Absent in the Spring
by Mary Westmacott [a.k.a. Agatha Christie]
London: Collins, 1973. Near Fine/Very Good +. London: Collins, 1973. First thus. Octavo; blue boards stamped in gilt on spine; photo-illustrated price clipped dust jacket; 192pp. Spine ends lightly bumped, text block edges lightly dust soiled, contemporary ownership inscription on front flyleaf, otherwise pages are unmarked and binding is sound, dust jacket is slightly toned with tiny closed... Read More
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![The Lost Zoo (A Rhyme for the Young, But Not Too Young) [Beatrice Murphy's Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/973/483/1700483973.0.m.jpg)
The Lost Zoo (A Rhyme for the Young, But Not Too Young) [Beatrice Murphy's Copy]
by Christopher Cat and Countee Cullen; Charles Sebree [illus.]
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. Very Good-. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1940]. First Edition Stated with letter code K-P. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's yellow cloth lettered in blue; [12],72pp.; color frontispiece, fifteen leaves of color plates (collated complete). Ex-District of Columbia Public Library with their gift ex libris from the Beatrice M. Murphy Foundation to... Read More
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![I Know a Secret [Signed by Morley]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/961/059/1686059961.0.m.jpg)
I Know a Secret [Signed by Morley]
by Christopher Morley; Jeanette Warmuth [illus.]
Garden Cit, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. Very Good+/Good+. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927. Early printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); viii,[6],235pp.; color frontispiece, half-tone illus. throughout. Dust jacket margins rather chipped and worn with brief splitting along flap folds, loss at bottom edge of rear panel not... Read More
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Vedanta for the Western World
by Christopher Isherwood [ed. & intro.]
Hollywood: Marcel Rodd, 1945. Very Good/Very Good. Hollywood: Marcel Rodd, 1945. First Edition. Octavo; [viii],452pp. Illustrated dust jacket over brick cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Price-clipped dust jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges, corners, and spine ends, with a few scuffs to surface. Small dampstain visible on jacket interior at bottom front near... Read More
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The Reminiscences of Solar Pons
by August Derleth; Anthony Boucher [intro.]; Robert Pattrick [chronology]
Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran Publishers, 1961. Very Good/Very Good. Sauk City, WI: Mycroft & Moran Publishers, 1961. First Edition, printed in a run of 2,052 copies (2000 stated). Octavo. 199 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.50 price intact. Black boards stamped in silver. Dust jacket rubbed with a few shallow nicks and toning to spine... Read More
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![The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop [Inscribed and Signed by Lornell, Stephenson, and Go-Go musician Chuck Brown]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/163/266/1681266163.0.m.jpg)
The Beat: Go-Go's Fusion of Funk and Hip-Hop [Inscribed and Signed by Lornell, Stephenson, and Go-Go musician Chuck Brown]
by [Chuck Brown] Kip Lornell; Charles C. Stephenson, Jr.
New York: Billboard Books / Watson-Guptill Publications, 2001. Very Good. New York: Billboard Books / Watson-Guptill Publications, 2001. First Edition, First Printing with full number line. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's glossy photo-illustrated card wrappers; xii,260pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light wear to margins, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed "To Rachelle" on title page by both authors ("Thanks... Read More
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Modernist Aesthetics in Taiwanese Poetry since the 1950s
by Au Chung-to
Leiden: Brill, 2008. Near Fine. Leiden: Brill, 2008. First Edition. Octavo (24.5cm); publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards; viii,[6],206pp.; illus. Spine ends bumped, else Near Fine. Issued as Sinica Leidensia Vol. 85.
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![Poems by C. Churchill [Signed by John Churchill]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/064/044/1511044064.0.m.jpg)
Poems by C. Churchill [Signed by John Churchill]
by C[harles] Churchill
London: Printed for John Churchill, (Executor to the late C. Churchill) and W. Flexney, 1769. Very Good. London: Printed for John Churchill, 1769. Fourth Edition. Two volumes; octavos (21.5cm.); contemporary full calf, gilt spines in six compartments, red gilt morocco spine labels; [4],369; [2],330pp.; [A]2 B-2A8 2B2 & [A]2 B-X8 Y6. Boards rubbed along hinges with some exposure,... Read More
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The Life of Lord Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronté, &c
by T. O. Churchill
London: T. Bensley, 1808. Very Good. London: T. Bensley, Bolt Court, 1808. First Edition. Large quarto (35x29cm); viii + 102pp. Of 15 original full-page or two-page copper engravings, seven are lacking (including the portrait frontispiece and the facsimile letter), eight remain. Lowndes I, 449. Sea-green leather boards with gilt and black stamped borders, frames and ornaments on... Read More
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![Coniston [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/351/704/1715704351.0.m.jpg)
Coniston [Signed]
by Winston Churchill
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. Very Good. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906. First Edition, Limited Issue of 60 copies printed on Japanese vellum signed by American novelist Churchill (no relation to the British statesman of the same name) this being #42. Octavo; 543pp. Vellum spine over brown paper-covered boards; top edge gilt; no dust jacket. Boards... Read More
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![The Beans of Egypt, Maine [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/857/980/1602980857.0.m.jpg)
The Beans of Egypt, Maine [Inscribed and Signed]
by Carolyn Chute
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in green pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; [8],215pp. A hint of wear to jacket margins including a few tiny closed tears, corners nudged, gift inscription on front pastedown obscured by jacket... Read More
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El Grafoscopio de J. Laurent y Cía: Panorama de la galería central del Museo del Prado (1882-1883)
by [Museo del Prado] J. Laurent y Cia
Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2004. Very Good. Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2004. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's black cloth, silver foil lettering; single leaf folded into 44-paneled photographic panorama. Light wear from handling, corners bumped, else Very Good and sound. Reproduction of J. Laurent y Cía's magnificent panoramic photograph of the central gallery of the... Read More
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![In hoc volumine haec continent. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium lib. III [...]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/948/009/1544009948.0.m.jpg)
In hoc volumine haec continent. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium lib. III [...]
by Cicero; Johannes Sturm [ed.]
Argentorati [Strasbourg]: Rihelium [Rihel], 1540. Very Good. [Colophon imprint] Argentorati [Strasbourg]: Rihelium [Rihel], 1540. First Sturm Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); full contemporary elaborately blind-tooled pig, spine in four compartments, contemporary manuscript paper spine label and remnants of fore-edge steel clasps; [8],245,[9]ll. (a8 a-k8 l4 m-z8 A-H8 I10, collated and presumed complete); woodcut vignettes and initials. Scuffing to extremities, most... Read More
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![A Table in Provence [Limited Edition, Signed by Corman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/011/715/1714715011.0.m.jpg)
A Table in Provence [Limited Edition, Signed by Corman]
by Cid Corman; Barnet Rubenstein [illus.]
Ashland, MA: Origin Press, 1959. Good. [Ashland, MA]: Origin Press, 1959. First Edition, Limited to 200 copies of which this is no. 173. Large, slim oblong folio (30.5x39cm); publisher's cloth tape-backed stiff pictorial card wrappers; [36]pp.; full-page illus. throughout. Wrappers rather worn with a few small splash marks to upper cover, early leaves a bit cockled; overall Good... Read More
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Exercitationes Liturgicae in Singulos Dies Distributae, juxta methodum Scholae Sacrorum Rituum: De Divino Officio Exercitationum Decades Decem a die Beatissimae Virgini in Templo Praesentatae Sacro IX. Kalendas Decembres ad X. Kalendas Julias S. Aloysii Gonzagae Festum Diem Absolvendae Anno MDCCL
by Manuel de Azevedo; Francisco Maria Cioja
Romae [Rome]: Joannes Generosus Salomoni in Foro S. Ignatii, 1750. Very Good. Romae [Rome]: Joannes Generosus Salomoni in Foro S. Ignatii, 1750. First Edition. Quarto. [6], 3-209, [7]pp., collated and complete. Dedicatory leaf and letter bound before title page, "Catholicae Majestati Mariae Barbarae de Portugal Hispaniarum Reginae." Bound in full contemporary vellum with manuscript spine title. Edges slightly... Read More
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![Banner Line [Collection of 42 Issues]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/377/888/1352888377.0.m.jpg)
Banner Line [Collection of 42 Issues]
by [Circus] Van Matre [ed.]
Philadelphia: Van Matre, 1959. Very Good. Philadelphia: Van Matre, 1955-1959. 42 volumes; quarto (ca. 28cm.); all in pictorial variously-colored staple bound offset self wrappers, often recycling cover art from past issues; illus. throughout, internal text usually printed mimeo from typescript. Publication sequence as follows: Nos. 188, 197-9, 201-2, 206-8, 213, 216, 218-20, 223-4, 227-8, 230-3, 238, 240-1, 243-4,... Read More
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![Along the Way [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/920/062/1696062920.0.m.jpg)
Along the Way [Signed]
by Mark Citret
San Francisco: Custom & Limited Editions, 1999. Very Good/Near Fine. San Francisco: Custom & Limited Editions, [1999]. First Trade Edition, First Printing. Large, square quarto (33cm); publisher's cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; [18]pp. & sixty-three photographic plates. Top textblock edge foxed, else Very Good in a Near Fine jacket. Signed by the photographer on title page. ... Read More
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Collection of One Hundred and Eight Silent Film-Era Hand-Drawn Advertisement Text Cards
by [Film History] [Advertising History] [New York City]
Brooklyn, New York, Hicksville, etc., 1929. Very Good. Brooklyn, New York, Hicksville, etc: ca. 1920s. One hundred and eight (108) movie advertisement text cards, nearly all hand-painted in white on stiff black card stock and measuring ca. 17.5x18cm to ca. 20x20.5cm.; many with painted pictorial elements or color printed paste-ons. General wear to margins, some placards suffering shallow... Read More
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Where and How to Dine in New York: The Principle Hotels, Restaurants, and Cafés of Various Kinds and Nationalities, Which Have Added to the Gastronomic Fame of New York and Its Suburbs
by [Food & Drink - New York City]
New York: Lewis, Scribner & Co, 1903. Very Good+. New York: Lewis, Scribner & Co., 1903. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); publisher's cream pictorial wrappers; [26],214,[16]pp.; frontispiece and seventeen (17) halftone plates throughout, extensive illustrated advertisements at beginning and end of the volume. Very light shelf wear, textblock slightly starting to pull from binding, else a fresh, Very Good... Read More
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Gurus and Griots: Poems from Poets of Africa, of America, and of the Caribbean
by C. Jeanean Gibbs [ed.]
Brooklyn, NY: Palm Tree Enterprises, 1987. Very Good. Brooklyn, NY: Palm Tree Enterprises, 1987. Stated First Edition, First Printing 1987. Small, slim quarto (23cm); publisher's blue and white pictorial card wrappers; [8],108pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Covers shelfworn with light fading and some creasing at corners and along spine. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Anthology of work... Read More
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![Multitudes, Multitudes [Inscribed and Signed with Typed Letter Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/127/896/1699896127.0.m.jpg)
Multitudes, Multitudes [Inscribed and Signed with Typed Letter Signed]
by Amy Clampitt
New York: Washington Street Press, 1973. Near Fine. New York: Washington Street Press, 1973. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green printed staple bound wrappers; [4],69pp. Very light sunning to wrapper margins, else a Fine example. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper verso, "For Kay Masson [?] / Clearly a kindred spirit, with grateful esteem -- Amy Clampitt /... Read More
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La Verginita Stagnante
by Hope Clare
Buenos Aires: Edizioni di, 1930. Very Good+. Buenos Aires: Edizioni di "Anarchia," 1930. First Edition. 12mo (15.5cm); publisher's pictorial staple bound wrappers; [16]pp. Small tear at spine edge along lower staple, textblock uniformly toned due to inferior paper quality, else a Very Good or better copy. The first (and only) volume in the series "La Lotta Contro i... Read More
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This Simian World
by Clarence Day, Jr.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's cloth, brown topstain, in yellow pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($1.50); [6],95pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket rather dust-soiled and chipped at margins with losses at spine ends affecting text, spine panel faded nearly to white, brief old... Read More
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The Hope of the World and Other Poems
by Clarence Hawkes; R. Lionel De Lisser [illus.]; Clifton Johnson [illus.]; Bessie W. Bell Hawkes [illus.]
Springfield, MA: New England Publishing Co, 1900. Very Good. Springfield, MA: New England Publishing Co., 1900. First Edition. Slim quarto; publisher's brown gilt-embossed cloth; 93pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout, including many from photographs. Boards rubbed at margins, corners bumped, front hinge starting but holding, foxing to endpapers, else a Very Good copy overall. Uncommon collection of religious poetry... Read More
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History of the Second Company of the Seventh Regiment (National Guard) N.Y.S. Militia. Volume I.
by Emmons Clark
New York: James G. Gregory, 1864. Hardcover. Very Good. New York: James G. Gregory, 1864. First Edition with no additional printings listed. Anniversary rebinding in gray and red cloth with "Souvenir of the 101st Anniversary of the Second Company, Seventh Regiment NGNY, May 6 1907" in gilt letters to front. Octavo; 422p. Fading to red cloth... Read More
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