![H-Book 75-76 [Second Series, XL, August, 1975]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/993/955/1291955993.0.m.jpg)
H-Book 75-76 [Second Series, XL, August, 1975]
by HOWARD UNIVERSITY
[Washington, DC]: Howard University, 1975. First Edition. Oblong octavo (15.5x23cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers; 160pp.; photographic illus. throughout. General shelf wear, smallish abrasion to upper cover affecting text without loss of meaning, some light dust-soil, else Very Good overall. Howard University student handbook providing information on atheltics, student life and organizations.
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Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou
by [UNIVERSALISM] BALLOU, Maturin M.
Boston: Abel Tompkins, 1852. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Publisher's brown embossed cloth, titled in gilt on spine; pale yellow endpapers; viii,[9]-404; frontispiece portrait; [4]pp ads following text. A straight and attractive copy, with just mild spotting to cloth and a touch of wear at spine ends; internally sound and unmarked, with some faint and scattered foxing, heaviest... Read More
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![A Catalogue of the Fraternity of [Ph]BK, Alpha of Massachusetts. Harvard University, Cambridge. 1810](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/558/952/1356952558.0.m.jpg)
A Catalogue of the Fraternity of [Ph]BK, Alpha of Massachusetts. Harvard University, Cambridge. 1810
by [PHI BETA KAPPA - ALPHA OF MASSACHUSETTS / HARVARD UNIVERSITY]
Cambridge: W. Hilliard and E.W. Metcalf, 1810. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; 14pp. Light toning to wrapper extremities, unobtrusive contemporary manuscript marginalia, else Very Good or better. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 21055.
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![Catalogue of the Members of the Connecticut Alpha of the [Ph]BK](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/671/952/1356952671.0.m.jpg)
Catalogue of the Members of the Connecticut Alpha of the [Ph]BK
by [PHI BETA KAPPA - CONNECTICUT ALPHA / YALE UNIVERSITY]
New-Haven: Oliver Steele and Co, 1808. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; 16pp. Light foxing throughout, else Very Good and sound. Catalog includes the members' names, hometowns, college title, and date of admission. SABIN 105908; SHAW & SHOEMAKER 15906.
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Catalogus Senatus Academici, et eurum qui munera et officia academica gesserunt, quique aliquovis gradu exornati fuerunt in Collegio Yalensi, Novi Portus, in Republica Connecticuttensi
by [YALE UNIVERSITY]
Novi-Portus [New Haven]: Walter et Steele, 1811. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; 54pp. Appears to be lacking half title, stock lightly toned, else Very Good and sound. Text entirely in Latin. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 24507.
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Two Monumental Hook-Work Parade Banners: Chairman Mao Reviewing The Great Army of the Cultural Revolution
by [CHINA - CULTURAL REVOLUTION - TEXTILES] Artist(s) unknown
Urumqi, XinJiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: Cultural Revolution Committee of Urumqi / Xinjiang Army Divisioni, 1967/8. Two extraordinary hand-crafted parade banners, ca. 110" x 84" (9 feet x 7 feet), one slightly smaller. Each entirely composed of hook-work with colored yarns on white muslin backing. Slight age-toning and soil; a few threads loose but no significant losses; Near Fine condition... Read More
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American Poetry Since 1900
by UNTERMEYER, Louis
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1934. Octavo (22.5cm); red cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine, and ruling and decorations blind embossed to front cover; red topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; [xviii],[2],3-405,[3]pp; black-and-white illustrations to frontispiece and throughout text. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial... Read More
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AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE NEW ENGLAND POETS From Colonial Times To The Present Day
by Untermeyer, Louis
New York: Random House, 1948. First edition. Cloth in dust jacket. 8vo. Bradstreet to R. Lowell. Slight toning to end papers, else about fine in a price-clipped jacket with a few short chips, very good dust jacket.
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![The Guru of Love [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/607/256/1016256607.0.m.jpg)
The Guru of Love [Inscribed]
by UPADHYAY, Samrat
Boston: Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin, 2004. First Paperback Edition. First Printing. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; 289pp. Inscribed to Minnesota author and poet John Calvin Rezmerski on the title page. Small price sticker to rear wrapper, else Fine and unread. The Nepalese author's first novel.
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![The Royal Ghosts: Stories [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/700/256/1016256700.0.m.1.jpg)
The Royal Ghosts: Stories [Inscribed]
by UPADHYAY, Samrat
Boston: Mariner Books / Houghton Mifflin, 2006. First Edition. First Printing, a trade paperback original. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; 207,[7]pp. Inscribed to Minnesota author and poet John Calvin Rezmerski on the title page. Small price sticker to rear wrapper, else Fine and unread. Collection of nine stories by the Nepalese author.
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Workers and Revolution in Serbia from Tito to Milošević and Beyond
by UPCHURCH, Martin and Darko Marinković
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial paper-covered boards (hardcover); 149pp. Fine, unmarked and apparently unread copy, near-new.
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![Centennial Portfolio: Fifty Original Prints by Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Celebration of its Centennial [Limited Edition, Signed with Large Self-Portrait by Kurt Vonnegut]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/343/346/1037346343.0.m.jpg)
Centennial Portfolio: Fifty Original Prints by Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Celebration of its Centennial [Limited Edition, Signed with Large Self-Portrait by Kurt Vonnegut]
by UPDIKE, John (foreword); VONNEGUT, Kurt, et al. (contributor)
New York: American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1998. First Edition. Quarto (31.25cm); pale gray cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; 112pp; illus. Though not called for, this copy has been signed by Kurt Vonnegut on the half-title page, with an original hand-drawn self-portrait dated May 12, 1999. Small scuff to lower margin of... Read More
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Rabbit Is Rich
by UPDIKE, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo; tan cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; [vi],467,[5]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with some unobtrusive wear to extremities. Third installment in Updike's Rabbit Angstrom quartet, winner of the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Critics Circle Award.... Read More
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![Three Stories [Prospectus]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/179/900/1664900179.0.m.jpg)
Three Stories [Prospectus]
by UPDIKE, John
Thornwillow Press, [n.d.]. Octavo (22cm); stapled printed wrappers; 8pp. Publisher's laid in materials include letter to William Selander from Mandy Malloy (2003), book order form, and list of available publications. Light creases to corners with faint shelf-soil to rear cover; Near Fine. Includes prospectus for Three Stories ("Personal Archaelogy", "Free", and "The Guardians") and publisher's material. [83774].
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![Query [Limited Edition, Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/870/366/1035366870.0.m.jpg)
Query [Limited Edition, Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by UPDIKE, John
[N.p.: Albondocani Press, 1974]. 12mo (17.25cm.); original green pictorial staplebound card wrappers by Robert Dunn; [4]pp. Fine. With original blank envelope. Bookplate signed by Updike laid in. Printed by William Ferguson "as a holiday greeting by the author and publisher. None are for sale.
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Rabbit at Rest
by UPDIKE, John
London: Andre Deutsch, 1990. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, trade (unsigned) issue. Octavo (24cm); dark blue paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-504,[4]pp. Subtle yellowing to text edges, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (£14.99 net) with some light surface wear and rubbing to extremities; Near Fine. Final novel in the Harry... Read More
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![Query [Limited Edition, Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/704/366/1035366704.0.m.jpg)
Query [Limited Edition, Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by UPDIKE, John
N.p.: Albondocani Press & Ampersand Books, 1974. First Edition. First printing, one of 75 (out of 400 total copies) "suppressed [copies] which had the cover drawing printed upside down. The balance of the printing has been destroyed." 12mo (17.25cm.); original green pictorial staplebound card wrappers by Robert Dunn; [4]pp. Fine. With original blank envelope. Bookplate signed by Updike laid... Read More
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![A Conversation With John Updike [Signed Bookplate]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/495/823/1683823495.0.m.jpg)
A Conversation With John Updike [Signed Bookplate]
by UPDIKE, John (cartoons); Frank Gado and James Lieb (editors); Mark Boylan (photographs); Stephen Berrick (cover)
Schenectady, N.Y.: Union College, 1971. First Edition. First Printing, softcover. Octavo (23cm); stapled white pictorial paper wrappers; 32pp; black-and-white photographic (halftones) and illustrations throughout. Updike's signed bookplate laid in. Modest shelf-wear, with creases to wrappers and tiny tears to extremities; Good. Published as a special issue of The Idol, Volume XLII (Spring 1971), edited by James Lieb.... Read More
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Just Looking: Essays on Art
by UPDIKE, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Quarto; black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in blind to front cover; dustjacket; 210,[2]pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine, lightly shelfworn dustjacket (unclipped). A handsome volume, collecting 23 of the author's essays on art, supplemented by 193 plates of illustrations throughout the text.... Read More
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Bottom's Dream. Adapted from William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream by John Updike with music ny Felix Mendelssohn and illustrations by Warren Chappell
by UPDIKE, John; Warren Chappell (illus)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. First Edition. Bookplate signed by Updike loosely laid-in at title page. First printing. Oblong octavo (20cm x 26cm). Blue pictorial cloth, titled in brown on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [32pp]; illus. A fine copy in price-clipped, otherwise Near Fine dustwrapper. A work for children, richly illustrated by Warren Chappell.
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![RABBIT ANGSTROM: THE FOUR NOVELS [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/671/185/1582185671.0.m.jpg)
RABBIT ANGSTROM: THE FOUR NOVELS [Signed]
by Updike, John
New York: Everyman's Library / Knopf, 1995. Red cloth stamped in black and gilt (no dustjacket, one of a small but uncertain number as issued to sales reps in advance of distribution to the Trade), silk ribbon; 8vo. 1516 pp. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. A new introduction by the author. A lovely copy, Fine... Read More
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VILLAGES
by Updike, John
New York: Knopf, 2004. First Edition. Uncorrected proof in blue printed wrappers; 8vo. 321 pp. Back cover creased, one tip bent, slight wear to head of spine. Else near fine.
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![Invasion of the Book Envelopes [Limited Edition, Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/815/259/1074259815.0.m.jpg)
Invasion of the Book Envelopes [Limited Edition, Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by UPDIKE, John
[Concord, NH]: William B. Ewert, [1981]. First Thus. Limited to 125 copies. Octavo (21cm.); single pictorial folded sheet in original mailing envelope. Envelope a bit toned along extremities, else Fine. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. Keepsake designed and printed by Michael McCurdy at the Cambria Press, the text first published in The New Yorker.
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![The Art of Adding and the Art of Taking Away. Selections from John Updike's Manuscripts. An Exhibition at the Houghton Library [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/158/909/966909158.0.m.jpg)
The Art of Adding and the Art of Taking Away. Selections from John Updike's Manuscripts. An Exhibition at the Houghton Library [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by [UPDIKE, John] FALSEY, Elizabeth A.
Cambridge: Harvard College Library, 1987. First Edition. Slim folio (30.5cm.); original purple card wrappers, printed paper plate mounted to upper cover; 52pp.; illus. & facsimiles throughout. Minor curling of wrapper extremities, spine a shade faded, else Fine. Bookplate signed by Updike laid in.
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![Just Looking: Essays on Art [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/949/149/799149949.0.m.jpg)
Just Looking: Essays on Art [Limited Edition, Signed]
by UPDIKE, John
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 350 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.164. Square quarto; 3/4 marbled paper over black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; publisher's black cloth slipcase; 210,[2]pp; illus. Fine in a Fine slipcase, without dustjacket, as issued. A handsome volume, collecting 23 of... Read More
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