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Turandot

Turandot by Ashbery, John

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Turandot
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New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Signed by John Ashbery, inscribed to previous owner. Publisher's pink and brown decorated wrappers. Very Good with toning to wraps, light chipping and cracking at fragile yapped edges, short split started at top of spine. A nice copy of the fragile production; one of 300 copies, and the poet's first book.
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The Chocolate Cobweb by Armstrong, Charlotte

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The Chocolate Cobweb
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Armstrong, Charlotte
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New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1948. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. [iv], 220 pp. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in darker brown. First edition. Near Fine with a little foxing to edges, in Very Good+ dust jacket with tear at foot, and a little rubbed, stained, edge worn, and foxed. A suspenseful early mystery by the Edgar-winning author, the follow-up to her hit The Unsuspected. Scarce in jacket.
Black Unity (Vol. 1 No. 1, August 1970)

Black Unity (Vol. 1 No. 1, August 1970) by [Black Unity Party]; Emory Douglas [Artist]

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Black Unity (Vol. 1 No. 1, August 1970)
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[Black Unity Party]; Emory Douglas [Artist]
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Oceanside, CA: Black Unity, 1970. Very Good. First issue of the ephemeral newspaper which borrowed art from Emory Douglas on the front cover. [8] pp. Tabloid format. Very Good with toning, light creasing and slight rubbing. An anti-war, pro-Black Panther Party newspaper put out by G.I.s at Camp Pendleton calling for the military to exempt African Americans from service. Articles on arming oneself with military grade weapons appear, how to fight oppression from law enforcement, and includes a centerfold of Huey Newton.
Rare Late 1796 Printing of George Washington's Farewell Address, by Isaiah Thomas

Rare Late 1796 Printing of George Washington's Farewell Address, by Isaiah Thomas by GEORGE WASHINGTON

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Rare Late 1796 Printing of George Washington's Farewell Address, by Isaiah Thomas
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GEORGE WASHINGTON
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Thomas's Massachusetts... Almanack for 1797 featuring Washington's Farewell Address Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, [late 1796]. [48] pages. 12mo Washington's famous September 1796 farewell address appears on pages 36-45. He urges an avoidance of foreign alliances, the importance of constitutional checks and balances, and wariness of political factions and parties. Drake 3575; Evans 31291. Overall very good condition with lovely marbled wraps.
Issé, Pastorale Heroïque, Représentée Devant Sa Majesté à Trianon, le 17. Decembre 1697. Par L'Academie Royale de Musique; Mise en Musique par Monsieur Destouches, Sur-Intendant de la Musique du Roy, & Inspecteur general de son academie de Musique. Partition. Generale. [Full score]

Issé, Pastorale Heroïque, Représentée Devant Sa Majesté à Trianon, le 17. Decembre 1697. Par L'Academie Royale de Musique; Mise en Musique par Monsieur Destouches, Sur-Intendant de la Musique du Roy, & Inspecteur general de son academie de Musique. Partition. Generale. [Full score] by DESTOUCHES, André Cardinal 1672-1743

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Issé, Pastorale Heroïque, Représentée Devant Sa Majesté à Trianon, le 17. Decembre 1697. Par L'Academie Royale de Musique; Mise en Musique par Monsieur Destouches, Sur-Intendant de la Musique du Roy, & Inspecteur general de son academie de Musique. Partition. Generale. [Full score]
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DESTOUCHES, André Cardinal 1672-1743
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Paris: L'Imprimerie De Jean-Baptiste-Christophe Ballard, Seul Imprimeur du Roy pour la Musique, & Noteur de la Chapelle de Sa Majesté. ... Avec Privilege Du Roy, 1724. Folio (37.5 x 24.5 cms). Full modern dark brown leather with raised bands on spine, red speckled edges. 1f. (blank), 1f. (recto half-title, verso printer's note), 1f. (recto title. verso blank), [5] (dedication to the King dated 17. December 1697), [6] ("Airs a Jouer"), [7] ("Airs a Chanter"), [8] (cast list), 300 pp., 1f. (blank). With fine large woodcut device to title incorporating figures playing musical instruments; fine woodcut head- and tailpieces; occasional decorative woodcut initials. Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped; minor wear and browning to pastedowns; free endpapers lacking. Minor internal wear; first leaf partially detached and browned and stained at margins; light uniform browning; minor foxing; browning and foxing slightly heavier to margins of last several leaves. A very good copy overall, crisp and wide-margined. Third edition of the work first published in 1697, with a second, heavily revised, edition published in 1708. BUC, p. 268. Hirsch II, 196. Lesure, p. 168. Sonneck, p. 42. RISM D1832. Issé, in a prologue and three acts by Destouches to a libretto by Antoine Houdar de Lamotte, received its first concert performances at Fontainebleau on 7 October 1697 and at Versailles at the Trianon on 17 December 1697; its first stage performance was in Paris at the Opéra on 30 December 1697. The work "was an immediate success and Destouches's future was secured. Louis XIV gave him 200 louis with the comment that 'since Lully no music had given him so much pleasure' (Titon du Tillet). ... Destouches and his librettists dealt with the conventional genres of their time in an original manner. Issé is a pastorale but has heroic characters; Le Carnaval et la Folie is one of the first examples of a lyric comedy in France; Les élémens, an opéra-ballet, is clearly a prototype for the later ballet-héroïque; and Les stratagèmes de l'Amour is perhaps the only ballet-héroïque with a comic intrigue, although we are assured that it is a 'noble Comedy and one that has the character of Antiquity' (libretto)." James R. Anthony in Grove Music Online A "remarkable figure in French musical life during the first half of the 18th century. Destouches was of aristocratic stock, entitling him to entrée in circles usually closed to musicians. As a boy he was educated by the Jesuits and under their protection traveled to Siam (1687-8). Before becoming known as a composer and gaining acclaim as a musical administrator, Destouches served in the king's musketeers. He left the army in 1694 to pursue a career in music, studying for a time with Campra. He collaborated with his cousin, the librettist Antoine Houdar de la Mott, on a series of tragedies, of which the pastorale-héroïque Issé (1697) and Omphale (1701) were particularly successful. When the directorship of the Académie Royale de Musique became vacant in 1712 Destouches served in the interim, before being appointed inspecteur gènsmallèral in 1713. In 1728 he was finally made director." Sadie: Companion to Baroque Music, p. 117.
Manuscript Account of Travel from England to Russia and Poland in 1872

Manuscript Account of Travel from England to Russia and Poland in 1872 by (Anonymous)

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Manuscript Account of Travel from England to Russia and Poland in 1872
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12mo, 68 manuscript pages, plus blanks, and 8 pages of notes, bound in contemporary embossed leather backed flexible stiff wraps, entries written in English, in pencil, in a clear and legible hand. The journal is an excellent, highly literate, well written account of the author's impressions of Russian society and his keen observations on all aspects of life in Russia, which the author refers to as "the Empire of Fear." The diarist, who describes himself as a Russian prince, is anonymous, although he identifies his companions. He takes a business trip to the part of Russia which is now in present day Poland. The purpose of his trip was to draw up a statement of account for the manufactory of Messrs Palin & Dunlop in Nowogrodek. Afterwards he visits the different silk and cotton manufactories in the town and also the place where Russe serge cloth is manufactured. The book only mentions business in passing. Mostly the author is concerned with describing the people and the regime of the country. Sample Quotations: "Wednesday, April 24, 1872 Left Windermere at 8.15 a.m. for Preston, meeting at the latter place Thomas Hatch, Margaret Hatch; James Ainscough; and Robert Sale, proceeded from thence to Hull via Leeds, arriving at 4.40 p.m. Went to Foreign Consulate for colltn of Passports; thence Granville Temperance Hotel. Left the Humber Dock Wall by steamship Cyclone at 10.50 same evening for Hamburg…" After a rough passage our author and his party arrived in Hamburg after passing through customs they left Hamburg by rail at 11:30 a.m. for Perleburg, making several stops along the way, they arrived in Berlin shortly before 9 p.m. and stayed overnight at the Café Imperial. They departed Berlin by rail the next morning and arrived at the border of Poland that afternoon: "… on the boundary line of Poland, where we first encountered the numerous annoyances travelers of all descriptions are subjected to, and to which, even Russian Princes, like myself, were obliged to submit during our transit through the Custom House, but on arriving at Warsaw, I had the mortification of seeing them released in three minutes, whilst I had to struggle with every species of trickery for the space of three hours. At four o'clock we succeeded in penetrating that land which is blessed with all the amenities attached to Russian Government, which was announced by the Russian Eagle floating over the miserable apology for a building yclept the Groche Custom House, Groche being a town of some dozen or so of dilapidated wooden erections which serve not only as shelters but also as dwellings and of which the Customs House is chief, Winding by the banks of the river Vistula … the line threaded by the river bank to Nieszawa, which seemed to be a busy place for the shipment of sundry descriptions of goods and merchandize; some loading for, others unloading from the Baltic; we next came to Bobrownik, another port of the same river, & from whence two canals diverge; after this we reached Biskepia; where we stayed upwards of 20 minutes, and then proceeded to Wyrzogrod, at which place we left the Vistula, on the right & proceeded by way of Biaski & Takrodzin and reaching Warsaw at 9.20 p.m. at which place a multitude of little superfluous precautions engender a population of deputies and sub-officials, each of whom acquits himself with an air of importance and a rigorous precision which seems to say, though everything is done with much silence "Make way, I am one of the members of the grand machine of state." Such members, acting under an influence which is not in themselves, in a manner resembling the wheel-work of a clock, are called men in Russia! I say Russia, though I am in reality speaking of Poland, which is, virtually and tyrannically a part and portion of the Great Empire. The sight of these voluntary automata inspires me with a kind of fear: there is something supernatural in an individual reduced to the state of a mere machine. If in lands where the mechanical arts flourish, wood and metal seem endowed with human powers, under despotisms, human beings seem to become as instruments of wood. We ask ourselves, what can become of their superfluity of thought? And we feel ill at ease at the idea of the influence that must have been exerted on intelligent creatures before they could have been reduced to mere things. In Russia I pity the human beings, as in England I feared the machines: in our own country (England), the creations of man lack nothing but the gift of speech; in Russian Poland, the gift of speech is a thing superfluous to the creatures of the state. These machines, clogged with the inconvenience of a soul, are however, marvelously polite, it is easy to see they have been trained to civility, as to the management of arms from their cradle. But of what value are the forms of urbanity when their origin savours of compulsion? The free will of man is the consecration that can alone impart a worth or a meaning to human actions; the power of choosing a master can alone give a value to fidelity; and since, despite the reported abolition of serfdom by the Emperor Alexander in Russia, an inferior chooses nothing, all that he says and does is worthless & unmeaning – The numerous questions I had to meet, and the precautionary forms that it was necessary to pass through, warned me that I was entering the empire of Fear, and depressed my spirits. – I was obliged to appear before an Areopagus of deputies who had assembled to interrogate the passengers. The members of this formidable rather than the imposing tribunal were seated before a large table; some of them were turning over the leaves of the register with an attention which had a sinister appearance, for their ostensible employ was not sufficient to account for so much gravity. Some with pen in hand listened to the replies of the passengers, or rather the accused, for every stranger is treated as culpable on arriving on the frontier, and remains so, at the very least, until discharged by these officious notables; during the scrutiny six or a dozen ragged men, half covered with sheepskins, the wool turned within and the filthy skin appearing without, will appear from time to time at the entrance to satisfy their curiosity by a prolonged and vulgar stare at the luckless beings undergoing the ordeal of officious examination. These arrivals and departures, though they did not accelerate our matters, at least gave me leisure to reflect on the species of filthiness peculiar to the people of the north, who for the most part are shut up within doors, and have a greasy dirtiness, which appears to me far more offensive than the neglect of a people destined to live beneath the open heaven, & born to bask in the sun. The tedium to which these Russian formalities condemned us, gave me also an opportunity of remarking that the great lords of the country were little inclined to bear patiently the inconveniences of public regulations, when those regulations proved inconvenient to themselves. "Russia is the land of useless formalities," they murmured to each other – but in French, that they might not be overheard by the subaltern employès. I have retained the remark, with the justice of which my own experience has only too deeply impressed me. As far as I have been hitherto able to observe, a work that should be entitled The Russians judged by Themselves, would be severe. The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible. It was a perfect relief to the tortured mind to find the [sic] such things as gags were not in use, as it allowed me to expound a number of invectives, which might have brought me into no end of trouble had my hearers been even possessed of an inadequate knowledge of the English language. The cause of all our delay was at length revealed. The chief of chiefs, the director of the directors of the custom-house again presented himself: it was this visit we had been waiting so long without knowing it. At first it appeared as if the only business of the great functionary was to play the part of the man of fashion among the few ladies who had been subjected to the same indignities as those of the sterner sex. He reminded one of their rencontre in a house where the lady had never been; he spoke to her of balls she had never seen: but while continuing to dispense these courtly airs our drawing room officer of the customs would now and then gracefully confiscate a parasol, stop a portmanteau, or recommence with an impartable sang froid, the researches already conscientiously made by his subordinates. In Russian administration, minuteness does not exclude disorder. Much trouble is taken to obtain unimportant ends, and those employed believe they can never do enough to show their zeal. The result of this emulation among clerks and commissioners is, that the having passed through one formality does not secure the stranger from another. It is like a pillage, in which the unfortunate might, after escaping from the first troop, may yet fall into the hands of a second & a third. The chief turnkey of the empire having at length concluded his scrutiny, graciously permitted us to depart, at about half past twelve, and time being an object I thought it desireable not to chance the accommodation offered for the night in a city where I had already been subjected to a sufficiency of inconveniences, & in opposition to the desires of those under my charge, I determined to proceed at the earliest chance which occurred, and accordingly on the morning of the 28th (Sunday) we moved from the neighbourhood of the city of Warsaw at a little past four o'clock, and at half past seven reached a large and apparently prosperous town called Praga…" Our writer and his party stopped in Praga for about 40 minutes where excellent coffee, but detestable food, were procured. They resumed their journey and passed Misorent and Kamienezyk, a small town on the river Narew. They then reached "a long straggling town," with the"somewhat short name of Nur" on the River Bang. Then the large village of Wysokie and afterwards the town of Surasz, an extensive manufacturing place, twelves miles further they reached Boralystok and at length arrived at Gradnau where the party stopped for the night at the Hotel de Coulon: "… and found it to be under the management of a degenerate French innkeeper. The house was nearly full at that time owing to the marriage of a Duchess which was about to take place; indeed the landlord appeared almost annoyed at being obliged to receive other guests, … gave himself little trouble to accommodate us… Having seen their immediate wants attended to I joined the company at the Table d'hote, which consisted of a mixture of Russians, Poles, French, Spaniards, and a couple of Englishmen, and curiously enough not a single lady was present – Amongst those natives of High blood were a Prince & two young Counts. The first named is of an illustrious family and may be taken as a fair specimen of the general swelldom of the country. He is, as I was informed the only son of a very rich individual, and a character worthy of observation. The tavern is his empire: it is there that he reigns eighteen hours out of the twenty-four; on that ignoble theatre he displays naturally & involuntarily, noble & elegant manners; his countenance is intellectual and extremely fascinating; his disposition is at once amiable and mischievous; many traits of rare liberality & even touching sensibility are recounted of him. He is remarkably well informed; his mind is quick and endowed with great capacity; his wit is unequalled, but his language and conduct are such as would not be tolerated elsewhere, except in the most depraved society. Profligacy has impressed upon his contours the traces of a premature decay; still these ravages of folly, not of time have been unable to change the almost infantile expression of his noble and regular features … In no other land could a man be found like the young Prince Leuchtenberg, but there are more than one such here. He is surrounded by a group of young men, his disciples and competitors, who without equaling him in disposition or in mind, all share with him a kind of family resemblance it may be seen at the first glance that they are, and only can be, Russians. It is for this reason that I am about to give some details connected with their manner of life … But I know not, or rather fear how to begin; for it will be necessary to reveal the connection of these libertines, not with women of the town, but with the youthful sisters of religious orders – with nuns, whose cloisters, as it will be seen, are not very securely guarded. It may be asked, why lift a corner of the veil that shrouds scenes of disorder which ought to remain carefully covered? Perhaps my passion for the truth obscures my judgment, but it seems to me that evil triumphs so long as it remains secret, whilst to publish it is to aid in destroying it, and since these incidents may at some future time be submitted to the scrutiny of the public, this one particularly is noted here as a memorandum; besides I have resolved to draw a picture of this country as I see it – not a composition, but an exact and complete copy from nature. … As for the man whom I select for a specimen of the most unbridled among libertines, he carries his contempt of opinion to the extent of desiring me to describe him as I see him. A story of the death of a young man, killed in the convent of -, by the nuns themselves, he told at the full table d'hôte, before several grave and elderly personages, employès and placemen, who listened with an extraordinary patience to this and several other tales of a similar kind, all very contrary to good manners. The story in question … relates to a young man, who after having passed an entire month concealed within the convent of - , began, at last to weary of his course of happiness to a degree that wearied the holy sisters also… whereupon the nuns, wishing to be rid of him, but fearing the scandal that might ensue should the [sic] send him to die in the world, concluded that it would be better to make an end of him themselves. No sooner said than done – The mangled remains of the wretched being were found a few days after at the bottom of a well. The affair was hushed up. …As I have imposed upon myself the duty of communicating the ideas that I have hurriedly formed of this land, I feel called upon to add to the picture already sketched, a few minor specimens of the conversation of the parties already referred to. One boasted of himself & his brothers being the sons of the footmen and the coachmen of their reputed father; & he drank, and made the rest drink, to the health of all his unknown parents. Another claimed the honour of being brother (on the father's side) of all the waiting maids of his mother. Many of these evil boasts are no doubt made for the sake of talking: but to invent such infamies in order to glory in them, shows a corruption of mind that proves wickedness to the very core – wickedness worse even than that exhibited in the mad actions of these libertines. According to them, the wives of the middle classes are no better than the women of rank. During the months that their husbands go to the fair of Nijni, the officers of the neighboring garrisons take care not to leave the vicinity of the deserted wives. This is the season of easy assignations. The ladies are generally accompanied to the place of rendezvous by some respectable relation, to whose care their absent husbands have confided them. The goodwill and silence of these family duennas have also to be paid for. Gallantry of this kind cannot be excused as a love affair there is no love without bashful modesty – such is the sentence pronounced from all eternity against women – who cheat themselves of happiness, and who degrade instead of purifying themselves by tenderness. The defenders of the Russians pretend that the women have no lovers; I agree with them other term must be employed to designate the friends whose intimacy they seek in the absence of their husbands. … Scarcely was I installed in my abode for the night, than, overcome by fatigue, I lay down wrapped in a rug, on an immense leather sofa & slept profoundly during – 3 minutes. At the end of that time I awoke in a fever, and in casting my eyes upon the rug, what a sight assailed them! – a brown but living mass: things must be called by their proper names – I was covered, I was devoured with bugs, in a place, too, where I was obliged to remain imprisoned with the enemy, and the war was consequently more sanguine. … A Russian waiter appeared. I made him understand that I wished to see his master. The master kept me waiting a long time, and when he at length did come & was informed of the nature of my trouble, he began to laugh, & soon left the room, telling me that I should soon become accustomed to it, for that it was the same everywhere in Russia. … The town generally is not of a prepossessing appearance; a few yards only to the rear of the inn I came to a guard house full of Cossacks, whose stiff bearing and severe gloomy air would impart to foreigners the idea of a country where no one dares to laugh even innocently. In the neighbourhood of the canal wharves all was busy with life, whilst a few drowskas were already slowly traversing the streets, the drivers dressed in the costume of the country The singular appearance of these men, their horses and carriages, struck me more than anything else on this, my first view of a Russian town, or city. The ordinary costume and general appearance of the lower classes, by which I mean the workmen, coachmen, small trades people is as follows – On the head is worn either a cap, formed somewhat in the shape of a melon, or a narrow brimmed hat, low crowned, & wider at the top than the bottom. This headdress slightly resembled a woman's turban. It becomes the younger men. Both young & old wear beards. Those of the beaux are silken and carefully combed; those of the old and careless appear dirty and matted. Their eyes have a peculiar expression, strongly resembling the deceitful glance of the Asiatic. … The movements of the men whom I met were stiff and constrained; every gesture seemed to express a will which was not their own. The morning is the time for commissions and errands, and not one individual appeared to be walking on his own account. I observed very few good-looking women and heard no girlish voices; everything was dull and regular as a barrack. There are scarcely any buildings worthy of note in this busy mart except the Kremlin, a building which is indigenous to every Russian town of importance. … Shortly after 9 0'clock we took our departure from Gradnow through a dead flat & muddy district stopping only at 3 insignificant towns or large villages viz: Goja, Perschevelka, & Onlekha; and about a couple of miles from the last named we reached Novogrodek, a large manufacturing town, and here terminated our journeying by rail though we were still 21 miles distant from our destination (Novogrodka) and in order to accomplish this distance I succeeded, after some difficulty, in securing a team of horses & a rude description of dray, minus springs, with driver, for the sum of half Impl or about 16/1 (English) in this rude machine we were conveyed at the risk of our necks owing to the badness & unevenness of the road in a trifle under two hours; and shortly after 4 o'clock I presented myself Mssrs Palin and Dunlop's manufactory, along with T. Hatch…Mr. Hebden, the manager was greatly surprised to see us, as he had not been apprised of our coming: though a letter had been forwarded from Manchester a fortnight previously to inform him of our coming, but owing to the irregularity of the Russian postal arrangements, it had not been delivered, although it arrived safely on the following morning." "Tuesday April 30th (17th Russian) I arose early, finding Novorogodka in every way an exact repetition of my first nights experiences in the great Muscovite nation. I have often, in my travels, had reason to remember the sagacious observations of Pestalozzi, the great practical philosopher, the preceptor of the classes before Fourier & the St. Simonians. According to his observations on the life of the lower orders, of two men who have the same habits of life, one will be dirty, the other clean. … Among the Russians there reigns a high degree of sordid negligence, it seems to me they must have trained their vermin to survive the bath. Notwithstanding my ill humour, I went carefully over the interior of the patriotic convent of the Trinity… This is one of the principal convents in the empire, and at this season of the year is much sought by pilgrims, even from the most remote parts of the country. All the names of note in Russian history have taken pleasure in enriching the convent, which overflows with gold, pearls and diamonds. … Czars, Empresses, nobles, libertines and true saints have vied with one another in enriching the treasury of Novogrodka. Amid so many riches the simple dress and the wooden cup of St. Sergius shine by their very rusticity. … The convent would have furnished a rich booty to an enemy; it has not been taken since the fourteenth century. It contains nine churches. The shrine is of silver gilt; it is protected by silver pillars and canopy, the gift of the Empress Anne. The image of St. Sergius is esteemed miraculous. Peter the Great carried it with him in his wars against Charles XII. Not far from the shrine, under shelter of the virtues of the hermit, lies the body of the usurping assassin Boris Godounoff, surrounded by many of his family. The convent contains various other famous but shapeless tombs… The number of monks is now only one hundred… Notwithstanding my persevering request, they would not show me the library. "It is forbidden", was always the answer. This modesty of the monks, who conceal the treasures of science, while they parade those of vanity, strikes me as singular. I argue from it that there is more dust on their books than on their jewels. …" "… The town of Novogrodka is an important entrepot for the interior commerce of Russia. By it, Petersburg communicates with Persia, the Caspian & all Asia. The Volga, that great national & moving road, flows by the town which is the central point of the interior navigation of the country – a navigation wisely directed, , much boasted of by the subjects of the Czar, and one of the principal sources of their prosperity. It is with the Volga that the immense ramifications of canals are connected, that create the wealth of Russia. The town of Novogrodka is, like all other provincial towns in the empire, vast in extent, and appears empty. The streets are immensely broad, the squares very spacious and the houses in general stand far apart. The same style of architecture reigns throughout. The painted and gilded towers, which are numerous, shine at a distance, and gives the idea of a place resplendent with wealth, and the town altogether presents a picturesque appearance…. Notwithstanding it's commercial importance the town is empty, dull, and silent. From the height of the terrace is to be seen the yet more empty, dull & silent surrounding country, with the immense river its hue a somber iron-grey, its banks falling straight upon the water, and forming, at their top, a level with the leaden-tinted plain, here and there dotted with forests of birch & pine. The soil is, however, as well cultivated as it is capable of becoming; it is boasted of by the Russians as being with the exception of the Crimea, the richest & most smiling tract in this empire. The primitive droshky is to be seen in this town. It consists of a little board on four wheels, entirely concealed under the occupant, and looks as though the horse were fastened to his person… The females generally go barefoot. The men most frequently wear a species of sandal made of rushes, rudely platted, which resembles those of antiquity. The leg is clothed in a wide pantaloons, the folds of which drawn together at the ankle by a little fillet, are covered with the shoe. This attire is precisely similar to the Scythian statues of the Roman sculptors. Upon a long float of timber I observed several men descending the course of their native Volga, they managed to guide the raft skillfully, the while singing a Russian melody in the vague plaintive strain peculiar to the country. On reaching near to where I stood, they wished to land, which they eventually did, and passed close before me, without taking any notice of my foreign appearance; without even speaking to each other. The Russian peasants are taciturn and devoid of curiosity; I can understand why: what they know, disgusts them with all of which they are ignorant. To a certain point, the want of a charitable disposition in the Russians towards strangers appears to me excusable. Before knowing us, they lavish their attentions upon us with apparent eagerness, because they are hospitable, but they are also easily wearied. In welcoming us with a forwardness which has more ostentation than cordiality, they scrutinize our slightest words, they submit our most insignificant actions to a critical examination; and as such work necessarily furnishes them with much subject for blame, they triumph internally, saying, "These then are the people who think themselves superior to us!" …" "… One of the peculiar laws relating to strangers in this country, is that on entering the empire, in addition to answering the multitudinous and frivolous questions put as to your object &c it is also necessary to mention if the visit or stay on Russian soil is to extend over five days, for if so, it will be found necessary for the foreigner to advertise not less than twice at intervals of three days, his intention of departure in the local newspapers stating the precise time of leaving &c. Also to make an affidavit to the Governor of the province that all debts are duly discharged, a note to that effect is given by the Governor for the moderate sum of half a rouble (1/6 ¾) in exchange for his autograph, this is then countersigned by the sub-governor, who also expects a tip for his condescension. No one can leave Russia under any pretence until he has forwarded all his creditors of his intention in the manner above quoted. This is strictly enforced, unless at least you pay the police to shorten the prescribed time, and even then the insertion must be made once, if not twice. No one can obtain post horses or a railway ticket without a document from the authorities, certifying he owes nothing. … The Russian police, so alert to torment people, is slow to help or enlighten them when they have recourse to its aid in doubtful situations…" "… It will by this be seen how the subaltern agents of the Russian police perform their duties. These faithless servants gained a double advantage by selling the body of the murdered woman; they obtained a few rubles, & they also concealed the murder, which would have brought upon them sever blame, if the noise of the event had got abroad. …" "… I safely reached Warsaw shortly before 9 at night, and entered a Russian, or I might perhaps more properly call it, a Polish coffee house adjacent to the Railway. … Here I determined to take up my quarters for the night. The waiters were dressed in white shirts girded round the middle, and falling like a tunic over loose white pantaloons. The teas served was excellent, so is the coffee & liqueurs at this establishment, but it is served with a silent solemnity very different from the gaiety which suffuses houses of entertainment in our own country. … About ten o'clock I sallied forth into the city without guide or companion, strolling at hazard from street to street. I first traversed several long and wide streets, laid out with great regularity. It was only at this time that the sun sank and the moon rose. The turrets of the convents, the spires of the chapels, the towers, the battlements, and all the irregular and frowning masses of buildings were swathed with wreaths of light … my eyes were filled with the dust of the streets, kept in continual motion by the number of vehicles moving about at a gallop in all directions. It was not until 12 o'clock that I repaired to my lodgings where I slept soundly, happily without the aid of the multitudinous bugs which I had experienced previously in Russia."
The Western Front: Drawings by Muirhead Bone

The Western Front: Drawings by Muirhead Bone by Bone, Muirhead

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The Western Front: Drawings by Muirhead Bone
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Bone, Muirhead
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Thorn Books (United States)
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Very good
Description
London: Published by Authority of the War Office, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Foiio. Two volumes. Introduction by General Sir Douglas Haig. Tan buckram spiune, leather lettering labels, gilt; brown paper over boards. Illustrated throughout withb plates of the war by the author/artist. Corners worn and lettering labels chipped else a very good set. Inscribed on the verso of the front free endpaper by the artist-author: "Signed for Mr. Henry Tozer with the kindest regards of Muirhead Bone." Bookplate of "HT"; i.e., Henry Tozer, on the front pastedowns . Laid in are two autograph letters signed by Muirhead Bone and addressed to Mr. Tozer. The first, dated December 1949, discusses books by Bone and his family. The second, dated February 1950, discussed mostly an exhibit of pictures Bone's son Stephen. The recipient is likely Henry Edward Spernon Tozer (1864-1955), a highly regarded painter of country life. .
Ramuntcho

Ramuntcho by (Binding: Flammarion) Loti, Pierre

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Ramuntcho
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(Binding: Flammarion) Loti, Pierre
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Thorn Books (United States)
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Near fine
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Paris: Le Musée du Livre, 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Illustrated by Ramiro Arrue.`. 8vo. 339, (3) pp. Half deep blue morocco, brightly decorative paper and endpapers. Spinetooled simply but effectively in gilt, with a small beige onlay. Top edge gilt. Original wrappers bound in. Trace of wear else a fine copy. Illustrated with designs and aquarelles by Arrue. One of 1200 copies on Rives laid paper, from a total edition of 1300 copies. This copy unnumbered. In French. .
The Last Defender of Camelot

The Last Defender of Camelot by Zelazny, Roger

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The Last Defender of Camelot
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Zelazny, Roger
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Thorn Books (United States)
ISBN
9780934438483
Condition
Fine
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San Francisco: Underwood-Miller, 1981. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated by Alicia Austin.. One of 17 Presentation Copies. A special bookplate, printed for this edition, is signed by Zelazny and marked 'Presentation Copy'. Yellow cloth blocked in deep red and black. printed cloth. Illustrated endpapers. A fine copy. Issued without dustwrapper. Presentation Copy. According to the colophon, this edition was limited to 333 copies, plus 17 Presentation Copies.
Foundation

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

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Foundation
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Isaac Asimov
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
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Very Good
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First UK Edition; A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. A handsome copy of this rare first UK publication of the classic SciFi novel, the first in the Foundation series, by one of the 20th century SciFi masters. Although not the true first, as the first US is the true first, this edition is much more scarce in the marketplace, particularly in collectible condition. This copy is in very good or better condition with a square tight binding, clean black boards with bright silver lettering, and clean white pages throughout; the book does show some light rubbing to the spine ends, a previous bookstore's bookplate to the front pastedown (small and unobtrusive), and some light staining to the top exterior text block that does bleed to the top of some of the pages (at the most about a 1/4"). Housed in a crisp and bright very good or better dust jacket that shows minor rubbing and chipping to the spine ends and edges, one small closed tear to the spine foot fold, and some light sunning to the spine. Overall, a sharp and collectible copy; an important addition to any Asimov or 20th Century Science Fiction collection. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.
Hangman (Signed First Edition)

Hangman (Signed First Edition) by Christopher A Bohjalian

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Hangman (Signed First Edition)
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Christopher A Bohjalian
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780881846850
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Near Fine
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First Edition/First Printing; A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket, with light rubbing to the board and panel edges and faint age-spotting to the text block. SIGNED by the author to the title page. A lovely copy of this author's 2nd published work, uncommon in this condition and signed. Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship in a sturdy box. We are always buying quality books!
Hunger's Brides A Novel of the Baroque

Hunger's Brides A Novel of the Baroque by Paul Anderson

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Hunger's Brides A Novel of the Baroque
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Paul Anderson
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780786715411
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Fine
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Stated First Edition; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with only trivial shelf wear, unusual in this condition due to the size of the book. SIGNED and dated by the author on the title page. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in archival protection.Paul Anderson's astonishing debut unveils a great poet's withdrawal from the world who at the height of her creative powers signs a vow of contrition in her own blood.
Player Piano

Player Piano by Vonnegut, Kurt

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Title
Player Piano
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Vonnegut, Kurt
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
New York: Scribner's, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Near Fine. Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.00), toned at the spine and edges of the panels, a few small spots of soiling. Green cloth, faintly bumped, with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, soiled at the edges, front endpaper neatly removed, clean otherwise. Vonnegut's debut novel set after the Second Industrial Revolution where machines do much of what humans used to. An increasingly relevant book given society's push for automation.
The Dragon Has Come; The Last Fourteen Months in the Life of George Jackson

The Dragon Has Come; The Last Fourteen Months in the Life of George Jackson by Armstrong, Gregory

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Title
The Dragon Has Come; The Last Fourteen Months in the Life of George Jackson
Author
Armstrong, Gregory
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780060101299
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed on the half-title page by Armstrong. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($8.95), generally toned and soiled, bumped at the edges. Red cloth, pushed at the spine edges, with black and yellow ink lettering on the spine. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward lean, clean internally. An account of the Black activist's prison life, offering details about his mental and emotional struggles before his death during an attempted escape from San Quentin.
Houseboat Days

Houseboat Days by Ashbery, John

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Houseboat Days
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Ashbery, John
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780670380350
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Penguin, 1977. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Inscribed by Ashbery on the title page. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($7.95), bumped and with a closed tear at the top edge. Quarter red cloth with grey paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Ashbery's collection immediately following his Pulitzer Prize-winning Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
World's End; Volume 2 in the Snow Queen Cycle

World's End; Volume 2 in the Snow Queen Cycle by Vinge, Joan D.

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World's End; Volume 2 in the Snow Queen Cycle
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Vinge, Joan D.
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780312944681
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Bluejay Books, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped ($13.95), a small stain at the bottom edge of the back panel. Purple cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a few spots at the top edge, clean internally. The follow-up to Vinge's Hugo-winning The Snow Queen.
Sherlock Holmes: Cthulhu Mythos Adventures

Sherlock Holmes: Cthulhu Mythos Adventures by Vaughan, Ralph E. [Doyle, Arthur Conan]

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Sherlock Holmes: Cthulhu Mythos Adventures
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Vaughan, Ralph E. [Doyle, Arthur Conan]
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781517029715
Condition
Near Fine
Description
[n.p.]: Dog in the Night Books, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. One spot of peeling to the laminate at the back cover. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of stories putting Sherlock Holmes and Professor Challenger into Lovecraft's Cthulhu horror mythos.
Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer

Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer by Arvigo, Rosita; Epstein, Nadine

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Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer
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Arvigo, Rosita; Epstein, Nadine
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780062502599
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Very Good
Description
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2007. Paperback. Very Good. Signed by Arvigo on the half-title. Very Good. Wraps rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, clean otherwise. Arvigo's account of her "quest to preserve the knowledge of Don Elijio Panti, one of the last surviving and most respected traditional healers in the rainforest of Belize.
Requiem, Rwanda
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Requiem, Rwanda by Apol, Laura

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Requiem, Rwanda
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Apol, Laura
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781611861587
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Fine
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East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2015. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Inscribed by Apol on the title page. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An interdisciplinary work that combines poetry and eyewitness accounts regarding the Rwandan genocide.
The Temple of My Familiar

The Temple of My Familiar by Walker, Alice

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The Temple of My Familiar
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Walker, Alice
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780151885336
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($19.95). Quarter green cloth with yellow paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
Castle Dale School, December 1902

Castle Dale School, December 1902 by [Anderson, George Edward]

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Castle Dale School, December 1902
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[Anderson, George Edward]
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Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description
[Springville, UT], 1902. Large format. Albumen photograph [15.5 cm x 20.5 cm] / [6" x 8"] on a gray mount [20.5 cm x 25.5 cm] / [8" x 10"]. Nice contrasts. Nice view of the students and teachers of the Castle Dale School in December, 1902. We believe this image is by George Edward Anderson, who took several other views of the Castle Dale School and was active in the area at the time. George Edward Anderson (1860-1928) was born in Salt Lake City and lived most of his life in Springville, Utah. A devout Mormon, he photographed not only the Utah of his time but also Mormon landmarks in England, Canada, Vermont, and along the Mormon Trail.
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside

Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside by Abbey, Edward

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Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
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Abbey, Edward
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Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984. First Edition. 203pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 tan cloth over orange boards with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Inscribed by Abbey on the front free endsheet. In this collection of essays Abbey guides us "beyond the wall" of the city and asphalt belting of superhighways to special pockets of wilderness that stretch from the interior of Alaska to the dry lands of Mexico. Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was a celebrated author, essayist, conservationist, noted pain-in-the-ass, and in many ways the father (or at the very least, uncle) of the modern environmental movements.
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Statistics, Medical and Anthropological ... Derived from Records of the Examination for ... Armies ... During the Late War of the Rebellion, 2 vols. by Baxter, J H

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Statistics, Medical and Anthropological ... Derived from Records of the Examination for ... Armies ... During the Late War of the Rebellion, 2 vols.
Author
Baxter, J H
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Very good; front hinge of volume ! is split (binding is tight); extreme fore-edge of 2 pp. in volume 1 have some bug damage (inc
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Washington DC: GPO, 1875. First Edition. Original publisher's cloth.. Very good; front hinge of volume ! is split (binding is tight); extreme fore-edge of 2 pp. in volume 1 have some bug damage (inconsequential).. 4to, I - [4], lxxxvii, [3], [3] - 568pp. + 11 tinted folding maps & 60 numbered charts (some folding); II - xxviii, [2], [1] - 767, [1] pp. A monumental accomplishment of medical statistical analysis that serves as a "snapshot" view of the general population of the United States at that time. G-M (Norman) #7818. This is not to be confused with the multi-volume medical history of the Civil War - a different book.
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Jack Sheppard: A Romance by Ainsworth, W. Harrison; Cruikshank, George (illustrator)

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Jack Sheppard: A Romance
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Ainsworth, W. Harrison; Cruikshank, George (illustrator)
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
London: Bentley's Miscellany, 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. 19th century 3/4 red morocco gilt and red patterned cloth. Bound by Hnery Young & Sons Liverpool. First Edition, extracted from the original parts. Cruikshank plates in first state. Cohn 13. Spotting to blank bound in endleaves. Overall, a very nice copy.
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Blue Voyage by Aiken, Conrad

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Blue Voyage
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Aiken, Conrad
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
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Very Good+
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London: Gerald Howe, 1927. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Original green cloth, lacking DJ. Nice copy.
Sextodecimos et infra

Sextodecimos et infra by ANDREWS, William Loring

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Sextodecimos et infra
Author
ANDREWS, William Loring
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
Without the publisher's printed paper chemise and slipcase. Internally clean and fine.
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899. First edition, number 138 of 140 copies on English hand-made plate paper (an additional 12 copies were printed on imperial Japan). Without the publisher's printed paper chemise and slipcase. Internally clean and fine.. 8vo. xiii, 117 pages. 27 color and black-and-white plates, with tissue guards. Original French-fold paper wrappers (some wear at ends of spine and along lower joint). In a quarter vellum folding case. Contains Andrews' essay on his collection of miniature 16mo books, with a list of those that he published.
The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader

The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader by Boorstin, Daniel J.

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The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader
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Boorstin, Daniel J.
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Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN
9780679601654
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Modern Library, 1995. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine/Fine. 8vo., 908pp. Sharp First printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($20.00), has a hint of edge-wear but is fresh and bright with no chipping, tears or creases. Signed by the author on the half-title page. A beautiful collectable copy of an uncommonly signed First.
The Paragon of Wines and Spirits

The Paragon of Wines and Spirits by Baker, John V.; Editor

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The Paragon of Wines and Spirits
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Baker, John V.; Editor
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Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine/Fine
Description
London: Heidelberg Publishers, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine/Near Fine. 2 Volumes 8vo., (x)203pp., (x)194pp. Bound in cream cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Sharp Stated First Editions. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save some very gentle bumping to spine ends. Quite minor. Pages edges toned as is common. Very attractive clipped dust-jackets. Some minor edge-wear and rubbing on volume II. Fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. A very pretty, collectable set,
California - All of It (Signed first Edition)

California - All of It (Signed first Edition) by Breeden, Marshall

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California - All of It (Signed first Edition)
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Breeden, Marshall
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Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good/Near Fine
Description
Los Angeles, CA: Kenmore, 1925. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo., 200pp. Solid First Edition of this comprehensive guide to the natural and historical history of California. Bound in mustard colored cloth with titles and decoration in black on front board and on spine. Maps, illustrations, phiotographs. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or any page toning. Minor wear to spine ends and tips. 3" closed split on the title page. From Corrigan Memorial Library at the St. Joseph Seminary in Dunwoodie, NY with two stamps on front paste-down, one on the verso of the half-title page and one on the last page. Small date stamp on rear paste-down as well as small bookseller ticket. Small ownership bookplate on front paste-down. Lacking dust-jacket. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front end-paper, "Los Angeles, Cal., AEto Mrs. Mary Young Moore from Marshall Breeden. October, 1925". A sharp collectable copy of a quite uncommon item in any condition.
Report of the Evidence at the Trial of Levi & Laban Kenniston, Before

Report of the Evidence at the Trial of Levi & Laban Kenniston, Before by Trial; Kenniston, Levi, Defendant; Kenniston, L.

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Report of the Evidence at the Trial of Levi & Laban Kenniston, Before
Author
Trial; Kenniston, Levi, Defendant; Kenniston, L.
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The Lawbook Exchange Ltd (United States)
Description
1817. False Accusations of Robbery [Trial]. Kenniston, Levi, Defendant. Kenniston, Laban, Defendant. Report of the Evidence at the Trial of Levi & Laban Kenniston, Before Hon. Samuel Putnam on an Indictment for the Robbery of Major Elijah P. Goodridge, December 19, 1816. Salem: Printed by T.C. Cushing, 1817. 32 pp. Octavo (9-1/2" x 5-1/2"). Stab-stitched pamphlet. Light browning, some leaves have light foxing, tiny faint mark from paper clip to title and final page. $150. * Only edition, one of three accounts of this trial, all from 1817. "Elijah Goodridge brought charges against a number of individuals whom he accused of robbing him, but apparently no robbery had taken place. Goodridge's accusations had been fabricated and the defendants were acquitted after a trial in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court" (Cohen). This is one of three accounts of this case. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 14018.
The Constitution and Bye-Laws of the Ohuhu Union Lagos

The Constitution and Bye-Laws of the Ohuhu Union Lagos

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The Constitution and Bye-Laws of the Ohuhu Union Lagos
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McBlain Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Mushin (a local government area in Lagos, Nigeria): [Printed by?] Irepo Oiuwa Press, 1961. Paperback. Very Good. 26p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19 cm. Minor cover stain. The Ohuhu appear to be a small group of people in Ahia State (Nigeria) who live or lived in Abia State in Southestern Nigeria.
Aleksandr Rodchenko: The Complete Work (First Edition)

Aleksandr Rodchenko: The Complete Work (First Edition) by [Aleksandr Rodchenko] Vieri Quilici (introduction, editor)

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Title
Aleksandr Rodchenko: The Complete Work (First Edition)
Author
[Aleksandr Rodchenko] Vieri Quilici (introduction, editor)
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Royal Books (United States)
ISBN
9780262111164
Description
Cambridge: MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
[DIARY] [TRAVEL] ANONYMOUS EUROPEAN TRAVEL JOURNAL

[DIARY] [TRAVEL] ANONYMOUS EUROPEAN TRAVEL JOURNAL

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[DIARY] [TRAVEL] ANONYMOUS EUROPEAN TRAVEL JOURNAL
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Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
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1967. 6 1/2” x 4 ¼” x 1” green leatherette travel journal with gold ornamentation on the spine and cover. 93 leaves of lined paper headed with “Places Visited, Date, Place, and Weather”. About half full with handwritten entries in blue pen by an unnamed American female college student [almost certainly from Virginia] traveling through Europe with a student group. She pinned a signed pen drawing of her done on the back of a deposit check, which she annotated below, “Done by Gregory L. Packard Mon Aug 7, 1967 in our MG – in Salisbury parking lot”. Other drawings by her include a tableau of the hotel window and a drawing of the boat on which the unnamed student and her friends would be sailing from Greece to Majorca and Paris.~~The mysterious young lady wrote in her diary nearly every night from the start of her trip on June 16th, 1967 through August 11, 1967. Her summer abroad took her from Washington, DC to Greece, Italy, Tunisia, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and England. The entries are nostalgic, describing youthful experiences like staying up all night talking, falling in love with her fellow travelers or others she met along the way, and not wanting to go home. Reading her observations about the different customs, food, and sights along her journey is pleasantly relatable to anyone recalling their first experience away from home. A tantalizing record made all the more intriguing for its author’s anonymity.~~Repair to front shoulder.
Over the Range to the Golden Gate: A Complete Tourist's Guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the Great North-West

Over the Range to the Golden Gate: A Complete Tourist's Guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the Great North-West by Wood, Stanley

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Over the Range to the Golden Gate: A Complete Tourist's Guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the Great North-West
Author
Wood, Stanley
Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good +
Description
Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1903. Later printing. Hardcover. Good +. 283pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Light blue cloth lettered and pictorially stamped in black and gilt. The extremities are moderately rubbed and bumped, the front free endpaper has several markings from prior owners, and the text block is cracked at p. 193 (however text block still quite sturdy). Flake/Draper 9989. From the Preface- "It has been the endeavor of the writer to meet as nearly as possible the wants of all classes of travelers. Information of value to the tourist for pleasure, the health seeker, the sportsman and the man of business, will be found in the pages of this book.
Wer War August Aichhorn: Briefe, Dokumente, Unveröffentlichte Arbeiten

Wer War August Aichhorn: Briefe, Dokumente, Unveröffentlichte Arbeiten by AICHHORN, August

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Wer War August Aichhorn: Briefe, Dokumente, Unveröffentlichte Arbeiten
Author
AICHHORN, August
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Wien: Verlag Löcker & Wögenstein, 1976. First Edition. Octavo (23.75cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers; 124pp.; illus. Light wear and dust-soil, else Near Fine.
On Agricultural Chemistry

On Agricultural Chemistry by [AGRICULTURE & HUSBANDRY] LAWES, John Bennet

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On Agricultural Chemistry
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[AGRICULTURE & HUSBANDRY] LAWES, John Bennet
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Dunn & Chidgey, 1888. Reprint. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed, all edges marbled; 36pp.; tables in text. Light wear and chipping to extremities, a hint of dust-soil, else Very Good. Later printing of an article first published in the "Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society," Vol. VII, no. 1, 1847. Lawes founded a research lab at his home at Rothamsted Manor where he developed the earliest chemical fertilizers.
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Vesela bandura. Povnyi zbirnyk veselykh i zhartivlyvykh pisen i pryspiviv do muzychnykh instrumentiv i tantsiv (Happy Bandura. A Complete Collection of Amusing and Humorous Songs and Choruses for Musical Instruments and Dances) by Anonymous

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Vesela bandura. Povnyi zbirnyk veselykh i zhartivlyvykh pisen i pryspiviv do muzychnykh instrumentiv i tantsiv (Happy Bandura. A Complete Collection of Amusing and Humorous Songs and Choruses for Musical Instruments and Dances)
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Anonymous
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Jersey City: Z drukarni "Svobody", 1925. First Edition. Very good. First edition, n. d. (ca 1925); 9 x 6; pp. [1], 4-84; olive wraps, printed and illustrated in black; small, closed cuts to tips of spine and top edge of back wrap; staples showing at hinges; previous owner's personal stamp to title page with a light offset to front wrap verso; in very good condition. A wonderful collection of Ukrainian folk songs, in was published for the Ukrainian emigre community in the US.
Classic French Course in English (The After-School Series)

Classic French Course in English (The After-School Series) by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

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Classic French Course in English (The After-School Series)
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Wilkinson, William Cleaver
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
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Good
Description
New York: Chautauqua Press, 1890. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Front free endpaper loose but included, one inch tear to top edge of front free endpaper. 1890 Hard Cover. 324 pp. CONTENTS: French Literature; Froissart; Rabelais; Montaigne; La Rochefoucauld (La Bruyere; Vauvenargues); La Fontaine; Moliere; Pascal; Madam de Sevigne; Corneille; Racine; Bossuet, Bourdaloue, Massillon, Saurin; Fenelon; Le Sage; Montesquieu, de Tocqueville; Voltaire; Rousseau (St. Pierre); The Encyclopaedists; Madame de Stael; Chateaubriand; Beranger; Lamartine; The Group of 1830; Joubert (Swetchine; Amiel); Epilogue; Index.
Light Panel LED Book Light

Light Panel LED Book Light

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Light Panel LED Book Light
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
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Fine
Description
Unbound. Fine. Brand new in box. 6 7/8 x 5 5/8. Using three AAA batteries (not included), this lightweight compact LED light panel makes it easy to read in the dark without disturbing others. Designed to hold open and illuminate the page for comfortable night-time reading.
Bettie Page in Danger! #1 Nude Beauties in Bondage Cover

Bettie Page in Danger! #1 Nude Beauties in Bondage Cover

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Bettie Page in Danger! #1 Nude Beauties in Bondage Cover
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Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
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Very good
Description
Battle Creek: SHH Productions, 2012. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. Near fine in publisher's bag with 3-D glasses.
Art at the Armory: Occupied Territory

Art at the Armory: Occupied Territory by WRIGHT, Beryl J., Robert Bruegmann, Anne Rorimer

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Art at the Armory: Occupied Territory
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WRIGHT, Beryl J., Robert Bruegmann, Anne Rorimer
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780933856349
Description
Chicago, IL: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1992. First edition. Softcover. 137 pages. Exhibition catalog for a group show that ran September 13, 1992 through January 23, 1993. Foreword by Kevin E. Consey. Essays by Robert Bruegmann, Anne Rorimer, Beryl J. Wright, Nadine Wasserman and with documentation by Staci Boris. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations after works by these artists: Dara Birnbaum, Arnold Crane, Diller + Scofido, Vernon Fisher, Haha, Doug Hall, Lynn Hershmann, Gary Hill, Toi Hoang, Jin Soo Kim, Eve Andree Laramee, Lazaretto Collaborative, Tatsuo Miyajima, Elizabeth Newman, Michael Shaughnessy, TODT, Francesc Torres, and Bill Viola. A clean very near fine copy in wrappers.
NAUTICAL ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES

NAUTICAL ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES by BADDELEY, Jon

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NAUTICAL ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES
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BADDELEY, Jon
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Antic Hay Books (United States)
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Konecky & Konecky, 1993. BRADDELEY, Jon. NAUTICAL ANTIQUES & COLLECTABLES. [NY: Konecky & Konecky, 1993]. Small quarto, cloth in dust jacket; 160 pages. First Edition. Fine in fine d/j. $15.00 [Postage may be extra].

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