![Typed Note, signed, to "Joesphine" [Herbst?], dated November 25, 1945](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/517/927/858927517.0.m.1.jpg)
Typed Note, signed, to "Joesphine" [Herbst?], dated November 25, 1945
by [AUTOGRAPHS & MANUSCRIPTS] [RADICAL AUTHORS] EASTMAN, Max
New York, 1945. Brief TNS on Eastman's personal W. 13th St. letterhead, addressed to "Josephine", dated November 25, 1945. Old folds, else Fine, with bright, clear autograph: "Dear Josephine: Thanks so much for the news -- sad as it all was -- in your letter. It was nice to hear from you. I hope the autobiography may live up... Read More
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![[Poster] Oproep 30 April Massale Demonstratie [Call for Massive Demonstration April 30]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/991/754/1181754991.0.m.jpg)
[Poster] Oproep 30 April Massale Demonstratie [Call for Massive Demonstration April 30]
by DE AUTONOMEN
Amsterdam: De Autonomen, n.d. but 1980. Original photo-illustrated poster (61x43cm.) printed offset in black on white stock; wrinkling to extremities, tiny closed tear at bottom edge not approaching text, else Very Good and sound. Protest poster calling for a massive demonstration on the day of Queen Beatrix's coronation, April 30, 1980. The photographic illustration dates from March 10, 1966,... Read More
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Mingus, Meditations
by AUXEMERY, Jean Paul
Paris: Estepa Editions, 2011. First, Limited Edition. Octavo. 20cm. No. 26 from a signed limitation of 80 copies. Publisher's bright red card wraps titled and decorated in black to front cover. Publisher's glassine. Clean and bright; internally fresh, inscribed by the author to the half title in addition to being signed on the limitation page, decoration by Kentaro Suzuki.... Read More
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![Le Lance Flammes No. 6, Fev. 1952 "Anti-Revue Literaire" [The Flamethrower #6, February 1952]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/808/746/1680746808.0.m.jpg)
Le Lance Flammes No. 6, Fev. 1952 "Anti-Revue Literaire" [The Flamethrower #6, February 1952]
by [AVANT GARDE] MITAUD, Janine; MARION, Claude; LE FRERE, [ED.] André; COLLONE, Henry et al.
Lyon, France: Par HECEY [For the Editor], 1952. Octavo. 22cm. Original card wraps with collage and paint titles to front and rear cover. 30pp. Covers a little sunned to the extremities with some wear and soiling to the collage additions, bright and attractive; Mimeographed page block originally stapled to wraps with one staple, but now detached, clean, untrimmed, toned... Read More
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An Autobiography
by AVEDON, Richard
New York: Random House, 1993. First edition. First printing. Trade issue (unsigned). Large, heavy 4to (36cm). Coarse-woven color-printed fabric over boards, with photographic only to rear board (as issued); unpaginated. A tight, apparently unread copy. Avedon's life and career, told in his photographs of the talented, rich, and famous. A beautifully-designed and well-produced monograph.
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![L'Empire Italien (1885-1945). [Series Title: Collection Campagnes & Stratégies / Les Grandes Battailles]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/301/642/1336642301.0.m.jpg)
L'Empire Italien (1885-1945). [Series Title: Collection Campagnes & Stratégies / Les Grandes Battailles]
by AVENEL, Jean-David & Ciro Paoletti
Paris: Economica, 2014. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 156pp. Complimentary review copy, with slip laid in signed "les auteurs." Fine and unmarked; Near-New.
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Proceedings of the 44 International Congress of Americanists Congreso Internacional de Americanistas Manchester 1982: Calendars in Mesoamerica and Peru Native American Computations of Time
by AVENI, Anthony F. and Gordon Brotherston (editors); Norman Hammond (general editor)
Oxford: B.A.R., 1983. Softcover. Quarto (30cm); red paper wrappers; 263pp; black-and-white illustrations throughout. BAR International Series 174. Modest shelf-wear and -soil, with light creases to wrapper edges, and pencilled notes to upper margin of title page; Very Good. Contributions include Barbara Tedlock's "Quichean Time Philosophy", Gordon Whittaker's "The Structure of the Zapotec Calendar", and R.T. Zuidema's "Towards... Read More
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Jail is Just a Kind Of Warehouse for Poor People
by AVERILL, Peg
New York: Gallery 345, n.d. [ca 1970]. Original offset lithograph, 56cm x 43cm (22" x 17"); printed in black on white wove stock. Signed in plate, lower left. Mild crease to left edge, with a single short, closed tear; Very Good+. Unbacked. Averill (1949-1993) was a prominent and prolific East Coast artist/activist, known especially for her pacifist... Read More
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![[COVER TITLE] Communist Power in U.S. Industry. Reprints of Andrew Avery's hard-hitting articles which appeared between January 13 and 31, 1947, in the Chicago Journal of Commerce](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/764/798/1428798764.0.m.jpg)
[COVER TITLE] Communist Power in U.S. Industry. Reprints of Andrew Avery's hard-hitting articles which appeared between January 13 and 31, 1947, in the Chicago Journal of Commerce
by AVERY, Andrew
Chicago: Chicago Journal of Commerce, 1947. Octavo (21cm). Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 61pp. Clean, tight and unmarked with a bit of dusting to covers; Very Good. Conservative journalist's exposé of Communist infiltration of American labor unions after WW2.
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![Two Sermons on the Nature and Evil of Professors of Religion Not Bridling the Tongue [Signed Manuscript Receipt Bound in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/702/952/1356952702.0.m.jpg)
Two Sermons on the Nature and Evil of Professors of Religion Not Bridling the Tongue [Signed Manuscript Receipt Bound in]
by AVERY, David
Boston: Joseph Bumstead, 1791. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); removed; 66pp. Textblock rather browned and dampstained, shallow chipping along extremities, contemporary ownership signature of a E. Whiting at head of title page (serving as upper cover); still, Very Good and sound overall. Bound in manuscript receipt dated Wrentham, March 13, 1797, and signed by David Avery: "Received of Mr. Samuel... Read More
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China Airlift; The Hump
by [AVIATION][WW2] BREWER, James F. [Ed.] [with: HOWTON, Harry G.
Poplar Bluff, Missouri: China-Burma-India Hump Pilots Association, 1981. Second Printing. Two Vols. Quarto. 31pp. Publisher's textured dark blue rexine titled and embellished in embosssed silver glt to spines and front boards. 596pp.; 628pp. Clean and bright, very light wear; internally clean. A very good set indeed. Two volumes (of an eventual four) detailing the amazing and courageous actions... Read More
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![Cloud Country (3 vols): Book One: Wings of Youth [with] Book Two: Hawaii to Hollywood [with] Book Three: "Lost in Siberia](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/565/327/1531327565.0.m.jpg)
Cloud Country (3 vols): Book One: Wings of Youth [with] Book Two: Hawaii to Hollywood [with] Book Three: "Lost in Siberia
by [AVIATION] MATTERN, Jimmie
[Chicago: Pure Oil Company, 1936]. First Edition. First printing. Three 12mo volumes. Original gilt-pictorial paper-covered boards; each volume 64pp, photo illus. Mild rubbing and wear; internally clean and unmarked; Very Good or better. The complete serialization of Mattern's aviation anecdotes, as recounted on his 1930's radio program "The Diary of Jimmie Mattern." Published and sold by the... Read More
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British Naval Aircraft Since 1912
by [AVIATION] THETFORD, Owen
London: Putnam, 1982. Fifth Revised Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 489pp. Very light wear and bumping to spine ends and extremities, clean and tight; internally clean and fresh. A near fine copy. A frequently revised and updated reference work of naval aviation and equipment originally published in 1958. From the... Read More
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Santos-Dumont; A Study in Obsession
by [AVIATION] WYKEHAM, Peter
London: Putnam, 1962. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's black and white speckled cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 278pp. Some minor bumping to spine ends and corners, clean and tight; internally clean and fresh, red endpapers, red topstain, some spotting and soiling to page edges; in a strong, lightly sunned dustjacket with some light scuffing and soiling... Read More
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Chekhov in My Life
by AVILOV, Lydia; David Magarshack, trans.; Lynton Lamb, illus
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1950]. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth-backed decorative boards in grey pictorial dust jacket; 159pp.; illus. Jacket spine a bit toned, else Near Fine.
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The Bookman's Concise Dictionary
by AVIS, F. C.
New York: Philosophical Library, 1956. 12mo (19cm). Grey cloth titled in gilt; [326]pp. Edges rubbed, else clean and sound: Very Good or better.
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Sunblue
by AVISON, Margaret
Hantsport, NS: Lancelot Press, 1978. First Edition. Issued only in paper covers. 12mo; printed card wrappers; 105pp. Trivial wear to wrapper edges, still a tight, Near Fine and attractive copy. The Governor General's Award-winning poet's third published collection.
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Corporations and Child Care: Profit-making Day Care, Workplace Day Care, and a Look at the Alternatives (Expanded edition)
by AVRIN, Cookie and Georgia Sassen
Cambridge: Women's Research Action Project, 1974. Second Edition. Revised & expanded. Quarto; staple-bound wrappers; 70pp; illus. Mild external soil, else Near Fine. Substantially expanded from the first edition.
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The Seven Year Itch: A Romantic Comedy
by AXELROD, George
New York: Random House, [1953]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm.); original boards, photographic plate mounted to upper cover, green topstain, tan decorative dust jacket; [10],149pp.; photo-illustrated double title page, one photographic plate. Tiny chip to jacket spine foot, extremities a hint darkened, topstain faded, else Very Good or better. Play first produced in 1952 starring Tom Ewell and... Read More
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Affective Disorders Reassessed: 1983. Fifteenth Annual Taylor Manor Hospital Psychiatric Symposium...Ellicott City, Maryland, April 8-9, 1983
by AYD, Frank J. et al., eds
[Baltimore: Ayd Medical Communications], 1983. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's brown pictorial card wrappers stamped in gilt; vi,250pp.; illus. Light wear and dust-soil, else Very Good or better.
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The British West Indies: The Search for Self-Government
by AYEARST, Morley
Washington Square: New York University Press, 1960. First American Edition. Octavo; bluish-gray cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 258pp. Top edge foxed, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $5.00), with a hint of sunning to spine and some dustiness to rear panel. An examination of post-war West Indian politics and government,... Read More
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![En Arrière: Nouvelles [Ben and Bernarda Shahn's Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/738/308/1289308738.0.m.jpg)
En Arrière: Nouvelles [Ben and Bernarda Shahn's Copy]
by AYMÉ, Marcel
[Paris]: Gallimard, [1950]. 32e Édition. Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's white card wrappers printed in red and black; 264pp. Wrapper extremities toned and red spine lettering faded, textblock uniformly browned from poor paper quality, else a Very Good, partly unopened copy. From the Library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label tipped to upper cover verso. Short story collection... Read More
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Now-Time Venezuela: Media Along the Path of the Bolivarian Process / Ahora-Tiempo Venezuela: Los Medios en el Camino del Proceso Bolivariano
by AZZELLINI, Dario and Oliver Ressler
[Berkeley: UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive], 2006. First Edition. Two volumes; 16mo (15cm.); staplebound printed card wrappers; color photographic illus. Fine condition. Bilingual text in English and Spanish. Volume 1: Worker-Controlled Factories / Fábricas de Control Obrero, exhibition dates March 26 - May 28, 2006; Volume 2: Revolutionary Television in Catia / Televisión Revolucionaria en Catia,... Read More
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The Super Grass Grower's Guide: a Handbook for High Power Pot Farming
by MARY JANE SUPERWEED (pseud Djanandruman Baba?)
[San Francisco]: Stone Kingdom Syndicate, 1970. No statement of edition or printing. Small octavo; staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 16pp; illus. Mild external dusting; minor marginalia and highlighting; Near Fine. A rudimentary, if ubiquitous, how-to manual for marijuana cultivators. Reprinted numerous times, as recently as 2000. "Mary Jane Superweed" was a pseudonym that appeared over a variety of... Read More
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Military Intervention in African Politics (a Comparative Study)
by BABATOPE, Ebenezer
[Iponri, Lagos: Progressive Outlook Printers], 1971. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original pink decorative staplebound wrappers; [2],24pp. A touch dust-soiled, with slight fading along spine, else Near Fine. Produced in the tradition of Nigerian market literature, this provides brief accounts of countries in which the army had to take over the government. Includes sections on Nigeria, Ghana, Congo, Upper Volta,... Read More
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