![I Live in Music [Signed by Shange]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/552/682/1699682552.0.m.jpg)
I Live in Music [Signed by Shange]
by Ntozake Shange; Romare Bearden [illus.]; Linda Sunshine [ed.]; Eric Baker [design]
New York: Welcome Book / Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1994. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Welcome Book / Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1994. First Edition. Large, slim quarto; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; [32]pp.; full color illus. throughout. Moderate wear and light soil to jacket margins, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Signed by the author... Read More
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Denslow's Mother Goose: Being the Old Familiar Rhymes and Jingles of Mother Goose Edited and Illustrated by W.W. Denslow
by W.W. Denslow; Frederic W. Goudy [type design]
New York: McClure, Phillips & Company Publishers, 1901. Very Good. New York: McClure, Phillips & Company Publishers, 1901. First Edition, Second State with four pages of pictures before "Humpty Dumpty." Quarto. [96 pp.] Bright and highly amusing color illustrations by Denslow throughout, with verses hand-lettered by the esteemed type designer Frederic W. Goudy. Paper-covered boards with color illustration... Read More
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The Sign of Four
by Arthur Conan Doyle; Alfred Garth Jones [design]
London: George Newnes, Ltd, 1902. Very Good +. London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1902. Souvenir Edition. Octavo. 285pp. Navy blue cloth decorated in gilt; top edge gilt; decorative endpapers. Touch of rubbing to edges; mild bumping to corners. Binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good or better. A quite attractive edition of the second novel to feature Sherlock Holmes,... Read More
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Theme and Variations: An Autobiography
by Bruno Walter; James A. Galston [trans.]; W.A. Dwiggin [design]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Second Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in decorative price-clipped dust jacket, brown topstain; [2],xi,[1],344,xxpp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, seven (7) leaves of illus. Some moderate wear to jacket extremities including a few short closed tears and small chips, spine panel a shade toned, later (1990)... Read More
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![[Poster] Charlotte Moorman Presents Tenth Annual New York Avant Garde Festival on a Train at Penn Central Cars, at Grand Central Station, December 9, 1973, 1pm until midnight](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/409/458/1702458409.0.m.jpg)
[Poster] Charlotte Moorman Presents Tenth Annual New York Avant Garde Festival on a Train at Penn Central Cars, at Grand Central Station, December 9, 1973, 1pm until midnight
by Charlotte Moorman; Jim McWilliams [design]
New York: New York Avant Garde Festival, 1973. Very Good+. New York: New York Avant Garde Festival, 1973. First Edition. Large pictorial poster (77x50.5cm) printed offset in red and black on white stock. Previous folds else a Near Fine example. Small printed note ("Last Year's Brochure") mounted to verso. Beautiful example of the photomontage poster accompanying... Read More
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![Nightwoods: A Novel [Signed Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/586/608/1593608586.0.m.jpg)
Nightwoods: A Novel [Signed Limited Edition]
by Charles Frazier; Susan Rhew [design]
New York: Random House, 2011. Near Fine. New York: Random House, 2011. Limited First Edition, signed by Frazier and numbered 92 of 100 copies specially-bound for The Captain's Bookshelf (Asheville, NC) on limitation notice at front. Octavo; [x], 259pp. Bound in blindstamped green cloth with black lettering to spine. Housed in photo-illustrated, paper-covered slipcase. Boards are sturdy, clean,... Read More
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![The Pumpkin Pie, or Reassurances Are Always False, tho We Love Them. Only Physics Counts... [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed by Wakoski to Clayton and Caryl Eshleman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/826/559/1699559826.0.m.jpg)
The Pumpkin Pie, or Reassurances Are Always False, tho We Love Them. Only Physics Counts... [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed by Wakoski to Clayton and Caryl Eshleman]
by Diane Wakoski; Noel Young [design]
Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. Fine/Near Fine. [Los Angeles, CA]: Black Sparrow Press, [1972]. First Edition, Limited to 126 copies of which this is no. 70. Small, slim 12mo; publisher's orange printed paper-covered boards in clear acetate dust jacket; [16]pp. Just About Fine. "A Chrstmas Greeting from the Black Sparrow Press." Inscribed and signed to... Read More
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![Burro Alley [Limited Edition, Signed by Corle]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/477/137/1614137477.0.m.jpg)
Burro Alley [Limited Edition, Signed by Corle]
by Edwin Corle; Merle Armitage [designer]
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce / Merle Armitage Book, 1938. Very Good/Good. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce / A Merle Armitage Book, [1938]. First Edition, Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 4. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in yellow decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($5); [12],270pp. Dust-soiled jacket quite worn and toned along... Read More
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![Quo Vadis? [Limited Edition, Signed by Fiume and Mardersteig]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/906/138/1622138906.0.m.jpg)
Quo Vadis? [Limited Edition, Signed by Fiume and Mardersteig]
by Henryk Sienkiewicz; Jeremiah Curtin [trans.]; Harold Lamb [intro.]; Salvatore Fiume [illus.]; Giovanni Mardersteig [designer]
Verona: Limited Editions Club / Officina Bodoni, 1959. Very Good +/Very Good. Verona: Printed for The Members of the Limited Editions Club at the Officina Bodoni, 1959. First Thus, Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 1495. Large octavo (27cm.); publisher's cloth in pale blue-grey dust jacket, yellow topstain, in original paper-covered slipcase; xii,[2],594pp.; tipped-in illus.... Read More
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![Silence of the Lambs [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/169/455/1702455169.0.m.jpg)
Silence of the Lambs [Limited Edition]
by Alberto Huerta; George King Fox [master of the press]; Marianne Hinckle [designer/printer]
San Francisco, CA: Año Nuevo Island Press / Roxburghe Club, 1998. Very Good. San Francisco: Año Nuevo Island Press / Roxburghe Club, 1998. First Edition, Limited to 200 copies. Single sheet folded into folio keepsake (35.5cm); white pictorial self-wrappers. Light dust-soil, else Very Good and sound. Keepsake given in memory of the poet William Everson and... Read More
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Election Mood
by Clare Boothe; G. Alan Chidsey [designer]
Great Neck: G. Alan Chidsey, 1940. Very Good. Great Neck, NY: G. Alan Chidsey, November 9, 1940. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"); [60pp]. Dark gray leather with stamped lettering. Covers a bit toned with any gilt or foil to lettering rubbed away. Spine a bit cocked. A handful of the pasted-in columns have let go from the pages, but... Read More
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Ikko Where Time Has Vanished
by Ikko Narahara; Mitsuo Katsui [design]
Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun Co, 1975. Very Good. Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun Co., 1975. First Edition. Folio (34cm); unpaginated. Black and white photographs of various U.S. locales throughout. Light blue boards stamped in white and bronze with black cloth spine lettered in silver; housed in publisher's black slipcase. Comes with publisher's original shipping box. Boards scuffed and smudged; binding sound;... Read More
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![The Wizardry of Oz: The Artistry and Magic of the 1939 M-G-M Classic [Signed and Inscribed by Scarfone, Stillman, and Dubas]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/339/610/1448610339.0.m.jpg)
The Wizardry of Oz: The Artistry and Magic of the 1939 M-G-M Classic [Signed and Inscribed by Scarfone, Stillman, and Dubas]
by Jay Scarfone; William Stillman; Charles Schram [fwd.]; Rita Dubas [design]
New York: Gramercy Books, 1999. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Gramercy Books, 1999. First Edition. Signed by Scarfone, Stillman, and Dubas with brief inscriptions to previous owner. Quarto. 224 pp. Illustrations, chief color. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket worn along edges with some creasing and general surface scratching. Boards lightly worn at... Read More
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![Natural World: A Bestiary [Signed by Harrison and Guest]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/246/563/1699563246.0.m.jpg)
Natural World: A Bestiary [Signed by Harrison and Guest]
by Jim Harrison [poems]; Diana Guest [sculptures]; Susan Quasha [design]
New York: Open Book, 1982. Near Fine. New York: Open Book, 1982. Limited Edition of 350 copies, this being #50. Black and white photographs of Guest's sculptures throughout. Beige linen boards title in gilt; Natsume endpapers. No dust jacket as issued. Bottom corners slightly bumped; binding sound; pages unmarked. Signed by Harrison and Guest without inscription on... Read More
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![A Spaniard in the Works [Signed by Lennon]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/890/274/1715274890.0.m.jpg)
A Spaniard in the Works [Signed by Lennon]
by John Lennon; Robert Freeman [design]
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. Very Good-. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. Second Printing. Small octavo; publisher's photo-illustrated paper covered boards; 90pp.; illus. throughout by Lennon. Boards quite rubbed, front hinge starting to crack; overall a Good to Very Good only example of this fragile work. Signed by Lennon on title page with Certificate of Authenticity... Read More
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Rhymes Of A Jerk
by Larry Fagin; Edward Ruscha [cover design]
New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1974. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1974. First Edition, hardcover issue. Small quarto; 128pp. Clear acetate wrapper; illustrated boards with design by Ruscha. Rubbing and scuffing to wrapper. Light wear to edges and joints; binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good.
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![Your Pages Are Not Numbered [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/521/692/1570692521.0.m.jpg)
Your Pages Are Not Numbered [Signed]
by Louis Rowan; Douglas Keith [design]
New York: Friendly Local Press, 1968. Very Good. [New York]: Friendly Local Press, 1968. First Edition. Signed at colophon by Rowan. Quarto. Stapled wraps with tape strip to spine, though bottom strip lacking. Rubbing to edges. Binding holding by the single tape strip. Dedication to introductory page in Rowan's hand, "For the Hornicles- "(?). Very Good and scarce.... Read More
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I, the Tiger
by Manuel Komroff; Boris Artzybasheff [jacket design]
New York: Coward, McCann, Inc, 1933. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Coward, McCann, Inc., 1933. First Edition. Octavo. 249 pp. Boris Artzybasheff-illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price present. Orange boards stamped in black and gilt. Decorated endpapers. Dark topstain. Dust jacket chipped along edges with general creasing and rubbing with heavier soiling to verso. Boards shelfworn... Read More
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Master of the Vineyard
by Myrtle Reed; Margaret Armstrong [design]
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1910. Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1910. First Edition. Octavo (20.5 cm); vi, 372pp. Full color frontispiece with tissue protector intact. Boards bound in lilac cloth with gilt and purple stamping on decorative front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, fore edge deckled.... Read More
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![Wanted--A Match Maker [Matchmaker]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/632/751/1664751632.0.m.jpg)
Wanted--A Match Maker [Matchmaker]
by Paul Leicester Ford; Howard Chandler Christy [illus.]; Margaret Armstrong [design]
New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1901. Very Good/Good. New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1901. Early Printing. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's pictorial cloth in decorative green dust jacket, binding and dust jacket signed in image "MA"; [8],111pp.; frontispiece, four leaves of plates (tissue guards), green and black vignettes, text printed within decorative green and black border throughout. Jacket... Read More
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![[Poster] Patti Smith on Arista Records](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/216/504/1702504216.0.m.jpg)
[Poster] Patti Smith on Arista Records
by [Patti Smith] Arista Records; Robert Mapplethorpe [photograph]; Bob Heimall [design]
New York: Arista Records, 1975. Good. [New York]: Arista Records, [1975]. Original record store poster (86x61cm) printed offset lithograph reproducing Robert Mapplethorpe's iconic photographic portrait of Smith which also appeared on the album's sleeve. Old fold lines with subsequent rubbing to paper stock, ragged pinholes at corners, uneven dampstaining. Overall a Good only example of this extremely rare... Read More
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The Scottsboro Blues
by [Scottsboro Boys] Herman J.D. Carter; Earl D. Crawford [illus.]; Ewing Cato [cover design]
Nashville, TN: The Mahlon Publishing Co, 1933. Very Good. Nashville, TN: The Mahlon Publishing Co. , 1933. First Edition. Octavo; illustrated wraps; 32pp. Black and white illustration. Light toning and creasing to wraps; curling to edges; binding sound; pages unmarked; Very Good. Quite scarce book of poetry from the Nashville author dedicated "to the nine Scottsboro boys with... Read More
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The Art of the Game: A Collection of Vintage Board Games from the Collection of Selby Shaver [Inscribed and Signed by Chambers]
by [Selby Shaver] Tim Chambers; Greg Rannells [photography]; Tyler Stallings [design]
West Boylston, MA: Selby Shaver and Tim Chambers / Mercantile/Image Press, 2001. Very Good+/Very Good. [West Boylston, MA: Mercantile/Image Press, 2001.] First Edition. Large square quarto (31cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xi,[1],215pp.; full color photographs throughout. Moderate wear and wrinkling to dust jacket margins, corners very slightly nudged, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed... Read More
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![The Morning Line [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/249/255/1699255249.0.m.jpg)
The Morning Line [Signed]
by Ted Berrigan; Tom Clark [cover design]
Santa Barbara, CA: Am Here Books / Immediate Editions, 1982. Very Good. Santa Barbara, CA: Am Here Books / Immediate Editions, 1982. First Edition, trade issue. Quarto; side-stapled wrappers; 27ll. printed mimeograph on rectos only. Mild smudging and rubbing to wraps; faint marginal staining to final few leaves; else unmarked and a Very Good and sound copy of this late career... Read More
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![The Lazy Lays, and Prose Imaginings [Inscribed to American Medium Mary Hollis Billings]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/107/033/1609033107.0.m.jpg)
The Lazy Lays, and Prose Imaginings [Inscribed to American Medium Mary Hollis Billings]
by William H. Harrison; Florence Claxton [cover design]
London: William H. Harrison, 1877. Very Good. London: William H. Harrison, 1877. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's purple pictorial cloth designed by Florence Claxton elaborately embossed in gilt and black, all edges gilt, black glazed endpapers; iv,[5]-156pp. Cloth a bit scuffed and worn along extremities with brief exposure at corners and spine ends, spine cloth faded, brief split... Read More
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