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The voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger, Zoology, Vol. II Part VIII - report on birds

The voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger, Zoology, Vol. II Part VIII - report on birds by SCLATER, P.L.

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The voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger, Zoology, Vol. II Part VIII - report on birds
Author
SCLATER, P.L.
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
London: Printed by the Society, 1881. FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING. With 30 hand-colored lithographed plates by J. Smit. Half-morocco and marbled boards, recent endpapers; with the exception of very minor discoloration to the half-title, an absolutely exquisite copy with bright and clean plates. First separate printing. The complete ornithological report, with excellent illustrations, on the nearly 900 specimens collected by the expedition. “The collection [of birds] was formed under the superintendence of Mr. John Murray, one of the naturalists of the Expedition, and the skins were chiefly prepared by Mr. Frederick Pearcey, who accompanied the vessel as taxidermist” (introduction). The H.M.S. Challenger sailed over 70,000 miles during her extended voyage of exploration. Sclater (1829-1913), a well-known and highly productive (over 1400 publications) ornithologist by trade, is also remembered for his 1858 paper setting out the faunal regions classification of zoogeography later adopted by Alfred Russel Wallace. He was the founder and for many years the editor of Ibis, secretary of the Zoological Society of London, a member of more than forty professional societies at home and abroad, and a council member of the Royal Society of London.
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Dissertations moral and critical by BEATTIE, James

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Dissertations moral and critical
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BEATTIE, James
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Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
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London: W. Strahan, 1783. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary sheep rebacked with cloth, spine label, boards rubbed, corners worn; interior very good. First edition of this collection of dissertations from Beattie, a distinguished member of the Scottish school of philosophy. Titles include “On Memory and Imagination”; “On Dreaming”; “The Theory of Language”; “On Fable and Romance”; “On the Attachments of Kindred”; and “Illustrations of Sublimity”. The poet and philosopher Beattie (1735-1803) was a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment. One of his biographers, Roger J. Robinson, describes the Dissertations as Beattie’s “best prose work” and draws particular attention to the treatise on the theory of language. On reading this book, Cowper declared that “Beattie was the only author he had seen ‘whose critical and philosophical researches are diversified and embellished by a poetical imagination that makes even the driest subject and the leanest a feast for epicures’” (DNB). To delve slightly into his text, for example, his essay on memory distinguishes between memory and imagination and provides methods of improving one’s memory; his theory of language focuses on formation of words, accents, writing and grammar. Though a poet early on, Beattie’s Essay on Truth (1770) made a name for him as a proponent of the common sense school of the Scottish Enlightenment and successfully irritated both Hume and Kant. DNB II pp. 22-25; Encyclopedia of Philosophy 1&2 pp. 262-263.
I Live in Fear [Ikimono no kiroku] (Original screenplay for the 1955 Japanese film)

I Live in Fear [Ikimono no kiroku] (Original screenplay for the 1955 Japanese film) by Akira Kurosawa (director); Shinobu Hashimoto, Fumino Hayasaka, Hideo Oguni (screenwriters); Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Eiko Miyoshi (starring)

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I Live in Fear [Ikimono no kiroku] (Original screenplay for the 1955 Japanese film)
Author
Akira Kurosawa (director); Shinobu Hashimoto, Fumino Hayasaka, Hideo Oguni (screenwriters); Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Eiko Miyoshi (starring)
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Royal Books (United States)
Description
Tokyo: Kurosawa Productions, 1955. Draft script for the 1955 film. Title in manuscript ink on the front wrapper. Text and titles in Japanese. An elderly factory owner is increasingly fearful of what he believes to be Japan's looming, inevitable destruction in a nuclear war, and grows obsessed with the idea of moving his family to a rural farm in Brazil. Director Akira Kurosawa's final film collaboration with longtime composer Fumio Hayasaka, made shortly before Hayasaka's death in 1955 of tuberculosis. White titled perfect-bound wrappers. Approximately 73 leaves, with last page of text numbered e-30. Mimeograph duplication, printed on rectos and versos. Pages Very Good plus, lightly and evenly toned, wrapper Very Good, lightly foxed, with wear and toning on the spine.
Play It Again, Sam (Collection of 18 original photographs from the 1972 film)

Play It Again, Sam (Collection of 18 original photographs from the 1972 film) by Woody Allen (play, screenplay, starring); Herbert Ross (director); Bernie Abramson, Orlando Suero (still photographers); Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Jerry Lacy (starring)

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Play It Again, Sam (Collection of 18 original photographs from the 1972 film)
Author
Woody Allen (play, screenplay, starring); Herbert Ross (director); Bernie Abramson, Orlando Suero (still photographers); Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Jerry Lacy (starring)
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Royal Books (United States)
Description
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1972. Collection of 18 vintage studio still photographs from the 1972 film. Based on Woody Allen's 1969 play. A comedy that is pretty difficult to overestimate. Even though it was not directed by Woody Allen, it was the template for the many great films he would subsequently write and direct in the 1970s, in terms of shooting style, timing, romantic themes, and the actors involved (the irrepressible trio of Allen, Keaton, and Roberts). Allen had already directed two films at this point ("Take the Money and Run" and "Bananas"), but this film is significant in that it predicted the more substantive romantic comedies that would later place him among the most important filmmakers of his era, notably "Annie Hall" (1977) and "Manhattan" (1979). Shot on location in California. 8 x 10 inches. Couple with light corner or edgewear, else Near Fine. Grant US.
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Slaveholding a Malum in Se by JACKSON Joseph TYLER Edward

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Slaveholding a Malum in Se
Author
JACKSON Joseph TYLER Edward
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1921. First Edition. TYLER, E[dward]. R. Slaveholding a Malum in Se, or Invariably Sinful. Harford: S.S. Cowles, 1839. Octavo, original tan self-wrappers, original stitching; pp. (1-3), 4-48. $1200.First edition of Tyler's searing analysis of arguments defending slavery in this incendiary work that prompted local leaders to offer gunpowder to ""blow the damned abolitionist down,"" delivered by him in a Brattleboro chapel as a ""mob formed outside… cannons were fired,"" with Tyler especially demolishing pro-slavery claims that enslaved people willingly choose slavery, exceedingly scarce in original self-wrappers.In 1837 Rev. Edward Royal Tyler, the son of Revolutionary leader, jurist and author Royall Tyler, stood in Elliot Street Chapel to deliver this highly controversial abolition address in which he declared a ""slaveholding government"" to be any that ""authorizes individuals to deprive their fellow men of self-ownership… forever."" Tyler intended to establish a Brattleboro chapter of the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS) despite warnings by local leaders, including one who proclaimed he ""would provide the gun powder if the mob would blow the damned abolitionist down."" As Tyler began to speak a ""mob formed outside… cannons were fired off and pots and pans were clanged to intimidate those who might go into the chapel."" His mother wrote in her journal: ""Great doings: Edward delivered a lecture on abolition… cannons were fired and all manner of noises were made… nevertheless, Edward proceeded undaunted."" At the subsequent first meeting of the Brattleboro AASS he declared: ""The time is coming when you will be compelled to take one side or the other, for this is not simply a question of negro-slavery, it is the cause of human rights. The institutions of freedom are in imminent danger"" (Brattleboro Historical Society).Tyler's Slaveholding a malum in se (an innately immoral act regardless of legal stature) is now esteemed as ""a neglected masterpiece of abolitionist literature."" In its pages he presents a detailed historical and juridical analysis of arguments used to rationalize and authorize slavery, especially the popular pro-slavery concept of happy slaves, which was defended by an ""ask the slave test"" that argued ""the slave, not the slave master, was the only reliable authority"" on enslavement (Growler, Radical Orthodoxy, 612-13). Tyler soundly demolishes this idea of an enslaved person who ""washes his master in innocence."" He states: ""If it is right to hold those only in slavery, who are willing… no one is justified in enforcing the laws of slavery. The laws which declare one man the property of another, thus sanctioning his forcible detention as chattel, are all wrong… the argument is suicidal. It annihilates itself"" (emphasis in original). Essentially, this false logic signals a ""relationship in which consent to another's authority must be continually given for that authority to remain in effect"" and, as such, ""is not a master-slave relationship at all"" (Gowler, 613). Sabin 97699. Not in Blockson. Text very fresh with scant foxing mainly to wrappers, trace of marginal dampstaining above title page. A rare near-fine copy in original self-wrappers.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Dickens, Charles

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Title
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Author
Dickens, Charles
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B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: Chapman & Hall, April to September 1870 Illustrated with 12 plates Samuel Luke Fildes, and an engraved portrait of Dickens and a vignette title page. First edition in six original parts; Part 6 in earliest state with "Price Eighteenpence" pasted over the printed "Price One Shilling" (later states are printed with the corrected price). With most of the original advertisements, including the scarce "Cork Hats" slip in Part 2, with the following exceptions: Part 2 lacking last two pp. of "Edwin Drood Advertiser," Part 5 lacking "Chapman & Hall's Recent Publications" (8 pp.) to rear, and Part 6 lacking "Concerning Stitches" (4 pp.) and "A New World at Home for busy people" (4 pp.) to rear. Part 4 with uncommon Chapman & Hall "Recent Publications" remainer, seen by Hatton and Cleaver in about 10% of copies examined. Publisher's blue-green pictorial wrappers, printed in black. Very good set, with some discrete repair to spines of Parts 1-4, Parts 5 and 6 neatly rebacked, bindings of Parts 1 and 4 a bit shaky (Part 4 split along spine, but holding), mostly clean wrappers, some edgewear, former owner's name to front wrappers of Parts 2 and 3, occasional spotting to pages, staining to edges of some plates, and a tear to "Cork Hats" slip in Part 2. Overall, a clean and complete set. Housed in a custom green quarter morocco slipcase with a matching chemise. Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 373-84. Originally published serially in six monthly installments, The Mystery of Edwin Drood was also published in book form on August 31, 1870. Both the later serial installments and the first book form edition were published posthumously after Dickens' death in June 1870, leaving the novel unfinished. The story is named after the titular character Edwin Drood, although the text largely focuses on his uncle John Jasper, an opium addict and choir master who is romantically interested in his nephew's fiancé. In the story, Drood disappears under mysterious circumstances, and, due to Dicken's premature death at age 58, the mystery is never resolved. Accordingly, many of the novel's fans speculate as to whether or not Drood is dead and, if so, who killed him. Many authors have attempted to resolve the plot, including Dickens' son Charley in 1873 and Thomas James, a Vermont-based printer and con artist who claimed to have channeled the deceased Dickens and learned his intended ending for the novel.. First Edition. Original Parts. Very Good. Illus. by Fildes, Samuel Luke.
ORIGINAL LANDSCAPE PAINTING WATERCOLOR AND GOUACHE ON PAPER [Signed]

ORIGINAL LANDSCAPE PAINTING WATERCOLOR AND GOUACHE ON PAPER [Signed]

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ORIGINAL LANDSCAPE PAINTING WATERCOLOR AND GOUACHE ON PAPER [Signed]
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
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This European landscape painting from the 19th century is executed in watercolor with gouache highlights. Although there is an artist's signature in the lower right corner, the painter remains unidentified. The artwork is displayed under glass in a black and gold frame. Dimensions: Frame-37 x 24 inches; Image-29 x 16 inches. In Very Good condition with only slight edge wear visible on the frame. HP Consignment (see note). Shelved at Rockville PS1101 (#23). [Oversized item. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. 1407625. Special Collections - Upstairs.
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THE PRESIDENTS I HAVE KNOWN: FROM 1860 TO 1918 by Wolf, Simon

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THE PRESIDENTS I HAVE KNOWN: FROM 1860 TO 1918
Author
Wolf, Simon
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Washington DC: Byron S. Adams, 1918. Hardcover. Octavo, 459 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in the publisher's burgundy cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards show moderate wear and some fraying to the spine edges and fore corners. Blind-stamped borders to the front and rear. Text block has slight age toning to the edges. Previous owner's information to the front pastedown. Mild wear interiorly including chip to tail edge to front end paper and title page. Frontispiece. Illustrated. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column D, ND-D. 1375187. FP New Rockville Stock.
I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS [SIGNED]
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I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS [SIGNED] by Wolfe, Tom

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I AM CHARLOTTE SIMMONS [SIGNED]
Author
Wolfe, Tom
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780374281588
Description
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Large Thick Octavo, 676 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine pictorial burgundy and yellow with burgundy, yellow, gilt and white lettering. Exterior has mild wear including age toning to the front/flaps and minor, sparse scuffs. Boards have extremely light wear. Text block has slight wear including faint age toning and minimal soiling to the edges. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column L (ND-L). 1401149. FP New Rockville Stock.
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, ANNUAL REPORT, 1962

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, ANNUAL REPORT, 1962
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
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Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1962. Hardcover. Octavo, ii, iii, 289 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in the publisher's red cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards have slight plus wear including modest sunning and slight scuffs. Mild bowing to the boards. Text block has slight wear including age toning to the edges. Gift inscription to the front free end paper. Illustrated. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Column Y. 1407979. FP New Rockville Stock.
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NATIONAL PARK SEMINARY {INCORPORATED} A JUNIOR COLLEGE FOR YOUNG WOMEN, 1927-1928

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NATIONAL PARK SEMINARY {INCORPORATED} A JUNIOR COLLEGE FOR YOUNG WOMEN, 1927-1928
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Forest Glen MD: National Park Seminary, 1928. Hardcover. Octavo, 131 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in the publisher's beige cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards show moderate plus soiling wear with bumps to the corners. Text block has top edge gilt and slight age toning to the fore/tail edges. Deckled fore/tail edges. Slight wear interiorly including smudges to few pages. Frontispiece. Illustrated. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column J, ND-J. 1380558. FP New Rockville Stock.
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The Poster: An Illustrated Monthly Chronicle. Vol. III [3], No. XV-XIX [15-19], September - February 1900 & Vol. III [3], No. XIII [13], August 1899

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The Poster: An Illustrated Monthly Chronicle. Vol. III [3], No. XV-XIX [15-19], September - February 1900 & Vol. III [3], No. XIII [13], August 1899
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG-. Boards have some rubbing, toning and scuffing. Title tag on spine is rubbed. Bookplate of Sidney Lewis-Ransom inside front
Description
London: E.R. Alexander & Sons at the ERA Press / Walter Calvert & Co. / H. Macleay, 1900. VG-. Boards have some rubbing, toning and scuffing. Title tag on spine is rubbed. Bookplate of Sidney Lewis-Ransom inside front cover, otherwise interior is clean and unmarked. All contents present.. Small quarto. Hardcover. bound in olive cloth with leather title tag and gilt titles. 306 pages. Color lithographic covers, numerous b&w reproductions and 2-4 color plates per issue, many for Colman's Mustard, Starch etc. 24 cm. Illustrations by M. Yenis, Mucha, John Hassell, Tom Browne, Beggarstaff Bros., Aubrey Beardsley, Jules Cheret, Will True, Walter Crane, Cecil Aldin, Anger and others. The Poster: an illustrated monthly chronicle, or simply The Poster, was a monthly magazine published in London from June 1898 to December 1900, dedicated to the then relatively new art of the pictorial poster. It was the first periodical devoted to the poster to be published in Britain. It was published by Ransom, Woestyn & Co. The Poster contained sections on posters, advertising, and a segment dedicated to collectors and collecting. Illustrations were featured in both black and white and color. It focused on unique poster designs and their creators such as the Beggarstaffs and Toulouse-Lautrec. They were featured multiple times throughout The Poster's runtime along with interviews from designers such as John Hassall and W.S. Rogers.
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Joellyn Duesberry: Recent Western Paintings

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Joellyn Duesberry: Recent Western Paintings
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780935037364
Condition
VG
Description
Santa Fe: Gerald Peters Gallery, 1990. Softcover. VG. Green wraps. 20 pp. 9 color plates. 1 gatefold. Includes artist's statement.
MY ABC BOOK

MY ABC BOOK

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MY ABC BOOK
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Type Punch Matrix (United States)
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Very good.
Description
Akron, Ohio / Chicago / New York: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1904. Very good.. Early 20th-century cloth alphabet book in verse, with images and rhymes associated with affluent families of the period. This line of "Saalfield's Muslin Books" were meant for heavy use by children: "They may be washed and colors will not run, A child can chew them and have lots of fun." "A is for Automobile, so shiny and bright"; "D is for Dandy, a great St. Bernard"; "H is for Hammock, out in the shade, With our darling in it, swung by the maid." 8.75'' x 7.75''. Original linen pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with large color images block letters and rhyming phrases on all leaves. [6] pages, printed one side only, folded at fore-edge and bound at gutter. Some fraying and spots of soil. Binding firm.
DIE SAGE VON SANKT JULIAN DEM GASTFREIEN

DIE SAGE VON SANKT JULIAN DEM GASTFREIEN by Flaubert, Gustave; Kaus, Max

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DIE SAGE VON SANKT JULIAN DEM GASTFREIEN
Author
Flaubert, Gustave; Kaus, Max
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Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
Potsdam-Berlin: Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1919. Very good.. Second edition, Flaubert's Legend of Saint Julien, illustrated with twelve lithographs by Max Kaus. A striking series of early lithographs by Kaus, from the immediate post-war period. Kaus initially learned lithographic technique from Ernst Heckel, with whom he improvised a wartime printing press out of salvaged wood from destroyed railway station paneling (Walde); in 1918 and following, Kaus continued to produce prints and painting along Expressionist lines to a mixed reception from contemporary critics and the continuing interest of later generations. Original quarter brown cloth with black and brown boards. 46, [2] pages. Illustrated with twelve black and white lithographs by Kaus. 2. und 3. Tausend. In German, translation by Elsa von Hollander. Moderate scuffing and light soil to boards, with several vertical tears and some small loss to cloth of spine.
DUST DEVIL

DUST DEVIL by Zelinsky, Paul O.; Isaacs, Anne

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DUST DEVIL
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Zelinsky, Paul O.; Isaacs, Anne
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Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN
9780375867224
Condition
Fine in fine dust jacket.
Description
New York: Schwartz & Wade Books, 2010. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this larger-than-life tale of a larger-than-average girl in Montana, who learns how to live life in the American West while thwarting a gang of mosquito-riding outlaws. Paul O. Zelinsky is a children's book chameleon. He notes that his art is "recognized by [its] unrecocognizability," and his output exhibits delightful variety: from simple pop-up books to illustrations inspired by the high Renaissance, he has a title for every aesthetic taste (DETROIT FREE PRESS). Zelinsky has earned a Caldecott Medal and three Caldecott Honors. 12'' x 9''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped (no price) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. Unpaginated. Signed by Zelinsky to title page. Sharp and bright.
SOUS LA COUPOLE PAS SOUS LA COUPE!

SOUS LA COUPOLE PAS SOUS LA COUPE! by AUBRY, Genevieve

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SOUS LA COUPOLE PAS SOUS LA COUPE!
Author
AUBRY, Genevieve
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Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description
[Bern, Switzerland]: Editions Agecopresse, 1983. First Edition. Aubry was a right-wing Swiss politician. Signed presentation from author on the half-title page at Mt. Kisco, NY in 1983. Also with an inscription on her personal calling card laid in. A very scarce book!. 8vo., pictorial white wraps; 102 pages. Very Good (little browning covers; contents clean & tight).
OLD AMERICAN HOUSES AND HOW TO RESTORE THEM [1700-1850]

OLD AMERICAN HOUSES AND HOW TO RESTORE THEM [1700-1850] by WILLIAMS, Henry Lionel. [With Ottalie K. WILLIAMS]

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OLD AMERICAN HOUSES AND HOW TO RESTORE THEM [1700-1850]
Author
WILLIAMS, Henry Lionel. [With Ottalie K. WILLIAMS]
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Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description
NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. First Edition. Signed presentation from both authors on the half-title page: "Inscribed to Mary Mairs, with love and best wishes- Ottalie K. Williams/ H. Lionel Williams." Later reprinted in 1957 under a slightly different title. The true first edition is uncommon. Small quarto: blue cloth, lacks the uncommon dust jacket; 239 pages. Illustrated.. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight).
Interiors 1973-1974 [Limited Edition, Signed]

Interiors 1973-1974 [Limited Edition, Signed] by Robert Adams

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Interiors 1973-1974 [Limited Edition, Signed]
Author
Robert Adams
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2006. Near Fine. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2006. First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies. Large, slim quarto (36.5cm); publisher's sage green cloth and paper chemise printed in pale yellow; [27]ll. laid in, loose as issued, including twenty-four duotone plates (collated complete). Two faint pencil marks across upper cover, else a Near Fine example, contents clean and sound. Signed by the photographer on title page.
Dessa Rose [Signed Uncorrected Proof]

Dessa Rose [Signed Uncorrected Proof] by Sherley Anne Williams

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Dessa Rose [Signed Uncorrected Proof]
Author
Sherley Anne Williams
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780688051136
Condition
Very Good +
Description
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1986. Very Good +. New York: William Morrow and Co., 1986. Uncorrected Proof. Octavo (21cm); 270pp. Publisher’s stiff yellow wraps with black text. "7/23/86" release date in red marker at top front; wraps ever-so-slightly bumped at spine ends and corners; some discoloration and foxing throughout, especially along spine. Binding sound. Textblock slightly toned and foxed while endsheets and interior pages remain clean. A Very Good or better uncorrected proof of Williams’ neo-slave narrative.
A Fine Madness [*SIGNED*]

A Fine Madness [*SIGNED*] by Baker, Elliott

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A Fine Madness [*SIGNED*]
Author
Baker, Elliott
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ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Near Fine in Fair dj
Description
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Fair dj. (c.1964). 2nd impression. Hardcover. [very slight wear to extremities, generally a nice clean copy; the jacket has a ragged chip at the bottom rige corner of the rear panel, some discoloration to the spine, small tape stains at the lower corners of the front panel, a small tears at a couple of corners]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Del, / - with best wishes / and total confidence -- / Elliott / June '64." The author's first novel, about an "aging, raging poet seeking to maintain his identity and independence in a world that wants to reduce him to its own level." The basis for the 1966 film of the same name, starring Sean Connery, Joanne Woodward, and Jean Seberg. The inscription in this copy is to Delbert Mann, who was first announced as the film's director at the time the rights to the novel were first acquired in 1964, at which time the film was to be produced at M-G-M (the inscription dates from the month after the deal was announced). Alas, however, Mann was denied the opportunity to justify the author's "total confidence," as by the time the film went into production (now at Warner Bros.) he had been replaced by Irvin Kershner; the screenplay was by Baker himself. Signed by Author .
Education Before Verdun

Education Before Verdun by ZWEIG, Arnold

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Education Before Verdun
Author
ZWEIG, Arnold
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Viking Press, 1936. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Translated from the German by Eric Sutton. Foxing on the page edges, near fine in a very near fine dustwrapper designed by Paul Wenck. A handsome copy.
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Journal of Popular Culture - V.II

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Title
Journal of Popular Culture - V.II
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Boston Univ: Journal of Pop, 1968. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Fine.
The Transparent City

The Transparent City by WOLF, Michael and Geoff Manaugh

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Title
The Transparent City
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WOLF, Michael and Geoff Manaugh
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781597110761
Description
New York: Aperture, 2008. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features an introduction by Natasha Egan and an essay by Geoff Manaugh. An interesting collection of color photographs of city life and buildings taken from a vantage point within other high-rises. Includes 60 four-color images. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. As new and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap.
Lightyear 1976 Volume 6

Lightyear 1976 Volume 6

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Lightyear 1976 Volume 6
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Murfreesboro, TN: Middle Tennessee State University, 1976. First edition. Softcover. [20 pages.] Includes images by Henry Holmes Smith, Charles Cross, C. Callaway, Anna Grupke, Therold Linquist, Diana Hulick, Rod Cartier, John Myers, Donnie Tassey, Jon Nixon, Tony Sylvestro, Penny Porter, Peter Menzel, Kerry S. Henderson, LeBrone Roberts., and Jan Ellis. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon.
Secrets of Heaven (Print of an Illustration for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus")

Secrets of Heaven (Print of an Illustration for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus") by Wrightson, Berni [Bernie]

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Title
Secrets of Heaven (Print of an Illustration for Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus")
Creator
Wrightson, Berni [Bernie]
Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Berni Wrightson and Graphic Collectibles, 1988. Limited edition. Print. Fine. SIGNED. Black and white print, measuring 11" x 16" [14" x 20" with borders]. Number 209 in an edition limited to 300. Signed and numbered by the artist in pencil at the foot. Bernard Albert Wrightson (1948-2017), whose career creating horror art spanned over 45 years, is most known as the co-creator of the muck creature in Swamp Thing. In addition, he worked on a variety of mystery and anthology titles for DC Comics and its main rival, Marvel Comics. Wrightson considered his illustrations for Frankenstein to be some of his most personal work.
Dry Magazine #3

Dry Magazine #3 by Z, Fritz, Linda Fettucine, Uncle Bill, Spanky, Sadie, Joey Tonno, Pretzle, Flex, Chopped Meat (cover photo)

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Title
Dry Magazine #3
Author
Z, Fritz, Linda Fettucine, Uncle Bill, Spanky, Sadie, Joey Tonno, Pretzle, Flex, Chopped Meat (cover photo)
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
New York, 1980. Staplebound. [24p.], punk fanzine in very good condition. Quintessential and ingenious cut and paste layouts in this seminal NY punk fanzine. Single reviews of Tubeway Army, Flying Lizards, among much more.
Ulagan tug teguburi [four issues of the literary journal, the Mongolian-language edition of Hongqi wenxuan]

Ulagan tug teguburi [four issues of the literary journal, the Mongolian-language edition of Hongqi wenxuan]

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Title
Ulagan tug teguburi [four issues of the literary journal, the Mongolian-language edition of Hongqi wenxuan]
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Beijing: Minzu chubanshe, 1981. Four issues of the staplebound magazine, nos. 16-18 for 1981 and no. 1 for 1982. Very good. Published for an Inner Mongolian audience.
Journal of American History; Volume LI, No. 1-4, June 1964 - March 1965

Journal of American History; Volume LI, No. 1-4, June 1964 - March 1965

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Title
Journal of American History; Volume LI, No. 1-4, June 1964 - March 1965
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
no pl: Mississippi Valley Historical Association, 1965. Hardcover. 849p., hardcover, 7x10 inches + 2.5 inches thick; four volumes of the quarterly journal rebound by library, minor soil on bottom edge from shelwear, else in very good condition. Some topics of interest include racial intolerance in the 1920s, the Communist Party and the Midwest Farm Crisis of 1933, and the origin of the open-shop movement.
10 Quick Ways to Analyze Children's Books for Racism and Sexism

10 Quick Ways to Analyze Children's Books for Racism and Sexism

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Title
10 Quick Ways to Analyze Children's Books for Racism and Sexism
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Sacramento, CA: California State Department of Education, 1988. Pamphlet. Six panel brochure folded to 3.5x8.5 inches with introductory paragraph followed by 10 ways to analyze books, very good. Adapted from the original brochure published by the Council on Interracial Books for Children.
Burning Angel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)

Burning Angel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries) by James Lee Burke

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Title
Burning Angel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)
Author
James Lee Burke
Seller
Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780786860821
Condition
Fine
Description
First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author to the title page. A pristine copy of this novel, part of the Robicheaux mystery series. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.
D-DAY

D-DAY by Antony Beevor

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Title
D-DAY
Author
Antony Beevor
Seller
Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780670021192
Condition
Fine
Description
First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line: A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with only a small previous bookstore sticker to the back panel, else as new and unread. An exceptional copy of this account of one of the most important events of the 20th Century. Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.
CESKY PAMATNIK Z VELKEHO ROKU

CESKY PAMATNIK Z VELKEHO ROKU

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Title
CESKY PAMATNIK Z VELKEHO ROKU
Seller
Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Very Good binding
Description
V. Praze: B. Koci, 1918. Very Good binding. Oblong 8vo, in tan paper-covered boards stamped with a particularly happy looking lion or griffin: the boards are bit bowed; unpaginated.~~Facsimiles of letters celebrating the proclamation of the Czech Republic in 1918. The Austro-Hungarian Empire collapse and the new state emerged. It’s independence was proclaimed on October 28, 1918. An uncommon item; not available in the trade as of 12/07/23, with only a handful of copies located in institutions. Very Good binding.
Black Profiles in Courage; A Legacy of African-American Achievement

Black Profiles in Courage; A Legacy of African-American Achievement by Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem; Steinberg, Alan

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Title
Black Profiles in Courage; A Legacy of African-American Achievement
Author
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem; Steinberg, Alan
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780688130978
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates. Signed by Abdul-Jabbar on the half-title. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($22.00), lightly rubbed and bumped. Black paper on the boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Kareem's work that highlights the stories of Black men and women who helped shape the course of American history, like Peter Salem, Joseph Cinque, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and others.
About the Theatre

About the Theatre by Archer, William

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About the Theatre
Author
Archer, William
Seller
The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1886. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. First edition of the first book of criticism by Archer (1856-1924), a prominent literary and drama critic of his day. Bound in original dark red cloth with gilt title and author to spine and front cover. Some bumping and rubbing, slight chipping to spine corners otherwise in nice condition. Front and rear hinges are somewhat cracked and there are a few loose signatures. Light foxing throughout. Includes full page illustrations of some famous actors of the time such as Henry Irving, Edward Terry, Mary Anderson, and Sarah Bernhardt. 350 pages including index. DRA/071709.
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Ken Davies: Retrospective '82 by -

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Ken Davies: Retrospective '82
Author
-
Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Collectible; Fine
Description
Basking Ridge, NJ: Whistler's Daughter Gallery. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Fine. A crisp catalogue of the 1982 exhibition at the Whistler's Daughter Gallery in Basking Ridge, NJ. Clean and Near Fine in its beige, stapled wrappers.
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MADAME SARAH BERNHARDT; Last visit to America. Season of 1917-18

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MADAME SARAH BERNHARDT; Last visit to America. Season of 1917-18
Seller
Second Life Books Inc (United States)
Description
1917. Narrow 12mo, pp. 16. A flyer printed for Bernhardt's last American tour. Consists of an outline of events in her career (she was 72 at the time of the tour, apparently), a few reviews and a list of the repertoir she was performing. The flyer was used at the Empire Theatre in Lewiston, ME, on Sept. 21, [1917]. VG.
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Ordinances, Passed by the N. C. Constitutional Convention of 1875

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Title
Ordinances, Passed by the N. C. Constitutional Convention of 1875
Seller
Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description
octavo, 30 pages, ex-library, handstamp on titlepage, rebound in early 20th century plain cloth, red and black leather spine labels, shelf number on spine,else a good copy.

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