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Leaves of Grass with Sands at Seventy & A Backward Glance o’er Travel’d Roads by WHITMAN, WALT

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Title: Leaves of Grass with Sands at Seventy & A Backward Glance o’er Travel’d Roads
Author: WHITMAN, WALT
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Philadelphia: Printed by Ferguson Bros. and Co, 1889. First edition. Original wrap-around leather. Very Good. SCARCE 70TH BIRTHDAY EDITION, ONE OF ONLY 300 COPIES SIGNED BY WHITMAN. THE VERY RARE FIRST ISSUE WITH ORIGINAL LEATHER WRAP-AROUND BAND. The collector of Walt Whitman is hard pressed to choose which edition of Leaves of Grass best represents the poet’s vision of his works. After all, Whitman famously attended each of the printings of his poems like a parent in the delivery room during the birth of each child. Is one child more valuable than the next? As with each delivery, each printing of Leaves of Grass contained its own set of complications and circumstances, be it lack of funds, paper shortages, war, or other issues. From early on, however, Whitman had a vision for Leaves of Grass, a vision that he needed to compromise time and again to accommodate the reality of his publishing circumstances. It was not until his 70th birthday edition in 1889 that the stars aligned and Whitman was finally able to print Leaves of Grass as he had always wanted – an edition that embodied his vision of the book. Whitman saw himself as a pastor creating a New Bible and in this special birthday edition he took this vision quite literally, as he presented Leaves of Grass as one would present a Bible, using “Oxford Bible Paper,” and a Biblical black leather cover with a wraparound tongue flap and pocket in the back. Only 300 copies were printed, but fairly soon into the printing, Whitman was persuaded by his close friend Dr. Richard Bucke to stop binding copies with the wraparound flap, so far fewer than the original 300 contain this unique aspect of his vision. Unlike Whitman’s earlier editions full of sometimes playful book art and fonts, the 1889 edition insists it is to be taken very seriously, perhaps as seriously as one might take the Bible. The text, of course, includes the same radicalism as the earlier editions, but this time his radicalism is not to be interpreted as whimsy, but as high seriousness, even scripture. Yet, despite the solemnity of the presentation of this edition, Whitman reminds us that this Biblical vision is his very precious child as he introduces the edition with the words: “the volume is more A PERSON than a book. And for testimony to all, (and good measure,) I here with pen and ink append my name" and then signed each copy in ink, "Walt Whitman". Philadelphia: Printed by Ferguson Bros. and Co. for the Author. Small octavo (approx. 124x180 mm), original publisher's morocco with wraparound band and rear pocket; custom box. Complete with portrait frontispiece. Some scuffing to leather, small separation at joint at base of spine. Due to its somewhat fragile design, this edition is usually found in dreadful condition. This copy is by far the nicest we've ever seen. A BEAUTIFUL SIGNED COPY OF ONE OF THE RAREST AND MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES OF LEAVES OF GRASS.

The Revolt of the Cockroach People by Acosta, Oscar Zeta

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Title: The Revolt of the Cockroach People
Author: Acosta, Oscar Zeta
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. First edition. Very Good/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Signed by Oscar Zeta Acosta on the front pastedown and inscribed, "To my old friend Althea, the African Queen. Jan '74 Aztlan." 258 pp. Bound in publisher's beige cloth decorated in blind and lettered in white on the spine. Very Good, slightly bumped corners, slight lean and a bowing to boards, in a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear and soiling and rubbing to extremities. The scarce semi-autobiographical Chicano Movement-themed novel, signed by Acosta. The radical lawyer and activist was fictionalized by Hunter S. Thompson as drug-gobbling "Dr. Gonzo" in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and disappeared the year he signed this book.

Black Man in America: An Interview with James Baldwin (Original LP) by Baldwin, James

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Title: Black Man in America: An Interview with James Baldwin (Original LP)
Author: Baldwin, James
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Cambridge, MA: Credo, 1962. Original pressing. Credo 1. Good album with some scratches in a Good sleeve,creased corner, stain on front cover.An uncommon album of the African American author James Baldwin being interviewed by sociologist Studs Terkel, recorded at WFMT in Chicago. Baldwin's thoughts on race have been referenced widely with the advent of the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Life of Merlin, Sirnamed Ambrosius. His Prophecies, and Predictions Interpreted; and Their Truth Made Good by Our English Annals:; Being a Chronological History of all the Kings and Memorable Passages of this Kingdom, from Brute to the Reign of King Charles by Heywood, Thomas

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Title: The Life of Merlin, Sirnamed Ambrosius. His Prophecies, and Predictions Interpreted; and Their Truth Made Good by Our English Annals:; Being a Chronological History of all the Kings and Memorable Passages of this Kingdom, from Brute to the Reign of King Charles
Author: Heywood, Thomas
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Carmarthen: Printed and sold by J. Evans, 1812. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. viii,324pp Contemporary half leather, marbled paper boards. Spine tooled in gilt; black leather lettering label, gilt. List of subscribers, index. Edges and corners worn else this is a very good copy. Reprint of the first edition of 1641 and scarce in its own right. Lowndes, p. 1064. With the armorial bookplate of Sir William Grace.

STILL JIM by Willsie, Honore

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Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY

Title: STILL JIM
Author: Willsie, Honore
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: STILL JIM, Stokes, 1915, first edition (fourth printing), just about fine in vg+ full color pictorial dust-wrapper with some light chipping to the dust-wrapper spine extremities. Most uncommon to be sure as most "Engineering Westerns" are.

MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL [1975] Photo archive by Cinema V

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Seller: Walterfilm, Inc.

Title: MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL [1975] Photo archive
Author: Cinema V
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Just About Fine
Description: Cinema V. No binding. Just About Fine. [New York]: Cinema V, [1975]. Set of 8 vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm) black-and-white photos. Two have printed text affixed, one has holograph printing notations in top margin. Overall just about fine. Following up after And Now for Something Completely DIfferent, which was a compilation of Monty Python TV sketches reshot for the big screen, this film was their first completely original theatrical film

Reward of Merit given to Alexander Shriver for diligence in Arithmetic

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Title: Reward of Merit given to Alexander Shriver for diligence in Arithmetic
Seller: De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description: Saint Mary's School Baltimore July 14, 1835. Signed by John Chanche. Chanche would become the first Bishop of Natchez Mississippi. Measures 8 x 4 3/4. Possibly removed from a scrapbook.

Garden of the Plynck by Baker, Karle Wilson

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Title: Garden of the Plynck
Author: Baker, Karle Wilson
Seller: E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good Plus
Description: New Haven & New York: Yale University Press, 1920 Pictorial boards with wear to corners and spine ends, some creasing to spine paper, endpapers browned, else clean. A scarce, strange fantasy about a little girl named Sara who must enter the garden of her mind in order to learn to be less afraid and more creative. Along the way she meets many strange creatures who help her achieve this. Illustrated with a color map title page and partial page line art throughout (Sara appears to be modeled after Tenniel's Alice.) . First Edition. Pictorial Boards. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. Illus. by Florence Minard. 8vo.

EXPOSICIÓN HOMENAJE PEDRO FIGARI, 1861-1961.; Organizada por la Comisión Nacional de Homenaje al Dr. Pedro Figari y la Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes

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Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC

Title: EXPOSICIÓN HOMENAJE PEDRO FIGARI, 1861-1961.; Organizada por la Comisión Nacional de Homenaje al Dr. Pedro Figari y la Comisión Nacional de Bellas Artes
Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
Condition: (marginal wear; ink. mrks. in verso cover; o/w very good copy)
Description: Montevideo: Ministerio de Instrucción Pública y Previsión Social, Biblioteca Nacional, 1961. (marginal wear; ink. mrks. in verso cover; o/w very good copy). b/w plates, cat., b/w wrps. OCLC: 492889454. NO COPIES SHOW IN U.S. LIBRARIES and only 4 in Europe. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held July 1961 at the Biblioteca Nacional in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Laughing Gas by WODEHOUSE, P. G.

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Title: Laughing Gas
Author: WODEHOUSE, P. G.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1936. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). Red cloth, titled in black on front and spine; plain endpapers; 311,[9]pp; 8pp of publisher's ads at rear. Bookplate of Douglas R. Vining. A straight copy, rubbed at edges, spine faded, edges of textblock lightly foxed: around Very Good. MCILVAINE A56a.

The Old Reliable by WODEHOUSE, P.G.

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Title: The Old Reliable
Author: WODEHOUSE, P.G.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1951. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); orange cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; [9],10-234 + [2]pp ads. Light wear to extremities, hint of sunning to spine, with faint foxing to text edges, preliminary, and terminal leaves, and a short tear at upper front endpaper; Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket. A novel in which Wodehouse tackles Hollywood life, first serialized in Collier's magazine. MCILVAINE A71a.

[AGRICULTURE] A GUIDE TO THE ORCHARD AND KITCHEN GARDEN; or, Account of the Most Valuable Fruit and Vegetables Cultivated IN GREAT BRITAIN by Lindley, George

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Title: [AGRICULTURE] A GUIDE TO THE ORCHARD AND KITCHEN GARDEN; or, Account of the Most Valuable Fruit and Vegetables Cultivated IN GREAT BRITAIN
Author: Lindley, George
Seller: lizzyoung bookseller (United States)
Condition: Brown cloth covered boards. Very good
Description: London: LONGMAN, REES, BROWN, AND GREEN, 1831. Hardcover. Brown cloth covered boards. Very good. 601 pages. 23 x 14.5 cm. Owner's signature on front free end paper. Providing month-by-month tasks for keeping orchards and vegetable gardens productive. This book is notable for cataloguing old and rare varieties, some of which are little-known or forgotten today. Accounts of apples, pears, plums, cherries, peaches, apricots, grapes, and many lesser-grown fruits. Detailed notes on vegetables including potatoes, carrots, turnips, onions, and more. Ex. libris, with some small pencil marks on margins. Rebound with original spine.

Oryx and Crake [Inscribed and Signed] by Margaret Atwood

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Title: Oryx and Crake [Inscribed and Signed]
Author: Margaret Atwood
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780771008689
Condition: Very Good
Description: Toronto, Ontario, Canada: M&S [McClelland & Stewart Ltd], 2003. Very Good/Very Good -. Toronto: M&S, 2003. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (24cm); publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; [12],378pp. Light shelf wear, rather heavy dampstaining to dust jacket verso not visible externally or affecting binding or textblock, shallow sunning along board margins, corners nudged; a Very Good copy in About Very Good jacket. Inscribed and signed on title page, "For Hank - best wishes - Margaret Atwood.

ANCIENT LIGHT by Banville, John

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Title: ANCIENT LIGHT
Author: Banville, John
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN: 9780670920617
Condition: Fine in fine jacket.
Description: (London): Viking / Penguin, 2012. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of Banville's novel, the conclusion of a trilogy whose first two books were ECLIPSE and SHROUD. 9'' x 6''. Original black cloth with copper-lettered spine. In original unclipped (£16.99) dust jacket. 244, [2] pages. Signed by Banville on title page. Minor edgewear.

The Making of the President 1960 by White, Theodore H.

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Seller: Sanctuary Books

Title: The Making of the President 1960
Author: White, Theodore H.
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Publisher's cloth; in lightly soiled and worn DJ. Second printing, May 1962. From the library of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., with his bookplate on the front paste-down. Fairbanks (1909-2000) was an American actor (his credits include Gunga Din) and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II.

Memoirs of Keutsang Lama (life in Tibet after the Chinese 'liberation') by Keutsang Trulku Jampel Yeshe

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Title: Memoirs of Keutsang Lama (life in Tibet after the Chinese 'liberation')
Author: Keutsang Trulku Jampel Yeshe
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: [New Delhi]: Paljor Publications, 2001. 8vo, pp. 258, [6]; text illustrations; pictorial paper wrappers; fine. Keutsang Rinpoche was recognized as the reincarnation of Keutsang Lama at the age of two in 1946, but spent his entire young adulthood imprisoned as a class enemy of the Chinese state, beginning with his arrest at the age of 16. This memoir is an account of his time within the Chinese prison system and his life after.

Color Magic with Nu-Enamel by Nu-Enamel Corporation

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Title: Color Magic with Nu-Enamel
Author: Nu-Enamel Corporation
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Chicago / New York: Nu-Enamel Corporation, 1930. Very good. Brochure; tri-fold, 8 panels, 14 x 8 1/2 unfolded; illustrated with Art Deco drawings; a small metal piece, coated with Nu-Enamel present and threaded through paper at lower margin (small, closed tears where it was originally inserted); thin, closed cuts to edges of folds; distributor's stamp; in about very good condition.A beautiful advertising brochure, it showed 20 colors of Nu-Enamel - an oil-based paint, said to be capable of being used over old paint, where one coat is enough for full coverage, no brush marks are left, and there are no noxious odors. The brochure also gave examples of possible use, including bathrooms, automobiles, furniture, etc.

Maps of Connecticut. Before The Year 1800. by Thompson,Edmund.

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Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co.

Title: Maps of Connecticut. Before The Year 1800.
Author: Thompson,Edmund.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition: One of the few great American cartobibliographies. Single volume of original 2 volumes. Linen boards. V. G.
Description: Windham, CT.: Hawthorn House, 1940.. One of the few great American cartobibliographies. Single volume of original 2 volumes. Linen boards. V. G.. 26.5 cm. 111 pp. b/w Map Plates.

Fowls: Care and Feeding. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Farmers' Bulletin No. 41 by Watson, G. C.

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Title: Fowls: Care and Feeding. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Farmers' Bulletin No. 41
Author: Watson, G. C.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1896. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Very good in white paper wraps. Minor yellowing to pages. Text clean and bright. 24 pages. American History. AME/2073.

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