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The voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger, Zoology, Vol. II Part VIII - report on birds by SCLATER, P.L.

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

Title: The voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger, Zoology, Vol. II Part VIII - report on birds
Author: SCLATER, P.L.
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Printed by the Society, 1881. FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING. With 30 hand-colored lithographed plates by J. Smit. Half-morocco and marbled boards, recent endpapers; with the exception of very minor discoloration to the half-title, an absolutely exquisite copy with bright and clean plates. First separate printing. The complete ornithological report, with excellent illustrations, on the nearly 900 specimens collected by the expedition. “The collection [of birds] was formed under the superintendence of Mr. John Murray, one of the naturalists of the Expedition, and the skins were chiefly prepared by Mr. Frederick Pearcey, who accompanied the vessel as taxidermist” (introduction). The H.M.S. Challenger sailed over 70,000 miles during her extended voyage of exploration. Sclater (1829-1913), a well-known and highly productive (over 1400 publications) ornithologist by trade, is also remembered for his 1858 paper setting out the faunal regions classification of zoogeography later adopted by Alfred Russel Wallace. He was the founder and for many years the editor of Ibis, secretary of the Zoological Society of London, a member of more than forty professional societies at home and abroad, and a council member of the Royal Society of London.

I Live in Fear [Ikimono no kiroku] (Original screenplay for the 1955 Japanese film) by Akira Kurosawa (director); Shinobu Hashimoto, Fumino Hayasaka, Hideo Oguni (screenwriters); Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Eiko Miyoshi (starring)

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Title: I Live in Fear [Ikimono no kiroku] (Original screenplay for the 1955 Japanese film)
Author: Akira Kurosawa (director); Shinobu Hashimoto, Fumino Hayasaka, Hideo Oguni (screenwriters); Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Eiko Miyoshi (starring)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Tokyo: Kurosawa Productions, 1955. Draft script for the 1955 film. Title in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Text and titles in Japanese. An elderly factory owner is increasingly fearful of what he believes to be Japan's looming, inevitable destruction in a nuclear war, and grows obsessed with the idea of moving his family to a rural farm in Brazil. Director Akira Kurosawa's final film collaboration with longtime composer Fumio Hayasaka, made shortly before Hayasaka's death in 1955 of tuberculosis. White titled perfect-bound wrappers. Approximately 73 leaves, with last page of text numbered e-30. Mimeograph duplication, printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus, lightly and evenly toned, wrapper Very Good, lightly foxed, with wear and toning on the spine.

Play It Again, Sam (Collection of 18 original photographs from the 1972 film) by Woody Allen (play, screenplay, starring); Herbert Ross (director); Bernie Abramson, Orlando Suero (still photographers); Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Jerry Lacy (starring)

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Title: Play It Again, Sam (Collection of 18 original photographs from the 1972 film)
Author: Woody Allen (play, screenplay, starring); Herbert Ross (director); Bernie Abramson, Orlando Suero (still photographers); Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Jerry Lacy (starring)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1972. Collection of 18 vintage studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Based on Woody Allen's 1969 play. A comedy that is pretty difficult to overestimate. Even though it was not directed by Woody Allen, it was the template for the many great films he would subsequently write and direct in the 1970s, in terms of shooting style, timing, romantic themes, and the actors involved (the irrepressible trio of Allen, Keaton, and Roberts). Allen had already directed two films at this point ("Take the Money and Run" and "Bananas"), but this film is significant in that it predicted the more substantive romantic comedies that would later place him among the most important filmmakers of his era, notably "Annie Hall" (1977) and "Manhattan" (1979). Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Couple with light corner or edgewear, else Near Fine. Grant US.

Slaveholding a Malum in Se by JACKSON Joseph TYLER Edward

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Title: Slaveholding a Malum in Se
Author: JACKSON Joseph TYLER Edward
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1921. First Edition. TYLER, E[dward]. R. Slaveholding a Malum in Se, or Invariably Sinful. Harford: S.S. Cowles, 1839. Octavo, original tan self-wrappers, original stitching; pp. (1-3), 4-48. $1200.First edition of Tyler's searing analysis of arguments defending slavery in this incendiary work that prompted local leaders to offer gunpowder to ""blow the damned abolitionist down,"" delivered by him in a Brattleboro chapel as a ""mob formed outside cannons were fired,"" with Tyler especially demolishing pro-slavery claims that enslaved people willingly choose slavery, exceedingly scarce in original self-wrappers.In 1837 Rev. Edward Royal Tyler, the son of Revolutionary leader, jurist and author Royall Tyler, stood in Elliot Street Chapel to deliver this highly controversial abolition address in which he declared a ""slaveholding government"" to be any that ""authorizes individuals to deprive their fellow men of self-ownership forever."" Tyler intended to establish a Brattleboro chapter of the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) despite warnings by local leaders, including one who proclaimed he ""would provide the gun powder if the mob would blow the damned abolitionist down."" As Tyler began to speak a ""mob formed outside cannons were fired off and pots and pans were clanged to intimidate those who might go into the chapel."" His mother wrote in her journal: ""Great doings: Edward delivered a lecture on abolition cannons were fired and all manner of noises were made nevertheless, Edward proceeded undaunted."" At the subsequent first meeting of the Brattleboro AASS he declared: ""The time is coming when you will be compelled to take one side or the other, for this is not simply a question of negro-slavery, it is the cause of human rights. The institutions of freedom are in imminent danger"" (Brattleboro Historical Society).Tyler's Slaveholding a malum in se (an innately immoral act regardless of legal stature) is now esteemed as ""a neglected masterpiece of abolitionist literature."" In its pages he presents a detailed historical and juridical analysis of arguments used to rationalize and authorize slavery, especially the popular pro-slavery concept of happy slaves, which was defended by an ""ask the slave test"" that argued ""the slave, not the slave master, was the only reliable authority"" on enslavement (Growler, Radical Orthodoxy, 612-13). Tyler soundly demolishes this idea of an enslaved person who ""washes his master in innocence."" He states: ""If it is right to hold those only in slavery, who are willing no one is justified in enforcing the laws of slavery. The laws which declare one man the property of another, thus sanctioning his forcible detention as chattel, are all wrong the argument is suicidal. It annihilates itself"" (emphasis in original). Essentially, this false logic signals a ""relationship in which consent to another's authority must be continually given for that authority to remain in effect"" and, as such, ""is not a master-slave relationship at all"" (Gowler, 613). Sabin 97699. Not in Blockson. Text very fresh with scant foxing mainly to wrappers, trace of marginal dampstaining above title page. A rare near-fine copy in original self-wrappers.

The Poster: An Illustrated Monthly Chronicle. Vol. III [3], No. XV-XIX [15-19], September - February 1900 & Vol. III [3], No. XIII [13], August 1899

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Title: The Poster: An Illustrated Monthly Chronicle. Vol. III [3], No. XV-XIX [15-19], September - February 1900 & Vol. III [3], No. XIII [13], August 1899
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG-. Boards have some rubbing, toning and scuffing. Title tag on spine is rubbed. Bookplate of Sidney Lewis-Ransom inside front
Description: London: E.R. Alexander & Sons at the ERA Press / Walter Calvert & Co. / H. Macleay, 1900. VG-. Boards have some rubbing, toning and scuffing. Title tag on spine is rubbed. Bookplate of Sidney Lewis-Ransom inside front cover, otherwise interior is clean and unmarked. All contents present.. Small quarto. Hardcover. bound in olive cloth with leather title tag and gilt titles. 306 pages. Color lithographic covers, numerous b&w reproductions and 2-4 color plates per issue, many for Colman's Mustard, Starch etc. 24 cm. Illustrations by M. Yenis, Mucha, John Hassell, Tom Browne, Beggarstaff Bros., Aubrey Beardsley, Jules Cheret, Will True, Walter Crane, Cecil Aldin, Anger and others. The Poster: an illustrated monthly chronicle, or simply The Poster, was a monthly magazine published in London from June 1898 to December 1900, dedicated to the then relatively new art of the pictorial poster. It was the first periodical devoted to the poster to be published in Britain. It was published by Ransom, Woestyn & Co. The Poster contained sections on posters, advertising, and a segment dedicated to collectors and collecting. Illustrations were featured in both black and white and color. It focused on unique poster designs and their creators such as the Beggarstaffs and Toulouse-Lautrec. They were featured multiple times throughout The Poster's runtime along with interviews from designers such as John Hassall and W.S. Rogers.

MY ABC BOOK

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Title: MY ABC BOOK
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: Akron, Ohio / Chicago / New York: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1904. Very good.. Early 20th-century cloth alphabet book in verse, with images and rhymes associated with affluent families of the period. This line of "Saalfield's Muslin Books" were meant for heavy use by children: "They may be washed and colors will not run, A child can chew them and have lots of fun." "A is for Automobile, so shiny and bright"; "D is for Dandy, a great St. Bernard"; "H is for Hammock, out in the shade, With our darling in it, swung by the maid." 8.75'' x 7.75''. Original linen pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with large color images block letters and rhyming phrases on all leaves. [6] pages, printed one side only, folded at fore-edge and bound at gutter. Some fraying and spots of soil. Binding firm.

DIE SAGE VON SANKT JULIAN DEM GASTFREIEN by Flaubert, Gustave; Kaus, Max

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Title: DIE SAGE VON SANKT JULIAN DEM GASTFREIEN
Author: Flaubert, Gustave; Kaus, Max
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: Potsdam-Berlin: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1919. Very good.. Second edition, Flaubert's Legend of Saint Julien, illustrated with twelve lithographs by Max Kaus. A striking series of early lithographs by Kaus, from the immediate post-war period. Kaus initially learned lithographic technique from Ernst Heckel, with whom he improvised a wartime printing press out of salvaged wood from destroyed railway station paneling (Walde); in 1918 and following, Kaus continued to produce prints and painting along Expressionist lines to a mixed reception from contemporary critics and the continuing interest of later generations. Original quarter brown cloth with black and brown boards. 46, [2] pages. Illustrated with twelve black and white lithographs by Kaus. 2. und 3. Tausend. In German, translation by Elsa von Hollander. Moderate scuffing and light soil to boards, with several vertical tears and some small loss to cloth of spine.

Interiors 1973-1974 [Limited Edition, Signed] by Robert Adams

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Title: Interiors 1973-1974 [Limited Edition, Signed]
Author: Robert Adams
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2006. Near Fine. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2006. First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies. Large, slim quarto (36.5cm); publisher's sage green cloth and paper chemise printed in pale yellow; [27]ll. laid in, loose as issued, including twenty-four duotone plates (collated complete). Two faint pencil marks across upper cover, else a Near Fine example, contents clean and sound. Signed by the photographer on title page.

A Fine Madness [SIGNED] by Baker, Elliott

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Title: A Fine Madness [*SIGNED*]
Author: Baker, Elliott
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine in Fair dj
Description: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Fair dj. (c.1964). 2nd impression. Hardcover. [very slight wear to extremities, generally a nice clean copy; the jacket has a ragged chip at the bottom rige corner of the rear panel, some discoloration to the spine, small tape stains at the lower corners of the front panel, a small tears at a couple of corners]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Del, / - with best wishes / and total confidence -- / Elliott / June '64." The author's first novel, about an "aging, raging poet seeking to maintain his identity and independence in a world that wants to reduce him to its own level." The basis for the 1966 film of the same name, starring Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, and Jean Seberg. The inscription in this copy is to Delbert Mann, who was first announced as the film's director at the time the rights to the novel were first acquired in 1964, at which time the film was to be produced at M-G-M (the inscription dates from the month after the deal was announced). Alas, however, Mann was denied the opportunity to justify the author's "total confidence," as by the time the film went into production (now at Warner Bros.) he had been replaced by Irvin Kershner; the screenplay was by Baker himself. Signed by Author .

Secrets of Heaven (Print of an Illustration for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus") by Wrightson, Berni [Bernie]

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Title: Secrets of Heaven (Print of an Illustration for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus")
Creator: Wrightson, Berni [Bernie]
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Berni Wrightson and Graphic Collectibles, 1988. Limited edition. Print. Fine. SIGNED. Black and white print, measuring 11" x 16" [14" x 20" with borders]. Number 209 in an edition limited to 300. Signed and numbered by the artist in pencil at the foot. Bernard Albert Wrightson (1948-2017), whose career creating horror art spanned over 45 years, is most known as the co-creator of the muck creature in Swamp Thing. In addition, he worked on a variety of mystery and anthology titles for DC Comics and its main rival, Marvel Comics. Wrightson considered his illustrations for Frankenstein to be some of his most personal work.

CESKY PAMATNIK Z VELKEHO ROKU

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Title: CESKY PAMATNIK Z VELKEHO ROKU
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good binding
Description: V. Praze: B. Koci, 1918. Very Good binding. Oblong 8vo, in tan paper-covered boards stamped with a particularly happy looking lion or griffin: the boards are bit bowed; unpaginated.~~Facsimiles of letters celebrating the proclamation of the Czech Republic in 1918. The Austro-Hungarian Empire collapse and the new state emerged. It’s independence was proclaimed on October 28, 1918. An uncommon item; not available in the trade as of 12/07/23, with only a handful of copies located in institutions. Very Good binding.

THE PRESIDENTS I HAVE KNOWN: FROM 1860 TO 1918 by Wolf, Simon

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Title: THE PRESIDENTS I HAVE KNOWN: FROM 1860 TO 1918
Author: Wolf, Simon
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Washington DC: Byron S. Adams, 1918. Hardcover. Octavo, 459 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in the publisher's burgundy cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards show moderate wear and some fraying to the spine edges and fore corners. Blind-stamped borders to the front and rear. Text block has slight age toning to the edges. Previous owner's information to the front pastedown. Mild wear interiorly including chip to tail edge to front end paper and title page. Frontispiece. Illustrated. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column D, ND-D. 1375187. FP New Rockville Stock.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, ANNUAL REPORT, 1962

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Title: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, ANNUAL REPORT, 1962
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1962. Hardcover. Octavo, ii, iii, 289 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in the publisher's red cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards have slight plus wear including modest sunning and slight scuffs. Mild bowing to the boards. Text block has slight wear including age toning to the edges. Gift inscription to the front free end paper. Illustrated. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Column Y. 1407979. FP New Rockville Stock.

Dry Magazine #3 by Z, Fritz, Linda Fettucine, Uncle Bill, Spanky, Sadie, Joey Tonno, Pretzle, Flex, Chopped Meat (cover photo)

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Title: Dry Magazine #3
Author: Z, Fritz, Linda Fettucine, Uncle Bill, Spanky, Sadie, Joey Tonno, Pretzle, Flex, Chopped Meat (cover photo)
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: New York, 1980. Staplebound. [24p.], punk fanzine in very good condition. Quintessential and ingenious cut and paste layouts in this seminal NY punk fanzine. Single reviews of Tubeway Army, Flying Lizards, among much more.

10 Quick Ways to Analyze Children's Books for Racism and Sexism

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Title: 10 Quick Ways to Analyze Children's Books for Racism and Sexism
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Sacramento, CA: California State Department of Education, 1988. Pamphlet. Six panel brochure folded to 3.5x8.5 inches with introductory paragraph followed by 10 ways to analyze books, very good. Adapted from the original brochure published by the Council on Interracial Books for Children.

Ken Davies: Retrospective '82 by -

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Title: Ken Davies: Retrospective '82
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Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Collectible; Fine
Description: Basking Ridge, NJ: Whistler's Daughter Gallery. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Fine. A crisp catalogue of the 1982 exhibition at the Whistler's Daughter Gallery in Basking Ridge, NJ. Clean and Near Fine in its beige, stapled wrappers.

Ordinances, Passed by the N. C. Constitutional Convention of 1875

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Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC

Title: Ordinances, Passed by the N. C. Constitutional Convention of 1875
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: octavo, 30 pages, ex-library, handstamp on titlepage, rebound in early 20th century plain cloth, red and black leather spine labels, shelf number on spine,else a good copy.

Lightyear 1976 Volume 6

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Title: Lightyear 1976 Volume 6
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Murfreesboro, TN: Middle Tennessee State University, 1976. First edition. Softcover. [20 pages.] Includes images by Henry Holmes Smith, Charles Cross, C. Callaway, Anna Grupke, Therold Linquist, Diana Hulick, Rod Cartier, John Myers, Donnie Tassey, Jon Nixon, Tony Sylvestro, Penny Porter, Peter Menzel, Kerry S. Henderson, LeBrone Roberts., and Jan Ellis. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon.

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