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[ART] DISAPPEARING TREASURES OF OMAN A FASCINATING STORY AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING,BUYING AND RESTORING BEDOUIN ARTEFACTS
by Avelyn Forester
Clevedon Somerset: Archway books, 1998. First Edition. Near Fine binding/Good dust jacket. Oblong 4to; in publisher’s blue cloth; with silver titling on the upper board and vertical silver titling on the spine; (10) 11-144 pages; trivial tears to the top of the front and back of the dust jacket; with black and white photographic illustrations throughout.~~Signed by the... Read More
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![[ILLUSTRATED] SELECTED BIRDS OF AMERICA; SELECTED QUADRUPEDS OF AMERICA 2 VOLUMES](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/064/932/1695932064.0.m.jpg)
[ILLUSTRATED] SELECTED BIRDS OF AMERICA; SELECTED QUADRUPEDS OF AMERICA 2 VOLUMES
by John James Audubon; Roger Tory Peterson (Foreward)
Kent, Ohio: Volair Limited, 1977. Full Leather. Near Fine binding. Quarto; in full burgundy leather decorated in gilt; raised bands; silk ribbon market; all edges gilt; silk moire endpapers; filled with stunning full color illustrations.~~A lovely 2 volume set housed in publisher’s slipcase. limited to 5,000 copies of which this is number 92. Near Fine binding.
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[SPECIAL PRESS] TYPE-FACES: A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF WARD RITCHIE
by Amanda Blanco | Lawrence Clark Powell (Foreward)
Northridge Libraries: Santa Susana Press, 1988. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Mounted folio leaves housed in a brown drop-back box; v, [2], 12 mounted photographic plates on printed mats, each mat signed and numbered by the photographer; followed by with a limitation leaf signed by Lawrence Clark Powell; the edition is limited to sixty-five numbered copies of which... Read More
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[CIVIL WAR] HENRICO COUNTY FIELD OF HONOR (2 Volumes; Set)
by Louis H. Manarin; James I. Robertson (Foreward)
Henrico County, VA, 2004. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. 4to; in publisher’s green cloth; with titling on the upper board and spine in gilt.~~A pristine First Edition printing in the hardcover edition; there are no marks of any kind. From Bud Robertson’s Foreward: “Here is the sweeping story of the war fought in and... Read More
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A PORTFOLIO HONORING HAROLD HUGH FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION TO SCHOLARLY PRINTING
by [Harold Hugo] | Walter Muir Whitehill (Foreward)
N.P., 1978. Near Fine binding. A remarkable festschrift honoring a remarkable printer. Harold Hugo's contributions to the twentieth-century printing, through his work at the Meriden Gravure Company, were immense. Comprise of 36 numbered fascicles as wells the Foreward and Epilogue, housed in a clamshell case of terra-cotta silk lined with patterned paper, and with a leather... Read More
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[RICHMOND] RICHMOND VIRGINIA IN OLD PRINTS 1737 - 1887
by Alexander Wilbourne Weddell | John Lee McElroy [Associate Editor]; Douglas S. Freeman [Foreward]
Richmond: Johnson Publishing Company | Printed by the William Byrd Press, 1932. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. 4to; in the publisher’s tan cloth with the seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia on the upper board, backed in brown cloth with titling in gilt; xxxii pages, [2], 254 pages, [1]; with portrait frontispiece of Richmond’s founder William... Read More
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![[PHILOSOPHY] HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF MIND. BEING PART THREE OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCE (1830)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/166/282/1681282166.0.m.jpg)
[PHILOSOPHY] HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF MIND. BEING PART THREE OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SCIENCE (1830)
by Hegel } A. V. Miller [Translater]; William Wallage [Translator]; J. N. Findley [Foreward]
Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1971. Reprint Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo; in the publisher’s blue cloth binding, with dustjacket; there are a few penciled annotation in the margin of several leaves; overall, a very nice copy. Near Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.
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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS: THE EXHAUSTIVE SCHOLAR'S AND COLLECTOR'S DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN PERIODICAL, HARDCOVER, PAPERBACK, AND REPRINT EDITIONS
by Robert B. Zeuschner (author); Philip Jose Farmer (foreword)
Jefferson NC: McFarland & Co, 1996. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Signed by Zeuschner on bookplate and on front endpaper with added inscription. No markings of any kind; dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Very Good+ binding / Very Good+ dust jacket.
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RHYMES OF THE TIMES: THE POEMS OF J. FARLEY RAGLAND
by J. Farley Ragland (author); Arthur Paul Davis (foreword)
New York: Wendell Malliet and Company, 1946. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good+ dust jacket. Binding sound; previous owner name, address on front pastedown otherwise no markings in text; dust jacket shows minor loss to top of spine and chip to front cover; dust jacket shows soiling and is protected in a new mylar cover. Very Good binding /... Read More
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[MILITARY] EAGLE AGAINST THE SUN THE AMERICAN WAR WITH JAPAN
by Ronald H. Spector | Paul Kennedy (Foreword)
London: Folio Society, 2020. Near Fine binding. Small quarto; in the publisher’s pictorial cloth covered boards; xxiv, 663 pages including the Index; with maps and black and white photographic illustrations throughout; housed in a pictorial slipcase. Near Fine binding.
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[SIGNED] [LITERATURE] GWENDY’S MAGIC FEATHER
by Richard Chizmar | Stephen King (Foreword)
Baltimore: Cemetery Dance Publications, 2019. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Small Quarto; in the publisher’s blue cloth binding; in an unclipped jacket; 343 pages including the Bonus Section; with black and white illustrations by Ben Baldwin and Keith Minnion; housed in a blue cloth slipcase.~~An interesting collaboration between Stephen King and Richard Chizmar.... Read More
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[BLACK CULTURE] [LITERATURE] AFROCENTRICITY IN AFROFUTRUISM
by Aaron X. Smith (Editor) Molefi Kete Asante (Foreword)
Jackson: University Press of Missippi. First Edition. Near Fine binding. 8vo; in illustrated paper covered boards; xviii,222 pages including the index. ~~From the back of the book “In Afrocentricity in AfroFuturism: Toward Afrocentric Futurism, editor X. Smith curates a collection of interdisciplinary essays that critiques existing scholarship on Black futurity.”. Near Fine binding.
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FOLLIES
by Stephanos Xenos (author); Rachel Hadas (translator); Alan Ansen (foreword)
Athens: Aohna, 1978. Soft Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed & Personally Inscribed by Hadas on title page. Binding sound. Dust jacket shows light soiling and edgewear to extremities. No markings in text. Dust jacket protected in a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.
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[PHILOSOPHY] PHENOMENOLOGY OF SPIRIT
by G .W. F. Hegel |A. V Miller (Translator) | J. N. Findlay (Foreword)
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo; in the publisher’s blue cloth; in an unclipped jacket; xxxiv, 595 pages including the Index; a bit of wear to the edges of the jacket; some toning; light edgewear to the boards; a bit of toning to the front end paper; pencil... Read More
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CASES IN EQUITY DURING THE TIME OF THE LATE LORD CHANCELLOR TALBOT: WITH TABLES, OF THE NAMES OF CASES, AND PRINCIPAL MATTERS
by [Alexander Forrester]
In the Savoy, [London]: Henry Lintot, 1753. Second Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. The Second Edition, "with many references, and large Notes". vi, 286, [19]p. Quarto in contemporary calf; boards ruled in blind at the perimeters; raised bands and morocco label. (ESTC T95705). Very Good binding.
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FAIRY BELLE: SONG [CONFEDERATE SHEET MUSIC]
by S[tephen] C[ollins] Foster
Augusta, GA: Blackmar & Bro, 186-. Very Good binding. Illustrated cover printed in green: "The Exotics. Flowers of Song Transplanted to Southern Soil". 5 pages. Confederate Imprint. (Crandall 3448; Parish & Willingham 7000). Very Good binding.
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[PROGRAM] NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL 1968
by Bruce Jackson [Editor]; Newport Folk Foundation
Newport, RI: Festival Productions, Inc, 1968. Stapled Pamphlet. Very Good binding. Contains Mike Seeger's interview with Elizabeth Cotton, "A ‘Freight Train' Picker" and a tribute to Woody Guthrie, who died that year. Biographies of the performers that year, with photographs: Roy Acuf; Joan Baez; Theodore Bikel; Big Brother and the Holding Company, Arlo Guthrie; Janis Ian; B. B.... Read More
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[POETRY] [ANTIQUARIAN] THE SHEPHEARDS ORACLES: DELIVERED IN CERTAIN ECLOGUES. |[with] SOLOMON'S RECANTATION, ENTITLED ECCLESIASTES, PARAPHRASED. WITH A SOLILOQUIE OR MEDITATION ~UPON EVERY CHAPTER. VERY SEASONABLE AND USEFULL FOR THESE TIMES. BY FRANCIS QUARLES. WITH SHORT RELATION OF HIS LIFE AND DEATH
by Fra: [Francis] Quarles | [Isaac Walton ?]
London: Printed by M. F. for John Marriot and Richard Marriot | Richard Royston, 1648. Third Edition. Half Leather. Very Good binding. The two works by Fracnis Quarles bound together, in much later (late 19th century) half- calf over brown pebbled cloth boards, with a piece lacking at the spine; with morocco labels; [iv], 129 pages; [vi], 62,... Read More
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LES FACECIEUSES NUICTS DU SEIGNEUR STRAPAROLE. TOME I & II. (TWO VOLUMES)
by [Giovanni Francesco Straparola]
[Paris]: [Guerin], 1726. Full Leather. Very Good binding. A collection of stories, first published in 1550, 1553, being some of the first literary versions of fairy tales printed in Europe. Text in French, translated from the original Italian. Title page in red and black. Armorial bookplate of Charles George Milnes Gaskell, the English lawyer and politician. Few contemporary... Read More
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[SPECIAL PRESS] PRINTING AND THE MIND OF MORRIS: THREE PATHS TO THE KELMSCOTT PRESS
by Colin Franklin
[Cambridge: The Rampant Lions Press, 1986. Limited Edition. Quarter Leather. Fine binding. Large 8vo.; in Barcham Green Canterbury handmade patterend paper boards, backed in navy morocco, with title lettered in gilt to the spine; 58 pages, with the title page printed in black and in blue; housed in a paper-covered slipcase with a paper title label; the slipcase... Read More
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28TH VIRGINIA INFANTRY (VIRGINIA REGIMENTAL HISTORIES)
by Frank E. Fields, Jr.
Lynchburg: H. E. Howard, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Signed. Limited Edition #53 of 1000 copies, and signed by Frank Fields on the limitation page. There is a previous owner's number on the front free end paper and the title page; otherwise a clean tight copy. The dust jacket is now protected... Read More
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FACETIAE OF THE WAR. | THE GALAXY. SEPT. 1868
by James Franklin Fitts
The Galaxy, 1868. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. A clean copy of an eight page article, taken from the September, 1868 issue of The Galaxy, and nicely bound in green cloth over marbled paper boards. Lettering in gilt on the spine. The Galaxy was a monthly literary magazine, founded and edited by the brothers William and Francis Church.... Read More
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EARTH'S SWEET VOICES
by Fred, E. Weatherly; Bingham Clifton & Others
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/no dust jacket. Illustrated with 9 full-page sepia monochrome drawings and a number of partial page illustrations as well. The boards slightly soiled and stained. There is some light and scattered foxing. Very Good binding / no dust jacket.
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[CIVIL WAR] R. E. LEE. PULITZER PRIZE EDITION
by Douglas Southall Freeman
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1936. Hard Cover. Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Four large octavo volumes; in the publisher’s blue-gray leatherette, with titles and decorations in gilt to the spines; and with dustjackets and the publisher’s slipcase with printed label to the top edge.~~This edition of R. E. Lee was printed in 1936, after the award of... Read More
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[ABORTION] THE POLITICS OF VIRTUE. IS ABORTION DEBATABLE?~~
by Elizabeth Mensch; Alan Freeman
Durham: Duke University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. 8vo.; in publisher’s tan cloth with titling in gilt; x, 268 page including the Index; there is no dustjacket; the binding is very slightly cocked; there are no marks of any kind in the book.~~This book examines the moral and eithical issues of this fraught issue.... Read More
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