PHANTOM CITY
by Beecher, John
Scottsdale: Ramparts, 1961. First edition. One of 100 copies (of 400 total) signed and numbered by the author, of which this is no.30. Octavo; black cloth, blue printed paper labels; 33pp. Fine copy attractively printed; new acetate covers replacing the original. Beecher (1904 – 1980) was an activist poet and journalist who wrote about the Civil Rights movement... 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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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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AND I WILL BE HEARD." Two Talks to the American People
by Beecher, John
New York: Twice A Year Press, 1940. First edition. Small 8vo. 43 pp. Blue stapled covers printed in red. Beecher in his two "talks" (prose poems) begins with Garrison (Beecher was descended from the Abolitionist Beechers - Harriet B. Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, etc.), takes on American corporations, propaganda, and many of the same issues we face today (when... Read More
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AND I WILL BE HEARD." Two Talks to the American People
by Beecher, John
New York: Twice A Year Press, 1940. First edition. Small 8vo. 43 pp. Blue stapled covers printed in red. Beecher in his two "talks" (prose poems) begins with Garrison (Beecher was descended from the Abolitionist Beechers - Harriet B. Stowe, Henry Ward Beecher, etc.), takes on American corporations, propaganda, and many of the same issues we face today (when... Read More
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The Autobiography of Lyman Beecher
by BEECHER, Lyman; Barbara M. Cross, ed
Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1961. First Thus. Two volumes; octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jackets; xxxix,[1],418; vii,[3],447pp.; frontispieces, five leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos. External jacket panels toned, especially spines, light foxing to textblock extremities, previous owner's neat ink and pencil marginalia; still, a Very Good, quite sound set overall.... Read More
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Take It Crooked
by BEEDING, Francis [pseud. John Leslie Palmer]
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1932. First American Edition. First Printing. [Feb. 1934] Octavo (19cm); orange cloth covered boards titled in black on the cover and spine; 276pp. Light shade of toning to spine; very faint splashmark on lower front board; several pages have short closed tears to the margins only of the text; Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket.... Read More
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Rhythm
by [BEEFCAKE] SANSONE, Anthony J.
Brooklyn, NY: by the Author, 1935. First Edition. Slim, square octavo (21cm x 16cm); pictorial cream-colored paper-covered boards; [1-9]-50pp. Chiefly photographic illustrations. Mild external soil, else a clean, tight copy, Very Good or better. Foreword by Arthur Lee; photos uncredited but likely by Edwin F. Townsend, who was Sansone's principal photographer starting in 1929. A collection of... Read More
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Brown Studies [Poems]
by BEELER, Mrs. E.F.A.
New York: Cosmopolitan Press, 1911. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt on front cover; 61, [3]pp (final three blanks). Minimal external wear; faint upper marginal stain to a few leaves (not approaching text), else internally clean and unmarked; Near Fine. One of those dreary little volumes of competent didactic verse with which the first decades... Read More
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The Happy Hypocrite
by BEERBOHM, Max; George Sheringham (illus)
London / New York: John Lane - The Bodley Head, [1915]. First Thus. First printing of the Sheringham-illustrated edition. Small quarto (26cm). Cream buckram, titled in gilt, decoratively printed in colors on front cover; pictorial endpapers; color frontispiece and 22 inserted leaves of 2- and 4-color plates. A tight, straight, and attractive copy, the spine just a shade darkened... Read More
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Mainly on the Air
by BEERBOHM, Max
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in blind on front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; viii,142,[4]pp. Some pinpoint rubbing to spine lettering, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), gently sunned at spine and panels, with a few tiny scuffs... Read More
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A Christmas Garland: Woven
by BEERBOHM, Max
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1926. First Edition. Octavo (20cm); green cloth spine over red decorated paper-covered boards, with title label on spine; dustjacket; 197pp. Previous owner's name inked to front pastedown. Light shelf-wear, with foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper spine-tanned, with tiny chips and tears to extremities, and off-setting to real panel verso; Very... Read More
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Zuleika Dobson, or An Oxford Love Story
by BEERBOHM, Max
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1911. First Edition. First Impression, in Gallatin's 'b' binding (one of 1,390 copies). Octavo (19.75cm); rough reddish-brown cloth titled in gilt, with ornamented frames on spine and front cover; [viii],350,[2]pp. Spine ends nudged, light rubbing to cloth, front hinge mended, with rear hinge repaired with glue at some early date; scattered foxing to text edges,... Read More
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Things New and Old
by BEERBOHM, Max
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1928. First, Limited Edition. Number 341 in an edition of 380 signed and numbered copies, with an extra signed plate in rear pocket. White, beveled cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; AEG; 49 mounted, b/w plates on heavy paper, with facing text on printed tissue guards; plus a 50th plate in... Read More
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Poster: Leven Nieuwmarkt [and] Pardon, Atoombommetje
by BEERLING, D[ane] W[ilson]; [Joost Ranzijn]
Amsterdam, 1975. Original color pictorial silkscreen poster (61x43cm.) printed in red and black on white stock; faint previous folds, minor wear from handling, else Very Good or better. Protest poster responding to the forceful clearing by riot police of the Amsterdam neighborhood of Nieuwmarkt in the process of building an underground railway. Printed along the bottom edge: "Hang dit... Read More
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Hanna
by BEER, Thomas
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First Edition. Number 17 of 250 signed copies. Octavo; cloth-backed, patterned boards; 312,xiii pp. Very mild rubbing to boards; linen spine just a half-shade darkened; still a tight, fresh, and unmarked copy, very Near Fine. Biography of the powerful Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, generally regarded as the political engine behind... Read More
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A Practical System of Colt Training; Also the Best Methods of Subduing Wild and Vicious Horses
by BEERY, Jesse
[Lima, OH: The Parmenter Printing Co, 1896]. 12mo (19cm). Red cloth stamped in black; 271,[3]pp; 3pp ads at rear; black and white relief illustrations. Shaken and rubbed, both hinges cracked but holding: Good.
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Christianity and the New Africa
by BEETHAM, T.A.
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 206pp. Fine, in lightly rubbed, Near Fine jacket. Analysis of the role of religion in the newly de-colonized African countries. By a long-serving Methodist Missionary.
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Jane: A Comedy [...] Based Upon an Original Story
by BEHRMAN, S.N.; W. Somerset Maugham, original story
New York: Random House, [1952]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm.); original simulated cloth, photographic plate mounted to upper cover, cream pictorial dust jacket, dark blue topstain; [10],195pp.; photographically illustrated double-page title page, two leaves of photographic stills. A few tiny short closed tears to jacket extremities, spine a bit toned, else a Very Good copy. Play based on... Read More
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Steam Echoes: The Railroad Photography of Glenn Beier
by BEIER, Glenn
Hillsboro, OR: TimerTimes, 2004. First Edition. First printing. Oblong octavo (22.5cm). Black cloth in black and white pictorial dust jacket; black and white pictorial endpapers; 288pp; black and white photos throughout. A straight, sound copy with minor external dustiness, especially at top edge: Very Good. Jacket lightly rubbed at edges, else clean: Very Good.
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Marx' philosophische Entwicklung, sein Verhältnis zu Hegel
by BEKKER, Konrad
Zurich/New York: Verlag Oprecht, 1940. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Card wrappers with printed dustjacket; 134pp. Mild toning to text, else a tight, nicely preserved copy in the original printed dustwrapper. On the genesis of Marx's economic philosophy. Text entirely in German.
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The Legal Position of Intergovernmental Organizations: A functional necessity analysis of their legal status and immunities [Inscribed & Signed]
by BEKKER, Peter Henri Fredericus
[Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1994]. First Edition. Octavo (24.5cm.); publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; xix,[1],267pp. Boards just a hint bowed, else Fine. Pp. v-vii laid in cancels (as issued?). Author's inscription to front free endpaper: "To Mrs. Dorothy Vagts on your birthday, November 26, 1994. Thanks so much for your presence at the public defence of this book... Read More
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Aerial Russia; The Romance of the Giant Aeroplane
by BEK, Lieutenant Colonel Roustam
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1916. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's original decorated bottle green cloth titled and decorated in gilt and dark blue to spine and front board. [xiii];154pp. +4pp. ads to rear. Bumping and softening to corners and spine ends, some unpleasing soiling to the rear board that looks like an old oil stain, which... Read More
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Belden, the White Chief; or, Twelve Years among the Wild Indians of the Plains. From the Diaries and Manuscripts of George P. Belden
by BELDEN, George F.; James S. Brisbin, ed; Jack Matthews, introd
Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, (1974). Signed on title page by Jack Matthews, who wrote the introduction. Facsimile reprint of the 1870 Cincinnati edition. Octavo. Cloth-backe boards (hardcover); dustjacket; xxvi,513pp; illus. Fine copy in the original dustwrapper, price-clipped, else Fine.
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Horizons
by BEL GEDDES, Norman
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1932. First Edition. Quarto. 26.5cm. Publisher's black and silver cloth. Lacking Dustjacket. [xix]; 293pp. Some darkening of the spine, some light rubbing and scuffing of the corners, and a little soiling to the pale cloth in places; internally clean and fresh, black page edges, old ownership stamp to front flyleaf. A very good, solid... Read More
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