Photo Album with 232 Photographs of Mushrooms In Their Native Habitat
by [No Author]
[North America]: [no publisher], 1975. Very Good. Blue cloth three-ring binder of 232 color print photographs of different mushroom species with taped manuscript spine label written in black and blue pen. 29 double-sided plastic sleeves with four compartments at front and back. All photographs are tipped onto sleeve sheets with 4 per page. All with Linnaean scientific name and a penciled number written below each photograph. Very Good with lifting to tape label at binder's spine, light scuffing... Read More
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Photograph and Marketing Archive of White's Pit Stop, a Custom Drag Racing & Motorcycle Shop
by [no author]
[Chicago Area]: [no publisher]. Unbound. Very Good. [Chicago]: [ca. 1970s]. A large archive documenting motorcycle and custom car culture, centering around White's Pit Stop, a Chicago-area auto retailer, and its sister store Chopper Corner. Containing roughly 175 unbound original photographs, varying in size, including roughly 75 8" x 10" prints and 100 snapshots, one illustrated company catalog, a catalog of motorcycle-themed clip-art designs, and various articles of ephemera. An archive of product, marketing, and race photos compiled and... Read More
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Aunt Julia's Cook Book
by [no author]
[no place]: Esso, 1934. 32 pp. Publisher's stapled wraps. Very Good, some spots of biopredation to front wrap,slight crease to bottom corner of front wrap, rubbing, contents toned with age. An advertising pamphlet relying upon African American culinary traditions, and prominently featuring a color tinted photograph of two "Aunts" in handkerchiefs in the kitchen. Featuring a variety of Southern staples, interspersed with advertisements ranging from oil, tires, car accessories, petroleum products, furniture polishes and more..."for Happy Eating use these... Read More
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Large Archive of Documents on Japanese Internment from the War Relocation Authority
by The War Relocation Authority
[Various Places]: The War Relocation Authority, 1956. A substantial archive of over 300 individual documents, plus a few duplicates, relating to Japanese internment during WWII, forming a very thorough view of the federal agency that directed their imprisonment, The War Relocation Authority. Such a sizeable collection of WRA documents is extremely rare in commerce. All the major facets of the dark, disturbing episode of Japanese internment are represented in this archive: its basic legal and historical outlines, the WRA's... Read More
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Japanese Groups and Associations in the United States Community Analysis Report No. 3, March 1943
by [Japanese Internment]; War Relocation Authority
[Washington, D.C]: [War Relocation Authority], 1943. First Edition. Fine. First edition. 7 pp. single-sided. Yellow sheets, corner staple bound. A Fine copy with faint rusting to staple and typical faint offsetting around mimeographed text. A very rare document in excellent condition. A list of the different types of groups and associations people of Japanese descent might belong to, compiled for the War Relocation Authority to aid in their internment of Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast. ... Read More
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Portraits
by Avedon, Richard
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Richard Avedon and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's white cloth with spine lettered in gray. Fine, in Fine dust jacket, with faint wear. A fantastic copy. An oversized item, international shipping charged may be extra.
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Photographs 1947-1977
by Avedon, Richard
New York: Farar, Straus and Giroux, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Signed by Richard Avedon with a large inscription to a previous owner. Near Fine, with heavy bump to tail of spine. In publisher's printed acetate jacket, Very Good+, with yellowing to the spine and rear panel, chips to the spine ends extending to the rear panel, and a small tear at the center of the spine. A sharp copy, signed by the photographer.
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Tiger Juan
by Ayala, Ramon Perez de; Starkie, Walter [Translator]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. [vi], 312 pp. Original orange cloth, black lettering. Near Fine in Very Good spine-sunned pictorial dust jacket, worn and a little soiled along edges, corners of front flap clipped but price of $2.00 still present. The acclaimed Spanish's novelist's first work to be published in the United States, first published in Spanish in 1926. Rare in original jacket.
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Logical Positivism
by Ayer, A.J. [Editor]; Bertrand Russell; Moritz Schlick; Rudolf Carnap; Carl G. Hempel; Hans Hahn; Otto Neurath; C. L. Stevenson; Frank F. Ramsey; Gilbert Ryle; Friedrich Waismann
Glencoe, IL: The Free Press, 1959. First Edition. First edition. xviii, 455 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in silver, red topstain. Fine in Very Good dust jacket, rubbed and lightly worn along edges. Includes many of the first English translations of publications by philosophers in the Vienna Circle of Logical Empiricism.
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On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
by Babbage, Charles
London: Charles Knight, 1833. Third Edition. Very Good. Third edition, revised and enlarged, presentation copy, inscribed by Charles Babbage on the front free endpaper verso: "H. J. Bowditch Esq from the Author.' Bound in tan moire cloth binding, engraved title page with portrait of Roger Bacon. Very Good, rebacked to style. Printed ex-libris of Lewis A. Dyer to front pastedown; ensheets glued in to gutter at pastedowns, contents lightly toned. A study of the economics and technology of... Read More
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Tuck Everlasting
by Babbitt, Natalie
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1975. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author and inscribed to a previous owner in 2003. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with upper board lettered in blind and titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Near Fine wit ha faint scratch to the front cover and several pages lightly bent. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a corresponding scratch to the front panel, light... Read More
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Eve's Hollywood
by Babitz, Eve
New York: Delacorte Press, 1974. First Edition. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in magenta and silver. Very Good with light soiling to cloth, light worming to textblock edge. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, trimmed a little too tall for the book with some associated edge wear, and light rubbing. A lovely copy of Babitz's confessional L.A. novel, which was recently re-issued by the New York Review of Books.... Read More
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Eve's Hollywood
by Babitz, Eve
New York: Delacorte Press, 1974. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Eve Babitz on the half-title, inscribed to former owner, "Dear Gregg, Here's to Hollywood and Pickwick, Love, [signed] Eve Babitz." xxii, 296, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth stamped in magenta and silver. Near Fine with foxing to edges, in an age-toned, lightly worn dust jacket, price-clipped, spine panel a little sunned. A signed copy of the late writer's confessional, semi-autobiographical L.A. novel.
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Rage
by Bachman, Richard; [Psuedonym of Stephen King]
London: New English Library, 1983. First British Edition. Near Fine. First British edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's yellow printed wrappers. Near Fine with light curl to book, light shelf wear, old price sticker to front cover and pages toned as usual. A scarce title written by Stephen King under pseudonym, out-of-print.
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The Regulators
by Bachman, Richard; [Stephen King]
New York: Dutton, 1996. Limited First Edition. Fine. First edition, limited issue. #367 of 552 copies signed by Stephen King as Richard Bachman on facsimile check tipped to limitation page at front. 466, [11] pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth lettered in black on spine, gilt-stamped black morocco onlay to front board. Fine condition. In Near Fine original presentation box, black cloth with color printed label tipped to lid. King published his tale of suburban horror under his... Read More
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Russia, with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking: Handbook for Travellers (Baedeker's Russia)
by Baedeker, Karl
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914. First edition. First edition. lxiv, 590pp. with 40 maps, 78 plans. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering, marbled edges. Near Fine with small tear near joint at folding map frontis, name written on half title, in a Poor dust jacket (not pictured), incomplete with gaps between panels and archival mending tissue on the verso, chip at head. An uncommon travel guide to WWI-era Russia before the revolution including Finland, Poland, and Persia; the... Read More
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Letters on Occult Meditation
by Bailey, Alice A.
New York: Lucis Publishing Company, 1939. Fourth Edition. Very Good. Fourth edition. Signed by Alice A. Bailey on the title page. [xvi], 372 pp. Bound in publisher's dark teal cloth lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light wear, offsetting to endpapers. Previous owner signature and bookplate to front free endpaper, penciled marginalia throughout, some colored underlining. Rare signed. Alice Bailey, born in Manchester in 1880, was raised as a Church of England evangelical.... Read More
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The Smiling Corpse
by Bailey, Hilea
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co. / The Crime Club, 1941. First Edition. Very Good+/Near Fine. First edition. [viii], 274 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with navy spine lettering. Very Good+ with foxing to edges, offsetting and lean to spine, slight curve to back board, bookplate on paste down. In a Near Fine example of the rare dust jacket with light shelf wear, a few small puckers along gutter, pencil checkmark to spine panel, unclipped and unfaded. A... Read More
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Josiah Warren: The First American Anarchist. A Sociological Study
by Bailie, William
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1906. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition. xl, 135 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with lean to binding, spine slightly sunned, minor soiling to cloth; contents lightly toned at edges. Scarce. The biography of Josiah Warren, founder of Philosophical Anarchism in the United States. Warren was an early exponent of Owenism, a polymath, founder of a "Time Store" in Cincinnati, Ohio in which labor hours were exchanged... Read More
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Brutus Killed Caesar
by Baldessari, John
Akron: The Emily H. Davis Art Galley of The University of Akron, 1976. First Edition. Spiral-bound. Near Fine. First edition. Publisher's oblong spiral-bound brown stiff card wraps with titles printed in black. Near Fine with light corner wear. One of conceptual artist Baldessari's earliest works, with each page depicting three squares; on the left and right are two men in profile and facing each other, and between them is a common household item, or "murder weapon." These so-called... Read More
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
by Baldwin, James
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. [x], 303, [1] pp. Publisher's brown cloth (one of two variants with no priority) stamped in gilt, blue topstain. Near Fine with light soiling to lower board edges, and light foxing to upper board and textblock edges and endpapers; cloth remarkably clean and crisp. In a Near Fine unclipped ($3.50) dust jacket with sunned spine panel, short scrape to front panel, and light foxing, toning,... Read More
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Black Man in America: An Interview with James Baldwin (Original LP)
by Baldwin, James
Cambridge, MA: Credo, 1962. Original pressing. Credo 1. Good album with some scratches in a Good sleeve,creased corner, stain on front cover.An uncommon album of the African American author James Baldwin being interviewed by sociologist Studs Terkel, recorded at WFMT in Chicago. Baldwin's thoughts on race have been referenced widely with the advent of the Black Lives Matter movement.
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If Beale Street Could Talk
by Baldwin, James
New York: The Dial Press, 1974. First Edition. First edition. [viii], 197 pp. Bound in publisher's reddish orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Fine in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, lightly worn. An attractive copy of the novel by African American expatriate author James Baldwin that inspired the 2018 film by the same name.
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Just Above My Head
by Baldwin, James
New York: The Dial Press, 1979. First Edition, Limited Issue. Fine. First edition, one of 500 signed by James Baldwin on limitation page at rear. [x], 597 pp. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, housed in matching slipcase. Fine, still sealed in publisher's shrink wrap with slight tearing and yellowing to wrap. A signed limited edition of the author's final novel, dealing with racism and homophobia.
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
by Baldwin, James
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Advance Reading Copy. Advance reading copy, issued to reviewers before publication of the first edition, with alternate artwork not used in the first edition. [x], 303, [1] pp. Perfectbound in publisher's illustrated wraps. Very Good, dampstain to front wrap; spine sunned, creased, and rubbed along edges. Slight curling to front wrap, wear at corners. Small marginal tidemark to upper margins of prelims. A rare prepublication copy of the celebrated African American author's first... Read More
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