The Lebanese Army: A National Institution in a Divided Society
by BARAK, Oren
Albany: SUNY Press, 2009. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; xiii, 272pp. Publisher's slip laid in. Dogeared corners to six leaves. Trivial shelf wear to jacket, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Fine.
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A Fugitive from Utopia: The Poetry of Zbignew Herbert
by Baranczak, Stanislaw
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. First Edition. Cloth; dustjacket; 8vo.; 163 pp., w/ index. A Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper spine-sunned; Near Fine. The first full-length study of the great poet's work in English.
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Pagine D'Africa 1875-1901
by BARATIERI, Oreste
Trento: Museo Del Risorgimento E Della Lotta Per La Liberta, 1994. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's original pictorial card wraps. 195pp. Some wear and creasing to the edges of the card covers, trifling wear and bumping. A very good, clean copy. Internally clean. Folding maps to rear pocket. A historical examination of an important quarter century in Italy's encroachments... Read More
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Storia dell'Italia Repubblicana: Vol. 2 La Trasformazione dell'Italia Sviluppo e Squilibri. I. Politica, economia, società
by BARBAGALLO, Francesco, ed
Torino: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. Green cloth boards in dust jacket, green topstain to textblock; publisher's paper-covered green cloth slipcase; xi, 897pp. Text in Italian. Trivial spotting to top edge of textblock, else a tight, clean, new-appearing copy. 0.5" closed tear to bottom margin of dust jacket spine. Trivial shelf wear to slipcase. Near Fine. Volume... Read More
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Sotto lo Stesso tetto. Mutamenti Della Famiglia in Italia dal XV al XX Secolo
by BARBAGLI, Marzio
Bologna: Il Mulino, 1984. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 553p. Fine in unworn jacket; a new-appearing copy. Text entirely in Italian.
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Immigrazione e criminalità in Italia
by BARBAGLI, Marzio
Bologna: Il Mulino, 1998. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers; 179,(4)pp. Fine. Text entirely in Italian.
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The Elements of Art [Inscribed to Roberto Marquez]
by [BARBADOS] CALLENDER, Timothy
St. Michael, Barbados: Timothy Callender / Coles Printery Limited, 1977. First Edition. Slim octavo (18cm); bright orange printed card wrappers, stapled; [vi],18pp. Inscribed by the author on the preliminary leaf to Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Marquez: "To Roberto / Good luck / Timmy" (inscribed in Cuba in 1979). Some trivial external wear, else Near Fine.... Read More
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The Aeroplane Speaks
by BARBER, H.
New York: Robert McBride & Company, 1927. Eighth Edition Revised. Octavo. 25cm. Publisher's bottle green cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. 148pp.; [43]. Light fraying to spine ends, bumped and scuffed to extremities with some darkening of the spine gilt and some soiling and discoloration of the cloth, strong and tight; internally clean, endpapers toned, illustrated... Read More
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Medicine-Men on the North Pacific Coast (National Museum of Canada Bulletin N.o 152, Anthropological Series No. 42)
by BARBEAU, Marius
N.p. [Ottawa?]: National Museums of Canada / National Museum of Man, 1973. Reprint. Photo-facsimile reissue of the 1958 edition. Octavo; printed card wrappers; 94pp; illus. Neat ownership signature to title page of noted poet-translator-anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn. Else fine and unmarked.
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Le Forme del Tempo e della Memoria Nella Cultura Contemporanea: Atti del Seminario di Studi 1984 della Associazione Culturale "Dora Markus
by BARBIERI, Giuseppe and Paolo Vidali
Padova: Edizioni 1 + 1, 1984. First Edition. Octavo (23.75cm.); publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers; 198pp. Fine condition. Text entirely in Italian.
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Histoire De France Par Les Chansons
by BARBIER, Pierre; VERNILLAT, France
Paris: Gallimard, 1956 [1960's]. Stated 6th Edition. Eight Volumes. Octavo. 22.5cm. Publsher's glossy multi-colored card wraps titled to spines. Publisher's cloth slipcase. Clean and bright, some light wear to extremities, Vol 4 has some minor chipping to the base of spine, discoloration to the front wrap of Vol. 6, some light edgewear to others, light bubbling of the laminate... Read More
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Augustini Barbosæ, I.V.D. Lusitani, Protonotarii Apostolici, & Sacræ Congregationis Indicis Consultoris, nunc electi Episcopi ugentini; Tractatus de Canonicis, et Dignitatibus
by BARBOSÆ, Augustini [alt. spelling Agostinho Barbosa]
Lugduni: Laurentii Arnaud, Petri Borde, Joannis, & Petri Arnaud, 1679, 1665, 1678. First Edition. Three volumes in one; folio (36.5cm.); full blind-tooled contemporary pig skin, spine in six compartments, metal clasps, all edges stained blue (not contemporary); [6],263,[31];[6],293,[39];[18],684,[88]pp. (a4 A-2A6 2B3; ã4 A-2E4; ã4 ē6 A-2S6 2T4 2V4 2X-3L6 3M4 3N-3T6 3V4); woodcut initials, head and tail pieces. Slightly... Read More
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The Land of Joy
by BARBOUR, Ralph Henry
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1903. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth over gray cloth boards, decorative device stamped to spine and front cover; 416pp. Minor wear to board edges and spine ends; still a tight, Very Good copy free of markings or significant wear. Early romantic novel by the extraordinarily prolific Barbour, known mostly for his juvenile sports... Read More
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Book of New Zealand Words
by BARDSLEY, Dianne
Wellington: Te Papa Press, 2013. Octavo (22.5cm). Pink paper-covered boards, with blue dust jacket; 424pp. Bookplate and small ownership inscription of noted zoologist James G. Mead. Lightly bumped at head and tail, else Near Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed with old prize label to rear panel: Very Good or better.
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The Broken Root
by BAREA, Arturo; Ilsa Barea, trans
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1951]. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],308pp. Jacket extremities rather worn with a few closed tears, else Very Good and sound. Novel set in Fascist Spain.
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The Broken Root [Edmund Fuller's Advance Copy]
by BAREA, Arturo; Ilsa Barea, trans
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1951]. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],308pp. Jacket rather ragged with long tear to bottom spine edge of upper panel, spine faded; Near Fine in Good to Very Good jacket. Advance copy with review slip accomplished in manuscript and rubberstamp tipped to front free endpaper. With novelist... Read More
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The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave, Levant Merchant 1647-1656
by BARGRAVE, Robert; Michael G. Brennan (ed.)
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1999. First Thus. Octavo (25.5cm). Blue cloth, gilt-stamped, in blue dust jacket; [xx],288pp; black and white illus. Straight and bright, with spotting to top edge, minor marks to fore-edge and lower edge, internally clean: Very Good. Jacket rubbed at edges, else Very Good or better. The Hakluyt Society Series III Volume 3.
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Orpheus in Mayfair
by BARING, Maurice
London: Mills & Boon, 1909. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. 306pp. + 2pp. ads to rear. Light sunning to the spine, minor bumping to spine ends and extremities; internally clean with some light soiling and spotting to prelims, very light cosmetic cracking to rear inner hinge. A very... Read More
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The Man Next To Me: An Adventure in African Medical Practice
by BARKER, Anthony
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1959. First Edition. Octavo; 3/4 orange paper over brown cloth, with titles stamped in off-white on spine; dustjacket; 175pp. Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $3.50), with light dustiness to rear panel and some pinpoint wear to extremities. Experiences of a husband-and-wife team of British doctors working in a small native hospital... Read More
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The Damnation Game
by BARKER, Clive
New York: Ace/Putnam, 1985. First American Edition. 8vo. 24cm x 16.5cm. Publisher's purple spine over brown paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine, clean and strong in a handsome pictorial dustjacket with a little light wear to extremities, a near fine copy. 379pp. Internally clean. One of Barker's earlier tales, regarding the dangers of meeting people who... Read More
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Cabal
by BARKER, Clive
New York: Poseidon Press, 1988. First American Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 24cm x 16cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over red paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine. Minor edgewear and bumping, strong and handsome in a clean, bright pictorial dustjacket. A very good copy indeed. 377pp. Internally clean. Signed and dated by the author to the title... Read More
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A Life in Jazz
by BARKER, Danny; Alyn Shipton, ed
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. First American Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; viii, 223pp. Eight b&w plates inserted. Old price sticker to rear cover of jacket. Minor shelf wear to boards, mild sunning to top and bottom edges of boards. Trivial spotting to edges of textblock, else a tight, clean copy. Jacket showing minor external wear,... Read More
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Charles Bukowski: A Bibliographic Price Guide for Collectors and Dealers [Signed]
by BARKER, David (compiled by; illustration)
Oregon: David & Judy Barker, Booksellers, 1983. First Edition. First Printing, one of 200 copies signed by the author, this being no.33, with errata and addenda laid in. Octavo (22cm); stapled wraps, yellow card covers, with titling and cover illustration in black; [2],3-56pp; illus. Cover art and frontispiece linoleum cut print by David Barker, with DB pencilled below frontispiece.... Read More
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THIRTY PRELIMINARY POEMS
by Barker, George
London: The Parton Press, 1933. First Edition. First printing. Green paper over boards; 37pp. Evidence of old sticker on ffep. Moderate wear, lightly soiled and sunned, with only a very trace of foxing; dustjacket flap unclipped; Very Good. Poet's first book. Quite uncommon.
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THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF GEORGE BARKER
by Barker, George
New York: New American Library, 1964. First U.S. Edition. 96 pp. First edition thus. A Review copy with slip laid in of the unexpurgated version of this long poem originally published in 1950. NAL books tend to be scarce, as it was primarily a mass market house at the time, although it had an editor publishing some of the... Read More
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