Excerpts from Brotherhood of the Sea: A History of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific 1885-1985. Published on the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Coast Seamen's Union, Mar. 6, 1985
by [SUP] SCHWARTZ, Stephen
San Francisco: Sailors' Union of the Pacific, 1985. First Edition. Quarto. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers (paperback); 64pp; illus. Slight external soil; two small spots of discoloration to rear wrapper; Very Good or better. Pre-publication extract, containing about one-third of the content of the finished work, issued to coincide with the union's centennary. The full history was published a year... Read More
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Buddhism in Thailand
by SURIYABONGS, Luang Dr
[Bangkok, Thailand]: Prae Bhitthaya Co., LTd, 1955. Softcover. Octavo (23cm); pale green paper wrappers; [xii],[1],2-88,[2]pp; illus. Pencilled ownership to first page. Tanned, with tiny tears, chips, and creases to wrapper edges; Very Good. Text outlines basics of Buddhism, with the essentials of Buddhism presented in Thai and English. [87977].
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Martinique charmeuse de serpents. Avec textes et illustrations d'Andre Masson
by [SURREALISM] BRETON, André; André Masson (illus)
Paris: Éditions du Sagittaire, (1948). First Edition. Trade issue, after 587 numbered copies in various limitations. 12mo. Printed glossy-paper wrappers; 112,(5)pp. A clean, tight, well-preserved copy in the original wrappers, with expected toning to text; Very Good. The full-page lithographic illustrations by Masson, being on better paper, are clean and free of marginal darkening. Text entirely in Frenc; the... Read More
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Philosophie du Surréalisme
by [SURREALISM] ALQUIÉ, Ferdinand
Paris: Flammarion, (1955). First Edition. First printing. 12mo (19cm). Printed card wrappers; 234,(4)pp. Bright, well-preserved copy, with little indication of use - the wrappers remain vividly colored; the text is unopened (pages uncut) but does exhibit some of the expected toning to paper at margins; Very Good or better. Laid in is an announcement for a lecture by Alquié... Read More
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Le Soleil Noir - Positions no. 1, "La Revolte en Question
by [SURREALISM] DI DIO, François & Charles Autrand (eds)
Paris: Soleil Noir / Presses du Livre Français, 1952. First Edition. Trade issue (after 50 copies on Alfa). 12mo. Original printed wrappers; 127,(1)pp; illus, frontispiece and five unnumbered leaves of plates. Slight toning to spine, else a tight, Near Fine copy; the text is completely unopened (i.e., pages are uncut), clean and supple with practically no toning to the... Read More
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Rupture Inaugurale. Déclaration adoptée le 21 Juin 1947 par le groupe en France pour définir son attitude préjudicielle a l'égard de toute politique partisane
by [SURREALISM - FRANCE] PASTOUREAU, Henri; Sarane Alexadrian (et al)
Paris: Éditions Surréalistes, 1947. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound wrappers; 14pp; photographic frontispiece and terminal ad leaf on glossy paper; overprinted in red on front cover and title page. Covers toned as usual; text mildly aged but remains supple and free of soil. Very Good. The frontispiece photograph is attributed to Man Ray, from his series of photographs of the... Read More
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Claire. Thèatre de Verdure
by [SURREALISM] CHAR, Rene
Paris: Gallimard, 1949. Second edition (in same year as first). 12mo (16.5cm). Original printed wrappers; 108,(2)pp. A very fresh copy, with just a bit of toning to spine; text entirely unopened (pages uncut); Near Fine and unusual thus. Text entirely in French.
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Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds
by SURTEES, Robert Smith; John Leech and Halbot K. Browne (illus.)
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1865. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); deep brown half calf with black morocco sides, gilt-tooled spine, with red calf label; marbled endpapers and textblock edges; vi, 391pp, frontispiece, 23 colorplates. This book was professionally restored in 2001; rebacked while retaining the original spine and endpapers (restoration invoice with complete manifest of services laid-in). Textblock smudged and... Read More
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[Drop title] Building a Grass-Roots Challenge..
by [COALITION OF ECONOMIC SURVIVAL]
[Los Angeles: Coalition of Economic Survival], 1979. First Edition. Small quarto bifolium (21.5cm.) printed from typescript on yellow stock. Fine condition. Newsletter issued by the Los Angeles grassroots community organization CES, whose efforts had recently won the city and county rent control. Rear panel features upcoming CES events, including a boycott on Pep Boys to support residents of the... Read More
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Valley of The Dolls
by SUSANN, Jacqueline
New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1966. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's white cloth spine over black paper covered boards. Dustjacket. 442pp. Titled in red to spine and decorated with pill motif in red and yellow to front board. Base of spine gently nudged, ink gift inscription to title page, else a fresh, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.95),... Read More
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World Law and the Last Wilderness
by SUTER, K.D. [Keith]. Jacques-Yves Cousteau and David Lewis, fwd
Sydney: Friends of the Earth, 1980. Second edition (revised). Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 120pp. Fine, unmarked copy. On global environmental law with respect to the Antarctic continent.
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Modern American Criticism
by SUTTON, Walter
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Tan cloth stamped in brown and white, in orange dust jacket; [xvi],298pp. Former owner's to front free endpaper. Pushed at head and tail, else Near Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed at edges, with two scuffs to front, else Very Good.
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Newdick's Season of Frost: An Interrupted Biography of Robert Frost
by SUTTON, William A. (ed.)
Albany: State University of New York Press, 1976. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Beige cloth, in white and orange dust jacket; [x],454pp; black and white illustrations. A few neat pencil annotations towards rear of text. Otherwise clean and sound; pushed at head and tail, else Near Fine. Jacket lightly edgeworn, slightly toned at edges and spine: Very Good... Read More
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Sexual Fairness in Language
by SUTTON, William A.
Muncie, IN: William A. Sutton, 1973. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original staplebound self-wrappers; 12pp. Fine. "The enclosed suggestions are intended to abet volitional linguistic decency as regards sexual equality and identity" - upper wrapper. OCLC locates 5 copies as of November, 2015.
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JAMES JOYCE
by Svevo, Italo
San Francisco: City Lights, [1968]. First Thus. Photographic wrappers; square 12 mo. Originally published as a Christmas Greeting by New Directions in 1950, this lecture delivered in 1927 by Svevo, translated by Stanlislaus Joyce (James's brother), published for sale for the first time in the Pocket Poets series format. Cover photo of Joyce by Man Ray, back cover of... Read More
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Let Us Understand Russia: A Short Outline of Russian History
by SVIR, Olga
New York: All-Slavic Publishing House, [1965]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in blue dust jacket; 199,xxxiipp.; illus. printed on last 16 leaves. Some light wear to jacket extremities (jacket measures approx. 3cm shorter than binding); some soil to endpapers, cloth a bit spotted, else Near Very Good. History of Russia by "a Principal of an Imperial College for... Read More
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On the Line
by SWADOS, Harvey
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press Book / Little, Brown and Company, [1957]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original two-toned (yellow and grey) simulated cloth in blue, white, and grey decorative dust jacket; [6],233pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed with a few short closed tears and chipping, some foxing along folds, else Very Good and sound. Interrelated stories about nine men who... Read More
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THE NAMELESS SIGHT: Poems 1937 - 1956
by Swallow, Alan
Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1956. First Edition. Blue-green cloth in dustjacket; tall 8vo. 74 pp. Hand set and printed by Carroll Coleman at his important fine press. A Near Fine shelf-worn copy in a price-clipped, lightly soiled dustjacket with two large chips and edge wear along the top, about Very Good.
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THE PRACTICE OF POETRY
by Swallow, Alan
Albuquerque: Swallow and Critchlow, 1942. First Edition. 28 pp. Pamphlet on writing poetry, an early book by a writer best known for his eponymous press later out of Denver. A cheap book, saddle-stitched with tape binding and card covers. Toned and worn at the edges, about very good. Scarce.
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Poems
by SWAN, Emma
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1958. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue linen boards with paper spine label; dustjacket; 71pp. Near Fine in lightly aged and spine-sunned dustwrapper, Very Good or better. The poet's second book. Emma Swan (later Swan-Hall), poet and noted Egyptologist, born ca. 1915. Not to be confused with the 21st-century fictional television character played... Read More
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Arts of the Pennsylvania Germans
by SWANK, Scott T.; Catherine E. Hutchins, ed
New York: Winterthur/W.W. Norton and Co, 1983. First Edition. Quarto. Cloth boards in dust jacket; x, 309pp. Trivial age-toning to margins of textblock and jacket interior flaps, faint dust soiling to bottom edge of boards, else a tight, clean, new-appearing copy. Trivial shelf wear to dust jacket, including a small closed tear to top edge of front interior flap... Read More
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Provincial Power and Absolute Monarchy: the Estates General of Burgundy, 1661-1790
by SWANN, Julian
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; xvi,460pp. Fine, unmarked copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper; As-New.
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Tlingit Myths and Texts
by SWANTON, John R.
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution / Government Printing Office, 1909. First Edition. Octavo. Olive cloth with gilt spine titles; viii,451pp; illus. Tight and square with small ownership stamp ("Monte Cassino High School, Tulsa, Oklahoma") at base of title page; accession number stamped on front and rear pastedowns, no other institutional indications. Neat ink ownership signature (– Dickerson / Tulsa) inside... Read More
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ADVERTISEMENTS
by Sward, Robert [Jon Edgar Webb]
Chicago: Odyssey Chapbook, 1958. First Edition. Stapled wrappers; 21 pp. Number 267 of 368 copies. Publisher address changes in Sward's handwriting. Introduction by Frederick Eckman. Odyssey Chapbook 1. This copy inscribed by the poet to Jon Edgar Webb, best known for publishing (with his wife Gypsy Lou) Charles Bukowski and others at their Loujon Press. Staples corroded, covers a... Read More
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UNCLE DOG [Inscribed]
by Sward, Robert; [Jon Edgar Webb]
London: Putnam, 1962. First Edition. Cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards; 8vo. 32 pp. Inscribed "For Jon Edgar Webb and/The Outsider/with warmest regads and best wishes/Bob Sward/ McDowell Colony/Peterborough, NH/July 1962." Poet's second book, no U.S. equivalent. Bottom edges and tips of the fragile paper covers worn; Very Good. Dustjacket bright yellow; lightly worn and soiled (small brown spot on back... Read More
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