The End of a Decade
by BROWN, Harry
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1940. First Edition. Sliim octavo; original buff paper-covered boards (hardcover); printed dustjacket, [28]pp. Mild sunning to jacket spine, a bit of soil to jacket panels, else a clean, tigh, unmarked copy, Near Fine. Second volume in Laughlin's "Poet of the Month" series, which debuted such poets as John Berryman, Dudley Fitts, and Kenneth Patchen. ... Read More
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Old New York: Yesterday & Today
by BROWN, Henry Collins
New York: Privately Published, 1922. First Edition. Quarto (31cm); dark blue publisher's cloth, stamped in gilt; [74pp]. Spine well sunned; material fraying/loss at crown and heel, leading corners; mild surface wear and soiling to boards; interiors foxed intermittently, with some yellowing to margins; first signature slightly pulled; short tear on fore edge of title and foreword pages. Overall Very... Read More
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Incredible Ink [Signed, Limited]
by BROWNE, Howard
Tuscon: Dennis McMillan, 1997. First, Limited Edition. First Printing. Signed, Ltd. #143 of 350; Octavo (23.5cm.); yellow boards stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; black slipcase; 538pp.; Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (not priced) in Fine condition. Slipcase also Fine. Author's last novel. Dustjacket and interior artwork by Joe Servello.
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Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States. Preface by Boyd B. Stutler
by BROWN, John; Boyd B. Stutler (pref)
Weston, MA: M&S Press, 1970. Reprint. Facsimile reprint of the 1858 edition, with a Preface by West Virginia journalist and collector Boyd B. Stutler and a brief publisher's afterword. 12mo (18cm); printed blue cloth-covered boards (hardcover); no dustwrapper, as issued; 12,15,[1]pp. A new, unread copy. Facsimile reprint, with commentary, of Brown's revolutionary Constitution, originally printed, without attribution, in St.... Read More
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The Self-Interpreting Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, to Which are Annexed, An Extensive Introduction–Marginal References and Illustrations–A Summary of the Several Books–A Paraphrase on the Most Obscure or Important Parts–An Analysis of the Contents of Each Chapter–Explanatory Notes and Evangelical Reflections
by BROWN, John
Glasgow: William MacKenzie, [n.d.; ca 1870]. Folio (32cm). Half-black morocco, with brown cloth over boards; green foliate-patterned endpapers; [lx],[1168]pp; frontispiece, engraved title page, and 34 steel engraved plates. Sound and straight but externally rubbed with minor scuffs, front hinge cracked, generaly clean with scatted foxing: Very Good. John Brown of Haddington (1782-1787) was a minister of the... Read More
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Handbook Of Eating Disorders: Physiology, Psychology, and Treatment of Obesity, Anorexia, and Bulimia
by BROWNELL, Kelly D. & John P. Foreyt
NY: Basic Books, 1986. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 529pp. Tight, unmarked copy, Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
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Land in Southern Rhodesia [cover title]
by BROWN, Ken; Clyde Sanger, intro
[London]: Africa Bureau, 1959. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original white and green staplebound wrappers; 32pp. Fine. On the Land Apportionment Act and the Land Husbandry Act in present-day Zimbabwe.
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Facing the Music: Stories [Signed Bookplate]
by BROWN, Larry
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1988. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; red endpapers; dustjacket; 167pp. Author's signed bookplate laid in. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper, designed by Molly Renda, unclipped ($12.95), light wear to upper spine panel with tiny tear to lower rear panel, else Near Fine. The Mississippi... Read More
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A Pageant of Poems
by BROWN, Loretta Smith
New York: Vantage Press, [1976]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth in yellow decorative dust jacket; [14],63pp. Top edge a bit dusty, else Fine. Ohio-born African American author's first book, a collection of Christian poetry and "sermonettes," as well as a tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., and a longer poem titled "To Be Black." 7 copies in OCLC... Read More
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The Lives and Work of South African Missionaries: Bibliography
by BROWNLEE, Margaret
Cape Town: University of Cape Town Libraries, 1969. Third Impression. Octavo (22.25cm.); original green printed staplebound wrappers; [6],iv,32pp.; printed from typescript. Minor dust-soil, else Fine. Submitted in "partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Higher Certificate in Librarianship." First published in 1952.
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The Israeli-American Connection: Its Roots in the Yishuv, 1914-1945 [Review Copy]
by BROWN, Michael
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1996. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's publicity letter laid in. Octavo (23.5cm); hunter green cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-396,[4]pp. Spine lean, else a clean, Near Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket. Detailed study of six central figures of the yishuv: Revisionist-Zionist maverick Vladimir Jabtinsky,... Read More
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STRANGE DAYS AHEAD
by Brownstein, Michael
Calais VT: Z Press, 1975. First edition. Pictorial wrappers; 8vo. 91 pp. One of the noted New York poets. Printed at the Stinehour Press (Freeman Keith design) for Kenward Elmslie's Z Press. A near fine unread copy with slight corner wear.
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Pelé: King of Soccer / El Rey del Fútbol
by BROWN, Monica (text); GUTIÉRREZ, Rudy (illustrations)
New York: Rayo, 2009. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto; glossy, illustrated boards; dustjacket; [34]pp; illus; bilingual text in English and Spanish. Fine in a Fine dustjacket.
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The Hand That Cradles The Rock [Signed Bookplate Laid-in]
by BROWN, Rita Mae
New York: New York University Press, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Signed Bookplate Laid-in. Octavo (21cm.) blue boards stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 64pp. A Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.50); light wear/rubbing only; Fine. Author's first published book. Rita Mae Brown (born November 28, 1944) is an American feminist writer, best known for her coming-of-age... Read More
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Common Markets and Common Carriers in South America: Highlights of "Transport and the Economic Integration of South America
by BROWN, Robert T.
Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 1966. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue-grey staplebound wrappers; 9pp. Near Fine. Brookings Research Institute Report no. 51.
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Beyond the Cape of Hope
by BROWNE, Robert
London: John Murray, 1965. First U.K. Edition. Octavo; green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 152pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced 18s net). Autobiography of an Englishman who worked first as an A.D.C. and later as a D.C. in Nyasaland, Tanganyika and Somaliland.
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SOME DEATHS IN THE DELTA
by Brown, Rosellen
Amherst: Univ. of Mass. Press, 1979. First edition. Trade paper issue. An inscribed copy (presumably, as it is an uncommon name, to a well-known VT newscaster Marselis Parsons), this is the simultaneously published paperback edition. A few spots of foxing on the front cover, otherwise a nice copy without the common browning. Her first book. Near Fine in Wraps.... Read More
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John Smith. A Journey Along the High-Ways and By-Ways of Life
by BROWN, Sebastian
Baltimore: The Monumental Publishing Company, 1893. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Maroon cloth stamped in gilt; grey coated endpapers; [iv],268pp; frontispiece portrait. Lightly rubbed and spine-sunned, text uniformly browned, but generally sound and Very Good. Novel "Of a Philadelphia lawyer." WRIGHT III, 723.
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APUD LIBROS
by Brown, Spencer; Robert Hillyer
New Rochelle: James L. Weil, 1986. First edition. String-tied wrappers; 16mo. [7 pp.] A poem by each poet (previously printed), issued as one of 50 "keepsake copies" printed by Martino Mardersteig, issued unsigned. Fine and quite scarce.
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Acting Version of Henry W. Savage's Production of Everywoman, Her Pilgrimage in Quest of Love: A Modern Morality Play
by BROWNE, Walter
New York: H.K. Fly Company Publishers, 1908, but 1911. First Edition. Octavo (18.75cm.); original green gilt-lettered cloth; [4],121pp.; photographic frontispiece, 7 leaves of photographic stills. Light shelf wear, mid-20th century ownership bookplate to front pastedown, else Near Fine. Illustrated with stills from the original (1911) production, starring Laura Nelson Hall, Sarah Cowell Le Moyne, and Patricia Collinge.
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Ode to an Eastern Cop
by BROWN, Walter C.; Gene Maslow, illus
Hollywood, CA: Three Penny Press, n.d. [ca 1960]. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; [10]pp; three color illustrations, one folding. Text printed by offset; the illustrations, by the artist Gene Maslow, are mimeographed in colors. Mild external toning and wear; Very Good. A beat-inflected, book-length poem intended (according to the publisher's preface) to be read to... Read More
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Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession with a Narrative of Personal Adventures Among the Rebels
by BROWNLOW, W.G.
Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1862. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's brown triple-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 458,[8](ads)pp.; steel engraved portrait frontispiece. Corners bumped, spine toned and gilt quite dulled, some old soiling to textblock, contemporary stenciled ownership markings to front free endpaper, old bookseller's description tipped to final leaf of publisher's ads; still, a Very Good and sound copy. The... Read More
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Inauguration Day, San Francisco, California, 8 January 1996 [Argonaut, Vol. 141, no. 4218]
by [BROWN, Willie L., Jr.]
San Francisco: Argonaut, 1996. First Edition. Single leaf folded into 8-panelled brochure; illus. Fine condition. Supplemental issue of the local San Francisco newspaper featuring special events on the occasion of the inauguration of the city's first African-American mayor, Willie L. Brown, Jr., who was in office from 1996 to 2004. Brochure opens up into color poster displaying portraits of... Read More
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On the South African Border. The Adventures and Observations of an American in Mashonaland and Matabeleland
by BROWN, William Harvey
New York: Negro Universities Press, (1970). Facsimile reprint of the 1899 edition. Octavo; brown cloth hardcover; xxii,430pp; illus; folding map. Fine copy, free of markings or notable wear.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest M. Hemingway in Paris: An Exhibition at the Bibliotheque Benjamin Franklin in Conjunction with a Conference at the Institut d'Etudes Americaines, 23-24 June 1972, 1, Place de l'Odeon, Paris, France
by BRUCCOLI, Matthew J. and Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith (contributors)
Bloomfield Hills, MI and Columbia, SC: Bruccoli-Clark Publishers, 1972. First Edition. One of 650 copies. Oblong octavo (15.25cm x 23cm); original printed card wrappers, stapled; [16]pp; illus. A Fine copy, retaining a Very Good+ example of the original publisher's printed mailing envelope. Slim exhibition catalog, containing descriptions (some accompanied by facsimiles) of books, inscriptions, manuscripts, and letters pertaining to... Read More
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