Titles starting with 3 from Caliban Books ABAA-ILAB

New York: Seaver / Arcade / Holt. 1986, 88, 90. First American edition. Hardcover. Fine. Set of 3 volumes by Natalia Ginzburg: : Valentino and Sagittarius, The Little Virtues, The Road to the City. All three stated First printings of the First US Editions. Hardcover, cloth-backed boards, 8vos. Fine copies in Near Fine dust jackets. All 3 books tight, crisp and clean. DJs show minor soiling; The Road to the City is price-clipped; else, Fine. 3 vols. ... more information

London: Temple Press. 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 3 Brockbank driving books. Round the Bend -- Over the Line -- Up the Straight with Brockbank. Hardcovers, all in their original dust jackets. "Over the Line" is a First Edition, the other two are later printings. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown of 2 of the books; light spotting to covers and endpapers. The dust jackets are at least Very Good, showing minor soil to the spines and light edgewear. 3 volumes. Round the... more information

Clermont-Ferrand, France: Michelin & Cie.. 1920. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. 3 volumes, 1920. Tan cloth flexi-boards. All VG+ in VG- dustjackets with edgewear including some small chips and tears. Contents are clean and unmarked. ... more information

New York: Pioneer Publishers. 1937. Paperback. Near Fine. 3 pamphlets published by New York's Pioneer publishers, a Socialist publishing house. Includes, " Wall Street's War - Not Ours" by Hansen / "The People's Front - The New Betrayal", by Burnham / and "The Witchcraft Trial in Moscow," by Adler. Minor shelfwear to wraps. Unmarked text. Two pages in "Witchcraft" are tanned from "Wall Street" having once been laid- in there. ... more information

Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Institute Press. 1966. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback quarto with paper wraps; art exhibition catalog, illustrated with b&w plates; 121 pp. Very Good copy; light wear and soiling; slight discoloration and few scratches to covers; spine slightly cocked; hinges good; clean, unmarked text. ... more information

Akron, OH: Saalfield. 1935. Paperback. Very Good. 3 books. "Pastime" is hardcover, the other two books are softcovers. All three published by Saalfield Pub. Co. of Akron Ohio. 1935, 1935 and 1936. Both softcover copies in Very Good condition; light soil and edgewear to the wraps; strong bindings; clean and unmarked contents. The hardcover is missing its spine and the boards are edgeworn; however, the binding is still secure; the text is bold and bright, but there is some pencil doodling throughou... more information

New York: J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company. 1896-1898. Original Wraps. Fair. 3 Titles by Old Sleuth - Pawnee Tom; or, Adrift in New York (1896), 94pp. Fire Bomb Jack; or, Freaks of a Mystery Man (1898), 82pp. Red Cecil the Detective; or, A Steady Pursuit (1898), 82pp. Original illustrated wraps. 12mo. Fair. Moderate to heavy shelfwear, occasional loss to edges of wraps, spine reinforced with tape, tanning to contents. ... more information

n.p.: n.p.. c. 1950. Loose. Near Fine. Collection of 3 vintage photos shot by the legendary Irving Klaw, circa 1950. One features Bettie Page (the photo is marked B. Page 5), the other two are of different, unnamed models. Unblemished and clear photos. They are genuine prints, sepia-toned, all measuring 4x5", and come housed in protective plastic cases. Each woman is photographed in a bra, stockings, high-heels and some sort of cover up. There is no nudity. Set of 3 photos. Digital images available upo... more information

New York and London: Harcourt Brace and Faber. 1952. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First printing, 1952, and first UK edition, no date, but also 1952. 4to, pictorial boards, unpaginated, ca. 50 pp., heavily illustrated throughout in b/w and color. The American editions are very good in very good dust jackets with mild shelfwear and tanning, the UK edition has slight wear to outer joints and spine ends, else very good in slightly used, tanned and chipped dust jacket. Two of the jackets have about 1.... more information

Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press. 1950. Paperback. Near Fine. 3 chapbooks from the Overbrook press. All limited editions. 2 have author's compliments card laid-in. All in wraps with title label on front. Light sunning to wraps. Fine contents. 3 books. ... more information

Chicago: Charles H. Kerr. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. 3 issues from 1910 and 1916. Pictorial wraps, ca. 75 pp each, good to very good, light spine and cover wear, age toning. March 1910 features work on IWW and other Mine Workers conventions but little on Pittsburgh. August 1910 features The Slaves of the Steel Trust by Leslie H. Marcy, the Pennsylvania Coal Miners' Strike by Thomas F. Kennedy (and Emanuel Julius' Mark Twain Radical), June 1916 has great cover drawing of blast furnace work... more information

New York: Academy Photo Offset. 1940-1942-1944. First printing. Hardcover. Fine. 3 volumes, all first printings from 1940, 1942 and 1944, quarto, cloth hardbacks in dust jackets, jackets mildly edgeworn and soiled, books fine; two of the three books are INSCRIBED BY SAUL RASKIN, texts in Hebrew, Yiddish, English in three columns, gorgeous b/w illustrations by Raskin. RARE in first printings, rarer still to find nice early inscriptions from Raskin. ... more information

New Haven: S. Babcock. Paperback. Very Good. The Best Child published in Philadelphia by American Sunday School Union, all published ca. 1835-1845. Miniatures in wraps, measuring 2.8 x 1.8 inches, all a few pages long with original wraps (in tan, yellow, blue), illustrated with woodcuts. Neatly stitched together at the spine a long time ago, condition VG with some foxing to pages. RARE. ... more information

Wichita, KS: The Numismatist. 1950's. Off-print. Paperback. Very Good. Collection of 3 offprints from The Numismatist, by James J. Curto. One of them, "The Copper..." is inscribed by the author on the inside of the front wraps. Softcovers. Clean and unmarked contents. Illustrated. One of the books has a small tear to the top corner of the last 5 pages and the rear wrap. ... more information

Paris: Felix Alcan. c. 1890. Later edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound volume of 3 philosophical works in French. No dates on any title pages, but c. 1890's. All 3 essays are later editions. Hardcover, bound in 1/4 leather with marbled boards. Gilt titles and 5 raised bands on spine. 12mo. Light scuffing to boards. occasional browning and soil to contents; clean text. Solid binding. 3 scarce titles bound together. ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1978. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Stated first edition, 1978. Softcover 8vo, 398pp. This copy has a "New York City Ballet" bookplate signed by the author, affixed to the first blank. In VG+ condition, with some general shelfwear and some rubbing to the corners, slight crease to the spine. Contents are bright, clean and unmarked. ... more information

Hong Kong: Commercial Press. 1987. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition thus, 1987, hardcover, octavo, 411pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with toning to pages, otherwise fine with tight binding and unmarked text. DJ near fine with hint of edge wear and rubbing to panels. ... more information

Florida: Officers and Enlisted Men of the 304the Fighter Squadron. 1944. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardbound, unpaginated (around 90 pages), Very Good copy, light wear to some pages of the text, a bit of soil/discoloration to the covers, covers also with some rubbing to the tips and edges. ... more information

NYNY: Association for Computing Machinery, 1994. Fine. Quarto, hardbound, 739 pp., clean unmarked text, fine copy. Binding is Hard Cover. ... more information

Venice: Rivista dell'Ente Autonomo La Biennale di Venezia. 1964. Hardcover. Good +. 1964 Hardocver 8vo, 318pp +225 plates + 83+p index and ads. Profusely illustrated in b&w. A good+ copy, spine cocked with some soil to the boards. Contents are clean and unmarked. ... more information