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ROS ROSARUM EX HORTO POETARUM: DEW OF THE EVER-LIVING ROSE GATHERED FROM THE POETS' GARDEN OF MANY LANDS BY "E. V. B.

ROS ROSARUM EX HORTO POETARUM: DEW OF THE EVER-LIVING ROSE GATHERED FROM THE POETS' GARDEN OF MANY LANDS BY "E. V. B. by (BINDINGS - 19TH CENTURY GILT AND INLAID). (EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). [BOYLE, ELEANOR VERE]

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Title
ROS ROSARUM EX HORTO POETARUM: DEW OF THE EVER-LIVING ROSE GATHERED FROM THE POETS' GARDEN OF MANY LANDS BY "E. V. B.
Author
(BINDINGS - 19TH CENTURY GILT AND INLAID). (EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). [BOYLE, ELEANOR VERE]
Seller
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description
London: [Printed at the Chiswick Press for] Elliot Stock, 1885. FIRST EDITION. 181 x 111 mm. (7 1/8 x 4 3/8"). xxvi, [ii], 274 [i.e. 276, including text leaf marked as pp. 223*-224*], [2] pp. ANIMATED CONTEMPORARY OLIVE BROWN MOROCCO, ELABORATELY GILT AND INLAID, covers with two climbing roses with 70 gilt and inlaid blossoms of wine red or salmon pink morocco and dozens of tiny heart-shaped leaves rising from the lower corners and winding up the sides before curving toward the center of the board in a heart shape, the branches on a pointillé ground accented with tiny droplets, upper cover with monogram of Eleanor Vere Boyle, raised bands, spine panels with rose branch featuring three inlaid blooms on a pointillé ground, gilt lettering, wide turn-ins with gilt rose sprays at corners, yellow watered silk endleaves, top edge gilt. With original front wrapper bound in at rear. (Front joint replaced with great skill.) With floral vignettes on title and half title, decorative headpieces and initials, and 11 full-page wood engravings by Boyle, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 28 engravings by Eisen, Mariller, Gravelot, and many others. Spine lightly sunned to a hazel brown, some extra-illustrations a little foxed, occasional light to moderate offsetting from plates, but the contents in excellent condition, clean and bright throughout, and the binding with only the most negligible signs of wear. The subject here is roses--on the extremely charming and exuberant binding, in the text, and in the illustrations. They were the favorite flower of author and illustrator Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825-1916), who planted them on a large scale in her garden at Huntercombe Manor. The popular illustrator of 14 children's books, Boyle used most of her income to support charitable works in the parish where her husband was vicar. In her 50s, she turned from illustrating to writing, focusing primarily on nature and gardens as her subjects. Here, she has collected English poems as well as translations in English of excerpts from poems in Greek, Latin, Persian, Italian, and French, all of them celebrating the rose. Her illustrations show either close-ups of a flower or an adorable cupid, accompanied by the flower of Venus. The press work in the present volume is first rate, as one expects from the Chiswick Press, and the binding is a riot of floral glimmering. Although the binding is unsigned, the animated, unconventional design is reminiscent of the work of the Guild of Women Binders, while the execution is of exceptional quality, equal to the productions by leading London workshops like Riviere and Zaehnsdorf..
From the Earth to the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon by VERNE, Jules

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Title
From the Earth to the Moon
Author
VERNE, Jules
Seller
David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1874. First Obtainable American Edition - Verne's 'From the Earth to the Moon and A Trip Round It' VERNE, Jules. From the Earth to the Moon. Direct in Ninety-Seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: And A Trip Round It. Translated from the French by Louis Mercier... and Eleanor E. King. With eighty full page illustrations. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 1874. First American illustrated edition, and the first obtainable American edition of one of Verne's most celebrated works, combining De la Terre à la Lune (1865) and its sequel Autour de la Lune (1870). Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 1/8 in.; 197 x 130 mm). viii, [1]-323, [1, blank] pp., plus 4 pp. publisher's advertisements. With 80 inserted plates by Bayard, de Montaut, and de Neuville (including the frontispiece with tissue guard). Verso of title page with ad for single Verne title: "A Journey to the Centre of the Earth" priced at $2.00. Light stain in blank inner margin of pp. 40/41 caused by small strip of brown paper. Publisher's beveled-edge, horizontally-ribbed red-orange cloth, front cover and spine richly decorated and lettered in gilt and black, brown coated endpapers. George W. Alexander, New York, binder's ticket on rear paste-down. Contemporary pencil inscription dated "Jan 1 1874" on recto of front blank. Very light wear at spine tips (three tiny tears at crown), otherwise an excellent, near fine copy. A lovely survival of a major Verne title in striking American trade cloth. In addition to its importance as a landmark of nineteenth-century science fiction, the narrative contains extraordinary anticipations of later spaceflight, including uncanny parallels to the Apollo program. The Scribner, Armstrong edition is the first illustrated American edition and the first obtainable in commerce, the true first (Newark Printing and Publishing Company, 1869, in wrappers) surviving in only one known copy (Library of Congress). This translation by Mercier and King, originally prepared for Sampson Low in London, was slightly revised for American publication. In From the Earth to the Moon... and A trip Round It, Jules Verne imagines the bold scheme of the Baltimore Gun Club to launch a projectile to the moon. Led by the visionary Impey Barbicane, the club constructs a massive space gun in Florida and recruits adventurous companions - Captain Nicholl and the French traveler Michel Ardan - for the unprecedented voyage. The narrative blends scientific speculation with high-spirited adventure, dramatizing the technical challenges of space travel while satirizing post-Civil War American enthusiasm for grandiose engineering. Verne's imaginative leap, from orbital mechanics to the choice of Florida as the launch site, anticipated with uncanny accuracy many aspects of twentieth-century space exploration, making these works cornerstones of early science fiction. References: Edwards 3 & 7; Gondolo della Riva 10 & 14; Michaluk V003 & V007; Myers 26.
[Handsome Gouache Watercolor of Steamboats on the Mississippi River at St. Louis]

[Handsome Gouache Watercolor of Steamboats on the Mississippi River at St. Louis] by [Missouri]. Turner, Ross Sterling

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[Handsome Gouache Watercolor of Steamboats on the Mississippi River at St. Louis]
Author
[Missouri]. Turner, Ross Sterling
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
[St. Louis], 1891. Very good.. Watercolor, 7.25 x 10 inches. Matted and framed in an early walnut frame with gilt accents. Contemporary notation on verso of image, "H.P. Wicker" of Boston. Image lightly but evenly toned. A charming, impressionistic watercolor scene of paddlewheel steamers on the Mississippi River at St. Louis, painted in 1891. The foreground shows a long steam barge with a paddlewheel peeking up in the center. Several gangways connect the barge to the shore, with the hint of several figures on shore near the boat. A second steamer plies the river in the middleground, while the outline of the city looms in the background. The artist, Ross S. Turner (1847-1915) was a noted teacher and painter of watercolors, particularly of landscapes and marine scenes such as the present work. Based in the Boston area, he traveled widely in search of motifs and inspiration, painting extensively in Bermuda and the Caribbean, as well as Mexico and Central America, where he spent time in coastal areas capturing the spirit of the seaside communities he visited. He was a member of numerous important art associations including the American Watercolor Society, and he exhibited at a wide range of institutions and exhibitions including the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the National Academy of Design in New York City, and the Art Institute of Chicago. His work is represented in a number of important collections such as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian, and the Denver Art Museum.
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HENRY MOORE: SCULPTURE AND DRAWINGS 1921-1986 (COMPLETE SET IN SIX VOLUMES) by Various

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HENRY MOORE: SCULPTURE AND DRAWINGS 1921-1986 (COMPLETE SET IN SIX VOLUMES)
Author
Various
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Commonwealth Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
George Wittenborn / Lund Humphries / Zwemmer, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good. Mixed six volume set. 4to. Cloth. Volume 1, SCULPTURE AND DRAWINGS 1921-48, 1968 revised fourth edition Wittenborn printing. Jacket with slight chipping to head and heel of spine and corners, and some light rubbing to edges. Volume 2, SCULPTURE & DRAWINGS 1949-1954, 1968 Wittenborn printing. Jacket with wrinkling and slight chipping to head and heel of spine, and light soiling. Boards with light wear to edges. Volume 3, SCULPTURE 1955-64, 1965 Lund Humphries first edition. Small closed tear to jacket at head of spine, light shelfwear. Volume 4, SCULPTURE 1964-73, 1977 Lund Humphries first edition. Jacket with a quarter-inch chip at head of spine, repaired with clear plastic tape, and lightly sun-faded at spine. Light rubbing to board edges. Volume 5, SCULPTURE 1974-80, 1983 Lund Humphries first edition. Light sunning to jacket at spine and edges. Volume 6, SCULPTURE 1980-86, 1999 Lund Humprhries revised edition. Superficial shelfwear. All volumes extensively illustrated in b/w. Very good in very good jackets with faults as noted.
Place: America (A Theatre Piece) [Cover title]

Place: America (A Theatre Piece) [Cover title] by Richardson, Thomas

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Title
Place: America (A Theatre Piece) [Cover title]
Author
Richardson, Thomas
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Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition
very good
Description
New York: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1940. very good. 7¾” x 5 5/8”. Stapled self-wrappers. Pp. 52. Very good: both wraps with a moderate corner dogear and some faint soiling, penciled notation to top edge of front; two leaves with a mild dogear, else internally fresh. This is a complex and moving theatrical work based on the history of the NAACP. It was written by an African American playwright and community theater organizer, Thomas Richardson, with an informative foreword by noted Black professor, poet and activist Sterling A. Brown. A professor of African American literature and folklore at Howard for 40 years (and visiting lecturer at myriad institutions), Sterling A. Brown taught the likes of Toni Morrison, Stokely Carmichael and Amiri Baraka. He wrote poetry chronicling the lives of the poor and the enslaved, served on the advisory board of the NAACP and was named the first Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia in 1984. In this book's foreword, he introduced Thomas Richardson as a man of “zest and ambition” who had co-founded Washington, D.C.'s Negro Repertory Players and organized the Negro Community Theatre of Richmond, Virginia: “In spite of disappointments here and there, he has remained dedicated to his task: to bring to American Negroes what they will recognize as a picture of their lives . . . to develop community theatres where producing, acting and playwriting talent will be nurtured, and where Negro audiences, so long pushed away, may partake in some measure at least of the great gifts of the theatre.” From Richardson's obituary we learned that later, as “international vice president” of the United Federal Workers of America, he was “instrumental in having the Federal Bureau of Printing and Engraving hire its first Negro apprentice.” He was active in desegregation efforts and with the American Peace Crusade, founded a public relations agency in New York and was named one of Ebony magazine's “men of distinction.” He died in 1963. Both men described the complexity of this play in the book. Brown wrote that it made use of the “multi-scene form, derived from the technique of the Living Newspaper of the Federal Theatre Project.” Richardson reasoned that “if an adequate job was to be done” in dramatizing “the development of such a large and vital organization” as the NAACP, then “the usual boundaries of play construction must be extended.” He deemed the work a “Theatre Piece” and gave detailed production notes. Included in the cast of characters were an African American “citizen,” “college graduate,” mother and child, “teacher,” “singer” and “Negro sharecroppers,” along with a plantation owner, senators and Supreme Court justices, William English Walling and W.E.B. Du Bois. The time was set as “A slice of the past, a bit of the present, and a glimpse of the future,” in “Place: America.” The play was first staged in 1939 at the 30th annual NAACP conference in Richmond, performed by the Negro Community Theatre under Richardson's direction. This book cites a copyright date of 1940 and notes instructions and royalty charges for future reproductions. An important work in Black theater history, rich with context from noted African American leaders. OCLC shows eleven holdings over two entries, plus an entry with five holdings for a 1939 printing.
Angel Books Series: Nos. 1 - 10 (box set) (complete)

Angel Books Series: Nos. 1 - 10 (box set) (complete) by ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING FOR JAPANESE CHILDREN USING JAPANESE FOLKTALES. Matsumoto, Toru and Ikuo Kubota

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Angel Books Series: Nos. 1 - 10 (box set) (complete)
Author
ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING FOR JAPANESE CHILDREN USING JAPANESE FOLKTALES. Matsumoto, Toru and Ikuo Kubota
Seller
Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare (United States)
Description
Ten unpaginated children's books [16 pp. each] printed in color on glossy boards, illus., with texts in English and a flexi disk sound recording (providing English narration.) Box set includes promotional flyer and the Angel Books Guide Book with simultaneous English-Japanese dual translations and vocabulary lessons (also illus.) Minor spotting throughout with a slight odor of basement storage. Illus. self wrappers, books with in clear vinyl protective covers, housed in bright blue case printed with the title series. [1223] Ten-book series of traditional Japanese folktales with texts in English and a flexi disk sound recording (narrated in English) devised as tools for teaching young Japanese children the foreign language using familiar stories. Pictures by a who's-who of Japanese children's book illustrators, including Hiroshi Tada, Shinta Cho. Makoto Wada, and Kuniharu Naruse. Titles in the series are as follows: 01. Hanasaka Jijii (The Old Man Who Made Cherry Blossoms Bloom) 02. Momotaro (The Peach Boy) 03. Tengu To Oh-gi (Long-nosed Goblin and the Magic Fan) 04. Shitakiri Suzume (The Sparrow Who Got Her Tongue Cut Off) 05. Saru Kani Gassen (The Monkey and the Crab) 06. Issun Boshi (The Inchling Story) 07. Bunbuku Chagama (Bunbuku The Tea Kettle) 08. Inaba No Shirousagi (The White Rabbit of Inaba) 09. Nagai Hana No Tengu (Long-nosed Goblins) 10. Urashima Taro (the Fisherman)
A Series of Fourteen Photographs Taken in 1968, Likely in San Francisco

A Series of Fourteen Photographs Taken in 1968, Likely in San Francisco by [New Left] [San Francisco?] J.P., Photographer

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Title
A Series of Fourteen Photographs Taken in 1968, Likely in San Francisco
Author
[New Left] [San Francisco?] J.P., Photographer
Seller
Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
San Francisco, 1968. Fourteen silver gelatin prints measuring 8 x 10 to 6 x 8 inches, mounted on grey 20 x 16 inch artist’s board. All initialed “J.P. / 68” on board. Some wear to boards, photographs generally fine with fine contrast. Near Fine. An evocative series of portraits likely taken in San Francisco in 1968. The photographer is unknown - possibly a student? - but is likely a peer of the subjects, as evident from the relaxed and candid nature of most of the portraits. One sign in the background appears to be the Alamo theatre, and the general scenery in the background suggests San Francisco as well. The zeitgeist of the time is conveyed in spades, with a more humane and less fiery portrayal than is often seen in portraiture of the New Left.
Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter; Foreword by President Jimmy Carter

Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter; Foreword by President Jimmy Carter by Carter, Jeff [Carter, Jimmy]

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Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter; Foreword by President Jimmy Carter
Author
Carter, Jeff [Carter, Jimmy]
Seller
The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
ISBN
9780786468102
Condition
Fine
Description
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2012. First Edition. Illustrated Hardcover. Fine. Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter by Jeff Carter, signed by President Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter, and their sons, Jeff Carter and Chip Carter.. Octavo, 216pp. Glossy illustrated hardcover, title printed on spine and front cover. No additional printings mentioned on copyright page. This copy appears unread, in fine condition. The author of this book, Jeff Carter, is the third son of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. This copy is signed by President Jimmy Carter with a full signature, First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Chip Carter and the author, Jeff Carter. A scarce work.
Odes and Sonnets

Odes and Sonnets by Smith, Clark Ashton

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Odes and Sonnets
Author
Smith, Clark Ashton
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John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description
1918. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1918. Slim 4to. 30 pages. Blue-grey boards, tan muslin backstrip with printed paper label. Backstrip label browned, light diagonal mark on upper board, spotting to lower board, contents clean and bright. Very good copy of a fragile book, hard to find in acceptable condition. Bookplate of Rosa Walter Meertief. § First edition, copy #242 of 300 copies, with a preface by George Sterling. The very scarce second book of the fascinating writer and artist Clark Ashton Smith, friend of H.P. Lovecraft and a key contributor to the horror fiction pulp magazine Weird Tales. Of him, Lovecraft wrote "in sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Clark Ashton Smith is perhaps unexcelled." His Cthulhu Mythos stories are canonical. And yet before all this, Smith wrote traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne and was praised by George Stirling as a ranking member of the West Coast Romantics including Joaquin Miller, Sterling, and Nora May French. Printed by Taylor & Taylor of San Francisco, this book was an early publication of the Book Club of California and contains only hints of the horror to come. Rosa Walter (Meertief) was a member of the Jewish aristocracy of San Francisco.
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Elements de la Theorie des Probabilites: Probabilites Discontinues, Probabilites Continues, Probabilites des Causes by Borel, Emile

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Elements de la Theorie des Probabilites: Probabilites Discontinues, Probabilites Continues, Probabilites des Causes
Author
Borel, Emile
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
Paris: Librairie Scientifique A. Hermann & Fils, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good+. Marbled paper over boards, backed in red morocco, gilt-stamped lettering and handwritten library number on spine; original printed wraps bound in; pp. vii, [1], 191, [1]. Boards and spine a little rubbed and scuffed; some discreet ex-library markings, otherwise internally clean. A rare original edition.
Evolution, and the Cost of the Human, An Address (Originally prepared for the Civic League of New Orleans) Giving a Sketch of the Development of the Earth from Chaos to Yesterday.

Evolution, and the Cost of the Human, An Address (Originally prepared for the Civic League of New Orleans) Giving a Sketch of the Development of the Earth from Chaos to Yesterday. by Stephenson, Eli Frank

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Title
Evolution, and the Cost of the Human, An Address (Originally prepared for the Civic League of New Orleans) Giving a Sketch of the Development of the Earth from Chaos to Yesterday.
Author
Stephenson, Eli Frank
Seller
Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description
Saint Louis: the author", Labor Publishing Co., 1911. First edition. RARE LITTLE TREATISE ON HUMAN EVOLUTION BY AN OBSCURE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER--INSCRIBED BY HIM. 8 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 leather binging, marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt title, bookplate of R. Burdette Inman on front paste-down, and his stamp "RB Inman, Safety Engineer" on title page. Long ink inscription across preface, "Burdette: My compliments to my one best friend at New Orleans, & whose ... help I miss a lot--Many thanks for your timelss efforts which enhanced my knowledge of Chemistry and Geology. Eli Frank Stephenson, 1911," 90 pp. Light wear to cover edges, light browning to pages, very good in custom archival mylar cover. ELI FRANK STEPHENSON self-published this rare little treatise 52 years after Darwin's Origin of Species. The preface begins with, "One dark and stormy night, in the boarding-house of a saw-mill town on Pearl River, Mississippi, a dozen men--sawyers [sic], engineers, dry-kiln men, teamsters--were gathered round a roaring fire of fat-pine knots in the big fire-place, bent on passing away the evening as comfortably as they could." There are only 6 copies of the book in world libraries (the Harvard copy digitized online). It is a philosophical treatise on the continuing evolution of man and the importance of science in understanding a hopeful future for humanity. There is little historical information about the author, but in the addendum at the end of the book, he cites Edward Clodd's Primer of Evolution (New York, Longman, 1895), and advises his readers "to procure a copy and study it well." EDWARD CLODD (1840 - 1930) was an English banker, writer and anthropologist who cultivated a wide circle of literary and scientific friends, who periodically met at his home at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. An early follower of Darwin, he had personal acquaintance with Thomas Huxley and Herbert Spencer. He wrote many popular books on evolutionary science.
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A Letter to Dr. Thomas P Jones, Editor of the Franklin Journal by Godman, J D - NATURAL HISTORY

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A Letter to Dr. Thomas P Jones, Editor of the Franklin Journal
Author
Godman, J D - NATURAL HISTORY
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
Philadelphia: For the Author, 1826. First Edition.. Disbound.. Very good.. 8vo. Godman was the author of the three volume American Natural History that started to be published in 1826. This was an original treatise and a valuable contribution to science at the time. The pamphlet offered here is a response to criticism and accusation of plagiarism by Richard Harlan. DAB VII, 350 -`51; Tucher #824. S & S #24699.
MOTORCYCLES

MOTORCYCLES by Hatch, Darwin S.; Connell, Herbert L.

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MOTORCYCLES
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Hatch, Darwin S.; Connell, Herbert L.
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Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good plus.
Description
Chicago: American School of Correspondence, 1918. Very good plus.. First printing of this distance-learning instructional manual for the self-taught motorcycle enthusiast, from the early days when the two-wheeled motor vehicle first became widely popular for pleasure cruising, deliveries, and machine-gun-fitted wartime reconnaissance missions. MOTORCYCLES covers the early history of motorcycles from the early models of Daimler and Karl Benz through the modern innovations of the Harley-Davidson, Indian, Thor, Excelsior, and Dayton companies, with illustrated technical discussions of their mechanisms and operations. 8'' x 5.25''. Original red and black cloth. Black and white illustrations. 74, [4] pages. Light edgewear, spine faintly sunned. Small 1'' closed tear to front hinge. Interior clean.
Igbo Philosophy, Volume One (General Introduction to the Background and Philosophy of the Igbo People) [All Published?]

Igbo Philosophy, Volume One (General Introduction to the Background and Philosophy of the Igbo People) [All Published?] by IGBO PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION

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Igbo Philosophy, Volume One (General Introduction to the Background and Philosophy of the Igbo People) [All Published?]
Author
IGBO PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
[Enugu, Nigeria: Igbo Philosophical Association, 1971]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in green and red; 35pp. Light toning to wrapper extremities and textblock, else Very Good or better. Introductory number of a projected journal on Igbo culture and philosophy, though we have found no evidence that any other issues were every published.
Madeira & Toasts for Basil Bunting's 75th Birthday

Madeira & Toasts for Basil Bunting's 75th Birthday by WILLIAMS, Jonathan (editor); Russell Banks, Hayden Carruth, and Robert Creeley (et al) (contributors)

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Madeira & Toasts for Basil Bunting's 75th Birthday
Author
WILLIAMS, Jonathan (editor); Russell Banks, Hayden Carruth, and Robert Creeley (et al) (contributors)
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Highlands, North Carolina: The Jargon Society, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo (23cm); pictorial paper wrappers; [n.p.]; fold-out illustrated title page, colorful fold-out illustration, black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light shelf-wear with trace blue off-setting to rear wrapper; Very Good. Collection of verse and artwork includes contributions by Richard Hamilton, Christopher Middleton, and Jerome Rothenberg. [87520].
Esperanto in the School

Esperanto in the School by [AUXILIARY LANGUAGES] THE BRITISH ESPERANTO ASS'N

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Esperanto in the School
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[AUXILIARY LANGUAGES] THE BRITISH ESPERANTO ASS'N
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Lawrence: British Esperanto Association, N.d. [ca 1940]. Bifolium leaflet. Octavo (22cm); printed self-wrappers; (4pp). Mild edge-creasing; Very Good. Advocates the teaching of Esperanto from an early age, noting its pedagogical benefits including ease of acquirement, simplifying the teaching of grammar, training the logical faculty, broadening students' world outlook, etc.
THE EVE OF SAINT VENUS

THE EVE OF SAINT VENUS by Burgess, Anthony

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THE EVE OF SAINT VENUS
Author
Burgess, Anthony
Seller
Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780393086027
Condition
Very Good
Description
NY: W.W.Norton, 1970. First US edition, second printing. Inscribed by Burgess on the title page. "To John Anthony Burgess." Illustrated by Edward Pacram. Foreword for this edition by Burgess. Owner plate on front free endpage; faint beginning foxing on the topedge; dustjacket with light rubbing, slight edgewear, mostly at the corners and spine ends and a sticker shadow on the front panel. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Written in 1950 (Burgess writes, "I think"), this novella/farce was not published until 1964 in the UK and then six years later in the US.. Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Edward Pagram. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
URGENT COPY. LITERARY STUDIES

URGENT COPY. LITERARY STUDIES by Burgess, Anthony

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URGENT COPY. LITERARY STUDIES
Author
Burgess, Anthony
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Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
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Near Fine
Description
NY: W.W.Norton, 1969. First US edition, first prnt. 8vo. Spine cloth ends lightly crimped; dustjacket with front flap corners clipped, edgewear and chipping at spine ends. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. The image is of the actual book described and not a stock photo.
Our House

Our House by Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd

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Title
Our House
Author
Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd
Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Horizon Press, Inc, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 308 pp. Original red cloth lettered in gilt. A Fine copy in a price-clipped, Near Fine dust jacket with a small edge nick. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's third and final wife wrote this memoir.
The Barracks Thief
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The Barracks Thief by Wolff, Tobias

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The Barracks Thief
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Wolff, Tobias
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Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780880010351
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Ecco Press, 1984. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. His 2nd book, a Vietnam War novel. Near Fine, small bump top edge front board and tiny rub bottom edge, in a Near Fine dustjacket, very small rubs at tips of flaps..
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A Literary Book of Days: American Voices - 1st Edition/1st Printing

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A Literary Book of Days: American Voices - 1st Edition/1st Printing
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Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN
9780876636992
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Library of Congress/Phaidon Universe. Fine. 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0876636997 . A first Printing of the First Edition in Fine condition that has mild wrinkling to the rear spine; 8vo .
The Structure of Production

The Structure of Production by Mark Skousen

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Title
The Structure of Production
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Mark Skousen
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780814778951
Condition
Near Fine
Description
First Edition; A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the board and panel edges and a mild fading to the spine. Not remaindered and not ex-library; will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.
Art of Ancient Italy, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans

Art of Ancient Italy, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans

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Art of Ancient Italy, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1970. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with light scuffing along the spine edges, in wrappers.
SAMURAI PRESS, 1906-1909, A BIBLIOGRAPHY.|THE

SAMURAI PRESS, 1906-1909, A BIBLIOGRAPHY.|THE by Woolmer, J. Howard

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SAMURAI PRESS, 1906-1909, A BIBLIOGRAPHY.|THE
Author
Woolmer, J. Howard
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Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
Revere, PA: Woolmer - Brotherson Ltd, 1986. cloth, dust jacket. Samurai Press. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xix, 70 pages. First edition. Annotated bibliography of this 20th century British publisher founded by Maurice Browne with others. Each booklet has the title page illustrated. Presentation from the author on free endpaper.
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Theories of the Symbol. Translated by Catherine Porter by Todorov, Tzvetan

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Theories of the Symbol. Translated by Catherine Porter
Author
Todorov, Tzvetan
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Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, [1982] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Small stain from pressure-sensitive label on front free endpaper. Front flap of d.j. lightly worn at top. Near fine in very good d.j.
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The History of Psychiatry: An Evaluation of Psychiatric Thought and Practice from Prehistoric Times to the Present by ALEXANDER, Franz G. MD & SELESNICK, Sheldon T. MD

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The History of Psychiatry: An Evaluation of Psychiatric Thought and Practice from Prehistoric Times to the Present
Author
ALEXANDER, Franz G. MD & SELESNICK, Sheldon T. MD
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
very good
Description
New York: Harper, 1966. First. hardcover. very good/very good. Illustrations. 471pp. Thick 8vo, black cloth, price-clipped d.w. New York: Harper & Row, (1966). First Edition. Very good.
Bluebeard
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Bluebeard by Vonnegut, Kurt

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Title
Bluebeard
Author
Vonnegut, Kurt
Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780385333511
Condition
NEW
Description
New York: Dial Press Trade Paperbacks, 2011. Later Printing. Paperback. NEW. 318pp. Octavo. Illustrated wraps. "Kurt Vonnegut is a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist" with Cat's Cradle in 1963." Illustrated throughout by Vonnegut. Bluebeard ranks with Vonnegut's most imaginative works. Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who , at seventy-one, wants to be left alone at his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers him into telling his life story- and Vonnegut tells us the plain, heart-hammering truth about man's careless fancy to create or destroy what he loves.
Sword Over Richmond: An Eyewitness History of McClellan's Peninsula Campaign

Sword Over Richmond: An Eyewitness History of McClellan's Peninsula Campaign by Wheeler, Richard

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Sword Over Richmond: An Eyewitness History of McClellan's Peninsula Campaign
Author
Wheeler, Richard
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN
9780517680216
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: The Fairfax Press, 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x7x1. First edition. Jacket spine a bit faded. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1989 Hard Cover. viii, 371 pp. "Told through the words of participants and observers, both military and civilian, this book is an account of the events that followed George B. McClellan's appointment as commander of the Army of the Potomac, and his controversial Peninsula Campaign." Black and white illustrations and maps included.

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