The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or, the Hithering Thithering Djinn
by BARTHELME, Donald
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28.5cm). Green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; unpaginated. Fine copy in a bright, unworn dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $4.95 on front flap), with just a hint of sunning to spine panel, very Near Fine. Unusually nice copy of this 1971 National Book Award winner for children's literature.
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OVERNIGHT TO MANY DISTANT CITIES
by Barthelme, Donald
New York: Putnam, 1983. First edition. Uncorrected proof in green printed wrappers of this collection of stories. Fine copy.
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![Here In The Village. [Signed, Limited]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/588/052/1377052588.0.m.jpg)
Here In The Village. [Signed, Limited]
by BARTHELME, Donald
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1978. First Edition. First Printing. Signed, Limited #135 of 275 copies; Octavo (22cm.); white cloth spine over green paper covered boards; stamped in gilt on spine; yellow slipcase; acetate dustjacket; 52pp.; Fine copy in Fine acetete jacket. Slipcase is Near Fine or better. Originally written for the New Yorker's "Notes and Comments" section.
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Welcome Mysterious Stranger" On the Occasion of the Publication of THE LAW OF AVERAGES
by Barthelme, Frederick
Washington DC: Counterpoint, n.d. (2000). First printing. Titled Counterpoints No. 1. Four pages in stapled self-wrappers. Signed on cover. A Fine copy. A short essay on gambling, his writing with his brother Steven about their experiences, and a return to fiction, thus the selected stories. Scarce ephemera.
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![Todd Andrews to the Author: A Letter from Letters [Deluxe Issue, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/963/541/1429541963.0.m.jpg)
Todd Andrews to the Author: A Letter from Letters [Deluxe Issue, Signed]
by BARTH, John
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1979. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of 50 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.21. Small quarto (25.5cm); full dark brown pebble-grained leather, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; marbled endpapers; [viii],38,[6]pp. A Fine copy without dustjacket, as issued. A series of 88 letters from seven correspondents, which... Read More
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![Don't Count On It [Signed, Deluxe]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/773/940/1374940773.0.m.jpg)
Don't Count On It [Signed, Deluxe]
by BARTH, John
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1984. First, Limited Edition. # 24 of 50 deluxe copies, signed and specially bound. Octavo (23.5cm.) lavender cloth stamped in gilt on cover and spine; acetate dustjacket, as issued; 35pp. Fine condition in Fine acetate jacket.
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Imperial Co-operation and Transfer, 1870-1930: Empires and Encounters
by BARTH, Volker and Roland Cvetkovski, eds
London: Bloomsbury, 2017. First Paperback Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; x, 244pp. Two dog-eared pages in text, trivial external wear to wrappers including mild bumping to top edge of rear cover, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Near Fine.
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THREADS
by Bartlett, Elizabeth
Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1970. First edition. [18 pp.] One of 30 copies (out of 500 total) sewn bound, signed and numbered (no. 30) by the poet. A volume in the Santa Barbara Poetry Series edited by Jack Shoemaker. Designed by Alan Brilliant. An early book by one of our finest literary small press editors: Shoemaker would found both... Read More
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THREADS
by Bartlett, Elizabeth
Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press, 1970. First edition. [18 pp.] One of 30 copies (out of 500 total) sewn bound, signed and numbered by the poet. A volume in the Santa Barbara Poetry Series edited by Jack Shoemaker. Designed by Alan Brilliant. An early book by one of our finest literary small press editors: Shoemaker would found both North Point... Read More
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Talking Poetry: Conversations in the Workshop with Contemporary Poets
by BARTLETT, Lee; Clark Coolridge, Theodore Enslin, Clayton Eshleman (et al) (contributors)
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. First Edition. Ocatvo (24cm); gray cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in metallic red on spine; dustjacket; x,295,[5]pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper has trivial surface wear, else Near Fine. Collection includes interviews with Thom Gunn, William Everson, Nathaniel Tarn, and many additional poets, alongside their works. [86783]. ... Read More
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![Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin: Selected Letters [Inscribed to Nathaniel Tarn]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/518/511/1700511518.0.m.jpg)
Kenneth Rexroth and James Laughlin: Selected Letters [Inscribed to Nathaniel Tarn]
by BARTLETT, Lee (editor)
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xviii,292pp. This copy from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), inscribed to him by the editor on the front endpaper: "For Nathaniel & Janet / some literary lust and gossip –... Read More
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![In Company: An Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 [Inscribed to Nathaniel Tarn]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/229/148/1716148229.0.m.jpg)
In Company: An Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 [Inscribed to Nathaniel Tarn]
by BARTLETT, Lee, V.B. Price, and Dianne Edenfield Edwards (editors)
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. First Edition. First Printing, one of seven advance copies. Octavo (24.5cm); pictorial boards; xxii,542,[4]pp. Inscribed on the half-title page by editor Lee Bartlett to noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), who was a contributor to this volume: "For Nathaniel – "Principal Unnamed Co-Conspirator" / w/love / Lee/ 4/04 / (one... Read More
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![The Duty and the Limitations of Civil Obedience. A Discourse Preached at Manchester, N.H., on the Day of Public Thanskgiving, November 24, 1853 [Cover title: Rev. Mr. Bartlett's Thanksgiving Discourse, on the Duty and the Limitations of Civil Obedience]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/480/952/1356952480.0.m.jpg)
The Duty and the Limitations of Civil Obedience. A Discourse Preached at Manchester, N.H., on the Day of Public Thanskgiving, November 24, 1853 [Cover title: Rev. Mr. Bartlett's Thanksgiving Discourse, on the Duty and the Limitations of Civil Obedience]
by BARTLETT, Samuel C.
Manchester: Steam Power Press of Abbott, Jenks & Co, 1853. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's lilac printed wrappers; 24pp. Upper wrapper separated and slightly toned and chipped along extremities, faint vertical crease; a Good copy, internally clean and fine. Sermon preached during the Congregational pastor's brief tenure in Manchester, New Hampshire, here supporting civil disobedience on moral and religious... Read More
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Some Weapons of War as Improved by Recent American Inventors
by BARTLETT, Wallace A.
Washington DC: by the Author, 1883. First Edition. 12mo; original embossed cloth; 93pp; illus. Mild external wear and soil; Very Good. Summary of recent improvements to torpedoes, small arms, revolvers, armored vessels, etc; numerous schematic drawings accompany the text. Frontispiece illustration titled "The Lay Torpedo and the Blockader." Bartlett was Principal Examiner at the U.S. Patent Office.
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Beyond the Page
by BARTON, Carol
Bethesda, MD: Writer's Center, 1983. First, Limited Edition. No. 54 of 200 signed and numbered copies. Oblong format (13cm x 25cm); pictorial, comb-bound wrappers with unprinted acetate cover sheets; unpaginated [22 leaves]. Very mild toning to covers, else fine. The first published book by well-known book artist Carol Barton, proprietor of the Popular Kinetics Press and author... Read More
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![Howard Hughes and His Flying Boat [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/667/713/1266713667.0.m.jpg)
Howard Hughes and His Flying Boat [Inscribed]
by BARTON, Charles
Blue Ridge Summit, PA: TAB Books, 1982. Sixth Printing. Octavo (23cm); pictorial card wrappers; [10],11-272,[4]pp. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "To Richard Snowden / who shares my interest in aviation / With warm best regards / Charles Barton / Warrenton, VA. 3/7/93." Light shelfwear, faint curl to lower right corner of front wrapper; Near Fine. ... Read More
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Haverford Library Collection of Cuneiform Tablets, or Documents from the Temple Archives of Telloh. Part 3 (of 3)
by BARTON, George Aaron
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, N.d. [1914]. First Edition. Large quarto (35cm). Cloth-backed, printed boards; 62pp text; 56 leaves of plates (printed recto-only; numbered 101-155). Slight toning and a few minor bumps to board edges, else a very clean, bright and well-preserved copy. Third of three volumes issued serially between 1905-1914, all with facsimiles of Sumerian cuneiform tablets hand-drawn by... Read More
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![Vzbourení na Jeviśti: Filosofie Drama Skutečnost [Rebellion on Stage]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/294/008/1207008294.0.m.jpg)
Vzbourení na Jeviśti: Filosofie Drama Skutečnost [Rebellion on Stage]
by BARTOŠ, Jan
Praze: Vydalo Ústredni Studentské Knihkupectví a Nakladatelství, [1925]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers printed in blue, illustration signed in image "Remo," French flaps; 59pp. Wear to wrapper extremities with shallow creasing to upper cover fore-edge corners, short splitting to spine foot edges, old pencil scribble to rear cover, else Near Very Good, internally sound.... Read More
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![Krkavci: Komedie o Trech Dejstvích [The Ravens]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/540/008/1207008540.0.m.jpg)
Krkavci: Komedie o Trech Dejstvích [The Ravens]
by BARTOŠ, Jan; [Jindrich Štyrsky, cover design]
[Praha: Vydal Devetsil, 1924]. Second Edition. Slim octavo (22cm.); publisher's white pictorial wrappers, yapp edges; 61pp. Wrappers rather chipped and worn, especially along spine, repaired shallow loss at bottom edge of upper cover, general dust-soil, some foxing to rear cover, textblock slightly toned, else Good to Very Good. Earliest edition of the author's first play to be issued by... Read More
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![The Woe Shirt [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/832/415/1461415832.0.m.jpg)
The Woe Shirt [Signed]
by BARTÓN, Paulé (author); Howard A. Norman (trans.)
Lincoln, Massachusetts: Panmaen Press, 1980. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Signed by Norman on the front free endpaper, dated July 2002. Limited to 2000 copies. Octavo (24cm); green cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; 62pp; illustrations by Norman Laliberté; Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $12.50), lightly toned on spine pane, else Fine. Collection... Read More
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Botanical and Zoological Drawings, 1756-1788
by BARTRAM, William; Joseph Ewan (editor; introduction; commentary); George W. Corner (foreword)
Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1968. Reproduced from the Fothergill Album in the British Museum (Natural History). Folio (40.5cm); green cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; maroon topstain; dustjacket; [xii],[2],3-180pp, with 59 numbered plates following text before appendix. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia for promoting knowledge, Volume 74. Light... Read More
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![Contemporary Russian Artists / Artisti Russi Contemporanei: Erik Bulatov, Ilya Kabakov... [et al.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/210/738/1274738210.0.m.jpg)
Contemporary Russian Artists / Artisti Russi Contemporanei: Erik Bulatov, Ilya Kabakov... [et al.]
by BARZEI, Amnon and Claudia Jolles
Prato: Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, [1990]. First Edition. Quarto (27cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 208pp.; illus. throughout, some in color. Wrappers a bit rubbed and toned along extremities, shallow soil spot to top edge of upper cover, old price sticker to rear cover, else Very Good, internally fine. Bilingual text in Italian and English.
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A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
by BASBANES, Nicholas A.
New York: HarperCollins, 2003. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); black and brown paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xx,444pp. Base of spine bumped, light wear to crown, with some faint foxing to upper edge of textblock; ownership signature of noted zoologist and marine biologist James Glen Mead to upper front endpaper; Near Fine. Dustjacket... Read More
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Russia 1904-1924: The Revolutionary Years A History in Documentary Photographs
by BASCHET, Eric; André Kaspi (preface)
[Zug/Schweiz]: Swan Productions, [1989]. First Edition. Quarto (29.5cm); white paper-covered boards with titling stamped in black on spine and front cover; illustrated map endpapers; dustjacket; 279pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front flyleaf. Light rubbing and tanning to board edges,... Read More
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The Braves - The Pick and the Shovel
by [BASEBALL] HIRSHBERG, Al; Billy Southworth, fwd
Boston: Waverly House, 1948. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardover; dustjacket; 224pp. Clean, straight and unmarked copy, Very Good or better. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 on front flap); lightly rubbed, a shade sunned on spine panel, still easily Very Good. An attractive copy.
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