Broadside: Holiday Greetings 1998
by BRADBURY, Ray and Margueritte
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1998]. First Edition. Broadside, with text printed in red on white laid paper, measuring 8.5" x 11". Mild handling, else a Fine copy. Late Christmas broadside produced by Bradbury and his wife, a holiday tradition maintained by the family, sent to family and friends. This one prints his poem "Which Shall It... Read More
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Broadside: A Christmas Wish 1992 [Inscribed]
by BRADBURY, Ray and Margueritte
[Los Angeles: Privately Printed by Ray Bradbury, 1992]. First Edition. Broadside, with text printed in red in two columns on white laid paper, measuring 21.75cm x 28cm (8.5" x 11"). Inscribed by the author in red pen toward the lower margin. Two old folds, light handling; Near Fine. Late Christmas broadside produced by Bradbury and his wife, a holiday... Read More
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Ray Bradbury Review [Limited Edition, Signed]
by [BRADBURY] NOLAN, William F. (editor); BRADBURY, Ray (contributions)
Los Angeles: Graham Press, 1988. First, Limited Edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Bradbury and Nolan, this being copy no.114. Octavo (23cm); illustrated paper over black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; 64pp; illus. Light wear to front board edges and corners, else Near Fine.
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A KINGDOM OF OLD MEN
by Bradd, William
Fort Bragg, CA: Ten Mile River Press, 1979. First Edition. Illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. 33 pp. Signed by the poet (not inscribed to anyone) on the first blank page. The first book by the Canadian-born poet; prose poems. Back cover quotes from Farley Mowat and Ry Cooder: "I wish I could play guitar like Bill". Cover creased but easily... Read More
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Day of Escape
by BRADEN, Louise
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards lettered in black and gilt; dustjacket; 256pp. Light wear; owner's signature to front pastedown, else Near Fine in a slightly spine-darkened dustwrapper. A novel of modern marriage, described by one contemporary reviewer as a "fictional study of sadism." Iowa author's first book; Iowa setting. Uncommon, especially in... Read More
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![History of Massachusetts, from 1764, to July, 1775 [/ From July, 1775... to the Year 1789... / From the Year 1790, to 1820]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/174/809/1443809174.0.m.jpg)
History of Massachusetts, from 1764, to July, 1775 [/ From July, 1775... to the Year 1789... / From the Year 1790, to 1820]
by BRADFORD, Alden
Boston: Richardson and Lord, 1822, 1825, 1829. First Edition. First printings. Octavo (22cm). Three vols in later brown half-calf, marbled paper over boards, titled in gilt on black spine labels; plain endpapers; vol. I: [i]-vii [8]-414pp; vol. II: 376pp; vol. III: [i]-xv [16]-327pp. Vols I and III bound without half-titles. Straight, tight copies, rubbed, joints cracked but holding, loss... Read More
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Wives
by BRADFORD, Gamaliel
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1925]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's blue cloth, printed spine label, yellow topstain; xiii,[1],298pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece of Mary Todd Lincoln, five additional plates. Very Near Fine, albeit lacking jacket. Short biographies of seven "wives," including Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Benedict Arnold, Mrs. James Madison, and Mrs. Jefferson Davis.
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The Writer; A Series of Original Essays, Moral and Amusing
by By a Gentleman of Massachusetts" (pseud Gamaliel Bradford)
Boston: Russell & Gardner Printers, 1822. First Edition. 12mo. Original printed board[s]; 131pp. Paper backstrip and rear board are lacking. Front board stained at upper left quarter; text complete; Good and sound. An early volume of miscellaneous essays, all originally published in the Boston Spectator under Bradford's pseudonym. Bradford (1795-1839), American physician and abolitionist, was the grandfather... Read More
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Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun: Being the Tales They Tell about the Time When the Lord Walked the Earth Like a Natural Man
by BRADFORD, Roark; A.B. Walker, illus
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1928 [but 1936]. Reprint. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket; [8],264pp. Some shelf wear to jacket extremities including one-inch closed tear at top of upper spine edge, light dust-soil, including to top textblock edge, spine a bit toned, else Near Very Good and sound. 1936 printing based on the Harper... Read More
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Let the Band Play Dixie and Other Stories
by BRADFORD, Roark
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original decorative cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [8],320pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and worn with minor puncturing to spine affecting text without loss of meaning, yellow portion of spine sunned to white, cloth a bit spotted else Very Good and sound overall. Louisiana fiction, a collection of... Read More
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THREE WINTER POEMS
by Bradley, Ardyth; Brenda Hillman; Keith Ratzlaff, with artist bookplate
Omaha: Penumbra Press, 1986. First edition. This elegant presentation of three poems "to celebrate a new life in the New Year" was printed (letterpress) at the University of Nebraska, limited to 235 copies (this is number 79). This copy belonged to the noted Californian book artist D. Steven Corey and has his neat, press-formed bookplate on the first French... Read More
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Indiana Railroad: The Magic Interurban (Bulletin 128 of Central Electric Railfans' Association)
by BRADLEY, George K.
Chicago: Central Electric Railfans' Association, 1991. First Edition. Quarto. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 224pp. Ownership label to ffep. Trivial age toning to margins of textblock, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Minor shelf wear to jacket. Near Fine.
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SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED
by Bradley, George
New York: Knopf, 2001. First edition. Two-toned boards; 8vo. 77pp. Hardcover collection of poetry. Fine in Fine dustwrapper.
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Allied Intervention in Russia 1917-1920
by BRADLEY, John
New York: Basic Books, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 251pp. Faint foxing to text edges and endpapers, ese Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket, unclipped (priced $6.50), with light wear to extremities, some dust-soil to rear panel, a few tiny tears to spine ends, and a 1 1/8" closed tear to lower front panel.
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The House Between the Worlds [With Signed Bookplate Laid In]
by BRADLEY, Marion Zimmer
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1980. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); beige cloth, with titles stamped in blue on spine; dustjacket; [xii],244,[8]pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Light wear to base of spine, evidence of bookplate removal to front pastedown; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $10.00), lightly edgeworn, with a few short tears... Read More
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Mathew Carey: Editor, Author and Publisher. A Study in American Literary Development
by BRADSHER, Earl L.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1912. Octavo (23.5cm). Red cloth titled in silver, stamped in blind on front; [xii],144,[4]pp; 3pp of publisher's ads at rear. Sound and clean, with mild rubbing and fading to spine: Very Good.
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For the Freedom of the Sea: A Romance of the War of 1812
by BRADY, Cyrus Townsend
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original green pictorial cloth embossed in red, blue, and gilt; xi,[1],339pp.; frontispiece, 11 leaves of plates. Cloth extremities just a hint darkened, small soil spot to rear cover, else Near Fine. Later (1934) ownership inscription of the nautical collector John Lowell to front free endpaper. Historical fiction by the... Read More
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Tapestries. March 17 to April 18, 1982
by BRADY, Robert
[Los Angeles]: Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1982. First Edition. Small square quarto (22.75cm.); publisher's blue staplebound card wrappers; [16]pp.; chiefly color illus. Light wear from handling, else Near Fine. Exhibition catalog.
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The Absurd World of Charles Bragg
by [BRAGG] TAYLOR, Geoffrey
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1980. First Edition. Quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 39pp text; 240 illus, of which 70 in color. Bit of foxing to upper edge of text block, else a fine copy in lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustwrapper. The first monograph on the work of the Missouri artist and illustrator.
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A Short History of the National-Liberation Movement in East Africa
by BRAGINSKY, M. and Y. Lukonin
Moscow: Progress Publishers, ca. 1965. First English Language Edition. 12mo (16.5cm.); original white and green decorative wrappers; 122pp. Light dust-soiling to rear wrapper, else Fine. Translation edited by F. Glagolyeva.
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Historical Developments and Social Progress in Africa
by BRAGINSKY, M.I., V.M. Kirko, V.G. Solodovnikov, and G.B. Starushenko, eds
Moscow: Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, 1972. First Edition. 12mo (16.5cm.); original white and red card wrappers; 149pp. About Fine. Collection of essays on Lenin and Africa. Text entirely in English.
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Scramble!" [jacket title: The Story of Britain's Most Decorated Fighter-Pilot]
by BRAHAM, J.R.D. "Bob
London: Frederick Muller Limited, 1962. Second Impression. Octavo (21cm); blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in yellow on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; [6],7-255,[1]pp; portrait frontispiece with black-and-white photographic (halftones) and illustrations throughout. This copy from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate laid in (and residue to pastedown from being previously... Read More
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Jewish Leadership During the Nazi Era: Patterns of Behavior in the Free World
by BRAHAM, Randolph L. (editor)
New York: Social Science Monographs and Institute for Holocaust Studies of The City University of New York / Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1985. First Edition. Review Copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. Octavo (23.5cm); dark blue-gray cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,154pp. Fine in a lightly edgeworn, Near Fine dustjacket. Contents include "The... Read More
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Braid on Hypnotism: The Beginnings of Modern Hypnosis
by BRAID, James; Arthur Edward Waite (rev.)
New York: Julian Press, 1960. Octavo (22cm). Black cloth titled in gilt, grey topstain, in orange dust jacket; [xiv],380pp. Bumped at corners, with general mild rubbing, but generally Very Good. Jacket price-clipped, edgeworn, spine-sunned, wiht minor dust and one or two tiny tears to edges: arund Very Good. James Braid (1795-1860) was a pioneer in both medicine... Read More
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![The Archaeological Ceramics of Yucatan [Anthropological Records 19]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/892/554/1722554892.0.m.jpg)
The Archaeological Ceramics of Yucatan [Anthropological Records 19]
by BRAINERD, George W.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1955. First Edition. Softcover issue. Quarto (28cm); black cloth spine over stiff tan paper wrappers; [iv]378,[2]pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. Date stamped to upper front wrapper. Lightly tanned, with modest shelf-wear, light soil, and tiny tears and frays to spine ends; Very Good. Sections focus on art materials, sites,... Read More
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