[Sammelband] Greenfield Hill [WITH] A Discourse, on the Genuineness and Authenticity of the New-Testament
[Sammelband] Greenfield Hill [WITH] A Discourse, on the Genuineness and Authenticity of the New-Testament

by Timothy Dwight

New-York: v.p., 1794. Very Good-. Two volumes in one; octavo (20.5cm.); quarter contemporary calf over recent boards, typescript label mounted to upper cover. Boards a bit discolored, textblock quite toned and brittle with rather extensive old tape repair throughout, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, occasional contemporary corrections to text of both titles, else a Good or... Read More

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Shadow Over the Land [Inscribed and Twice Signed]
Shadow Over the Land [Inscribed and Twice Signed]

by Charles Dwoskin

New York: Beechhurst Press, 1946. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Beechhurst Press, 1946. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.75); 285pp. Moderate wear to jacket and cloth extremities including a few shallow chips and closed tears to the former, briefly affecting text at spine ends without loss of meaning, spine cocked and... Read More

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Horning Into Africa [Signed]
Horning Into Africa [Signed]

by W.S. Van Dyke

[N.p.]: California Graphic Press, 1931. Very Good. [N.p.]: California Graphic Press, 1931. First Edition. Signed by Van Dyke on front free endpaper with inscription, "Bill, there was plenty of trouble in this system! W.S. Van Dyke July 11, '34." Tall octavo. 219 pp. 26 Black and white photographs with Van Dyke's commentary below, complete. Blue cloth stamped in... Read More

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Poor, Black and in Real Trouble: A Novel [Inscribed and Signed]
Poor, Black and in Real Trouble: A Novel [Inscribed and Signed]

by Jerome Dyson (Wright)

Baltimore, MD: Community Residence Center, 1976. Very Good +/Very Good. Baltimore, MD: Community Residence Center, 1976. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($7.95); [10],308pp. Light toning and a few chips and closed tears to dust jacket margins, corners nudged, else a Very Good and sound copy overall. Warmly inscribed and signed... Read More

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Publicity for the Polish Jazz Society - African American jazz band towering over modern jazz combo
Publicity for the Polish Jazz Society - African American jazz band towering over modern jazz combo

by Maciej Dzendzel

1970. Very Good. Text on poster: Old Timers // Polish Jazz Society // P[olskie] S[towarzyszenie] J[azzowe] with trumpet logo. Date: 1970s presumed. Height x width: 96cm x 67.5cm. Printing information: lower left corner: OZGraf. Lz. 28 nakł. 5000+150 K-1/28; lower right corner: logos of KAW and WAG. Condition: No visual flaws Primarily a painter, Dzendzel would eventually... Read More

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The Last Bread: A Play in One Act
The Last Bread: A Play in One Act

by H.E. Bates

London: Labour Publishing Company Limited, 1926. Near Fine. London: Labour Publishing Company Limited, 1926. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's decorative tan staple bound wrappers; vii,[1],18pp. A hint of shelf wear, else Fine. The author's first book, a short play inspired by the ongoing miners' strikes in the country. As the introduction warns, "This is admittedly a... Read More

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ABC of the Telephone
ABC of the Telephone

by J.E. Homans

New York: Theo Audel & Co, 1903. Very Good +. New York: Theo Audel & Co., 1903. Later Printing. Octavo (20 cm); 335pp+4ads, illus. throughout, including frontis of Alexander Graham Bell. Boards full bound in black cloth with yellow stamping. Black endsheets. Boards generally scuffed and lightly soiled with corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed. Slight starting... Read More

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Coffin I [Limited Edition] [Signed by Bukowski]
Coffin I [Limited Edition] [Signed by Bukowski]

by E.V. Griffith [ed.]; Charles Bukowski, Eric Gill, Henry Miller et al [contrs.]

Eureka, CA: Hearse Press, 1960. Fine. Eureka, CA: Hearse Press, [1960-1964]. First Edition, Limited to 150 copies. Quarto (28.5cm); publisher's woodgrain patterned card chemise titling in brown, containing forty-two (42) broadsides and bifolium on different colored stock (collated complete including a duplicate copy of Mason Jordan Mason's broadside "In the Park"). Just a hint of shelf wear to... Read More

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The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch, and The Lantern Bearers [Three volume set]
The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch, and The Lantern Bearers [Three volume set]

by [Eagle of the Ninth Trilogy] Rosemary Sutcliff; Kevin Crossley-Holland, Julia Eccleshare, and Penelope Lively [intros.]; Roman Pisarev [illus.]

London: The Folio Society, 2011. Very Good +. London: The Folio Society, 2005-2011. Mixed printings. Three octavo volumes. Black and white illustrations. Green, gray, and brown cloth boards decorated along spines and front boards. Housed in publisher's slipcases. Mild shelfwear to boards; bindings sound and pages unmarked; noticeable but not overpowering musty odor to Eagle of the Ninth... Read More

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An Introduction to Kurdish Rugs and Other Weavings
An Introduction to Kurdish Rugs and Other Weavings

by William Eagleton

New York: Interlink Books, 1988. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Interlink Books, 1988. First American Edition. Quarto (30.5cm); publisher's boards, map endpapers, in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 144pp.; full color photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear to jacket margins, corners bumped, white paint residue along bottom board edges; Very Good overall.

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Ear Magazine East, Vol. 6, no. 5, October/November, 1981
Ear Magazine East, Vol. 6, no. 5, October/November, 1981

by [Ear Collective] Charles Doria, Charlie Morrow, Armand Schwerner [eds.]; Bernard Heidsieck and Charlie Morrow [contrs.]

New York: New Wilderness Foundation, 1981. Very Good. New York: New Wilderness Foundation, 1981. First Edition. Tabloid format (43.5cm); self-wrappers, disbound as issued; 20pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear and toning to margins, else Very Good and sound. Single issue of this uncommon newspaper devoted to music culture and sound poetry, including contributions by the French poet Bernard... Read More

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20 Hrs. 40 Min. Our Flight in the Friendship: The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story [Signed]
20 Hrs. 40 Min. Our Flight in the Friendship: The American Girl, First Across the Atlantic by Air, Tells Her Story [Signed]

by Amelia Earhart

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928. First Trade Edition. Signed by Amelia Earhart to recto of frontispiece without inscription. Octavo. 314 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Burgundy cloth stamped in gilt; illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket. Boards show light wear to edges; spine gilt dulled. Gutter at half... Read More

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Presidio, Mission, and Pueblo: Spanish Architecture and Urbanism in the United States
Presidio, Mission, and Pueblo: Spanish Architecture and Urbanism in the United States

by James Early

Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 2004. Fine/Fine. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, [2004]. First Edition with full number line. Quarto (28.5cm); publisher's cloth in glossy photo-illustrated dust jacket; xii,260pp.; black and white photographic illus. throughout. Just About Fine.

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Chemical Principles of Textile Conservation
Chemical Principles of Textile Conservation

by Agnes Timar-Balazsy and Dinah Eastop

Oxford: Butterworth / Heinemann, 1998. Very Good+. Oxford: Butterworth / Heinemann, [1998]. First Edition Stated. Quarto (25cm); publisher's glossy black paper-covered boards; xx,443pp.; eight leaves of color photographic illus., diagrams throughout. Light shelf wear, else Very Good or better, internally clean and sound.

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Dead Men's Plans
Dead Men's Plans

by Mignon G. Eberhart

New York: Random House, 1952. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1952. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); [vi], 246pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price intact; boards in charcoal cloth with black and gilt lettering and decoration. Black topstain. Jacket rubbed along bottom edge and bumped at corners and spine ends, with foxing to... Read More

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Ways of Light: Poems 1972-1980 [Inscribed and Signed with Autograph Letter Laid in]
Ways of Light: Poems 1972-1980 [Inscribed and Signed with Autograph Letter Laid in]

by Richard Eberhart

New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; [12],67pp. Light wear to dust jacket and board margins, jacket spine panel a bit faded, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on title page, "To Harold Herman / Greetings... Read More

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What Has Been Lost [Signed Limited Edition]
What Has Been Lost [Signed Limited Edition]

by David Eberly

Boston: Good Gay Poets, 1982. Very Good. Boston: Good Gay Poets, 1982. Limited First Edition, one of 26 signed and numbered copies of the 500 copy run, this being number 12. Octavo (21cm); [iv],49pp. Illustrated wraps. Covers lightly rubbed at extremities. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the author on colophon, and additionally on title... Read More

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Igbo-English Dictionary: A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Igbo Language, with an English-Igbo Index [Signed and Inscribed to William Safire]
Igbo-English Dictionary: A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Igbo Language, with an English-Igbo Index [Signed and Inscribed to William Safire]

by Michael J.C. Echeruo

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Very Good/Very Good. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. First Edition. Inscribed by author to journalist and language columnist William Safire on front free endpaper "To: William Safire with author's compliments. Michael Echeruo, 1998." Hallmark Hanukkah card inscribed by Echeruo to Safire and two of his Syracuse University business cards also laid... Read More

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Leaf Threads, Wind Rhymes [Inscribed and Signed, with Autograph Letter, Signed, Addressed to Robert S. Sargent]
Leaf Threads, Wind Rhymes [Inscribed and Signed, with Autograph Letter, Signed, Addressed to Robert S. Sargent]

by Darlene Mathis Eddy

Daleville, IN: Barnwood Press Cooperative, 1985. Very Good. Daleville, IN: Barnwood Press Cooperative, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Slim octavo (23cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 80pp. Light shelf wear and soil to wrappers, else a Very Good, internally fine copy. Inscribed and signed by the Indiana poet to Robert S. Sargent, the late Defense Department... Read More

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A Dish of Apples
A Dish of Apples

by Eden Phillpotts; Arthur Rackham [illus.]

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921. Very Good +/Very Good -. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1921]. First Trade Edition. Octavo. 75 pp. 3 full-page mounted color illustrations with tissue guards; numerous black and white illustrations. Illustrated dust jacket. Rose-gray cloth stamped in brown. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket chipped and creased, with largest patch of loss along top edge... Read More

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The World 58
The World 58

by Ed Friedman [ed.]

New York: Poetry Project, 2002. Very Good. New York: Poetry Project, [2002]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm); publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers; 193pp. Moderate wear and light finger-soiling to wrapper and textblock margins, else Very Good and sound. Late issue of this long-running poetry magazine including contributions from some of the Project's longstanding members like Ron Padgett, Ed Sanders,... Read More

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The World 56 / 57
The World 56 / 57

by Ed Friedman [ed.]

New York: Poetry Project, 2000. Very Good. New York: Poetry Project, [2000]. First Edition. Thick octavo (23cm); publisher's purple photo-illustrated card wrappers; 269pp.; halftone photographic illus. throughout. Moderate wear to wrapper margins, light soil, else Very Good and sound. Substantial double issue of this longstanding poetry magazine, including contributions by Bernadette Mayer, Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, Richard... Read More

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The World 53
The World 53

by Ed Friedman and Jo Ann Wasserman [eds.]

New York: Poetry Project, 1997. Very Good. New York: Poetry Project, [1997]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); publisher's neon orange photo-illustrated card wrappers; [6],127pp.; halftone photographic illus. Wrappers a bit rubbed and curled at margins, brief finger soil to first few leaves, else Very Good and sound. Contributors include Sherman Alexie, Richard Hell, Amiri Baraka, and many... Read More

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The World 54
The World 54

by Ed Friedman [ed.]; Ron Padgett, Kenneth Koch, Clark Coolidge et al [contrs.]

New York: Poetry Project, 1998. Very Good+. New York: Poetry Project, [1998]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); publisher's blue photo-illustrated card wrappers; 126pp.; halftone photographic illus. Light shelf wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. Contributors include Ron Padgett, Kenneth Koch, Lewis Warsh, Clark Coolidge, and many others.

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The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe [Ten volume set]
The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe [Ten volume set]

by Edgar Allan Poe; Nathan Haskell Dole [intro.]

London and New York: The Chesterfield Society / The Werner Company, 1908. Very Good. London and New York: The Chesterfield Society / The Werner Company, 1908. Limited Edition of 1000 "Edition De Luxe" sets, this being #683. Ten octavo volumes. Color frontispiece to each volumes; black and white plates, each with lettered tissue guards, collated and complete. Tan... Read More

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