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Alcoholics Anonymous (The AA "Big Book")

Alcoholics Anonymous (The AA "Big Book") by Wilson, Bill; and Dr. Bob Smith

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
Alcoholics Anonymous (The AA "Big Book")
Author
Wilson, Bill; and Dr. Bob Smith
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Works Publishing Company, 1939. First edition. Near Fine. A very Nearly Fine copy of the book. Spine gilt a trifle dulled and a small ding to one corner. Previous owner's name on the front end paper in pencil, "Wm M Jefferson," otherwise unmarked internally. One of approximately 5,000 first edition copies, and uncommon in this condition. Housed in a custom leather clamshell case. First published in 1939, Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism has become one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than thirty million copies and inspiring one of America's most enduring social movements. William Griffith Wilson, also known as Bill W., and Robert "Dr. Bob" Smith were inspired to write the "Big Book" by their own paths to sobriety, a method that would later become known as the "twelve-step program." The Big Book has since been translated into numerous languages and was designated by the Library of Congress as one of the eighty-eight books that shaped America. "Lest this title should arouse the risibles in any reader let me state that the general thesis of Alcoholics Anonymous is more soundly based psychologically than any other treatment of the subject I have ever come upon. And it is a subject not to be neglected, for, irrespective of whether we live under repeal or prohibition, there will be alcohol addicts, precisely as there are drug addicts" (contemporary New York Times review). Near Fine.
Modelli di Francia per Argentieri

Modelli di Francia per Argentieri by Silver Trade Catalogue

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Seller: De Simone Company, Booksellers
Title
Modelli di Francia per Argentieri
Author
Silver Trade Catalogue
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De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
Description
Birmingham or Sheffield, 1770. Oblong folio. 390 x 220 mm. (15 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches). Vellum spine over decorative blue paper wrappers, paper label with title in Italian on upper board and ink title in Italian on spine. Paper stock toned with age, a few leaves with staining in the margin, otherwise in good condition. Silversmith model book, containing 80 full-page engravings of candles sticks and holders, candelabra, pitchers, plates, salt and pepper shakers, serving utensils, silverware, and other household pieces. Each image is beautifully and careful engraved, with rich detail and ornamentation. Each includes a printed product number as well as one in ink with a different item number and a price. Although there is no title-page or signatures of engravers, this large sales catalogue appears to be English as some of the engravings have English words of explanation engraved in the text. The binding is definitely Italian, and the paper label is in an Italian hand. The watermark is a "fleur de lis" pattern suggesting an international company manufacturing the silver. There were only a few English companies with the capacity to export at this time, including silver works in Sheffield and Birmingham both of which by 1770's had established networks of dealers selling their wares across the continent. This catalogue, with specific Italian connections is very unusual and suggests the scope of the business had reached export capacity by the third quarter of the century. The most important Italian silver makers at this time were Giardini of Rome and Venuti of Naples. .
To the Gold Coast for Gold

To the Gold Coast for Gold by BURTON Richard F. CAMERON Verney Lovett

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
To the Gold Coast for Gold
Author
BURTON Richard F. CAMERON Verney Lovett
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1883. First Edition. BURTON, Richard F.; CAMERON, Verney Lovett. To the Gold Coast for Gold. A Personal Narrative. London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. Two volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century full brown crushed morocco with original red cloth front covers and spines bound in, raised bands, gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. $5000.First edition, with two large folding hand-tinted maps and color frontispiece, in beautiful full morocco-gilt bindings by Birdsall with the original cloth bound in.Burton's companion on this six-month search for gold was Commander Verney Lovett Cameron, the first white man to cross central Africa from coast to coast. Encouraged by Burton's report that ""there was plenty of gold and the gold mines could be easily worked,"" a number of mining companies were formed with both Burton and Cameron on their Boards. ""The record of a man who could become passionately absorbed in whatever he was engaged in"" (Rice, Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton, 455). Penzer, 106. A few expert repairs to folding map opposite title page of Volume I, wear to one fold of folding map at rear of Volume I. Text clean, full morocco-gilt bindings fine and beautiful.
George H.W. Bush Praises Colin Powell, Saying a Movement to Honor Powell Was “Fitting”

George H.W. Bush Praises Colin Powell, Saying a Movement to Honor Powell Was “Fitting” by George H.W. Bush

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George H.W. Bush Praises Colin Powell, Saying a Movement to Honor Powell Was “Fitting”
Author
George H.W. Bush
Seller
The Raab Collection (United States)
Description
12/12/97. Colin Powell was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff throughout the Bush presidency. During that time, he worked closely with the President on almost a daily basis, and oversaw 28 crises, including the invasion of Panama in 1989 to remove General Manuel Noriega from power and Operation Desert Storm in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Powell was Secretary of State for Bush’s son George W. during his first term, in which the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq took place.Sarwar A. Kashmeri is a specialist and commentator on U.S.-European relations, and fellow of the Foreign Policy Association. He is the author of “America and Europe After 9/11 and Iraq: The Great Divide”, and “NATO 2.0: Reboot or Delete?”, in which he provides insights into NATO and the future of the transatlantic alliance. In his travels and research, he has met, interviewed and worked with numerous world leaders, including British prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and U.S. President George H.W. Bush. He maintained a correspondence with the latter over the course of years.The Theodore Roosevelt Association promotes TR’s ideals and legacies, with a particular emphasis on America’s youth, and supports the Theodore Roosevelt Collection and the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund at the American Museum of Natural History. It also consults and collaborates with the National Park Service on the use of endowed funds for the Roosevelt Birthplace and Sagamore Hill. It awards a Distinguished Service Medal on an annual basis, and in 1997 it was proposed to give the 1998 to Colin Powell. Kashmeri wrote Bush seeking his support for the effort, and received it.Autograph letter signed, on the inside of a Christmas card, Houston, December 12, 1997, to Kashmeri. “I will be glad to ‘second the motion’ to Colin Powell regarding his selection to the TR award. He is truly a ‘fitting’ recipient. Warm regards and have a great Christmas.” It comes with the envelope and a photograph of the Bush clan that the former president enclosed.Ironically, the 1998 award ended up going to Bush himself.
A Man Called Spade [with] Too Many Have Lived [with] They Can Only Hang You Once; in The American Magazine [and] Collier's Weekly

A Man Called Spade [with] Too Many Have Lived [with] They Can Only Hang You Once; in The American Magazine [and] Collier's Weekly by Hammett, Dashiell

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A Man Called Spade [with] Too Many Have Lived [with] They Can Only Hang You Once; in The American Magazine [and] Collier's Weekly
Author
Hammett, Dashiell
Seller
Biblioctopus (United States)
Description
New York: American Magazine [and] Collier's Weekly, 1932. First Edition. 3 vols. 1st appearances in print, anywhere, of the only 3 Sam Spade short stories that Hammett ever had published (following his Spade novel The Maltese Falcon, 1930). All 3 are illustrated by Joseph Clement. The first 2 are not scarce, the 3rd is. These magazines precede the 1st printing of the 3 stories in a book edition (The Adventures of Sam Spade and Other Stories, 1944) by 12 years and that was followed by 245 Sam Spade radio shows (30 minutes each) written by anonymous others from 1946–1950. 1) A Man Called Spade, in The American Magazine (not the common book), Vol. 114, No. 1 (July 1932). 2) Too Many Have Lived, in The American Magazine (not the common book), Vol. 114, No. 4 (October 1932). 3) They Can Only Hang You Once, in Collier’s Weekly, Vol. 90, No. 21 (November 1932).
Letter to Secretary of War Requesting Artillery for Military Action in American West, in the first plains Indian War 1823

Letter to Secretary of War Requesting Artillery for Military Action in American West, in the first plains Indian War 1823 by The first plains Indian War

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Letter to Secretary of War Requesting Artillery for Military Action in American West, in the first plains Indian War 1823
Author
The first plains Indian War
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Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description
1823. [Western Americana] Letter of Colonel Bomford on Ordnance Duty to The Secretary of War Relative to the Number of Arms Required Annually to Supply the Militia of the West. House of Representatives: Washington, 1823. Printed Pamphlet totals 6 pages. Measures 5.75 x 8.75 inches. When the United States Army was reorganized in 1821, the Ordnance and Artillery Departments were merged with Colonel Comford promoted to full colonel and attached to the artillery. In 1823 the United States was fighting the Arikara Indians in the first plains Indian War and asserting control of the Western Hemisphere against further colonization by European powers. This text breaks down cost and quantity of artillery required by Bomford to support military efforts in the American west. The Arikara War of 1823 is widely recognized as the first military conflict between the United States and a Native American nation on the Great Plains. This conflict specifically occurred in the Upper Missouri River region, in what is present-day South Dakota. Toning around edges does not affect text. Front page detached. Text is clean. Overall very good condition.
The Home Book of the Picturesque: or American Scenery, Art, and Literature

The Home Book of the Picturesque: or American Scenery, Art, and Literature

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The Home Book of the Picturesque: or American Scenery, Art, and Literature
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. A series of essays by Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, Fenimore Cooper, and others, with 13 steel engravings. Bound in publisher's original green pebble cloth with spine and boards elaborately stamped in gilt. Edges gilt. Spine has small chip and 1/2 inch tear at head, small tear with loss at heel. Extremities worn through. Otherwise intact. Some offsetting opposite engravings, otherwise clean. 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. 188 paages.
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Der grosse Tag nahet heran! by JUNG ABBÉ L

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Der grosse Tag nahet heran!
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JUNG ABBÉ L
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The Book Block (United States)
Description
Frankfurt am Main Undreåischen Buchhandlung, 1838. Bound with; JUNG, ABBÉ L. Der herr ist mein Untheil! Frankfurt am Main (Undreåischen Buchhandlung), 1840. Two works bound in one. 8vo., full dark brown crushed calf with a single gilt fillet border surrounding a pair of gothic arched windows; in the center of the upper cover is a six-sided cartouche with the name of the owner stamped in gilt; Clémentine Simonnaire. Smooth, slightly rounded spine with gilt decoration; bright turquoise endleaves; a.e.g. The name of the owner for whom these two religious works was bound is not German (and the binding doesn't appear to be German); it is more likely to have been bound in Paris (or perhaps Brussels or Geneva). In any case it is one of the best preserved copies of a book of this kind one is likely to find. CATHEDRAL BINDING IN BRILLIANT CONDITION
Obsequies at Oxford

Obsequies at Oxford by Crispin, Edmund

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Title
Obsequies at Oxford
Author
Crispin, Edmund
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Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Philadelphia - New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1945. First Edition. Fine/Very Good. Small octavo, 208 pages; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $2.00 on front flap, light wear at extremities of dust jacket. First edition, stated; owner name and date on ffep.
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Revised Ordinances of Provo City Containing all the Ordinances in Force on the First Day of February, 1877, and the Rules and Order of Business of Provo City Council. To Which is Prefixed the Organic Act of Utah, and the City Charter, with Amendments

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Revised Ordinances of Provo City Containing all the Ordinances in Force on the First Day of February, 1877, and the Rules and Order of Business of Provo City Council. To Which is Prefixed the Organic Act of Utah, and the City Charter, with Amendments
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Deseret News, 1877. Very Good. Revised Ordinances of Provo City Containing all the Ordinances in Force on the First Day of February, 1877, and the Rules and Order of Business of Provo City Council. To Which is Prefixed the Organic Act of Utah, and the City Charter, with Amendments. Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1877. 161pp. 8vo. Green cloth. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed edges, gently bumped spine ends with two small cracks at top joints, cover has three small stains, and rear cover is faintly scratched at bottom edge. Front gutter is cracked, front free endsheet has teh residue of an old bookplate, and front free endsheet has an inscription that read ""Utah County Enquirer with the compliments of Provo City"".
[Flyer]: March on April 27 for Peace in Vietnam...for Peace in the Streets of America. We Demand..

[Flyer]: March on April 27 for Peace in Vietnam...for Peace in the Streets of America. We Demand..

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[Flyer]: March on April 27 for Peace in Vietnam...for Peace in the Streets of America. We Demand..
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Women Strike for Peace, 1968. Unbound. Very Good. Flyer printed both sides. 8.5" x 11". Formerly folded in quarters, slight soiling and tears at the folds, very good. Flyer for a march on April 27, 1968 "Speakers include: Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Dick Gregory. Dr. Martin Luther King was to be main speaker; we carry on his spirit.
Miniature Advertising Fan for W. & J. Sloane

Miniature Advertising Fan for W. & J. Sloane by W. & J. Sloane

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Miniature Advertising Fan for W. & J. Sloane
Author
W. & J. Sloane
Seller
Eclectibles (United States)
Condition
Very good. Light toning, tassel a little frayed.
Description
New York, New York: Livermore & Knight Co., Providence, Rhode Island, 1890. Very good. Light toning, tassel a little frayed.. A sweet pocket-sized fan advertising antique rugs, carpeting, furniture and related interior decor sold by W. & J. Sloane of New York and San Francisco. Made from five (5) die-cut leaves printed in orange-red, with designs inspired by the Middle East (a popular aesthetic in America at the time). Includes descriptions of their wares, and small images of them, as well as an exoticized image of a Middle Eastern palace on the bottom leaf. Each leaf measures approx. 3.5" by 1", and fastened together at the bottom with a light beige silk cord.
[Op. 53]. Symphonia Domestica. [Study score]

[Op. 53]. Symphonia Domestica. [Study score] by STRAUSS, Richard 1864-1949

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[Op. 53]. Symphonia Domestica. [Study score]
Author
STRAUSS, Richard 1864-1949
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description
Berlin: Ed. Bote & G. Bock [PN 15613], 1904. Small quarto (260 x 200 mm). Original publisher's decorative olive green wrappers with stylized embossed titling to upper. [1] (title), 123 pp. With printed dedication "Meiner lieben frau und unsern jungen gewidmet" to upper margin of title. Wrappers somewhat worn and scuffed; spine reinforced with black binder's tape; creases and tears with minor loss. Lightly browned. Several performance markings in pencil. First Edition in this format. TrV 209. Mueller von Asow I, p. 335. The Symphonia Domestica premiered in New York at Carnegie Hall on 12 March 1904 by the Wetzler Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer.
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The Manchester Homicide. A Sketch of the Life of Albert L. Starkweather, The Murderer of his Mother and Sister. With a Full Report of His Trial and Conviction, and His Confession by Hotchkiss, A.S.

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The Manchester Homicide. A Sketch of the Life of Albert L. Starkweather, The Murderer of his Mother and Sister. With a Full Report of His Trial and Conviction, and His Confession
Author
Hotchkiss, A.S.
Seller
Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description
octavo, 74 page pamphlet, ex-library, handstamp on title page, lacking the printed wrappers, which carried Starkweather's portrait on the cover, text foxed, removed from bound volume of pamphlets, last leaf detached but present, else a good working copy. "He murdered Harriett and Ella Starkweather in bed with an ax and attempted to burn the house, hoping thereby to get the family farm. The phrenologist reported his conscientiousness as weak; his hope, large." – McDade, Annals of Murder, 905. This is a variant edition, per McDade, with the words "and his confession" following the word "conviction" on title page.
Souvenirs Pieux

Souvenirs Pieux by YOURCENAR, Marguerite

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Souvenirs Pieux
Author
YOURCENAR, Marguerite
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Paris, France: Gallimard, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo (20.5cm); dustjacket; 302pp. Text in French. Pictorial card laid-in, with gift inscription written in French and dated 1976. Lightly tanned with light shelf-wear, and creases to right margin of text; Very Good. Dustwrapper, lightly tanned, with light shelf-wear, sticker residue to lower rear panel, and tiny tears to lower spine panel; Very Good. Memoir by first woman elected to Academie Francaise (1980). Winner of French literary award, Grand Prix national de la culture, and later translated to English as Dear Departed: A Memoir by Maria Loiuse Ascher. [88929].
Peoples of the Central Cameroons: Tikar by Merran McCulloch; Bamum and Bamileke by Margaret Littlewood; [and] Banen, Bafia, and Balom by I. Dugast

Peoples of the Central Cameroons: Tikar by Merran McCulloch; Bamum and Bamileke by Margaret Littlewood; [and] Banen, Bafia, and Balom by I. Dugast

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Peoples of the Central Cameroons: Tikar by Merran McCulloch; Bamum and Bamileke by Margaret Littlewood; [and] Banen, Bafia, and Balom by I. Dugast
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McBlain Books (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
London: International African Institute, 1954. Paperback. Good. folding map inside back cover, index, 174p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. Front and back covers detached. Contents sound. "File Copy" written in upper right corner of front cover. Ethonographic Survey of Africa. Western African Part IX.
Gaybook: book 12, Rainbow Ventures [aka Gay Book] twelfth edition, Fall/Winter 1991

Gaybook: book 12, Rainbow Ventures [aka Gay Book] twelfth edition, Fall/Winter 1991

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Gaybook: book 12, Rainbow Ventures [aka Gay Book] twelfth edition, Fall/Winter 1991
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
San Francisco: Rainbow Ventures, 1991. Magazine. 192p., 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with photos and advertising, resource guide, magazine and advertising book for gay readership, newsprint guts, glossy pictorial wraps, very good. Previously Gay Book and now a magazine format though retaining its original resource guide and entertainment/business listing format.
Girl on the Beach

Girl on the Beach by Albee, George Sumner

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Girl on the Beach
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Albee, George Sumner
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Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Greenwich: Fawcett, 1953. Mass market paperback. Very good. Mass market paperback. First Printing. Slight spine lean, wraps lightly rubbed, few faint creases to rear, else very good.

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