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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK by Baldwin, James

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Seller: Type Punch Matrix
Title
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
Author
Baldwin, James
Seller
Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN
9780803741690
Condition
Very good.
Description
New York: The Dial Press, 1974. Very good.. Rare uncorrected galleys of the first edition, made up from sheets from the limited edition (and with an unsigned limitation page), of Baldwin's great novel centered around a Harlem love story. With every year that passes since Barry Jenkins's shimmering and triumphant 2018 film adaptation of Baldwin's love story, the contemporary critical reaction to the novel - hostility to the very concept of a love story, that base and contemptible form; contempt for the unmistakable stamp of human affections and the ineradicable stain of sentimentality on every page - becomes trickier to understand in context. Anatole Broyard, vibrating with absolute contempt in THE NEW YORK TIMES, brought out the biggest gun of 1974 when he wrote that BEALE STREET "could make it equally well as a 'gothic novel'" - so successful has been the genre's rehabilitation that the word, like "romance," no longer functions lethally as an unanswerable insult. The firing pin is rusty, the trigger is stuck, the gun will not go off. A deeper reading came from the unfailing Joyce Carol Oates, who likewise noted the "very traditional celebration of love" at the novel's heart, but found nothing there to mock or denigrate: "IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK is a moving, painful story. It is so vividly human and so obviously based upon reality, that it strikes us as timeless-an art that has not the slightest need of esthetic tricks" (Oates). Rare in this format. 8.5'' x 5.25''. Original blue printed wrappers. Publicity leaf, dated December 1973, lists publication date as May 24, 1974 with price of $6.95 for trade and $25 for signed limited edition. [14], 189, [1] pages. Spine toned and titled "Baldwin" in pen; some mild creasing, soil to wraps. Penned notes, marginalia, and other reader marks, presumably a contemporary reviewer's, throughout. A few unobtrusive stains internally. Overall sound.
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Kanuny (Stikhi 1915-1921 g.) [Eves. Poems 1915-1921] by Erenburg, Ilia

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Title
Kanuny (Stikhi 1915-1921 g.) [Eves. Poems 1915-1921]
Author
Erenburg, Ilia
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Description
Berlin: Izdatelstvo "Mysl", 1921. Softcover. Berlin: Izdatelstvo "Mysl", 1921. First edition; 5 3/4 x 3 3/4; light brown wraps, ruled and printed in dark brown; small nicks to tips of spine; thin, closed cut to spine along bottom of front wrap; small puncture to upper margin of title page; very good condition.One of Erenburg's (1891-1967) earlier books, the current poetry collection was published shortly after he moved to Germany, where he would remain until 1924. He also lived and worked in Paris and several other European cities well into the 1940s, where he kept in close contact with many of the other prominent Russian dissident intellectuals, including Pasternak, Esenin, and Maiakovskii. After returning to Russia, he would write his famous novel "Ottepel" (1954-56, The Thaw), whose title would be used to describe the de-Stalinization program of Nikita Khrushchev
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Portfolio of Paisleys. A Creative Project for the American Fabric and Fashion Industry by American Fabrics

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Title
Portfolio of Paisleys. A Creative Project for the American Fabric and Fashion Industry
Author
American Fabrics
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
New York: American Fabrics, 1950. Very good. First edition, n. d. (1950s [?]); 15 1/2 x 11 1/4; pp. [36]; pictorial wraps in green and white; tissue dust jacket printed in red; illustrated with numerous fabric swatches, drawings, and from photographs; front panel of jacket partially attached to wraps (as published), with some loss of paper; back panel of jacket perished; a bit of wear to edges and corners and a few tiny spots to margins; overall in very good condition. Created by the editors of American Fabrics magazine, the exceedingly-scarce publication was said to "...present the second of a series of answers to 'Creative Starvation.' A superb collection of inspirational ideas relating to the Paisley theme has been arranged for practical application, together with specific suggestions for the use of the Paisley theme by various industries." Launched in 1946 and released quarterly, the magazine would chronicle forty years of the fashion and textile industry of the United States. Among many features, which would make it remarkable for its subscribers, one would be the hand-pasted, luxurious fabric swatches and another - the artistic use of paper stock, fonts, etc. The periodical would cease publication in 1986.
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A Late-19th-century, Miniature, Glass-leather-tin, Travelling Inkwell by A. Parker

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A Late-19th-century, Miniature, Glass-leather-tin, Travelling Inkwell
Author
A. Parker
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
London, The Strand, 1890. Good. Miniature inkwell, n. d. (late 1800s); 1 3/4 x 1 3/4 x 1 1/2; glass ink reservoir, enclosed in a tin box; lid with hinges and a spring-button; covered in black morocco with gilt manufacturer's name; a few tiny rust spots; a small puncture along one of th ehinges; cork stopper appears to have been replaced at a later time; in good condition. In the late 19th century, with the great expansion of steamship and train travel, portable, miniature inkwells became indispencible articles of travellers, together with quills, envelopes, sealing was, etc. They were made of porcelain, cut-glass, silver, or as is the current case - mixed metal , glass, and leather.
G.T.T. Gone to Texas: Letters From Our Boys

G.T.T. Gone to Texas: Letters From Our Boys by Thomas Hughes [ed.]

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Title
G.T.T. Gone to Texas: Letters From Our Boys
Author
Thomas Hughes [ed.]
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: Macmillan and Co, 1884. Very Good. London: Macmillan and Co., 1884. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 228 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Missing printer's notice on final page. Boards lightly worn along edges, corners bumped, and light spotting and scuffing. Binding is sound. Foxing to preliminaries but overall pages clean and unmarked. A series of letters dating from 1878 to 1883 describing life ranching and farming in Texas. [Basic Texas Books 98; Herd 1091; Raines p. 121].
Collection of Five Early Annual Reports: Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Mercantile Library Association of the City of Brooklyn [First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Eighth Annual]

Collection of Five Early Annual Reports: Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Mercantile Library Association of the City of Brooklyn [First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Eighth Annual] by Board of Directors - Mercantile Library Association of the City of Brooklyn

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Title
Collection of Five Early Annual Reports: Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Mercantile Library Association of the City of Brooklyn [First, Second, Third, Fourth, and Eighth Annual]
Author
Board of Directors - Mercantile Library Association of the City of Brooklyn
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Brooklyn: For the Association, 1866. Very Good. Brooklyn: Printed for the Association, 1859-1866. First Editions. Five volumes; octavo (ca. 23cm.); all bound in wrappers printed within decorative border. Publication sequence includes the First-Fourth reports (1859-1862) and the Eighth report (1866). First report a bit chipped along extremities and spine crudely reinforced with old tape repair; general dust-soil and uneven damp staining to extremities of most volumes, contemporary manuscript note at head of Second report upper cover, else a Very Good collection overall. Contents include the Association's charter as delineated in the first annual report; the subsequent reports providing a list of officers and a short description of the year's budget and acquisitions. In 1860 the Library acquired 2860 volumes, including "Watts' Bibliotheca Britannica" and "Pinkerton's Collection of Voyages and Travels," in 17 volumes, though by the start of the Civil War the rate of accrual had drastically slowed.
Trumbull Park [Signed and inscribed]

Trumbull Park [Signed and inscribed] by Frank London Brown

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Title
Trumbull Park [Signed and inscribed]
Author
Frank London Brown
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Chicago, IL: Henry Regnery Company, 1959. Very Good. Chicago, IL: Henry Regnery Company, 1959. First Edition, Second Printing. Octavo (21 cm); 432pp. Lacking jacket. Boards in blue cloth with brown stamping to spine. Board extremities rubbed and bumped with wear to spine ends; covers sunned and offset and spine lettering faded but legible. Mild finger smudging to pages otherwise interior clean. A Very Good copy. Signed and inscribed by Brown at first free endsheet to "Jesse and Ann.
Madman's Drum

Madman's Drum by Ward, Lynd

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Title
Madman's Drum
Author
Ward, Lynd
Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Orig. decorated black boards with clean, intact paper spine label. Fine in slightly nicked dust wrapper.
Description
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated black boards with clean, intact paper spine label. Fine in slightly nicked dust wrapper.. Unpaginated. 21 x 15 cm. Ward's second woodcut novel, a tale told in 120 woodcuts. Bright, fresh copy with $3.00 price inside front cover of dust wrapper, and critical reviews of the book inside back cover.
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ICONES ORCHIDACEARUM PERUVIARUM. (Plates 201-400). Two Volume Set. by Bennett, David E., Jr. and Eric A. Chrstenson, Ph.D.

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ICONES ORCHIDACEARUM PERUVIARUM. (Plates 201-400). Two Volume Set.
Author
Bennett, David E., Jr. and Eric A. Chrstenson, Ph.D.
Seller
Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Privately published by A. Pastorelli de Bennett, 1995. Two Volume Set. Paperbound (stiff gold wrappers), Plates 201 through 301, Plates 302 through 400 + Supplemental Plates. New, from author’s private collection. Bennett and Christenson began the ambitious undertaking of a modern inventory of Peru’s orchids, which they estimate to comprise at least 3,000 species, just after the Missouri Botanical Garden published its Catalogo de las Angiospermas y Gimnospermas del Peru, which lists just 1,600 species of orchids for the country. Their work has resulted in the open-ended series Icones, or illustrations, documenting Peru’s rich natural heritage of orchids. To date they have published 800 illustrations, including more than 150 new distribution records and more than 100 new species from Peru. The Icones is issued as loose-leaf pages for intercalation according to the user’s preference or as two paper-bound fascicles with a perfect binding. One side of each page is occupied by a full-page botanical line drawing. The other side of each page includes the place of publication, synonymy, a detailed description, known distribution, voucer specimens, observations on identification, comments on taxonomic questions, habitat, and flowering season.
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A Haunted House and other Short Stories. by Woolf, Virginia.

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A Haunted House and other Short Stories.
Author
Woolf, Virginia.
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Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
San Diego: Harcourt Inc. [ca. 1990.] A Harvest Book. Octavo, softbound, vii, 148,[1] pp. Very Good
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THE TASTE OF ANGELS by TAYLOR, Francis Henry

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Title
THE TASTE OF ANGELS
Author
TAYLOR, Francis Henry
Seller
The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description
TAYLOR, Francis Henry. THE TASTE OF ANGELS. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1948. 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. Frontispie xxx, 661 pages, plates. First edition. A review copy, being a history of art collecting from Rameses to Napoleon, wi illustrations. Bookplate, dust jacket chipped and creased, else very good.
FIRSTS. COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS

FIRSTS. COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS by Smiley, Robin H (editor)

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Title
FIRSTS. COLLECTING MODERN FIRST EDITIONS
Author
Smiley, Robin H (editor)
Seller
Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Los Angeles: Lucerne Group, 1993. Vol. 3 No's. 1-12 (complete run; Nos 7 & 8 combined). Checklists for Updike, Garcia-Marquez, Schaefer, Hammett, Chandler, Francis, Matthiessen, Koontz, et al. Articles on collector's essential glossary, collection preservation, Southern women writers, collectible first novels, Western references, British adventure fiction, L. Frank Baum, fantasy masterpieces, et al. Stapled glossy pictoral covers. All inserts included. Few copies with minimal cover rubbing. Near Fine condition.. Soft Cover. Near Fine/Not Issued.
WONDER

WONDER by Wolf, Henry

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Title
WONDER
Author
Wolf, Henry
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Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
New York, NY: School of Visual Arts, 1962. Staple bound wrappers with folding cover. 4to. Staple bound wrappers with folding cover. 48 pages. Volume 1, Number 1. Minor rubbing, else a fine copy.
Nathaniel Stevens 1786-1865.

Nathaniel Stevens 1786-1865. by Stevens, Horace Nathaniel.

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Title
Nathaniel Stevens 1786-1865.
Author
Stevens, Horace Nathaniel.
Seller
Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition
Bound in publisher's blue cloth boards w/ gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Near Fine condition. Biography written by the
Description
North Andover, MA: Merrymount Press, 1946. Bound in publisher's blue cloth boards w/ gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Near Fine condition. Biography written by the subjects cousin giving "An Account of His Life And the Business He Founded".. 23.5 cm. xvi, 266 pp. b/w frontispiece & 49 b/w plates

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