Secrets of Pitching: A Practical Handbook Explaining Scientifically How Every Known "Curve" Is Pitched
by [BASEBALL] STANDISH, Burt L.
New York: Street & Smith Publishers, 1914. First Edition. Octavo (17.5cm); original pictorial wrappers; [ii],111 + [15]pp ads; illus. Usual tanning to text edges, modest external wear, with a few small nicks and tears to extremities, with lower spine very slightly warped; Very Good+. An attractive example of this cheaply-made volume, "a practical treatise on the science of curve... Read More
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Jolly Cholly's Story: Baseball, I Love You!
by [BASEBALL] GRIMM, Charlie with Ed Prell
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1968. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,242pp; illus. Signed by Grimm on the front endpaper. Base of spine a bit pushed, else Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $4.95), with some mild rubbing to extremities, and a few tiny tears and... Read More
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The Cleveland Indians
by [BASEBALL] LEWIS, Franklin
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1949. First Edition. First printing. Signed by the author in blue ink on front free endpaper. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 276pp; illus. Tight, quite clean copy, with just a bit of offsetting to the endpapers and Lewis' autograph clear, unfaded and legible. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00 on front flap);... Read More
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The Detroit Tigers
by [BASEBALL] Lieb, Frederick G.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1946. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 276pp; illus. Early gift inscription to front endpaper, else tight and unmarked; offsetting to endpapers, a touch of staining to bottom board edges; Very Good. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00 on front flap); well-preserved with small loss to paper at base... Read More
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Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball
by [BASEBALL] RUTH, George Herman
New York: A. L. Burt Company, [n.d.]. Early reprint, with 1928 on copyright page. Octavo (19.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and decoration stamped in bronze on spine and front cover; 301pp; photographic (halftone) portait frontispiece. Previous owner's name inked to front pastedown. Soil to covers, rubbing to board edges, and front hinge loose; Good. Ruth discusses baseball memories,... Read More
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The Washington Senators
by [BASEBALL] POVICH, Shirley
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. First Edition. First printing. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 246pp; illus. Bit of scuffing and soil to cloth, else a tight, quite clean copy, Very Good, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. One of the scarcer titles in the Putnam's Sports Series.
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The Chicago White Sox
by [BASEBALL] BROWN, Warren
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1952. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 248pp; illus. Straight, clean copy with mild foxing at corner of frontispiece and facing title page; Very Good. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, price-clipped, rubbed at extremities with a small loss at crown and a few short closed tears in margins; just Very Good.... Read More
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The Poppy and Other Deadly Plants
by BASKIN, Esther (text); Leonard Baskin (drawings)
New York: Delacorte Press / A Seymour Lawrence Book, 1967. First Edition. Second Printing. Quarto (28.5cm); black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; orange endpapers; dustjacket; 74pp; illus. Light rubbing to spine ends, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper, price-clipped, spine-faded, with tiny tears and rubbing to extremities; Very Good. Explores facts, history, and stories on plants including... Read More
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The Poppy and Other Deadly Plants
by BASKIN, Esther (text); Leonard Baskin (drawings)
New York: Delacorte Press / A Seymour Lawrence Book, 1967. Second Printing. Quarto (28.5cm); black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; orange endpapers; dustjacket; 74pp; illus. Pencilled note to upper front endpaper, else a Fine copy. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $12.50), lightly spine-faded, with tiny tears and light rubbing to extremities; Very Good+. Explores facts, history, and... Read More
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Congress Investigates Sex
by BASS, Cyrus
Chicago: Atomic Age Publishers, [1954]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's yellow card wrappers; [2],111pp.; illus. A hint of wear from handling, else Fine. Collection of satirical Congressional hearings " which may someday take place," written in the style of the McCarthy-era anti-communist fear-mongering.
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William Faulkner: An Annotated Checklist of Criticism
by BASSETT, John
New York: David Lewis, 1972. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Green buckram in yellow dust jacket; [xiv],[552]pp. Straight and sound, with dustiness and minor spotting to edges of textblock, otherwise clean: around Near Fine. Jacket unclipped, lightly rubbed, with gentle soiling to front and rear panels: around Near Fine.
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Doomsday Circus
by BASSHE, Emjo
New York: Contemporary Play Publications, 1938. Octavo (20cm). Publisher's brown cloth, titled in dullt gilt, with red dust jacket; 133pp; list of other titles to jacket rear flap. 1939 ink ownership inscription on f.f.e.p. Straight, tight, lightly rubbed, darkened at top edge, minor discoloration to endpapers, else clean: Very Good. Jacket unclipped (priced $2.00), lightly rubbed, faded at extremities... Read More
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The Greenroom
by BASSO, Hamilton
Garden City: Doubleday, 1949. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Beige cloth, titled in blue, in original blue and pink dust jacket; plain endpapers; [viii],278pp. Straight, rubbed at edges, endpapers discolored, a few small spots of foxing, else clean: Very Good. Jacket unclipped (priced $3.00), lightly rubbed at edges, spine faded with light fading along edge of rear, some... Read More
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The Greenroom [Inscribed, Association copy]
by BASSO, Hamilton
New York: Doubleday, 1949. First Edition. First Printing. Inscribed to friend and fellow writer, Peter De Vries [New Yorker Magazine] and his wife, poet Katinka Loeser. Octavo (21 cm); tan cloth covered boards titled in blue on spine; light foxing to the top edge of boards; spine ends gently pushed; Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00) with... Read More
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The Ninemile Wolves [Signed, Limited]
by BASS, Rick
Livingston: Clark City Press, 1992. First Thus. First Printing. Signed on title page; Limited # 66 of 125; Octavo (23 cm.); maroon spine over brown boards; stamped in gilt on cover and spine; matching maroon slipcase;165pp. Fine / Fine. Bass continues his essays about Montana...with this masterful life history of a contemporary wolf pack. In the 19th-century West,... Read More
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Brown Dog of the Yaak: Essays on Art and Activism [Signed]
by BASS, Rick
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1999. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); cinnamon cloth, with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in black n spine and front cover; [viii],170,[12]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. A Fine copy. Collection of four essays by the Montana author, with a biographical portrait by Scott Slovic, and a bibliography of Bass's work.... Read More
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Propositions 3; La Haine de La Poésie [The Hatred of Poetry]
by BATAILLE, Georges
Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1947. First French Edition. Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's pale orange wraps titled in black. 180pp.; [2]. Lightly sunned to spine panel, with a little wear and soiling to extremities; internally clean and fresh, pages unifomrly toned due to cheap paper stock. A very good, neat copy. A smart French language copy of Bataille's... Read More
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The End of Strife: Nature's Laws Applied to Incomes
by BATDORF, John W.
New York: Broadway Publishing Co, (1911). First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 151pp. Moderate external rubbing to cloth, still a straight, tight, Very Good copy. A call for a progressive Income Tax and a guaranteed annual income, the latter to be derived from surplus corporate revenue (defined as... Read More
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The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala
by BATEMAN, James
New Castle: Johnson Reprint Corporation, [1974]. Limited Edition. One of 1000 copies printed. Elephant folio (50cm). In chartreuse cloth stamped in gold on front; plain endpapers; x, 12, [164]pp; 40 color plates. A bright, clean copy, rubbed and sunned lightly at upper edge, else Near Fine. Facsimile of Bateman's 1837-43 work on orchids, of which only 125 copies were... Read More
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Lean Men: An Episode in a Life
by BATES, Ralph
London: Peter Davies, 1934. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, preceding the American edition published by Macmillan by one year. Octavo (22cm); orange cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; gray topstain; dustjacket; 555pp, [1]. Light sunning to spine and upper board edges, with subtle fading to topstain and a touch of wear to lower board edges; Very Good+.... Read More
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Leggi, Atti, Proclami ed Altri Documenti della Repubblica Napoletana 1798-1799 (3 vols of 4)
by BATTAGLINI, Mario and Augusto Placanica (et al)
Cava de Tirreni: Emilio Di Mauro, (2000). First Edition. Three large octavo volumes. Cloth hardcovers in dustjackets; 788+690+710pp. The first three volumes (of four). A fine set, apparently unread, in similarly pristine dustwrappers - Near-New.
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La Repubblica Napoletana: Diari, Memorie, Racconti
by BATTAGLINI, Mario, ed
[Milano]: Guerini e Associati, [2000]. First Edition. Two volumes; large octavo (24.5cm.); publisher's teal gilt-lettered cloth in matching cloth slipcase; 348; 317pp. Large dampstain to upper panel of slipcase somewhat bleeding onto upper covers and spines of both volumes, some wear to slipcase extremities, else a Very Good of better, internally clean and fine set. Published for the Instituto... Read More
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My Life
by BATTEN, Jean
London: The Aviation Book Club, 1939. First Thus. Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's dark red cloth titled in black to spine. Dutjacket. 303pp.; [1]. Light bumping and scuffing to spine ends and corners, bright and strong; internally clean, illustrated throughout with full page photographic plates, laid in at the front is a newspaper clipping of Batten receiving an award for her... Read More
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Héraclite D'éphèse: Traduction Nouvelle et Intégrale Avec Introduction et Notes
by BATTISTINI, Yves (text); René Char (introduction)
Paris: Aux Editions Cabiers d'Art, 1948. Softcover. Octavo (19.5cm); green paper wrappers; glassine dustwrapper; [10],11-101,[3]pp. Text in French. Some pages of text unopened. Light shelf-wear and -soil, with tiny tears to wrapper extremities, and faint off-setting to pp.92-93 (from laid in newspaper clipping); Very Good. Glassine dustjacket has tiny tears, chips, and creases to extremities; Very Good. Focuses on... Read More
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The Flowers of Evil & Paris Spleen
by BAUDELAIRE, Charles; William H. Crosby, transl; Anna Balakian, introd
Brockport: BOA Editions, 1991. First Edition. First printing of the Crosby translations. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 494pp. A few faint spots of foxing to upper edge of text block, else Fine, with embossed ownership stamp to title page of a previous owner. In the original dustwrapper, also Fine. Illustrations after woodcuts by David Crosby. A bilingual edition, with facing... Read More
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