The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Body-Mind Disciplines
by ALLISON, Nancy
New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 1999. Quarto (29cm). Grey paper over boards, stamped in gilt, with dust jacket; xxxii,448pp; black and white illus. A straight copy, bumped at head and tail, minor marks to textblock edges, else clean: Very Good. Jacket faded at spine, lightly rubbed at edges: Very Good. "A body-mind discipline is an organized program of activity that seeks to awaken and activate the links between body, mind, and spirit" (jacket flap).
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Ostrov Beze Spánku: Dobrodružny Román
by ALLORGE, Henri
Praha: Nakladatelstvi Vl. Orel, n.d., 1931. First Czech Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 280pp. Spine rather heavily cocked, jacket extremities a bit shelf worn, rear panel shows some dustiness, front hinge starting to crack but holding, else a Near Very Good copy. Exceedingly scarce Czech edition of this French science fiction novel, translated by Karla Čvančary and boasting a strikingly photomontaged dust jacket. OCLC locates one copy as of January, 2017, in the Czech Republic;... Read More
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![[Drop title] Peter Bertocci: Philosopher - Psychologist](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/431/126/1246126431.0.l.jpg)
[Drop title] Peter Bertocci: Philosopher - Psychologist
by ALLPORT, Gordon W.
N.p., n.d. but ca. 1964. Offprint. Octavo (23cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 7pp. Rather worn and a bit soiled from handling, previous owner's red pen notes to upper cover stating this is an offprint from The Philosophical Forum, Vol. 21, 1963-4.
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Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage
by ALLSOPP, Richard; Jeannette Allsopp
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. First Edition. Third printing. Octavo (24cm). Black cloth, titled in gilt; maps to endpapers; lxxviii, 697pp. Bookplate of noted zoologist James G. Mead. A straight copy, lightly rubbed, f.f.e.p. and half-title rippled from bookplate glue, else clean Very Good or better. Jacket lightly rubbed, with price sticker to lower front flap, else Near Fine.
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The Sylphs of the Seasons, with Other Poems
by ALLSTON, Washington
Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1813. First American Edition. Thin paper issue (bulking 3/8"). State with gathering H signed H2 (no priority). 12mo (20cm). In plain brown paper-covered boards; plain endpapers; 168pp. Untrimmed, with pencil signature to t.p., erased; contemporary pencil signature of Robert P. Dunlap to contents leaf. A straight copy, rubbed, joints cracked but holding, endpapers discolored, foxed throughout: nonetheless, about Very Good. Allston (1779-1843) is better known as an early American romantic painter, admired by... Read More
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Goettinger Taschen Calender Für das Iahr 1795 / Taschenbuch zum Nutzen und Vergnuegen furs Jahs 1795
by [ALMANAC]
[Gottingen]: Ioh. Chr. Dieterich, 1795. 24mo (10.5cm). Printed green glazed paper boards, manuscript paper labels to spine, all edges gilt; coated endpapers and flyleaves; [58],228,[2]pp; engraved title page and 29 engraved plates. Embosed ownership stamp of David B. Dickens to t.p.; library markings and call numbers to front endpapers. General moderate wear to boards, spine and hinges cracking, but internally clean: around Very Good. Pocket almanac in the original boards, with numerous illustrations depicting contemporary styles and social... Read More
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The Healing Community: Dynamics of the Therapeutic Milieu
by ALMOND, Richard
New York: Jason Aronson, [1974]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket, pink topstain; xlviii,415pp. General shelf wear and shallow chipping to jacket extremities, tiny loss at bottom edge of rear panel not approaching text, minor soil, else Very Good and sound.
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![(Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions [Inscribed & Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/174/374/1036374174.0.l.jpg)
(Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions [Inscribed & Signed]
by ALMOND, Steve
New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, [2008]. First Paperback Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.25cm.); publisher's glossy pictorial card wrappers; xiv,288pp. Tiny crease at top fore-edge corner of upper wrapper, else Fine. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author on half title page, addressed to the late Minnesota poet John Rezmerski.
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The Trouble at Round Rock (Navajo Historical Series, no. 2)
by [NATIVE AMERICAN AUTHORS] LEFT-HANDED MEXICAN CLANSMAN; Howard Gorman; the Nephew of Former Big Man (et al)
[Washington D.C.]: United States Indian Service, 1952. First Edition. First printing (5200 copies). Quarto. Staple-bound, printed card wrappers; 88pp; illus. Faint foxing to endpapers, else tight, clean and unmarked; Near Fine. Printed at the Phoenix Indian School. Text in English and Navajo. Historical account of the 1892-4 conflict between the Navajo, under the leadership of Black Horse, and a U.S. Indian Agent named Dale Shipley. Geared towards primary-school readers at reservation schools. Photo-illustrated (halftones). The second book in the... Read More
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![Viva la Revolución: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape [Inscribed & Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/102/678/1064678102.0.l.jpg)
Viva la Revolución: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape [Inscribed & Signed]
by [ALONZO, Pedro and Lucía Sanromán, curators]
[San Diego & Berkeley]: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego / Gingko Press, [2010]. Second Printing. Quarto (30.5cm.); publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards; 165pp.; chiefly color photographs. Light wear from handling, spine just a hint cocked, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed by Pedro Alonzo on front free endpaper verso.
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![Vort - Nos.1-8 [Nathaniel Tarn's Copies]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/794/889/1716889794.0.l.jpg)
Vort - Nos.1-8 [Nathaniel Tarn's Copies]
by ALPERT, Barry (editor)
Silver Spring, MD: Barry Alpert, 1972-1975. First Editions. Eight quarto issues (28cm); mimeographed and offset-printed sheets, alternately saddle-stiched, stapled, and prefectbound into decorative card wrappers. This set is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his penciled name appearing on the contents leaf of No.1, and a few issues bearing his light penciled marks in the margins. Issue No.3 has been lengthily inscribed to Tarn by editor Barry Alpert, who has also inscribed... Read More
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![The Common Good: Stalement or Reconstruction [Alternatives, no. 2]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/177/316/854316177.0.l.jpg)
The Common Good: Stalement or Reconstruction [Alternatives, no. 2]
by ALPEROVITZ, Gar
[Bryn Mawr, PA: Analysis and Policy Press / Institute for Democratic Socialism, 1987?]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original white decorative staplebound card wrappers printed in red and black; [2],15pp. A few leaves creased at upper fore-edge corner, light dust-soil, else Very Good or better.
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Some Other Time
by ALPERT, Hollis
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original cloth-backed boards in purple pictorial dust jacket; [6],274,[5]pp. Very minor rubbing to jacket extremities, else About Fine. "A Novel of Paris After the War, Before the Peace" (upper jacket cover).
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Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball
by ALPERT, Rebecca T.
[New York]: Oxford University Press, [2011]. Second Printing. Octavo (24.25cm.); publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; ix,[3],236pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Some wear at bottom edge of rear jacket panel, else Near Fine.
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THE AMERICAN GUIDE
by Alsberg, H. G. (ed.); Weldon Kees
New York: Hastings House, 1949. First Edition. Blue cloth, gold lettering; 8vo. 1348 pp. Pp. 72-80 is an essay covering the entirety of the history of American Literature written by Weldon Kees. A guidebook for the entire US. An easily very good copy lacking the dust jacket.
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Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna
by Alsteens, Bambach, Goldner, Ives, Stein, Strasser, eds
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2009. First Edition. Quarto (31cm x 26cm). Brown cloth boards (hardcover) with gold embossed titling on spine; dustjacket; 324pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slight soiling to bottom textblock corner; small tear to last page; else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight shelf wear to extremities, else clean. Volume published to accompany the exhibition "Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna" held at The... Read More
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Mamba -- Anfang in Afrika
by ALTHAUS, Gerhard; Hans Ludwig Althaus, ed
Erlangen: Verlag der Ev.-Luth. Mission, [1968]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's white photo-illustrated card wrappers; 103pp.; two color plates, including folding map, text illus. throughout. Light dust-soil, else About Fine. Posthumously published account of the German pastor's missionary work in Mamba, Tanzania, perhaps published by the author's son to offset his father's role in the Third Reich. Text entirely in German.
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RIVAL HEAVENS
by Althaus, Keith, Illustrated by Baker, Susan
Provincetown: Provincetown Arts Press, 1993. First edition. Signed by Author. Provincetown Poets Volume I, issued in blue wraps with pasted paper label; small 8vo. 68 pages. Limited to 850. Very good condition, spine lightly sunned. Narrative poems of work and landscape, with frontispiece by his wife Susan Baker. His first full-length collection after three chapbooks.
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Essays in Jewish Intellectual History
by ALTMANN, Alexander
Hanover: Brandeis University Press, 1981. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 324pp. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Fine and unmarked, in lightly edgeworn, Near Fine dustwrapper.
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The Men's Center of Palo Alto
by MEN'S CENTER OF PALO ALTO
Palo Alto: Men's Center Collective, 1976. First Edition. Broadside flyer (28x21.5cm.); printed offset from typescript on green stock. Light wear from handling, else Very Good or better. Promotional handbill for the Men's Center, a "place in the community for men who want to examine their lives and the roles in which they have been cast." Activities include learning awareness "of the habits which are the result of our socialization and which handicap us as human beings" and finding "alternative... Read More
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Starting With Defiance: Nineteenth Century Arizona Military Posts
by ALTSHULER, Constance Wynn
Tucson: Arizona Historical Society, 1983. First Edition. First printing. Small, square octavo; pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 80pp; illus. Mild fading to spine, with a touch of wear at spine ends and corners, still Near Fine. Illustrated from historic photographs.
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The Horsemen of the Plains: A Story of the Great Cheyenne War
by ALTSHELER, Joseph A.
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, N.d. [1938]. Reprint. Octavo. Orange cloth hardcover, titled in black on spine; dustjacket; 390pp; illus. Old department store price sticker to front endpaper else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly worn at extremities with a few short, closed tears; Very Good. Attractive reissue of this popular juvenile western adventure, originally published in 1910. Though not credited in this edition, the illustrations are by Charles L. Bull.
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The Shades of the Wilderness
by ALTSHELER, Joseph A.
New York: Appleton Century Crofts, (1944). Later printing. Small octavo. Gray cloth; dustjacket; 360pp. Very clean copy, tight andFine, in original pictorial dustwrapper, price-clipped, lightly edgeworn; Very Good.. Originally published 1916; this is a much later printing, but an unusually attractive copy in its original jacket. One of Altsheler's Civil War novels for boys.
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A Herald of the West: an American Story of 1811-1815
by ALTSHELER, J[oseph] A.
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1898. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo. Pictorial cloth; viii,359pp. Wear to cloth at spine ends and board corners; faint stains and some moisture rippling to text block edges; rear endpaper lacking: a flawed copy, no better than Good, but retaining decent shelf appearance. A hard-to-find Altsheler title, and one of the few never to have been reprinted.
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![The Savage God; A Study of Suicide [Proof Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/678/203/1715203678.0.l.jpg)
The Savage God; A Study of Suicide [Proof Copy]
by ALVAREZ,Alfred
New York: Random House, 1972. Uncorrected Proof. Tall octavo. 28cm. Publisher's sea green card wraps printed in black to front cover. 218pp [paginated by hand]. Clean and sharp with some sunning to the upper sections of the covers, strong and tight; internally clean and fresh with contemporary review clippings laid in at the front, and Crane Duplicatiing Services ink stamp to recto of the rear wrap. A very good copy. An advance uncorrected proof for, presumably, the paperback... Read More
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