In The Eye Of The Storm: Growing Up Jewish in Germany, 1918-1943 - A Memoir
by STRAUSS, Herbert A.
New York: Fordham University Press, 1999. First Edition. A review copy, with the publisher's publicity letter laid in. Octavo (23.5cm); maroon boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xii,262,[2]pp; illus. Slight lean, else Fine in a Fine dustjacket. "An account of a Jewish youth's journey from conservative beginnings in a south-German town, through ever-tightening Nazi persecution, slave... Read More
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![Stone Dust: The Autobiography of a Stone Carving [Limited Edition, Inscribed & Signed to Bernarda Shahn]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/580/527/900527580.0.m.jpg)
Stone Dust: The Autobiography of a Stone Carving [Limited Edition, Inscribed & Signed to Bernarda Shahn]
by STRAUS, Lenore Thomas
Accokeek, MD: Sun-Stone, 1969. First Edition. Limited to 600 copies of which this is no. 428. Small quarto (27.75cm.); original cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; unpaged; photographic endpapers, full-paged color-blocked copper-plate engravings throughout. Jacket a hint shelf-worn and rather dust-soiled with small soil stain to upper panel, else Fine in About Very Good jacket. Signed on half title... Read More
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New Dictionary of Racing Terms
by STRAUSS, Norris M.
[N.p.: Norris M. Strauss, 1971]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's grey pictorial staplebound wrappers; 12pp. A hint of wear, very faint soil to upper cover fore-edge, previous owner's underlining on p. 1 and addendum on p. 12, else Very Good or better. According to the previous owner's note: "Overlay -- The word overlay is heard constantly on the tracks.... Read More
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Black Caesar [Night at Hogwallow]
by STRAUSS, Theodore
London: Willian Heinemann Ltd, [1937]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original black cloth in tan dust jacket printed in black and red, black topstain; [6],170pp. Jacket extremities rather rubbed and darkened, especially at spine, small loss at crown only just touching text, endpapers quite toned, else Very Good in Near Very Good jacket. Novel of the lynching of a... Read More
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In Prison and Out
by STRETTON, Hesba (pseud. Sarah Smith)
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, n.d. [circa 1879]. First American Edition. Octavo (19cm); deep tan cloth, decoratively stamped in black, w/ gilt label on spine; tan stock; 269pp. Boards mildly soiled and rubbed, especially on black portions and along hinges; gilt dulled; spine heel/crown bumped. Textblock edges foxed, toning at page margins; bindings shaken, with exposed threads at... Read More
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The Cruise of the Dry Dock
by STRIBLING, T.S. [Thomas Sigismund]; Herbert Morton Stoops (illus)
Chicago: Reilly & Britton, (1917). First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Publisher's embossed green cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 345pp; color frontispiece and three unnumbered leaves of plates. Tight, straight, and clean, with a bit of aging to text paper. A Very Good or better copy in the original publisher's cloth. Very nice copy... Read More
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40 Injured in Riot at Republic Steel" Three International News Photo Images of 1937 Cleveland Steel Strike Violence
by [ANTI-LABOR] [PHOTOGRAPHY] [STRIKES & STRIKEBREAKING]
1937. 21.5cm x 16.5cm. Three black and white original photos with "International News Photos" stamps to versos, with accompanying typewritten slug. Light scratching of the laminate to one image, and some very minor soiling to white borders, very good, clean, clear photographs. Three images from the violent clashes between Congress of Industrial Organizations union men striking for... Read More
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The Son of a Servant: The Story of the Evolution of a Human Being 1849-67
by STRINDBERG, August (text); Evert Sprinchorn (translation; introduction; notes)
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-223,[1]pp. Trace finger-soil to upper edge of textblock, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 35s. net), and in Fine condition. First published in 1886, this is the first of the Swedish playwright's autobiographical works, which focuses on his life... Read More
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Situation Red; The UFO Siege
by STRINGFIELD, Leonard H. [with: KEYHOE, Major Donald E.]
New York: Doubleday, 1977. First Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's red cloth spine over blue paper covered boards, titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 224pp. Some light edgewear and bumping, slight discoloration of the blue paper boards, in a strong and solid example of the dustjacket with some discoloration of the laminate (it has yellowed slightly), and a couple of... Read More
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Suspect Tenderness; The Ethics of The Berrigan Witness
by STRINGFELLOW, William [with] TOWNE, Anthony
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. First Edition. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's black cloth. Dustjacket. Titled and decorated in pale purple to the spine and front board. Clean and strong, light wear to extrmities, in a smart pricelipped pictorial dustjacket with some minor fraying and creasing and a small closed tear to the lower edge of the... Read More
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Poster: Moederboek / De Bonte Was [Motherbook / Colored Laundry]
by [STROEVE, Ada]
Amsterdam: Feministiese Uitgeverij, n.d., but 1976. Original illustrated poster (50x35cm.) printed offset in colors on white glossy stock; a hint of wear from handling, else Near Fine. Prospectus poster for a compilation of pieces from the Dutch feminist magazine De Bonte Was, edited by Ada Stroeve. One copy in OCLC as of October, 2016, in the Netherlands.
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I Change Worlds
by STRONG, Anna Louise
New York: Garden City Publishing Co, 1937. First American Edition. Octavo. 22cm. publisher's royal blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt and blind to spine and front board. Dustjacket. [x]; 422pp. Light edgewear and discoloration to the cloth at the extremities, bumping to spine ends and a little sunning in places; internally clean, fore-edge untrimmed, top edge stained blue,... Read More
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Children of Revolution. Story of the John Reed Children's Colony on the Volga, which is as well the story of the whole great structure of Russia
by STRONG, Anna Louise
Seattle: Piggot Printing, 1926. Second printing (2000 copies). Small octavo (20cm), printed heavy card wrappers, yapped edges, 99pp. Rear corner creased; tiny snag at crown of spine; Very Good. Two variant fundraising prospectuses laid in, each printing a different extract from the text, seeking funds to support the Colony.
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![When Serfs Stood Up In Tibet. Report by Anna Louise Strong [Inscribed to Leo Huberman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/663/783/1695783663.0.m.jpg)
When Serfs Stood Up In Tibet. Report by Anna Louise Strong [Inscribed to Leo Huberman]
by STRONG, Anna Louise
[Peking: by the Author, 1960]. First Edition. One of an unspecified number of copies in the "Author's Edition." Inscribed on front endpaper: "No. 43 of Author's Edition / for Leo Huberman 64 Barrow St, New York / Greetings from Peking," signed by Strong with her Peking address, dated June 1960 (a month after publication). 12mo. Pictorial paper wrappers; 326pp;... Read More
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![Cash and Violence in Laos [Author's Edition, Inscribed to Leo Huberman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/059/152/1699152059.0.m.jpg)
Cash and Violence in Laos [Author's Edition, Inscribed to Leo Huberman]
by STRONG, Anna Louise
[Peking: by the Author, 1961]. First Edition. One of fifty copies in the "Author's Edition." Inscribed on front endpaper: "for Leo Huberman / Monthly Review, 333 Sixth Ave New York... this copy no 31 of Special Author's Edition of 50 copies is sent with regards," signed by Strong with her Peking address, dated November 1961. 12mo. Cloth spine ver... Read More
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The New Soviet Constitution: A Study in Socialist Democracy
by STRONG, Anna Louise
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1937. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); beige cloth, blocked and titled in dark red on spine; dustjacket; x,169,[1]pp. Offsetting to gutters from binder's glue, upper edge of textblock lightly dust-soiled, with lower left corner on rear board gently tapped (though still sharp); contents clean; about Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.50),... Read More
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My Frontier Days & Indian Fights on the Plains of Texas
by STRONG, Henry W. (Capt.)
N.p., n.d. [Dallas, ca. 1926]: Privately published. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed pictorial wrappers; 133pp; 1 portrait. Covers slightly toned and soiled, with small chips at corners, else Very Good, with text clean, tight and unmarked. SIX-GUNS 2159: "The Author gives quite an account of the outlaw career of one Joe Horner, who later turned up in Wyoming as Frank... Read More
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The Legend and Cult of Upagupta; Sanskrit Buddhism in North India and Southeast Asia
by STRONG, John S.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's light blue cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 390pp. A little light wear and scuffing to extremities, and some slight discoloration of the cloth in places; internally clean, bookplate to front pastedown, light pencil annotations in places; in a strong, bright dustjacket with a touch of sunning... Read More
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A LETTER TO W. B. YEATS
by Strong, L. A. G.
London: Hogarth Press, 1932. First Edition. Sewn illustrated wrappers; 12mo. Chapbook: Hogarth Letters No. 6. Some soiling and edgewear, about very good in string-bound wrappers.
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Sea Wall
by STRONG, L[eonard] A.G.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1933. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original cloth in yellow dust jacket; 360pp. Jacket toned at extremities and spine, a few chips and short closed tears, small loss to rear panel spine edge not affecting text; textblock a bit toned at edges, else Very Good or better in Near Very Good jacket. Novel by the popular... Read More
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UKIYO-E
by Stroud, Joseph
[Berkeley]: Tangram, 2007. First Edition. Sewn tan wrappers with printed paper label; square 8vo. One of 150 copies printed. [20 pp.] Faint stain on front cover, else fine.
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Strangers and Friends: Photographs 1986-1992
by STRUTH, Thomas; Richard Sennett, essay
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1994. First Edition. Quarto (32.5cm x 26cm). Blue-Gray cloth boards (hardcover) with titling blind-stamped on cover and spine; dustjacket; 108pp; photo illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; shelf wear to extremities; slight sun-fading to spine panel. German photographer Thomas Struth's photographic exploration of... Read More
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Rivonia Unmasked!
by STRYDOM, Lauritz
Johannesburg: Voortrekkerpers, 1965. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (21.25cm); red-orange paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine and decorations in yellow on front cover; dustjacket; 166pp; illus. Fine in a lightly rubbed, else very Near Fine dustjacket. Right wing account of the Rivonia sabotage trial, which led to the arrests of Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Arthur Goldreich,... Read More
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The Diary of Henry Francis Fynn
by STUART, James and D. McK. Malcom (editor; compiler; preface & introduction)
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: Shuter and Shooter, 1950. Limited Edition. First Printing, one of 1700 numbered copies, of which this is no.1334. Octavo (23cm); green cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in white on spine and front cover; green topstain; 341pp; photographic portrait (halftone) frontispiece, with 14 black and white photographic (halftones) on glossy paper throughout, with 1 map (halftone) tri-fold... Read More
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Sculptural Objects. Journeys In & Out of the Studio
by STUART, Michelle
Milano: Edizioni Charta, 2010. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28cm). Pictorial thick card wrappers; 182pp (chiefly illus). Fine, apparently unread copy.
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