A Clip of Steel
by BLACKBURN, Thomas
London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1969. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 126pp. Inconspicuous faint stain to bottom edge of text block, else a fine, tight copy in unclipped, lightly edge-rubbed jacket, Near Fine. Post-war British poet's memoir of a strict Victorian upbringing and his dissipated later youth. The "clip of steel" of the title refers to a device... Read More
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A BREATHING SPACE [Inscribed]
by Blackburn, Thomas
London: Putnam, 1964. First Edition. First edition. Vellum backed paper covered boards; dustjacket; 32pp. Inscribed by author. One short ink mark (possibly the authors, as it is in same colored ink as inscription), else Fine. Dustwrapper unevenly faded, with creasing to the edges and one tear on the back panel; Very Good. [64992].
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Yolande
by BLACK, William
Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Company, n.d. (circa 1880's). Reprint. Octavo (19cm); red decorative cloth, stamped in black and gilt; yellow patterned endpapers; 432pp. Spine sunned, heel and crown bumped; mild soiling and rubbing to boards. Textblock toned; hinges cracked at title page and throughout. Else Very Good. Scottish author William Black was tremendously popular in... Read More
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Liberation. Vol. 16, No. 7 (Dec 1971)
by BLAIR, Gwenda Linda (et al, aka Liberation Collective)
New York: Liberation Collective, 1971. First Edition. Single quarto issue. Staple-bound card wrappers; 51pp; illus. Address label affixed to front wrapper; Very Good. Monthly magazine of non-Marxist leftist opinion and commentary, co-founded by Dave Dellinger and A.J. Muste in 1956. This issue with articles by Juliet Mitchell, Stanley Aronowitz, Staughton Lynd, others; photographs by Steve Levinson.
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres [...] To which are added, copious questions; and an analysis of each lecture, by Abraham Mills
by BLAIR, Hugh; Abraham Mills, ed
Philadelphia: James Kay, Jun. and Brother, [1833]. First Thus. Large octavo (22.5cm.); full contemporary speckled calf, two black gilt spine labels; 557pp. Boards a bit shelf-worn with old soil spots, corners lightly bumped, textblock a bit foxed and soiled, numerous contemporary and later (1930s) ownership inscriptions to front endpapers, else a Very Good example. "University Edition" - bottom spine... Read More
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Blake Studies: Essays on his life and work
by [BLAKE] KEYNES, Geoffrey
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. Second printing. Large octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xii;263pp; plates & illus. A fine copy, free of markings or wear. In the original dustwrapper, crisp and unworn, very Near Fine.
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Heroes; US Marine Corps 1861-1955, Armed Forces Awards & Flags
by BLAKENEY, Jane
Washington DC: For The Author, 1957. First Edition. Quarto. 27cm. Publisher's bright red cloth titled and ruled in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 621pp. Very light wear and scuffing to edges of cloth, strong and bright, in a clean example of the dustjacketwith some creasing and wear to extremities, shallow chipping and loss to head of mildly... Read More
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Australian Writers
by BLAKE, L.J.
Adelaide: Rigby Limited, 1968. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); purple cloth boards, with titling stamped in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; viii,268pp. Rubbing to lower board edges; Fine. Dustjacket price-clipped, spine-faded, with dust-soil, creases along extremities, and tanning to upper edge of verso; Very Good+. "...discusses the poets, novelists, historians, biographers, and short story... Read More
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Fun to Cook Book
by BLAKE, Mary; Margie Blake
Carnation Company, 1955. Octavo (20cm); spiral binding with pictorial boards; [3],4-47,[1]pp; color illustrations throughout. Modest shelfwear, with lower spiral missing; Very Good. Created by Mary Blake and her daughter, Margie, and intended for young children to learn how to cook, including safety and cleanup. The cook book is from Margie's perspective, with a focus on Carnation products.... Read More
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Dances With Wolves
by BLAKE, Michael
New York: Newmarket Press, 1991. First Hardcover Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); brown and blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [viii],324,[4]pp. Tiny crinkle to heel, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $18.95). First hardcover edition of Blake's 1988 novel, with an afterword by the author. Basis for Kevin Costner's Oscar-winning western film.... Read More
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A PENKNIFE IN MY HEART
by Blake, Nicholas (C. Day Lewis)
New York: Harper & Row, 1958. First American edition. First edition C-I, as stated. Maroon and grey cloth boards; illustrated dustjacket; 8vo. Publisher’s blue tissue seal covering end chapters still in tact. Dustwrapper, not price-clipped, worn at extremities, with tears at corners and spine ends; toning to jacket extremities and spine. Boards rubbed at tips and head and tail... Read More
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We are the Makers of Dreams
by BLAKE, William J.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; tan top-stain; 342pp. Bit of foxing to text block edges and age-mottling to endpapers, else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped, with mild rubbing to extremities and a couple of tiny, closed nicks, VG to Near Fine. An attractive copy of this somewhat... Read More
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The Copperheads
by BLAKE, William
New York: Dial Press, 1941. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; vii,[8]-741pp. Jacket extremities quite rubbed and worn with rather long splitting along spine and flap edges though with no significant loss, some damp-spotting to jacket panels and top textblock edge, else Very Good in Good or better jacket. Historical novel by the Marxist economist... Read More
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The Painter and the Lady
by BLAKE, William J.
London: Cassell and Company Limited, [1939]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; ix,[1],389pp. Jacket quite brittle and worn with several long closed tears and crude tape repair to verso, 2" loss at spine foot, remaining spine panel a bit sunned, foxing to textblock edges, else Very Good in a Good only copy of the... Read More
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The New Warfare
by BLANCHON, G[eorges]; Fred Rothwell, trans
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, [1918]. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original buckram in white printed dust jacket; 253pp. General dust-soil and toning to jacket, some wear to extremities, including tear to bottom inch of front jacket flap, else Very Good or better. World War I-era study, uncommon in the jacket.
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Hugo Blanco on Chile & Peru
by BLANCO, Hugo
New York: Pathfinder Press, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial thick paper wrappers; 15pp. Slight wear; vertical crease; a few ink notes in margins; a Good reading copy. Interview, first published in the Intercontinental Press (1972).
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The History of Ten Years, 1830-1840
by BLANC, Louis
London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. First English Language Edition. Two volumes; octavo (22cm.); contemporary red polished double-ruled calf, heavily gilt spines in six compartments, morocco gilt spine labels, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; [4],viii,627; [2],viii,656pp.; folding map frontispiece in Vol. I. Boards a bit scuffed and corners bumped, tiny chip to leather at fore-edge of Vol. I upper cover,... Read More
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Le Buffon de la Jeunesse: Zoologie – Botanique – Minéralogie
by BLANCHARD, P. (ed.); [Jean-Charles] Chenu (illus.)
Paris: Morizot, 1859. Large octavo (27cm). Brown pebble-grained cloth backed in leather, gilt stamping to spine, all edges gilt; white moiré endpapers; viii,592pp; 89 hand-colored plates. Straight and sound, externally rubbed, amateur repair to headcap, front flyleaf partly detached with split to front hinge, foxed: just Very Good. Natural history compendium for youth, with over 400 hand-colored... Read More
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Atlas Géographique et Iconographique du Cours Complet D'Écriture Sainte, Gravé par vingt artistes distingués de Paris..
by BLANCHARD, Théophile & Barrère Freres
Paris: Chez J.-P. Migne, 1862. Folio (37cm). Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards; coated endpapers; [2]pp preliminary text ("Avertissement") and 77 leaves of plates, printed recto-only; two folding. Also included here (though not called for in the table) are two large albumen photographic facsimiles, one reproducing a rendering of the interior of the Hagia Sophia; the other a facsimile of... Read More
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Monte Albán: Settlement Patterns at the Ancient Zapotec Capital
by BLANTON, Richard E. (text); William O. Autry, Jr., Carl Kuttruff, and Elsa Redmond (et al) (contributors)
New York: Academic Press, Inc, 1978. First Edition. Monte Alban Archaeological and Topographic Map laid in. Octavo (24cm); burgundy cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; xxvi,451,[3]pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and map illustrations. Studies in Archeology series. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel... Read More
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Medicine in Virginia in the Nineteenth Century [Signed]
by BLANTON, Wyndham B.
Richmond: Garrett & Massie, 1933. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (27cm). Cream cloth stamped in red and black; plain endpapers; [xiv],466pp; black and white plates. Signed by author on title page; presentation inscription from the Board of Trustees of the Richmond Academy of Medicine on front free endpaper. Sound and generally clean, with minor shelfwear and discoloration to endpapers:... Read More
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Medicine in Virginia in the Eighteenth Century [Signed]
by BLANTON, Wyndham B.
Richmond: Garrett & Massie, 1931. First Edition. First printing, limited to 1750 copies. Quarto (27cm). Cream cloth stamped in black and red; plain endpapers; [xii],449,[3]pp; black and white frontispiece and plates. Signed by author on title page; 1953 gift inscription on f.f.e.p. Generally clean, with a few small smudges to cloth; front hinge cracked after f.f.e.p., else Very Good.... Read More
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Sónnica
by BLASCO IBÁÑEZ, Vicente; Frances Douglas, trans
New York: Duffield & Company, 1912. First American Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's tan pictorial cloth stamped in red and blue; [4],331pp. Minor wear, tiny contemporary bookseller ticket to rear pastedown, else Very Good or better. The fifth novel in the author's Valencian series.
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The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser; Revised and Expanded Edition
by [BLASER, Robin] NICHOLS, Miriam (editor); Robert Creeley (foreword); Charles Bernstein (afterword)
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Revised and Expanded Edition, First Printing, Softcover. Octavo (22cm); white pictorial paper wrappers; 519pp. Trivial surface wear, with inked marks to lower edge of textblock; Very Good. Collection of verse, with sections including "The Boston Poems (1956-1959)", "The Faerie Queene", and "Wanders". [86771].
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Frederick Douglass: The Clarion Voice
by BLASSINGAME, John W.
[Washington, D.C.]: Division of Publications, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1976. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original pictorial wrappers; vi,[2],72pp.; illus., facsimiles throughout. Fine.
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