Šamac-Sarajevo (Šime Vučetić) [with] Omladinsko Kolo (Ive Čaće) [cover title]
Šamac-Sarajevo (Šime Vučetić) [with] Omladinsko Kolo (Ive Čaće) [cover title]

by BOMBARDELLI, Silvije

Split: Izdanje K. U. D. "Ivan Lozica, [1947]. Large quarto (35.25cm.); bifolium, printed on newsprint; exterior leaves printed in red; sheet music. Edges a touch toned and lightly worn from handling, else Fine. Music and lyrics for two Hungarian nationalist songs, published in the Dalmatian city of Split. Not in OCLC as of October, 2014.

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The Battle of Bushy Run
The Battle of Bushy Run

by BOMBERGER, C. M.

Jeannette: Jeannette Publishing Company, 1963. Second printing. Octavo (23cm). Brown textured paper wrappers; 67,[1]pp; black and white illustrations. Gently rubbed, else Near Fine. Account of a 1763 battle fought in western Pennsylvania between the British and a combined Native American force during Pontiac's Rebellion; decidedly partisan in favor of the British.

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Five Copy-Books written by a little girl between the ages of seven-and-a-half and ten, with commentaries (5 Vols)
Five Copy-Books written by a little girl between the ages of seven-and-a-half and ten, with commentaries (5 Vols)

by BONAPARTE, Marie

London: Imago, (1950). First, Limited Edition. 4 octavo volumes, plus the later issued facsimile collection of the original copy books from Marie's childhood, in their gilt titled slipcase. 22cm x 17.5cm. Original green blue buckram with gilt spine titles; 284+396+416+329pp; illustrations & facsimiles (some folding). Number 47 of a limitation of 1030. A near fine set, clean, bright, and... Read More

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Five Copy-Books written by a little girl between the ages of seven-and-a-half and ten, with commentaries (4 Vols)
Five Copy-Books written by a little girl between the ages of seven-and-a-half and ten, with commentaries (4 Vols)

by BONAPARTE, Marie

London: Imago, (1950). First, Limited Edition. 4 octavo volumes. Original green cloth with gilt spine titles; 284+396+416+329pp; illustrations & facsimiles (some folding). Limited to 1000 sets; this is set no 250. A fifth volume, containing full facsimiles of the handwritten copy books, was issued later and is not included here. Bit of sunning to spines, else a tight, Near... Read More

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An Address Delivered Before the New England Society of Philadelphia; at the Semiannual Meeting, in May, 1824 [Inscribed]
An Address Delivered Before the New England Society of Philadelphia; at the Semiannual Meeting, in May, 1824 [Inscribed]

by BOND, Henry, M.D.

Philadelphia: Published at the Request and by the Direction of the Society, 1824. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); removed; 23pp. Light spotting and toning to stock, faint vertical fold, top margin trimmed affecting author inscription at head of title page: "James Green[?] Esq. [?] from his friend the Author." Paean to New England and its history, maintaining that "from her... Read More

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The Remarkable Exploits of Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman
The Remarkable Exploits of Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman

by BOND, Nelson

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1950. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); navy blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [viii],9-224pp. Previous owner's name and date in ink on front endpaper; spine ends nudged; Near Fine. Dustjacket unclipped (priced $2.50) with shelfwear, fading, foxing, and a few tiny nicks and small tears;... Read More

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Cultura Ebraica in Emilia-Romagna
Cultura Ebraica in Emilia-Romagna

by BONDONI, Simonetta; Giulio Busi

Rimini: Luisè Editore, 1987. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 706pp; illus. Slight dusting to covers, still a tight, clean, Near Fine copy. From the library of noted poet and translator Nathaniel Tarn, with his printed bookplate to front endpaper. Text entirely in Italian. A massive and extensively-illustrated survey of Jewish culture in northern Italy. A publication... Read More

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Under the Flag of the Nation: Diaries and Letters of a Yankee Volunteer in the Civil War
Under the Flag of the Nation: Diaries and Letters of a Yankee Volunteer in the Civil War

by BOND, Otto F. (ed.)

Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1961. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Yellow cloth, in black dust jacket; [xii],308pp; frontispiece. Lightly rubbed at head and tail, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $5.00), lightly rubbed, faintly spine-sunned, but whole: Very Good. Publications of the Ohio Civil War Centennial Commission, Number 1. [62069].

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The Lookoutman [with ALS]
The Lookoutman [with ALS]

by BONE, David W.; H. Hudson Rodmell, illus

London: Jonathan Cape, 1923. First Edition. First impression. Autographed letter tipped on to front pastedown, addressed to a C.L.P. Scott, Cambridge, dated January, 1924. Octavo; deep olive cloth, titled in black on spine and front cover; frontispiece and three unnumbered leaves of color plates; text illus. A straight, tight copy, somewhat foxed at prelims; Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper.... Read More

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Pierre Bonnard: The Graphic Art
Pierre Bonnard: The Graphic Art

by [BONNARD, PIERRE]; IVES, Colta; Helen Giambruni; Sasha M. Newman

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1989. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm x 25cm). Light brown cloth boards (hardcover) with image embossed in black on cover and titling embossed in gold on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 272pp; illus. Very Good+ copy; gently bumped corners; top cover edge slightly bumped; slight soiling to textblock, else clean and tight. Very... Read More

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Bonnard
Bonnard

by [BONNARD,PIERRE]; Watkins, Nicholas

London: Phaidon, 1998. Reprint. Quarto (29cm x 25cm). White wrappers (softcover) with titling in black on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 240pp; illus. Very Good+ copy; slight shelf wear to extremities, bottom front wrapper corner slightly dog-eared; slilghtly soiled bottom textblock corner, else clean and tight. Very Good+ dustwrapper; sun-fading to back and spine panels; slight shelf wear to upper extremities,... Read More

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The Economic Development of the Middle East: An Outline of Planned Reconstruction After the War
The Economic Development of the Middle East: An Outline of Planned Reconstruction After the War

by BONNÉ, Alfred

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, [1945]. Revised Edition. Slim octavo (22cm.); publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xii,164,7[1](ads)pp.; tables throughout. Corners bumped, contemporary ownership inscription to half title with neat checkmarks throughout publisher's ads in rear, else Very Good or better. Forms part of the series the International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction.

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Non Mi Piace il Calamaio di Mio Cugino: Tall Tales from the Italian for Those Who Read English and/or Italian [Inscribed]
Non Mi Piace il Calamaio di Mio Cugino: Tall Tales from the Italian for Those Who Read English and/or Italian [Inscribed]

by BONNER, Kenneth

Redding Ridge, Conn: Kennie-Bon-Bon Press, 1961. Second Edition. Softcover, with typed Princeton Alumni Weekly review sheet laid in. Text in English and Italian. Octavo (23.5cm); red paper wrappers; 153pp; illus. Inscribed by author on front endpaper: "To Charlie in memory of St James days Kenneth Bonner". Spine-sunned, with shelf-wear and soil, 2" tear to lower front hinge and 1"... Read More

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Battle Drums and Geysers: The Life and Journals of Lt. Gustavus Cheyney Doane, Soldier and Explorer of the Yellowstone and Snake River Regions
Battle Drums and Geysers: The Life and Journals of Lt. Gustavus Cheyney Doane, Soldier and Explorer of the Yellowstone and Snake River Regions

by BONNEY, Orrin H. and Lorraine

Chicago: Sage Books, 1970. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Brown cloth in pictorial jacket; [xxvi],622pp; black and white illustrations, 4 folding maps. Tapped at corners, textblock sagging slightly, but generally clean and bright: Very Good. Jacket price-clipped, spine-sunned, rubbed with one or two tiny tears at edges, else Very Good. Exploration in Wyoming. [62639].

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Chariot in the Sky: A Story of the Jubilee Singers
Chariot in the Sky: A Story of the Jubilee Singers

by BONTEMPS, Arna (text); BALDRIDGE, Cyrus Leroy (illustrations)

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1951. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); tan cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xvi,238pp, illustrated throughout by Cyrus Leroy Baldridge. Light wear to spine ends, corners gently bumped; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50) with moderate edgewear including short tears and nicks to the edges,... Read More

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100 Years of Negro Freedom
100 Years of Negro Freedom

by BONTEMPS, Arna

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); light blue cloth, titled and blocked in gilt and dark blue on spine; dustjacket; 276pp; illus. Scattered foxing to upper edge of textblock, else Near Fine in a price-clipped, Near Fine dustjacket, with a hint of sunning to spine, and some faint foxing on verso. History... Read More

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The Competitor [Review Copy]
The Competitor [Review Copy]

by BONTLY, Thomas

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1966. First Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy with publisher's typed review slip laid in. Octavo (21cm); oatmeal cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in red and black on spine; dustjacket; 157pp. Pencilled note to front endpaper, titling lightly rubbed, and faint foxing to upper edge of textblock and front endpaper; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed... Read More

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The Adventures of a Young Outlaw
The Adventures of a Young Outlaw

by BONTLY, Thomas

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 311pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly edgeworn dustwrapper with a few tiny nicks to extremities, Very Good. A seldom-encountered novel and the author's only work in the Western genre. Bontly was a gifted if little-known novelist, and a long-time member of the English... Read More

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Veterans on the March. Foreword by John Dos Passos
Veterans on the March. Foreword by John Dos Passos

by [BONUS ARMY] DOUGLAS, Jack

New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1934. First edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 376pp; illus. Tight, fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price-clipped, slightly rubbed on front cover but still quite attractive, Very Good or better. A first-hand account of the 1932 Bonus March on Washington, from the point of view of a member of the CPUSA-led... Read More

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Cry at Birth: Collected and Edited by the Bookers
Cry at Birth: Collected and Edited by the Bookers

by BOOKER, Merrel Daniel, Sr., et al., eds

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, [1971]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in brown pictorial dust jacket; xvii,[3],172pp.; frontispiece reproduction of a collage by William Harris III; additional text illus. Fine. Includes the first published appearance, the poems "Ghetto Service" and "Retrospect," of novelist Pearl Cleage, author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (1997).

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Stories from Real Life; Compiled with a View to the Moral Improvement of All Classes
Stories from Real Life; Compiled with a View to the Moral Improvement of All Classes

by [GIFT BOOK]

Fitchburg: S. & C. Shepley, 1848. First Edition. Miniature (11.5cm). Red publisher's cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, all edges gilt; yellow coated endpapers; 158,[2]pp; frontispiece of "The Indian Hunter," engraved title page. Sound and tight, though with slight cracks to cloth over rear joint, rubbed at edges, minor foxing: Very Good. Stories of Victorian morality and... Read More

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Ladies' Book-plates: an illustrated handbook for Collectors and Book-lovers [Deluxe Edition]
Ladies' Book-plates: an illustrated handbook for Collectors and Book-lovers [Deluxe Edition]

by [BOOK-PLATES] LABOUCHERE, Norna

London: George Bell & Sons, 1915. First, Limited Edition. Octavo (21cm). One of 75 numbered copies on Japan vellum, printed at the Chiswick Press. Half blue morocco over cloth boards; xiv,358pp; text illustrations and ten leaves of plates. Spine ends and corners slightly rubbed; spine a shade sunned with a couple of minor scuffs; a tight, Very Good or... Read More

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Catalog 30
Catalog 30

by LORNE BAIR RARE BOOKS

Winchester, VA: Lorne Bair Rare Books, 2019. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); pictorial card wrappers; 252pp.; fully illustrated in color. New.

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Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Reprints from Peking Review and China Reconstructs
Women Hold Up Half the Sky: Reprints from Peking Review and China Reconstructs

by YENANG BOOKS

[Berkeley: Yenang Books, 1975?]. First Thus. Quarto (28cm.); publisher's yellow pictorial self-wrappers; 37pp.; illus. Fine condition. Just About Fine. Pieces on women's liberation in China.

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The Southeast Classic Maya Zone: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks 6th and 7th October 1984
The Southeast Classic Maya Zone: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks 6th and 7th October 1984

by BOONE, Elizabeth Hill and Gordon R. Willey (editors); David Webster, Mary Ellen Miller, Arthur A. Demarest (et al)

Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1988. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); green cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in black on spine and front cover; 412pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and map illustrations throughout. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. A Near Fine... Read More

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