La Politica delle Idee: Giovan Pietro Vieusseux e Giuseppe Montanelli nella Toscana Preunitaria
by BAGNOLI, Paolo
Firenze: Edizioni Polistampa, [1995]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's brown decorative card wrappers printed in red and black; xiv,269pp. Minor shelf wear to wrapper extremities, chief along top margin of upper cover, else Near Fine. Text entirely in Italian.
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Gino Capponi Storia e Progresso Nell'Italia dell'Ottocento
by BAGNOLI, P. (editor)
Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1994. Softcover. Octavo (23.5cm); yellow paper wrappers; 288pp. Text in Italian. Lightly spine-faded, with marginal creases to lower corner of text; Near Fine. Bagnoli, a history professor, published many works on Italy's politics in the 19th and 20th centuries. This text exploers Gino Capponi, an Italian statesman who held office as a Senator... Read More
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The Planned State: An Evaluation of the Social and Economic Foundations of the State in the Light of a Comparative Study of the Conditions in the East Asiatic and Western Countries
by ba HAN, Maung (text); ba MAW (preface)
[Rangoon]: Rasika Ranjani Press, [1947]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.5cm); black cloth spine over yellow paper-covered boards with titling stamped in black on covers; dustjacket; [xviii],[1],2-135,[7],[i],ii-xxv,[5],[i],ii-xv,[3],[i],ii-vi,[i],ii-xxvii,[1]pp; colorful and pictorial title page, with photographic illustrations throughout. Modest rubbing to board edges, with trace soil to covers and edges of textblock, and light off-setting to endpapers; Very Good. Dustwrapper, spine-tanned,... Read More
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Dancing Kachinas: A Hopi Artist's Documentary
by BAHNIMPTEWA, Cliff (paintings); H. Thomas Cain (foreword)
[Phoenix]: The Heard Museum of Anthropology and Primitive Art, 1971. First Edition. First Printing, softcover. Octavo (28cm); stapled tan pictorial paper wrappers; [n.p.]; colorful illustrations. Light shelf-soil; Very Good. Text on the catalog of collection, colorful painting illlustrations, and concluding bibliography. [87260].
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Egyptian Papyri and Papyrus Hunting
by BAIKIE, James [with] BAIKIE, Constance
London: The Religious Tract Society, 1925. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's bright royal blue cloth titled in gilt and blind to spine and front board. 324pp. Light bumping to corners and some trivial scuffing of the cloth, bright, strong and tight. Internally clean, with a color frontispiece and 31 additional plates, some in color. Lacks dustjacket. A very... Read More
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Birds of Arctic Alaska
by BAILEY, Alfred M. (editor; introduction); Harvey C. Markman (associate editor); C.H. Hanington (foreword)
[Colorado]: The Colorado Museum of Natural History / The Denver Museum of Natural History, 1948. Softcover. Octavo (25cm); blue paper wrappers; [9],10-317,[3]pp; black-and-white photographic halftones throughout. Popular Series, Number 8. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his inked ownership and date to title page. Modest shelf-wear and -soil to... Read More
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![English Grammar: A Simple, Concise and Comprehensive Manual of the English Language [Signed by Publishers][Ben Shahn's copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/793/120/1294120793.0.m.jpg)
English Grammar: A Simple, Concise and Comprehensive Manual of the English Language [Signed by Publishers][Ben Shahn's copy]
by BAILEY, A.M., Rev. R.W.
Portland ME, Philadelphia: Merrill & Whitman, J.B. Lippincott, 1855. Tenth Edition. Octavo (19cm); one quarter brown leather with printed paper covered boards; xv, 17-240pp. Leather portions chapped, spots of material loss along/near extremities; paper also rubbed w/ some material loss, also soiled, dampstained, and toned; leading corners fraying. Textblock comprehensively foxed; Ben and Bernarda Shahn estate label tipped to... Read More
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The Window
by BAILEY, Bill
Prince George, B.C.: Repository Press, 1977. First, Limited Edition. Edition of 200 copies. Octavo. Printed card wrappers; [32pp]. Small bumps to corners, else fine.
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Birth of The Cool, 1957-1969
by BAILEY, David
New York: Viking Studio, 1999. First Edition. 4to. 34cm x 27cm. Publisher's black cloth boards. Dustjacket. Titled in silver to spine, clean and bright in a strong pictorial dustjacket. A near fine copy. 276pp. Internally clean. 313 illustrations, 56 of which are in colour. A lavish coffee table photo memoir of the height of chic, high fashion cool featuring... Read More
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If Words Could Set Us Free: Poems
by BAILEY, Gertrude Blackwell
Jericho, NY: Exposition Press, [1974]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original buckram in white pictorial dust jacket; 59pp. In original shrinkwrap. Fine. Virginia-born African American social worker and author, whose poetry "reflects the Black renaissance which is etching itself so deeply on the conscience and consciousness of today" (upper jacket flap).
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The Red Castle Mystery
by BAILEY, H. C.
Garden City: Crime Club / Doubleday, 1932. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Original black cloth, stamped in orange, red topstain; plain endpapers; [ii],vi,[2],312pp; illustrated title page printed in two colors. Straight, lightly rubbed, endpapers lightly browned: Very Good. Sold in the UK as The Red Castle. A Haycraft Queens Cornerstone novel. HUBIN p.20.
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Mr. Fortune's Trials
by BAILEY, H. C.
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1926. Octavo (19.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and ruling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; 248pp. Spine-tanned, with shelf-soil, and light rubbing to spine ends and board edges; Very Good. Lacking dustjacket. Bailey's detective short story collection, with six works including "The Furnished Cottage", "The Hermit Crab", and... Read More
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The Master of Gray
by BAILEY, H.C.
New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1903. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original blue gilt-lettered cloth, vi,312pp. Some rubbing to cloth extremities, dampstain to top textblock edge, else Very Good. NCBEL III 515.
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Meet Mr. Fortune
by BAILEY, H. C.
Garden City: Crime Club / Doubleday, 1942. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20.5cm). Original red cloth, stamped in gilt, red topstain, original dust jacket; plain endpapers; [xii],546pp; publisher's ads to jacket rear and rear flap. Straight, gently rubbed at edges, minor spotting to topstain: Very Good. Jacket price-clipped, rubbed and chipped with extensive tape repairs to verso, some color... Read More
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Good-Bye, Proud World
by BAILEY, Margaret Emerson
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket; [8],408pp. Jacket extremities quite rubbed and worn, small chip at spine, old tape repair to spine end versos; Near Fine in Good or better jacket. Bailey's memoirs, though told in the third person, of growing up in turn-of-the-century Rhode Island.
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Man's Last Jungle Struggle. Atavistic Darkness Before Dawn. The Advent of the World's "Spirit of Truth." Volume One
by BAILEY, Marion Milton
Detroit: M.M. Bailey Publishers, 1912. Second Thousand. 12mo (15cm). Staple-bound printed card wrappers; 65pp. Mild cover crease; hand-stamp of the Labor Research Department, Rand School; small accession label remnant; internally clean, tight and unmarked. A substantial and apparently unrecorded work of radical reform fiction. The author compares the latter stages of Capitalism to the brute struggle of savages; Socialism... Read More
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Christmas with the Washingtons: being a special account of traditional rites observed in Virginia and historic Yuletides of one First Family, the Washingtons of Mount Vernon
by BAILEY, Olive; Worth Bailey, illus
Rich: Dietz Press, 1948. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Staple-bound printed wrappers (softcover); 44pp; illus. Light wear; some pencil notes to covers, Very Good.
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![History of the Reign of George III. King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [vols I & IV]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/410/936/1522936410.0.m.jpg)
History of the Reign of George III. King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [vols I & IV]
by BAINES, Edward
Leeds: Printed by Edward Baines; for Longman, Hurst, and Co.,; and Hurst and Robinson, 1820, 1823. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (27cm). Two volumes bound together in contemporary full calf, sympathetically rebacked with original spine laid down, gilt roll along edges of boards, tooled in gilt and blind on spine, titled on leather spine labels, all edges faintly marbled;... Read More
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Disease, Pain & Sacrifice: Toward a Psychology of Suffering
by BAKAN, David
Chicago: University of Chicago, [1968]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.25cm.); publisher's two-toned cloth, pictorial plate mounted to upper cover, in tan die-cut dust jacket, red topstain; x,134pp. Spine a hint toned and cocked, else Fine.
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![The Land of Rumbelow: A Fable in the Form of a Novel [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/114/692/1621692114.0.m.jpg)
The Land of Rumbelow: A Fable in the Form of a Novel [Review Copy]
by BAKER, Carlos
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1963. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with publisher's typed slip laid in. Octavo (21.5cm); red-orange cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; blue-gray topstain; dustjacket; [x],[1],2-370,[4]pp. Very slight spine lean, else Fine. Dustjacket unclipped (priced $4.95) with some faint, scattered foxing and light wear to extremities; Near Fine. Baker's second... Read More
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Young Man with a Horn
by BAKER, Dorothy
Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; [8],243pp. Spine a bit cocked, jacket extremities rubbed and a bit ragged with several short closed tears and subsequent creasing. Still, Very Good or better in Near Very Good jacket. "A Houghton Mifflin Fellowship Novel" - upper jacket panel. Author's first novel, inspired... Read More
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Le Corbusier--The Creative Search: The Formative Years of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret
by BAKER, Geoffrey H.
New York: Chapman and Hall, 1996. First Edition. Oblong Quarto (25.5cm x 26.5cm). Black cloth boards (hardcover) with titling stamped in silver on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 320pp; illus. Very Good copy; slight shelf wear to extremities; scratching to back cover, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; adhesive from retailer sticker on back flap panel, else clean. Geoffry Baker... Read More
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Singers of Daybreak; Studies in Black American Literature
by BAKER, Houston A.
Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's original black cloth titled in red to spine. Dustjacket. 109pp. Some light wear to the edges and extremities, minor bumping and scuffing and a spot or two of dustiness, a very good, strong copy in a clean, strong dustjacket with some marginal creasing and wear to the extremities... Read More
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THE EVERLASTING STORY OF NORY
by Baker, Nicholson
New York: Random House, 1998. First edition. Advanced proofs in tape bound paper covers 8 1/2 x 11 inches. TWO COPIES: One in green covers dated Fall 1997 (1-23-97), the Second in pink covers Summer 1998 (dated 4-2-97). Clearly the book was postponed from the Fall 1997 list to the Summer (passing over the Spring) list. We note no... Read More
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French & Indian War in Frederick County, Virginia, With the Forts of the French & Indian War on the Northwestern Frontier
by BAKER, Norman L.
Winchester, VA: Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society, 2000. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Grey and white paper wrappers; xiv,212pp; occasional in-text illustrations. Tight, lightly rubbed, with handsoil to wrappers, internally clean: around Very Good.
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