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CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF by Williams, Tennessee

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$7,500.00
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Seller: Type Punch Matrix
Title
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
Author
Williams, Tennessee
Seller
Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Near fine in a near fine jacket.
Description
New York: New Directions Books, 1955. First printing. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Signed first edition of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning third play, adapted into the 1958 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman. Tangled in webs of deceit woven for personal safety and personal gain, the characters of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF struggle to come to terms with the truth throughout the play. The 1958 film added another layer to the obfuscation of truth at the heart of the play by removing references Brick's homosexual desires in response to the Hays Code. A beautiful copy. 8'' x 5.25''. Original brown cloth binding with black spine lettering. Original unclipped ($3.00) color pictorial dust jacket, designed by Alvin Lustig. Illustrated with full-page black-and-white plate before "Notes for the Designer." NYT not credited on verso of title page and all other points. xiv, 198 pages. Signed by Williams on the front free endpaper. Trace rubbing to jacket. Top edge of book a little dusty. Else bright and sharp.
A Man of the People [Signed]

A Man of the People [Signed] by Chinua Achebe

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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Title
A Man of the People [Signed]
Author
Chinua Achebe
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good +
Description
New York: The John Day Company, 1966. Good +/Very Good. New York: The John Day Company, 1966. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm); 167pp. Publisher’s dust jacket with $3.95 price intact; boards bound in yellow cloth with black stamping to spine. Dust jacket bumped at spine ends and corners; a few superficial scratches throughout. Jacket rear panel and flaps lightly toned. Boards bumped at spine ends and corners; a few instances of discoloration due to previous presence of tape. Binding sound. Textblock and endsheets toned; interior pages clean. Ex-library with expected markings, including sticker at jacket spine, glue and paper remnants at final free endsheet, and stamp at rear. Nevertheless a Good or better, externally presentable copy of Achebe’s fourth novel. Signed by the author without inscription at full title page.
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Sechs Vorträge über das thermodynamische Potential und seine Anwendungen auf chemische und physikalische Gleichgewichtsprobleme eingeleitet durch zwei Vorträge über nichtverdünnte Lösungen und über den Osmotischen Druck by VAN LAAR, J.J.

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
Sechs Vorträge über das thermodynamische Potential und seine Anwendungen auf chemische und physikalische Gleichgewichtsprobleme eingeleitet durch zwei Vorträge über nichtverdünnte Lösungen und über den Osmotischen Druck
Author
VAN LAAR, J.J.
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und sohn, 1906. FIRST EDITION. Half-morocco over marbled boards, title in gilt on spine. An excellent copy from the Mount Wilson Observatory, with a presentation bookplate to the Observatory by the Dutch astronomer Adriaan van Maanen (1884-1946), and with his signature dated 1906 on the half-title. First edition of this important work in thermodynamics and chemistry.
[Metal card]: The Veterans of Foreign Wars National Encampment, Philadelphia

[Metal card]: The Veterans of Foreign Wars National Encampment, Philadelphia

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Title
[Metal card]: The Veterans of Foreign Wars National Encampment, Philadelphia
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Philadelphia, 1941. Unbound. Near Fine. Metal card. Measuring 3¾" x 2¼". A few light surface scratches and scuffs, near fine overall. A card presented to Walter E. Alessandroni, at The Veterans of Foreign Wars National Encampment in Philadelphia, August 24-30th, 1941. This is likely Pennsylvania attorney general Walter Edwin Alessandroni, who also held positions as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, as well as executive director of the Philadelphia Housing Authority. He passed away in an airplane crash in 1966. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II.
Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays of Louis Zukofsky

Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays of Louis Zukofsky by ZUKOFSKY, Louis

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Title
Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays of Louis Zukofsky
Author
ZUKOFSKY, Louis
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
London: Rapp & Caroll, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 158, [2]pp. Poet Daniel Hoffman's copy with his name penned on front fly, spine mildly cocked, near fine in a very good lightly stained and age-toned dust jacket.
Lectures on Agriculture Chemistry and Geology

Lectures on Agriculture Chemistry and Geology by [Agriculture] [Chemistry] Johnston, Jas. F. W.

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Seller: Americana Books ABAA
Title
Lectures on Agriculture Chemistry and Geology
Author
[Agriculture] [Chemistry] Johnston, Jas. F. W.
Seller
Americana Books ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fair
Description
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Octavo. [1], [8] pages publisher advertisements, iv, 5-255 pages, 40 page appendix, [8] pages publisher advertisements. Green cloth hardcover with blind stamped designs on boards. Gilt stamped title on spine. Small tear to cloth upper spine. Light stains on the front cover. Cloth spine faded to brown. Light to moderate toning and foxing to pages. Inscription written on the right front flyleaf reads "Eugene Lynch from his friend [initials] J.L.C.? Balt. 1842." "Eugene Lynch ??? (not legible) 1842" inscription in old pen on the title page. A faint pencil inscription written top of the title page "From ??? Colburn 174 Balt. St." This copy is possible signed by the author. Found inside the book is a 1981 typed letter by the previous owner thanking a friend? for finding "a signed copy no less..." of this work.
Early Harvest
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Early Harvest by Greg Bear

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Title
Early Harvest
Author
Greg Bear
Seller
Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780915368365
Condition
Fine
Description
Limited Numbered Edition of which this is #332; a fine book in near fine dust jacket that shows some rubbing to the spine ends and some other general minor shelf wear; a clean, bright, tight copy housed in a fresh mylar cover.