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PROSTITUTION IN NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY CALCUTTA

PROSTITUTION IN NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY CALCUTTA by Joardar, Biswanath

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Title
PROSTITUTION IN NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY CALCUTTA
Author
Joardar, Biswanath
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Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.
Description
New Delhi: Inter-India Publications, 1985. First printing. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. First printing of this historical and anthropological look at "the oldest possible social institution" (jacket) in India, with a focus on prostitution in Calcutta. Joardar based this work on extensive fieldwork across India, and incorporates historical laws, statistics, and practices into a view of sex work in metropolitan and rural areas. Among the topics he covers are the intersection between the Caste system and brothels, the contribution of prostitutes to Indian literature, and the trafficking of sex workers. Uncommon overall, scarce in jacket. 9.5'' x 6''. Original black cloth boards with gilt lettering. Original price-clipped pink and black pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated with one black-and-white fold-out map. xii, 88 pages, including index. Occasional faint pencil marginal notes. Jacket with light sunning to upper edge and spine, abrasion to verso; rear flap with paper remnants to upper edge. Binding with a touch of shelfwear, with spine cracked at a couple openings; pastedowns bubbling a bit. Sound.
POISONOUS EFFECTS OF CYANIDE OF POTASSIUM

POISONOUS EFFECTS OF CYANIDE OF POTASSIUM by Jones, Joseph

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POISONOUS EFFECTS OF CYANIDE OF POTASSIUM
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Jones, Joseph
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Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
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Very good plus.
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New Orleans: The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, 1877. First edition. Very good plus.. Offprint of this article on the harmful effects of potassium cyanide on a variety of plants and animals, by "one of the [Civil] War's foremost medical researchers" (Breeden, 376). Potassium cyanide had a number of applications when this article was published in 1877: it was used in photographic processes, gilding, and even in medicine. It is still used today by entomologists to collect specimens. Here, Joseph Jones rather harrowingly describes the results of potassium cyanide poisoning on various plants and animals, as well as people. 9.5'' x 6''. Original self-wrappers, side-stitched. 22 pages, numbered 773-794. Stamp of the Medical Library Association of Brooklyn to front wrapper. Light edgewear and toning. mild soil; small area of early adhesive to spine. Each leaf with very shallow crease to the center. Sound.
SELF PORTRAIT FINGER

SELF PORTRAIT FINGER by Coplans, John

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SELF PORTRAIT FINGER
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Coplans, John
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Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
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Near fine.
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New York: Andrea Rosen Gallery, 1999. First edition. Near fine.. First edition. Self-portraits of various angles of John Coplans' fingers and hands, seen intimately close. "[T]aken in 1999 on Polaroid Positive / Negative Film with the assistance of Brad Robotham." Issued on occasion of the exhibition "John Coplans: Self Portrait Finger" at the Andrea Rosen Gallery. Uncommonly unified and reminiscent of other conceptual and procedural artist's books. 7.5'' x 6''. Original wrappers. Original printed card dust jacket. 12 black-and-white photographic images. [14] leaves, printed recto only. Very mild rubbing to extremities of dust jacket. Else sharp and clean.
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Homage to Sextus Propertius by Pound, Ezra

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Homage to Sextus Propertius
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Pound, Ezra
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Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
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London: Faber and Faber, 1934. First separate edition, reprinted from "Quia Pauper Amavi. Original light blue paper boards, Knocked on the top edge, otherwise a fine copy, in faintly worn dust jacket. One of 1000 printed. Gallup A 38a.
Anne of Tim Hortons; Globalization and Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature
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Anne of Tim Hortons; Globalization and Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature by Wylie, Herb

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Anne of Tim Hortons; Globalization and Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature
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Wylie, Herb
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Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
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9781554583263
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Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011. xi, 279p., b/w illus., stiff wrappers.

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