Munchen: Kunst & Antiquitaten, [1983]. First Edition. Square quarto (28.5cm); publisher's cloth, map endpapers, in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; 356pp.; full color photographic illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins, faint white paint residue along bottom cloth edges, else Very Good and sound.
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Rugs of the Peasants and Nomads of Anatolia [Signed by Bohmer]
by Werner Bruggemann; Harald Bohmer
Munchen: Kunst & Antiquitaten, 1983. Very Good/Very Good. Munchen: Kunst & Antiquitaten, 1983. First Edition. Signed by Harald Bohmer with brief inscription facing half title. Quarto. 356 pp. Color and b&w illustrations and photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt; map endpapers. Dust jacket rubbed and scuffed. Boards shelfworn with some minor smudging. Binding sound. Touch... Read More
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New Varieties of Gold and Silver Coins, Counterfeit Coins, and Bullion; with Mint Values
by Jacob R. Eckfeldt; William E. Du Bois
New York: George P. Putnam, 1851. Very Good +. New York: George P. Putnam, 1851. Second Edition. Octavo (23 cm); publisher's dark brown cloth with blind and gilt stamping, rebacked and retouched at corners; 72, xvipp. + 10ads [bound together with The Merchant's and Banker's Almanac for 1852, of which only 16 pages are present]; five (5) plates of engravings, collated... Read More
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The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century
by W.E.B. Du Bois
[N.p.]: International Publishers, 1968. Very Good/Very Good -. [N.p.]: International Publishers, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. 448 pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Dark red cloth stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket chipped with a few tears along edges; general spotting and soiling; rippling and dampstaining along spine. Boards edgeworn with a few bumps. Binding sound. Ownership... Read More
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Risposta al Quesito Cosa e un Appellante? Ossia osservazioni teologico-critiche
by Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni
Macerata: Presso Antonio Cortesi, e Bartolommeo Capitani, 1787. Very Good. Macerata: Presso Antonio Cortesi, e Bartolommeo Capitani, 1787. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); 19th-century maroon morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine in five compartments, all edges speckled red; 566pp. (lacking final blank, else collated complete). Ex-seminary library with scattered 19th-century markings, margins scuffed, spine leather toned to brown, top... Read More
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Storia dei Segreti Rancori Provati di Napoleone Bonaparte durante la sua cattivita' a Sant'Elena
by [Napoleon Bonaparte]
Milano: Presso Luigi Cioffi Editore-Libraio, 1860. Very Good. Milano: Presso Luigi Cioffi Editore-Libraio, 1860. Seconda Edizione. Small 12mo (16cm.); contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, gilt spine, all edges speckled (briefly bleeding to text block); 215pp.; woodcut frontispiece. Some general shelf wear, small contemporary private library spine label; overall Very Good and sound. Uncommon edition of this popular account... Read More
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Die Ethik des Stoikers Epictet
by Adolf Bonhoffer
Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Friedrich Frommann Verlag, 1968. Very Good. Stuttgart-Bad Connstatt: Friedrich Frommann Verlag, 1968. Facsimile Reprint of the 1894 Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey gilt-lettered cloth; [2],viii,278pp. Cloth sunned at margins, spine slightly cocked, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Very Good copy overall.
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Iconography of Power
by Victoria E. Bonnell [ed.]
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Very Good; Near Fine/Very Good; Near Fine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); 363pp. Publisher’s dust jacket; boards bound in black wax cloth with silver stamping to spine. Red endsheets. Dust jacket shows surface-level scratching and scuffing with minor bumping to spine ends. Boards bumped at spine ends;... Read More
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Cuba, Castro, and the United States [Inscribed and Signed]
by Philip W. Bonsal
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971. Very Good/Very Good. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; xii,318pp.; two leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. General shelf wear to jacket extremities, including a few small closed tears, spine slightly cocked, textblock foxed throughout, else a Very... Read More
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Golden Horseshoe: Extracts from the letters of Captain H.L. Herndon of the 21st U.S. Infantry, on duty in the Philippine Islands, and Lieutenant Lawrence Gill, A.D.C. to the military governor of Puerto Rico, with a postscript by J. Sherman, Private, Co. D, 21st Infantry
by Stephen Bonsal
New York: Macmillan Company, 1900. Very Good. New York: Macmillan Company, 1900. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's brown pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, green, and blue; xi,[1],316,[3](ads)pp. Light shelf wear, spine a shade toned, else Very Good and sound. Most likely a fictitious collection of letters pertaining to the Spanish-American War, the editor Bonsal admitting that "For... Read More
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Manuscript Cookbook
by [Americana] [Recipe Book]
[N.p.], 1890. Good. [N.p.]: [ca. 1890s]. Manuscript top-bound notebook (20x9cm), removed; 70pp. of which 40pp. filled. Remnants only of additional pages to rear; general soiling; a few printed recipes from newspapers or magazines pasted in, including "Domestic Hints" secured with a nail; Good at best. We hazard an 1890s date based on the handwriting, clippings, and paper. ... Read More
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown
by Meredith Willson [lyrics and music]; Richard Morris [book]
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1961. Very Good/Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1961. First Edition. Octavo. 181 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in black. Unclipped dust jacket shows general rubbing and minor spotting; chips and a few tears to edges. Boards show light edgewear. Binding is sound. Toning to endpapers and pages otherwise unmarked.... Read More
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The Sound of Music: A New Musical Play (Suggested by the Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp)
by Richard Rodgers [music]; Oscar Hammerstein II [lyrics]; Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse [book]
New York: Random House, 1960. Near Fine/Very Good+. New York: Random House, [1960]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards, photo-illustrated paste-on to upper cover, black topstain, in original photo-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket; [12],140pp.; photo-illustrated frontispiece and title page, two leaves of plates from the original production. Very light shelf wear to jacket margins, minor dustiness, else a Very... Read More
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