The Naturalist's Riviera
by BRANGHAM, A.N. (text); EECKHOUDT, J.P. Vanden (photographs)
London: Phoenix House Ltd, 1962. First Edition. First Impression, South African issue. Octavo (22.25cm); yellow paper-covered boards, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xii,339,[1]pp, with 44 illustrations and a folding map of Provence and the French Riviera. One upper board corner gently tapped (though still sharp); very Near Fine. Dustjacket is... Read More
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Evangelische Zeugnisse der Wahrheit zur Aufmunterung im wahren Christenthum..
by BRASTBERG, Immanuel Gottlob
Reutlingen: C.J.F. Kalbfell und F.W.G. Stahl, ca. 1820s. Neueste verbesserte Ansgabe. Thick quarto (22vm.); contemporary blind-embossed pig, spine in six compartments, leather and metal fore-edge clasps (partially perished), all edges speckled red; xxiv,1096,[8]pp.; title page in red and black, engraved head-pieces. Boards a bit rubbed and darkened, lacking front free endpaper, approximately contemporary (1820s-1840s) ownership notes to front and... Read More
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Writing Away from Home (Issued as Savacou no. 9/10)
by BRATHWAITE, Edward Kamau et al., eds.; John La Rose and Andrew Salkey, guest eds
Kingston, Jamaica: Savacou Journal, 1974. First Edition. Quarto (24cm.); pictorial card wrappers by Aubrey Williams; 134pp.; illus. Light wear, corners bumped, gentle sunning to spine, with a faint diagonal crease to upper right corner of front wrapper; Very Good+. Double issue of the Caribbean literary journal Savacou, "A Journal of the Caribbean Artists Movement." Includes contributions by James Berry... Read More
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Sun Poem
by BRATHWAITE, Edward Kamau
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers; viii,104pp. Gentle sunning to spine, trivial wear to extremities, with publisher's price sticker on rear wrapper; Near Fine. Second collection of verse in a trilogy by the Barbadian poet. "Sun Poem, leaving the female-dominated Barbadian landscape of Mother Poem, explores the male history of the island as... Read More
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Souls in the Wilderness
by BRATHWAITE, J. Ashton
Toronto: 21st Century Book, 1970. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (16cm); picorial card wrappers; 80pp. Fresh, fine copy, free of markings or wear. Brathwaite, a Barbadian immigrant to Brixton and East London, describes his encounters with white racism, both direct and systemic, culminating in his radicalization and adoption of militant Black nationalism. Sequel to his "A Black British Soldier,"... Read More
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DS (2) - Dreamstories
by BRATHWAITE, Kamau
New York: New Directions, 2007. First Edition. Octavo. Printed, glossy card wrappers (only format issued); 265pp. Just touched at base of spine and wrapper edges; still a bright, Fine copy, about as-new. From the library of noted poet and translator Nathaniel Tarn, with his ownership signature to title page. A late work by the acclaimed Barbadian poet.
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Words Need Love Too
by BRATHWAITE, Kamau
Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2004. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial, glossy card wrappers (softcover); 103pp. Fine, unmarked and apparently unread copy. Late collection from the acclaimed Barbadan poet, who died in 2020.
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The Right to Organize and its Limits: A Comparison of Policies in the United States and Selected European Countries
by BRAUN, Kurt
Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 1950. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original cloth in blue and white dust jacket; xiii,[1],331pp. Jacket edges a touch worn, spine a bit darkened, else Near Fine.
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MODERN POETRY STUDIES, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1971
by Braun, R. E., Jerome Mazzaro, et al. (eds.); [Charles Olson]
Buffalo: Modern Poetry Studies, 1971. First Edition. 8vo. Pgs. 50-95. In white plain-printed wraps. This is the special issue on Charles Olson with “I, Maximus: Charles Olson as Mythologist” by Ann Charters and “Melville: To Him, Olson” by Martin L. Pops. Includes the original list of substitutions from the editors, laid in. Slight toning to spine and marks on... Read More
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A Confederate General From Big Sur
by BRAUTIGAN, Richard
New York: Grove Press, 1964. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 159pp. Tight, square copy, Near Fine with some unobtrusive fading to the cloth. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.95 on front flap); unworn but mildly darkened at spine, flap-folds and upper margin, Very Good. A quite presentable copy of Brautigan's first novel (after... Read More
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1945 Brand Book Containing Twelve Original Papers Relating to Western and Rocky Mountain History
by BRAYER, Herbert D. (ed)
Denver: The Westerners, 1946. Popular Edition." Octavo (24cm). Blue and white paper-covered boards; [xiv],251,[1]pp; black and white illustrations. Lightly rubbed, front joint tender and cracking, spine sunned, internally clean: around Very Good. Contains 12 articles on various topics, including Beadle's Dime Novels, the mustang, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, the Mecker Massacre, and "Early Cowboy Days in Wyoming." [62119].
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The Indian Captive
by BRAYTON, Matthew
New York: Garland Publishing Inc, 1977. Octavo (22cm). Green cloth; noncontinuous pagination. Lightly rubbed at extremities, else Fine. The Garland Library of Narratives of North American Indian Captivities volume 76. Contents include facsimiles of Brayton, The Indian Captive; Larsena A. Page, The Indian Captives. From Oquawka Spectator, Ill., v. 13 no. 16, May 17, 1860; James Kimball,... Read More
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Mulatto
by [BRAZIL] AZEVEDO, Aluísio (novel); MACNICOLL, Murray Graeme (translation)
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993. First University of Texas Edition. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [7],8-298,[6]pp. Light wear to extremities, two tiny corner creases, with an original price sticker to rear wrapper; Near Fine. Reissue of the Brazilian author's 1881 novel, "a scathing exposé of his native city, São Luis do Maranhão. Polemic as well as love story,... Read More
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Financing Public Services in a Federal System: Highlights of "Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in the United States
by BREAK, George F.
Washington DC: Brookings Institution, [1967]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue-grey staplebound wrappers; 9pp. Near Fine condition. Brookings Research Report no. 58.
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The Threepenny Opera
by BRECHT, Bertolt (novel); VESEY, Desmond (translator); BENTLEY, Eric (intro.); LEVINE, Jack (illustrations; lithograph)
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1993. Limited Edition. Quarto (27cm); full dark brown leather, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and covers; silk endpapers; all edges gilt; [2],[10],11-155,[1]pp; illus. A Fine copy, without the Publisher's Note pamphlet. Part of "The Collector's Library of Famous Editions" series. [81868].
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The Private Life of the Master Race: A Documentary Play
by BRECHT, Bertolt; Eric Russell Bentley, trans. & essay
[New York]: New Directions Books, Published by James Laughlin, [1944]. First American Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's black cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; [10],140pp. Light wear to jacket extremities, including a few tiny chips, spine and extremities rather browned, else Very Good and sound. Seventeen of twenty-eight scenes from the author's anti-Nazi Fears and Miseries of the Third Reich.... Read More
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Essais sur Bertolt Brecht
by [BRECHT, Bertolt] BENJAMIN, Walter (text); Paul Laveau (translation)
Paris: François Maspero, 1969. Softcover. Octavo (18cm); white paper wrappers; dustjacket; [6],7-153,[5]pp. Petite Collection Maspero. Text in French. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pencilled ownership to front flyleaf, and occasional pencilled marginal marks. Trace soil to front cover; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, lightly spine-tanned, with trace soil, and... Read More
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![Poster: PSP Manifestatie: 30 Jaar NAVO, 30 Jaar Teveel. 24 Maart Veermarkthal, Utrecht [PSP Manifesto: 30 Years with NATO, 30 Years Too Many. March 24, Veermarkthal, Utrecht]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/265/636/943636265.0.m.1.jpg)
Poster: PSP Manifestatie: 30 Jaar NAVO, 30 Jaar Teveel. 24 Maart Veermarkthal, Utrecht [PSP Manifesto: 30 Years with NATO, 30 Years Too Many. March 24, Veermarkthal, Utrecht]
by [BREEBAART, Dick]
Utrecht: PSP, 1979. Original pictorial poster (59x41.5cm.) printed offset in red, yellow, blue, and black on glossy white stock; minor wrinkling, else Near Fine. Protest poster issued by the Pacifist Socialist Party, advertising an anti-NATO rally in Utrecht. The image shows a skull sporting a NATO helmet. Designer attributed to Dick Breebaart by the former collector. Unlocated in OCLC... Read More
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While My Guitar Gently Weeps
by BREEZE, Paul
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, Inc, 1979. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black paper and red-cloth covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-222,[2]pp. Faint tiny stain to upper backstrip to rear cover, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $9.95) with some trivial surface wear, else Fine. Breeze's first novel, with an emphasis on rock... Read More
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![A Monk's Tale [No. 1-4 & 0] [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/305/607/1318607305.0.m.jpg)
A Monk's Tale [No. 1-4 & 0] [Signed]
by BREIKREUZ, Laurie and Kandrix Foong
[Calgary, Alberta?]: Konsequential Studios, 2002-2005. Mixed Printings. Five volumes; octavo (ca. 25cm.); publisher's tan pictorial staplebound wrappers; chiefly illus. throughout. Mostly Fine. The complete martial arts comic book series, the first two numbers second printings, the latter three (including no. 0 "special edition") firsts. All copies signed by one or both authors. U. Michigan only in OCLC as of... Read More
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The Last Year of Malcolm X: The Evolution of a Revolutionary
by BREITMAN, George
New York: Schocken Books, [1968]. First Schocken Paperback edition. Octavo (20cm). Cream wrappers printed in black and green; [vi],169,[1]pp; publisher's ads inside wrappers; 4 full-page black and white portraits. Lightly rubbed with some minor dust, else Very Good or better. From the "Sourcebooks in Negro History" series. [62740].
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Drive Suite: An Essay on Composition, Materials, References, Etc..
by BREMSER, Ray
San Francisco: The Nova Broadcast Press, 1968. First Edition. Slim octavo (19.75cm); original printed card wrappers, stapled; [vi],18pp. A Fine copy. First of six volumes in Jan Jacob Herman's Nova Broadcast series. 82722.
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An Elementary Textbook of Psychoanalysis
by BRENNER, Charles
New York: International Universities Press, [1973]. Revised Edition (1974 Reprint). Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in pale green decorative dust jacket; ix,[5],280pp. Jacket very slightly wrinkled, spine a shade sunned, else Near Fine.
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Through Consumption to Prosperity: An Outline of Major Douglas's Credit Proposals
by Brenton, Arthur
London: Credit Resesarch Library, 1924. Original Wraps. Very Good. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 15pp. Old soil to covers, internally clean. Scarce.
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The Foundation and Construction of Ethics. Compiled from His Lectures on Practical Philosophy
by BRENTANO, Franz; Franziska Mayer-Hillebrand, ed; Elizabeth Hughes Schneewind, transl
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1973). First English Language Edition. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; 390pp. Neat ink ownership signature to front endpaper, else tight, unmarked and Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. A volume in the publisher's series "International Library of Philosophy and Scientific Method," under the general editorship of Ted Honderich.
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