The Tailsman
by Scott, Sir Walter
Everyman's Library. Good. Scott, Sir Walter. The Tailsman. NY: Everyman's Library, ND. 316pp. 16mo. Hardcover. Book condition: Good with moderate bumping and yellowing. Former owner's name on front-free endsheet. Annotation in pencil.
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Trainspotting (Original photograph from the 1996 film)
by Ewan McGregor (starring); Danny Boyle (director); Irvine Welsh (novel); John Hodge (screenwriter)
N.p.: N.p., 1996. Vintage black-and-white borderless reference photograph from the 1996 film, showing Ewan McGregor drinking with his friends. Director Danny Boyle's second and best-known film, an adaptation of the acclaimed 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh, a darkly comic examination of the life of a heroin addict trying desperately to extract himself from his habit and the accompanying lifestyle. McGregor rose to international stardom on the strength of his performance as the lead, Mark Renton, and would... Read More
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A New and Popular Pictorial Description of the United States: Containing an Account of the Topography, Settlement, History, Revolutionary and Other Interesting Events, Statistics, Progress in Agriculture, Manufactures, and Population, &c., of Each State in the Union
by Sears, Robert.
. New-York: Published by Robert Sears, 1848. First edition. Octavo, full black morocco with elaborate gilt-decorations front and rear (leather, hardcover), elaborate gilt-decorated spine, all edges gilt, [viii], [5]-608, [2 ads] pp. Illustrated with numerous wood-engravings. Near-Fine, with just the slightest shelf wear.
Offered by Lighthouse Books
Studies in Cheremis folklore ... Volume I.
by Sebeok, Thomas, editor
Bloomington: Indiana University, 1952. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [3], 213, [1]; folding map; some toning, else very good and sound in original printed tan wrappers. Issued as no. 6 in the publisher's Folklore Series. Introduction and analytical bibliography, by T.A. Sebeok (p. [1]-12); The folktale, by A.N. Nyerges; The proverb, by W. Roberts; and, The riddle, by A. Taylor. A second volume was published in 1958. "The Mari, also formerly known as the Cheremis or Cheremisses, are a... Read More
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One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
by Segev, Tom, and Haim Watzman
New York: Metropolitan/Henry Holt, 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Translated by Watzman. Illustrated in black and white. 6 x 9 1/4 inches. 612 pages.
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Code Universel des Couleurs
by Seguy, E
1936. SEGUY, Eugene Alain. Code Universel des Couleurs. Encyclopedie Pratique du Naturaliste XXX. lxviii pp. Illustrated with 55 plates showing 720 colours. 8vo, 154 x 169 mm, bound loose as issued in the original cloth portfolio. Paris: Paul Lechevalier, 1936. First Edition. A system of precise designation of colours for the exact and natural sciences. The format is interesting; it consists of 48 loose plates on stiff glossy paper stock each with 15... Read More
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Madame O (Original photograph from the 1967 film)
by Seiichi Fukuda (director); Michael DeForrest (novel); Tomomi Tsukasa (screenwriter); Michiko Sakyô, Yûichi Minato, Akihiko Kanbara (starring)
N.p.: Audubon Films, 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1967 Japanese film. Provenance stamp and a label obscuring a previous provenance stamp on the verso. Based on the 1970 novel by Michael DeForrest, published under the pseudonym T. Horoku. Brutally gang raped as a young girl, Saeko develops a deep hatred toward men. Years later, Saeko is a doctor by day and at night picks up men as a street walker and... Read More
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The Writers Section (formerly the Writers School of the League of American Writers): 16th Term. Courses in Creative Writing: Short Story, Poetry, Article, Radio. School for Democracy, Winter Term: January-March 1943
by [Selsam, Howard, Director]
New York: School for Democracy, 1943. Pamphlet. Six panel brochure, 6x7.5 inches, light handling wear, else very good condition.
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So Far So Glad
by Selsey, Edward [pseud. of Edward JAMES]
London: Duckworth & Co, 1933. One of 750 copies. Illustrated by Edward Carrick. 1 vols. 4to. Three-quarter black cloth, marbled boards, lettered in gilt. Some toning to cloth, about fine. One of 750 copies. Illustrated by Edward Carrick. 1 vols. 4to.
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Tobi Kahn: Metamorphoses
by Selz, Peter; Ashton, Dore; Brenson, Michael; Kahn, Tobi
Lee, Massachusetts and New York, New York: Council for Creative Projects / the University of Washington Press, 1997. Softcover. VG. Inscribed to a prominent NY gallery owner by Tobi Kahn. Two copies of the exhibition announcement card laid in front.. Spring green & color illus. wraps, 80 pp., color illus. Issued in conjunction with a series of 1997-1999 exhibitions featuring these works by American artist Tobi Kahn (b. 1952). With essays by Peter Selz, Dore Ashton, and Michael... Read More
Offered by Mullen Books, Inc.
6 Separate Books (4 in Dustjackets)
by Seneca
Harvard University Press, 1956. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good +. Sharp copies of the 1953-1956 re-issues of this Loeb Classical Libary offering. 4 of the 6 volumes even including their original dustjackets. Each volume solid and VG+ to Near Fine, with small, very neat former owner name (the same name) at each of the 6 front free endpapers. The assorted dustjackets (on Tragedies I and II; Apocolocyntosis; and Epistulae Morales III) are crisp and VG+ to Near Fine,... Read More
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Lieutenant in Algeria
by SERVAN-SCHREIBER, Jean-Jacques
New York: Knopf, 1957. First. hardcover. very good. Translated by Ronald Matthews. 231 pages, small 8vo, cloth-backed boards (spine sunned). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First American edition. A very good copy lacking dust wrapper.
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Wire Service Photo of Bettina Green and Clarence Green who hade been arrested in connection with the Kidnapping of Charles M. Rosenthal
by [Photograph - Wire Service]
New York: International News Photos, Sept. '31. Good. Black and White photo. 21 x 26 cm. Some creasing. Small chip on left border of photo. Right corners of photo also chipped. From text label on back: Held for Rosenthal Kidnapping-- Atlantic City, N.J. .... Clarence Green and His "Housekeeper" Bettina Green, Who Were Arrested in Atlantic City, N.J., and Brought to New York to Answer Charges of Participating in the Kidnapping of Charles M. Rosenthal, Long Island Boy... Read More
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The Spell of The Yukon and Other Verses
by Service, Robert W.
Barse and Hopkins, 1907. Good. Service, Robert W.. The Spell of The Yukon and Other Verses. NY: Barse and Hopkins, 1907. 99pp. 12mo. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Good with rubbing, bumping and soiling. Front free endsheet removed and former owner's notes on rear endsheet.
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Total Party Kill Bestiary, Vol. 2 (Monsters to Challenge Veteran Heroes).
by SERVIS, Ryan.
Henderson:: 2CGaming,. 2020. Hardcover. Fine. Color illustrations throughout. First printing. Fine in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued.; 289 pages . 1946678309 .
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Deep ecology for the 21st century; readings on the philosophy and practice of the new environmentalism
by Session, George, editor
Boston: Shambhala, 1995. xxviii, 488p., paperback; spine slightly sunned, else very good condition.
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THE 500 HATS OF BARTHOLOMEW CUBBIN
by Seuss, Dr
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto, unpaged. In Very Good condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine is red without print. Dust jacket has edgewear with short tears at spine ends and flap corners, taped tear to spine cap, toning to spine. Price unclipped: "$2.95". Boards quarter bound with red cloth to spine and black paper to boards, white print, illustration; slight wear to spine caps and corners. Illustrated: 2-color drawings. First edition, second... Read More
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Van Severen (Original catalog for the 1968 exhibition)
by [Dan Van Severen]
Antwerp: Galerij Jeanne Buytaert, 1968. Vintage catalog for an exhibition held from January 12 through March 29, 1968, at Galerij Jeanne Buytaert in Antwerp. Illustrated in black-and-white. Text in Dutch. Very Good in saddle-stapled wrappers, with artist's name in manuscript ink at the top right corner of the front wrapper, lightly toned on the top wrapper edges and fore-edges.
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Guinness Book of the Millennium Edition: 20th Century
by Seymour-Ure, Kirsty
Guinness World Records, 2000. Very Good. Seymour-Ure, Kirsty. Guinness Book of the Millennium Edition: 20th Century. London: Guinness World Records, 2000. 480pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Pictorial hardcover. Book condition: Very good with bumped foot of spine.. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gentle rubbing..
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Old Rocking Chair
by SHACKLEFORD, Frank
New York: Vantage Press, 1975. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 110pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with slight foxing on and near the flap folds. Written by an Afro-Cuban educated in South Carolina, A *Tales of the City*-like novel narrated by an older woman running an apartment building in Greenwich Village, who describes the world of "whores and pimps and homosexuals and lesbians... that is usually closed to outsiders." The author was a member of... Read More
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The Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn
by SHAHN, Ben
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 147 pages. Edited by Davis Pratt. Features a foreword by Archibald MacLeish. A wide ranging collection of Shahn's black and white photographs, many of which were from his work for the Farm Security Administration. A clean and tight very near fine copy in cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket.
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Ben Shahn Photographer: An Album from the Thirties
by SHAHN, Ben and Margaret R. Weiss
New York: Da Capo Press, 1973. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. Edited and with an introduction by Margaret R. Weiss. Includes 82 black and white images all of which were taken for Roy Stryker's FSA. A very good copy in cloth boards with some sunning to the bottom of the boards and in a near fine dust jacket. Still, a nice copy of the first book to focus on Ben Shahn's photographs.
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The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet (Three original photographs from the 1969 film)
by Shakespeare (play); Peter Perry Jr. (director); Jim Macher (screenwriter); Harvey Shain, Dee Lockwood, William Rotsler, Wendell Swink (starring)
Hollywood: Global Pictures, 1969. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film, with one of the photographs a compilation photograph of two studio still photographs. Photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. Very loosely based on the Shakespeare play. A group of thesbians begin a production of Romeo and Juliet, but everyone is in the production is incredibly randy, and the play quickly descends into debauchery. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall.
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King Richard II
by Shakespeare, William; Ure, Peter
Harvard University Press, 1956. Very Good. Shakespeare, William. King Richard II. Ure, Peter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956. 207pp. 12mo. Cloth. Book condition: Very good with light bumping and yellowing. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair with rubbed, bumped, and chipped edges. 2 inch loss of top spine end.
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Coriolanus
by Shakespeare, William
Routledge, 1988. Good. Shakespeare, William. Coriolanus. NY: Routledge, 1988. 370pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Good with rubbed edges. Some annotation in pen.
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