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The Demolished Man

The Demolished Man by Bester, Alfred

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Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA
Title
The Demolished Man
Author
Bester, Alfred
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Chicago: Shasta, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), lightly soiled, a scuff under the author's name on the front panel, a thin tidemark on the rear panel. Quarter blue cloth with red paper on the boards, some rubbing to the paper. Square and firmly bound with a dark blue top stain, a few stains at the fore-edge and endpapers, clean otherwise. Bester's Hugo Award-winning science fiction detective novel, one so great that the post-modern master Thomas Pynchon wanted to adapt it into an Opera as part of his Ford Foundation Fellowship.
Better Times Than These

Better Times Than These by GROOM, Winston

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Title
Better Times Than These
Author
GROOM, Winston
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Summit Books, 1978. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Advance Reading Copy. Printed wrappers. Creasing and edgewear thus very good. A Vietnam War novel, the first book by the author who went on to write *Forrest Gump*. Inscribed by Groom to Gloria Jones, widow of his friend James Jones: "To Gloria - You'll get the nice copy later, but I wanted you to have this one now. It's special and so are you - all love, Winston April, 1978." A sort of dedication copy. The book was dedicated to both Groom's father, and to James Jones, who had died in 1977.
The Injustice Collectors

The Injustice Collectors by AUCHINCLOSS, Louis

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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books
Title
The Injustice Collectors
Author
AUCHINCLOSS, Louis
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1950. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); gray cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in red on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 248pp. Bookshop sticker on front endpaper. Faint dampstain to lower spine and edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Garrett Price, unclipped (priced $4.50) with dampstain to lower spine verso, and tiny tears and creases along spine ends and extremities; Very Good. Collection of eight short stories. [83759].
Alimony: The American Tragedy [Signed & Inscribed; Typed Letter, Signed, Laid in]

Alimony: The American Tragedy [Signed & Inscribed; Typed Letter, Signed, Laid in] by WILNER, Charles

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Title
Alimony: The American Tragedy [Signed & Inscribed; Typed Letter, Signed, Laid in]
Author
WILNER, Charles
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: Vantage Press, [1952]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in green and brown dust jacket; xiii,[1],329pp. Jacket very chipped and worn with some paper flaws to front flap affecting text with loss of meaning of a few words, rear flap excised and affixed to pastedown as issued. Near Fine in Good or better jacket. Inscribed and signed "To A. Stewart Phillips, with kindest regards. - Charles Wilson - Sept. 22, 1952." Author bio blurb (presumably from rear jacket flap) affixed to front pastedown as issued, beginning with the assurance that "Dr. Charles Wilner, author of Alimony: The American Tragedy, is not a misogynist." With typed letter signed by Wilner to the same A. Stewart Phillips, whose contents are of a rather aggressive nature: "Some time in 1935 when I visited you at your office relative to some button business, I happened to remark to you, that I was planning to write books. I can not [sic] help but to reflect, upon your facial expression laughing, me being an author." Wilner insists that Phillips eat crow, and describes his intention of writings "my two final volumes of about 1500 printed pages titled 'Women and Race,'" though OCLC reveals that Alimony was the author's only published work.
Local History Articles

Local History Articles by [WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA] HUTTON, James V., Jr.

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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Local History Articles
Author
[WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA] HUTTON, James V., Jr.
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Winchester, VA, 1971. Folio (28cm). Brad-bound typescript in tan textured paper wrappers printed in black; [v],75 fol. Stamps of Kenneth H. Henry Co. to front and rear wrappers and title page. Lightly rubbed, slightly loosed, crease to upper front corner, but generally clean: Very Good. Short essays on the history of Winchester City and Frederick County, Virginia. [62268].
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A Wave [Prospectus] by Ashbery, John; Will Barnet (illus.)

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Title
A Wave [Prospectus]
Author
Ashbery, John; Will Barnet (illus.)
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: 451 Books, [2002]. First Edition. Sewn wraps, printed in red; 12mo. 16 pp. Eight photo-lithographs by Will Barnet. Prospectus for the first publication of 451 Books, with a cover caption "451 Books", consisting of all the illustrations of the final edition and the limitation page on inside rear cover with the signatures of Ashbery and Barnet reproduced. The published edition in a small Folio size, in a linen box, and sold by Ursus Books of NYC was in an edition of 90. (A suite of 30 were published with each of the prints numbered and signed by the artist). This is the prospectus only. "A Wave" is the title poem of one of the poet's essential collections first published in 1984. Thread loose, else fine.
WAITING FOR A CROWN OR, THE EARLY YEARS OF KING DAVID

WAITING FOR A CROWN OR, THE EARLY YEARS OF KING DAVID by (Edis Searle)

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WAITING FOR A CROWN OR, THE EARLY YEARS OF KING DAVID
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(Edis Searle)
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Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
NY: Thomas Nelson, 1874. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Uncommon juvenile retelling of the King David story from the Bible. Author unidentified in this title but deduced from title page declaration "By the author of 'Hetty's Resolve;' ' Great Things Done by Little People;' etc., etc." 8vo, dark blue cloth decorated with pictorial vignette in balck and gold, illustrated with 26 b&w plates, printed in England. Gift inscription dated 1874 in contemporary florid hand. Covers uniformly darkened a bit, moderate wear at corners and hinges, still solidly bound, foxed at prelims and rears. WorldCat lists only 6 collections with this edition with the American title.
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PARIS ITS SITES, MONUMENTS AND HISTORY by Lansdale, Maria Hornor

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PARIS ITS SITES, MONUMENTS AND HISTORY
Author
Lansdale, Maria Hornor
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Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description
Philadelphia: The John Winston Co,, (1898). A captivating collection of information about a broad array of things Parisian, with a nice introduction by Hilaire Belloc. Well-illustrated and with folding map bound in at the back. While this is certainly a nice addition to the body of information available on Paris, one of the most compelling reasons to add it to your collection is the lovely example of a publisher's binding. Green cloth with an elaborate gilt cover motif, top edge gilt. This copy is particularly extraordinary in that it retains its original green oil cloth dust wrapper, with gilt titled spine. To find a book of this vintage in the dust wrapper is most unusual. The dust wrappers were, indeed, wrappers to protect the book from dust. There is no advertisement..no cover art..nothing. Just heavy oil cloth with a title to protect a beautiful book. Housed in original dark green slipcase.
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A GUIDE TO THE PRINTED WORK OF JESSIE M. KING by (King, Jessie M.) White, Colin

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A GUIDE TO THE PRINTED WORK OF JESSIE M. KING
Author
(King, Jessie M.) White, Colin
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Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
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London and New Castle: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2007. First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 230 pp.; 8 plates. Jessie M. King (1875-1949) was the foremost Scottish book designer and illustrator of the 20th century. Her work reflected the mixture of Symbolism and Arts and Crafts practiced by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the others of "The Four" in Glasgow where she was trained. During the 50 years of her career she designed and illustrated some 250 books, over 100 greeting cards, bookplates and assorted items of ephemera. A Guide to the Printed Work of Jessie M. King attempts to bring order to this enormous output. Every known item has been annotated, classified and catalogued, and a further section lists over 100 publications containing reproductions of other works by the artist. An appendix by Dr. A.D. Portno discusses her work for the German publishers, Globus. A second appendix investigates her designs for Routledge's series of children's classics. In order to do justice to Jessie M. King's talent, besides the selection of items illustrated in the book, a substantial part of her work is illustrated in color on an accompanying CD-Rom. On the CD, every significant item is present, with each illustration numbered according to the corresponding entry in the text. A fine copy.
Proceedings of a Convention of Federal Republicans from the South Senatorial District in the County of Worcester, March 11, 1812

Proceedings of a Convention of Federal Republicans from the South Senatorial District in the County of Worcester, March 11, 1812 by HEYWOOD, Benjamin, Chairman, and Samuel EASTMAN, Clerk, Federal Party of Massachusetts

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Proceedings of a Convention of Federal Republicans from the South Senatorial District in the County of Worcester, March 11, 1812
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HEYWOOD, Benjamin, Chairman, and Samuel EASTMAN, Clerk, Federal Party of Massachusetts
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
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Very good +
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No place listed [Massachusetts], 1812. No binding. Very good +. [VOTER'S RIGHTS] [GERRYMANDERING] [GOVERNMENTAL PAMPHLET.] 8vo; 4 disbound leaves; text clear and easy to read; age-toning and light chipping to edges; very good plus. In 1812, Elbridge Thomas Gerry (1744-1814) was Governor of the state of Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic-Republicans, the party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1792. Elected in 1810, during his second term in office, Gerry signed into law a controversial bill drafted by his party that created unusual redistricting to keep his political party in power. The term "gerrymandering" is named after him. Governor Gerry went on to be Vice President under James Madison in 1813 and died in office in 1814. The outrage poured onto the Democratic-Republicans in this report is real and strong for numerous changes made to governmental structures. In regard to this unusual redistricting of voting areas, the Federal Republicans argue, "They have divided towns in the most arbitrary and capricious manner, without any regard to the local convenience, and contrary to the wishes and remonstrances of a great majority of the Inhabitants, with the avowed design of increasing the strength of one political party..." While this was not the first instance of redistricting for political gain, this was the start of naming the practice "gerrymandering." The report presents the candidacies of Bezaleel Taft and Francis Blake for the Massachusetts state senate.
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Selected Monographs on Dermatology. Unna, Nielsen, Duhring .... by Anon.

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Selected Monographs on Dermatology. Unna, Nielsen, Duhring ....
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Anon.
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
A very good copy; inst. stamp on title and several text leaf margins.
Description
London: New Sydenham Soc., 1893. First English Edition.. orig. publisher's cloth.. A very good copy; inst. stamp on title and several text leaf margins.. 8vo. An excellent anthology of classic contributions to the pathology of skin disease, skin reactions to various drug compounds, and a selection of Duhring's papers.
Jewish Studies In Memory of George A. Kohut 1874-1933

Jewish Studies In Memory of George A. Kohut 1874-1933 by Baron, Salo W.; Alexander Marx (Editors)

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Title
Jewish Studies In Memory of George A. Kohut 1874-1933
Author
Baron, Salo W.; Alexander Marx (Editors)
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
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New York: The Alexander Kohut Memorial Foundation, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. XCIII, [1], 61pp (English and German), 148pp (Hebrew). Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine and printer's device in gilt on front cover. Frontispiece portrait of George A. Kohut with his signature in facsimile. Printer's device on title page. A commemorative volume of scholarly essays. Includes Bibliography of G. A. Kohut. Texts in English, German and Hebrew. Some age wear on binding with spine cocked, and gold lettering slightly faded. Title page slightly detached but holding firmly. Binding in overall good- to good, interior in good+ to very good condition. Salo W. Baron was a pioneering figure in 20th century Jewish studies. When he took a position teaching Jewish history at Columbia University it was only the second such professorship in the United States. He is best known for his 18 volume work, A Social and Religious History of the Jews. Alexander Marx taught Jewish history and served as a librarian at the Jewish Theological Seminary for some 50 years. He was one of the main people responsible for building up the Seminary library into one of the largest collections of Judaica books in the world.
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Katherine Mansfield: The Memories of LM

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Katherine Mansfield: The Memories of LM
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Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, [1971] First U.S. edition. Cloth. Octavo. Very good in price-clipped dust jacket.

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