Celestino Piatti's Animal ABC
by Celestino Piatti; Jon Reid [trans.]
New York: Atheneum, 1966. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Atheneum, 1966. First US Edition. Oblong octavo (22 cm); unpaginated. Boards in grey cloth and illustrated paper with gilt stamping to spine, wrapped in publisher's jacket with price intact ($4.95). Jacket gently scuffed, soiled, and rubbed at margins with two rippled tears to bottom of back panel... Read More
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Le jubile de la reformation histoire d'autrefois
by [Jacob Elisée Cellérier]
Geneve [a.k.a. Geneva]: Abraham Cherbuliez, 1835. Very Good. Geneva: Abraham Cherbuliez, 1835. Second edition. 12mo (16 cm); [5], 256pp; collated complete. Boards quarter bound in brown and tan marbled paper and dark brown leather with gilt stamping. All edges stained chartreuse; red ribbon. Board paper scuffed with some rubbing away of color. All margins shelf worn with bumping... Read More
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Chakaia Booker: The Observance
by Chakaia Booker; Alex Gartenfeld and Stephanie Seidel [eds.]
Miami, FL: ICA / Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Hirmer Publishers, 2022. Near Fine. Miami, FL: ICA / Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Hirmer Publishers, 2022. First Edition. Quarto. 192pp. Photographs throughout. Photo-illustrated cloth boards; black endpapers. No dust jacket as issued. Touch of rubbing to boards; binding sound; pages unmarked; Near Fine. Published on the occasion of... Read More
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Eris
by Robert W. Chambers
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1922. Very Good/Very Good. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1922. First Edition with publisher's seal to copyright page. Octavo. 323 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Dust jacket chipped and worn along edges with several short closed tears; larger chip and longer tear to top edge of front... Read More
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![Bibliography of French Bibles. Vol. I: Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century French-Language Editions of the Scriptures / Vol. II: Seventeenth-Century French Language Editions of the Scriptures [The Author's Copies, Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/709/061/1618061709.0.m.jpg)
Bibliography of French Bibles. Vol. I: Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century French-Language Editions of the Scriptures / Vol. II: Seventeenth-Century French Language Editions of the Scriptures [The Author's Copies, Inscribed and Signed]
by Bettye Thomas Chambers
Geneve: Libraire Droz, 1983. Very Good. Genève: Librairie Droz, 1983, 1994. First Editions. Large octavos (25.5cm.); publisher's red cloth, gilt-lettered spines; [4],xvii,[1],548; [2],xix,[1],938pp.; facsimiles throughout. Minor wear from handling, corners bumped, two white smudges to Vol. II upper cover, textblocks lightly dust-soiled, else a Very Good, sound set. Issued as Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance Nos. CXCII and CCLXXII. ... Read More
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In Search of the Unknown
by Robert W. Chambers
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1904. Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1904. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's sage green pictorial boards stamped in black, white, and two shades of green; [8],285pp.; frontispiece. Moderate wear to cloth extremities with brief exposure at corners, spine slightly cocked, faint glue residue to front pastedown from previously removed bookplate,... Read More
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El arte de conocer a los hombres y maximas para la sociedad civil
by Abbot of Bellegarde [pseud. of Marin Cureau de La Chambre]
Amberes [Antwerp]: Andres Perisse, 1755. Good. Amberes [Antwerp]: Andres Perisse, 1755. 12mo (16 cm); [xvi], 318pp. Full bound in contemporary dark brown roan, gilt spine. Edges red speckled. Boards worn at edges and corners with some loss to spine ends. Generally scuffed and scratched with minor staining. Boards lifting at fore edge but binding tight. Pages foxed and... Read More
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The Photographer of Penllergare: A Life of John Dillwyn Llewelyn 1810-1882
by [John Dillwyn Llewelyn] Noel Chanan
London: Impress, 2013. Very Good/Very Good. London: Impress, 2013. First Edition. Oblong quarto. 276 pp. Photographs throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Maroon boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket lightly rubbed and creased along edges with heavier wear and chipping to bottom edge of front panel near spine. Boards similarly mildly bumped and rubbed with heavier wear and brief exposure... Read More
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The Rogue Aunt
by John Newton Chance
London: Robert Hale Limited, 1968. Very Good/Very Good. London: Robert Hale Limited, [1968]. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in pink photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price (16/-); 189pp. Moderate wear to cloth and board extremities, spine rather cocked, corners bumped, brief spotting to top textblock edge, else Very Good, internally clean and sound.
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![[Broadside] Coal, Corn, Cattle. A Few Special Investments](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/684/600/1676600684.0.m.jpg)
[Broadside] Coal, Corn, Cattle. A Few Special Investments
by [Indiana] W.C. Chancellor
W.C. Chancellor: Vincennes, IN, 1900. Very Good. Vincennes, IN: W.C. Chancellor, n.d., ca. 1900. First Edition. Broadside flyer (28x21.5cm.) printed offset on cream laid stock. Previous folds, small chip to right-hand edge not approaching text, else Very Good. Flyer issued by the busy Vincennes businessman and investor W.C. Chancellor, who was active in the area in... Read More
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![Alcatraz: The Hard Years, 1934-1938; As Recalled by One of the Prison's First Guards and Recorded by His Son [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/192/087/1496087192.0.m.jpg)
Alcatraz: The Hard Years, 1934-1938; As Recalled by One of the Prison's First Guards and Recorded by His Son [Signed]
by Roy F. Chandler; E.F. Chandler
Orwigsburg: Bacon and Freeman, 1989. Very Good. Orwigsburg: Bacon and Freeman, 1989. First Edition. Signed by the author without inscription on front free endpaper [additional inscription on copyright page and internal signatures are printed]. Octavo; 132pp. Photo-illustrations and tables throughout Publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering. No dust jacket as issued. Boards are square with a few faint... Read More
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![Fire Fighters of Perry County [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/490/818/1701818490.0.m.jpg)
Fire Fighters of Perry County [Limited Edition]
by Roy F. Chandler
Deer Lake, PA: Bacon and Freeman Publishers, 1984. Near Fine. Deer Lake, PA: Bacon and Freeman Publishers, 1984. First Edition, Limited Issue of 2000 numbered copies, this being #1951. Quarto; 332pp. Black and white photographs throughout. Black boards stamped in gilt. Mild shelfwear; Near Fine.
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Spanish Blood: A Collection of Short Stories
by Raymond Chandler
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1946. Very Good/Very Good. Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1946. First Edition, First Printing (stated). Octavo. 221 pp. Restored illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in red; red topstain. Dust jacket backed with archival tissue, closing a prior small tear a couple tiny chips, with amateur black color fills; a bit of... Read More
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![The Last Black Book [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/481/716/1715716481.0.m.jpg)
The Last Black Book [Signed]
by Roy F. Chandler
Orwigsburg, PA: Bacon and Freeman Publishers, 1995. Near Fine. Orwigsburg, PA: Bacon and Freeman Publishers, 1995. Quarto (28cm); 208pp. Bound in black bonded leather with gilt stamping. Lightly dust-soiled boards but clean throughout. A Near Fine copy. Signed by Chandler on first free endsheet. The last in his Perry County, Pennsylvania Series, recounting all of the other 29... Read More
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Religion a Social Principle. A Sermon, Delivered in the Church in Federal Street, Boston, December 10, 1820
by William Ellery Channing
Boston: Printed by Russell & Gardner, 1820. Very Good. Boston: Printed by Russell & Gardner, 1820. First Edition. Octavo. 19 pp. Printed wraps, removed. Light edgewear; horizontal fold. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Very Good and sound copy of a scarce sermon from the Unitarian preacher, here exploring the intersection of the roles of religion and government in... Read More
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The Naked I.
by Roy Chanslor
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1953. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1953. First Edition. Octavo. 248 pages. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.00 price present. Red boards stamped in black and silver. Dust jacket slightly chipped at top of spine with small puncture to front panel and along spine. Bit of rubbing and... Read More
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If Hitler Had Been a Hippy How Happy Would We Be
by Jake and Dinos Chapman
London: White Cube, 2008. Very Good. [London: White Cube], 2008. First Edition. Slim octavo (24.5cm); stitched pamphlet mounted inside cloth-backed printed boards; [24]pp.; chiefly full color plates printed on rectos only. Pamphlet stitching starting to loosen, light shelf wear to boards, else Very Good.
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![Manchester and Photography [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/029/239/1565239029.0.m.jpg)
Manchester and Photography [Inscribed and Signed]
by [J.G. Chapman]
Manchester: Palatine Press, 1934. Very Good-. [Manchester: Palatine Press, 1934.] Slim octavo; publisher's two-toned cloth, upper cover lettered in black; 41pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, eight (8) leaves of plates. Ex-Borough of Crosby Local History Library with their interior markings, boards a bit rubbed and dust-soiled, else Good to Very Good, internally sound. Inscribed and signed by the author... Read More
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![Annales Politiques [Two Volume Set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/511/900/1690900511.0.m.jpg)
Annales Politiques [Two Volume Set]
by Charles Irenee Castel, Abbe de St. Pierre
Londres: s.i., 1757. Near Fine. Londres: s.i., 1757. Two volumes; octavos (21cm); original temporary binding of blockprinted wrappers No. 185 (183?) by Orleans printer Jean-Baptiste Letourmi (a.k.a. Letourmy), manuscript spine labels, housed in custom slipcase; 338; [339]-678pp. (collated complete with half title pages).; woodcut vignettes to title pages. Light chipping and toning to wrappers, else a Near Fine,... Read More
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The World No. 36
by Charlotte Carter [ed.]; Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer et al [contrs.]
New York: Poetry Project, 1982. Very Good+. [New York: Poetry Project, 1982.] First Edition. Quarto; publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 76pp. printed mimeograph. Light wear and dust-soil, else Very Good to Near Fine.
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![Novels of the Sisters Bronte: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Villette, The Professor, Agnes Grey, Shirley, and Life of Charlotte Bronte [Twelve volume set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/871/706/1538706871.0.m.jpg)
Novels of the Sisters Bronte: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Villette, The Professor, Agnes Grey, Shirley, and Life of Charlotte Bronte [Twelve volume set]
by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte; Mary Gaskell; Temple Scott [ed.]
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1907. Very Good. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1905-07. Thornton Edition. Twelve octavo volumes. Illustrated with black and white photographs and illustrations principally showing places associated with the Bronte family and their novels. Green cloth with spine lettered in gilt; top edges gilt. A mismatched set with Wuthering Heights the only title from 1905 and slightly shorter.... Read More
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Ramban (Nachmanides): Commentary of the Torah. Deuteronomy
by Charles B. Chavel [ed.]
New York: Shilo Publishing House, 1976. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Shilo Publishing House, [1976]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth, blue topstain, in blue dust jacket; vi,[2],424pp. Light shelf wear, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound.
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The Duty of Ministers to "make known the Mystery of the Gospel"; and the Duty of the People to "pray for them", that they may do it "with Boldness", or Fortitude. A Sermon Preached at the Ordination of the Reverend Mr. Penuel Bowen, a Colleague-Pastor of the New-South-Church in Boston, April 30, 1766
by Charles Chauncy; et al.
Boston: Edes and Gill, 1766. Very Good. Boston: Printed and Sold by Edes and Gill, in Queen-Street, 1766. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 39,[1]pp. (lacking half title, otherwise collated complete). Title page starting to separate, foxing to external leaves, light toning to textblock, else Very Good and sound overall. Ordination sermon by Charles Chauncy, a strong opponent of... Read More
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A Handy Dickens: Selections from the Works of Charles Dickens
by Charles Dickens; Arthur Machen [ed.]; Edward Ardizzone [frontis.]
London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1941. Very Good/Very Good-. London: Constable & Co Ltd, [1941]. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (8/6); xviii,258pp.; color frontispiece repeating illustration on upper jacket panel. Jacket margins a bit chipped and worn with a few small losses, most notably at spine crown, brief biopredation... Read More
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The Holly Tree Inn and A Christmas Tree
by Charles Dickens; George Alfred Williams [illus.]
New York: Baker & Taylor Company Publishers, 1907. Very Good. New York: Baker & Taylor Company Publishers, 1907. Large octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's decorative green cloth lettered in gilt, three color pictorial paper inlays to front cover, top edge gilt; xvii,[18]-139pp.; color frontispiece, nine leaves of plates including five in color or sepia tone, additional vignettes throughout. Light shelf... Read More
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