Composite Book-Plates, 1897-8
by E. Bengough Ricketts; Theodore Spicer Simson; Frank Bramley
London: Edward Arnold, 1898. Good. London: Edward Arnold, 1898. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's green cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; ca. 110pp.; chiefly illus. Boards rather rubbed with exposure at corners and minor fraying at spine ends, dampstain to rear cover not bleeding into textblock, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, else Good or better, internally clean and... Read More
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![Avenia: Or, a Tragical Poem, on the Oppression of the Human Species, and Infringement of the Rights of Man. In Six Books, with Notes Explanatory and Miscellaneous. Written in Imitation of Homer's Iliad [William Safire Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/283/365/1279365283.0.m.jpg)
Avenia: Or, a Tragical Poem, on the Oppression of the Human Species, and Infringement of the Rights of Man. In Six Books, with Notes Explanatory and Miscellaneous. Written in Imitation of Homer's Iliad [William Safire Copy]
by Thomas Branagan
Philadelphia: Silas Engles, 1805. Very Good. Philadelphia: Silas Engles, 1805. First Edition. Duodecimo. 358 pages plus errata. Lacks frontispiece. Full contemporary sheep with front cover crudely glued to spine. Gilt ruling and black label to spine. Edges scuffed, with a one inch abrasion tracing diagonally from front top corner of front board. Endpapers moderately foxed and text lightly... Read More
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Heaven Knows Who
by Christianna Brand
London: Michael Joseph, 1960. Very Good/Very Good. London: Michael Joseph, 1960. First Edition. Octavo; blue cloth boards stamped in gilt on spine; illustrated price clipped dust jacket; 283pp.; black and white frontispiece, black and white illustrated foldout located before rear free endpaper. Bottom corners and edges of boards lightly rubbed, crown and spine slightly bumped, attractive contemporary bookplate... Read More
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![Smugglers' Trail [alt. title: Scourge of the Rio Grande]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/835/374/1571374835.0.m.jpg)
Smugglers' Trail [alt. title: Scourge of the Rio Grande]
by Evan Evans [pseud. of Max Brand]
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1949. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1949]. First Edition, stated. Octavo; [vi], 241pp. Illustrated dust jacket over publisher's blue cloth-covered boards with dark blue lettering. Price-clipped jacket shows a small chip at top front just touching text, with rubbing at corners and spine ends and some smudging and... Read More
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Die Lebenswelt: Eine philosophie des konkreten apriori
by Gerd Brand
Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co, 1971. Very Good. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1971. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; xxxvi,[2],651pp. Spine a shade sunned and dampstained, light dust-soil to textblock extremities, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and internally clean and sound.
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Dr. Kildare's Trial
by Max Brand
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1942. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1942. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); [6],204pp. Wear to jacket extremities including small chips at bottom fore-edge of front panel slightly affecting image but not text, spine panel a shade faded, rather large... Read More
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Sukzession und Koexistenz: Uber grundlagen einer reinen phanomenologie und phanomenologischen mathesis
by Carl-Christian von Braunmuhl
Bonn: Bouvier Verlag Herbert Grundmann, 1974. Very Good. Bonn: Bouvier Verlag Herbert Grundmann, 1974. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's dark green card wrappers lettered in white; 294pp. General shelf wear to wrapper extremities, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Issued as Band 95 of the series Abhandlungen zur Philosophie, Psychologie, und Padagogik. ... Read More
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Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster; and In Watermelon Sugar (Three books in the manner of their original editions)
by Richard Brautigan
New York: Delacorte Press / A Seymour Lawrence Book, 1969. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Delacorte Press / A Seymour Lawrence Book, 1969. First Edition Thus (stated First Printing -- September 1969). Octavo; publisher's pictorial boards in matching price-clipped dust jacket; mixed pagination; photographic illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few tiny chips and closed... Read More
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Ladders and Bridges: A Book of Verse
by Katherine Bregy
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1936. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1936. First Edition. Octavo. 77 pages. Decorative dust jacket. Purple boards with paper labels to front and spine. Dust jacket is worn along edges with a cashew-sized chip to rear panel. Toned and stained along edges with general smudging throughout. Boards are sunned along edges.... Read More
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Thumbing! Our Adventures as Hitchhikers
by Diane and Brenda
New York: Pinnacle Books, 1974. Very Good. New York: Pinnacle Books, [1974]. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, all edges stained yellow; 184,[8](ads)pp. Light wear to margins, crease to spine, textblock a bit toned, else a Very Good, sound copy. Raunchy account of young Diane and Brenda as they hitchhike their way from California to... Read More
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Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art
by Brenda Richardson; Gertrude Stein [intro.]
Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985. Near Fine. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985. First Edition. Quarto (12.5" x 10"); 203pp, including chronology for the Cone acquisitions. Eighty-one reproductions of the pieces in the collection; over 50 documentary photographs. Publisher's red cloth-covered boards with silver lettering. No jacket, as issued. Very faint curve to front board, else... Read More
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Von der Mannigfachen Bedeutung des Seienden nach Aristoteles
by Franz Brentano
Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1960. Very Good. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1960. Facsimile reprint of the first (1862) edition. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; x,220pp.; German-language text printed almost entirely in blackletter. Spine rather faded and gilt dulled, corners tapped, faint spotting to rear cover, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Very Good copy... Read More
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![Martin the Warrior [Signed by Jacques]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/838/868/1721868838.0.m.jpg)
Martin the Warrior [Signed by Jacques]
by Brian Jacques; Gary Chalk [illus.]
New York: Philomel Books, 1993. Near Fine/Very Good +. New York: Philomel Books, 1993. First Edition. Signed by Brian Jacques at half title with brief inscription to previous owner. Large octavo; illustrated dust jacket; red cloth-backed boards; 376pp. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed along edges with a couple chips to front panel. Boards show very light shelfwear; binding sound;... Read More
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Coquette: A Play in Three Acts
by George Abbott and Ann Preston Bridgers
New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1928. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards, green topstain, in green pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); x,137pp. Light wear to jacket margins including a few tiny closed tears, spine toned, hairline crack to front hinge, else a Very Good... Read More
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Guess Again
by L.J. Bridgman
New York: H.M. Caldwell Company Publishers, 1902. Very Good. New York: H.M. Caldwell Company Publishers, 1902. First Edition. Square octavo. Unpaginated. Color illustrations throughout. Red cloth spine with pictorial pastedowns to front and rear. Pictorial endpapers. No dust jacket. Boards roughly worn along edges. Boards shaken at rear, but overall binding holding. Colors remain bright and... Read More
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Guess
by L.J. Bridgman
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901. Very Good. New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901. Reprint with Dodge listed on title page and "H.M. Caldwell Co." to copyright page. Square octavo. Unpaginated. Color illustrations throughout. Green cloth spine with pictorial pastedowns to front. No dust jacket. Boards roughly worn along edges with chipping and exposure. Binding is... Read More
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La Femme Seule: Comédie en Trois Actes
by [Eugène] Brieux
Paris: P.-V. Stock & Cie, 1913. Very Good. Paris: P.-V. Stock & Cie., 1913. First Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); contemporary red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [2],240pp. Spine a bit faded, textblock uniformly toned and very lightly foxed, else Very Good and sound. The prolific playwright's comedic portrait of the bourgeois single woman, in this case Thérèse, who loses her... Read More
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Discords
by George Egerton [pseud. Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright]
Boston: Roberts Bros, 1894. Very Good -. Boston: Roberts Bros., 1894. First American Edition. Small octavo; publisher's grey-green decorative cloth stamped in darker green, gilt-lettered spine; 245,[1][10](ads)pp.; decorative title page. Cloth rather rubbed at extremities, spine gilt dulled, textblock extremities a bit soiled, lacking front free endpaper (and half title?), slightly later (1916) ownership inscription to front pastedown,... Read More
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The Public Enemy
by Kubec Glasmon; John Bright
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. Very Good. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. First Edition, Warner Bros. photoplay. Octavo (19cm). Illustrated with black and white scenes from the film. 280 pp. +2 ads. Green topstain. Red publisher's cloth binding. Lacks dust jacket. Boards are lightly shelf-worn, with rubbing to edges. Corners bumped. Topstain bright. Binding sound.... Read More
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The Westminster Review, Vols. XXII - XXIII
by [Periodicals - Great Britain]
New York: Theodore Foster, 1835. Very Good. New York: Theodore Foster, 1835. "American Edition." Octavo; recent brown cloth over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, retaining original endpapers; [6],ii,303;[4],283pp. Some old soil spots throughout textblock, most notably to original front free endpaper, 20th century gift inscription to the same, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Complete set of... Read More
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![International Law for Seagoing Officers - Fifth Edition [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/283/008/1334008283.0.m.jpg)
International Law for Seagoing Officers - Fifth Edition [Signed]
by Burdick H. Brittin
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1986. Very Good/Very Good. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1986. Fifth Edition. Signed by Brittin on title page with inscription, "For Stella Matalas - whose skill in making me be accurate in the interview will long be remembered with pleasure! Cheers, Burdick Brittin, Sept 1986." Octavo. 503 pages. Illustrated blue dust jacket over green... Read More
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On Becoming a Writer
by Vera Brittain
London: Hutchinson & Co, 1947. Very Good/Very Good. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1947. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's simulated cloth in grey dust jacket lettered in red and black retaining original price (10s. 6.); 228pp. Moderate wear to jacket extremities including tear to spine foot tape-repaired on verso, faint dust-soil to rear jacket panel, textblock a shade toned,... Read More
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![Constitution of the Washington Benevolent Society of the Towns of Mayfield and Broadalbin, and County of Montgomery, Instituted 14th March, 1811 [WITH] Washington's Farewell Address, to the People of the United States. Published for the Washington Benevolent Society](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/462/869/1689869462.0.m.jpg)
Constitution of the Washington Benevolent Society of the Towns of Mayfield and Broadalbin, and County of Montgomery, Instituted 14th March, 1811 [WITH] Washington's Farewell Address, to the People of the United States. Published for the Washington Benevolent Society
by [George Washington] Washington Benevolent Society for the Town of Mayfield and Broadalbin
Albany: Balance Press, 1811. Good. Albany: Printed at the Balance Press, No. 30 State-Street, 1811. 12mo (15.5cm.); original sheep over paper-covered scale boards; 8, 36pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece of George Washington commissioned for the Society. Binding quite worn with most of paper covering scale boards perished, shallow losses across top edge of upper cover and bottom edge of... Read More
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The Death of Virgil
by Hermann Broch
New York: Pantheon Books, 1945. Very Good/Good. New York: Pantheon Books, 1945. First American Edition. Large octavo (23 cm); 493pp. Boards quarter bound in black and orange cloth with black and gilt stamping to spine, wrapped in publisher's pictorial intact jacket ($5.50). Dark tops stain. Jacket brittle and toned at margins and worn at all joints, slitting at... Read More
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![Fleishman is in Trouble [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/026/710/1715710026.0.m.jpg)
Fleishman is in Trouble [Signed]
by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
New York: Random House, 2019. Near Fine/Very Good +. New York: Random House, 2019. Stated First Edition. Octavo (24cm); 373pp. Publisher’s photographic dust jacket with $27.00 price intact; boards quarter-bound in beige and white cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Dust bumped at spine ends and corners but otherwise clean. Boards bumped at spine ends; otherwise clean with... Read More
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