Purgatorio
by Dante Alighieri; Salvador Dali [illus.]; Henry Francis Cary [trans.]; George Melly and Michael Prodger [essays]
London: The Folio Society, 2008. Fine. London: The Folio Society, 2008. Second printing thus. Folio; 154pp. Color plates by Salvador Dali. Green morocco spines lettered in gilt over moire boards; topstain; decorative endpapers. Housed in publisher's illustrated slipcase. Tight in binding; pages unmarked; slipcase sound; a Fine copy.
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![Many Loves [Living Theatre Program]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/041/566/1699566041.0.m.jpg)
Many Loves [Living Theatre Program]
by [The Living Theatre] William Carlos Williams; Martin Buber [essay]
New York: Living Theatre, 1959. Very Good. New York: Living Theatre, 1959. First Edition. Octavo; [16]pp. Illustrated wraps. Light edgewear; some toning and scattered staining; binding sound pages unmarked; Very Good. Program for Williams' play which premiered January 13, 1959 and was directed by Julian Beck. Includes advertisements for Gotham Book Mart, the Evergreen Review, and myriad local... Read More
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Envols [Limited Edition, Signed by Bohbot and Asada]
by Michel Bohbot [poems]; Hiroshi Asada [etchings]
Paris: A Parole Donnee, 1980. Fine/Fine. [Paris]: "A Parole Donnée," 1980. First Edition, Limited to 60 copies of which this is no. 15. Small square quarto (17cm); loose as issued in original green printed dust jacket housed in tan cloth chemise and slipcase; [20]pp.; two leaves of color etchings signed with limitation by the Japanese printmaker Hiroshi Asada.... Read More
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![Naissance des Signes [Limited Edition, Signed by Bohbot and Papart]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/967/558/1699558967.0.m.jpg)
Naissance des Signes [Limited Edition, Signed by Bohbot and Papart]
by Michel Bohbot; Max Papart [etchings]
Paris: A Parole Donnee, 1978. Fine/Fine. [Paris]: "A Parole Donnée," [1978]. First Edition, Limited to 60 copies of which this is no. 39. Small square quarto (16.5cm); loose as issued in green printed dust jacket housed in original black cloth chemise and slipcase; [20]pp.; three color etchings signed with limitation by the artist. Light fraying to slipcase, else... Read More
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![Florida Poets 1930 [Inscribed and Signed by Contributor Elizabeth C. Welborn]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/551/267/1657267551.0.m.jpg)
Florida Poets 1930 [Inscribed and Signed by Contributor Elizabeth C. Welborn]
by Ethel Brooks Koger [ed.]; Harold Alexander Leon DeAryan [series ed.]
Newport, KY: International Writers' League, 1930. Very Good. Newport, KY: International Writers' League, 1930. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth in bespoke slipcase; [26],116pp. Cloth a bit scuffed along margins, faint soil to upper cover fore-edge and rear cover slightly bleeding into textblock, else a Good to Very Good, sound copy. Inscribed and signed on front free... Read More
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Corrupting Youth: Political Education, Democratic Culture, and Political Theory
by J. Peter Euben
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. Very Good +. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. First Edition. Octavo. 270 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket. Light edgewear to boards with some glue remnants to front joint. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked.
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History of Lemasters Pennsylvania
by Eugene Etter [comp.]; Mary M. Etter [ed.]; Janet W. Ray [ed.]
Chambersburg, PA: Ruritan National / Robson & Kaye, Inc, 1972. Very Good. Chambersburg, PA: Ruritan National / Robson & Kaye, Inc., 1972. First Edition. Slim octavo (26 cm); 97pp. Fold out map at verso of dedication page and black and white illus. throughout. Ex-lib. Boards in pictorial blue cloth. Extremities bumped and rubbed, minor soiling, and wear to... Read More
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Poems of Childhood
by Eugene Field; Maxfield Parrish [illus.]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. First Edition in later issue dust jacket. Large octavo; publisher's cloth, color pictorial element mounted to front cover, in tan dust jacket with different color pictorial element mounted to front panel, top edge gilt, housed in custom linen slipcase; x,[2],199pp.; pictorial title page... Read More
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Poems of Childhood
by Eugene Field; Maxfield Parrish [illus.]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Very Good-. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. First Maxfield Parrish Edition. Large octavo; publisher's black cloth, color pictorial paste-on to upper cover, gilt-lettered spine, pictorial endpapers; eight (8) leaves of full color plates. Boards moderately scuffed and corners rather bumped, two gatherings separated but present, else a Good to Very Good,... Read More
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The Killer and Other Plays
by Eugene Ionesco; Donald Watson [trans.]
New York: Grove Press, 1960. Very Good+/Very Good. New York: Grove Press, [1960]. First Grove Press Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($3.95); 159pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, jacket verso quite foxed, front flyleaf and half title page unevenly toned from exposure to previously-removed news clipping, else Very Good and... Read More
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Lived Time: Phenomenological and Psychopathological Studies
by Eugène Minkowski; Nancy Metzel [trans.]
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1970. Very Good. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1970. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's purple blind-embossed cloth, spine lettered in silver foil; xl,455pp. Cloth extremities and spine unevenly sunned, top textblock edge dust-soiled, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy overall. Forms part of... Read More
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The Grateful Elephant and Other Stories Translated from the Pali
by Eugene Watson Burlingame; Dorothy P. Lathrop [illus.]
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. Very Good. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1923. First Edition. Large octavo. 172 pp. Color frontispiece; 9 additional black and white illustrations, all by Lathrop. Beige boards stamped in black. Lacks dust jacket. Boards a bit bowed and lightly edgeworn with general smudging and light spotting. Binding is sound and... Read More
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Robert Smithson
by Eugenie Tsai; Cornelia Butler [et al.]
Los Angeles and Berkeley: Museum of Contemporary Art and University of California Press, 2004. Very Good. Los Angeles and Berkeley: Museum of Contemporary Art and University of California Press, 2004. First Edition. Quarto (28x24x2.5cm); 280pp, including chronology and bibliography. Densely illustrated with Smithson's work and associated documents throughout. Graphic coated wrappers, with deep French flaps, over sewn gatherings;... Read More
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H.M.S. Euphrates Xmas 1943 Menu
by H.M.S. Euphrates
Basra, Iraq: H.M.S. Euphrates, 1943. Very Good. [Basra, Iraq]: H.M.S. Euphrates, 1943. Pictorial spirit-printed broadside menu (22.5x18cm), printed from manuscript. Moderate soil including a rather large thumb print (mince tarts can be messy), contemporary ownership Christmas sentiment in pencil on verso signed by three officers (Gregory, Simmons, and Griffiths). Very Good overall. Christmas feed at the... Read More
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![Geor: Buchanani Scoti, Poemata quae extant. Editio Postrema [bound with] Euripides' Medea](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/512/816/1621816512.0.m.jpg)
Geor: Buchanani Scoti, Poemata quae extant. Editio Postrema [bound with] Euripides' Medea
by [House of Elzevir] George Buchanan and Euripides
Lugduni Batav: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1628. Very Good -. Lugduni Batav: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1628. Editio Postrema. 12mo. 561; [15]pp. Text in Latin. Full calf; four raised bands and gilt decoration to spine; top edge stained charcoal. Chips to spine with loss of about 1/5 of leather; wear to edges with brief exposure; general scuffing. Binding sound. Note... Read More
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Typed Letter Signed detailing a miner's death at the United Verde Mine strike of 1917
by [Arizona - Mining - Labor Strike] D.J. Evans
Chicago, 1917. Very Good. Chicago: 1917. Typed letter signed with postally-used envelope from a David J. Evans to "Aunt Ann" dated May 31, 1917. Mail folds to letter, else Very Good. The letter details the death of a Wallis in the immediate aftermath of the declaration of a strike at the United Verde Mine in Jerome, Arizona. Evans reports,... Read More
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![Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/262/035/1436035262.0.m.jpg)
Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel [Inscribed and Signed]
by Evan S. Connell, Jr.
New York: Viking Press, 1963. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Viking Press, 1963. Octavo; publisher's cloth in teal and white pictorial price-clipped dust jacket, purple topstain; [10],243pp. Jacket extremities a bit chipped and toned, topstain unevenly sunned, corners bumped, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper to Howard... Read More
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Claude Raguet Hirst: Transforming the American Still Life
by Martha M. Evans
Columbus and New York: Columbus Museum of Art and Hudson Hills Press, 2004. Very Good. Columbus and New York: Columbus Museum of Art and Hudson Hills Press, 2004. First Edition. Quarto (25.5x23x1cm); 145pp, including chronology, bibliography, and index. Hirst reproductions in color and documentary and reference images throughout. Illustrated card covers with full-extension French flaps. Covers are... Read More
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Heart & Soul: Poetry / Prose / Verse
by Evelyn Early; Elliott Pinkney [illus.]
Compton, CA: Pinkearl Group / a pinkney-early publication, 1974. Very Good. Compton, CA: Pinkearl Group / a pinkney-early publication, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. 96 pp. Black and white illustrations by Pinkney throughout. Illustrated wraps. Ex-library with laminated covers, small call number sticker to front, and small number rubberstamp to title page, but no other institutional markings. Moderate edgewear... Read More
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![Cutting Lisa [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/324/572/1716572324.0.m.jpg)
Cutting Lisa [Signed]
by Percival Everett
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1986. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1986. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped grey dust jacket; [8],147pp. Moderate wear and soil to dust jacket; a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket overall. Signed by the author on title page. The Pulitzer... Read More
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![Watershed [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/028/572/1716572028.0.m.jpg)
Watershed [Signed]
by Percival Everett
Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1996. Very Good/Very Good. [Saint Paul, MN]: Graywolf Press, [1996]. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's boards in unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; [8],200pp. Light shelf wear and brief soil to upper jacket panel, corners nudged, else Very Good and sound. Signed by the author on title page. Complex murder mystery by... Read More
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![Glyph: A Novel [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/246/729/1717729246.0.m.jpg)
Glyph: A Novel [Signed]
by Percival Everett
Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1999. Very Good/Very Good. Saint Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1999. First Edition Stated. Octavo (23cm); publisher's boards in unclipped dust jacket; [6],208pp. Very light shelf wear, brief soil to jacket spine and rear panels, corners bumped, else Very Good and sound. Signed by the author on title page. One of Everett's... Read More
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![Walk Me to the Distance [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/873/728/1717728873.0.m.jpg)
Walk Me to the Distance [Signed]
by Percival Everett
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped dust jacket; [8],209pp. Moderate wear to jacket and board margins with a few tiny closed tears to the former, brief finger soil to front free endpaper, else a Very Good... Read More
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![The Solar System [Original Manuscript School Assignment]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/990/188/1717188990.0.m.jpg)
The Solar System [Original Manuscript School Assignment]
by Donna Everitts
California, 1956. Very Good. Likely California: 1956. Quarto (30.5cm); black yarn-stitched card wrappers with manuscript title and pictorial element to upper cover; [18]ll., including eight leaves of manuscript, two original drawings in color pencil on black construction paper, five news clippings; and ten additional illustrated cut-outs from various sources. Moderate wear to wrapper margins with a few small... Read More
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A Long Time Ago: In Virginia and Maryland with A Glimpse of Old England
by Alice Maude Ewell
New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1907. Very Good -. New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1907. First Edition. Octavo. 246 pp. Black and white plates, complete. Green cloth stamped in black, red, and white. No dust jacket. Wear to edges and joints with some minor fraying. Binding gives a little, but overall holding. Ownership inscription... Read More
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