Guide to the HIstorical Manuscripts in the National Archives of Rhodesia
by BAXTER, T.W. and E.E. Burke
[Salisbury]: National Archives of Rhodesia, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 527pp. Private ownership stamp to endpapers and edge of text-block, else a Fine copy, in slightly soiled dustwrapper.
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Glossarium Antiquitatum Britannicarum, Sive Syllabus Etymologicus Antiquitatum Veteris Britanniae atque Iberniae Temporibus Romanorum
by BAXTER, William
London: W. Bowyer, 1719. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Contemporary paneled calf, blind floral roll around inner compartment, fleurons to corners, titled on leather spine label; plain endpapers; [vi],xiv,[4],[1]-277,[27]pp; line-engraved portrait frontispiece. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals, to front pastedown; modern address label mounted to rear pastedown. With list of subscribers at rear.... Read More
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Speech of the Honorable James A. Bayard, of Delaware. February 19, 20, 1802. On the bill, received from the Senate, entitled "An Act to Repeal Certain Acts Respecting the Organization of the Courts of the United States
by BAYARD, James A.
Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1802. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; 48pp. Small loss at upper fore-edge corner of title page (serving as upper cover), some contemporary ink stains, textblock a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Unsuccessful opposition of the repeal of the Judiciary Act by the Federalist attorney and representative from Delaware's at-large district. SABIN 4026; SHAW & SHOEMAKER... Read More
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In Search of a Hero [Review Copy]
by BAYER, William
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1966. First Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy with publisher's typed review slip laid in. Octavo (22cm); light green cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in orange on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 213pp. Pencilled note to front endpaper with trace foxing to upper edge of textblock, else Near Fine.... Read More
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Black Slave Narratives
by BAYLISS, John F. (ed.)
New York: Macmillan, 1970. Second Printing. Octavo (22cm). Green cloth titled in gilt, in brown pictorial jacket; 221,[1]pp. Former owner's name to f.f.e.p. and front flap of dj. Pushed at head and tail, else Fine. Jacket rubbed with slight scuffing to front, Very Good.
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A Romantic Miscellany
by BAYLISS, John and Derek Stanford
London: Fortune Press, 1946. First Edition. First impression. 12mo; cloth hardcover; 62pp. Straight and tight; gilt titling on spine slightly dulled; VG+. Lacking the dustwrapper.
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Air Service Boys Over The Atlantic
by BEACH, Charles Amory
Cleveland: World Syndicate Publishing, 1920. First Thus. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's textured red cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board, ruled in blind. Dustjacket. 218pp.Light wear to the cloth, most notably at the spine ends with some softening and bumping, bright, with a little dulling of the rather cheap spine gilt. A very good copy in a clean... Read More
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The Warrior Mullah; The Horn Aflame 1892-1920
by BEACHEY, Ray
London: Bellew Publishing, 1990. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 173pp. Clean and bright, a near fine copy in dustjacket. Internally clean. An academically respected analysis of the ill-fated European attempts to hold any useful ground in Somaliland, and the tireless efforts of Mohammed Abdile Hassan to thwart colonialist ambitions.
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American Denim: A New Folk Art
by BEAGLE, Peter (text); Richard M. Owens & Tony Lane (presented by); Baron Wolman & Denim Artists (photographs)
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1975. First Edition. Quarto (29cm); blue denim cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 156pp; colorful and black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations throughout. Text unopened. Trace soil to lower edge of textblock, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper lightly spine-tanned, with trivial surface wear; Near Fine. Text by Peter... Read More
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England and Italy, 1859-60
by BEALES, Derek
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1961. Octavo. Cloth boards in price-torn dust jacket; xii, 196pp. Ownership signature to ffep. Faint damp staining to top edge of textblock, text and margins unaffected. Trivial shelf wear to boards, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Minor external wear to dust jacket, including some nicks and closed tears to top and bottom... Read More
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The Winning of Sarenne
by BEALL, St. Clair [pseud. Upton Sinclair]; Louis F. Grant, illus
New York: Federal Book Company, 1902. First Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's grey-green decorative cloth embossed in darker green, pictorial plate mounted to upper cover; 343pp.; frontispiece, two plates. Boards a bit rubbed, front hinge just starting, else a Very Good and sound copy, much better than usually seen. Ahouse: "The medieval romance, The Winning of Sarenne, comes out of... Read More
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Four Travel Journals: The Americas, Antarctica and Africa, 1775-18874
by BEALS, Herbert K., R. J. Campbell, Ann Savours and Anita McConnell, Roy Bridges (eds.)
London: Ashgate for the Hakluyt Society, 2007. First Thus. Octavo (25.5cm). Blue cloth, gilt-stamped in blue dust jacket; x,404pp; color illustrations. Bright and sound, though slightly cocked, else near Fine. Jacket slightly rubbed, Near Fine. Hakluyt Society Series III Volume 18.
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Stonewall's Man: Sandie Pendleton
by BEAN, W. G.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1959. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Black cloth, in white, black, and blue dust jacket; [x],252pp; frontispiece. Signed by author in ink on front pastedown. Lightly rubbed and extremities, else sound and clean: Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $5.00)rubbed, chipped, and creased at edges, slight dustiness to spine: overall Very Good. ... Read More
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The Re-Constructed Figure: The Human Image in Contemporary Art ... June 25 - September 17, 1995
by BEARDSLEY, John
Katonah, NY: Katonah Museum of Art, 1995. First Edition. Oblong quarto (21.5x24cm.); publisher's white staplebound card wrappers, French flaps; 27pp.; color illus. throughout. Fine condition. Features the work of Faith Ringgold and others.
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Bristling With Thorns: A Story of War and Reconstruction
by BEARD, O.T. [Oliver Thomas]
Detroit: The Detroit News Company, 1884. First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's pictorial cloth, with titles decoratively stamped in gilt on spine; blue coated endpapers; 424pp. Front and rear endpapers cracked at hinges, with webbing exposed (but holding); text slightly tanned; still a Good, sound copy. With pencil annotation to title page: "Mrs. J D Foster Book bought on the way... Read More
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Six Black Masters of American Art
by BEARDEN, Romare and Harry Henderson
New York: Doubleday / Zenith Books, (1972). Fourth printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 120pp; illus. A fine copy in fine, unclipped dustwrapper (priced $4.95 on front flap). Profiles of Joshua Johnston, Robert S. Duncanson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Horace Pippin, Augusta Savage, and Jacob Lawrence. Issued simultaneously in cloth and paperback; the hardcover is notably scarce, especially in this condition.... Read More
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Heads [Signed, Limited]
by BEAR, Greg
London: Century Legend, 1990. First, Limited Edition. First Printing. Signed and numbered on title page - #164 of 300; Octavo (22.5); forest green cloth stamped in silver on cover and spine; marble endpapers; publisher's clear plastic jacket; matching green slipcase stamped in silver; black ribbon bookmark; silver gilt on all sides of outer text block; 125pp. Fine in a... Read More
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I Take Great Pleasure... [Review Copy]
by BEATON, Cecil
New York: John Day Company, [1956]. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in red and yellow decorative price-clipped dust jacket; [10],213pp.; illus. Some wear to jacket extremities, spine sunned, top edge of rear panel a bit toned. Fine in Very Good jacket. Publisher's review slip laid in. British photographer's humorous exposé of America and Americans, illustrated with drawings... Read More
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Dr. Partridge's Almanack for 1935; With an Account of his Resurrection from the Grave after lying dead in it for two centuries.
by BEATON, George [Pseud: BRENAN, Gerald]; JOHN, Augustus
London: Chatto and Windus, 1934. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's black cloth boards titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 65pp. Bumped to spine ends and corners, with a slight lean, and a small tear to the cloth at the head of the spine, bright and clean; internally clean, fore-edge untrimmed, handsome paper stock, inscribed by the author to... Read More
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Jacklighting [Limited Edition, Signed]
by BEATTIE, Ann
Worcester: Metacom Press, 1981. First Edition. Wrappered issue, one of 250 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.32. Slim octavo; letterpress printed sheets sewn into wrappers, with title label applied to front cover; 20, [4]pp. Fine copy.
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Secrets And Surprises
by BEATTIE, Ann
New York: Random House, 1978. Stated First Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over pale pink paper covered boards, titled and decorated in pink gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 307pp. Light wear to extremities, a pretty well read copy with some thumbmarks and grubbyness here and there, some light sunning to the edges of the boards,... Read More
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Chilly Scenes of Winter [Signed]
by BEATTIE, Ann
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); blue cloth spine over gray paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 280pp; illus. Signed by author on front endpaper. Light sunning to board edges, with tiny soil to rear board; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Paul Bacon, unclipped (priced $7.95), tanned, with... Read More
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Charles Fourier: Sein Leben und Seine Theorien
by BEBEL, A[ugust] [Brisbane, Arthur and Albert, provenance]
Stuttgart: Verlag von J.H.W. Dietz, 1890. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm.); original decorative terracotta cloth, upper cover and spine embossed in black and gilt; 311pp.; woodcut portrait frontispiece, folding panorama plate of a "phalanstère" bound in rear. Some white soil spots to lower cloth edges, spine crown a touch frayed, pages uniformly toned due to poor paper stock, else... Read More
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Assassinations and Socialism: From a Speech by August Bebel, delivered at Berlin, November 2, 1898. Translated for the Daily People from the German
by BEBEL, August; Boris Reinstein, trans
New York: New York Labor News Company, n.d. [1920?]. First Thus. 12mo 17cm.); original tan decorative staplebound wrappers; 31pp. Previous vertical fold, extremities a bit darkened, else About Very Good. Date based on advertisement on rear wrapper for Daniel De Leon's What Means This Strike?
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Erzählungen aus der alten Welt für die Jugend
by BECKER, Karl Friedrich
Halle: Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1878. Octavo (19cm). Quarter red cloth with decorated paper boards, stamped in black and gilt on spine, all edges lightly marbled; with original dull green typographic dust jacket and cardboard box with printed paper label; [xx],718,[2]pp; 2pp of publisher's ads at rear; 3 steel engravings and 10 wood engraved plates. With a few small external... Read More
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