![Journal of Mayan Linguistics [Volume 1-5, Number 1-2; 10 Total]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/926/161/1721161926.0.m.jpg)
Journal of Mayan Linguistics [Volume 1-5, Number 1-2; 10 Total]
by BRODY, Jill M. and William F. Hanks (editors);
Iowa City: Department of Anthropology / University of Iowa / Louisiana State University, [1978-1986]. Volumes 1 Number 1-2 to Volumes 5 Number 1-2 (10 total), all softcovers. Quarto (27.5cm); orange and brown pictorial paper wrappers, many stapled with additional black band to spine; 60pp; 61pp; 62pp; 160pp; 97pp; 53pp; 129pp; 91pp; 112pp; 53pp. This set is from the library... Read More
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Passivity: A Study of Its Development and Expression in Boys
by BRODY, Sylvia
New York: International Universities Press, [1964]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in teal decorative dust jacket; viii,184pp. A few short closed tears to jacket extremities, none approaching text, light shelf wear, else Very Good or better.
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![The Price of Revolution [Ben Shahn's Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/357/385/969385357.0.m.jpg)
The Price of Revolution [Ben Shahn's Copy]
by BROGAN, D.W.
New York: Harper & Brothers, [1951]. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's blue cloth-backed boards; viii,280pp. Extremities a bit toned, spine lettering almost completely effaced, corners bumped; About Very Good, lacking dust jacket. Shahn's personal library shelf labels to spine foot and front free endpaper along with his ownership signature to front free endpaper, estate label of Ben and Bernarda Shahn tipped... Read More
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Souvenirs, 1785-1870, du Feu Duc de Broglie
by BROGLIE, Duc de [Achille Victor]
Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1886. First Edition. Four volumes; octavo (22cm.); uniformly bound in contemporary red morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt spines. Boards a bit rubbed, leather dried and darkened at spines, some foxing throughout, most heavily to the last volume, else a Near Very Good, sound set. Memoirs of the French peer, edited by his son Albert, 4th Duc de... Read More
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Boom! Voices of the Sixties
by BROKAW, Tom
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 2007. First, Limited Edition. No. 121 of 1,100 numbered copies. Signed by Brokaw in broad-tip marker on limitation page. Octavo; full gilt-tooled leather; all edges gilt; ribbon book mark, silk moiré endpapers; 662pp. Fine copy, with prospectus and Certificate of Authenticity, also signed by Brokaw, laid-in.
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The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg
by BROMFIELD, Louis
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1928. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in orange on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; [xiv],314,[8]pp. Light wear to spine ends, topstain dulled, with some faint foxing to right edge of textblock, and a tiny inked number at upper left corner of front pastedown; Very Good+ to Near Fine.... Read More
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A Modern Hero
by BROMFIELD, Louis
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1932. First, Limited Edition. Octavo (19.5cm). White cloth spine over red cloth-covered boards; red top-stain; dustjacket; 450pp. No. 180 of 250 signed and numbered copies in the first edition. A fresh, fine copy, with the gold foil endpapers bright and uncreased; in the original gold foil art deco dustwrapper designed by Paul Spener... Read More
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A Tight Corner: "They sought, on the walls, a quantity of/ things that were not there...
by Bromige, David
n.p.: n.p., 1973. First Thus. Postcard on yellow stock printing a single line/poem by Bromige. [Portion of poem including first line used as title.] as Scarce. Near fine.
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FOUR SONNETS BY FOUR FRIENDS
by Bronk, William; Spencer Brown; Samuel French Morse; Felix Steanile
New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1986. First edition thus. String-tied wrappers; [9 pp.] Issued as a keepsake. One of 50 printed by Mardersteig, issued unsigned. Front cover creased, else very good and quite scarce.
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Formalities
by Bronk, William
New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1990. First edition. String-tied green wrappers; [5 pp.]. Two short poems by Bronk, issued as a keepsake. One of 50 printed by Mardersteig, issued unsigned. Heavily creased, else very good and quite scarce.
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Cowboy Life on the Western Plains: Reminiscences of a Ranchman
by BRONSON, Edgar Beecher
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, N.d. [ca 1930s]. Undated reprint. Octavo. In the Doran binding of brick cloth with pictorial front-cover paste-on, with Grosset & Dunlap title page (originally published by McClurg, 1910). A tight, square copy with just mild external rubbing and wear; Very Good. A fictional account.
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An American Hero
by BRONSON, F.W.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, [1933]. Second Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in blue and green dust jacket, dark blue topstain; [4],298pp. A few tiny chips and closed tears to jacket extremities and spine panel, green spine lettering a bit faded, brief dampstaining to rear panel extremities not affecting cloth, else Very Good and sound. "Satirical account of one... Read More
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The Genius of the Future. Studies in French Art Criticism: Diderot, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Zola, the brothers Goncourt, Huysmans
by BROOKNER, Anita
London / New York: Phaidon, 1971. First Edition. First impression, issue for America. Tall octavo (26cm). Cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; 172pp; illus. Fine copy in Near Fine, unclipped dustwrapper (priced $8.95), with loose bookplate signed by the author laid in at title page. Brookner's first published book.
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Prosperity Street
by BROOK, Barnaby
New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1930. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; purple cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; purple topstain; dustjacket; 308pp. Contemporary owners name to front pastedown, spine gilt slightly oxidized, with a 3.5" split to lower rear hinge; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), spine-sunned, with some small chips to extremities and a... Read More
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The Language of the American South: Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
by BROOKS, Cleanth
Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1985. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); brown cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [xii],[1],2-58,[2]pp. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper has light crease to lower rear spine fold, else Fine. Focuses on the American South and its syntax, literature, and impact; concludes with notes section of sources. Issued as no.28... Read More
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A History of the Afghan
by BROOK, Donna; Ann Mikolowski, illus
Detroit: Red Hanrahan Press, 1975. First Edition. First printing. Wrappered issue, one of 750 copies (there was a simultaneous issue of 100 copies signed and bound in boards). Novelist Donald McCaig's copy, with the embossed blind stamp of his library at Yucatec Farm in Highland County, Virginia. Bit of dusting to wrappers, light wear; still a Very good or... Read More
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R.J.: In Appreciation of the Life of John David Rheinallt Jones and His Work for the Betterment of Race Relations in Southern Africa
by BROOKES, Edgar H.
[Johannesburg?]: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1953. First Edition. Slim octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's blue card wrappers; [4],43pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Wrappers a bit worn from handling, rear cover rather dampstained, else About Very Good. Short biography of Jones, the first director of the Institute for Race Relations, published on the occasion of his death that same year. ... Read More
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The Black List
by BROOK, Ian
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); orange cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [x],277,[1]pp. Spine ends nudged, touch of dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.50), gently spine-sunned, shelfworn, with some small chips, tears, and attendant creases; Very Good. Satirical novel... Read More
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![Anniversary Poem Delivered at New Haven, Conn. Before the Connecticut Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa, Sept. 12, 1826 [Alt. Title: "Genius"]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/252/927/1248927252.0.m.jpg)
Anniversary Poem Delivered at New Haven, Conn. Before the Connecticut Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa, Sept. 12, 1826 [Alt. Title: "Genius"]
by BROOKS, James G.
New-York: G. & C. Carvill, 1826. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); disbound; 28pp. Contemporary ownership inscription, else Very Good and fresh. The author's longest poem, later published under the title "Genius." A native of Red Hook, Brooks is best known as the poetry editor of the literary weekly journal "Minerva." SHOEMAKER 23935.
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Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs
by (BROOK FARM] CODMAN, John Thomas
Boston: Arena Publishing Co, 1894. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth boards, gilt titles, teg; vi+335, (6)pp. Small scuff to spine, scattered thumbsoil to text, still a fresh, tight copy, VG or better. Printed bookplate (George F. Horner) inside front cover. Codman arrived at Brook Farm with his parents in 1843, at the age of seventeen, and remained... Read More
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Literature and Life. An Address Delivered Before the Chautauqua Assembly at Framingham Massachusetts, on the 21st of July, 1886
by BROOKS, Phillips
Boston: Chautauqua Press, 1886. First Edition. 12mo. Sewn pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 38pp. Small chips and light soil to wrappers; text clean, tight and unmarked. Lecture on Ameican literary culture by the prominent Episcopal minister, best known as the author of the Christmas hymn "O Little Town of Bethlehem.
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The Boiling Point
by BROOKS, Richard
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1948. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); burgundy cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 312pp. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners, with faint tanning to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.75), with modest shelfwear and soil, and tiny chips... Read More
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The Way Forward
by BROOKINGS, Robert S.
New York: Macmillan, 1932. First Edition. Small octavo. Red ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, title blocked in blind on front board; ix, 97pp. Spine gilt slightly dulled; shadow from laid-in bookmark to front endpapers; contemporary ownership signature (Edward F. Sheffey II) to front endpaper. Text clean and unmarked. A tight, VG+ copy. Essays on the economic future... Read More
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When Labor Organizes
by BROOKS, Robert R.R.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1937. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original blue cloth embossed in dark blue; x,361pp.; illustrated title page printed in blue and black; 8 leaves of plain photographic illustrations, text illus. throughout. Lacking dust jacket, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else About Fine.
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Unanswered Questions: Theoloical Views of Jewish-Catholic Relations
by BROOKS, Roger (ed)
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-covered boards (hardcover); 224pp. No dustjacket (as issued). Fine and unmarked; review copy, with publisher's material laid in.
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