Almon W. Babbitt, Delegate from Deseret. April 4, 1850
by [BABBITT, Almon W.] UNITED STATES CONGRESS - COMMITTEE OF ELECTIONS
[Washington: Government Printing Office?], 1850. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); removed; 16pp. Light wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. At head of title: "31st Congress, 1st Session, Rep. No. 219." Report submitted regarding "the credentials of Almon W. Babbitt, esq., and his memorial praying to be admitted to a seat in the House of Representatives." The text opens with... Read More
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Why Do We Spend So Much Money? Illustrations by Nancy Brigham. Third edition
by [BABSON, Steve and Nancy Brigham]
Somerville, MA: Popular Economics Press, 1977. Third edition. Quarto; staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 50pp; illus. Mild external creasing and wear; internally clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good copy. Primer on American economic policy, from a center-left perspective. Illustrated throughout with humorous drawings by Nancy Brigham.
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Set This Book On Fire! [Signed]
by BACA, Jimmy Santiago
Mena, AR: Cedar Hill Publications, 1999. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23cm); glossy pictorial card wrappers; [14],15-83,[5]pp. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Some upward lift to front wrapper, else Near Fine. Collection of poems by the New Mexican author, several of which first appeared in the pages of Cedar Hill Review and Rattle Magazine. 84271. ... Read More
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Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande [Signed & Inscribed]
by BACA, Jimmy Santiago
[New York]: New Direction Book, [2004]. First Edition. Octavo (20.25cm.); original white photo-illustrated card wrappers; [10],101pp. Fine. Signed author inscription to p. [iii].
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Martín & Meditations on the South Valley
by BACA, Jimmy Santiago; Denise Levertov, intro
[New York]: New Directions Books, [1987]. Seventh printing. Octavo (20cm.); original white photo-illustrated card wrappers; xviii,104pp. Remainder mark to bottom textblock edge, else Fine.
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MARTIN & MEDITATIONS ON THE SOUTH VALLEY
by Baca, Jimmy Santiago
New York: New Directions, 1987. First edition. First printing trade paper issue. The front wrap includes ABA award seal. Signed and dated (12-15-88) by the author. Introduction by poet Denise Levertov, who helped Baca become a published poet. Very Good.
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Near the End of the Symphony Strike
by Bachelder, Chris
Colorado Springs, CO: The Press at Colorado College, 2006. First Edition. Single sheet folded, sewn into decorated (in three colors) acetate covers; 12mo. Specially signed by the author. One of 110 copies (plus 40 included in a portfolio) of this "broadside" (it is printed on both sides and here sewn into wrappers) for the author's appearance for a reading... Read More
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The Oxen of the Sun: A Novel of Our Times
by BACHELLER, Irving (novel); Richard Burton (introduction)
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1935. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); yellow cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in dark brown on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket; 287pp. A few tiny spots of foxing to rear board, else Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly spine-sunned, with light wear to extremities and two clear tape mends at spine ends on... Read More
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The House of the Three Ganders
by BACHELLER, Irving
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1928]. First Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 315pp. Jacket extremities rubbed, 3-inch tear and creasing to upper cover with old tape-repair to verso, spine faded, textblock about fine. Fine in Good or better dust jacket. Mystery novel based on the true events of "a trial famous in the legal annals of New... Read More
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Gedichte Erzählungen Hörspiel Essays
by BACHMANN, Ingeborg
München, Germany: R. Piper & Co, 1964. Octavo (20.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards with grey title label on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-346,[6]pp. Text in German. Slight scratch to upper edge of textblock (causing slight impressions to upper margins of several pages); Very Good+. Dustwrapper, spine-toned, with trace shelf-soil and foxing; Very Good. Dustwrapper's removable green ban lightly tanned with tiny tears.... Read More
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Le Tibet Révolté: Vers Népémakö, la Terre Promise des Tibétains
by BACOT, Jacques
Paris: Librairie Hachette Et, 1912. Softcover. Octavo (23.5cm); white paper wrappers; fore-edge untrimmed; acetate dustwrapper; [viii],364pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout, and concluding colorful map illustration, with one fold-out map. Some pages of text unopened. Text in French. Tanned, with modest shelf-wear and -soil, 1.5" tear to front upper joint (with corresponding tape to front wrapper verso and first... Read More
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Introduction Á L'Histoire du Tibet
by BACOT, Jacques
Paris: Société Asiatique, 1962. Softcover. Octavo (24.5cm); light blue paper wrappers; xxiv,[2],3-138pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout, with illustrated fold-out map to rear. Some pages of text unopened. Text in French. Pencilled price to first page, and bookshop sticker to verso of rear wrapper. Wrappers tanned with light shelf-wear; Very Good. Examines Buddhism with a focus on the history... Read More
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Lessons from the 'Varsity of Life
by BADEN-POWELL OF GILWELL, Robert, Baron
London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1933. Second impression (April 1933). Octavo (22cm). Blue cloth titled in gilt and blind; 320pp; color frontispiece, eight inserted plates, and numerous in-text illustrations. A firm, upright copy, heavily faded on spine and board edges, gently rubbed, internally clean: Very Good. Memoris of the founder of the Scout Movement, discussing his early life,... Read More
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Mapmaker. With introduction by Sandra Cisneros
by BADIKIAN, Beatriz
Chicago: Red Triangle Books, 1994. Second printing. Small octavo; pictorial gray card wrappers; 84pp. Inscribed and signed by author on half-title, undated. Early collection by the Argentinian-American poet.
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Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol: Handbook for Travellers
by BAEDEKER, Karl
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1903. Twentieth Edition. 12mo (15.75cm.); original limp red blind- and gilt-embossed cloth, all edges marbled; xxxviii,537pp.; color folding map frontispiece, 65 plates of which 32 double-paged and 29 folding; additional text illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, map frontispiece has longish closed tear, one folding panorama split along fold but still complete, another folding map separated but... Read More
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Russia with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking. Handbook for Travelers
by BAEDEKER, Karl; Harrison Salisbury, introd
New York: Arno Press / Random House, 1971. Reprint of the original 1914 edition, being a facsimile of the original text with reproductions of 30 plates and large folding "General Map of Russia." Octavo. Tan cloth; dustjacket; 590pp; 54 unnumbered leaves of plates; five folding maps including large folding frontispiece "General Map of Russia"; text illus. Very Good copy,... Read More
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The United States With An Excursion into Mexico: A Handbook for Travellers 1893
by BAEDEKER, Karl (ed.); Henry Steele Commager
New York: Da Capo Press, 1971. Reprint. Octavo (22cm). Blue cloth, in orange and blue pictorial jacket; cviii,516pp; color maps, including folding frontispiece. Fine. Jacket trimmed 1/8'-inch shorter than book, else Very Good.
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The Paradise Myth in Eighteenth-Century Russia: Utopian Patterns in Early Secular Russian Literature and Culture
by BAEHR, Stephen Lessing
Stanford: Stanford University Press, [1991]. First Edition. Octavo (22.25cm.); publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket; xiv,[2],308pp.; illus. Two tiny closed tears at top edge of rear jacket panel, spine a hint sunned, else Fine.
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Daybreak
by BAEZ, Joan
New York: The Dial Press, Inc, 1968. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); green cloth, with titling stamped in metallic blue on spine and pink floral decorations on front cover; dustjacket; [vi],[4],5-159,[3]pp; illus. Fine, in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.95), with some trival foxing to verso. A collection of philosophical musings by the noted folk singer... Read More
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The Tough Get Going
by BAGBY, George [pseud. Eric Marc Stein]
Garden City: Crime Club / Doubleday & Company, 1977. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original boards in yellow pictorial dust jacket; [10],178pp. Jacket flap versos lightly foxed as is top textblock edge; some minor shelf wear with discrete tape repair to jacket crown verso. Very Good overall. "A Crime Club Selection" - upper jacket panel. An Inspector Schmidt novel. ... Read More
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The Old Virginia Gentleman and Other Sketches. Edited and Arranged by his Daughter Ellen M. Bagby
by BAGBY, George W. [FREEMAN, Douglas Southall, introd; Thomas Nelson Page, preface]
Richmond: Dietz Press, 1938. First Thus. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor Ellen M. Bagby to "Churchill & Elizabeth [Chamberlayne]," undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Octavo (23cm). Publisher's textured maroon cloth, titled in gilt on spine with gilt monogram device to front cover; xxvii,296pp. Tight and straight, unmarked copy; Near Fine. An altogether different volume from... Read More
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Coffin Corner
by BAGBY, George [pseud. Aaron Marc Stein]
New York: Crime Club / Doubleday, 1949. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. (20.5cm); red simulated cloth titled in white on spine; dustjacket; 219pp. Shallow loss to spine ends; rubbing/bump to top corners; tanning to text edges; tiny chip to the foredge of the first 10 pages; and upper right corners of pp.175-219; Good to Very Good. The dustjacket is... Read More
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The Old Virginia Gentleman and Other Sketches. Edited and with an Introduction by Thomas Nelson Page
by BAGBY, George W.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First Edition. Small octavo (20cm). Maroon cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; xxx,312pp. Trace of wear to board corners and spine ends; mild foxing to frontispiece and title page; small stain to foredge of text block; a tight, Very Good copy. Ownership of C.G. [Churchill Gibson] Chamberlayne, prominent Virginia minister,... Read More
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Shay Logging Locomotives at Cass, West Virginia, 1900-60
by BAGDON, Philip V.
Lynchburg: TLC Publishing, 2001. First Edition. Quarto (29cm). Glazed paper over boards; viii,104pp; black and white illus. Former owner's name to f.f.e.p. Straight and sound, lightly rubbed with minor dustsoil at board edges, internally clean: Very Good.
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The Poems of Ray Bagley [title from cover: Those Other Days]
by BAGLEY, Ray
N.p. [Lacombe?]: by the Author, 1969. First Edition. 12mo. Blue cloth boards; 102pp; frontispiece portrait. Tight, clean and well-preserved; a Near Fine copy. Self-published collection by this seminal Alberta cowboy poet who settled with his family in Lacombe, Alberta in 1892. Bagley's work clearly inspired such better-known successors as Lloyd Dolen, Bryn Thiessen, and James Moir. Uncommon.
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