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Summer Balloons by PADGETT, Ron

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$3,500.00
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Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
Title
Summer Balloons
Author
PADGETT, Ron
Seller
James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Covers slightly dust-soiled, otherwise a very good copy
Description
(No place, but Tulsa, OK: The Author, Spring 1960). First edition of Padgett's rare first book, a four-page chapbook. Presentation copy, inscribed on verso front cover to his close friend and collaborator, the artist George Schneeman: "for George Schneeman, Here is my latest and possibly last work, April 1967. Ron Padgett recollects that Summer Balloons "consists of a few poems that I wrote for a girl I was in love with in our senior year of high school in Tulsa. To make them presentable to her, I went to a Mr. Casebeer, a local job printer who worked out of the garage behind his house, setting everything by hand and printing it letterpress. When I asked him how much five copies would cost, he said, "About the same as one hundred," so I had him print more than five, but how many I do not remember, maybe that hundred. For many years I thought that I should have stuck with five, because there were those additional copies floating around displaying my rampant adolescent sentimentality to any and all. But then I said to myself, "Enough with the vanity," and stopped worrying about it. And, after all, the girl was so beautiful and nice. Covers slightly dust-soiled, otherwise a very good copy. 12mo, original white wrappers. Covers slightly dust-soiled, otherwise a very good copy.
Committee for the Defense of the Revolution / Comite de Defensa de la Revolucion / Comite de Defense de la Revolution [cover title]

Committee for the Defense of the Revolution / Comite de Defensa de la Revolucion / Comite de Defense de la Revolution [cover title] by [Cuba]

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Seller: McBride Rare Books
Title
Committee for the Defense of the Revolution / Comite de Defensa de la Revolucion / Comite de Defense de la Revolution [cover title]
Author
[Cuba]
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
Habana, 1965. Very good.. [16]pp. Oblong pamphlet in original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Light wear and toning at wrapper edges, with a few faint creases. Internally clean. A visually rich pro-Casto and pro-Communist pamphlet that highlights the history and core activities of Cuba's Committee for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), neighborhood-based civil defense organizations created by Castro in 1960 to defend the revolution and maintain social and political control at the local level. This often included activities like surveillance, distribution of propaganda, and vigilante justice. The pamphlet is illustrated with photos throughout, and also contains a two-page spread with maps of the island and charts, data, and statistics about the Cuban people. It contains a year-by-year account of the Committee's achievements and activities, and ends with a section concerning its relations with other countries and their visits to Cuba. The rear wrapper states that editions were published in English, French, and Spanish, as evidenced by the trilingual title on the front cover, but we find no evidence of any edition in OCLC. Scarce, and with much interesting and propagandized information about Castro's local enforcers during the early years of the Communist regime.
And So to Bed. Being the Diary of a Mixer of Cocktails. [With apologies to Samuel Pepys]

And So to Bed. Being the Diary of a Mixer of Cocktails. [With apologies to Samuel Pepys] by Seagram's Limited; Samuel Pepys

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Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
Title
And So to Bed. Being the Diary of a Mixer of Cocktails. [With apologies to Samuel Pepys]
Author
Seagram's Limited; Samuel Pepys
Seller
Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
Montreal: Distillers Corporation, Seagrams Limited / The Ronalds Co. Limited, 1930. Stapled booklet, stapled in wrappers (15.5 x 8 cm.), 35, [1] pages. Illustrated throughout. FIRST EDITION. A humorous promotional cocktail recipe booklet, with thirty recipes, all for use with various Seagram's products. An illustration of the product, handsomely printed in chromolithography and with a short description of the spirit appears on the left page. The facing page contains a faux diary entry in the style of Samuel Pepys (a collection of Pepys' culinary anecdotes was collected by S.A.E. Strom and issued under the name, And So to Dine), as well as several recipes using the particular spirit. Copies of this title appear with 35 [1], 40, and 60 pages. The 60 page version, presumed to be issued last, was published in 1933 on the 300th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Pepys (see below), and with the statement, "Revised and enlarged edition in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Pepys, 1633-1933" on the cover. Fine, in publisher's blue, black, and red printed wrappers, stamped with an alligator pattern. Scarce. [OCLC locates and five copies of this 35-page issue, and four of the 60 page issue; not in Noling, Beverage Literature].
HOT SPRINGS, BATH COUNTY, VIRGINIA; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR MEDICINAL PROPERTIES, AND AN ANALYSIS OF THE WATERS, WITH CASES OF CURE OF GOUT, RHEUMATISM, DISEASES OF THE LIVER, PARALYSIS NEURALGIA, CHRONIC, DIARRHEA, ENLARGED GLANDS, OLD INJURIES, DEAFNESS, ETC., ETC., ETC.

HOT SPRINGS, BATH COUNTY, VIRGINIA; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR MEDICINAL PROPERTIES, AND AN ANALYSIS OF THE WATERS, WITH CASES OF CURE OF GOUT, RHEUMATISM, DISEASES OF THE LIVER, PARALYSIS NEURALGIA, CHRONIC, DIARRHEA, ENLARGED GLANDS, OLD INJURIES, DEAFNESS, ETC., ETC., ETC. by [Virginia]

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Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC
Title
HOT SPRINGS, BATH COUNTY, VIRGINIA; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR MEDICINAL PROPERTIES, AND AN ANALYSIS OF THE WATERS, WITH CASES OF CURE OF GOUT, RHEUMATISM, DISEASES OF THE LIVER, PARALYSIS NEURALGIA, CHRONIC, DIARRHEA, ENLARGED GLANDS, OLD INJURIES, DEAFNESS, ETC., ETC., ETC.
Author
[Virginia]
Seller
David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
Richmond: Gary, Clemmitt & Jones, Printers, 1869. iv, [5]-92 pp, as issued. Disbound without outer wraps. Light blindstamp in blank margin of title page. Good+, with folding map [laid in, short closed tear without loss]: "Showing the Location of, and Routes of Travel to the Hot, the Healing and the Rockbridge Alum Springs of Virginia. By Jed. Hotchkiss, Top. Eng. Staunton, Va. March, 1868." This is the first edition, reprinted in 1870. The book describes the baths, their "therapeutical applications," and testimonials to their curative properties. Sabin 33123. Haynes 8817. Cappon 419 [1871 printing].
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Changing Things. by AMMONS, A.R.

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Title
Changing Things.
Author
AMMONS, A.R.
Seller
Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description
[Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press, (1981).. First edition, numbered & signed issue.. [8 pp]. Two horizontal bends, else near fine in sewn wrappers and near fine dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 100 (of 126) numbered copies SIGNED by Ammons.
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Geografiia Chastei Sveta i Vazhneishikh Gosudarstv. Uchebnik dlia VI-VII Klassov Vosʹmiletnei Shkoly by Schastnev, P. N. and Terekhov, P. G.

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Geografiia Chastei Sveta i Vazhneishikh Gosudarstv. Uchebnik dlia VI-VII Klassov Vosʹmiletnei Shkoly
Author
Schastnev, P. N. and Terekhov, P. G.
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Description
Gosudarstvennoe Uchebno-Pedagogicheskoe Izdatel’stvo Ministerstva Prosveshcheniia RSFSR, 1961. Hardcover. First edition thus; 6 x 8 1/2; pp. [2], 3-303, [1]; cloth-backed pictorial boards; wear along edges; few small spots to back cover; pages uniformly age-toned; illustrated with numerous b&w photographs, maps, and tables as well as full-page color plates; good to very good condition. In a typical Soviet fashion - a middle-school world geography textbook has become as much an anti-Capitalism propaganda tool as it is an educational tool. The section on North America and particularly on the US contains various paragraphs on the glaring riches of a few billionaires and the poverty of the rest of the workers (as opposed to the equality of everybody in the Soviet Union), the poisonous air and the ugliness of the big American cities, and the altogether misery of the citizens here. Of particular interest is a map of Manhattan which is quite crude and slightly inaccurate.
L'Art de la reliure

L'Art de la reliure by BRUEL, André

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Title
L'Art de la reliure
Author
BRUEL, André
Seller
Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
A good copy of this fragile pamphlet, soft vertical fold crease, toning to the paper
Description
Paris: Guilde des Artistes Angevins, 1924. First edition. A good copy of this fragile pamphlet, soft vertical fold crease, toning to the paper. 4to (18.2 x 14.2 cm). 25 pages. Two full-page illustrations. Original printed wrappers (chipped, partly split along spine). Includes two full-page black-and-white illustrations of bindings executed by Paul Géraldy and Marc Leclerc.
The Old Wrecks of the Baltic Sea

The Old Wrecks of the Baltic Sea by Cederlund, Carl Olof

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The Old Wrecks of the Baltic Sea
Author
Cederlund, Carl Olof
Seller
Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Description
(Oxford, England): BAR International, 1983. 4to. 239 pp. b/w photo and line ills, plans. "Archaeological recording of the wrecks of carvel-built ships." With signed note from author laid in. Bound in stiff pictorial wrappers. VG
Beautiful Crochet on Household Linen, the Home Art Series

Beautiful Crochet on Household Linen, the Home Art Series by KLICKMANN, Flora, editor

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Title
Beautiful Crochet on Household Linen, the Home Art Series
Author
KLICKMANN, Flora, editor
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
London: The Office of "The Girl's Own Paper & Woman's Magazine, 1916. Very good. Fourth impression. 8vo; 113pp [114-118]; includes 10pp advertising; pink printed paper over boards with corner decoration, title, author, and content description to front cover, title to spine; illustrated with black and white photographs as well as needlework charts; endpapers are advertisments; sunning to cover, scuffing to bottom edge with fraying especially at spine, light damp staining to some bottom pages; very good.

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