The Aztec Templo Mayor
by BOONE, Elizabeth Hill [Editor]
Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1987. First Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's maroon cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. 513pp. Light edgewear and scuffing to spine ends and extremities, strong and bright; internally clean and fresh. A very good, clean copy indeed. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, noted poet, translator, and... Read More
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The Art of Fabergé
by BOOTH, John
Seacaucus: Wellfleet Press, 1990. First Edition. Quarto (33.25cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-191,[1]pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with some minimal surface wear to panels. A richly-illustrated volume dedicated to the art and achievements of the Fabergé Company.
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CALLING WITH OWLS
by Booth, Martin
Concord, NH: Ewert, 1979. First edition. [8 pp.] Number 87 of 126 copies signed by the poet. The total edition. Fine in stapled wrappers.
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Paper Pennies and Other Poems; Supplication To The Himalayas, In The Yenan Caves; The Borrowed Gull; A Winnowing Silence; White; On The Death of Archbishop Broix; THE CRYING EMBERS; Words; Pilgrims and Petitions; Teller; Coronis; In Her Hands; Hands Twining Grasses; Spawning the Os; Yogh; Brevities; Rider and Horse; Conversations With a Captor; Winter's Night Knotting; The Knotting Sequence; The Earth Man Dreams of a Turned Sod; Calling With Owls; Bedfordshire Writer; The Dying; Making A Success Of A Small Press; Decadal; Devil's Wine; White
by Booth, Martin
[U.K./U.S.]: [various], 1969-1977. First Edition. A significant collection of first editions by this distinguished writer. Chapbooks, cloth book in dustjacket, full leather book, pamphlets, and broadsides. PAPER PENNIES and Other Poems (signed - his rare first book; no.91 of 100); Supplication To The Himalayas. Sceptre Press, 1968 broadside (his second publication, signed by poet and illustrator, broadside no.13 of... Read More
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HIROSHIMA JOE
by Booth, Martin
Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986. First U.S. Edition. Uncorrected proof in blue printed wrappers (there was an issue in white wrappers); 8vo. 441 pp. A novel by the author of A VERY PRIVATE GENTLEMAN made into the George Clooney vehicle THE AMERICAN. Booth was a prolific writer of nonfiction, fiction and poetry and a small press publisher. Spine toned,... Read More
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WINTER'S NIGHT: KNOTTING
by Booth, Martin
Knotting: self-published, 1979. First edition. Single sheet folded into "Season's Wishes" card. (Also issued as a signed limited edition, one of 50.) This copy not signed.
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Margins. Poems
by BOOTH, Philip
New York: Viking Press, 1970. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; blue cloth boards, stamped in black and silver on spine; dustjacket; 100pp. Tight, fine and unmarked copy in crisp, unclipped dustwrapper (priced $5.95), Near Fine. Maine poet's fourth published collection.
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![The Tuscarawas Valley in Indian Days 1750-1797. Original Journals & Old Maps with Anaysis [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/278/548/1525548278.0.m.jpg)
The Tuscarawas Valley in Indian Days 1750-1797. Original Journals & Old Maps with Anaysis [Inscribed]
by BOOTH, Russell H.
Cambridge, OH: Gomber House Press, 1994. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper; signed, dated 1994. FIrst printing. Quarto. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; map endpapers; xxx,330pp; illus. Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped, also fine.
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King's Highway [Inscribed]
by BORDEN, Lucille Papin
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 485pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Hint of a forward lean, else Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, edgeworn, with several edge tears and a somewhat ragged one at the upper inch... Read More
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Borges and His Fiction: A Guide to His Mind and Art
by [BORGES] BELL-VILLADA, Gene H.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. First Edition. Wrappered issue (simultaneously issued in cloth). Octavo; pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 292pp. Mild sunning to covers, else Near Fine. Inscribed by the author to a colleague on front endpaper.
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Ficciones
by BORGES, Jorge Luis; Sol Lewitt (illus)
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1985. First printing thus. No. 1299 of 1500 copies signed by the artist. Small quarto (21cm x 21cm). Full black morocco, title blind-stamped on spine; publisher's slipcase; 305pp + 22 full-page silkscreen illustrations by Sol Lewitt. Hand-numbered and signed by Lewitt in pencil on colophon, as called for. A clean, crisp copy, very... Read More
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Discussion
by BORGES, Jorge Luis; Claire Staub, trans
[Paris]: Gallimard, [1966]. First French Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); original yellow card wrappers, French flaps; 172pp. General shelf-wear to wrapper extremities, some minor foxing, spine slightly cracked, else Near Very Good and sound. Forms part of the series La Croix du Sud. From the Library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with Bernarda's ownership signature and their estate label tipped... Read More
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This Craft of Verse
by BORGES, Jorge Luis
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. First Edition. Octavo; orange paper and rust-colored cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [6],154pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket. Collects the Charles Elliot Norton lectures, delivered at Harvard between 1967-68.
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Atlas
by BORGES, Jorge Luis
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1985. First American Edition. First Printing. Oblong quarto (23.25cm); brown paper-covered boards and beige cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [4],5-95,[1]pp; illus. Remainder mark to right edge of textblock, else Near Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket (priced $14.95). A volume in which Borges creates "a personal... Read More
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Twenty Four Conversations with Borges. Including a Section of Poems
by BORGES, Jorge Luis; Roberto Alifano (Nicomedes Suarez Arauz, et al, transl)
New York: Grove Press, 1984. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 157pp. Fine copy in bright, unclipped dustwrapper with a few tiny spots of rubbing at extremities, Near Fine. Inscribed by translator Nicomedes Suarez Arauz to playwright Don Petersen, with two lengthy holograph letters from Arauz to Petersen laid in, thanking him for his role in the publication of... Read More
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Mussolini, Red and Black [...] With an Epilogue, "Hitler: Mussolini's Disciple
by BORGHI, Armando; Dorothy Daudley, trans
New York: Freie Arbeiter Stimme, 1938. First American Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); original white card wrappers printed in red and black; xvi,[17]-207pp; facsimile. A bit edge-worn and uniformly dustsoiled, else Very Good. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper. Anarchist journalist's study of Mussolini.
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History, Psychology, and Science: Selected Papers
by BORING, Edwin G.; Robert I. Watson and Donald T. Campbell, eds
New York: John Wiley and Sons, [1963]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in dust jacket; xii,372pp. Jacket a bit dust-soiled and toned at extremities, a few small closed tears, none approaching text, corners gently bumped, else Very Good and sound.
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Seventeen Problems of Man and Society
by BORSODI, Ralph
Anand, India: Charotar Book Stall, 1968. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's grey cloth, gilt-lettered spine; viii,595pp. Spine cloth rather sunned, contemporary ownership signatures to front pastedown and free endpaper of a Bill Harvey and Terry Brandon with occasional underlining and marginalia to first twenty-odd pages, else Very Good and sound. The back-to-the-land agrarian theorist's definition of the three categories... Read More
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Neurosis and Psychosis
by BOSSELMAN, Beulah Chamberlain; Francis J. Gerty, foreword
Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas, [1950]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket; xii,172pp. Chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, spine and exterior panels toned, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown, "Sale Book" rubberstamp to front endpapers, else Near Very Good.
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Self-Destruction: A Study of the Suicidal Impulse
by BOSSELMAN, Beulah Chamberlain
Springfield, IL: Charles C Thomas, [1958]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in tan decorative dust jacket; xi,[1],94pp. A few tiny closed tears to jacket extremities, spine a hint toned, else Very Good to Near Fine.
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North Left of Earth
by BOSTON, Bruce (text; cover design); Marge Simpson (illustrations)
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Sam's Dot Publishing, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo (21.5cm); orange pictorial paper wrappers; [8],9-69,[3]pp; illustrated frontispiece. A Fine copy. Collection of verse includes "Beyond the Clouds of Paradise", "Interstellar Tract", "Star Wars Report", and "The Amnesia Addict". [85191].
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Flashing the Dark
by BOSTON, Bruce (text); Marge Simon (cover illustrations)
Cedar Rapids, IA: Sam's Dot Publishing, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo (21.5cm); black pictorial paper wrappers; 100pp. Trivial surface wear, else Near Fine. Collection of short fiction includes "Thinning the Bicycle Hordes", "Stray Vegetable Lads", and "Escape of the Circus Freaks". [85189].
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![The New England Book Show 1974 [With] The Bookbuilders of Boston Directory, 1974-1975](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/251/920/1256920251.0.m.jpg)
The New England Book Show 1974 [With] The Bookbuilders of Boston Directory, 1974-1975
by BOOKBUILDERS OF BOSTON
Boston: Bookbuilders of Boston, 1974. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's decorative paper-covered boards in marbled paper-covered slipcase; illus. throughout. Fine condition. Book Show volume includes detailed catalog of the Jury Selections of Educational Books, General Trade Books, and Children's Books, among these works by David Macaulay, Octavio Paz, and Ansel Adams.
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![Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 18th Anniversary Will Be Marked By The Third Annual Martyrs' Memorial Observance...Kehillath Israel, 370 Harvard Street, Brookline [etc]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/953/158/1334158953.0.m.jpg)
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 18th Anniversary Will Be Marked By The Third Annual Martyrs' Memorial Observance...Kehillath Israel, 370 Harvard Street, Brookline [etc]
by [JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF METROPOLITAN BOSTON]
Boston: Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston, [1961]. Broadside, 17" x 11". Printed in blue ink on white wove stock, recto only. Original vertical and horizontal folds; a few inconspicuous nicks to extremities; Very Good or better. The observance included performances by Cantor Gregor Shelkan and the Children's Chorus of the Y.L. Peretz School. Signed in type by the... Read More
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Archive of Playbills, Keepsakes, Announcements and related ephemera relating to the Boston Tavern Club, 1896-1933
by [TAVERN CLUB of BOSTON]
[Boston: Tavern Club, 1896-1933]. Forty-seven assorted items of finely printed Tavern Club ephemera. Formats and content vary, including broadsides, pamphlets, announcement cards, annual reports, keepsakes, and other printed items. Condition uniformly fine; a few with brief pencil annotations. Includes (by chronology): 1. (Handbill). Tavern Club. Narrenabend, March 29, 1895. A Rehearsal of "A Wintry Tale"...written by... Read More
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