Biography of Christian Reid
by BECKER, Kate Harbes
[Belmont, NC: Sacred Heart Junior College], [1941]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Blue cloth titled in gilt; [xiv],190pp; frontispiece portrait and 5 inserted plates. With a card laid in signed "Frances C. Fisher, Christian Reid." Sound and clean, with external signs of biopredation along edges: Very Good. Christian Reid was the pseudonym of prolific Catholic novelist Frances K. Fisher. ... Read More
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Company
by BECKETT, Samuel
New York: Grove Press, 1980. First American Edition. First printing. Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 63pp. Fine in a crisp, unclipped dustwrapper (priced $8.95 on front flap), slightly toned and soiled on lighter portions; Near Fine, with no remainder mark to text block.
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Samuel Beckett: the Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989
by BECKETT, Samuel; S.E. Gontarski (ed)
New York: Grove Press, 1995. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Textured ivory paper-covered boards; dustjacket; xxxii,294pp. Fine, unmarked copy in unclipped and unworn dustwrapper. A new-appearing copy. From the library of noted poet and translator Nathaniel Tarn, with his printed bookplate inside front cover.
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oh les beaux jours (Happy Days). Piêce en Deux Actes
by BECKETT, Samuel
Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1963. First Edition. First printing, trade issue. 12mo. Printed, sewn paper wrappers; 89pp. Some very mild dusting to exterior and a tiny nick at upper edge of front wrapper; text partially unopened (and one fold opened roughly, though without loss); Very Good or better in the original wrappers. Translated from the original English by the... Read More
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All That Fall
by BECKETT, Samuel
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1957. First Edition. Holiday Issue. Octavo (20.25cm); glossy pictorial wrappers; [iv],59,[1]pp. Mild surface wear, touch of dust-soil, and subtle yellowing to wrapper extremities, with some dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; contents clean; Very Good+. FEDERMAN & FLETCHER 34.03.
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Three Plays: Ohio Impromptu / Catastrophe / What Where
by BECKETT, Samuel
New York: Grove Press, 1984. First American Edition. First printing. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 59pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustwrapper (priced $12.95 on front flap). One of those late, unaccountably scarce Beckett titles, especially hard in this condition.
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Proust / Three Dialogues
by BECKETT, Samuel and Georges Duthuit
London: John Calder, 1965. First Calder Edition (and First Trade Edition collecting both titles). First Impression, one of 3,000 copies. Octavo (21cm); mauve imitation cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-126pp. Crown slightly nudged, one lower corner gently tapped (though still sharp), with a faint, tiny stain to upper edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is... Read More
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The Difficulties - Vol.2, No.2 (Ron Silliman Issue)
by BECKETT, Tom (editor); SILLIMAN, Ron, Robert Grenier, and David Bromige, et al. (contributors)
Kent, OH: Viscerally Press, 1985. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); pictorial card wrappers; [ii],106pp. Small bump and a few tiny tears to base of spine, light wear to extremities; Very Good+ or better. Special issue dedicated to the work of Language poet Ron Silliman, with contributions by Silliman, David Bromige, Rae Armantrout, Robert Grenier, Hannah Weiner, and Bruce Andrews, among... Read More
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The Difficulties - Vol.3, No.1 (David Bromige Issue)
by BECKETT, Tom (editor); BROMIGE, David, Robert Grenierm and Barbara Weber, et al. (contributors)
Kent, OH: Viscerally Press, 1987. First Edition. Quarto (27cm); pictorial card wrappers; [ii],119,[1]pp. Light wear to extremities, else very Near Fine. Special issue dedicated to the work of Canadian-American poet David Bromige (1933-2009), with contributions by Bromige, Ron Silliman, Rae Armantrout, Robert Grenier, Barbara Weber, and others. 87586.
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The Consummate Collector: William Beckford's Letters to His Bookseller
by BECKFORD, William; Robert J. Gemmett (ed.)
Norwich: Michael Russell, 2000. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Red publisher's cloth, with red dust jacket; 336pp. Bookplate of James Glen Mead to front pastedown. With receipt from a Norwich bookseller glued to rear free endpaper. A straight, fresh copy with minor spotting along top edge: Very Good. Jacket lightly rubbed along edges, else Very Good. ... Read More
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Requiem for a People: the Rogue Indians and the Frontiersmen
by BECKHAM, Stephen Dow
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1971). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xiv,214pp; illus. Inconspicuous bowing to front and rear boards, else a tight, Near Fine and unmarked copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $7.95 on front flap), lightly rubbed at folds and edges, Very Good+. Published as no.108 in the publisher's series "The Civilization of... Read More
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Reflexes to Intelligence: Reader in Clinical Psychology
by BECK, Samuel J. and Herman B. Molish, eds
Glencoe, IL: Free Press, [1959]. Second (1960) Printing. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's two-toned cloth boards in dust jacket; xiv,[2],669pp. Light wear to jacket extremities, spine a hint toned, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket.
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The Six Schizophrenias: Reaction Patterns in Children and Adults
by BECK, Samuel J.; Roy R. Grinker, intro.; William Stephenson, contribution
New York: American Orthopsychiatric Association, 1954. First Edition. Octavo (25.5cm.); publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; viii,[4],238pp. Light wear, else Very Good or better.
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African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
by BECKWITH, Carol & Angela Fisher; Graham Hancock, text; Barney Wan, design
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1990. First American Edition. Quarto (35.5cm x 27cm). Gray cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in silver on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 320pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slighly bumped edge of lower back board, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight slight shelf wear to extremities. A photographic journey through the landscapes... Read More
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African Ceremonies: Volume I; Volume 2 [Two Volume Set]
by BECKWITH, Carol and Angela Fisher (intro); Malidoma Patrice Somé (foreword)
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1999. First Edition. Two volumes in publisher's slipcase. Folio (36cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling and ruling stamped in gilt on spine, and photographic plates with gilt ruling on front cover; photographic endpapers; 384pp; 360pp; colorful photographs and illustrations to frontispiece and throughout. Volume I and Volume II both in Fine condition. In... Read More
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The Idea of God: Historical, Critical, Constructive
by BECKWITH, Clarence Augustine
New York: Macmillan, 1924. New" edition. Small octavo (20cm). Blue clloth hardcover, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,343pp. Tight, clean and unmarked, about fine, in the uncommon dustwrapper which is lightly toned and soiled with small abrasions at the margins, Very Good. A very clean copy of Beckwith's most important work, an elaboration of his concept of "ethical... Read More
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Politics and Ideology in the Italian Workers' Movement: Union Development and the Changing Role of the Catholic and Communist Subcultures in Postwar Italy
by BEDANI, Gino
Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1995. First Edition. Octavo; pictorial boards; xiv,365,[5]pp. Publisher's price sticker to rear cover, else Fine. History of the Italian Workers' Movement, paying particular attention to the ideological and political features that determined its development.
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The Authentic History of Isaac Jenkins, His Wife, and Their Three Children; with an Agreeable and Happy Sequel, shewing the good effects of their worthy friend Mr. Langford's admonitions
by BEDDOES, Thomas
Cambridge: Printed for the Trustees of the Publishing Fund, by Hilliard and Metcalf, 1822. First American Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); removed; 40pp. Very Good and fresh overall. Tale by the English physician promoting temperance, the eponymous Jenkins finally discovering "too sensibly the difference between beggary with drunkenness and discontent, and plenty with sobriety and a light, cheerful heart" (p. 40).... Read More
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They Have No Answer. Speeches Delivered in the House of Lords
by The Duke of Bedford
Glasgow: The Strickland Press, 1950. Reprint. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed coated paper wrappers; 37pp. Very Good. Excerpts from the speeches of the Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford before the House of Lords, all on the subject of monetary reform. Russell, an ardent Pacifist and advocate of Social Credit, was accused on several occasions of harboring Fascist sympathies. His son... Read More
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The Faces of Justice
by BEDFORD, Sybille
London: Collins, 1961. First Edition. First impression. Octavo; blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 255pp. Tight and fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 21s. net at base of front flap); just a trifle rubbed at extremities and a shade sunned on spine panel; still Near Fine. Bedford's fourth published book, a meditation on concepts of justice in various European... Read More
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A Legacy
by BEDFORD, Sybille
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. First American Edition. First printing. Small octavo (20cm). Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 311pp. Straight and tight, but text rather toned at margins, as usual for this title; thus no better than VG. In original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 on lower jacket flap); slightly darkened on spine, mildly soiled on lighter portions; Very Good+. ... Read More
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Don't Leave Me Mercy (Echoes from James Owusu's Marriage)
by BEDIAKO, Kwabena Asare
Accra: Anowuo Educational Publications, [1966]. Second Printing. 12mo (17.5cm.); original white and red wrappers; 118,[2]pp. About Fine. Bediako's early novella, describing contemporary Ghanaian marriage. "Richly entertaining and educative" (upper cover).
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Wit and Humor of the American Pulpit. A Collection from Various Sources Classified Under Appropriate Subject Headings
by [BEECHER, Henry Ward] Various Authors
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co, 1904. First Edition. 16mo (15cm). Gilt-decorated blue cloth boards; 248pp. Frontispiece portrait of Henry Ward Beecher. Slight external wear, a few instances of pencil marginalia; still a clean, VG copy. No editorial credit is given for this hodge-podge of religious wit and wisdom, presumably intended as a sourcebook for ministers of the stand-up... Read More
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IN EGYPT LAND
by Beecher, John
Scottsdale: Ramparts, 1960. First edition. Red cloth, black printed paper labels. 8vo. 29 pp. One of 100 copies (of 400 total) signed and numbered (copy #1) by the author. Fine copy attractively printed; in the original acetate covers. Beecher (1904 – 1980) was an activist poet and journalist who wrote about the Civil Rights movement and the Great... Read More
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To Live and Die in Dixie
by Beecher, John
Birmingham: Red Mountain Editions, 1966. Octavo. Printed wrappers (softcover); 93pp. Near Fine; inscribed inside front cover: "For Richard & Margot Archer / With best regards, John Beecher," datemarked Birmingham, 1966.
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