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Summer Balloons by PADGETT, Ron

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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] 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] 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].

L'Art de la reliure by BRUEL, André

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Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

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 by Cederlund, Carl Olof

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Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co.

Title: 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 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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