A History of Sanpete County (Utah Centennial County History Series)
by Antrei, Albert C.T.; Roberts, Allen D.
Salt Lake City, UT: Utah State Historical Society, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very Good. 435pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Navy blue boards with gilt lettering on the backstrip and front board. Illustrated with photographs. Covers just a trifle cocked. In the dust jacket with light surface wear. One of the uniform Utah county histories published as part of the Utah Centennial County History Series to celebrate Utah's centennial.
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
World Gold
by APPLETON, LeRoy H.
New York: Fortune, 1936. Pictorial map. Color lithograph. Measures 13 3/4" x 22 3/8" This infographic world map visualizes the global flow, production, and concentration of gold during the interwar monetary crisis, following "the spectacular gold event of 1934-1935." This refers to FDR's Gold Reserve Act of 1934, the collapse of the gold standard, and the explosive rise in gold production during the Depression. The map is colored to show gold production, and particularly highlights South African dominance... Read More
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Tom Wesselmann
by Aquin, Stephane
Montreal: Musee des Beaux Arts, 2012. Hardcover. VG. Glossy color illustrated boards with black text on a white spine. Red end pages. Red textblocks. 201 pages; profusely illustrated in color. Contents are as follows: Les bombes de Tom Wesselmann, un art nommé désir? Nathalie Bondil -- Tom Wesselmann: le plus mal connu des artistes célèbres / Stéphane Aquin -- Les nus mis en contexte / Constance W. Glenn -- Peindre avec l'histoire de l'art, le défi de Tom... Read More
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From a Breton Garden: The Vegetable Cookery of Josephine Araldo.
by ARALDO, Josephine and REYNOLDS, Robert.
Reading:: Addison-Wesley,. 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Stated first printing. Previous owner's book-plate on front free endpaper, else fine in a near fine (sun faded along the spine) dust jacket. . 0201517590 .
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Bridal Drag Cross-dressing, Camp Performance, and Gender Nonconformity Archive of 22 Photographs, 1950s-1970s
by Drag Performance Photo Archive
1960. Gender nonconforming and drag performance photo archive documenting queer social gatherings, costume performance, camp pageantry, and private queer community life from the 1960s through the 1990s. The photographs preserve a period when drag culture existed simultaneously in nightlife, informal house parties, outdoor gatherings, and small community events, often outside mainstream visibility. Long before drag became widely commercialized through television and corporate entertainment circuits, queer performers and gender nonconforming individuals built their own social spaces through costume, parody, theatricality,... Read More
Offered by Max Rambod Inc.
Hindu Ritual Life Along the Ganges at Benares, Temples, Bathing Ghats, Cremation Rites, and Ascetic Practice, Archive of 28 Photos circa 1900s
by Hinduism Photo Archive
1900. Hindu religious life in India photo archive showing temple approaches, Ganges riverfront ghats, public ritual bathing, cremation rites, ascetic practice, and pilgrimage activity at Benares around the turn of the twentieth century. Benares, now Varanasi, has long been one of Hinduism's sacred cities, with miles of steps descending to the Ganges for religious bathing and temple access from the river. The Ganges is regarded by Hindus as the holiest river, and ashes of the dead have traditionally been... Read More
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Sawmill and Timberyard Workers in Ludlow, Vermont During the Postwar Building Boom, 1940s-50s
by Vermont Sawmill Archive
1940. Timberyard and sawmill labor photo archive documenting postwar wood production in Ludlow, Vermont, showing how mill workers, yard hands, and mechanized cutting equipment operated within the regional lumber economy of the 1940s to 1950s. Images record both the industrial process and the workers themselves, depicting a sequence of interior milling, outdoor yard storage, machine handling, and damaged or burned work areas at a moment when postwar housing demand drove increased American lumber consumption and timber extraction. The archive... Read More
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Guardian of Your Tradition
by Universal African Vodun Archministry
New York: Universal African Vodun Archministry, 1960. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good+. First Edition. Pamphlet. Information brochure on the Order of Damballah Hwedo. The spiritual and cultural groundwork established by the Order led to the incorporation of the African Theological Archministry and the eventual founding of the Oyotunji African Village in Beaufort County, South Carolina, in 1970. Damballah Hwedo (or Danbala Wèdo) is a benevolent, primordial creator lwa associated with serpents, wisdom, and the sky in Haitian Vodou... Read More
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EICHMANN IN JERUSALEM: A REPORT ON THE BANALITY OF EVIL
by Arendt, Hannah
New York: The Viking Press, 1963. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 275 pages. In Very Good condition, lacking dust jacket. Spine tan and orange with tan lettering. Mild general shelf wear. Top of textblock dyed black. Shelved under Front Counter. "JD" under date code. Unsure if this means anything since we don't take consignments at this low of a price. 1412628. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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POLITICS AND POETICS
by Aristotle
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1979. Collector's Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo, xxi, 331 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's green leather with paneling and gilt lettering to spine. Mild general shelf wear. Edges of textblock gilt. Shelved in Easton Press. 1412565. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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Blytheville. In the Heart of the St. Francis Valley In the State of Arkansas
by [Arkansas]
Blytheville, AR: Press of the News for the Business Men's Club, 1912. [16]pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Photographically illustrated. Minor wear and toning to wrappers, ink ownership signature on front wrapper from local resident. Text block detached but clean. Very good overall. An unrecorded promotional for home seekers in northeastern Arkansas in the early 20th century. Blytheville was founded by Methodist clergyman Henry T. Blythe in 1879. The lumber industry brought sawmills and a rowdy crowd of settlers, as... Read More
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FRUIT OF THE LOON
by Armory, Ricardo
San Diego: Greenleaf Classics, 1968. First printing. Very good plus.. First edition of this contemporary parody of Richard Amory's Loon Songs trilogy, issued by the same publisher for a readership thoroughly familiar with the source material. SONG OF THE LOON's unprecedented popularity inspired more than one equally unprecedented derivative work: a 1970 film adaptation which was "the first independently produced, non-pornographic gay male feature to be granted mainstream theatrical release," and two years before that, this "silly, occasionally... Read More
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British Indian Army From the First World War to the Final Years of British Colonial India, Archive of 31 Photographs, 1914-1945
by British Indian Army
1914. British Indian Army photo archive spanning both World Wars, depicting colonial recruitment, military training, the Indian Air Force, military ceremonies, and Burma-front service into the final decades of British rule in India, circa 1914-1945. The British Indian Army was the largest non-conscript force in history: roughly 1.3 million men were recruited during the First World War and 2.5 million during the Second. Indian troops were deployed to the Western Front, Mesopotamia, East Africa, and Egypt during the First... Read More
Offered by Max Rambod Inc.
Bubber Goes to Heaven
by Arna Bontemps; Daniel Minter, illustrator
NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.
Offered by Kenneth Mallory
Utah's Aerospace Heritage: The Aircraft and Artifacts of Hill Aerospace Museum
by Arnold, Bob; Spencer, Deloy; Hill, Mary Bell; Hill, Tom; Anderson, Paul F.; Broberg, Mel
Home Front Historical publishing, 1996. Fine. Arnold, Bob. Utah's Aerospace Heritage: The Aircraft and Artifacts of Hill Aerospace Museum. Spencer, Deloy; Hill, Mary Bell; Hill, Tom; Anderson, Paul F.; Broberg, Mel. Salt Lake City: Home Front Historical publishing, 1996. 144pp. Illustrated. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine..
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Fish and Company
by Arnold, Ralph
New York: The Macmillan Company. Good. 1951. First American Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [wear to extremities (slight exposure of boards at a couple of corners), spine slightly turned, one-time owner's initials, date & place of purchase, and brief comment ("Superior!") in ink along edge of rear pastedown]. Light mystery novel set in Italy, a one-off in the genre for this author, who also turned out a number of nonfictional works as well as... Read More
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The Decline of American Liberalism
by Aronowitz, Stanley
npl: Socialist Scholars Conference, 1986. pp. 53-76, 5.5x8.5 inch pamphlet, reprinted from New Politics 1986; very good. Socialist Scholars Conference, Pamphlet Series.
Offered by Bolerium Books Inc.
Audubon. An intimate life of the American woodsman
by Arthur, Stanley Clisby
New Orleans: Harmanson, 1937. Edition limited to 375 numbered copies signed by the author (this no. 218), 8vo, pp. 517, [3]; text illustrations, plates, double-page map; black and tan cloth with red morocco spine label, unopened; fine. A biography of Audubon that focuses particularly on his activities in Louisiana.
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Paris From Above
by Arthus-Bertrand, Yann; Gefen, Gerard
Editions du Chene, 2000. Very Good. Arthus-Bertrand, Yann. Paris From Above. Gefen, Gerard. London: Editions du Chene, 2000. 180pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Folio. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with rubbing and bumping.. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with 3 inch tear in top edge of front cover. Tiny tears in spine ends with sticker remnants on rear panel.. Gift inscription on front flap..
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Richard Artschwager, James Lee Byars, and Joel Shapiro
by ARTSCHWAGER, Richard, James Lee Byars, and Joel Shapiro
New York: Kent Gallery, 1988. First edition. Softcovers. Exhibition catalogs for a show that ran February 4 through March 5, 1988. All three books feature black and white illustrations by each artist as well as biographical information. All three catalogs are fine copies in wrappers and in fine dust jacket and in a very near fine cardboard slipcase. An attractive production.
Offered by Jeff Hirsch Books
Many Voices / Many Visions: Experimental Bookworks: WCA 1985 National Juried/Invitational Show (First Edition)
by [Women's Caucus for Art]
Los Angeles: Women's Caucus for Art, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Catalog for an exhibition held from February 2 through March 26, 1985, as part of the Women's Caucus for Art show at the Brand Library Art Galleries in Glendale. Very Good plus in saddle-stapled wrappers, moderately foxed on the wrapper extremities.
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
![ORIGINAL ACRYLIC PAINTING TITILED "YONI AND LINGHAM, LIFE CREATION" [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/873/481/1768481873.0.l.jpg)
ORIGINAL ACRYLIC PAINTING TITILED "YONI AND LINGHAM, LIFE CREATION" [Signed]
by Asasax
This unframed painting is on stretched canvas that resembles denim on the ungessoed verso. It is signed and dated 2006 lower left. Asasax's painting approach is based on a belief that natural and man-made colors emanate from light and feelings and permeate our being with an "historical sediment." Asasax uses emblems of Khmer culture as colorful building blocks in his structural compositions. Measures 23.5 in. x 31.5 in. Shelved at Rockville PS1101. Asasax (b. 1962), is a Cambodian contemporary... Read More
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ORIGINAL PAINTING ACRYLIC ON DENIM [Signed]
by Asasax
This unframed painting is on stretched canvas that resembles denim on the ungessoed verso. It is signed and dated 2006 lower right. Asasax's painting approach is based on a belief that natural and man-made colors emanate from light and feelings and permeate our being with an "historical sediment." Asasax uses emblems of Khmer culture as colorful building blocks in structural compositions. Measures 29.5 in. x 38 in. Shelved at Rockville PS1101. Asasax (b. 1962), is a Cambodian contemporary artist... Read More
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Proto Witotoan
by Aschmann, Richard P.
The Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington, 1993. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 159, [1]; fine copy in original pictorial wrappers. "Making use only of evidence from languages spoken today, [Aschmann] reconstructed the protolanguage of six languages found in the Amazonian areas of Peru, Columbia, and Brazil.
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Rivers and Mountains
by Ashbery, John
Ecco, 1966. Very Good. Ashbery, John. Rivers and Mountains. NY: Ecco, 1966. 64pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gentle rubbing.
Offered by Weller Book Works