![Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/303/157/1548157303.0.l.jpg)
Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House [Signed and Inscribed]
by Sasha Abramsky
New York: The New Press, 2006. Very Good/Near Fine. New York: The New Press, 2006. First Edition with full numberline. Signed by the author on half title with inscription dated 5/10/06: "James, Hope you enjoy. All the best. Sasha Abramsky." Octavo; [xiv], 288pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $25.95 price intact; bound in gray and black boards with silver lettering to spine. Jacket is clean and crisp with very faint rubbing at top back edge, but no chips,... Read More
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Why Christians Are Looking Beyond Jesus to Mohammed (As Did Jesus Christ, Himself)
by Mohammed Abu-Bakr
Denver, CO: Sunni Publishers, 1971. Very Good. Denver, CO: Sunni Publishers, 1971. First Edition. 12mo; 33; [2]pp. Printed wraps. Mild rubbing to wraps with a few smudges to rear. Binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good. No copies in retail and we locate a 1992 and 1993 revised edition, with a different publisher, in OCLC.
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United States Military Academy Cadet Uniforms - 8 June 1960
by [West Point] U.S. Military Academy
[West Point, NY]: [United States Military Academy], 1960. Very Good. [West Point, NY]: [United States Military Academy], 1960. Photo album. Oblong quarto. 16 photographs, each highlighting a different uniform worn by cadets at West Point, with one-page description and history of each uniform facing. Bound in gray leather with gilt stamping. Light surface scratching and scuffing. Binding sound. Photos a touch faded; unmarked and a Very Good and sound copy. Includes a brief history of General Winfield Scott's... Read More
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0 to 9 and back again: an interview with vito acconci
by Thurston Moore; Vito Acconci
New York: Ecstatic Peace, 2006. Very Good +. New York: Ecstatic Peace, 2006. First Edition, Limited to 200 copies of which this is no. 140. Slim quarto (28cm); publisher’s stiff pictorial wraps, side-stapled; [18]pp. Wraps a bit worn and smudged. Binding sound. Interior pages clean. Blue peace sign stamped to front cover verso with some ink transfer onto page [1]. Very Good or better. Transcript of musician Thurston Moore’s interview with multidisciplinary artist Vito Acconci, which took place in... Read More
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![[Broadside] Steps (Stepping-Off Place)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/065/910/1714910065.0.l.jpg)
[Broadside] Steps (Stepping-Off Place)
by Vito Acconci
New York: Vito Acconci, 1970. Good. New York: Vito Acconci, 1970. Broadside (28x21.5cm) xeroxed from typescript. Previous folds and heavy wear and soil from use with small loss at top edge not quite approaching text. A Good example only. According to the previous bookseller this piece came from the library of Fluxus poet and musician Jackson Mac Low. A rare example describing the Situationist performance artist Vito Acconci's early famous performance piece "Steps": every morning at 8am... Read More
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![Arrow of God [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/236/297/1722297236.0.l.jpg)
Arrow of God [Signed]
by Chinua Achebe
Garden City, NY: Anchor Books / Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1969. Very Good -/Very Good -. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books / Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. First Thus. Signed by Achebe without inscription at half title. 12mo; illustrated wraps; 266pp. Wraps worn and rubbed with creasing; smudging to edges of text block; binding sound; pages unmarked. A Good to Very Good signed copy of Achebe's third novel and conclusion of his Africa Trilogy.
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![Girls at War and Other Stories [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/735/297/1722297735.0.l.jpg)
Girls at War and Other Stories [Signed]
by Chinua Achebe
New York: Fawcett Premier / Ballantine, 1987. Very Good. New York: Fawcett Premier / Ballantine, 1987. Reprint. Signed by Achebe without inscription at half title. 12mo; illustrated wraps; edges stained yellow; 120pp. Wraps rubbed and creased with a couple smudges; binding sound; pages toned but unmarked; a Very Good copy, scarcely found signed.
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![Anthills of the Savannah [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/790/278/1735278790.0.l.jpg)
Anthills of the Savannah [Signed]
by Chinua Achebe
New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1988. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1988. First American Edition. Octavo (24cm); illustrated dust jacket with $16.95 price intact; blindstamped orange boards with purple cloth spine and silver lettering; [vi],216 pp. Jacket shows tiny closed tear at top front and small chip at rear fold, with some creasing along top rear panel and some toning to verso. Slight twist to boards, with tapping at top corners and brief... Read More
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![A Man of the People [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/390/137/1730137390.0.l.jpg)
A Man of the People [Signed]
by Chinua Achebe
New York: The John Day Company, 1966. Good +/Very Good. New York: The John Day Company, 1966. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm); 167pp. Publisher’s dust jacket with $3.95 price intact; boards bound in yellow cloth with black stamping to spine. Dust jacket bumped at spine ends and corners; a few superficial scratches throughout. Jacket rear panel and flaps lightly toned. Boards bumped at spine ends and corners; a few instances of discoloration due to previous presence of tape.... Read More
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![Arrow of God [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/243/704/1721704243.0.l.jpg)
Arrow of God [Signed]
by Chinua Achebe
New York: The John Day Company, 1967. Very Good -/Very Good -. New York: The John Day Company, 1967. First American Edition, stated. Octavo (20.8cm); illustrated dust jacket with $5.50 price intact; boards in purple cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Ex- Yellow Springs High School Library with moderate institutional markings. Jacket edgeworn with red color bleed along rear panel edges and tape residue to flaps and verso; spine a shade faded with remnants of mostly-removed call number.... Read More
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![A Democrat Looks at His Party [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/387/854/1728854387.0.l.jpg)
A Democrat Looks at His Party [Signed]
by Dean Acheson
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955. First Edition, stated. Signed by Dean Acheson without inscription at title page. Octavo; printed dust jacket with $3.00 price present; blue cloth-backed boards; 199pp. Dust jacket worn and scuffed with white stain to base of spine, obscuring imprint. Edgewear to boards; binding sound; dust soiling to top edge; interior unmarked; a Very Good signed copy.
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![Dressing Up, Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession [Signed Bookplate laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/366/219/1657219366.0.l.jpg)
Dressing Up, Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession [Signed Bookplate laid in]
by Peter Ackroyd
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979. First Edition with full numberline. Small quarto (24cm); 160pp. Illustrated dust jacket; green boards with gilt lettering to spine. Price-clipped jacket shows light rubbing to edges, a corner crease to rear flap, and some faint foxing to verso. Boards bow outward a bit at fore-edge, with some bumping along bottom edge and corners and nudging at spine ends. Binding is sound and pages... Read More
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![Country Life [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/714/558/1699558714.0.l.jpg)
Country Life [Signed]
by Peter Ackroyd
[London]: Ferry Press, 1978. Very Good. [London]: Ferry Press, 1978. First Edition. Tall chapbook (25cm); stapled printed wraps; 33pp. Covers rubbed at corners and spine ends, with occasional faint smudging. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the author without inscription and dated "London: August 18, 1888" on title page. One of 350 copies of the author's second book.
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Silver Gelatin Photograph of Actresses on Pogo Sticks
by [Pogo Stick] [Hollywood Actresses]
Hollywood, CA, 1950. Very Good +. Hollywood, CA: [ca. 1950s]. Glossy silver gelatin photograph (approx. 10.25" x 8") with typed paragraph to verso. Curled at edges and bumped at corners with minor surface marks, but relatively clean and clear. A Very Good or better example. The happy ladies are jumping on an early patented version of the pogo stick, notably without handles. Based on the description typed on the verso, the pogo riders are Catherine Hughes and... Read More
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The Magic Hedonists' Brainstorm in the Bahamas
by Adam Fleischer; Joseph Wierzbicki [tech. illus.]; Chuck Trout [illus.]
Boulder: The Magic Hedonists, 1983. Very Good/Very Good. Boulder: The Magic Hedonists, 1983. No edition statement. Quarto (11.25" x 8.75"); 110pp. Photos & illus. throughout. Illustrated dust jacket over blue boards with silver lettering. Jacket rubbed at corners and spine ends with a small chip at top front corner, with some general toning along edges and a few smudges to surface. Boards bumped along top front and at corners, with scattered finger-soiling. Some spotting and soiling to top... Read More
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![Selected Poems & Ballads [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed to James Broughton and Suzanna Hart]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/132/561/1699561132.0.l.jpg)
Selected Poems & Ballads [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed to James Broughton and Suzanna Hart]
by Helen Adam
New York: Helikon Press, 1974. Very Good. [New York]: Helikon Press, 1974. First Edition, Limited to 26 copies "printed for the friends of the poet and publisher" of which this is copy P. Slim octavo; publisher's gilt-lettered magenta cloth over marbled paper-covered boards; 57pp. Boards quite rubbed at corners with exposure, otherwise a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Signed by the Scottish poet on colophon in rear. Additionally inscribed and signed to fellow-poet James Broughton and... Read More
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The End of the World: Poems
by Ralph Adamo
Fayetteville, AR: Lost Roads, 1979. Very Good. Fayetteville, AR: Lost Roads, 1979. First Edition, stated First Printing. Slim octavo (22.5cm); publisher's white photo-illustrated card wrappers; 50pp. Covers crisp overall with some toning down spine. A few waterspots to textblock fore-edge, not affecting interior. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Issued as Lost Roads no. 17, published shortly after the poet C.D. Wright took over editorship from the late Frank Stanford.
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The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
by Douglas Adams
New York: Harmony House, 1980. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Harmony House, 1980. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 250 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black and blue boards stamped in electric pink; yellow endpapers. Price-clipped dust jacket lightly rubbed and creased along edges with a few very minor nicks. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good or better copy.
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The Truth and Excellence of the Christian Religion Exhibited. In two parts
by Hannah Adams
Boston: David Carlisle for John West, 1804. Very Good. Boston: Printed by David Carlisle, for John West, No. 75, Cornhill, 1804. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); contemporary flame calf, red gilt spine label; 384pp. (collated complete). Light rubbing to leather margins, small chip at spine crown, textblock a bit unevenly foxed and toned, else a Very Good, sound copy. Small compendium by the religious historian Hannah Adams (1755-1831) divided into two parts, the first "containing sketches of... Read More
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![A Letter To American Teachers of History [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/039/561/1699561039.0.l.jpg)
A Letter To American Teachers of History [Signed]
by Henry Adams
Washington DC: J. H. Furst, 1910. Very Good. Washington DC: [Privately printed, Baltimore: J. H. Furst], 1910. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm). 214pp. Green publisher's cloth binding; text in gilt to spine. Boards have minor edgewear; corners rubbed. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Overall, a Very Good copy. Signed by Adams at the end of his introduction. BAL 34 notes: "Many copies, perhaps most, signed by the author at p. vi.
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Essais Philosophiques
by Adam Smith; Dugald Stewart [precis]; P. Prevost [trans.]
Paris: H. Agasse, 1797. Very Good +. Paris: H. Agasse, 1797. First French Edition. Two volumes bound in one; octavo; 19th-century calf over papier-peint boards, gilt-tooled spine; [4],316; [4],283,[1]pp. (collated complete with half titles). Small abrasions to boards somewhat clumsily repaired, else a Very Good or better, internally clean and exceptionally fresh copy. First appearance in French of Adam Smith's posthumously collected work "Essays on Philosophical Subjects," which includes most notably his "Principles which lead and direct... Read More
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![Interiors 1973-1974 [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/721/403/1699403721.0.l.jpg)
Interiors 1973-1974 [Limited Edition, Signed]
by Robert Adams
Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2006. Near Fine. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2006. First Edition, Limited to 1000 copies. Large, slim quarto (36.5cm); publisher's sage green cloth and paper chemise printed in pale yellow; [27]ll. laid in, loose as issued, including twenty-four duotone plates (collated complete). Two faint pencil marks across upper cover, else a Near Fine example, contents clean and sound. Signed by the photographer on title page.
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The Gorgeous Hussy
by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934. First Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's red gilt-lettered cloth; [4],549pp. Light wear to cloth margins, spine gilt rather dulled, else a Very Good, still quite attractive copy, albeit lacking the rare jacket. Historical comic novel adapted into the 1936 film of the same title directed by Clarence Brown and starring Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor. Adams was also the author of the short story "Night Bus,"... Read More
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Play It as It Lays: A Play Based on the Novel by Joan Didion
by Joan Didion; Max Ember [adaptation]
New York: Max Ember, 1970. Very Good. New York: Max Ember, [ca. 1970s]. Quarto (29.5cm); post-bound mottled gray card wrappers; [1],68,50,26ll. printed mimeograph on rectos only. Light wear and toning to wrapper margins, chiefly at spine foot, front wrapper separating from metal binding clasp and first leaf slightly askew, uneven toning to textblock; overall Very Good and sound. Stage script for an adaptation of Joan Didion's 1970 novel, which had already been adapted into film in 1972.... Read More
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China Doll
by Shuji Terayama; Kazuo Uemura [adaptation]
Tokyo, Japan: Terayama World Co, 2003. Very Good. Tokyo, Japan: Terayama World Co., 2003. Large slim folio (42.5cm); publisher's pictorial boards; 27pp.; chiefly illus. Light wear and scuffing to boards, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Text entirely in Japanese. Uncommon graphic novel based on the erotic 1981 Japanese-French film Fruits of Passion, directed by the poet and film maker Shuji Terayama and starring Klaus Kinski. This adaptation not separately catalogued in OCLC as... Read More
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