![Buddha [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/000/320/1764320000.0.l.jpg)
Buddha [Inscribed and Signed]
by Karen Armstrong
New York: Lipper / Viking Book, 2001. Very Good/Very Good. New York: A Lipper/Viking Book, 2001. First Edition with full number line. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's pictorial boards in decorative die-cut dust jacket retaining original price; xxix,[5],205pp. Light shelf wear and dust-soil, first lines of the intro highlighted but otherwise free of markings. Very Good and sound overall. Inscribed and signed by the author on half title page. Forms part of the Penguin Lives series.
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The Man with No Face
by Margaret Armstrong
New York: Random House, 1940. Very Good+/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1940. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo; publisher's red cloth with pictorial front board and decorative spine stamped in black, black topstain; pictorial dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; 279pp; board edges bumped with small nick to front board, light wear to crown and tail of spine, spine is a bit cocked, small soil spots to first few pages of textblock including half title and title... Read More
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Archie Armstrong's Banquet of Jests. Reprinted from the Original Editions, Together with Archy's Dream, Printed in the Year 1641
by Archie [Archibald] Armstrong
Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1872. Very Good. Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1872. Reprint, one of 225 copies printed on "Ordinary Paper," from a full print run of 252. Octavo; 384pp. Frontispiece detached but present; illustrated title; pages ruled in red. Contemporary half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards; five raised bands and gilt decoration to spine; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Boards worn along edges and joints wit brief exposure and minor flaking; binding sound; pages unmarked; Very Good. Uncommon reprint... Read More
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![The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court [Signed by Woodward]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/647/903/1695903647.0.l.jpg)
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court [Signed by Woodward]
by Bob Woodward; Scott Armstrong
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. Book Club Edition. Signed by Bob Woodward with brief inscription at preliminaries. Octavo. 467pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket; blue cloth boards stamped in gilt. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket; spine sunned. Boards a touch faded along edges; general rubbing. Binding sound; spotting to edges of text block, else unmarked; a Very Good copy.
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![Five Black Lives [Dust jacket title: 5 Black Lives]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/901/449/1677449901.0.l.jpg)
Five Black Lives [Dust jacket title: 5 Black Lives]
by Arna Bontemps [intro.]; Venture Smith, James Mars, William Grimes, etc. [contrib.]
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. Very Good +/Near Fine. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (23 cm); 240pp. Boards full bound in brown cloth with silver stamping to spine, wrapped in publisher's cream, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket lightly creased and bumped at margins. Board corners and spine ends gently bumped with minor offsetting from glue at endsheets. Otherwise pages clean. A Very Good or better copy in a Near Fine jacket.
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![West Point's Scientific 200: Celebration of the Bicentennial. Biographies of 200 of West Point's Most Successful and Influential Mathematicians, Scientists, Engineers, and Technologists [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/615/263/1703263615.0.l.jpg)
West Point's Scientific 200: Celebration of the Bicentennial. Biographies of 200 of West Point's Most Successful and Influential Mathematicians, Scientists, Engineers, and Technologists [Inscribed and Signed]
by Chris Arney
Lexington, SC: Palmetto Bookworks, 2002. Very Good. Lexington, SC: Palmetto Bookworks, [2002]. First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies. Quarto (28cm); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; xxvi,291pp. Light shelf wear, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page.
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Poems. By the late Josias Lyndon Arnold, Esq; of St. Johnsbury (Vermont) formerly of Providence and a tutor in Rhode-Island College
by Josias Lyndon Arnold
Providence: Carter and Wilkinson, 1797. Good. Providence: Printed ... by Carter and Wilkinson, and sold at their Book-Store, opposite the Market, 1797. First Edition. 12mo; disbound; xii,[13]-141,[1]pp. ([A]6 B-M6, collated and complete with half title page); ornamental head- and tail-pieces. Lacking boards, paper spine remnants only, first two gatherings separated but present, else a Good, internally sound example. Poetry collection by the late Josias Lyndon Arnold, who died prematurely at the age of twenty-eight the previous... Read More
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![Essays in Memory of Aron Gurwitsch, 1983 [Inscribed and Signed by Embree]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/174/359/1522359174.0.l.jpg)
Essays in Memory of Aron Gurwitsch, 1983 [Inscribed and Signed by Embree]
by [Aron Gurwitsch] Lester Embree [ed.]
Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology / University Press of America, 1984. Very Good. Washington, DC: Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology / University Press of America, 1983 [c. 1984]. Octavo; publisher's olive green leatherette, gilt-lettered spine; xxii,562pp.; woodcut portrait frontispiece. Brief soil to top textblock edge, lacking both free endpapers (?), contemporary ownership signature to front flyleaf, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed "Lester" on front pastedown. Contents of this tribute volume... Read More
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Life-World and Consciousness: Essays for Aron Gurwitsch
by [Aron Gurwitsch] Lester E. Embree [ed.]
Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1972. Very Good. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1972. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's reddish-brown gilt-lettered cloth; xxx,610pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Cloth unevenly sunned at extremities, spine more noticeably so, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Festschrift of twenty-seven philosophical papers including contributions by Maurice Natanson, Herbert Spiegelberg, and Edmund Husserl.
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Jonoah and the Green Stone
by Henry Dumas; Eugene B. Redmond [arrangement]
New York: Random House, 1976. Very Good/Very Good +. New York: Random House, 1976. First Edition Stated with full RH number line. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket by Mike Stromberg retaining original price ($7.95); xxi,[1],168pp. Light shelf wear, textblock top and fore-edge quite foxed, else a Very Good, straight and sound example. Scarce first edition of this unfinished novel published posthumously eight years after Dumas' untimely death in 1968--the author was passing through a... Read More
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![Record Exchanger: the foremost publication covering the history of rock and roll. Consecutive Issues #12 - 24 [Thirteen issue run]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/419/564/1699564419.0.l.jpg)
Record Exchanger: the foremost publication covering the history of rock and roll. Consecutive Issues #12 - 24 [Thirteen issue run]
by Art and Ellen Turco [eds.]
Anaheim, CA: Record Exchanger, 1973. Very Good. Anaheim, CA: Record Exchanger, 1973-1977. First Editions. Large octavos; stapled photo-illustrated wraps. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Light wear to edges with a few splits and chips; bindings sound; Very Good. Issues include articles, photographs, interviews, auction records, and more. Run includes: #12 The Four Buddies #13 Flairs, Sun Records, Robins, Coasters, Elvis etc. #14 Little Anthony & The Imperials #15 The Clovers #16, Te Solitaite... Read More
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The Story of the Negro Retold
by Carter G. Woodson and Charles H. Wesley; James Lesesne Wells [dust jacket art]
Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc, 1959. Very Good/Very Good. Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1959. Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Octavo; blue-green cloth, illustrated dust jacket; 472pp.; black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Dust jacket chipped along edges with slight sunning to spine. Boards show light edgewear; a Very Good and sound copy. Woodson and Wesley's wide-ranging and well-researched work was geared towards high school students and covers Black history beginning with a chapter... Read More
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![The Trashing of America [Inscribed by Plymell and Levine]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/443/560/1699560443.0.l.jpg)
The Trashing of America [Inscribed by Plymell and Levine]
by Charles Plymell; Les Levine [cover art]
New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1975. Very Good. New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1975. First Edition. Signed by Plymell and Levine with personalized inscriptions at title page and Levine's reading "Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them and then you destroy yourself. Les Levine." Quarto; 122pp. + photographs; illustrated wraps with edges stained green. Light wear to edges and scrape to front; binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good and... Read More
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![In February I Think [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/549/563/1699563549.0.l.jpg)
In February I Think [Signed and Inscribed]
by Elio Schneeman; George Schneeman [cover art]
New York: C Press, 1978. Very Good. [New York]: “C” Press, 1978. First Edition, one of 250 copies. Slim quarto (28cm); publisher’s glossy illustrated wrappers, staple-bound; 54]pp. Wraps a bit rubbed and toned; vertical creasing; Top staple missing, though binding remains sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages lightly toned with a few instances of ink transfer. A Very Good copy of this early work by Schneeman, published by Ted Berrigan's press. Signed and inscribed “For Tom / Love,... Read More
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![Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War [Signed by Joukowsky and Burns]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/195/860/1620860195.0.l.jpg)
Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War [Signed by Joukowsky and Burns]
by Artemis Joukowsky; Ken Burns [fwd.]
Boston: Beacon Press, 2016. Very Good/Very Good +. Boston: Beacon Press, 2016. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xv,[1],255pp.; illus. Light wear to jacket and board margins, textblock fore-edge lightly finger-soiled, else Very Good or better. Signed by both Joukowsky and Burns on title page with brief inscription by the former. Accompanying volume to Ken Burns' documentary PBS film of the same title, retracing the humanitarian work of Reverend Waitstill... Read More
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Between Worlds: An International Magazine of Creativity, Nos. 1-3
by Gilbert Neiman [ed.]; Man Ray [cover art]
Denver, CO: Between Worlds / Inter American University, 1960. Very Good. Denver, CO: Between Worlds / Inter American University, 1960-1962. First Editions. Three octavo volumes; publisher's card wrappers all featuring the same cover illustration by Man Ray; halftone plates. Moderate wear and toning to wrapper margins, shallow dampstaining affecting top edge of first twenty-ish leaves of No. 2; overall a Very Good and sound collection of the first three consecutive issues, Vol. 1, nos. 1 & 2 and... Read More
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The Orchestration of Color: The Paintings of Arthur B. Carles
by Arthur B[eecher] Carles; Barbara Ann Boese Wolanin; Mercedes Carles Matter; [et al.]
New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2000. Very Good. New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2000. First Edition. Quarto (29x23x1.5cm); 184pp, including bibliography. Richly illustrated throughout with full-page color plates and many background, reference, and documentary images. Illustrated card covers with a purple ground. Some slight signs of storage pressures on covers: faint scuffing of coating (without color loss), minor crimping to lower outer textblock corner, a bit of curving to front cover toward fore-edge. Bump to bottom front... Read More
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![The Reefs of Taprobane: Underwater Adventures Around Ceylon [Signed Bookplate Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/465/830/1502830465.0.l.jpg)
The Reefs of Taprobane: Underwater Adventures Around Ceylon [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by Arthur C. Clarke; Mike Wilson [photo.]
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1957. First U.S. Edition. Bookplate signed by Arhtur C. Clarke loosely laid in at front. Tall octavo. 205 pp. Color and black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with $5.00 price present. Blue and orange boards with spine stamped in black; illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with general rubbing and scuffing. Boards lightly shelfworn, with bumping... Read More
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Childhood's End
by Arthur C. Clarke; Grace Aldrich [illus.]
London: The Folio Society, 2023. Near Fine. London: The Folio Society, 2023. First Folio Society Edition, first printing. Octavo; bound in printed and blocked cloth; 230pp. Housed in publisher's illustrated slipcase. Touch of rubbing to extremities of slipcase and boards; Near Fine.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke; Michael Moorcock [intro.]; Joe Wilson [illus.]
London: The Folio Society, 2022. Near Fine. London: The Folio Society, 2022. Second Printing stated. Octavo (24 cm.) Pictorial illustrated paper over boards; housed in publisher's slipcase. 209 pp. Boards clean and bright. Binding sound. Pages unmarked. Slipcase has minor shelfwear; small dent on one side. Overall, book is in Near Fine condition with a Very Good slipcase.
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Textbook of Friendship
by Arthur Conan Doyle; Christopher Morley [ed.]
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); [6],366pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins, a few small chips at spine crown, spine panel a bit sunned, top textblock edge dust-soiled, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy. Compilation of five Sherlock Holmes stories, together with a brief memorandum, introduction, reader's guide, and "Note for... Read More
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Jobs, Machines, and Capitalism
by Arthur Dahlberg; Edward Alsworth Ross [fwd.]
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. Very Good +/Fine. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. 252 pp. Large colored chart to rear pocket; b&w illustrations. Printed dust jacket. Brown boards stamped in gilt. Dust jacket with $3.00 price stamped to front flap and else bright and remarkably well preserved. Boards show light shelfwear and gilt to spine a bit dulled; binding sound and interior unmarked; Very Good or better in a Fine dust jacket. Scarce... Read More
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![Global Tapestry and Vegan Action, Zero One / Vol. I, no. 1 [Thunderskyglow Issue]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/454/347/1767347454.0.l.jpg)
Global Tapestry and Vegan Action, Zero One / Vol. I, no. 1 [Thunderskyglow Issue]
by Arthur Moyse [ed.]
N.p.: Albert Meltzer, 1970. Near Fine. N.p.: Albert Meltzer, n.d. [ca. 1970]. First Edition. Quarto (25.5cm); publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers; [70]pp.; folding plate tipped in, illus. throughout. Very light wear to front cover, else Near Fine condition. Inaugural issue of this scarce underground zine promoting veganism and nonviolent world revolution. Includes short excerpts from Dick Gregory and Michael McClure as well as a longer piece "Some Revolutionary Alternatives" by Tuli Kupferberg and poetry by Kenneth Patchen.... Read More
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The Use and Training of the Human Voice: A New Approach to the Bio-Dynamics of Voice and Speech
by Arthur Lessac; David Simon, Robert Arnout, and Peter Kunz [illus.]
[New York]: [s.i.], 1960. Very Good. [New York]: [s.i.], 1961. Second printing. Large octavo. 265 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Toning to edges; mild curling to corners. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good. "Second Printing" stated on copyright page though with following notice printed on title page - "This preliminary printing is for limited distribution to my students, colleagues and others interested in the field. All suggestions as well as critical comments are... Read More
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The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Fairy Tales Retold
by Arthur Quiller-Couch; Kay Nielsen [illus.]
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. Very Good/Very Good. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923]. Reprint. Octavo. 244 pp. 16 color plates by Nielsen. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Jacket cleanly separated down front joint, with a couple small closed tears along edges, shallow chips at spine ends, and a bit of light toning to spine. Boards are square with very light shelfwear and nudging at head and tail.... Read More
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