American Missionary in Africa Letter Archive Chronicling Portuguese Angola, Belgian Congo, and British South Africa, 1946
by Dr. John A. Reuling; American Missionary in Africa
1946. [Colonialism][Religion] Archive of letters by Dr. John A. Reuling recording his 1946 missionary work in Africa, across mid-century Portuguese, Belgian, British, and South African colonial systems, where evangelism was a tool of westernization and colonialism alongside education, public health, and agricultural training. Written during Reuling's first year as Africa Secretary for the American Board, the letters track his movements through Elende, Bailundo, Currie Institute, Chikore, Mt. Silinda, Mange, Adams College, Johannesburg, McCord Hospital, Groutville, and other mission and... Read More
Offered by Max Rambod Inc.
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The Colored Boy [wrapper title]
by [African Americana]: Somerville, C.C.
[N.p., likely Portsmouth, Va, 1929. [5],25pp. Original pictorial wrappers with photographic portrait of the author as a young man on front wrapper, stapled. Substantial toning and some dust-soiling and pencil math markings to wrappers, moderate chip to bottom corner of rear wrapper. Internally quite clean. Overall about very good. An exceedingly rare work of African American uplift published at the outset of the Great Depression by a notable Virginia preacher. Dr. C.C. Somerville was an active and in-demand traveling... Read More
Offered by The Joe Fay Company
A New Song
by [AFRICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] HUGHES, Langston (poems); GOLD, Michael (introduction)
New York: International Workers Order, 1938. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; [6],7-31,[1]pp. This is a duplicate from the Robert W. Woodruff Library, with their tasteful bookplate mounted on verso of front wrapper. Light wear to spine fold and extremities, tiny ink date (1938) at lower rear wrapper; a bright, Near Fine copy, without the usual toning and heavy wear associated with this title. An important pre-WWII collection, with Hughes firmly in his proletarian mode... Read More
Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books
![I Am Legend [Limited 40th Anniversary Edition, Signed by Matheson, Johnson, Simmons, and Etchison]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/972/300/1768300972.0.l.jpg)
I Am Legend [Limited 40th Anniversary Edition, Signed by Matheson, Johnson, Simmons, and Etchison]
by Richard Matheson; George Clayton Johnson [fwd.]; Matthew R. Bradley [intro.]; Dan Simmons [intro.]; Dennis Etchison [afterword]
Springfield, PA: Gauntlet Publications, 1995. Near Fine. Springfield, PA: Gauntlet Publications, 1995. Limited 40th Anniversary Edition of 500 copies, of which this is no. 290. Octavo (23.5cm); red leather boards with gilt lettering; 258pp; housed in black slipcase. Boards sturdy and square. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Small scuff to slipcase at entrance, else sturdy and solid. Signed by Matheson, Simmons, Johnson, and Etchison on limitation page at front. Matheson's classic lone survivor novel, often seen... Read More
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
Miss Marple Novels: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, A Pocket Full of Rye, and Sleeping Murder [Four Volume Set]
by Agatha Christie; Andrew Davidson [illus.]; Laura Thompson [intro.]
London: Folio Society, 2013. Near Fine. London: Folio Society, 2013. First Editions thus. Four octavo volumes (23cm); illus. cloth boards and color plates to each. Housed in publisher's gray slipcase with black relief of Miss Marple and gilt stamping. Minor nudge to spine head of Sleeping Murder and very mild shelfwear to fore-edge of The Murder at the Vicarage and slipcase, otherwise each in Near Fine condition in a Very Good or better slipcase.
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie; Andrew Davidson [illus.]; Sophie Hannah [intro.]
London: Folio Society, 2022. Near Fine. London: Folio Society, 2022. Second printing, stated. Octavo (23cm); xiv, 222pp; color plates throughout. Boards in black buckram with blue and white illustration and spine title in gilt, housed in blue slipcase. Mild shelfwear to slipcase but Near Fine overall.
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
John Marin: The Late Oils
by Agee, William C.
New York, NY: Adelson Galleries, 2008. Hardcover. VG+. As new. Exhibition announcement card laid in with additional ephemera including a hand written list of prices from a New York gallery.. Oblong quarto. Hardcover. Color illus. boards; 52 pp.; 14 color plates; 8 color and bw figures; Decorated endpapers. Issued in conjunction with a 2008 exhibition of artwork by American modernist John Marin (1870-1953). With an illustrated essay by William C. Agee. The illustrated catalogue features 14 examples of... Read More
Offered by Mullen Books, Inc.
The 1930's: Painting & Sculpture in America
by Agee, William C.
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1968. Softcover. VG-. Scraping and Scuffing along the rear edge of spine, other edges have general light wear. Otherwise clean and unmarked.. Square quarto. Softcover. Brown wraps with white and black titiles. 90 unnumbered pages illustrations (some color) 25 cm.
Offered by Mullen Books, Inc.
Revolutionary warfare
by Ahmad, Eqbal
Chicago: Students for a Democratic Society, [196-]. 18p. staplebound pamphlet, minor handling wear and smudging. A scarcer SDS pamphlet from this period. Born in India, Ahmad's family went to Pakistan during partition; he was later active in the Algerian resistance movement. In 1971, while a fellow at the Adlai Stevenson Institute in Chicago, he was charged as one of the Harrisburg Eight, alleged to have hatched a plot to kidnap Henry Kissinger.
Offered by Bolerium Books Inc.
Thee: A Poem.
by AIKEN, Conrad.
London: Inca Books, (1973).. First UK edition, numbered & signed issue.. [19 pp]. Touch of rubbing to crown, else fine in gilt-stamped paper-covered boards with leather spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Six illustrations by Gillian Ruff. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Aiken.
Offered by Jeff Maser, Bookseller
The Clerk's Journal. Being The Diary Of A Queer Man.; An Undergraduate Poem Together with a Brief Memoir of Haarvard, Dean Briggs and T.W. Eliot
by Aiken, Conrad
New York: Eakins Press, 1971. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. One of 2,300 copies. Cloth. Printed at the press of David R. Godine.
Offered by James & Mary Laurie Booksellers
Six studies of Henri Matisse by Alberto Giacometti (Original catalog for the 1955 exhibition)
by [Alberto Giacometti, Henri Matisse]
New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1955. Vintage catalog for an exhibition held in 1980 at the Pierre Matisse Gallery. Features six black-and-white reproductions of the studies. The studies were executed by Giacometti during several trips to Matisse's hotel apartment in Nice and his home in St. Paul-de-Vence throughout 1954. Giacometti created the studies as drafts for a medallion commissioned by the French mint, although the coin was ultimately never struck. About Near Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers. ... Read More
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
THE ORIGINS OF THE WAR OF 1914
by Albertini, Luigi, 1871-1941 [author] ; Massey, Isabella M. [translator/editor]
New York: Enigma Books, 2005. New and Updated edition; Reprinted. Softcover. Octavo, Three volumes. In Very Good condition. Spines are black with white and grey print. Price unclipped: "$29.00" each volume. Covers are illustrated, yellow or grey print; slight edge wear. Illustrated: b&w maps. First published by Oxford University Press, 1952. CONTENTS: Vol. 1 European Relations from the Congress of Berlin to the Eve of the Sarajevo Murder (ISBN 1929631316), xxviii, 612 pages - Vol. 2. The... Read More
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Sappho Darling (Original photograph from the 1968 film)
by Albert Zugsmith (director, screenwriter); Carol Young, Yvonne D'Angers, Alyn Darnay (starring)
N.p.: Cambist Films, 1968. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1968 film. Provenance stamp on the verso. Despite her boyfriend's best efforts, lovely young Sappho is intent on remaining a virgin until marriage, until she meets the gorgeous buxom hitchhiker Brigitte. Shot on location in Stockholm, Sweden. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.
Offered by Royal Books, Inc.
The Plague
by Albert Camus; Stuart Gilbert [trans.]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. First American Edition. Octavo; illustrated dust jacket; black boards stamped in gilt; red topstain; 278pp. Price-clipped dust jacket lightly worn along edges with some very shallow chipping and neat tape mending to verso. Boards show only mild shelfwear; binding sound and pages unmarked. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good dust jacket.
Offered by Capitol Hill Books
History of the Bisayan People in the Philippine Islands: Evangelization and Culture at the Contact Period (Volume II).
by ALCINA, Ignacio Fransisco.
Manila:: University of Santo Tomas Publishing House,. 2004. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Volume II only. Translated from the Spanish, edited, and annotated by Cantius J. Kobak and Lucio Gutierrez. First printing thus. Near fine in a near fine (fading along the spine) dust jacket. ; 671 pages . 9715062806 .
Offered by Grendel Books
Little Women
by Alcott, Louisa M
Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing Co. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Todd, Dorothy. Reissue. No date on copyright page, circa 1940. Ink gift note on front endpaper, bookworm tracks on outer edge of text block, affects margin and not text, pages toned, 1 inch open tear to jacket spine base, edges of jacket rubbed. Binding tight and square, pages clean. 412 pp. Jacket art by Dorothy Todd. In picturesque nineteenth-century New England, tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic... Read More
Offered by Yesterday's Muse, Inc.
Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
by Alcott, Louisa M
Chicago: The Goldsmith Publishing Co, 1930. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Gretta, [J. Clemens]. Reissue. No date on copyright page, circa 1940. Ink gift note on front endpaper, bookworm tracks on outer edge of text block, affects margin and not text. Pages toned, 1 inch open tear to jacket spine base, jacket edges a bit rubbed. Binding tight and square, pages clean. 253 pp. Turquoise cloth, black titles. At Plumfield, an experimental school for boys, the little scholars... Read More
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Eight Cousins
by Alcott, Louisa M
Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing Co, 1935. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Reissue. No date on copyright page, circa 1940. Ink gift note on front endpaper, bookworm tracks on outer edge of text block, affects margin and not text, pages toned, minor loss from jacket corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean. 243 pp. A new edition of Louisa May Alcott's 1875 classic novel, Eight Cousins: Or, The Aunt-Hill. The story of Rose Campbell, a lonely and sickly orphan who... Read More
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Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott
by Alcott, Louisa May
William Morrow, 1995. Very Good. Alcott, Louisa May. Behind a Mask: The Unknown Thrillers of Louisa May Alcott. NY: William Morrow, 1995. First Edition. 281pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gentle rubbing. Review copy with letter and photo.
Offered by Weller Book Works
Little Women: Illustrated by M. E. Gray (Everyman's Library Children's Classics Series)
by Alcott, Louisa May
Everyman's Library, 1994-11-22. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x8. Gray, M. E. Dust jacket and book are in very good condition. Movie themed jacket. Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations.
Offered by Ed's Editions Bookstore
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
by Alcott, Louisa M
New York, N.Y: Grosset & Dunlap, 2020-01-01. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Doane, Pelagie. Reissue. Unknown publishing date, estimated 1940, ink gift note on front endpaper, pages toned, a few tears to jacket corners. Binding tight and square. 354 pp. Dichromatic frontispiece, black and white illustrations in text (illustrator unattributed), Pelagie Doane jacket art. Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag is a classic romance story by Louisa May Alcott. As grandmothers rummage their piece-bags and bundles in search of gay... Read More
Offered by Yesterday's Muse, Inc.
Three Hundred Tested Recipes. Contributed by Many Good Cooks. [Compiled by] Miss A. Alden and Miss A. Adams. Second edition, issued December, 1895
by Alden, Ada; Alice Adams
Springfield, Mass: Cyrus W. Atwood, Printer, 1895. Octavo (23.5 x 15 cm.), 80 pages. Advertisements. Cover title: The A. A. Cook Book, Containing Three Hundred Tested Recipes. Publisher's name and date of publication from cover. Index is actually a table of contents. ~ Stated Second Edition. Not a charitable cookbook (though included in Cook), but rather a functionally anonymous compilation of unattributed recipes, numbered 1-350. A survey eminently of its time: croquettes, meat pies, biscuits, griddle cakes, pickles, cookies,... Read More
Offered by Rabelais: Fine Books on Food & Drink
In Our Defense : the Bill of Rights In Action
by Alderman, Ellen; Kennedy, Caroline
Morrow, c1991. Very Good. Alderman, Ellen. In Our Defense : the Bill of Rights In Action. Kennedy, Caroline. New York: Morrow, c1991. 430pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Covers lightly rubbed.
Offered by Weller Book Works
EX PLAUTI COMOEDIIS XX QUARUM CARMINA MAGNA EX PARTE IN MENSUM SUUM RESTITUTA SUNT MDXXII
by (ALDINE IMPRINT). PLAUTUS, TITUS MACCIUS
Venetiis [Venice]: In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri [Torresano], July 1522. First Aldine Edition. 210 x 140 mm. (8 1/4 x 5 1/2"). 14 p.l., 284 pp. Pretty 19th century red morocco by J. Canape (stamp-signed on front turn-in), gilt, covers with French fillet frame, oblique fleurons at corners, raised bands, spine compartments with intricate central lozenge, lacy cornerpieces, gilt lettering, densely gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt over marbling. Printer's dolphin and anchor device on... Read More
Offered by Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books & Manuscripts