![Flaubert's Parrot [Inscribed by Tom Maschler to Nathaniel Tarn]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/914/896/1690896914.0.m.jpg)
Flaubert's Parrot [Inscribed by Tom Maschler to Nathaniel Tarn]
by BARNES, Julian
London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1985. Fifth Impression. Octavo (22.25cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-190,[2]pp. Inscribed on the half-title page by Tom Maschler (1933-2020), head of publishing at Jonathan Cape, to Nathaniel Tarn, formerly the literary editor at Cape Goliard: "For my dear & old friend Tarn / who never reads modern fiction... Read More
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Symposium on Africa
by [BARNETTE MILLER FOUNDATION] BUNCHE, Ralph; Julius Nyerere, et al.
Wellesley: Wellesley College, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's tan printed card wrappers; [6],163pp. Wrappers rather worn from handling, some light dust-soil, a few leaves dog-eared, else About Very Good. Symposium presented by the Barnette Miller Foundation at Wellseley College, Feburary 16 and 17, 1960. Moderators and participants included Ralph Bunche, Julius Nyerere, Margaret Clapp, Gwendolen Carter, Yves Rodrigues,... Read More
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5 A.M. IN BEIJING: Poems of China
by Barnstone, Willis
New York: Sheep Meadow Press, 1987. First Edition. First printing. Cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 115 pages. Inscribed on the first free end page by the poet Willis Barnstone to a Jonathan Spence noted professor of Chinese History at Yale University. Near fine in a spine-sunned else near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in Hardcover. Barnstone is a distinguished professor... Read More
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Violence and Defense in the Jewish Experience
by BARON, Salo and George S. Wise (eds)
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1977. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 362pp. Mild external wear and soil; jacket slightly rubbed; Very Good. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Edited volume of articles by Baron, Yohanan Aharoni, Ben Halpern, Yuval Ne'eman, David Schers, and others.
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All My Enemies
by BARON, Stanley
New York: Ballantine Books, 1952. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (18.5cm); oatmeal cloth spine over green paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in green on spine; dustjacket; [vi],247,[3]pp. Slight spine lean, with modest wear to spine ends; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped (priced $1.50) with modest shelfwear and tanning, tape mend to upper front panel, 1" chip to upper back panel... Read More
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![Recent Trends in British Trade Unions [...] And Trade Union Congress' Interim Report on Postwar Reconstruction -- A Summary [Cover title: Recent Trends in British Trade Unionism]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/453/863/1315863453.0.m.jpg)
Recent Trends in British Trade Unions [...] And Trade Union Congress' Interim Report on Postwar Reconstruction -- A Summary [Cover title: Recent Trends in British Trade Unionism]
by BAROU, Noel
New York: League for Industrial Democracy, [1945]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue printed staplebound card wrappers; 31pp. Wrappers a bit worn and toned along extremities, faint slightly later (1963) accession rubberstamps to upper and rear covers, else Very Good, internally fine. Forms part of the L.I.D. Pamphlet Series.
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Lettre a M. Thiers
by BARRAULT, Émile
Paris: Alexandre-Pierre, 1848. First Edition. Tabloid-format broadsheet (46cm.); text in triple column; uniformly browned, previous folds, else Very Good and sound. Second letter of a series of three by Barrault, composed shortly after the Revolution of 1848, and addressed to leading political and public figures, including Alphonse de Lamartine and David Rothschild. Barrault, a staunch Saint-Simonian socialist and editor... Read More
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Another Kind of Rain: Poems
by BARRAX, Gerald W.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, [1970]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in white and grey pictorial dust jacket; [8],86,[2]pp. Jacket fore-edge a bit foxed, else Very Good. Forms part of the Pitt Poetry Series. African-American poet's first published work.
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All Our Yesterdays: 90 Years of British Cinema
by BARR, Charles (ed)
London: British Film Institute, 1986. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 446pp; illus. Review copy, with publisher's slip. Spine slightly faded, else Fine.
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YANAGI Issue no. 3
by Barrett, Bill and Lewis Patler (editors)
Mill Valley, CA: N. p., May 23, 1976. First Edition. Side-stapled illustrated covers; thick 4to. Mimeograph: printed on rectos only. Contributions from Charles Olson (one page from a book held at UT), Ed Sanders, Duncan McNaughton and others. Paper heavily toned, one closed cover tear, else better than good.
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Or Current Resident
by Barrett, Ed, with art by Ciara Barrett (Joe Brainard's Sneakers)
Pressed Wafer, Boston, 2005. Seven poems, of which six are prose poems; and the lovely image of Joe Brainard's sneakers. What a find! Folded broadside.
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South African Women On the Move
by BARRETT, Jane (and others)
London: Zed Books, 1985. First Edition. Small quarto. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 266pp; illus. Clean, unworn copy, free of markings or soil; Near Fine.
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![Bethany [Lettered, Signed Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/610/772/1498772610.0.m.jpg)
Bethany [Lettered, Signed Edition]
by BARRE, Richard; Robert Crais (foreword)
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 2003. First, Limited Edition. Deluxe issue; Letter "F" of 26 lettered copies, signed on colophon by both Barre and Robert Crais. Octavo; pictorial cloth in burgundy slipcase; Fine and unread.
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![Wind on the River [Lettered, Signed Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/263/699/1499699263.0.m.jpg)
Wind on the River [Lettered, Signed Edition]
by BARRE, Richard; Harlan Coben (foreword)
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 2004. First, Limited Edition. Deluxe issue; Letter "P" of 26 lettered copies, signed on colophon by both Barre and Robert Crais. Additionally inscribed, "Merry Christmas, Dick from your friend / [signed] Richard Barre," undated but contemporary with publication. Octavo; pictorial cloth in black faux-leather slipcase; Fine and unread.
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The Lovomaniacs
by BARRETT, Rona
Los Angeles: Nash Publishing, 1972. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 386pp. Clean, bright and strong, a very good copy in a dustjacket with very light wear to the edges and spine ends. Internally clean. Slight spotting to page edges. A slightly steamy novel detailing the torrid secret lives of... Read More
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Pomo Indian Basketry
by BARRETT, S.A.
Glorieta, NM: Rio Grande Press, 1970. Second Edition. Quarto. 28.5cm. Publihser's grey cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. 309pp. Strong and bright, very light wear, some slight wear to the gilt here and there. A very good copy. Internally clean. A high quality facsimile reprint from the 1908 first edition. 81365.
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MS NOAH TOUCHES EARTH
by Barrett, Susan E., inscribed to Josephine Jacobsen, Illustrated by Barrett, Kath
Rancho Palos Verdes CA: Artichoke Press, 1979. First edition. Trade paperback original; 8vo. 159 pp. Limited to 1000 copies; this is one of the 500 that were not numbered. Although the spine is sadly faded, this copy has special interest because Barrett has signed and inscribed it to the significant poet Josephine Jacobsen. Page block is crisp, tight, and... Read More
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![Ain't You Got No Shame? [Inscribed & Signed to Ben Shahn]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/661/481/890481661.0.m.jpg)
Ain't You Got No Shame? [Inscribed & Signed to Ben Shahn]
by BARRETT, William M.; Leonard Guardino, illus.; Joseph Auslander, intro
Washington DC: New Merrymount Press, 1965. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in pale tan pictorial dust jacket; [10],98pp.; illus. Jacket quite brittle with small loss to spine foot, 2-inch closed tear along bottom spine edge of upper panel, some minor soil spots. Fine in Good or better dust jacket. Inscribed and signed on p. ii: "For Ben Shahn... Read More
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Der Tag: A Play
by BARRIE, J.M.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1915]. Second Edition. 12mo (18.75cm.); original cloth-backed boards, decorative grey dust jacket in custom cloth chemise and brown morocco-backed cloth slipcase, spine in five gilt-lettered and -ruled compartments; 39,[1],[7](ads)pp. Jacket spine a hint faded, else Very Good to Near Fine. Jacket upper cover and spine with sub-title "The Tragic Man." The second unstated edition, with... Read More
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![Track of the Cat [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/305/238/1413238305.0.m.jpg)
Track of the Cat [Signed]
by BARR, Nevada
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1993. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.25cm); black and green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [7],8-238,[2]p. Signed by the author on the title page. Crown gently nudged, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $19.95). Barr's first mystery novel, following her debut frontier western Bittersweet.
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Searching for Franklin: The Land Arctic Searching Expedition. James Anderson's and James Stewart's Expedition via the Back River 1855
by BARR, William (ed.)
London: The Hakluyt Society, 1999. Octavo (25.5cm). Blue cloth, gilt-stamped, in blue dust jacket; [xvi],292pp; black and white illus. A straight copy, cloth slightly dusty, top edge spotted, internally clean: Very Good. Jacket rubbed at edges, a few tiny spots to front: Very Good. Hakluyt Society Series III, Volume 1.
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Cross-Cultural Perspectives on How to Minimize the Adverse Effects of Sex Differentiation
by BARRY, Herbert, III
Pittsburgh: Know, 1969. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 10pp. Fine. Paper presented at the Symposium on Behavioral Sciences, American Psychological Association, September 3, 1969.
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The Effect Of Psychology On Americanism
by BARSTOW, George Eames
New York: Literary Digest / Society of Applied Psychology, 1920. First Edition. 12mo (18cm). Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed blue thick paper wrappers (softcover, as issued); 27pp. Bit of external wear and aging; text paper slightly tanned; Very Good.
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![Step Carefully in Night Grass: A Collection of Poems [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/081/971/1622971081.0.m.jpg)
Step Carefully in Night Grass: A Collection of Poems [Inscribed]
by BARTELS, Susan L. [aka Susan Ludvigson]
Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); publisher's original white cloth binding, with titling stamped in metallic dark blue on side; dustjackets; [viii],[2],3-55,[1]pp. Half-title inscribed by poet, "For Julian / with thanks / for much encouragement; + support -- / Susan". Light wear; Near Fine. Book in two dustjackets, both unclipped (priced $4.50), both Near... Read More
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The Martyr of Huping. The Life Story of William Anson Reimert, Missionary in China
by BARTHOLOMEW, Allen R.
Philadelphia: Board of Foreign Missions, Reformed Church in the United States, 1925. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Ribbed maroon cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 157pp; frontispiece portrait and 15 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Faint stains to cloth, else a tight, Near Fine copy. With a presentation bookplate inside front cover declaring that "All the... Read More
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