![A Poem About Testimony and Argument [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/512/841/1581841512.0.m.jpg)
A Poem About Testimony and Argument [Limited Edition, Signed]
by Harold Brodkey
New York: Elaine Juska & Jordan Davies, 1986. Near Fine. [New York?]: Elaine Juska & Jordan Davies, 1986. First Edition, Limited to 135 copies. Quarto; publisher's grey stitched wrappers printed in maroon; [18]pp. Just About Fine. Signed by the author on colophon in rear.
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![The Abundant Dreamer [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/929/348/1578348929.0.m.jpg)
The Abundant Dreamer [Signed]
by Harold Brodkey
London: Jonathan Cape, 1989. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Jonathan Cape, 1989. First UK Edition. Signed by Harold Brodkey without inscription at title page. Octavo. 297 pp. Printed dust jacket. Black boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket rubbed along edges with a small patch of dampstaining to base of spine at verso. Boards lightly shelfworn. Binding is... Read More
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![A Modern Hero [Signed Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/838/488/1687488838.0.m.jpg)
A Modern Hero [Signed Limited Edition]
by Louis Bromfield
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1932. Very Good+/Very Good+. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1932. Signed First Edition, limited to 250 copies, of which this is no. 23. Octavo (20 cm); 450pp. White cloth spine with red cloth boards and gilt stamping, wrapped in publisher's gold foil pictorial jacket and housed in decorative-paper slipcase with red... Read More
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![A Good Woman [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/425/358/1686358425.0.m.jpg)
A Good Woman [Signed]
by Louis Bromfield
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1927. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1927. First Edition. Octavo (19 cm); 432pp. Boards in red cloth with gilt stamping, wrapped in publisher's intact jacket ($2.50). Top edge sprayed. Jacket spine and joints significantly toned with minor water staining to spine. Lightly soiled with margins bumped and... Read More
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Pre-Industrial Iron: Its Technology and Ethnology
by William Rostoker and Bennet Bronson
Philadelphia, PA: Archeomaterials Monograph, 1990. Very Good. Philadelphia, PA: Archeomaterials Monograph, 1990. Quarto (28.5cm); publisher's navy blue cloth, x,232pp.; illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, corners bumped and a few small scuff marks to upper cover, else Very Good and sound.
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The Professor: A Tale
by Currer Bell [pseudonym of Charlotte Bronte]
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1857. Very Good -. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1857. First American Edition. Octavo. 330pp.; 6pp. publisher's advertisements to rear; single page advertisement for "The Bronte Novels" preceding title. Publisher's brown cloth with spine stamped in gilt; yellow endpapers. Boards worn and scuffed; brief exposure to corners; fraying, chipping, and shallow... Read More
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![Hotel du Lac [Signed Bookplate]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/529/912/1612912529.0.m.jpg)
Hotel du Lac [Signed Bookplate]
by Anita Brookner
London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. London: Jonathan Cape, 1984. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Anita Brookner loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 184 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with £7.95 net price intact. Blue cloth boards stamped in gilt. Jacket lightly worn along edges; moderate general creasing and wrinkling with a long, thin vertical run to coating... Read More
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![Providence [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/110/330/1444330110.0.m.jpg)
Providence [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Anita Brookner
London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Brookner loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 183 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Orange boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket shows some light creasing and rubbing along edges. Boards with minimal shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Author's... Read More
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![In the Mecca [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/353/724/1699724353.0.m.jpg)
In the Mecca [Inscribed and Signed]
by Gwendolyn Brooks
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968. Early Printing. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in white pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; vii,[1],54pp. Light wear and dust-soil to dust jacket; a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket overall. Inscribed and signed on half title page, "For Betty, with love and pride!... Read More
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![Selected Poems [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/535/253/1700253535.0.m.jpg)
Selected Poems [Inscribed and Signed]
by Gwendolyn Brooks
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Very Good. New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Later (1983) printing. Octavo (20cm); publisher's dark green and black pictorial card wrappers; x,127pp. Very light shelf wear to wrapper margins, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on half title page, "For Betty / Sincerely / Gwendolyn Brooks / February 19, 1986.... Read More
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![Blacks [Inscribed and Signed by Brooks and her husband Henry Blakely]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/172/719/1699719172.0.m.jpg)
Blacks [Inscribed and Signed by Brooks and her husband Henry Blakely]
by Gwendolyn Brooks
Chicago, IL: David Company, 1987. Very Good. Chicago, IL: David Company, 1987. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's navy blue stiff card wrappers lettered in gilt; 512pp. Wrappers and textblock margins rather dusty, spine a bit cocked, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by Brooks and her then-husband Henry Blakely on dedication page, "For Bob... Read More
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![Family Pictures [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/533/253/1700253533.0.m.jpg)
Family Pictures [Inscribed and Signed]
by Gwendolyn Brooks
Detroit, MI: Broadside Press, 1970. Very Good. Detroit MI: Broadside Press, 1970, [but 1983]. Fourth Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's white pictorial staple bound card wrappers; 23pp.; Wrappers dust-soiled and a bit toned along margins, else Very Good and sound. Title page inscribed and signed, "For Betty / Love! Gwendolyn Brooks / February 19, 1986.
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![Children Coming Home [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/817/724/1699724817.0.m.jpg)
Children Coming Home [Inscribed and Signed]
by Gwendolyn Brooks
Chicago: David Company, 1991. Very Good +. Chicago: David Company, 1991. First Edition. Small, slim quarto (23.5cm); publisher's black and white card wrappers; [12],20pp. Light shelf wear and faint creasing to wrapper margins, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed and signed on title page, "For Gert and Gus / Sincerely / Gwendolyn Brooks / November 23, 1996.... Read More
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![Selected Poems [Inscribed and Signed to Lois Mailou Jones]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/190/731/1699731190.0.m.jpg)
Selected Poems [Inscribed and Signed to Lois Mailou Jones]
by Gwendolyn Brooks
New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Very Good. New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Later (ca. 1983) printing. Octavo (20cm); publisher's dark green and black pictorial card wrappers; x,127pp. Moderate wear to wrapper margins, vertical crease to upper cover wrapper, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on title page to the renowned Black illustrator and... Read More
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![Collection of Five Early Annual Reports: Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Mercantile Library Association of the City of Brooklyn [First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Eighth Annual]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/561/748/1343748561.0.m.jpg)
Collection of Five Early Annual Reports: Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Mercantile Library Association of the City of Brooklyn [First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Eighth Annual]
by Board of Directors - Mercantile Library Association of the City of Brooklyn
Brooklyn: For the Association, 1866. Very Good. Brooklyn: Printed for the Association, 1859-1866. First Editions. Five volumes; octavo (ca. 23cm.); all bound in wrappers printed within decorative border. Publication sequence includes the First-Fourth reports (1859-1862) and the Eighth report (1866). First report a bit chipped along extremities and spine crudely reinforced with old tape repair; general dust-soil and... Read More
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![Redlands [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/054/951/1668951054.0.m.jpg)
Redlands [Signed]
by Philip Brookman
Gottingen, DE: Steidl, 2015. Very Good +/Very Good. Gottingen, DE: Steidl, 2015. First Edition. Signed by Philip Brookman with brief inscription at half title. Octavo. 206pp. Photographs throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth stamped in red and white; red endpapers. Dust lightly worn along edges with some general surface scratching. Boards show light rubbing to edges. Binding sound... Read More
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![The World of Gwendolyn Brooks: A Street in Bronzeville / Annie Allen / Maud Martha / The Bean Eaters / In the Mecca [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/568/719/1699719568.0.m.jpg)
The World of Gwendolyn Brooks: A Street in Bronzeville / Annie Allen / Maud Martha / The Bean Eaters / In the Mecca [Inscribed and Signed]
by Gwendolyn Brooks
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Very Good -/Fair. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21cm); publisher's cloth in orange decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($8.50); xiii,[1],426pp. Dust jacket quite worn with large triangular loss to upper panel and subsequent long closed tear slightly affecting design, private library manuscript spine label and ownership... Read More
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![Report From Part Two [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/474/257/1700257474.0.m.jpg)
Report From Part Two [Inscribed and Signed]
by Gwendolyn Brooks
Chicago, IL: Third World Press, 1996. Near Fine. Chicago, IL: Third World Press, 1996. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's card wrappers; 170pp. Very light soil to textblock margins, else Near Fine. Inscribed and signed on half title page, "For Gert and Gus / Sincerely / Gwendolyn Brooks / November 23, 1996.
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Vampire Over London: Bela Lugosi in Britain
by Frank Dello Stritto; Andi Brooks
Los Angeles: Cult Movies Press, 2001. Very Good/Very Good. Los Angeles: Cult Movies Press, 2001. Limited First Edition. Signed by the author with brief dedication on full title and numbered 457 of 1000 copies on limitation statement at bottom of copyright. Octavo; xii, 363pp. Photos and illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket over illustrated boards. Jacket rubbed and bumped... Read More
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Moroccan Carpets
by Brooke Pickering, W. Russell Pickering, and Ralph S. Yohe
London / Chevy Chase, MD: Hali Publications & The Near Eastern Art Research Center, 1994. Near Fine/Near Fine. [London / Chevy Chase, MD]: Hali Publications & The Near Eastern Art Research Center, [1994]. First Edition. Folio (35cm); publisher's cloth, map endpapers, in glossy pictorial dust jacket; 160pp.; full color illus. throughout. Corners nudged, else Fine.
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Prancing Novelist: A Defense of Fiction in the Form of a Critical Biography in Praise of Ronald Firbank
by [Ronald Firbank] Brigid Brophy
London: Macmillan, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. London: Macmillan, 1973. First Edition. Large octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xv,[1],592pp.; four leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Minor edge wear and wrinkling to dust jacket, old price sticker to front flap, small square of glue residue at jacket spine foot verso faintly showing through... Read More
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Original Cabinet Card of Pawnee Bill
by [Pawnee Bill] Swords Bro's
York, PA: Swords Bro's, 1880. Very Good+. York, PA: Swords Bro's, ca. 1880s. Original cabinet photograph (14x10cm) affixed to studio's captioned card mount (16.5x11cm.); photograph captioned "Pawnee Bill" in image. Two small shallow chips to left-hand margin of image, trivial spotting, else a Very Good or better example. Youthful portrait of the American Wild West showman Gordon... Read More
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The Chautauqua Combination Drawing Board and Writing Desk
by Powers Bros
N.p.: Powers Bros, 1895. Very Good -. N.p.: Powers Bros., 1895. Original wooden educational wall fixture (ca. 74x52cm.); complete with spinning scroll in twenty-three frames, each measuring ca. 17x48cm (or ca. 391x48cm. if completely unfurled); the first thirteen frames are printed in negative white over black, the following five are black on a white background, the final five... Read More
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![The Achievement of Brother Antoninus [Signed and Inscribed by William Stafford]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/668/759/1666759668.0.m.jpg)
The Achievement of Brother Antoninus [Signed and Inscribed by William Stafford]
by Brother Antoninus [pseud. of William Everson]; William E. Stafford [ed.]
Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1967. Very Good. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (22.9cm); [viii],86pp. Illustrated wraps. Covers rubbed along edges and spine, with light bumping to top front corner. Flattened creasing to a few page corners. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Signed by Stafford on dedication page beneath... Read More
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Original Photo Album of Eighty-Six Albumen Views of Egypt
by Gabriel Lekegian and Zangaki Brothers
Cairo: Lekegian and Zangaki, 1880. Very Good-. [Cairo]: Gabriel Lekegian and Zangaki Brothers, n.d., ca. 1880s. Large oblong folio (25x34cm.); original brown cloth album with binder's ticket of the Parisian establishment Anc. Mon. Martinet to front pastedown; [50]ll. thick blue card stock filled nearly to completion with eighty-six (86) albumen photographs (mostly 20.5x27cm or the inverse) captioned in image. Album... Read More
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