![The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra - Volume I and Volume II [Two volume set, lacking vol. III]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/800/890/1604890800.0.m.jpg)
The Flower Ornament Scripture: A Translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra - Volume I and Volume II [Two volume set, lacking vol. III]
by [Buddhism] Thomas Cleary [trans.]
Boston: Shambhala, 1986. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Shambhala, 1985-1986. Volume I a second printing and Volume II a first printing. Two octavo volumes. Illustrated dust jackets. Red cloth stamped in gilt; gold endpaper. Staining and red discoloration to Volume I dust jacket along top edge of front and rear panels and spine; spotting to spine verso of Volume... Read More
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The Rosetta Stone: Printed by the Order of the Trustees of the British Museum
by [Rosetta Stone] [British Museum] [E.A. Wallis Budge]
London: Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1913. Very Good -. London: Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1913. First Edition. Quarto. 8 pp. Frontispiece. Printed wraps. Moderate wear, creasing, and soiling to wraps; tear to top of spine and curling to edges. Binding holding soundly and pages unmarked. Very... Read More
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The Life of Christ as Lord and Redeemer, lasting as eternity, the believers consolation, and worthy of the greatest attention. Illustrated in a sermon, preached at Bridge-Hampton, on the Lord's Day, September 14, 1794, immediately after the funeral of Samuel Buell Woolworth, who died September 13, 1794, in the third year of his age
by Samuel Buell
Sagg-Harbour: D. Frothingham, 1794. Good. Sagg-Harbor: D. Frothingham, [1794]. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 42pp. ([A]3 B-E4 F1, collated and lacking half title and final leaf of text (errata); title page printed within thick black rule. Faint dampstaining along spine edge of rear leaf, textblock a bit toned, contemporary ownership signature of a Susanna Miller at bottom of p.... Read More
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![Open All Night [Limited Lettered Edition w/ serigraph]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/264/564/1699564264.0.m.jpg)
Open All Night [Limited Lettered Edition w/ serigraph]
by Charles Bukowski
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. Very Good/Very Good. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. Limited Deluxe Edition, one of 400 numbered and 26 lettered copies of which this is letter K. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's acetate dust jacket over illustrated paper-covered boards and red and gold patterned cloth spine with mounted paper title card, handbound by Earle Gray;... Read More
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![Scarlet [Limited Edition, Signed by Bukowski]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/530/561/1699561530.0.m.jpg)
Scarlet [Limited Edition, Signed by Bukowski]
by Charles Bukowski
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. Near Fine/Near Fine. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition, Limited Issue of 140 copies signed by Charles Bukowski of which this is no. 78. Slim quarto; decorative cloth-backed boards with paper spine label; red endpapers, in clear acetate dust jacket. Extra spine label laid in. Light rubbing to acetate and... Read More
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![The Curtains Are Waving and People Walk Through The Afternoon Here and In Berlin and In New York City and In Mexico [Limited Edition, Signed by Bukowski, with additional inscription to John Thomas Idlet]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/785/563/1699563785.0.m.jpg)
The Curtains Are Waving and People Walk Through The Afternoon Here and In Berlin and In New York City and In Mexico [Limited Edition, Signed by Bukowski, with additional inscription to John Thomas Idlet]
by Charles Bukowski
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1967. Very Good. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1967. First Edition, Limited to 125 signed copies of which this is no. 51. Square quarto; printed stitched wraps; [8]pp. Light wear along bottom edges with adjacent spotting and discoloration, bleeding ever so slightly to bottom edge of text. Binding sound and pages else unmarked; Very Good.... Read More
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![At Terror Street and Agony Way [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/352/559/1699559352.0.m.jpg)
At Terror Street and Agony Way [Limited Edition]
by Charles Bukowski
Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. Very Good. Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition, Second State with Krome Stock paper cancel affixed to upper cover, limited to 800 copies. Octavo (22cm); publisher's red card wrappers, yapp edges, printed paper label to upper cover; [6],89pp. Light wear to wrapper margins, especially along yapp fore-edges, else... Read More
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Original Manuscript Wedding Gift Album
by Henry Cole and Katherina Bullock
Denver, 1930. Good. [Denver?]: [ca. 1930]. Small oblong quarto; gilt-tooled padded die-cut calf with celluloid lozenge inserted into middle of upper cover carved with birds and flowers, all edges gilt, moiré endpapers; extremities quite rubbed and leather starting to peel from boards, several surface scratches, else Good, internally sound and quite legible. A token clearly thumbed through over... Read More
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![The Shirley Temple Scrapbook: A Book of Memories [Signed by Shirley Temple Black]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/482/925/1695925482.0.m.jpg)
The Shirley Temple Scrapbook: A Book of Memories [Signed by Shirley Temple Black]
by [Shirley Temple Black] Loraine Burdick
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2002. Very Good. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2002. Collector's Edition. Quarto (28.5cm); publisher's red leather with mounted photo and gilt lettering and decoration; moire endpapers; gilt page edges & ribbon bookmark; [x],312pp; photos. Slight bow to front board, with a few scuffs and smudges to surface. Scattered scuffing to gilt edges. Binding... Read More
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Language Made Plain
by Anthony Burgess
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965. Very Good +/Good +. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1965. First American Edition. Octavo (21 cm); 185pp. Publisher's maroon dust jacket with price intact ($3.95). Boards full bound in light mustard cloth with red and white stamping to spine. Dust jacket generally toned, scuffed, creased, and rubbed with minor tears... Read More
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Language Made Plain
by Anthony Burgess
London: The English Universities Press, 1964. Near Fine/Very Good +. London: The English Universities Press, 1964. First Edition. Octavo (20 cm); v, 186pp. Publisher's pink and purple illustrated dust jacket with price intact (21/-). Boards full bound in black and white woven cloth with dark purple stamping to spine and blind stamping to front cover. Dust jacket generally... Read More
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The Art of Excelling; An oration: delivered in the Benevolent Congregational Meeting-House, at Providence, before the Society of the Federal Adelphi; on their anniversary, September 5, A.D. 1799
by Tristam Burges
Providence: John Carter, Jun, 1799. Very Good. Providence: Printed by John Carter, Jun. at the New Printing-Office, Market-Street, 1799. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 22pp. ([A]6 B5, lacking final leaf (blank), else collated and complete with half title). First and final leaves rather browned, else Very Good and sound. Uncommon lecture on humanity's innate drive towards excellence... Read More
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![The Tin Roof Blowdown [Signed Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/319/956/1688956319.0.m.jpg)
The Tin Roof Blowdown [Signed Limited Edition]
by James Lee Burke
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2007. Near Fine. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2007. Signed Limited Edition. Octavo (24 cm); 373pp. Boards in brown leather with gilt stamping and decoration. Edges gilt, moire silk endsheets, and camel ribbon. Board corners and spine ends gently bumped. Publisher's prospectus and certificate of authenticity loosely laid in at front. A Near... Read More
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![Burne Hogarth's The Golden Age of Tarzan: 1939-1942 [Signed with signed poster laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/757/602/1428602757.0.m.jpg)
Burne Hogarth's The Golden Age of Tarzan: 1939-1942 [Signed with signed poster laid in]
by Burne Hogarth [illus.]; Edgar Rice Burroughs; Maurice Horn [ed & intro.]
New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1977. Very Good +. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1977. Limited Edition of 2000 copies signed by Hogarth on limitation page, this being #112. Elephant Folio. 154 pp. Color illustrations throughout. Gold boards stamped in black and blue. Gold slipcase stamped in blue. "Tarzan: The Deluge Strikes" poster laid in, signed... Read More
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The Head of the House of Coombe
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, 1922. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers, 1922. First American Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket; [6],374pp. Shallow chips and closed tears to jacket extremities with old tape repair occasionally showing through to exterior, small damp stain at bottom of spine panel,... Read More
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. Very Good. New-York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First Edition, First State with De Vinne Press slug on p. [210] and correct signature marks. Small quarto; publisher's pictorial tan cloth stamped in red, black, and gilt; brown endpapers. Xi, [1], 210, [1], [14] [ads] pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard, illus. throughout, many full-paged,... Read More
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Roman Nights
by Ron Burns
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. Near Fine/Very Good +. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Octavo (21.5cm); [xii],340pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $22.95 price intact; boards in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket is crisp with light rubbing along edges. Boards are sturdy and square with sharp corners. Nudging... Read More
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Cobble Stone Gardens
by William S. Burroughs
Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1976. Very Good. Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1976. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21.5cm); glossy photo-illustrated wraps; 53pp; photos throughout. Covers lightly shelfworn with a bit of toning to rear panel. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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The War Chief
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1927. Very Good -. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1927. First Edition. Octavo; [viii], 382pp +1 glossary. Illustrated title page. Publisher's orange cloth with dark brown lettering. Missing dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with soiling and smudging to cloth; spine dulled with bumping at tail and shallow chipping and fraying at head. Pages toning... Read More
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The Naked Lunch
by William Burroughs
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. Very Good/Very Good. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. First Edition, Second State. Mass market paperback; 226pp. Publisher’s white and purple dust jacket with revised price on rear cover; Olympia’s usual olive green wrappers and green ornamental border on title page. Dust jacket toned and bumped, especially at spine ends. Dampstain at spine tail... Read More
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The Girl from Hollywood
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1923. Very Good. New York: The Macaulay Company, 1923. First Edition, Second State without "he said" on frontis. Octavo; 320pp. Illustrated frontis. Publisher's rough, horizontal-weave red cloth with green lettering and design. Missing dust jacket. Boards bumped at spine ends and lightly rubbed at corners, with dulling to lettering and some general smudging... Read More
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Tanar of Pellucidar
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1931]. Later G&D reprint with 33 ERB titles in ads (vs 30 in earlier). Octavo; 312pp +8pp ads. Earlier state dust jacket with 30 ERB titles on verso. Publisher's red cloth with black lettering. Dark green topstian. Jacket chipped at head of spine (just... Read More
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Tarzan and the Ant Men
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1925. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [ca.1925]. Early G&D Reprint, with single ERB ad at back listing 11 titles and 13 ERB titles listed on jacket verso. Octavo; [iv]346pp +2 ads. Illustrated frontis. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth with black lettering. Jacket edgeworn with tears to folds at spine... Read More
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![The Naked Lunch [The Traveller's Companion Series No. 76]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/873/644/1699644873.0.m.jpg)
The Naked Lunch [The Traveller's Companion Series No. 76]
by William Burroughs
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. Very Good. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. First Edition, First Issue with "Francs: 1500" and without later cancelled price to rear. 12mo. [vi], 7-[226]pp. Publisher's usual olive-green wraps with chain-pattern and double black-ruled border filled with a white band. Green ornamental border to title page. Wear to edges; short tear along fore-edge center... Read More
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![Hand Shadows [Pictorial Handkerchief]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/825/829/1690829825.0.m.jpg)
Hand Shadows [Pictorial Handkerchief]
by [Henry Bursill]
England: s.i., 1860. Very Good+. England? ca. 1860s. Pictorial handkerchief (21x25.5cm) borrowing images from the popular 1859 treatise by sculptor and shadow puppet enthusiast Henry Bursill. A few small soil spots, else Very Good to Near Fine. Lovely souvenir handkerchief produced shortly after the publication of the popular 1859 guidebook to shadowgraphy, "Hand Shadows To Be Thrown... Read More
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