The Modern Farmer in His Business Relations. A study of some of the principles underlying the art of profitable farming and marketing, and of the interests of farmers as affected by modern social and economic conditions and forces
by ADAMS, Edward F.
San Francisco: N.J. Stone Company, 1899. First Edition. Large octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's dark maroon pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt, marbled endpapers; vi,7-662pp. Light shelf wear, spine cloth a shade sunned, textblock slightly toned, else a Very Good or better, quite brilliant copy overall. A businessman's manual for the modern farmer, with special emphasis on the cooperative movement,... Read More
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The Plot that Failed: Official Records which Show that the Chicago Tribune Employed Burns Detectives, who Manufactured Evidence Intended to Convict an Honest Man of the Crime of Perjury. Startling Exposure of a Deliberate Conspiracy Against William Lorimer and Edward Hines
by ADAMS, Frederick Upham
[Hasting-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Frederick Upham Adams, ca. 1912]. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm.); original grey printed staplebound wrappers; 24pp. Wrapper edges a bit toned, else about Fine. WITH the rather elusive large bifolium insert to accompany p. 19 of the pamphlet. Insert with clean tears from previous folds affecting text without loss of meaning. Insert provides several "Tests" and reproduces manuscript... Read More
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Flying Saucers Have Landed
by ADAMSKI, George [With] LESLIE, Desmond
New York: The British Book Centre, 1954. Sixth Printing Stated. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's yellow cloth titled in red to spine and front board. Dustjacket. Some light wear and scuffing to the extremities of the cloth, minor bumping to spine ends, in a dustjacket which is bright and clean, but has seen some wear, the most obvious defect being a... Read More
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The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography
by ADAMS, Henry; Samuel Chamberlain, illus; Henry Seidel Canby, introd
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, (1970). Limited Edition. Tall octavo (27cm). Full black leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; silk endpapers; all edges gilt; 483pp; with illustrations throughout by Samuel Chamberlain. Introduced by Henry Seidel Canby. A fine, unread copy. "Notes From the Archives" not present.
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Comrade Jill
by ADAMS, Herbert
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1927]. Octavo (19.5cm); brown cloth with titles stamped in red on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 248pp. Light foxing to text edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly rubbed, with a few shallow chips and tears, and light soil to rear panel; Very Good+. A novel set in 1931, where London is on the verge of... Read More
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Humming Birds, Described and Illustrated
by ADAMS, H.G.
London: Groombridge and Sons, [ca 1870]. Undated, early reprint (originally published 1856). Demi octavo; publisher's decorated green cloth; all edges gilt; 144pp; 12-pp publisher's catalog bound in at rear; frontispiece and seven leaves of hand-colored plates; text illus. Prize inscription to verso of front endpaper, dated 1874. A tidy copy, with some mild rubbing to cloth; mild foxing to... Read More
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I Give You Words
by ADAMS, Maguerite Janvrin
New York: Ives Washburn, Inc, 1934. First Edition. First printing. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 87pp. Near Fine in the original silver-printed dustwrapper, nicked with some surface scratches and rubbing; Very Good. Widely published, now forgotten: the peril of verse.
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![Charles Frohman Presents Maude Adams in Edmond Rostand's Play in Four Acts "Chantecler." Adapted by Louis N. Parker [Cover title: "Chantecler: Told in Words and Pictures]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/225/818/913818225.0.m.1.jpg)
Charles Frohman Presents Maude Adams in Edmond Rostand's Play in Four Acts "Chantecler." Adapted by Louis N. Parker [Cover title: "Chantecler: Told in Words and Pictures]
by [ADAMS, Maude, Charles Frohman, Edmond Rostand, and Louis N. Parker]
[New York: Charles Frohman, 1911]. First Edition. Oblong folio (28x34.75cm.); original photo-illustrated string-bound card wrappers, yapp edges; unpaged; photographic illus. throughout. Some shallow chips and tiny losses to wrapper extremities, none affecting text or illustrations, spine nearly split, some foxing to contents, else About Very Good. Deluxe souvenir brochure issued in conjunction with one of Adams's last Broadway appearances.... Read More
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Travelers & Travel Liars 1660-1800
by ADAMS, Percy G.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1962. First Edition. First printing. Green cloth in white jacket; [xiv],292pp. Pushed at head and tail, else Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $5.95), lightly rubbed, else Near Fine.
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Beet Sugar
by ADAMSON, Raymond K. and Miriam E. West
Philadelphia: Works Progress Administration, National Research Project in cooperation with National Bureau of Economic Research, 1938. First Edition. Quarto (25.5cm.); original blue laminated printed wrappers; xxiv,190pp.; illus. Some bubbling to lamination, wrappers rather worn from handling, else About Very Good. Forms part of the series Productivity and Employment in Selected Industries. Report No. N-1.
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![The Language of Oysters [Inscribed by poet and photographer, with signed photograph laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/533/444/1716444533.0.m.jpg)
The Language of Oysters [Inscribed by poet and photographer, with signed photograph laid in]
by ADAMSON, Robert (poetry); Juno Gemes (photography); Rodney Hall (preface); John Kinsella (contributor)
Sydney: Craftsman House / G + B Arts International, 1997. First Edition. Laid in is a photograph of the print found on p.146, with a blind embossed stamp, Geme's signature to its front margin, and her description to rear "Section VII Right Page - No. 85 1993". Quarto (27.5cm); brown cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in silver on spine;... Read More
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Typographia: Or the Printer's Instructor; A Brief Sketch of the Origin, Rise, and Progress of the Typographic Art, with Practical Directions for Conducting Every Department in an Office, Hints to Authors, Publishers, &c
by ADAMS, Thomas F.
Philadelphia: At No. 118 Chesnut St and No. 8 Franklin Place, 1844. Stated second edition. 12mo (20cm). In brown cloth, blindstamped, and titled in gilt on spine; yellow coated endpapers; [i]-vi [7] 8-282, [5]pp; ad for Adams' "Printers' Furnishing Warehouse" at rear; illustrated with in-text wood engravings, including several pictures of presses, diagrams of different lays of the case,... Read More
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![Cultura Popolare nell'Emilia Romagna [Three volumes: Strutture Rurali e Vita Contadina; Espressioni Sociali e Luoghi d'Incontro; Mestieri della Terra e Delle Acque]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/145/531/1287531145.0.m.jpg)
Cultura Popolare nell'Emilia Romagna [Three volumes: Strutture Rurali e Vita Contadina; Espressioni Sociali e Luoghi d'Incontro; Mestieri della Terra e Delle Acque]
by ADANI, Giuseppe and Gastone Tamagnini, eds
[Milano: Silvana Editoriale d'Arte, 1977-9]. First Edition. Three volumes; folio (34cm.); publisher's cloth pictorial dust jackets; illus. throughout, many in color, text printed in triple column. Some minor chipping and wear to jacket extremities, spines all rather sunned, light foxing to top textblock edges, corners gently bumped, last volume's hinges cracked but holding, else a Very Good set overall.... Read More
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The Cardboard House
by ADÁN, Martín; Katherine Silver, transl
Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 1990. First English Language Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth-backed boards (hardcover), dustjacket; x,103pp. Fine copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $17.95 on front flap), crisp and unworn, Fine. A new-appearing copy. First translation into English of the Peruvian poet's first book and only prose work, originally published in Lima in 1928. In the publisher's... Read More
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Women at the Hague: The International Congress of Women and Its Results
by ADDAMS, Jane, Emily G. Balch, and Alice Hamilton
New York: Macmillan Company, 1915. First Edition. 12mo (17.75cm.); original parchment-covered boards, paper label printed and ruled in dark green mounted to upper cover; vii,[1],171pp. Review copy with slip laid in and pressure stamp to title page; additional publisher's prospectuses and catalogs laid in. Toning and dusting, spine quite darkened, contents fine. Near Very Good overall. Congress almost entirely... Read More
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Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic
by ADELMAN, Jeremy
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xii,409pp. Fine, apparently unread copy. In fine, original dustwrapper.
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Sexuality and Psychoanalysis
by ADELSON, Edward T.
New York: Brunner/Mazel, [1975]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in dust jacket; x,[2],312pp. Spine rather cocked, jacket extremities a bit chipped and toned, else Near Very Good and sound.
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All Is Not Lost
by ADETUYI, V. Tai
Ibadan: Adekile Goodwill Grammar School, [1973]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original blue and black staplebound wrappers lettered in yellow and white; 49pp. Fine. Imprint on upper cover: Ilesanmi Press Ltd., Ilesa. 5-act play set in a polygamous home in Nigeria. Unlocated in OCLC as of September, 2015.
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![Half of a Yellow Sun [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/232/809/1686809232.0.m.jpg)
Half of a Yellow Sun [Signed]
by ADICHIE, Chimamanda Ngozi
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); dark yellow and sage green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [x],[4],5-435,[3]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Spine ends nudged, gentle sunning to lower board edges, with a faint crease to lower margin of p.137/138; Very Good+. Dustjacket is... Read More
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![Youth in Danger Becomes a Danger. Fourth Annual Conference, American Society of Adlerian Psychology, May 14th, 1955 [Cover subtitle: A Symposium on Juvenile Delinquency]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/879/743/1043743879.0.m.jpg)
Youth in Danger Becomes a Danger. Fourth Annual Conference, American Society of Adlerian Psychology, May 14th, 1955 [Cover subtitle: A Symposium on Juvenile Delinquency]
by ADLER, Alexandra et al.
New York: Individual Psychology Association New York, 1956. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's blue decorative staplebound card wrappers; 26pp. Just a hint of toning to spine edge, else Fine.
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Alfred Adler: His Influence on Psychology Today
by [ADLER, Alfred] MOSAK, Harold H., ed
Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Press, [1973]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; vi,[2],306pp. A hint of wear and soil to jacket, else Near Fine.
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Studie über Minderwertigkeit von Organen
by ADLER, Alfred
Münich: Verlag von J.F. Bergmann, 1927. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards, printed paper spine label; [8],92pp. Spine label browned, just a hint of shelf-wear, else Very Good to Near Fine.
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Über Den Nervösen Charakter. Grundzüge einer vergleichenden individual-psychologie und psychotherapie
by ADLER, Alfred
Munich: J F Bergmann, 1922. Third edition ("dritte vermehrte auflage"). Octavo (26cm). Original pale blue paper wrappers; 208,(2)pp. Mild external aging and wear; still Very Good in the original wraps. Text entirely in German.
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Selbsterziehung des Charakters: Alfred Adler Zum 6. Geburtstage Gewidmet von Seinen Schülern und Mitarbeitern der Individualpsycholgie
by [ADLER, Alfred] SEIF, Leonhard and Lad. Zilahi, eds
Leipzig: Verlag S. Hirzel, 1930. First Edition. Small quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; [4],200pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Boards a bit rubbed, spine slightly cocked and corners bumped, institutional bookplate of the Institute for Psychoanalysis to front free endpaper, else Near Very Good and sound.
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Italian Industrialists from Liberalism to Fascism: the political development of the industrial bourgeoisie, 1906-1934
by ADLER, Franklin Hugh
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 458pp. Tight, unmarked copy, Fine in unworn, Fine dustwrapper. A new-appearing copy.
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