![Ehrengraf for the Defense [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/933/746/1374746933.0.m.jpg)
Ehrengraf for the Defense [Signed]
by BLOCK, Lawrence
Royal Oak: ASAP, 1994. First, Limited Edition. First Printing. Signed, Limited Edition #29 of 250; Octavo (24cm.); dark gray illustrated (front and rear) boards, stamped in silver on cover and spine; photograph frontis (tipped-in) of author; publisher's clear plastic jacket; 167pp. Fine condition in a Fine, clear acrylic slipcase. Lawrence Block, illustrator- Phil Parks, and Edward D. Hoch... Read More
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Mona [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]
by BLOCK, Lawrence
Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications / Gold Medal Books, 1961. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel. Octavo (18cm); pictorial card wrappers; yellow edge-staining; [6],7-159,[1]pp ads. Bookplate signed by the author is loosely laid in. Shallow loss to crown, light wear to extremities, with a small scratch to uper right edge of textblock, and some light erasure to upper... Read More
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The Commercial and Financial Strength of the United States as Shown in the Balances of Foreign Trade and the Increased Production of Staple Articles
by BLODGET, Lorin
Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1864. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); side-stitched self-wrappers; 39pp. Light wear and toning, else a Very Good or better, quite fresh copy. SABIN 5951.
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The Twelve & Other Poems
by BLOK, Aleksandr (poetry); Anselm Hollo (translation)
Lexington, KY: Gnomon Press, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); tan paper wrappers; [36]pp. A Fine copy. Collection includes "The Twelve", as written in response to the October Revolution of 1917, "Remember Our Sleepy Boy", and "Ravenna". [86948].
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PHILIP LARKIN: A Bibliography 1933-1994
by Bloomfield, B. C.
London & New Castle: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2002. First Thus. Octavo; cloth; dustjacket; 226pp., w/ index. Revised & Enlarged edition. Fine copy in like dustwrapper.
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John Ashbery [Modern Critical Views Series]
by BLOOM, Harold (editor)
New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1985. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); reddish-brown cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [viii],264pp. Pictorial bookplate of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024) mounted to front pastedown. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, showing only a bit of trivial external wear. A collection of essays on the... Read More
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The Woman Who Was Poor: A Contemporary Novel of the French 'Eighties
by BLOY, Leon (text); I.J. Collins (translation)
[New York]: Sheed & Ward, 1947. Octavo (20.5cm); beige cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gray on spine; dustjacket; 356pp. Light foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50), spine-tanned, with foxing, tiny dampstain to upper rear panel and flap fold, and tiny chips to spine ends and extremities; Very Good. Bloy's second novel, originally published... Read More
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The Free Soilers: Third Party Politics, 1848-54
by BLUE, Frederick J.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973. First Edition. Octavo; blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in dark blue on spine; dustjacket; xiv,350,[4]pp. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, price-clipped, with light wear to extremities, short tear to lower rear flap fold, with two small chips and attendant creasing to same, with old price-sticker to lower rear panel.
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![War, Politics And Insanity [Cover title adds: In which the psychiatrist looks at the politician]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/423/022/1334022423.0.m.jpg)
War, Politics And Insanity [Cover title adds: In which the psychiatrist looks at the politician]
by Bluemel, C. S.
Denver: World Press, 1950. Second printing (first published 1948). Octavo. Printed wrappers; 122pp. Clean, tight and unmarked; Near Fine. "Here the psychiatrist looks at the politician and finds him a frequent victim of disorders of personality..." (cover blurb).
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The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
by BLUMENBERG, Hans; Robert M. Wallace (trans.)
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1983. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Grey cloth in black and red dust jacket; [xxxii],[678]pp. Former owner's name to f.f.e.p. Lightly rubbed, spine sunned, generally clean and Very Good. Jacket lightly rubbed, with small chip and attendant creases to upper rear edge, generally Very Good. Translation of Die Legitimität der Neuzeit, first published in... Read More
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Die Legitimität der Neuzeit
by BLUMENBERG, Hans
[Frankfurt]: Suhrkamp Verlag, [1966]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22.5cm). Grey cloth, titled in white on black spine label; [600]pp. Minor ownership inscription and pencil note to front free endpaper, else clean. Lightly spine-sunned, corners gently bumped, otherwise sound: Very Good.
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Work on Myth
by BLUMENBERG, Hans; Robert M. Wallace (trans.)
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985. First American Edition. Octavo (24cm). Red cloth in light teal dust jacket; xl,[686]pp. Former owner's name to front free endpaper. Lightly rubbed, slight dustiness to top edge, else Very Good or better. Jacket lightly rubbed with one or two tiny chips, Very Good or better. Translation of Arbeit am Mythos, first published in Germany in... Read More
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SYMPATHETIC MAGIC
by Blumenthal, Michael
Huntington, NY: Water Mark Press, 1980. First edition. 92 pp. One of 450 copies (there were an additional 70 copies, signed and numbered). Signed and inscribed "fondly" in the year of publication. Illustrations by Theo Fried. Foreword by Charles Fishman. Yapped top edges creased, with small loss; spine faded, two short closed tears to paper wrapper window, else fine.... Read More
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Psychoanalytic Theories of Personality
by BLUM, Gerald S.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1953. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pale grey price-clipped dust jacket; xviii,219pp. Light wear and a few tiny chips to jacket extremities, spine rather toned, else Near Fine in a Very Good copy of the uncommon jacket. Forms part of the series "McGraw-Hill Publications on Psychology.
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The Brigade: an Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation, and World War II
by BLUM, Howard
New York: Harper Collins, (2001). First Edition. First printing. Octavo Cloth-backed boards (hardcover); dustjacket; x,326pp, illus. Fine copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper. Account of members of the Jewish Brigade Group in the British Army during WW2, and their subsequent careers as Nazi hunters and members of the Haganah Underground. A new-appearing, apparently unread copy.
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Radical Philosophers' Newsjournal - no. XI (Fall '78)
by BLUM, Larry (et al, eds)
Somerville, MA: Radical Philosophers' Newsjournal, 1978. Staple-bound card wrappers (softcover); 56pp. Moderate external soiling, else Near Fine. Articles by Milton Fisk ("The Human Nature Argument"); Richard Schmitt ("Are Professionals and Managers a Separate Class?"); Jethro Hayes ("Business Ethics; Dialogue in a Shipyard"). Uncommon. OCLC catalogue suggests that this was the final issue.
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The Foreigner
by BLUM, Ralph (novel); Harry Ford (design)
New York: Atheneum, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); red cloth spine over black paper-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and blind embossed to spine and front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 375pp. Publisher's order slip laid in, with light residue to front endpaper where previously affixed. Trace foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good+. Dustwrapper,... Read More
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Deceivers and Deceived; Observations on Confidence Men and their Victims, Informants and Their Quarry, Political and Industrial Spies and Ordinary Citizens
by BLUM, Richard H.
Springfield, ILL: Charles C. Thomas, 1972. First Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's bright orange cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. [ix]; 328pp. Fresh and bright, very light wer and scuffing to extremities, internally clean; in a strong, only very lightly worn example of the dustjacket. A very good, handsome copy indeed. An analysis of the... Read More
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Near and Far: New Poems
by BLUNDEN, Edmund
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1930. First American Edition. Large octavo (24.5cm.); original cloth-backed boards in drab printed dust jacket; viii,[2],64,[1]pp. A few short closed tears to top edge of rear jacket panel, jacket spine toned; Very Good. First published in England in 1929. Includes new Great War poems for which Blunden is best known.
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Changing the Bully Who Rules the World: Reading & Thinking About Ethics [Inscribed Copy]
by BLY, Carol
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1996. First Edition. First printing (not issued in cloth). Octavo; pictorial card wrappers; 549pp. Fine. Inscribed on title page to Minnesota author John Calvin Rezmerski: "John / with admiration & love of Carol Bly," dated in year of publication.
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The Tomcat's Wife and Other Stories
by BLY, Carol
New York: Harper Collins, 1991. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 209pp. Presentation copy, inscribed on title page to fellow Minnesota poet John Calvin Rezmerski and his wife Lorna: "For Lorna and John / with love to you. I am so glad of our life together all these years, like literary gravel, is what we are," signed, undated. Fine... Read More
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My Sentence Was A Thousand Years Of Joy: Poems
by BLY, Robert
New York: HarperCollins, 2005. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; royal blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xii,97pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket.
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THE TEETH-MOTHER NAKED AT LAST
by Bly, Robert
Madison: Sixties Press, 1970. Second Edition. 12 pp. "folder" printed on a single sheet of yellow paper (this is the second edition; first edition on green paper). Inscribed on the front cover "For Norman - a sad poem - Robert". Published by Bly's press for the American Writers Against The Vietnam War: "Not to be sold. Printed as a... Read More
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SLEEPERS JOINING HANDS [Signed]
by Bly, Robert
New York: Harper & Row, 1973. First edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Large octavo; cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 67pp. Signed by Bly on title page. A Very Good copy. Dustwrapper has some soiling and edge wear, and original bookstore price sticker on back; Very Good. Published simultaneously in paperback and often reprinted. Bly's third book, scarce signed.
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THE NIGHT ABRAHAM CALLED TO THE STARS
by Bly, Robert
New York: Harper Collins, 2001. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in plain blue wrappers of this volume of poems, with pub material laid in. Publicity sticker with contact info attached to covers. Using the Islamic poetic form the ghazal, Bly invokes western figures from Abraham to Xerxes to do what poets like Rumi did best with it: write... Read More
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