The Confessions of Nat Turner
by Styron, Nat
New York: Random House, [1967] Firs edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fined.j.
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This Quiet Dust and Other Writings
by Styron, William
New York: Random House, [1982] First edition, inscribed by the author: "To Joanne. William Styron. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. Top edge lightly foxed. Very good+ in like dust jacket with minor edgewear.
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Oregon Newspapers on Equal Suffrage
by [ Women's Suffrage]
[Portland, Oregon: Oregon Equal Suffrage Association, 1906.] Published to encourage voters to support the 1906 women's suffrage ballot measure in Oregon. Women's suffrage appeared on the ballot in Oregon six times (in 1884, 1900, 1906, 1908, 1910, and 1912), which was more than any other state. "When the pioneer mothers of Oregon toiled across the plains beside their weary and heart-sick husbands, beset with perils…did they think the coming generation would be ungrateful and selfish enough to deny them the... Read More
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Voters Read. Denial to Protest of Corporate Interests. Equal Suffrage June 4, 1906. Oregon the First Free State on the Pacific Coast. [Cover title.]
by [ Women's Suffrage]
[Portland, Oregon Oregon Equal Suffrage Association, 1906.] Dated May 21, 1906 on last page. Women's suffrage appeared on the ballot in Oregon six times (in 1884, 1900, 1906, 1908, 1910, and 1912), which was more than any other state. . Single sheet, folded. . 3 x 6. Printed in red and black. A fine copy. "The Oregon Equal Suffrage Association intended to appeal for your vote simply because it is right and just that women should vote. However, in a... Read More
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Claudio Bravo
by Sullivan, Edward J
[New York:] Rizzoli, [1985] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 61 tipped-in color plates, and 24 black and white illustrations. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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Ghost Railroads of Indiana
by Sulzer, Elmer G
Indianapolis: Vane A. Jones Co., [1970] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Black and white illustrations throughout. Very good in lightly chipped dust jacket with some uneven browning to spine.
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Muses. Drawings by Gene Holtan
by [Sunflower Press]. Cunningham, Carol.
Mill Valley, California: Sunflower Press, [1994]. One of twenty-five deluxe copies specially bound by D'Ambrosio (in a total edition of sixty). Also signed by Cunningham on the colophon and by D'Ambrosio on the lower pastedown. Specially bound by Joseph D'Ambrosio in quarter white Masonic sheep over white cloth boards hand-shaped to resemble wings. In the original orange cloth clamshell case, with the original prospectus. . 6 in. x 10 in. . With twenty-one illustrations by Gene... Read More
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5000 Years of Korean Art
by Sunu, Choi
Seoul: Hyonam Publishing Company, [1979] First edition. Cloth. Folio. With 378 full-page color and b&w photographic reproductions, and 180 additional black and white photographic reproductions; map of historical sites; and chronological table. Some light staining to covers, apparently offsetting from bindery glue. Otherwise fine in fine d.j. A lovely book
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Axiomatic Set Theory
by Suppes, Patrick
Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand [1960] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good dust jacket with some light browning.
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Mr. Face Romford's Hounds. Illustrated with 24 hand-coloured engravings by John Leech and Hablot K. Browne
by Surtees, Robert Smith
London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., [n.d., ca. 1900] Cloth. Two volumes, large octavo. . With 24 hand-colured steel-engraved plates and half-title vignette by John Leech and 'Phiz' Spines a bit faded, minor shelfwear. A very good, clean set.
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Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
by Surtees, Robert Smith
London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co., [n.d., ca. 1899] Cloth. Two volumes, large octavo. With 24 hand-colured steel-engraved plates and half-title vignette by John Leech and 'Phiz' Spines a bit faded, minor shelfwear. A very good, clean set.
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Plan d'etudes et d'education. Avec un discours sur l'education.
by [ Sutaine, Gerard ]
A Paris: A.M. Lottin, 1764 First edition of this proposed study and guide to education, published two years after Emile. Barbier attributes it to a "professor of philosophy" named Robert, but Cioranescu and most other sources attribute it to the French priest Gérard Sutaine (1718- ). Contemporary calf, gilt spine with burgundy morocco label. . Twelvemo. Some surface abrasion to both covers, corners lightly worn. Marginal dampstaining to last few leaves. Overall very good, clean and fresh... Read More
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The Story of Papermaking
by Sutermeister, Edwin
Boston: S.D. Warren Company, 1954 Anniversary Edition. Cloth. Octavo. Very good.
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Shaker Life, Art and Architecute: Hands to Work, Hearts to God
by Swank, Scott T
New York: Abbeville Press, [1999] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 250 illustrations, including 150 in color. Fine in fine d.j.
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Last Orders
by Swift, Graham
[London:] Picador, [1996] First edition. Black boards with spine stamped in silver. Octavo. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title-page.
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Friendly Counsel for Girls; or, Words in Season
by Cox Sydney
New York: G.W. Carleton, 1868 First edition. Publisher's brick red cloth. . Octavo. Some edgewear and dampstaining. Blue endpapers. Pencil ownership signature, dated 1983, to front pastedown. Some foxing. A good copy. An advice manual chiefly concerned with guiding a young woman's approach to her education and intellectual development. Most chapters include a short didactic story with explication by the author, who urges young women (aged fourteen to seventeen) to cultivate their skills in languages, math, and the sciences. One... Read More
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Magritte
by Sylvester, David
[Antwerp:] Menil Foundation/Fonds Mercator, [1992] Revised and enlarged edition, published in September, 1992. First published in May 1992 by Mercatorfonds for Thames and Hudson, London. Dark blue cloth with spine stamped in black. Quarto. Color illustrations throughout. Fine in near fine d.j. A couple of small nicks in d.j.
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Circumference: Varieties of Metaphysical Verse, 1456-1928.
by Taggard, Genevieve, editor
New York: Covici Friede Publishers, [Printed by the Stratford Press,] 1929 One of 1,000 copies printed for subscribers by the Stratford Press. Fifty hors commerce copies were also printed.. Blue paper-covered boards, quarter vellum, with gilt-titled spine. Octavo. With engraved border on title-page, plus large engraved initial on page three, and two engraved headpieces. Light toning to endpapers but overall a near-fine copy in the original dust jacket (designed by Bernard Salomon). The present work compiles... Read More
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The Medical Practitioners in Medieval England: A Biographical Register
by Talbot, C.H., and E.A. Hammond
London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1965 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.
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Madge; or, Night and Morning. By H.B.G.
by [ Talcott, Hannah Elizabeth Bradbury Goodwin.]
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1863 First edition. . Publisher's purple cloth. . Octavo. Spine a bit sunned. Yellow coated endpapers. Lacking front flyleaf. Minor dustsoiling. A very good, tight copy. Uncommon. Hannah Elizabeth Bradbury Goodwin Talcott (1827 – 1893) was a novelist and educator. She wrote under several names (H. B., H. E. B., H. B. G., Mrs. H. B. Goodwin, and Mrs. Goodwin-Talcott) and published eleven novels. Her other publications included Sherbrooke (1866), which was a popular... Read More
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A Valiant Enterprise: A History of the Talisman Press, 1951-1993. Printers, Publishers, and Antiquarian Booksellers
by [Talisman Press]. Greenwood, Robert
[San Francisco:] The Book Club of California 2007 One of 350 copies. This is book number 222 of the Book Club of California.. Quarto. With eight photographs and illustrations from the author's collection. Designed by Jack W. Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press of San Francisco. Computer layout by Kina Sullivan. Set in Cycles type designed by Summer Stone. Printed by Hatcher Press on Finch Vellum #70 paper under the supervision of Susan Schaefer. Bound by the Roswell Book... Read More
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The Handwriting of the Renaissance. Being the Development and Characteristics of the Script of Shakspere's Time
by Tannenbaum, Samuel A
New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1930 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has light soiling and two small tears.
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The Making of the Bruce Rogers World Bible
by Targ, William
Cleveland: World Publishing Company, [1949] Cloth. Quarto. Fine in very good publisher's slipcase. Slipcase has some chipping at spine.
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Bibliopola Bilder und Texte aus der Welt des Buchhandels Pictures and Texts about the Book Trade Images et Textes sur la Librairie.
by Taubert, Sigfred
Hamburg: Dr. Ernst Hauswedel & Co/R.R. Bowker, N.Y., [1966] First edition. Cloth, with gilt leather labels. Two volumes, quarto. Tipped in color plates, full and partial-page illustrations throughout. Fine in publishers's cardboard slipcase. Text in English, French and German. An international, multi-century collection of several hundreds of images relating to books, the book trade, publishing, etc. including forty-two in color. Designed by Herman Zapf.
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Plato contra Atheos: Plato against the Atheists; or The Tenth Book of the dialogue on Laws, Accompanied with Critical Notes, and Followed by Extended Dissertations on some of the main points of the Platonic Philosophy and Theology, Especially as Compared with the Holy Scriptures.
by Tayler, Lewis
New-York: Published by Harper & Brothers, 1845 First edition. The text consists of introduction, 87 pages of Greek text with footnotes, and close to 300 pages of "Extended Notes and Dissertations. Original purple-brown cloth, spine faded. . Twelvemo. Old pencil signature, dated 1850, a few pencil marks in text. Spine ends Intermittent light foxing. A good, sound copy.
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