Motherwell: 100 Years
by Robert Motherwell; Jack Flam; Katy Rogers; Tim Clifford
Milan, Italy: Skira / Dedalus Foundation, 2015. Very Good +/Very Good +. Milan, Italy: Skira / Dedalus Foundation, 2015. First Edition. Quarto; 319pp. Illustrations and photographs throughout, mostly color. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Mild rubbing to edges of dust jacket. Boards show light shelfwear and a few stray smudges; white discoloration along bottom edge. Binding sound and pages unmarked;... Read More
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![Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000 [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/991/707/1721707991.0.m.jpg)
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000 [Signed]
by Lucille Clifton
Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 2000. Very Good/Very Good. Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 2000. First Edition, stated, with full numberline. Octavo (23.6cm); illustrated dust jacket with $25.00 price intact; boards in blue cloth with black lettering to spine; 132pp. Jacket lightly shelfworn. Slight bow to front board at fore-edge. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the... Read More
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The Book of Light [Inscribed and Signed]
by Lucille Clifton
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1993. Very Good. [Port Townsend, WA]: Copper Canyon Press, [1993]. Second (1994) printing. Slim octavo (22.5cm); publisher's glossy pictorial card wrappers; 76pp. Wrappers a bit rubbed and dust-soiled at margins; Very Good overall. Inscribed and signed on title page, "For Tiffanie ~ Joy! Lucille Clifton / 4/95.
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My Life [Signed]
by Bill Clinton
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. First Edition, stated, first state with "failure" typo to last sentence. Signed by Bill Clinton with brief inscription at title page. Thick octavo; publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price; [6],957,[1],xliipp.; 16 leaves of photographic plates printed on rectos... Read More
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Living History [Signed]
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (24cm); 562pp. Publisher’s photographic dust jacket with $28 price intact; boards bound in black cloth with gilt stamping to spine. 32pp of black-and-white photographs throughout. Dust jacket slightly bumped at top corners and spine head; superficial... Read More
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![An Invitation to the White House: At Home with History [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/107/984/1700984107.0.m.jpg)
An Invitation to the White House: At Home with History [Signed]
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000. First Edition. Signed by Hillary Rodham Clinton without inscription at preliminaries. Square quarto; 311pp. Photographs throughout, mostly color. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black cloth-backed boards lettered in gilt. Mild rubbing to dust jacket; boards show light shelfwear; binding sound and pages unmarked;... Read More
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![Quarto-Millenary: The First 250 Publications and the First 25 Years 1929-1954 of The Limited Editions Club. A Critique / A Conspectus / A Bibliography / Indexes [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/988/678/1619678988.0.m.jpg)
Quarto-Millenary: The First 250 Publications and the First 25 Years 1929-1954 of The Limited Editions Club. A Critique / A Conspectus / A Bibliography / Indexes [Limited Edition]
by Limited Editions Club
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. Very Good +. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1959. First Edition, Limited to 2250 copies of which this is no. 1495. xiii,[5],295pp.; myriad full-page color illus. and tipped in plates in text as well as half-tone photographic illus. Large quarto; publisher's black morocco over red cloth, blind-embossed morocco inlay to front cover,... Read More
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The Conservative Club Banquet tendered to the President of the United States on the evening of June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eleven--at Infantry Hall in Providence
by [William Howard Taft] Conservative Club
[Providence, RI]: Livermore & Knight Co, 1911. Very Good. [Providence, RI]: Livermore & Knight Co, [1911]. 12mo (16cm.); original cream string-bound card wrappers ruled in pale blue, photographic portrait element mounted to upper cover; [4]pp.; text printed in blue and orange. Light soil to wrappers, else Very Good or better. Menu included caviar, clams, salmon, beef, chicken,... Read More
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Northend Wildcats
by Clyde Brion Davis; Edward Shenton [illus.]
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1938. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1938. First Edition. Octavo. 306 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price present. Light gray boards stamped in red; magenta topstain. Dust jacket chipped along edges with a couple very short closed tears. Corners of boards very slightly bumped. Binding sound... Read More
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Collection of Seventeen Soapine Trade Cards
by [Charlotte Perkins Gilman] Kendall Mfg. Co
Providence, RI: Kendall Mfg. Co, 1880. Very Good. Providence, RI: Kendall Mfg. Co., ca. 1880-1884. Collection of seventeen (17) chromolithographed trade cards (7.5x11cm or the inverse), some printed on verso, others blank. Stock uniformly toned, a few with faint paper residue or tiny abrasions from having been previously mounted, else a Very Good, bright and sound collection. ... Read More
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The Browder Life-Saving Net: A Wonderful Invention
by [Trade Catalogs] [Firefighting] The Cory-Patterson Mfg. Co
Greenfield, OH: The Cory-Patterson Mfg. Co, 1910. Very Good. Greenfield, OH: The Cory-Patterson Mfg. Co., [ca. 1910]. First Edition. Oblong octavo. 30 pp. Photographs and illustrations. Illustrated stapled wraps. Touch of rubbing and creasing to wraps; binding sound; interior unmarked; overall Very Good. Single-item trade catalog promoting "the only perfect Life-Saving canvas or Net in the... Read More
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Ziegler's Patents
by Washington Trestle Manufacturing Co
Washington, DC: Washington Trestle Manufacturing Co, 1885. Very Good. Washington, DC: Washington Trestle Manufacturing Co., ca. 1885. Pictorial broadside (18.5x43cm); some loss at corners and pink has faded to brown in spots. Overall Good to Very Good. An advertisement for a company based at 304 13th St NW, outlining the uses and advantages of their patented trestles... Read More
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![End Marijuana Prohibition, Washington, DC: High Noon, Friday July, 4th 2003 [Poster Title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/263/320/1334320263.0.m.jpg)
End Marijuana Prohibition, Washington, DC: High Noon, Friday July, 4th 2003 [Poster Title]
by Steve Marcus [artist]; Fourth of July Hemp Coalition
Washington, DC: Fourth of July Hemp Coalition, 2003. Very Good. Washington, DC: Fourth of July Hemp Coalition, 2003. Original color poster (21.5x35.5cm) with text on verso. Light wear to corners and edges with some very light creasing. Near Fine. Steve Marcus has produced illustrations for "popular and unpopular culture" for decades, creating art for MTV, the Cartoon Network,... Read More
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Wisteria Cottage
by Robert M. Coates
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 212pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact. Gray boards stamped in purple and pink. Dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with neat tape-mending to verso; mild spotting. Boards lightly worn along edges; spine ends nudged;... Read More
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Paths of Glory: A Play
by Sidney Howard; Humphrey Cobb
New York: Samuel French, 1935. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Samuel French, 1935. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth, black topstain, in grey printed dust jacket; xvii,[5],174pp. Jacket spine panel a bit toned, cloth lightly faded at margins, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Near Fine. Laid in theatre program for the production at the... Read More
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The Bloody Buoy, or a Faithful Relation of a Multitude of Acts of Horrid Barbarity, Such as The Eye never witnessed, the Tongue never expressed, or the Imagination conceived, until the Commencement of The French Revolution
by Peter Porcupine [pseud. William Cobbett]
Paradise, [PA?]: Henry Witmer, 1823. Very Good. Paradise, [PA?]: Henry Witmer, 1823. Second Edition. Octavo. 116 pages. Printed string-tied wraps. Housed in modern pamphlet binder. Wraps worn and chipped at edges and corners folded over. Cover loose but it and rest of gatherings holding. Ownership inscription to cover. Pages toned and a bit brittle. ... Read More
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Sky-Pilot Cowboy
by Walt Coburn
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc, 1940. Very Good/Good. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc., 1940. Reprint in volume form of serialized novel "The Owlhunt Sky-Pilot." Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper: "Del Mar, Calif. July, 1943 // For Eugene T. Lydanne, Father of Lieutenant 'Gene Lydanne, U.S.N. whom I am proud to call my friend. Mighty... Read More
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The Carey Type Book
by Carey Printing Co
New York: Carey Printing Co. / Dittman Color Printing Company, 1918. Very Good. New York: Carey Printing Co. / Dittman Color Printing Company, [1918]. First Edition. Folio (30cm.); recent orange cloth with gilt-tooled reverse calf onlays from original binding, all edges gilt, [4],611pp.; typographic and decorative designs throughout, text printed within orange decorative border. Textblock a bit shaken... Read More
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L'Évolution et la Vie
by Denys Cochin
Paris: G. Masson / Librairie de l'Academie de Medecine, 1888. Very Good. Paris: G. Masson / Librairie de l'Academie de Medecine, 1888. Troisième Édition, revue et augmentée. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue wrappers printed in brown; [4],341pp. Spine a bit toned, light wear to wrapper extremities, contemporary ownership signature to upper cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. Masson... Read More
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New York in the Confederation: An Economic Study
by Thomas C. Cochran
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1932. Very Good. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1932. First Edition. Octavo; ix, 3-220pp. Map frontis. Publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering. Boards a bit edgeworn and dulled, with some soiling down spine and rubbing at extremities. Gilt lettering to spine rubbed away and dulled, but text just still legible. Endpapers toned. Some... Read More
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Stalker: An Anna Lee investigation
by Liza Cody
London: Collins, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. London: Collins, 1984. First Edition. Octavo (20.3 cm), 163pp. Publisher's pictoral dust jacket with price intact (£6.95). Boards full bound in red cloth with gilt stamping on spine. Dust jacket generally scuffed, creased, and rubbed; verso toned at spine and joints with tape at spine ends. Boards lightly soiled with bumping to... Read More
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Bad Company
by Liza Cody
London: Collins, 1982. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Collins, 1982. First Edition. Octavo (20 cm), 200pp. Publisher's pictoral dust jacket with price intact (£6.50). Boards full bound in red cloth with gilt stamping on spine. Dust jacket generally scuffed, creased, and rubbed with sunning to the spine and a short tear to the top margin of front... Read More
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![What a Carve Up! [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/850/307/1497307850.0.m.jpg)
What a Carve Up! [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Jonathan Coe
London: Viking, 1994. Very Good. London: Viking, 1994. First Edition, paperback issue (First Edition stated, with full numberline). Bookplate signed by Coe loosely laid in at front. Octavo. 501 pp. Illustrated card wraps with French flaps and £9.99 price intact. Covers worn along edges and joints with light bumping to front corners; spine shows a number... Read More
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The Childhood of Jesus [Signed]
by J.M. Coetzee
New York: Viking, 2013. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Viking, 2013. First Edition, with full numberline. Signed by the author without inscription on tipped-in signature page; part of the Powell's Books Indispensable subscriber's series. Housed in custom green cloth slipcase with black lettering. Octavo; [vi],277pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $26.95 price intact; boards in cream and black with... Read More
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![[Poster] Little Comedies from Life: It's a woman's privilege to kick her man out of bed, cold feet or not](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/807/423/1656423807.0.m.jpg)
[Poster] Little Comedies from Life: It's a woman's privilege to kick her man out of bed, cold feet or not
by Exhibit Supply Co
Chicago: Exhibit Supply Co, 1930. Very Good. [Chicago?]: [Exhibit Supply Co.], [ca. 1930s]. Original color poster (46.5x32cm.) printed silk screen on translucent wax paper. Top portion of poster backed with paper (torn), stock lightly wrinkled, else Very Good and sound. Comic poster depicting an attractive woman in her nightie booting her wimpy husband out of bed--his feet... Read More
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