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City of Night by Rechy, John

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Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller

Title: City of Night
Author: Rechy, John
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1963. New York: Grove Press, 1963. 8vo, 410 pp. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in silver on backstrip, blue top-stain, in original unclipped ($5.95) photo-illustrated dust-jacket. Light marks to the top stain, light toning and edgewear to the jacket, closed tear in center of the back panel and short split in front flap hinge repaired with tape to verso. Overall a very good copy without any marks of former ownership. § First edition, first printing, of Rechy's first novel, signed by him on the title page. Rechy's influential and best-selling semi-autobiographical account of a gay hustler crossing the country from New York to Los Angeles, often included on lists of the most frequently banned books in America. In 1997 Rechy was the first novelist to receive the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award.

Wir Leben Zwischen Wänden by Rasch Tapeten

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Title: Wir Leben Zwischen Wänden
Author: Rasch Tapeten
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1966. Bramsche: Rasch Tapeten, 1966-67. 8vo., [iv], 25 full-page screen-printed wallpaper samples, some embossed, with two pages of text introducing the collections and 11 color plates with text printed to either recto or verso. Pictorial paper wrappers with titling printed in black. A very good copy. § Rasch wallpaper collaborated with the Bauhaus in the 1930s, and were the first to bring their wallpaper designs to the market. This collection features four Bauhaus papers, a selection of "Artistic" wallpapers, and washable papers.

Palma coccifera triangula, Calappa, Coccus-N�ssba�m. by WEINMANN Johann Wilhelm

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Title: Palma coccifera triangula, Calappa, Coccus-N�ssba�m.
Author: WEINMANN Johann Wilhelm
Seller: Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Description: COCONUT Folio (38.9 x 23.1 cm the sheet; 33.1 x 21.2.cm the platemark), (1) copperplate engraving numbered 782 in the plate, in color 'mock mezzotint' with contemporary handcolor. Excellent. Engraving of the coconut plant from Johann Wilhelm Weinmann's Phytanthoza Iconographia, "the first botanical book to use color printed mezzotint successfully" (Hunt). Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) was a German botanist and apothecary in Regensburg, and his monumental series represents the most innovative achievement in botanical illustration of its time. "The mezzotint process used here had been invented by Johann Teyler in the Netherlands around 1688. As practiced there by Bartholomaus Seuter (1678-1754) and Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767), it was really a combination of etching and mezzotint, which made possible delicate lines and a very fine grain. The addition of hand-tinting brought about unusual and subtle effects" (Hunt). * Dunthorne 327; Hunt 494; Nissen 2126; Sitwell, Great Flower Books, 1700-1900, p. 80.

Respectfully Dedicated to All Who Want The Fashions. [Lithographic Advertisement for Women’s Hats Accompanying Sheet Music for J.B. Westendorf’s Come One, Come All, or, A Plea from your Milliner.] by [Women] [Advertising] [Fashion] [Lithography] Taylor, Thomas & Co.; Westendorf, J.B.

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Title: Respectfully Dedicated to All Who Want The Fashions. [Lithographic Advertisement for Women’s Hats Accompanying Sheet Music for J.B. Westendorf’s Come One, Come All, or, A Plea from your Milliner.]
Author: [Women] [Advertising] [Fashion] [Lithography] Taylor, Thomas & Co.; Westendorf, J.B.
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Chicago: J.B. Westendorf, 1877. Folio, 10 ½ x 14 inches, 6 pp. Very Good.

Texas Oil Industry Disaster Photograph Archive Documenting Refinery Explosions, Offshore Platform Accidents, and Mid Century Petroleum Labor, 1938-1979 by Texas

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Title: Texas Oil Industry Disaster Photograph Archive Documenting Refinery Explosions, Offshore Platform Accidents, and Mid Century Petroleum Labor, 1938-1979
Author: Texas
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1930. Archive of press photographs documenting systems of petroleum extraction, offshore drilling, and industrial emergency response in Texas between 1938 and 1979. The material documents how oil companies, drilling crews, firefighters, and industrial workers operated within the high-risk infrastructure of the American petroleum industry through visual records of refinery explosions, well blowouts, offshore platform accidents, and active drilling operations. The photographs reveal the mechanisms of oil production and disaster response across inland fields and Gulf Coast offshore sites during a period when Texas oil played a central role in the expansion of American industrial power, military logistics, and global energy markets. Produced largely for the Houston Post, Houston Chronicle, Associated Press, and United Press International, the archive provides primary-source evidence for the study of industrial labor, workplace hazards, extractive infrastructure, and the environmental and human costs of mid-twentieth-century oil production. Collection consists of seven original black-and-white silver gelatin press photographs measuring approximately 10 x 8 inches. Several images document catastrophic oilfield fires and explosions associated with the East Texas oil boom and Gulf Coast petroleum industry. One aerial photograph dated July 28, 1956 depicts the aftermath of the Shamrock Oil & Gas Corporation explosion near Dumas, Texas, showing scorched circular storage fields, collapsed piping infrastructure, and thick smoke rising from burned refinery grounds. The attached caption notes that sixteen workers died and at least thirty were injured in the blast, with the resulting fireball reportedly visible from Amarillo forty miles away. Two Associated Press photographs dated January 1938 portray uncontrolled oil well fires in the Kilgore oil field during the height of the East Texas oil boom. One image shows flames reportedly reaching 150 feet above a wild well blowout while firefighters attempt unsuccessfully to suppress the fire with high-pressure water streams. Another photograph depicts silhouetted firefighters approaching the burning wellhead after temporarily suppressing the flames with chemicals in order to close a valve. Additional photographs document offshore drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico, including a United Press International image dated May 11, 1979 showing exhausted survivors of a collapsed offshore platform south of Galveston wrapped in towels while awaiting medical treatment; the accompanying caption notes that nine workers remained missing from the thirty-four-man crew. Another image dated September 15, 1956 depicts oilmen silhouetted atop an offshore drill rig approximately fifteen miles off the Texas coast while a helicopter approaches carrying replacement personnel. A June 1954 photograph from Brazoria County documents drilling operations at a depth of 9,544 feet as workers remove drill stems to change bits at the McGeary D.G. Company No. 1 Jamison Estate well. Additional images show derricks under construction, drilling fields crowded with infrastructure, and industrial crews working amid active extraction sites. Together, the photographs document the immense economic importance and physical danger of the Texas petroleum industry during the mid-twentieth century, when inland oil booms and offshore exploration transformed both regional landscapes and global energy systems. Particularly notable is the archive's sustained focus on labor and catastrophe, preserving visual evidence of the hazardous conditions faced by oilfield workers, firefighters, and offshore drilling crews operating under extreme pressure and technological risk. The images also illustrate the growing complexity of extraction systems as drilling operations expanded from rural inland fields to large-scale offshore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Minor editorial markings and light handling wear to versos with scattered creasing consistent with newsroom use; photographs remain sharp and well-preserved overall. Very good condition. A substantial documentary archive of industrial labor, extraction technology, and petroleum disasters in twentieth-century Texas oil history.

Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon. by ALDRIN, Buzz with ABRAHAM, Ken.

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Title: Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon.
Author: ALDRIN, Buzz with ABRAHAM, Ken.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Norwalk:: Easton Press,. 2009. Hardcover. Near Fine. Signed Collector's Edition. Octavo, fully bound in black leather with gilt lettering and design, color photograph on front board, raised bands along the spine, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, sewn-in ribbon bookmark. SIGNED by Buzz Aldrin. Publisher's "Certificate of Authenticity" laid in. Small, faint blemish to the gilt on the bottom edge, else fine.; 326 pages; Author . Signed by Author .

Uncle Tom's Cabin; With Twenty-seven Illustrations on Wood by George Cruikshank, Esq by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin; With Twenty-seven Illustrations on Wood by George Cruikshank, Esq
Author: Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: London: John Cassell, 1852. Early English Edition. Cloth. Very good. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in London in 1852, complete with twenty-seven illustrations by George Cruikshank. Known as the first Cruikshank edition.. Octavo, xxiii, [1], 391pp, [1]. Full blue cloth, ornate trim stamped in blind to covers. Title in gilt on spine. All edges gilt. Slight lean to text block, worn at corners, sunning to spine, spotting to covers. Front endpaper removed. Both hinges cracked, loose along top edge of front hinge. Internally clean. A very good example. Previous ownership bookplate affixed to front endpaper. Complete with twenty-seven full-page woodcuts by George Cruikshank, and a frontispiece portrait of Stowe. (BAL 19518) (Sabin 92470). The first English edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin was published by Clarke & Company in 1852. Provenance: This copy includes the bookplate of Henry E. Candler of Detroit, Michigan. Candler later donated his collection to The Detroit Public Library. The library held a special exhibition of his Harriet Beecher Stowe copies in 1952.

Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan by Sheridan, P.H.

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Title: Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan
Author: Sheridan, P.H.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good/Near Fine
Description: New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1888. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Shoulder Strap. First Edition. Two volumes, 4to.,v-xiii, 500pp. + v-xi, 486pp. Green cloth with gilt titles and illustrations on the front covers. Frontis portrait in each volume. Numerous illustrations and maps, some fold-out. Square, tight and clean throughout with strong joints, no foxing and little if any toning. There is a previous owner's signature and date that has been covered up with a marker on the front end-paper of each volume. Some fairly mild wear to spine ends and tips. Spotting to the cloth, mostly on volume II. A pleasing set. Not perfect, but solid and collectable and at a great price.

IOANNIS DE BVSSIERES BELLIIOCENSIS E SOCIETATE IESV. HISTORIAE FRANCICA. PARS TERTIA. A LVDOVICO XI. AD CAROLVM IX. (VOLUME THREE ONLY) by Jean de Bussieres

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Title: IOANNIS DE BVSSIERES BELLIIOCENSIS E SOCIETATE IESV. HISTORIAE FRANCICA. PARS TERTIA. A LVDOVICO XI. AD CAROLVM IX. (VOLUME THREE ONLY)
Author: Jean de Bussieres
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good binding
Description: Lvgdvni [Lyon]: Sumpt. Gvill Barbier , Ioan. Girin, & Franc. Comba, 1661. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. First Edition of Volume III only of Jean de Bussieres’ History of France. Covering the period from King Louis XI to King Charles IX. De Bussieres was a French Jesuit of the seventeenth century. Text in Latin. Title page device. Engraved frontispiece. Engraved headpieces, tailpieces, and initials. Remnants of a number label on the spine. Collates complete; [2], 558, [12] pp. Full vellum, with yapp edges, and a red leather label. Very Good. Very Good binding.

Report From Part Two [Signed and Inscribed] by Gwendolyn Brooks

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Title: Report From Part Two [Signed and Inscribed]
Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780883781623
Condition: Very Good +
Description: Chicago, IL: Third World Press, 1996. Very Good +. Chicago: Third World Press, 1996. First Edition, stated First Printing. Paperback issue. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's card wrappers; 170pp. Covers crisp with very light edgewear. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the author on half title with inscription "For Harold Mays / Sincerely, Gwendolyn Brooks, January 22, 1996." Harold Mays and his partner Harold Herman, an interracial gay couple together for 50+ years in Washington, D.C., were substantial collectors of African American, LGBTQ, and 20th century poetry, and for a while ran a shop called Two Harolds Antiques in Old Town Alexandria, VA.

BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE. The International Psycho-Analytical Library No. 4 by Freud, Sigmund

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Title: BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE. The International Psycho-Analytical Library No. 4
Author: Freud, Sigmund
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good++
Description: London: International Psycho-Analytical Press, 1922. Hard Cover. Very Good++. A Very Good++ hardback First British Edition First Printing in original green cloth binding with gilt lettering spine and front cover. No mention of the Hogarth Press on title page. Mild cover edge wear. 8vo. 90 pp.

[Cancelling License of Certain Food Commodities]. A Proclamation [by the President of the United States] [With] Ten other Food Related Proclamations by Wilson, Woodrow

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Title: [Cancelling License of Certain Food Commodities]. A Proclamation [by the President of the United States] [With] Ten other Food Related Proclamations
Author: Wilson, Woodrow
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Pin holes along inner margins else very good copies, mail fold, stamped by the Chief Clerk's office on various dates between Feb
Description: [Washington D.C.]: [U.S. Government Printing Office], 1920. First editions. Broadsides or self wrappers. Pin holes along inner margins else very good copies, mail fold, stamped by the Chief Clerk's office on various dates between Feb. 13, 1919 and Nov. 12, 1920.. 1 - 3 pp. each. 7 3/4 x 12 3/4 in. No. 1506-A (Jan. 7, 1919). Also: [Cancelling License of Certain Food Commodities]. No.1510 (Jan. 25, 1919). [Permitting the Use of Grain in the Manufacture of Non-Intoxicating Beverages] No. 1511 (Jan. 30, 1919). [Cancelling License of Certain Food Commoditties]. No. 1511-A (Feb. 11, 1919). [Cancelling License of Certain Food Commoditties]. No. 1516 (March 19, 1919). [Cancelling License of Certain Food Commoditties]. No. 1526 (June 19, 1919). [Licensing the Storage and Distribution of Wheat and Wheat Flour]. No. 1527 (June 23, 1919). [Discontinuing Prohibitions and Limitations on Importation and Exportation of Wheat and Wheat Flour]. No. 154 (Nov. 21, 1919). [Transferring to the Attorney General the Powers and Authority heretofore held by the Food Administrator except those relating to Wheat and Wheat Products which are Transferred to Julius H. Barnes]. No. 1542 (Nov. 21, 1919). [Cancelling License of Certain Food Commoditties]. No.1565 (May 25, 1920). Cancelling License of Certain Food Commoditties. No. 1579 (Oct. 30, 1920).

At Heaven's Gate by Robert Penn Warren

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Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB

Title: At Heaven's Gate
Author: Robert Penn Warren
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1943. Book. Fine. Cloth. Second Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in a very good jacket.Second printing.Ink name on pastedown.Extremely rare Warren title..

Old Enchantment by Barretto, Larry

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Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper

Title: Old Enchantment
Author: Barretto, Larry
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: John Day, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Full red cloth with gilt lettering & decoration under F.E. Warren-designed dust jacket priced at $2.00. Small bump to top corner of book, minor loss to spine ends of DJ. The old generation vs. the new world.

Come Back, Dr. Caligari by Barthelme, Donald

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Title: Come Back, Dr. Caligari
Author: Barthelme, Donald
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Dark blue boards with gilt lettering to spine under Milton Glaser designed dust jacket. DJ flap is clipped, slight wear. 1st UK printing.

The Principles of Judicial Proof; As Given by Logic, Psychology, and General Experience and Illustrated in Judicial Trials by Wigmore, John Henry

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Title: The Principles of Judicial Proof; As Given by Logic, Psychology, and General Experience and Illustrated in Judicial Trials
Author: Wigmore, John Henry
Seller: Americana Books ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Gryphon, 1991. Later printing. Leather bound. Very Good. Thick octavo. 1179 pages. Orange leather binding with gilt tooled decorations on the covers. Raised bands and gilt title on the spine. All edges gilt. Page ribbon marker present. Marbled end papers.

Animal Carvings in British Churches by ANDERSON, M.D.

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Title: Animal Carvings in British Churches
Author: ANDERSON, M.D.
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: near fine
Description: London: Cambridge University Press, 1938. First. hardcover. near fine. Illustrated. 99 pages. Slim 8vo, stamped red cloth, missing dust wrapper. London: Cambridge University Press, 1938. A very good(+) copy.

Heribert C. Ottersbach: Erziehung zur Abstraktion / Formation to Abstraction. Die Architekturbilder / Paintings on Architecture by Beil, Ralf (Ed.)

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Title: Heribert C. Ottersbach: Erziehung zur Abstraktion / Formation to Abstraction. Die Architekturbilder / Paintings on Architecture
Author: Beil, Ralf (Ed.)
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: vg
Description: Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio. 176pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over paper covered boards. Remarkable catalogue published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, May 11-Sept. 7, 2008 to commemorate Heribert C. Ottersbach's work. Includes a short story written by the artist. "German painter Heribert C. Ottersbach seeks nothing less than a re-evaluation of the modern era in his art. Ottersbach develops his visual ideas using found materials and his own drawings. This publication features architectural subjects and essays by Ralf Beil, Kai-Uwe Hemken, and Carola Kemme, as well as philosophical and literary source texts from Michel Foucault, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Fernando Pessoa. Ottersbach's depictions of architecture sometimes have ironic, sarcastic titles, such as Modernism as Sanatorium while Perpetuating Gothic Principles (1999) or The New School of Athens (2002). Clearly referring to his fundamentally critical attitude toward modernism and its manifestations, the artist's distanced, critical visual language plumbs the depths of modernism's Utopian content, as well as ways it has caused the loss of sensory perception." (From the publisher). Text in English and German. Book is brand new and has never been opened (still in shrinkwrap).

April Galleons: Poems. by ASHBERY, John.

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Title: April Galleons: Poems.
Author: ASHBERY, John.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description: NY: Viking, (1987).. First edition.. vi + 96 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket.

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