Tops in Science Fiction - Nos. 1 & 2 (Spring & Fall 1953, complete)
by Jack O'Sullivan [ed.]; Malcolm Reiss [ed.]; Leigh Brackett; Ray Bradbury; Isaac Asimov; Fredric Brown; Frank Kelly Freas [illus.]
Stamford: Love Romances Publishing Co, 1953. Very Good. Stamford: Love Romances Co., 1953. Pulp Magazines. No. 1 large format (19.75" x 6.75"); 128pp; No. 2 digest (7.25" x ~5.5"); 128pp. Illustrated paper wraps. Spring Issue: Shallow chips and tears along overhung edges, with top front and rear fore-edge apparently trimmed; long crease to front panel, with... Read More
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Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra; With an Appendix Containing Vieta's "Introduction to the Analytical Art
by Jacob Klein and Francois Viete; Eva Brann and J. Winfree Smith [trans.]
Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1968. Very Good -. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1968. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's red cloth, black spine titling; xv,[1],360pp. Minor shelf wear, spine rather sunned, extensive marginalia and underlining to early leaves, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper. A Very Good reading copy overall.
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., together with the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnsoniana (Five Volumes)
by James Boswell; Hester Thrale Piozzi; Richard Cumberland; Thomas Percy; Thomas Campbell; Joshua Reynolds; Fanny Burney [as Mme d'Arblay]; Alexander Napier [ed.]; Robina Napier [ed.]
London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. Very Good. London: George Bell and Sons, 1884. First Edition Thus. Octavo; Vol I lv + 583pp; Vol II xi + 570pp; Vol III xi + 568pp; Vol IV xv + 469pp; Vol V xiii + 432pp. Fifty-three engravings of portraits, dwellings, locales, manuscripts, and signatures dispersed throughout the five volumes; two-color... Read More
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Afro-Americans Stand Up for Middle East Peace
by James Zogby [ed.]; Jack O'Dell [ed.]
Washington, D.C.: Palestine Human Rights Campaign, 1980. Very Good. Washington, DC: Palestine Human Rights Campaign, 1980. Oblong octavo (14cm); illustrated paper wraps; xiii,67pp; b&w photos throughout. Covers show a few light bumps along edges and corners, with some toning along spine and brief spotting to rear panel. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Collection of writings... Read More
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Little Ann and Other Poems
by Jane and Ann Taylor; Kate Greenaway [illus.]
London: George Routledge & Sons, 1882. Very Good -. London: George Routledge & Sons, n.d. [1882]. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's olive cloth over pictorial glazed cream paper-covered boards, all edges stained blue, bright yellow glazed endpapers; 64pp.; illus. throughout printed in color by Edmund Evans. Boards a bit scuffed and paper rather discolored from dust soil, corners... Read More
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Flora's Very Windy Day [Signed by the Author & Illustrator]
by Jeanne Birdsall; Matt Phelan [illus.]
New York: Clarion Books / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. Very Good+/Fine. New York: Clarion Books / Harcourt Mifflin Harcourt, 2010. First Edition with full number line. Slim quarto; publisher's pictorial boards in matching dust jacket; [32]pp.; full color illus. throughout. Corners nudged, else a Near Fine copy. Signed by the author and illustrator on title page.
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The Chips are Down (Les Jeux Sont Faits)
by Jean-Paul Sartre; Louis Varese [trans.]
New York: Lear Publishers, 1948. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Lear Publishers, 1948. First American Edition. Octavo. 187 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in yellow. Price-clipped dust jacket chipped, dust-soiled, and worn along edges and folds; a few chips along center of spine; a couple neat tape repairs to verso. Boards edgeworn and base of... Read More
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Picture America [Bookplate signed by Ansel Adams tipped in]
by Jim Alinder [photo.]; Wright Morris [words]; Ansel Adams [intro.]
Boston: New York Graphic Society Books / Little, Brown and Company, 1982. Very Good +/Very Good. Boston: New York Graphic Society Books / Little, Brown and Company, 1982. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Ansel Adams mounted to front free endpaper. Quarto. 111 pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Red boards with spine lettered in silver. ... Read More
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![Faust: A Tragedy [Limited Edition, Signed by Alice Raphael and Lynd Ward]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/397/449/1511449397.0.m.jpg)
Faust: A Tragedy [Limited Edition, Signed by Alice Raphael and Lynd Ward]
by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe; Alice Raphael [trans.]; Lynd Ward [illus.]
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930. Very Good +. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930. Limited Edition of 501 copies signed by Lynd Ward at base of frontispiece and by Alice Raphael at limitation page; this copy unnumbered. Octavo. 262 pp. Six woodcuts by Ward, including frontis with tissue guard, complete. Patterned boards with... Read More
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The Last Running: A Story by John Graves [Signed by Kittredge]
by John Graves; John Groth [drawings]; William Kittredge [intro.]
New York: Lyons Press, 1999. Very Good. New York: Lyons Press, [1999]. First Thus. Slim octavo; publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 63pp.; illus. throughout. Rear wrapper a bit soiled, else Very Good and sound. Signed by William Kittredge on title page.
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The Mask of Command: A Study of Generalship
by John Keegan; Lawrence Freedman [intro.]
London: The Folio Society, 2019. Near Fine. London: The Folio Society, 2019. First Thus. Large octavo; 400pp. Photographs and illustrations. Dark blue cloth decorated in gilt and orange; red endpapers. Housed in publisher's slipcase. A few minor smudges to boards; binding sound; pages unmarked; slipcase unmarked and sound; Near Fine.
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The World #32
by John Yau [ed.]; Trevor Winkfield [cover art]; John Ashbery et al [contrs.]
New York: Poetry Project, 1979. Very Good. New York: Poetry Project, 1979. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); publisher's white pictorial staplebound wrappers; [2],70pp. printed mimeograph, illus. throughout. Wrappers rather soiled, contents clean and sound. Very Good overall.
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Fluxus Codex
by Jon Hendricks; Robert Pincus-Witten [intro.]
New York: Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection / Harry N. Abrams, 1988. Very Good/Very Good. [New York]: Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection / Harry N. Abrams, 1988. Second (1995) Printing. Thick oblong quarto (24x29cm); publisher's cloth in glossy pictorial dust jacket; 616pp.; illus. throughout, some in full color. Dust jacket a bit rubbed and wrinkled, corners... Read More
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The Naylors of Woodborough: The Stories of Some Descendants of George Nailor, 1655-1734
by Joseph Y. Rowe et al.
Washington, DC: Anchovy Hill Press, 2013. Very Good+. Washington, DC: Anchovy Hill Press, [2013]. First Edition. Large octavo (26cm); publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards; vii,[1],296pp.; color illus. throughout. Spine slightly cocked, brief finger soil to front endpapers, else Very Good or better. Amply researched and illustrated genealogical history of George Nailor, a Yorkshireman who settled in colonial Maryland... Read More
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The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield
by Katherine Mansfield; J.M.M. [J. Middleton Murry] [ed.]
London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1939. Very Good/Very Good. London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1939. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in grey printed dust jacket retaining original price (7/6 net); viii,243pp. Light shelf wear to jacket and cloth margins, jacket spine a bit toned, textblock margins foxed, slight spine lean else Very Good and sound.
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The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks [Two Volume Set]
by Katherine Mansfield; Margaret Scott [ed.]
Canterbury, Aotearoa, New Zealand: Lincoln University Press / Daphne Brassell Associates Ltd, 1997. Fine. Canterbury, Aotearoa, New Zealand: Lincoln University Press / Daphne Brassell Associates Ltd, 1997. First Editions with full number lines. Two volumes; large octavos (24cm); publisher's pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; xxv,[1],310; xviii,355pp.; frontispieces and facsimile illustrations. Very light soil to textblock margins else a... Read More
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![The Arthur Trilogy [with] The Seeing Stone, At The Crossing Place, and King of the Middle March [Three volume set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/473/257/1700257473.0.m.jpg)
The Arthur Trilogy [with] The Seeing Stone, At The Crossing Place, and King of the Middle March [Three volume set]
by Kevin Crossley-Holland; John Lawrence [illus.]
London: The Folio Society, 2010. Near Fine. London: The Folio Society, 2009-2010. First Thus. Three large octavo volumes. Illustrations, some color. Blue cloth over illustrated paper-covered boards; illustrated endpapers. Housed in publisher's plain blue slipcases. Boards tight in bindings and pages unmarked; slipcases show light shelfwear with a couple bumps to edges; Near Fine.
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Selected Papers / Ausgewahlte Schriften
by Kurt Goldstein; Aron Gurwitsch et al [eds.]
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1971. Very Good. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1971. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, grey topstain; xxiv,503pp. Corners a bit bumped, spine very slightly faded and creased, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Includes papers in English, French, and German.
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The Isle of Darksmoke: The Nameless Village and the Dome Level
by Larry DiTillio; Liz Danforth [ed and illus.]
Scottsdale, AZ: Blade, a division of Flying Buffalo Inc, 1984. Very Good. Scottsdale, AZ: Blade, a division of Flying Buffalo Inc., 1984. First Edition. Octavo. 56 pages. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Rear flap includes color "Cardboard Heroes" with artwork by Danforth. Light edgewear to wraps with some creasing. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.... Read More
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![Babes in Birdland: A Fairy Tale [alt. title: Policeman Bluejay]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/830/638/1458638830.0.m.jpg)
Babes in Birdland: A Fairy Tale [alt. title: Policeman Bluejay]
by Laura Bancroft [pseud. L. Frank Baum]; Maginel Wright Enright [illus.]
Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co, 1911. Very Good -. Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., 1911. First Thus. Large octavo; publisher's green linen-backed pictorial boards; 115,[1],[4](ads)pp.; color frontispiece and seven leaves of plates, additional text illus. throughout. Boards rather scuffed and rubbed with exposure along margins and corners, general dust-soil, especially to front cover, brief dampstain along bottom margin,... Read More
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![The Shame of Southern Politics: Essays and Speeches [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/125/366/1279366125.0.m.0.jpg)
The Shame of Southern Politics: Essays and Speeches [Signed]
by Leslie Dunbar; Dan T. Carter [Intro.]
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2002. Very Good/Very Good. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2002. First Edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with inscription "To Bill Taylor, civil rights champion, Leslie Dunbar." Octavo; xxvi + 175pp. Photographic dust jacket. White boards with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket as new. Boards are... Read More
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![Overseas: Experiences of a GI Abroad [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/753/293/1563293753.0.m.jpg)
Overseas: Experiences of a GI Abroad [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed]
by Leverett Marsden Hubber Jr.
New Haven: Privately Printed at the Printing Office of the Yale University Press, 1947. Very Good-. New Haven: Privately Printed at the Printing-Office of the Yale University Press, 1947. First Edition, Limited to 150 copies. Slim octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth, top edge gilt; 51pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, four leaves of plates. Extremities a bit scuffed, corners and... Read More
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Five Months' Sport in Somali Land
by Lord Wolverton; Colonel Paget [illus.]
London: Chapman & Hall, 1894. Very Good -. London: Chapman & Hall, 1894. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's tan pictorial cloth stamped in gilt; [6],108pp.; folding color map, full-page illus. throughout. Moderate wear to cloth margins, most notably at spine ends, spine quite toned, textblock heavily foxed, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown and ownership signature to front free... Read More
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My Friend Tree
by Lorine Niedecker; Walter Miller [linocuts]; Edward Dorn [intro.]
Scotland: The Wild Hawthorn Press, 1962. Near Fine/Very Good +. Edinburgh, Scotland: The Wild Hawthorn Press, 1962. Second Edition. Oblong octavo; unpaginated. Illustrated dust jacket over plain stapled wraps. Printed card with Dorn's introduction laid in. Toning and rubbing to edges of jacket; binding sound; pages unmarked; Near Fine in a Very Good or better dust jacket. Niedecker's... Read More
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Souvenirs of Military Life in Algeria [Two volumes]
by [Louis Charles Pierre ] The Comte de Castellane; Margaret Josephine Lovett [trans.]
London: Remington and Co Publishers, 1886. Very Good. London: Remington and Co Publishers, 1886. Second Edition in English. Two octavo volumes. 244 & 260 pp. Color fold-out map to front of volume I. Brown cloth boards stamped in gilt and black. Boards moderately worn along edges with brief exposure and general scuffing. Hinges starting but binding holding. Front... Read More
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