The Biological Universe; The Twentieth Century Extra Terrestrial Life Debate, And the Limits of Science
by [UFO] DICK, Steven J.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. First American Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Original black cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xvi]; 578pp. Clean and sharp with the only significant defect being a tiny nick to the head of the spine, with a corresponding closed tear to the head of the dustjacket spine panel; internally clean. A very good copy... Read More
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Fastwalker
by [UFO] VALLEE, Jacques
Berkeley, CA: Frog Books Ltd, 1996. First American Edition. Octavo. 23cm. Publisher's decorated card wraps. 220pp.; [1]. Light wear to the corners, a little minor scuffing at the spine ends, clean and tight; internally clean and fresh. A very good, bright copy. A piece of UFO/paranormal related fiction from the fabled Jacques Vallee, all of the major requirements... Read More
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The Baganda at Home: With One Hundred Pictures of Life and Work in Uganda
by [UGANDA] HATTERSLEY, C. W.
London: Religious Tract Society, 1908. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Green cloth stamped in gilt; xvi,[228],[x]pp; 10pp publisher's ads at rear; 80 halftone plates and map. Bookplate of Mr. Justice Rooth, a judge in Perth, Australia, to front pastedown. Bookplate of Grange Club Library to rear pastedown. Rubbed, front board curved, front hinge cracked but holding, foxed throughout,... Read More
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The British Mission to Uganda in 1893
by [UGANDA] PORTAL, Gerald
London: Edward Arnold, 1894. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Maroon cloth, stamped in gilt; dark blue coated endpapers; xlvi,351,[1],28,[4]pp; 32pp of publisher's ads at rear; 2 photogravures, folding color map, 16 halftone plates, numerous in-text halftones. Sound but with a slight forward roll, spine lightly faded, bumped and rubbed at edges and corners, both hinges cracking but holding,... Read More
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History of Ukraine-Rus' – Complete in 12 Volumes
by [UKRAINE] HRUSHEVSKY, Mykhailo; Frank E. Sysyn (et al, eds); Marta Skorupsy (et al, transl)
Alberta & Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 1997-2021. First English Language Edition. Ten volumes in twelve. Large octavos (26cm); uniform black cloth hardcovers in dustjackets; variously paginated. A like-new set, fine and unmarked in the original dustwrappers. From the library of noted poet and translator Nathaniel Tarn, with his printed bookplate to v.1 and v.9/2 pastedowns. A... Read More
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![[Text in Russian] Izobrazitel'noe Iskusstvo Kieva: Zhivopis' / Dekorativno-Monumental'naia Khuvopis' / Teatral'no-Dekoratsionnoe Iskusstvo / Grafika / Skul'ptura / Monumental'naia Skul'putura / Dekorativno-Prikladnoe Iskusstvo](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/944/572/969572944.0.m.jpg)
[Text in Russian] Izobrazitel'noe Iskusstvo Kieva: Zhivopis' / Dekorativno-Monumental'naia Khuvopis' / Teatral'no-Dekoratsionnoe Iskusstvo / Grafika / Skul'ptura / Monumental'naia Skul'putura / Dekorativno-Prikladnoe Iskusstvo
by [ART - UKRAINE]
[Moskva: Izdatel'stvo "Sovetskii Khudozhnik, 1977]. First Edition. Folio (34cm.); publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket; [28],165,[15]pp.; chiefly color illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and rubbed, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Catalogue of contemporary Ukrainian art, text entirely in Russian and Ukrainian.
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The Inheritance
by ULEWICZ, Laura
London: Turret Books, 1967. First, Limited Edition. First printing, one of 150 copies. This is the regular (unsigned) issue; fifty copies within the limitation were signed. 12mo (19cm). Plain card wrappers in printed dustjacket; 18pp. A fine copy. The only book published in her lifetime by the enigmatic San Francisco poet Laura Ulewicz (1930-2007). Ulewicz was at... Read More
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Besides, the Wench Is Dead
by ULLIN, Robert
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket printed in black, gilt, and red, red topstain; [10],302pp. Some relatively discrete old tape repair to spine crown and top of upper jacket flap fold, additional repairs to verso not visible to exterior; Fine in About Very Good, attractively illustrated dust... Read More
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Influences of the Economic Environment on the Structure of the Steel Workers' Union (Institute of Industrial Relations Reprint no. 187)
by ULMAN, Lloyd
Los Angeles: University of California, 1962. Reprint. Octavo (22cm). Staple-bound card wrappers; 12pp. Fine and unmarked. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association.
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The Neuroses of the Genito-Urinary System in the Male, with Sterility and Impotence
by ULTZMANN, R.; Gardner W. Allen, trans
Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 1890. 12mo (19.25cm.); publisher's blue blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 167,[1],20pp.; illus. Ex-Institute for Psychoanalysis with their internal library markings, hinges starting to crack, textblock toned and a bit brittle due to poor paper stock, else Near Very Good. Presumed reprint, the ads bound in rear dated July, 1891. Freud studied under Ultzmann when he couldn't enroll... Read More
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Miners' Convention. Thursday Morning [&c] May 16, 1912
by [LABOR] [UMWA]
[Wilkes-Barre, PA: UMWA, 1912]. Quarto. Cloth-backed card stab-bound wrappers; 327pp. Carbon typescript, printed rectos-only on thin bond. Occasional chips and edge-tears to covers and contents; still complete and sound. Complete stenographic transcript of a special joint meeting of the three “anthracite” districts of the UMWA and representatives of the American Coal Operators' Association, held in Wilkes Barre... Read More
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Testimony of John L. Lewis before the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Miners' Welfare of the Committee on Education and Labor, April 3, 1947 and Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Public Lands to investigate the Centralia mine explosion April 17, 1947
by [UMWA] LEWIS, John L.
Washington DC: Labor's Non-Partisan League, [1947]. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm.); original photo-montaged wrappers; 128pp.; frontispiece, 3 leaves of photographs printed on rectos and versos. Small tear to spine foot, else Very Good and sound. Testimony by the president of the United Mine Workers regarding the 1947 Centralia mine disaster, which killed 111 people.
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The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations (Selected Works, v.4)
by UNAMUNO, Miguel de; Anthony Kerrigan (transl & ed); Salvador de Madariago (introd); William Barrett (aftwd)
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1972). First Thus. Octavo. Deep tan flexible cloth-covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket; xlvi,528pp. Fine, unmarked copy. In the original dustwrapper, lightly dusted at folds and edges, still Very Good or better. A nicely-preserved copy. Issued as Bollingen Series LXXXV.
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The Private World. Selections from the Diario Intimo and Selected Letters 1890-1936 (Selected Works, v.2)
by UNAMUNO, Miguel de; Anthony Kerrigan (et al, transl & ed); Allen Lacy (introd)
Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1984). First Thus. Octavo. Deep tan flexible cloth-covered boards (hardcover); dustjacket; xxxii,358pp. Fine, unmarked copy. In the original dustwrapper, crisp and unworn, Near Fine. A nicely-preserved copy. Issued as Bollingen Series LXXXV.
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Mantissa
by [UNCORRECTED PROOF] FOWLES, John
London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. Uncorrected Proof Copy. Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's original bright red card wraps titled and decorated in black to spine and front panel. a92pp. Light wear and soiling, clean and bright, a near fine copy. A pre-publication uncorrected proof copy of Fowles' rather surreal literary experiment placing a delusionary writer in a hospital bed and... Read More
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Yipster Times - Vol.3, No.3 (Fall/Winter, 1975)
by [UNDERGROUND NEWSPAPERS] [YIPPIES] HOFFMAN, Abbie (contributor)
New York: Youth International Party, 1975. First Edition. Tabloid (42cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers; 32pp; illus. Mild wear and a few tiny tears to extremities, else Near Fine, unfolded and without postal markings. "Special Insurrection Issue" of this official publishing organ of the Youth International Party, printed between 1972-1989. Contents include contributions by Abbie Hoffman, Chip Berlet, Mark C. Frazier,... Read More
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The East Village Other - Vol.6, No.15 (March 9, 1971)
by [UNDERGROUND NEWSPAPERS] FETTAMEN, Anne, P.J. O'Rourke, and Rochelle Ratner (contributors)
New York: The East Village Other, Inc, 1971. First Edition. Tabloid (43.5cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers; 24pp; illus. Trivial wear and dustiness to wrappers, else Fine, unfolded and without postal markings. Contents include contributions by Jaakov Kohn, Ann Fettamen, D.A. Latimer, Jackie Friedrich, Ray Schultz, Lynda Crawford, P.J. O'Rourke, Rochelle Ratner, and others, with an Earth Day centerfold by Coca... Read More
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Philadelphia Free Press - Vol.3, No.4 (February 2, 1970)
by [UNDERGROUND PRESS] [BLACK PANTHER PARTY] BIGGIN, Bill and Fred Childs (eds.)
Philadelphia: Freedom Press, Inc, 1970. First Edition. Tabloid (43cm); photo-illustrated newsprint wrappers; 12pp; illus. Horizontal fold at center, else a fresh, Fine example. Sharp copy of this Philadelphia underground paper, originally launched at Temple University in May, 1968. This issue features a front cover photo and rear cover article dedicated to the arrest of Rolando "Montae" Hearn Jr., a... Read More
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Temple Free Press - Vol.1, No.21 (January 27, 1969)
by [UNDERGROUND PRESS] BIGGIN, Bill and Fred Childs (eds.); CRUMB, R. (illustrations)
Philadelphia: Freedom Press, Inc, 1969. First Edition. Tabloid (43cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers; 16pp; illus. Hint of toning to extremities, horizontal fold at center, else very Near Fine. Sharp copy of this Philadelphia underground paper, originally launched at Temple University in May, 1968. Cover art features Fidel Castro and soldiers with guns raised; contents feature articles on student life, city... Read More
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The East Village Other - Vol.6, No.42 (November 3, 1971)
by [UNDERGROUND NEWSPAPERS] HOLLAND, Brad (cover)
New York: The East Village Other, Inc, 1971. First Edition. Tabloid (43cm); illustrated newsprint wrappers; 20pp; illus. Trivial wear and dustiness to wrappers, else Fine, unfolded and without postal markings. Contents include contributions by Jaakov Kohn, Jared Seth November, Coca Crystal, Bob Singer, Steve Kraus, P.J. O'Rourke, Michael Cannon, and others, with comix by Joe Schenkman. Front wrapper features... Read More
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Murderer's Holiday
by [UNDERWORLD FICTION] CLARKE, Donald Henderson
New York: Vanguard Press, 1940. First Edition. Octavo (20cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 304pp. Lightly worn copy, VG or better, in the original pictorial dustjacket which is lightly rubbed with a few small edge-chips, still on the better side of Very Good. Novelist decides to try his hand at crime fiction. Befriends the leaders of two rival gangs, then invites... Read More
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The Trackless Trail: The Story of the Underground Railroad in Kennett Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania and the Surrounding Community
by [UNDERGROUND RAILROAD - PENNSYLVANIA] TAYLOR, Frances Cloud
Kennett Square PA: by the Author, 1976. First Edition. Signed by author on title page. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 36pp; illus. Includes bibliography. Faint foxing to title page, else Fine. Brief, illustrated historical guide to Chester County landmarks on the Underground Railroad.
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The Sunday Paper - Vol.1, No.7
by [UNDERGROUND COMIX] BRYAN, John and MURPHY, Willy (editors)
San Francisco: The Sunday Paper, Inc, 1972. First Edition. Tabloid (58cm); original color-pictorial newsprint wrappers; 8pp; illus., together with the 16pp supplement section (printed in black & white) laid in. Horizontal fold at center (as issued), some very subtle toning to extremities, else a bright, Near Fine copy. Supplement has some foxing at folds, and some old, faint dampstaining... Read More
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San Francisco's Appeal to Reason - Vol.1, No.6
by [UNDERGROUND PRESS] BRYAN, John and Phil Resser (editors); CRUMB, R., Bob Kaufman, and Gil Scott-Heron, et al. (contributors)
San Francisco: Appeal to Reason, 1982. First Edition. Tabloid (58cm); original pictorial newsprint wrappers, printed in black and blue; 20pp; illus. Horizontal fold at center, toning to folds and extremities, with a few tiny edge tears; complete; Very Good or better. Between 1982-1984, John Bryan irregularly published 16 issues of a newspaper called San Francisco's Appeal To... Read More
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The Sunday Paper - Vol.1, No.5 (March 15, 1972)
by [UNDERGROUND COMIX] BRYAN, John and MURPHY, Willy (editors)
San Francisco: The Sunday Paper, Inc, 1972. First Edition. Tabloid (58cm); original color-pictorial newsprint wrappers; 8pp; illus., together with the 16pp supplement section (printed in black & white) laid in. Horizontal fold at center (as issued), very faint vertical bend, with a small "For Machine Sale Only" sticker mounted to upper front wrapper; a bright, Near Fine issue, with... Read More
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