M. Tulli Ciceronis De Natura Deorum Libri Tres. Cum notis integris Paulli Manucci, Petri Victorii, Joachimi Camerarii, Dionys. Lambini, Fulv. Ursini, & Joannis Walkeri
by Marcus Tullii Cicerinos [Cicero]; Joannes Davisius [John Davies]
Cantabrigiae: Sumptibus Cornelii Crownfield, 1723. Very Good. Cantabrigiae [Cambridge]: Sumptibus Cornelii Crownfield, 1723. Second Edition. Octavo. 376 pp. Bound in contemporary calf in cambridge-style binding with five raised bands to spine. Lacking endpapers, else complete. Boards rubbed and worn along edges with brief exposure to corners and a couple chips to crown; front board slightly bowed. Binding sound.... Read More
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A Voice from the Attic
by Robertson Davies
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First Edition, stated. Turquoise and navy decorative dust jacket by noted Czech book designer Rudolph Ruzicka. Binding also by him, in aegean-blue cloth with silver and turquoise spine stamping, including ivy motifs; author's initials, with ivy motif, stamped in turquoise on front panel.... Read More
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![Assignment Abacus [Dorothy Hughes's Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/262/516/1399516262.0.m.jpg)
Assignment Abacus [Dorothy Hughes's Copy]
by L.P. Davies
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company / Crime Club, 1975. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company / Crime Club, 1975. First Edition (stated). Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [6],182pp. Light edge wear and a bit of toning to jacket, rear panel slightly soiled, else Very Good and sound. Publisher's review slip... Read More
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Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq., Interspersed with Characters and Anecdotes of his Theatrical Contemporaries, the Whole Forming a History of the Stage, which Includes a Period of Thirty-Six Years
by Thomas Davies
London: Printed for the Author, and sold at his Shop in Great Russell Street, Covent-Garden, 1781. Very Good. London: Printed for the Author, and sold at his Shop in Great Russell Street, Covent-Garden, 1781. Third Edition [with Davies's corrections]. Octavo; Vol I [16] + 352pp; Vol II [16] + 434pp + 2pp of Subscription Prospectus for Davies's forthcoming... Read More
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![[Civil War Patriotic Cover] Uncle Sam sends his bird after Traitor Jeff](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/747/866/1689866747.0.m.jpg)
[Civil War Patriotic Cover] Uncle Sam sends his bird after Traitor Jeff
by [Civil War - Jefferson Davis]
United States: s.i., 1860. Very Good. United States: n.d., ca. 1860s. Unused Civil War patriotic mailing envelope (7.5x14cm); upper panel adorned with a woodcut illustration printed in red. Light soil and wrinkling, else a Very Good, bright and unused example. Patriotic cover revisiting a popular Union theme: the unpopularity of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. The image... Read More
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Death on Treasure Trail
by Don Davis
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1941. Very Good/Very Good. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1941. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in yellow pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); [6],281pp. Dust jacket a bit foxed and dust-soiled, rubbing to boards affecting cloth sizing; still remains a bright and sound copy of this scarce Western... Read More
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Two-Gun Rio Kid
by Don Davis
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1941. Very Good. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1941. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red cloth, red topstain, black titling to upper cover and spine; [6],248pp. Faint damp spots to upper cover and spine, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy of this scarce Western.
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Old Sinners Never Die
by Dorothy Salisbury Davis
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959. First Edition. Octavo. 187 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in black. Unclipped dust jacket chipped and toned along edges with a few short closed tears. Light to moderate edgewear to boards with general rubbing. Binding is sound. Small patch of... Read More
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I Am the American Negro
by Frank Marshall Davis
Chicago, IL: Black Cat Press, 1937. Very Good. Chicago, IL: Black Cat Press, 1937. First Edition Stated. Slim octavo; publisher's brown cloth, printed paper paste-on to upper cover; 69pp.; title page vignette by Rex Cleveland. Shallow damp stain along bottom edge of rear cover slightly affecting upper cover, corners bumped, contemporary ex libris to front pastedown, else a... Read More
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Beulah Land
by H.L. Davis
New York: William Morrow & Co, 1949. Very Good/Very Good. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1949. First Edition. Octavo; [vi], 314pp. Map endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; book in brick cloth boards with black lettering. Jacket faded along spine and edges, with shallow waterstain at tail of spine only visible from interior, a small... Read More
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![[Sammelband] The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing, of Downingville, away down east in the state of Maine [WITH] Letters of J. Downing, Major, Downingville Militia, Second Brigade, to his old friend, Mr. Dwight, of The New-York Daily Advertiser](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/662/721/1511721662.0.m.jpg)
[Sammelband] The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing, of Downingville, away down east in the state of Maine [WITH] Letters of J. Downing, Major, Downingville Militia, Second Brigade, to his old friend, Mr. Dwight, of The New-York Daily Advertiser
by Jack Downing [pseud. Seba Smith] and J. Downing [pseud. Charles August Davis]
Boston: Lilly, Wait, Colman, and Holden, 1834. Very Good. Two volumes in one; thick 12mo; contemporary half black morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine in five compartments. Minor scuffing to extremities, long closed vertical tears across pp. 201/2 and 237/8 of the first title affecting text without loss of meaining, textblock uniformly finger-soiled, mid-20th century ownership rubberstamp to... Read More
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The Mouse in the Mountain
by Norbert Davis
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1943. Very Good -. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1943. First Edition stated. Octavo (20 cm); [vi], 249pp. No dust jacket. Boards full bound in bright yellow cloth with red stamping and a red topstain. Fore and bottom edges deckled. Board corners worn with bumping to edges and spine ends. Lightly... Read More
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Autograph Letter with descriptions of New York State Reformatory for Women at Bedford Hills, New York
by [Prisons - Sex Work] [Katharine Bement Davis]
New York, 1911. Very Good. New York: 1911. Six-page manuscript letter from an unnamed man to an Elsa Lang (his wife?) with a focus on sex hygiene and remarks from Katharine Davis regarding her work as director of the New York State Reformatory for Women at Bedford Hills, New York. Light wrinkling to edges, old mail folds; oxidation... Read More
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Jake Riley: Irreparably Damaged
by Rebecca Fjelland Davis
New York: HarperTempest, 2003. Fine/Near Fine. [New York]: HarperTempest, [2003]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; [6],265pp. Tiny split at top upper jacket flap fold, else Fine. Psychological young adult novel by the Minnesota author.
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The Trick: New Stories [Printer's Copy; Signed Limited Edition with original drawing]
by Fielding Dawson
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. Very Good/Very Good. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Books, 1991. Limited Deluxe Edition, this designated "Printer's Copy" on colophon. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's acetate dust jacket over illustrated boards with patterned spine, handbound by Earle Gray as the 26 lettered copies in series (125signed numbered copies and 200 trade copies were also produced); tipped-in... Read More
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God and My Father
by Clarence Day
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1932. First Edition Stated. Octavo (19cm); publisher's boards, yellow topstain, in orange pictorial dust jacket printed in blue, original price printed to upper panel ($1.00); x,83pp. Light shelf wear to jacket margins, spine panel very lightly faded; Very Good and sound overall.
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![Picturing America 1497-1899. Prints, Maps, and Drawings Bearing on the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory that is now the United States [with] Volume I: Text [and] Volume II: Illustrations](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/453/029/1689029453.0.m.jpg)
Picturing America 1497-1899. Prints, Maps, and Drawings Bearing on the New World Discoveries and on the Development of the Territory that is now the United States [with] Volume I: Text [and] Volume II: Illustrations
by Gloria Gilda Deak
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988. Near Fine/Near Fine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988. First Edition. Two Quarto volumes. 657pp.; volume II unpaginated but includes 16 color and 880 black and white plates. Dust jackets illustrated with 1832 watercolor of Albany New York. Oatmeal cloth with green leather spine labels stamped in gilt. Dust jacket spines a... Read More
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Nevada Daily Transcript Vol XI, No. 151 - Sunday Morning March 4, 1866
by [California] [Brown & Deal]
Nevada City, CA: Brown & Deal, Proprietors, 1866. Very Good. Nevada City, CA: Brown & Deal, Proprietors, 1866. Folio (45cm); 4pp. printed in five columns on newsprint. Chips and tears to edges; general staining; folds. Ink annotation to page 2, else unmarked and text legible throughout. Scarce newspaper from the California Gold Rush town; includes advertisements, local and... Read More
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![A Sermon, Preached Before His Honour Samuel Adams, Esq. Lieutenant Governor; the Honourable the Council Senate, and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, May 28th, 1794. Being the day of General Election [Arodi Thayer's Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/488/082/1586082488.0.m.jpg)
A Sermon, Preached Before His Honour Samuel Adams, Esq. Lieutenant Governor; the Honourable the Council Senate, and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, May 28th, 1794. Being the day of General Election [Arodi Thayer's Copy]
by Samuel Deane
Boston: At the State Press, by Adams and Larkin, 1794. Very Good. Printed in Boston: At the State Press, by Adams and Larkin, Printers to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1794. First Edition. Octavo; stitched self-wrappers; 31,[1],6,[2]pp. (A-D4 a4, collated complete with half title page). Foxing to early leaves, untrimmed margins a bit chipped and curled, else Very Good... Read More
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Murder Most Opportune
by Robert George Dean
Garden City, NY: The Crime Club, Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, 1939. Very Good. Garden City, NY: The Crime Club, Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1939. First Edition, stated. Octavo. 268 pp. Green boards stamped in black. Lacks dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with brief exposure and a slight lean. Spine a touch... Read More
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Heidegger et Kant
by [Martin Heidegger; Immanuel Kant] Henri Decleve
La Haye / The Hague, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1970. Very Good. La Haye / The Hague, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. 380 pp. Blue cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt. Text in French. No dust jacket. Boards show light shelfwear with some minor fading and dust soiling along edges. Binding is sound. Previous... Read More
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Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets
by Countee Cullen [ed.]; Aaron Douglas [decorations]
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1927. Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1927. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21cm); publisher's black cloth, pink printed paper labels to upper cover ands spine, pink and white decorative endpapers; xxii,[2],237pp. Spine label browned and mostly perished, corners and spine ends a bit bumped, textblock toned; overall About Very Good,... Read More
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![Glowchild, and Other Poems [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/322/697/1721697322.0.m.jpg)
Glowchild, and Other Poems [Signed]
by Ruby Dee
New York: Odarkai Books / The Third Press / Joseph Okpaku Publishing Co., Inc, 1972. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Odarkai Books / The Third Press / Joseph Okpaku Publishing Co., Inc., 1972. Stated First Printing, Octobre 1972. 12mo (19cm); illustrated dust jacket with $4.95 price; beige cloth with lavendar foil to spine; [xvi],111pp. Jacket toned along edges... Read More
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![The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/214/124/1542124214.0.m.jpg)
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. [Limited Edition]
by Daniel Defoe
Oxford / Stratford-upon-Avon: Basil Blackwell Publisher for the Shakespeare Head Press, 1927. Very Good-. Oxford / Stratford-upon-Avon: Basil Blackwell Publisher to the Shakespeare Head Press, 1927. First Thus, Limited to 750 copies. Two volumes; small octavos; publisher's blue cloth, gilt-lettered spines, top edges gilt; xi,[1],203; [6],287pp. Corners bumped, spines a hint toned, Vol. II hinges cracked but holding,... Read More
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A Tripping Stone: Ethiopian Prison Diary (1976-1981)
by Taffara Deguefe
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Addis Ababa University Press, 2003. Very Good. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Addis Ababa University Press, [2003]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); publisher's green photo-illustrated card wrappers; xxxii,471pp.; halftone photographic illus. Moderate wear to wrapper margins, remnants of old price sticker to upper cover, textblock margins a bit finger-soiled; overall Very Good, internally clean and sound. Prison... Read More
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