Howells: His Life and World
by BROOKS, Van Wyck
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1959. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); light gray cloth, blocked and titled in blue and silver on spine; dustjacket; x,296,[6]pp; frontispiece and illustrations. Pencilled notes to front pastedown and rear endpaper. Light tanning and rubbing to board edges, with finger-soil to right edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.00),... Read More
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Howells: His Life and World
by BROOKS, Van Wyck
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1959. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); light gray cloth, blocked and titled in blue and silver on spine; dustjacket; frontispiece, x,296,[6]pp. Offsetting to front endpaper, faint hand-soil to covers, with a touch of dust-soil to upper edge of textblock, and faint foxing to rear endpaper; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped, with... Read More
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The Scene Before You: A New Approach to American Culture
by BROSSARD, Chandler [Editor]
New York: Rinehart, 1955. First Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over grey paper covered boards, titled and decorated in silver to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 305pp. Bumping to spine ends, a little sunning to the upper extremities. A good, strong copy in a clean and bright example of the dustjacket with some light creasing and chipping... Read More
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The Double View: A Novel
by BROSSARD, Chandler
New York: The Dial Press, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth spine over pictorial paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; [ii],[10],11-188,[2]pp. Light rubbing to spine ends and board edges, with faint tanning to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, designed by Paul Bacon with photograph by Vachon, unclipped (priced $3.50), lightly spine-tanned, with... Read More
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Who Walks In Darkness
by BROSSARD, Chandler
New York: New Directions Books, 1952. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [7],8-192pp. Light wear to spine ends and lower board edges, a few tiny tears to crown, with subtle tanning to text edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75), showing modest external wear, shallow loss at... Read More
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FRENCH KISS
by Brossard, Nicole, translated by Patricia Claxton
Toronto: Coach House, 1986. Third printing. Trade paperback original translated from the French; 122 pp. Nice inscription by the Quebec author in French to a professor from U Buffalo; signed in full by her. Quebec feminist's narrative "celebrates the energy of women and language...". [ back cover] Very good.
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Wehman's Budget of Dutch Jokes containing the gleanings from the whole field of German dialectic wit and humor
by WEHMAN BROS
New York: Wehman Bros, n.d., ca. 1890s. First Edition. 12mo (18.25cm.); publisher's white pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in reddish pink; 60pp. Some wear and chipping to wrapper extremities, textblock uniformly toned, else Very Good and sound. Jokes primarily involving a heavy Germanic accent.
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![The Railroad Trainman: Official Publication of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen [...] Volume XXXI, 1914](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/372/907/801907372.0.m.jpg)
The Railroad Trainman: Official Publication of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen [...] Volume XXXI, 1914
by BROTHERHOOD OF RAILROAD TRAINMEN; D.L. Cease, ed
Cleveland: Britton Printing Company, 1914. First Edition. Large, thick octavo (24cm.); original full sheep, red and black morocco gilt spine labels, all edges marbled, floral endpapers; [6],1134pp.; illus., text in double column. Some peeling and cracking to leather, extremities scuffed; textblock fine. About Very Good. Complete run for the year 1914 of a monthly published by the Brotherhood. Articles... Read More
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George Jackson – 1941-1971
by [BLACK POWER MOVEMENT – SOLEDAD BROTHERS]
N.p., s.i., [1971]. Original offset lithograph, 17" x 11", printed in reddish-brown ink on off-white, uncoated poster stock. Photographic portrait vignette at center of sheet within a thick plain border; one line of text at bottom margin below border. Slight soil and creasing to extremities, and a single short, closed tear at lower right; Very Good (B/B+). ... Read More
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Eight Important Modern Poets
by HARPER & BROTHERS
[New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931]. First Edition. 12mo bifolium (19cm.); text printed in blue. Fine. Publisher's advertisement for the works of eight contemporary poets, including Edna St. Vincent Millay and Edmund Blunden. Order blank printed on rear panel.
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The Brotherhood Era. Vols 1-3 (1909-1911)
by [BROTHERHOOD MOVEMENT - CONGREGATIONALISM] MAIN, J.H.T. (et al, eds)
Chicago: Congregational Brotherhood of America, 1909-11. Three square 16mo volumes (16cm x 13cm). Modern maroon buckram with gilt titling; variously paginated. Fine. Comprises the entirety of Vols I (April-Dec 1909, six issues); II (Jan-Dec 1910, eight issues); III (Jan-Dec 1911, eight issues). Individual issues vary from ca. 40 to ca 120pp; issued irregularly. This run apparently complete; bound without... Read More
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The Androgyne Journal
by BROUGHTON, James
Seattle: Broken Moon Press, 1991. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 91pp. Clean, tight, and unmarked; a fine, new-appearing copy.
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![True & False Unicorn" (offprint from Botteghe Oscure XVI) [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/829/536/1581536829.0.m.jpg)
True & False Unicorn" (offprint from Botteghe Oscure XVI) [Signed]
by Broughton, James
Rome: Botteghe Oscure N. XVI, [1955]. First Edition. Stapled sheets in printed stiff wrappers; thin 8vo. Offprint: A verse play published here as an off print from Botteghe Oscure N. XVI, pp. 251 - 263. Signed by Broughton. James Broughton was a well-known filmmaker as well as a poet, and an essential figure of the San Francisco Renaissance. Needless... Read More
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![SAPPHO'S GYMNASIUM [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/578/545/1581545578.0.m.jpg)
SAPPHO'S GYMNASIUM [Signed]
by Broumas, Olga and T. Begley
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1994. First Edition. First printing. Signed by both poets. Tips bumped, small faint stain affecting the tip of the first six leaves; Very Good in wraps.
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NIAGARA FRONTIER REVIEW, Summer 1964
by Brover, Charles (ed.); Charles Olson, LeRoi Jones, Robert Creeley, et al.
Buffalo: Frontier Press, 1964. First Edition. Paperback in photographic glossy wraps. Single issue; square 8vo; 70 pp. Quarterly review, this summer 1964 issue with a photo of Olson on the cover and work from Olson, Robert Creeley, LeRoi Jones, and others. Interior clean but toned; wraps are sturdy but with creasing and edgewear, some paper loss, and several stains.... Read More
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The Bolsheviks in Russian Society: The Revolution and The Civil Wars
by BROVKIN, Vladimir N. (editor)
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; viii,333pp. Trace of rubbing to lower board edges, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with just a hint of sunning to spine. Volume in which Eastern and Western scholars "draw on recently opened archives to challenge... Read More
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The Communist International, No. 10, October, 1940
by BROWDER, Earl, ed
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1940. 12mo (19.75cm.); publisher's green and white card wrappers; [641]-735pp. Light shelf wear, else Near Fine.
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Marx and America: A Study of the Doctrine of Impoverishment
by BROWDER, Earl
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1959. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo (22.25cm); red textured paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv,[2],3-146pp. Faint foxing to upper edge of textblock and to endpapers at gutters, though clean internally; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn and dust-soiled, with a very faint patch of sticker pull... Read More
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The Communist International, No. 12, December, 1940
by BROWDER, Earl, ed
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1940. 12mo (19.75cm.); publisher's green and white card wrappers; [809]-892pp. Light shelf wear, else Near Fine.
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The Communist International, No. 7, July, 1940
by BROWDER, Earl, ed
New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1940. 12mo (19.75cm.); publisher's green and white card wrappers; [409]-487pp. Light wear else Near Fine.
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Is Russia a Socialist Community?" Affirmative Presentation in a Public Debate
by BROWDER, Earl
Yonkers: Earl Browder, 1950. First Edition. 12mo (17.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 24pp.; printed from typescript. Dust-soiling to wrappers, else Very Good or better. Browder presents an affirmative argument during a debate at Webster Hall, New York City, March 30, 1950, based on what he interprets as Russia's economic success and "peaceful motives," urging friendly coexistence between the United States and... Read More
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![The Coming Economic Crisis [...] A Lecture Delivered Before the Discussion Circle, at the Woodstock Hotel, New York City, February 14, 1949 [WITH] More About the Economic Crisis [...] Discussion on the Coming Economic Crisis Before the Discussion Circle, at the Woodstock Hotel, New York City, March 14, 1949](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/261/048/809048261.0.m.jpg)
The Coming Economic Crisis [...] A Lecture Delivered Before the Discussion Circle, at the Woodstock Hotel, New York City, February 14, 1949 [WITH] More About the Economic Crisis [...] Discussion on the Coming Economic Crisis Before the Discussion Circle, at the Woodstock Hotel, New York City, March 14, 1949
by BROWDER, Earl
New York: by author, 1949. First Edition. 1. 12mo (17cm.); original blue printed staplebound wrappers; 47pp.; printed from typescript. Lower wrapper edge trimmed slightly affecting price (25¢), else Fine. BRENNEMAN, p. 29; SEIDMAN B631: "A prediction by the former leader of the party that a major economic crisis is developing, intensified by growing monopoly domination." 2. 12mo... Read More
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Debris [Review Copy]
by BROWER, Brock
New York: Atheneum, 1967. First Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy with typed review slip laid in. Octavo (21cm); olive green green cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt and silver on spine and front cover; navy blue topstain; dustjacket; 228pp. Slight spine lean, light sunning, and foxing to right edge of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Janet... Read More
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The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity, 1850-1900
by BROWER, Daniel R.
Berkeley: University of California Press, [1990]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in teal pictorial dust jacket; xiv,253pp.; illus. Just About Fine.
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Jeremy Hamlin
by BROWN, Alice
New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 327pp. Foxing to text edges, with a small booksellers ticket to rear pastedown and some faint discoloration to spine; Very Good+ to Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), and lightly rubbed at extremities;... Read More
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