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The Platonic Bow

The Platonic Bow by AUDEN, W. H.

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Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts
Title
The Platonic Bow
Author
AUDEN, W. H.
Seller
Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
New York: Fuck You Press, 1965. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Square 8vo. Original printed white wrappers. First edition, one of 300 copies, of this sexually explicit homoerotic poem. In very good to fine condition. Bloomfield & Mendelson, Appendix II. WITH: Another edition. Washington: Guild Press, [1970]. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers (minute wear at bottom of spine, else fine). First illustrated edition (apparently). Illustrated with explicit photographs that portray the homoerotic actions described in the text. Also Bloomfield & Mendelson, Appendix II. Together 2 volumes.
Portrait photo by Maull and Polyblank. Matted

Portrait photo by Maull and Polyblank. Matted by Alison, Archibald

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Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.
Title
Portrait photo by Maull and Polyblank. Matted
Author
Alison, Archibald
Seller
Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
London, 1856. Alison, Archibald (1792-1867). Lawyer and historian; author of the 10-volume History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons (1833-43), considered the first scholarly English-language study of the French Revolution. 1858. 200 x 148 mm.; mount measures 297 x 248 mm.
50 LIEDER (50 POEMS AND SONGS IN YIDDISH) [50 50}

50 LIEDER (50 POEMS AND SONGS IN YIDDISH) [50 50} by REISEN, ABRAHAM {Avrom Reyzan).

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Seller: Enchanted Books, ABAA, AAS
Title
50 LIEDER (50 POEMS AND SONGS IN YIDDISH) [50 50}
Author
REISEN, ABRAHAM {Avrom Reyzan).
Seller
Enchanted Books, ABAA, AAS (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
A SCARCE AND IMPORTANT YIDDISH CHILDREN'S BOOK WITH POEMS BY ABRAHAM REISEN (1876 - 1953). REISEN'S POETRY IS ACCOMPANIED BY COLOR MODERNIST ILLUSTRATIONS BY VARIOUS JEWISH ARTISTS. Abraham Reisen was a "Yiddish Poet, short- story writer, playwright and editor. He was born in Russia, travelled to Minsk, Warsaw, Krakow, and Berlin - until he came to New York in 1914.His poetry, "while having an understated romanticism and melancholy irony, a proportion of his work criticizes the poverty and social problems of the day" (Dan Wyman, 2012).Each page has a poem framed by modernist color illustrations (usually one or two colors) by various artists in brown, yellow, orange-red, green and black.The pictorial boards of the cover have age-darkened light brown stains but the illustration "comes through". The back cover also has light brown stains - especially at the bottom edge - this may be a water stain, edges and corners rubbed, green spine is in good shape. Blank eps are clean but paper at inner hinge has a light break - but it is tight. Internally the book it is in very clean and tight condition. Published on sturdy paper stock and the illustrated poems show very nicely.Condition of cover is Good +, the text is in VG condition.ABRAHAM REISEN CAME FROM A PROMINENT FAMILY OF WRITERS IN HEBREW AND YIDDISH. WRITERS. SCARCE
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Emergency Board, Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Co. — Employees / By the President of the United States of America / A Proclamation / [caption title, followed by eight paragraphs of text printed on two pages]. Signed in type at the end "Herbert Hoover.

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Emergency Board, Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Co. — Employees / By the President of the United States of America / A Proclamation / [caption title, followed by eight paragraphs of text printed on two pages]. Signed in type at the end "Herbert Hoover.
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Bartlebys Books (United States)
Description
[Washington, DC]: (Government Printing Office, 1932. First edition, [document] no. 1992. 4to broadsheet. Hoover herewith creates a board to report on a dispute between the railway and its several employee unions and organizations; the dispute "threatens to interrupt interstate commerce … to a degree such as to deprive that section of the country of essential transportation service." Apparently unrecorded on OCLC (which does record the board’s report on their investigation). Fine unfolded example. (#5657).
A. BUSHNELL, WHOLESALE YELLOW PINE LUMBER

A. BUSHNELL, WHOLESALE YELLOW PINE LUMBER

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A. BUSHNELL, WHOLESALE YELLOW PINE LUMBER
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Bartlebys Books (United States)
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Kansas City, MO, Nov. 1st, [18]97. Three items. Broadside. Single leaf, printed on both sides, measuring 9 1/2 x 12 in. Advertising circular, with illustrated letterhead, stating types of lumber available, sizes & prices, and terms. Outline drawings of roofing & flooring shapes printed on verso. A few short tears along one side of circular, only slightly affecting text. Small illustrated ad circular, printed on one side only, advertising Red Cedar Shingles in Transit. Also Cypress Shingles & Fence Lath. Illustration is of a smiling gentleman in top hat & mutton chop whiskers, with a pocket watch, noting the "Best Time is made by ordering your Shingles, Lath, Etc., from Bushnell." Small company envelope also present. The three pieces.
The Galaxy, An Illustrated Magazine, Vol. 13 No. 2, February 1872

The Galaxy, An Illustrated Magazine, Vol. 13 No. 2, February 1872

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Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.)
Title
The Galaxy, An Illustrated Magazine, Vol. 13 No. 2, February 1872
Seller
James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
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Very good
Description
New York: Sheldon & Co, 1872. Paperback. Very good. Bound in the publisher's original illustrated wraps. Covers have begun to separate at the heel but are holding. Frontis of John Ruskin. Contributions from Alexander Young, Lily Nelson, Isaac Butts, G. A. Custer, Anthony Trollope, and many more.
STATT BLUMEN KRITIKEN

STATT BLUMEN KRITIKEN

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STATT BLUMEN KRITIKEN
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Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
Zurich and Munich: Kindler Verlag, 1972. paper wrappers. Kindler, Helmut. 8vo. paper wrappers. xvi, 443 pages. A volume of book reviews selected by Rudolf Kühne and Hans Joachim Reiber to celebrate Helmut Kindler's 60th birthday. Corners bumped.
PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION. NEW SERIES NO.9

PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION. NEW SERIES NO.9

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PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION. NEW SERIES NO.9
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Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
New York, NY: American Printing History Association, 2011. stiff paper wrappers. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 47+(1) pages. Michael Winship on "Pirates, Shipwrecks, and Comic Almanacs: Charles Ellms Packages Books in Nineteenth-Century America" and Alastai M. Johnston on "A Glance at the First Century of California Printing.

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