Thieves' Market
by BEZZERIDES, A.I.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1949. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.). Green cloth; dust jacket; [6],233pp. A tight, clean, and unmarked copy, with little evidence of aging or use; Very Good to Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00 on front flap); light wear and tiny chips to extremities, with a small loss at spine foot and a... Read More
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![Exercices Orthographiques: Cours de Première Année mis en rapport avec l'extrait de grammaire des Frères des écoles chrétienn [sic]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/032/623/885623032.0.m.jpg)
Exercices Orthographiques: Cours de Première Année mis en rapport avec l'extrait de grammaire des Frères des écoles chrétienn [sic]
by B, F.P.
Tours: Mame et Fils, 1876. 12mo (17.75cm.); contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards, unadorned spine; [2],47,[1],156,95pp. Boards heavily rubbed and worn with some substantial loss of marbled paper, additional loss of vellum mid-spine, whereas contents are still very good and sound. Good overall. "Livre de l'élève," comprised of three individually numbered sections on grammar, orthography, and a dictionary. From the library... Read More
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Un Piège Sans Fin: Roman
by BHÊLY-QUÉNUM, Olympe
Paris: Librairie Stock, 1960. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm.); original white wrappers printed in red and black; [11],12-254pp. Light foxing to spine, else a Near Fine, unopened copy. Beninese author's first novel, which does not express popular anticolonialist tropes in order to demonstrate that it was possible for an African to write a non-political novel. The fate of... Read More
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Le Chant du Lac
by BHÊLY-QUÉNUM, Olympe
Paris: Présence Africaine, [1965]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original white decorative card wrappers printed in red and black; 152,[2]pp.; music on p. [153]. Very minor foxing to a few extremities, else Fine. Novel by the Beninese author and journalist for which he was awarded the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 1966.
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From the Land of the Thunder Dragon: Textile Arts of Bhutan
by [BHUTAN] MYERS, Diana K. and Susan S. Bean; foreword by Ashi Sangay Choden Wangchuck, Queen of Bhutan
Salem, MA: Peabody Essex Museum / Serindia Publications, 1994. First Edition. First printing. Quarto; pictorial heavy card wrappers with French flaps; 247pp. A fine copy, free of markings or notable wear. From the library of noted poet and translator Nathaniel Tarn, with his printed bookplate to half-title. A beautifully produced and well-researched catalog, published in conjunction with the 1994... Read More
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![If I Am Assassinated..." [Signed by Fatima Bhutto]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/104/430/1689430104.0.m.jpg)
If I Am Assassinated..." [Signed by Fatima Bhutto]
by BHUTTO, Zulfikar Ali; Pran Chopra (introduction)
New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd, 1979. Reprint. Octavo (22cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in red on spine; dustjacket; 234pp. Signed by Fatima Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's granddaughter, with "10/10/19" to title page. Light rubbing to spine titling, with modest shelf-soil and light wear, and slight ripple effect to rear pastedown; Very Good. Dustwrapper lightly sunned... Read More
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Agrarian Changes in Nineteenth-Century Italy: The Enterprise of a Tuscan Landlord, Bettino Ricasoli
by BIAGIOLI, Giuliana
Reading: Universtity of Reading, 1970. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's grey printed staplebound card wrappers; 16pp. Publisher's extremities a bit rubbed and very slightly faded along top margin, ink ownership signature to upper cover, faint evidence of previously removed paperclips to textblock, else Very Good and sound. Research Paper No. 1 of the Institute of Agricultural History.
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LOVE'S WILL (Poems 1967)
by Bialy, Harvey
Annandale-on-Hudson: Matter Books, 1968. First Edition. Oblong chapbook in purple printed wrappers; 8vo. With a long inscription by the poet with drawing and colored pen, to the poet Ted Enslin (also published by Matter). Early if not first book by the controversial molecular biologist. Minor creasing and wear, but heavily toned and a bit soiled.
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Bocci-Bocci: I Tumulti Annonari nella Toscana del 1919
by BIANCHI, Roberto
Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2001. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's card wrappers in black pictorial dust jacket; 406pp.; maps in text. A hint of wear and dust soil else Fine. History of the Biennio Rosso, the revolutionary post-WW1 period in Tuscany involving both the Fascist blackshirts and the Italian communists, ending with Mussolini's March on Rome in 1922.... Read More
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![[Text in Russian] Agitatsionno-Massovoe Iskusstvo: Oformlenie Prazdnestv](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/616/357/1267357616.0.m.jpg)
[Text in Russian] Agitatsionno-Massovoe Iskusstvo: Oformlenie Prazdnestv
by BIBIKOVA, I.M, N.I. Levchenko, and V.P. Tolstogo
[Moskva: Iskusstvo, 1984]. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo and oblong octavo (24.5x17cm and the reverse); publisher's cloth lettered in silver foil and orange, housed in pictorial paper-covered slipcase; 289pp. & unpaginated volume of color plates. In Fine condition, housed in a rather worn slipcase. Text almost entirely in Russian, save the English-language summary on pp. 254-5 of the first... Read More
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![English Books 1475-1900: a Signpost for Collectors [2 vols; signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/924/719/1621719924.0.m.jpg)
English Books 1475-1900: a Signpost for Collectors [2 vols; signed]
by [BIBLIOPHILY] SAWYER, Charles J. and F.J. Harvey Darton
Westminster: Privately Printed, 1927. First Edition. Edition of 2000 sets. This copy signed on half-title of v.1 by co-author Charles Sawyer, dated January 1st, 1928. Two octavo volumes; publisher's smooth red buckram; top edge gilt; fore and bottom edges untrimmed; dustjackets; xvi,368+viii,423pp. Small area of residue from removed bookplate to front pastedown of v.1, else a clean, sturdy set... Read More
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The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine. With its Sequel the Dussantes
by [BIBLIOPOLY - NEW HAMPSHIRE] STOCKTON, Frank R.; George Richards, illus
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1933. First printing of this edition. Octavo. Green cloth, gilt ttles; pictorial endpapers; 290pp; illus. Tight, clean and square; Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. This copy amusingly inscribed on verso of front free endpaper: "As a testament of ability to sell Good Books in Nashua / to Elizabeth M. Stevens from Goodman's... Read More
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The Complaisant Lover: A Comedy
by [BIBLIO-DRAMA] GREENE, Graham
New York: Viking Press, (1961). First Edition. Small octavo (19cm.). Gray cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 87pp. Board corners tapped, else a Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price-clipped, lightly rubbed, still Very Good or better. In America, Greene's love-triangle comedy opened on Nov 1, 1961 at the Ethel Barrymore Theater, starring Sir Michael Redgrave, George... Read More
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Crescent and Cross: The Battle of Lepanto, 1571
by BICHENO, Hugh
London: Cassell, 2003. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo; brown paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-350,[2]pp. Spine ends nudged, a few tiny dog-eared pages; about Near Fine in a Very Good+ unclipped dustjacket, with modest shelfwear, shallow loss to crown, and a few small tears.
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Crater News - Vol.1, No.12 (16 June, 1945)
by BICKEL, Myron O. and COXE, Thomas H. (editors)
[Honolulu]: Lieut. D.G. Rorie, 1945. Quarto (33cm); 8" x 13" sheets, mimeographed on recto and verso, and stapled at upper left corner; [8pp]; illus. Light toning to extremities, with front cover present, but neatly detached from staple; Very Good, complete copy. Newsletter produced by US Navy officers stationed in Honolulu, this issue published just after V-E Day. Contents include... Read More
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THE SACRIFICE
by Bidart, Frank
New York: Random House, 1983. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in orange plain wraps. His third collection, and containing the important long poem "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky". A name in ink on the front cover (by the publisher), covers creased in three areas, and a spot on the spine; the interior is fine.
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Reminiscences of A Soldier's Wife
by BIDDLE, Ellen McGowan
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1907. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20.5cm). Grey cloth stamped in gilt and black, top edge gilt; 256,[4]pp; frontispiece and 13 plates. Straight and sound, faded along spine, lightly rubbed at extremities: Very Good. "A very good account of Army life at western posts after the Civil War" (Graff). GRAFF 288. HOWES B426.
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If War Comes...Mobilizing Machines and Men
by BIDWELL, Percy W.
[New York]: Public Affairs Committee, 1941. Revised Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's blue staplebound wrappers; 31pp.; illus. Light shelf wear and a hint of dust-soil, else Very Good or better. Public Affairs Pamphlet no. 48. Summary of a study of the Council on Foreign Relations published as "Mobilizing Civilian America," by Harold J. Tobin and Percy W. Bidwell.
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Philosophische Analysen zur Kunst der Gegenwart
by BIEMEL, Walter
Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, 1968. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Blue cloth, titled in gilt; viii,[264]pp. Former owner's name to front free endpaper. Mildly spine-sunned and gently rubbed, else clean and sound: Very Good or better. Phaenomenologica collection #28.
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Looking at Fashion
by [Biennale di Firenze]; CELANT, Germano et al. eds
Florence: Skira Editore, 1996. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm x 25cm). Black cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 683pp; illus. Fine copy; no markings or wear; appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper; minor rubbing on front and back panels and slight creases to top and bottom edges. Published in conjunction with the inaugural Biennale di Firenze in 1996.
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Black Beetles in Amber
by BIERCE, Ambrose
San Francisco: Western Authors Publishing Company, 1892. First Edition. Second issue, in printed wrapper by Johnson & Emigh, San Francisco. Octavo (19cm). In original tan paper wraps, printed in black; 280pp; publisher's ads to rear wrapper; frontispiece portrait. Wrappers largely intact with tiny chips at edges, front cover with long splits at upper and lower joint, spine chipped and... Read More
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Satan Was A Man: A Novel of Murder
by BIERSTADT, Edward Hale
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 292pp. Small (ca 1/2" dia) faint stain at upper corner of front board, else a tight, Very Good or better copy. In the original W.A. Dwiggins dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 on front flap) with shallow chips at head and heel of spine panel,... Read More
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BIDATO
by BigEagle, Duane
Berkeley: The Workingmans Press, 1975. First Edition. Stapled wrappers; small 8vo. Edited by Barry Gifford and Gary Wilkie and distributed by Serendipity Books. First book by this California grad of Osage Sioux heritage. Near fine.
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Statistical Tables; Exhibiting the Condition and Products of Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts, for the year ending April 1, 1837
by BIGELOW, John P[rescott]
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers, 1838. First Edition. Octavo. Printed paper wrappers; 209,[3]pp; includes index. Rear wrapper excised; marginal loss at bottom corner and fore-margin of first ten leaves, diminishing from ca 1/2" marginal loss to small nicks, not affecting text. Ex-NYPL, with small ink pressure stamp on verso of title page (no other markings). Data on various... Read More
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On The Bloody Trail of Geronimo
by BIGELOW, John (Lieutenant); Arthur Woodward, fwd & introd
Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1968. Second book edition. Octavo. Brown cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xxvi,237pp. Clean, tight, straight copy; Near Fine. In original pictorial dustwrapper, slightly rubbed and worn at base of spine and rear panel; Very Good. Account, originally serialized in Outing Magazine in 1886, of the Tenth Negro Cavalry in the Apache Campaign of 1886. Includes reproductions of... Read More
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