People of the First Man: Life Among the Plains Indians in Their Final Days of Glory; the Firsthand Account of Prince Maximilian's Expedition Up the Missouri River, 1833-34
by BODMER, Karl (watercolors); Davis Thomas and Karin Ronnefeldt (editors)
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1976. Folio (31cm); brown cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; illustrated map endpapers; dustjacket; [1],2-256pp; colorful frontispiece, with black-and-white and colorful illustrations throughout. Light sunning to spine ends, with two vertical creases to rear endpaper; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Karin Ronnefeldt, price-clipped, lightly tanned, with trace shelf-soil, and tiny... Read More
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![The United States Neutrality Policy [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/519/137/821137519.0.m.jpg)
The United States Neutrality Policy [cover title]
by BOECKEL, Florence Brewer
Washington DC: National Council for Prevention of War, 1937. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original staplebound self-wrappers; 15pp.; printed from typescript on yellow stock. A bit unevenly toned, else About Fine. "World Problems - 1937. This leaflet is one of a series arranged in envelope folder..." - upper wrapper. A short bibliography on neutrality dated December 1, 1936, and printed... Read More
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Between War and Peace: A Handbook for Peace Workers
by BOECKEL, Florence Brewer
New York: Macmillan Company, 1928. First Edition. Octavo (20.25cm.); original cloth in red and tan dust jacket; x,591pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped, spine darkened; Fine in Very Good jacket. Guide to the inter-war peace movement by suffragist and Director of the National Center for Prevention of War.
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Anticipating Total War: the German and American Experiences, 1871-1914
by BOEMEKE, Manfred F. (et al, eds)
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 496pp. Tight, unmarked, Near Fine copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper; near-new. Publication of the German Historical Institute.
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The Odes
by BOER, Charles
Chicago: The Swallow Press Inc, 1969. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); yellow cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [x],51,[3]pp. A volume in the Swallow New Poetry Series. A Near Fine copy. Dustwrapper, designed by Louis Matis, unclipped (priced $4.00), with modest shelf-wear and rubbing, surface scratches to front panel, and tiny tears to extremities; Very Good.... Read More
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Open Letter to the Duke of Devonshire
by [BOER WAR] BOISSEVAIN, Charles
Amsterdam: Algemeen Handelsblad, [1899]. Offprint. 12mo. Printed self-wrappers; 40pp. Slight aging to text, else Near Fine; but possibly lacking cover wraps. Attacks British policy in South Africa shortly after the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer Conflict. The author was publisher and editor of the Amsterdam political newspaper "Algemeen Handelsblad," where this essay originally appeared.
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Why Perestroika Failed: The Politics and Economics of Socialist Transformation
by BOETTKE, Peter J.
London: Routledge, [1993]. First Edition. Octavo (22.25cm.); simulated cloth in white and black photo-illustrated dust jacket; viii,199pp. Jacket a bit soil-splattered, some underlining throughout, faint soil spot to rear endpapers, else Near Very Good and sound.
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DARK SUMMER [Inscribed]
by Bogan, Louise
New York: Scribners, 1929. First edition. Cloth-backed linen covered boards, with spine and front paper labels; small 8vo. 72 pp. Briefly signed and inscribed in 1934 on half-title page. Poet's second book. Extremities unevenly sunned, with minor wear, else Very Good and clean. The scarce purple dustjacket is heavily faded at the edges and spine, with four small pieces... Read More
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DARK SUMMER
by Bogan, Louise
New York: Scribners, 1929. First Edition. Cloth-backed linen covered boards, with spine and front paper labels; small 8vo. 72 pp. Previous owner's gift inscription. Minor wear to head and tail cloth, still fine paper labels bright and as new. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. Poet's second book.
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Body of This Death: Poems
by BOGAN, Louise
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1923. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.25cm.); original linen-backed boards in cream dust jacket printed in blue; [10],30pp.; text printed in red and black. Jacket split into two pieces along rear spine hinge, the whole toned, faint damp-splash to upper panel, loss to spine ends, the one at foot affecting text; contemporary gift... Read More
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Oeuvres de Boileau
by BOILEAU DESPRÉAUX, Nicolas; Amar, intro
Paris: Lefèvre, 1821. 4 volumes; octavo (21cm.); early 20th-century black morocco-backed mabled boards, gilt-lettered spines; engraved portrait frontispiece in Volume 1. Light shelf wear, miniscule gouge to Vol. 4 spine, a hint of foxing in each volume, else a Very Good to Near Fine set. BRUNET I, p. 1061.
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Satire Contre les Femmes
by BOILEAU DEPRÉAUX, Nicolas; Albert Dubout, illus
Paris: Gibert Jeune / Librairie d'Amateurs, [1944]. First Thus. Limited to 2000 copies of which this is no. 669. Slim octavo (20cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers; [8],43pp.; color frontispiece, text illus. throughout. About Fine. The late 17th-century poetic satire, here illustrated with Dubout's typically raunchy and vibrantly colorful cartoons. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with... Read More
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New Graphic Design in Revolutionary Russia
by BOJKO, Szymon
New York and Washington: Praeger Publishers, 1972. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Quarto (20.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-156pp; illus. Tiny patch of sticker residue on upper front endpaper, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $12.50), lightly edgeworn, with a few small closed tears (three of them tape mended on verso); Very... Read More
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![EUNOIA [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/105/537/1581537105.0.m.jpg)
EUNOIA [Inscribed]
by Bök, Christian
[Toronto]: Coach House Books, 2001. First Edition. Stated first edition. Paperback. Single volume (approx. 5” x 8”); 105 pages. In white glossy illustrated wraps. Signed and inscribed on the title page. Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2002. An extremely popular book of poetry first published in Canada, with a subsequent British edition (2008) and “upgraded edition” (2009).... Read More
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![Edward Bok: an Autobiography. With Illustrations [Inscribed Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/932/180/1616180932.0.m.jpg)
Edward Bok: an Autobiography. With Illustrations [Inscribed Copy]
by BOK, Edward; Alfred Harmsworth (Viscount Northcliffe), introd
London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1921. First U.K. Edition. Signed by Bok on front endpaper, and further inscribed in his hand: "Abridged edition published in London June 1921...American portions omitted for then-existing political conditions which tended towards an anti-American feeling." Octavo. Tan publisher's cloth; dustjacket; 318pp; bottom and fore-edges untrimmed. Tight and straight, Near Fine; in the original dustwrapper, lightly... Read More
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WAITING FOR WINTER
by Boke, Nicholas. Inscribed to Maxine Kumin
Perkinsville, Vt: Raspberry Publications, 1987. First edition. Stapled wrappers. 46 pp. Association copy. Inscribed by Nicholas Boke to the poet Maxine Kumin. In fine condition. Inscribed by Author(s).
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![A Public Lecture on the German Language and Literature, Introductory to a Course of Six Lectures to be Delivered in Tremont Hall, Phillips Place, on March 2d, 9th, 16th, 23d, 30th, and April 6th [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/392/735/1335735392.0.m.jpg)
A Public Lecture on the German Language and Literature, Introductory to a Course of Six Lectures to be Delivered in Tremont Hall, Phillips Place, on March 2d, 9th, 16th, 23d, 30th, and April 6th [Inscribed]
by BOKUM, Hermann
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); removed; 21pp. Faint vertical fold, light foxing, margins trimmed affecting author inscription else Very Good and sound. Inscribed in pencil at head of p. [3]: "G.W. Haven from the Author." Lecture delivered by the instructer in German at Harvard University during which he recites in the original German (reprinted... Read More
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![La Rivoluzione Soffocata dalle Elezioni; La vittoria socialista ha allungata la vita alla monarchia. ["The Revolution Suffocated by Elections; The Socialist victory extended the life of the Monarchy."]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/391/365/1684365391.0.m.jpg)
La Rivoluzione Soffocata dalle Elezioni; La vittoria socialista ha allungata la vita alla monarchia. ["The Revolution Suffocated by Elections; The Socialist victory extended the life of the Monarchy."]
by BOLDRINI, Guglielmo
Siena: Tipografia Nuova, 1920. 8vo. 17cm. Printed salmon pink paper wrappers; 77pp. Light wear to extremities, strong and bright; internally clean; a very good copy indeed of an ephemeral production. A fervent and committed piece of anarchist polemic railing against the counter-productive need of the socialist revolutionaries to adopt conventional "classical" forms of election and leadership, that in... Read More
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Capitalism's Individual Ownership, the Deep Thing of God; or, The Only Solution of the Coal Problem, the Labor Problem, the Farm Problem, and of Each and All Problems of Wealth and Poverty, and of Democracy and Liberty
by BOLEN, George L.
Battle Creek, MI: Wages, Wealth and Welfare Press, 1929. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original blue cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in gilt; viii,760pp. Shows signs of being ex-library, with minor spine label residue and redacted rubberstamp to front free endpaper; spine quite darkened, else Very Good and sound.
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Masters & Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870
by BOLES, John B. (editor)
Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1988. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [6],257pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Scholarly study of the way BNlacks and whites worshipped together throughout the antebellum period.
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Curling: A Novel
by BOLES, Robert
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1968. First Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); original cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [10],259pp. Upper edge of textblock a little dusty, else Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, price-clipped, with some modest wear and a few tiny tears to extremities. Second novel by Boles (1943-2012), a Chicago-born African American author. "Mr. Boles concerns himself with... Read More
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The Stories of Heinrich Böll
by BÖLL, Heinrich (stories); VENNEWITZ, Leila (translation)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.5cm); navy blue cloth, with titling and author's initials stamped in copper on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; viii,[2]-685,[7]pp. The pictorial bookplate of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024) is mounted to the front pastedown. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $25.00), with some pinpoint... Read More
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![The Mount Nelson [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/937/696/1703696937.0.m.jpg)
The Mount Nelson [Signed]
by BOLSMANN, Eric H.
Pretoria: Haum, [n.d., ca 1978]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Yellow paper stamped in white, in yellow dustjacket printed in green and white; [vi],120pp; black and white illustrations. Author's signature on half-title. Tapped at head and tail, pinpoint rubbing to corners, overall Near Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed, toned at spine and edges, else Very Good or better. History... Read More
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The Regional Impact of Defense Spending: Highlights of "Defense Purchases and Regional Growth
by BOLTON, Roger E.
Washington DC: Brookings Institution, [1966]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue-grey staplebound wrappers; 9pp. Near Fine. Brookings Research Report no. 47.
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A Man For All Seasons
by BOLT, Robert
New York: Random House, 1962. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over jade green paper covered boards, titled in gilt to spine with the Random House logo blindstamped on the front board. Dustjacket. 163pp. A little scuffed and bumped to extremities, most notably the spine ends, with a little flaking of the spine gilt, in... Read More
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