Victor Emmanuel II and the Union of Italy
by C.S. Forester
London: Methuen & Co., Ltd, 1927. Very Good -. London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1927. First Edition, second issue in green cloth with ads dated 1932. Octavo (22.5cm); [viii],245pp+8ads; 12 plates including frontis, all present; map endpapers and genealogical table. Publisher's light green cloth with dark green rules and lettering. Missing dust jacket. Boards rather edgeworn with bumping... Read More
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The Peacemaker
by C.S. Forester
London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1934. Very Good. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. 341 pp. Green cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt. Lacks dust jacket. Wear to edges of boards with very brief exposure to corners; spine ends nudged; general spotting and scuffing; spine toned. Binding sound. Foxing to fore-edge of text block; minor spotting... Read More
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The Gun: A Novel
by C.S. Forester
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1933. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1933. First American Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); [4],296pp. A few small chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, brief tape repairs to verso, moderate dust-soil, top textblock edge and early leaves rather foxed, corners... Read More
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Against Hitler!: Photomontages by John Heartfield 1930-38
by Meira Perry-Lehmann [intro. and curator]; Ruth Apter-Gabriel [curator]; Martin Weyl [foreword]
Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1994. Very Good +. Jerusalem: The Israel Museum, 1994. Presumed First Edition with no additional printings indicated. Super octavo (27cm x 20cm); 207pp. Publisher’s stiff pictorial wrappers; photographic endsheets. Images throughout. Wrappers bumped at corners, spine ends, and along edges. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. Previous owner’s ex-libris stamp on front... Read More
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![Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists [Signed by Kennedy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/181/726/1688726181.0.m.jpg)
Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists [Signed by Kennedy]
by Martha H. Kennedy; Carla D. Hayden [foreword]
Jackson, MS: Library of Congress / University Press of Mississippi, 2018. Fine/Near Fine. Jackson, MS: Library of Congress / University Press of Mississippi, 2018. First Edition, Stated First Printing. Quarto (29cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xii,238pp.; color illus. throughout. Jacket margins very slightly starting to curl, else Near Fine. Signed by Martha Kennedy on half title.... Read More
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![Mocha and Related Dipped Wares, 1770-1939 [Signed by Rickard]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/845/672/1703672845.0.m.jpg)
Mocha and Related Dipped Wares, 1770-1939 [Signed by Rickard]
by Jonathan Rickard; Gavin Ashworth [photography]; David Barker [foreword]
Hanover, NH / East Nassau, NY: University Press of New England / Historic Eastfield Foundation, 2006. Very Good+/Very Good. Hanover, NH / East Nassau, NY: University Press of New England / Historic Eastfield Foundation, [2006]. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm); publisher's boards in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; xxii,178pp.; photographic illus. throughout, many in full color. Very light shelf wear... Read More
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![My Sister Eileen [Signed by Fields and Chodorov]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/468/282/1631282468.0.m.jpg)
My Sister Eileen [Signed by Fields and Chodorov]
by [Ruth McKenney]; Joseph Fields; Jerome Chodorov; George S. Kaufman [foreword]
New York: Random House, 1941. Very Good +/Good. New York: Random House, 1941. Stated First Printing. Octavo (21 cm); ix, [2]; 187pp. Publisher's illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($2.00). Boards full bound in teal green cloth with black stamping to spine. Dark top stain. Three (3) photographs including frontispiece from the original production by Lucas & Monroe... Read More
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![Gondwana: Images of an Ancient Land [Inscribed and Signed by Tuft]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/546/051/1696051546.0.m.jpg)
Gondwana: Images of an Ancient Land [Inscribed and Signed by Tuft]
by Diane Tuft; Elisabeth Sussman [foreword]
New York: Assouline, 2014. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Assouline, 2014. First Edition. Large quarto (33cm); publisher's photo-illustrated boards in matching dust jacket; [128]pp.; chiefly color photographic illus. Short closed tear at bottom edge of upper jacket panel, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed by the photographer on half title, "To Pierre / Enjoy the journey!... Read More
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Children of the Sea" and Three Other Unpublished Plays by Eugene O'Neill
by Eugene O'Neill; Jennifer McCabe Atkinson [ed.]; Frank Durham [foreword]
Washington, DC: NCR/Microcard Editions, 1972. Near Fine. Washington, DC: NCR/Microcard Editions, 1972. Limited Edition of 200 copies, of which this is no. 66. Octavo (24 cm); 214pp. Boards full bound in textured brown cloth with gilt stamping and decoration, housed in a light-brown paper-wrapped slipcase with printed red and black illus. Red top stain. Endsheets printed with facsimile... Read More
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Views of Jeopardy
by Jack Gilbert; Dudley Fitts [foreword]
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1962. Very Good/Very Good. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1962. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket by Philip Kerr retaining original price ($3.00); [14],43pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including shallow chipping along top margins, small chip at spine crown not quite touching text, spine very... Read More
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Skull-a-Day [Signed by Scalin with original cartoon]
by Noah Scalin; Anna Shoddy [foreword]
Richmond, VA: Chop Suey Books Books, 2014. Very Good. Richmond, VA: Chop Suey Books Books, [2014]. First Edition with full number line. Square quarto (23.5cm); publisher's black decorative boards stamped in gilt, pictorial endpapers; 258pp.; full color photographs throughout. Boards a bit rubbed with some shallow surface scratches, corners nudged, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Signed... Read More
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The Kingdom of Happiness
by Jeddu [a.k.a. Jiddu] Krishnamurti; Annie Besant [foreword]
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket adorned with a portrait of author by Kahlil Gibran, price cancel to front jacket flap ($1.50); v,[6]-112pp.; author portrait frontispiece. Moderate chipping and wear to jacket margins, closed tear at bottom edge of... Read More
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![Those Hours Spent Outdoors: Reflections on Hunting and Fishing [Signed by Tapply]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/881/276/1701276881.0.m.jpg)
Those Hours Spent Outdoors: Reflections on Hunting and Fishing [Signed by Tapply]
by William G. Tapply; Duncan Barnes [foreword]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. Fine/Near Fine. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1988]. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped yellow pictorial dust jacket; xvi,208pp. Just a hint of shelf wear and finger soil to front free endpaper, else Near Fine. Signed by the author on title page.
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The Adding Machine: A Play in Seven Scenes
by Elmer L. Rice; Philip Moeller [foreword]
New York: Samuel French, 1929. Very Good/Good. New York: Samuel French, 1929. Later Edition. Octavo; publisher's two-toned cloth, red topstain, in white dust jacket printed in red and black; x,[6],143pp.; photographic frontispiece, seven leaves of photographs from the original production. Jacket quite chipped and torn, red spine titling entirely faded, old rubber-stamp price cancel to upper panel, else... Read More
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![Charles Bukowski: The Cruelty of Loveless Love [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/751/559/1699559751.0.m.jpg)
Charles Bukowski: The Cruelty of Loveless Love [Limited Edition]
by [Charles Bukowski] Joan Levin Gannij [photos and text]; Carl Weissner [foreword]
New York: Kunst Editions, 2001. Fine. New York: Kunst Editions, [2001]. First Edition, Limited to 35 copies of which this is no. 28. Large quarto (36.5cm); sheets loose as issued and housed in dark crimson silk clamshell box and black card slipcase, upper clamshell panel lettered in red and black with photographic portrait of Bukowski in plexiglass window;... Read More
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Nine Centuries in the Heart of Burgundy: The Cellier aux Moines & Its Vineyards
by Gilles Platret and Philippe Pascal; Yves Benard [foreword]
New York: Assouline, 2013. Very Good+/Very Good+. [New York]: Assouline, [2013]. First Edition. Large quarto (30.5cm); publisher's boards, pictorial endpapers, in glossy white pictorial dust jacket; 191pp.; full color illus. throughout. Light edge wear else Very Good to Near Fine.
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Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944
by J. Clay Smith; Thurgood Marshall [foreword]
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. Very Good/Very Good. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, [1993]. First Edition. Thick octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; xix,[1],703pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear to jacket margins, corners bumped, occasional pencil marginalia, indentations along textblock margins from removed paperclips, else a Very Good, straight and sound copy.
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![Kenney's: Twenty Poems for a Lost Tavern [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/195/711/1715711195.0.m.jpg)
Kenney's: Twenty Poems for a Lost Tavern [Limited Edition]
by William Murray [foreword]
Iowa City, IA: Windhover Press / University of Iowa, 1970. Near Fine. Iowa City, IA: Windhover Press / University of Iowa, [1970]. First Edition, Limited to 250 copies printed from hand-set Bembo type on a Washington press. Slim octavo (22cm); publisher's black cloth over blue paper-covered boards, white errata wrap-around band, clear acetate dust jacket; unpaginated. Very light... Read More
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Kindergarten Limericks
by Florence E. Scott [verses]; Arthur O. Scott [illus.]; Lucy Wheelock [foreword]
New York: Hurst and Company Publishers, 1915. Very Good. New York: Hurst and Company Publishers, [1915]. First Edition. Quarto (26cm.); publisher's tan pictorial cloth stamped in black and red; [116]pp.; color illus. throughout. Light wear to cloth margins, general dust-soil to both boards, shallow dog-earing to a few internal leaves, else Very Good and sound. Contemporary... Read More
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Relics: Travels in Nature's Time Machine
by Piotr Naskrecki; Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier [foreword]
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Very Good+/Near Fine. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, [2011]. First Edition with full number line. Square quarto; publisher's cloth in glossy photo-illustrated dust jacket; xviii,[2],342pp.; full color photographic illus. Front hinge very slightly starting, else a Near Fine example.
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![The Collected Poems of Marsden Hartley, 1904-1943 [Limited Edition, Signed by Scott]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/419/234/1575234419.0.m.jpg)
The Collected Poems of Marsden Hartley, 1904-1943 [Limited Edition, Signed by Scott]
by Marsden Hartley; Gail R. Scott [ed.]; Robert Creeley [foreword]
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. Very Good/Very Good. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. First Edition, Limited to 150 hardcover copies of which this is no. 49. Thick octavo; publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards in opaque acetate dust jacket; 360pp.; illus. Bubbling to jacket spine panel, boards gently scuffed along bottom margins, else Very Good and sound. Signed... Read More
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From Plotzk to Boston
by Mary Antin; Israel Zangwill [foreword]
Boston: W.B. Clarke & Co, 1899. Very Good. Boston: W.B. Clarke & Co., 1899. Second Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey printed card wrappers; 80pp. Wrappers and textblock margins rather brittle and toned with a few shallow chips and losses, faint institutional rubberstamp inside front wrapper, else a Very Good and sound example. The immigration rights activist Mary Antin's... Read More
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![Maximus, From Dogtown - I [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/277/054/1721054277.0.m.jpg)
Maximus, From Dogtown - I [Limited Edition]
by Charles Olson; Michael McClure [foreword]
San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1961. Very Good. San Francisco: Auerhahn, 1961. First Edition, Limited to 500 copies. Slim quarto (28.5cm); publisher's printed string-bound wrappers; [14]pp. Light wear and toning to wrapper margins, else Very Good and sound. Handbound by Andrew Hoyem and Dave Haselwood.
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![Game Changers: Going Local to Defeat Violent Extremists [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/017/348/1673348017.0.m.jpg)
Game Changers: Going Local to Defeat Violent Extremists [Inscribed and Signed]
by D. Scott Mann; Steven Pressfield [foreword]
Leesburg, VA: Tribal Analysis Center, 2015. Fine/Fine. [Leesburg, VA: Tribal Analysis Center, 2015.] First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in glossy pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; xxiv,341pp.; illus. throughout, including photographs and maps. Just About Fine condition. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper.
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![Black Rage [Inscribed and Signed by Cobbs]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/708/400/1702400708.0.m.jpg)
Black Rage [Inscribed and Signed by Cobbs]
by William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs; Fred R. Harris [foreword]
New York: Basic Books, 1968. Very Good+/Very Good. New York: Basic Books, 1968. First Edition. Octavo (215.cm); publisher's black cloth, red topstain, in white printed dust jacket retaining original price ($5.95); viii,213pp. Dust jacket and board margins a bit soiled, jacked spine panel toned, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Inscribed and signed on front... Read More
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