Waldo: A Novel
by THEROUX, Paul
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine and front panel; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [x],[3],208pp. Trivial wear to spine ends, hint of foxing to endpapers and right edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.95), with some light wear and rubbing, faint foxing to verso,... Read More
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The Consul's File
by THEROUX, Paul
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo; teal cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 192pp. Foxing to upper edge of textblock, with a small spot to title page; very Near Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket. Sequence of 20 short stories set in a small Malaysian town, narrated by the resident American Consul.... Read More
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Genealogy of Sex: Sex in its myriad forms, from the one-celled animal to the human being
by THESING, Curt; Eden and Cedar Paul, trans.; Smith Ely Jelliffe, intro
New York: Emerson Books, 1934. First American Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original terracotta cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [2],xii,286pp. Spine a hint cocked, very minor dust-soil, else Very Good and sound.
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Genealogy of Sex: Sex in its myriad forms, from the one-celled animal to the human being
by THESING, Curt; Eden and Cedar Paul, trans.; Smith Ely Jelliffe, intro
New York: Emerson Books, 1937. Second American Edition. With New Matter." Octavo (22cm.); original tan cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [4],xii,286pp. Light dust-soil, spine edges just a hint rubbed, else Very Good to Near Fine.
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The Life of My Choice
by THESIGER, Wilfred
New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1988. Second Printing. Large Octavo. Paper-covered cloth boards in dust jacket; 459pp. Second printing of First American edition. 32 b&w plates inserted. Trivial rubbing to bottom edges of boards, else a tight, clean, new-appearing copy. Dust jacket showing minor shelf wear, trivial age-toning to interior flaps. Near Fine. Autobiography of British military officer,... Read More
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Scarlet Sister Mary ["Airplane Edition," Signed]
by [THE SOUTH] PETERKIN, Julia
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928. 12mo (17.5cm). Flexible black cloth-covered boards, stamped in gilt; black and white pictorial endpapers; 345,[1]pp. Author's signature on inserted leaf at front. A sound copy with mild rubbing at spine ends, visible surface abrasions and spotting to covers; just VG. Peterkin, a white woman, wrote several works about the African-American experience. This novel, set among... Read More
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American Artists from the Russian Empire
by The State Russian Museum; PETROVA, Yevgenia, ed.; Alison Hilton, Percy North, Harlow Robinson, Sharon Marie Carnicke, Beth Holmgren, Yevgenia Petrova, catalogue contributors
St. Petersburg: Palace Editions / Graficart, 2008. First Edition. Quarto (31cm x 25.5cm). Glossy pictorial paper boards (hardcover); pictorial dustjacket; 288pp; illus. Near Fine copy; extremely slight shelf wear to corner tips, else appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper; one-inch tear to bottom back panel flap corner; slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean and crisp. Continuing the State Russian... Read More
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Travelin' On With The Weavers
by [The Weavers]; Ronnie Gilbert, ed.; Herbert Haufrecht, arr
New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (28.5cm.); red publisher's cloth with black lettering, in white pictorial dustwrapper; viii,165pp. Boards slightly warped; top edge of block and boards soiled. Wrappers worn with some soiling and edge rolling; sticker residue and rubbing on rear; tear at heel of spine. Overall Very Good or better. Featuring... Read More
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The Weavers' Song Book ... Arranged for Piano and Guitar
by [THE WEAVERS] DE CORMIER, Robert
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1960]. Quarto (28.5cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket; xii,[2],177pp.; sheet music. Jacket extremities rather worn with one-inch loss at spine foot, some minor soil, corners bumped, else Very Good in About Very Good jacket. Songbook of the Greenwich Village-based folk band.
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Le Fédéralisme africain: ses principes et ses règles
by THIAM, Doudou
Paris: Présence Africaine, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Printed stiff card wraps; 167, [5]pp. Inconspicuous tanning to text paper, else a fine, unmarked and apparently unread copy. The author was a prominent Senegalese legal expert and politician; he served as independent Senegal's first foreign minister (1960-62).
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Housing for America. Statement by James G. Thimmes, Member, the President's Advisory Committee on Housing
by THIMMES, James G.
Washington DC: CIO Housing Committee, 1954. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; 8pp. Very Good. Text of a letter from Simmes to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, offering the CIO's positions on public housing, home ownership, co-ops, and equal opportunities for minorities.
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A Brief History of Outrage
by [THINK AGAIN] ATTYAH, David John and S.A. Bachman
N.p.: Politicizing Pictures Press, 2003. First Edition. Oblong quarto (24cm x 27cm). Pictorial glossy card wrappers; [48pp]; chiefly illus. Fine. Documentation of projects, 1998-2003, by the activist-artist duo of Attyah and Bachman.
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THE BIRTH OF A DREAM WEAVER
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
New York: The New Press, 2016. First Edition. First US printing in hardcover of this memoir in which the author "recounts the four years he spent at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda—threshold years during which he found his voice as a journalist, short story writer, playwright, and novelist just as colonial empires were crumbling and new nations were being... Read More
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Wizard of the Crow [Signed]
by THIONG'O, Ngugi wa
New York: Pantheon Books, 2006. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); off-white and evergreen paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [xii],[2],3-768,[4]pp. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Lower corners gently tapped (though still sharp), else Near Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket (priced $30.00). The late Kenyan author's most ambitious novel, translated... Read More
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Never Too Late
by THIRKELL, Angela Margaret [née Mackall]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards blindstamped on covers; titled in gilt on spine; orange topstain; map endpapers; dustjacket by John O'Hara Cosgrove ll; 313pp. Rear hinge cracked, slight webbing; small ghost sticker mark inside front cover; Very Good+. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.95) with light rubbing and... Read More
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Miss Bunting
by THIRKELL, Angela Margaret [née Mackall]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); gray cloth-covered boards blind stamped on the cover and titled in gilt on spine; yellow topstain; light sunning to spine; spine ends gently nudged; Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50 net) with toning, mostly to the spine and flaps; nicks and short tears to... Read More
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What Did It Mean
by THIRKELL, Angela
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (21.5cm); red cloth-covered boards titled in silver on spine; blue/green topstain; dustjacket by John O'Hara Cosgrave ll; map endpapers; 346pp. Topstain slightly faded, else a Fine copy. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced 3.95 net) with minor nicks to the extremities; slight sunning to spine; Very Good+. ... Read More
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Wild Strawberries
by THIRKELL, Angela
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1952. Later printing. Octavo (18.5cm); pale green cloth in white and red dustwrapper; 216pp. Spine slightly cocked; foxing throughout textblock and dustwrapper; dustwrapper toned with offsetting, chips and tears to extremities (w/ some material loss); "7'6 net" price sticker on front inner flap, sticker on ffep. Overall Very Good. Third in Thirkell's Barsetshire series and... Read More
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Love Among The Ruins
by THIRKELL, Angela Margaret [née Mackall]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo. (21.5cm); red cloth-covered boards titled in black on cover and spine; dustjacket design by Philip Grushkin; map endpapers; 340pp. Dust soil to top edge of textblock, else a Fine copy. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00) with light rubbing and nicks to the spine ends and flaps;... Read More
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The Duke's Daughter
by THIRKELL, Angela
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Maroon cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; 322pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 net), lightly rubbed at extremities and mildly dusted on rear panel. A late "Barsetshire" romance by the prolific and much-beloved British novelist.
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Love at All Ages
by THIRKELL, Angela
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); brown cloth-covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 310pp. Small scuff on front board; topstain slightly faded; Very Good+. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.50) with light toning to the spine and flaps; about Near Fine. 28th entry from Thirkell's... Read More
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Happy Return
by THIRKELL, Angela
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); green cloth-covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; purple topstain; 307pp. Spine ends gently pushed, topstain slightly faded; Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.50 net) with rubbing/light wear to the extremities; about Near Fine. 21st entry from Thirkell's Barsetshire Chronicles: "Mr.... Read More
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Peace Breaks Out
by THIRKELL, Angela
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); beige cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in green on spine and front cover; green topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; 370pp. Previous owner's name pencilled on front endpaper with very light shelfwear, bright and clean topstain; Near Fine. Dustwrapper unclipped (priced $2.50 net), lightly spine-faded, with wear... Read More
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Love At All Ages
by THIRKELL, Angela
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1959. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm); red publisher's cloth stamped in gilt on spine, in white pictorial dustwrapper; 312pp. Dustwrapper front panel foxed, corners slightly bumped; spine sunned, small chip to crown; soiling from paper clip on front inner panel, front pastedown and endpaper; toning and sticker on ffep; Very Good overall. "Love At... Read More
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Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018
by THOMAS, Abrahan (et al)
Washington DC: Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2018. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial heavy card wrappers; 110pp; illus. Fine, apparently unread copy. Contemporary craftworks by Tanya Aguiñiga, Sharif Bey, Dustin Farnsworth, and Stephanie Syjuco.
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