Official Labor Union Manual of Montgomery, Alabama. Containing a Full Description Union Labor, Child Labor, Scab, Etc.
by [ORGANIZED LABOR] [ALABAMA]
[Montgomery, ca. 1903]. First Edition. No author, publisher, or sponsoring organization given. Oblong quarto (20x25.5cm.); original peach decorated wrappers; 16pp; illus. Wrapper extremities quite worn with shallow chipping and long closed tears, previous vertical fold, some old tiny losses throughout textblock due to vermin activity. Still, Good and sound for such an ephemeral piece. Pro-labor promotional brochure for Montgomery businesses. Editorial content, consisting of brief critiques of anarchism, scab and child labor, etc., is interspersed with paid endorsements for... Read More
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Tell Me How Willing Slaves Be
by ALAKOYE, Adesanya
DeRidder, LA: Energy BlackSouth Press, [1976]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm.); original tan printed staplebound wrappers; unpaged. Fine. Errata slip laid in. Hoo-Doo Chapbookseries, no. 1 of a projected 13 volumes. African-American author's first poetry collection, published by Amos Zu-Bolton's Energy BlackSouth Press.
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On the Tracks of Wild Game
by ŠALAMUN, Tomaž (verse); Sonja Kravanja (translation)
Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012. First American Edition. Softcover. Octavo (19cm); blue pictorial paper wrappers; [ii],[6],7-106,[2]pp; illus. Eastern European Poets Series #29. A Fine copy. First published as Po Sledeh Divjadi (1979), this collection of verse includes "World Touch Venice", "Clumsy Guys", and "History is a woman, let's be gay!", translated from the Slovenian to English by Kravanja. [87127].
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![Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America [Review Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/598/155/1174155598.0.l.jpg)
Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America [Review Copy]
by ALBA, Richard D.
New Haven: Yale University Press, [1990]. First Edition. Octavo (24.5cm.); publisher's cloth in teal photo-illustrated dust jacket; xvi,374pp. Minor shelf wear, some soil to textblock fore-edge, else Very Good or better. Review copy with slip laid in.
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![The Wounding: An Essay on Education [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/503/512/1703512503.0.l.jpg)
The Wounding: An Essay on Education [Limited Edition, Signed]
by ALBEE, Edward
Charleston, WV: Mountain State Press, 1981. First, Limited Edition. Cloth Issue, one of 50 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.18. Octavo (21.75cm); dark brown leatherette, with titles stamped in gilt on front cover; dustjacket; [xiv],12,[6]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with light wear to extremities, and some offsetting from leather on verso. An autobiographical essay on education, published in affiliation with the University of Charleston.
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![Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung: Two Inter-Related Plays [Signed Bookplate Laid-in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/930/611/1391611930.0.l.jpg)
Box and Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung: Two Inter-Related Plays [Signed Bookplate Laid-in]
by ALBEE, Edward
New York: Atheneum, 1969. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and author's name embossed onto front cover; goldenrod topstain; dustjacket; xii,74,[8]pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $4.50), with some vertical creaseing to front flap, and mild external wear.
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![The American Dream [Inscribed to Herb Yellin]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/786/192/1487192786.0.l.jpg)
The American Dream [Inscribed to Herb Yellin]
by ALBEE, Edward
New York: Coward-McCann, 1961. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed to collector and publisher Herb Yellin (Lord John Press) on title page, undated. Small octavo (21cm). Green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 93pp. A fine copy in crisp, clean dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 on front flap), very Near Fine. Exemplary copy of this early Albee play, inscribed (probably at a later date, though the inscription is undated) to Herb Yellin, noted collector and publisher, proprietor of The Lord John Press.... Read More
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![Tiny Alice: A Play [Signed Bookplate]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/257/435/1673435257.0.l.jpg)
Tiny Alice: A Play [Signed Bookplate]
by ALBEE, Edward
New York: Atheneum, 1965. No edition remarks. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 190pp. Author's signed bookplate laid in. Light shelf-wear, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper has reviews printed on flaps and is unclipped (priced $4.50), with shelf-soil, light creases to spine ends and extremities, and rippled effect to flaps; Very Good. Albee's three-act play premiered on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theatre (1964), and focuses... Read More
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![Everything in the Garden: From the Play by Giles Cooper [Signed Bookplate Laid-in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/991/611/1391611991.0.l.jpg)
Everything in the Garden: From the Play by Giles Cooper [Signed Bookplate Laid-in]
by ALBEE, Edward
New York: Atheneum, 1968. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and author's name embossed onto front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 201pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $5.95), with some light wear to crown. The play was first produced by The Royal Shakespeare Company in 1962 in London.
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![All Over: A Play [Signed Bookplate Laid-in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/968/611/1391611968.0.l.jpg)
All Over: A Play [Signed Bookplate Laid-in]
by ALBEE, Edward
New York: Atheneum, 1971. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine, and author's name embossed onto front cover; gray topstain; dustjacket; [xiv],111,[3]pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Two dog-eared corners smoothed-out, else Near Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $5.95), with a 1/2" closed tear at lower front flap fold. The production was filmed for television and aired on 28 April 1976 on WNET Channel 13... Read More
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![The Zoo Story; The Death of Bessie Smith; The Sandbox: Three Plays, Introduced by the Author [Signed Bookplate laid-in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/440/034/1673034440.0.l.jpg)
The Zoo Story; The Death of Bessie Smith; The Sandbox: Three Plays, Introduced by the Author [Signed Bookplate laid-in]
by ALBEE, Edward [Edward Franklin Albee III]
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1960. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); light blue cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in dark blue on spine; dustjacket; 158pp. Author's signed bookplate laid in. Light tanning and rubbing to board edges; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, price-clipped, tanned, with shelf-soil, 0.5" tear to front spine fold, and tiny tears and creases to extremities; Very Good. Albee's first commercially-published book. AHEARN APG 001c. [84316].
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Wits End
by Albert, Harvey
Dennis MA: Salt-Works Press, n. d.. First edition. Limited to 335. Red original wraps. A crisp and fresh copy; Fine.
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![Environment and Society in Transition (Scientific Developments, Social Consequences, Policy Implications) [Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 184, June 7, 1971]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/215/889/1212889215.0.l.jpg)
Environment and Society in Transition (Scientific Developments, Social Consequences, Policy Implications) [Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 184, June 7, 1971]
by ALBERTSON, Peter and Margery Barnett, eds
New York: New York Academy of Sciences, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's blue card wrappers; [2],699pp. Textblock a bit dust-soiled, spine creased, else Very Good and sound. Contains papers presented at the International Joint Conference of the American Geographical Society and the American Division of the World Academy of Art and Science, April 27 - May 2, 1970.
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L'Azione dell'Italia nella Guerra Mondiale: Risposta al Generale von Cramon
by ITALICUS [pseud. Adriano Alberti]
Roma: Stabilimento Poligrafico per l'Amministrazione della Guerra, 1922. First Edition. Small quarto (24.5cm.); original cream pictorial staplebound wrappers; 28pp. Wrapper extremities faintly dampstained, else Very Good or better. Short account of Italian action during World War I, in response to documents by the German Liaison Officer General von Cramon. OCLC locates one copy in North America as of February, 2016, at Columbia.
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Journal of the Nineteenth Annual Session of the National Encampment, Grand Army of the Republic, Portland, Maine, June 24th and 25th, 1885
by ALCORN, W.W., John S. Kountz, T.M. Shanafelt, W.T. Sherman (contrib.) (et al)
Toledo, Ohio: Montgomery & Vrooman, Printers, 1885. Softcover. Octavo (21.5cm); sewn brown paper wrappers; 377pp. Shelf-wear and -soil, with tiny tears to wrappers; Good. Includes list of state representatives, report of the surgeon general, afternoon session notes, and index. [89066].
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Jack and Jill
by ALCOTT, Louisa M.
New York: Grosset and Dunlap; Little, Brown and Company, 1928. Complete Authorized Edition. First Printing in this format. Octavo (21cm); full blue pebbled cloth, with illustrated printed title label mounted to spine and front cover; red topstain; pictorial peach endpapers; dustjacket; [x],334,[2]pp; colored frontispiece. Discoloration to crown, with bumped corners, and light fingersoil to right edge of textblock; Very Good. Dustjacket (priced 50¢) shelfworn, with small losses and tears to spine ends and extremities, and foxing to rear panel... Read More
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![The Journals of Louisa May Alcott [Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/810/425/1668425810.0.l.jpg)
The Journals of Louisa May Alcott [Inscribed]
by [ALCOTT, Louisa May] MYERSON, Joel & Daniel Shealy (editors); Madeleine B. Stern (editor; introduction)
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1989. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); gray paper spine over light pink paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 356pp; 16 glossy pages of black and white photographic (halftone) illustrations. Inscribed by editor Daniel Shealy on half-title: "For Julian, a good friend and an excellent scholar. Thank you for all the help you have given me! Dan / July 1989". A Fine copy in like, unclipped (priced $24.95), dustwrapper. The... Read More
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![OR LEARN TO WALK ON WATER [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/435/187/1582187435.0.l.jpg)
OR LEARN TO WALK ON WATER [Signed]
by ALDAN, Daisy (poet) & Leibowitz, Leonard (illus.)
New York: Folder Editions, Shaw-Liebowitz Press, 1970. First Edition. Limited. No.2 of twenty-five copies. Ten folded sheets in folder (the cover with a signed etching) with glassine dustjacket. Printed on Reves Heavyweight; Folio, 12 by 18 inches. Etchings by Leonard Leibowitz. Calligraphy by Maureen Marsh. "The printing is limited to 25 copies and two artist's proofs ... There are eleven etched plates of script, eleven etched engraved, aquatinted plates of design, two multicolored. Each plate is numbered and signed... Read More
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War and Love
by ALDINGTON, Richard
Boston: The Four Seas Co, 1919. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm). Decorated paper-covered boards with printed paper title labels; dustjacket; 94pp. A tight, unworn copy, very Near Fine. In original printed dustwrapper, complete and just lightly soiled and worn, but with old kraft-paper reinforcements to verso. Presumed later issue jacket, with applied price label ("$1.50 net") on spine panel; the label is lightly scuffed. Withal, a quite pretty copy of Aldington's second published poetry collection, a cycle of imagist meditations... Read More
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Women Must Work: A Novel
by ALDINGTON, Richard
London: Chatto & Windus, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [8],382,[1]pp. Corners a bit bumped, else Near Fine; lacking dust jacket. Fictional account of an English woman who leaves her comfortable middle class life to join the work force, starting as a private secretary.
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Life for Life's Sake. A Book of Reminiscences
by ALDINGTON, Richard
New York: Viking Press, 1941. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Red cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 411pp. Straight and tight, with some darkening to endpapers and foxing to text block edges; Very Good. In the original pictorial dustjacket, unclipped (priced $3.00), slightly worn and soiled with a closed tear at upper margin of front panel; Very Good. Aldington's literary autobiography; there was no British edition until 1968. Especially valuable for his discussion of... Read More
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![Exile and Other Poems [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/653/069/1011069653.0.l.jpg)
Exile and Other Poems [Limited Edition]
by ALDINGTON, Richard
Boston: Four Seas Company, 1924. First American Edition. Limited to 200 copies. Slim octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's boards, yellow printed label mounted to upper cover, white dust jacket lettered in light green; 61pp. Jacket a bit dust-soiled and toned along extremities, some general edge wear including tiny closed tears and one small shallow loss at top edge of upper panel not approaching text, jacket verso reinforced with contemporary heavy brown archival tape; Fine in About Very Good jacket. Limitation provided... Read More
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Images Old and New
by ALDINGTON, Richard
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1916. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (18.5cm); stiff cardboards; dustjacket; 47pp. Light foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, previously attached to book by publisher is no longer secured to book's spine, with light shelf-soil and tanning; Very Good. Collection of verse, includes "To a Greek Marble", "Hermes, Leader of the Dead", and "Cinema Exit". [84376].
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Voltaire
by ALDINGTON, Richard
London / New York: George Routledge / E.P. Dutton, 1925. First American Edition. First printing, from British sheets. Octavo (19cm); blue cloth and tan buckram, with title labels mounted to spine and upper front cover; 278pp. Minor dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; tiny bookseller's ticket inner rear cover; Near Fine. The dustjacket is evenly machine-clipped (as issued), with shallow loss to crown and corners, and the front flap detached but present; Good. In the publisher's "Republic of Letters"... Read More
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D. H. LAWRENCE
by Aldington, Richard
London: Chatto and Windus, 1930. First edition. First Issue. Duodecimo (12mo); orange printed wrappers; french folds; dustjacket; 43 pp. A Fine copy. The very scarce unprinted white dust jacket is lightly soiled and worn, one 1/2 in. chip at the crown. A lovely copy of this posthumously published tribute to Lawrence, an essay by an important Modernists, editor also in 1930, of THE IMAGIST ANTHOLOGY, as well as the novel DEATH OF A HERO. Twenty years later... Read More
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