Rev. Anthony Verren, Pastor of the French Episcopal Church of the Saint-Esprit, at New-York. Judged by his Works
by [Peter Barthelemy]
New York: Sold by the Booksellers, 1840. Very Good. New York: Sold by the Booksellers, 1840. First Edition. Octavo. [2], 84, 87pp.; folding facsimile to rear. Second portion of text in French. Original green cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Edgewear and spotting to boards. Binding sound. Mild spotting and toning to interior; Very Good. Uncommon, angry, and rather titillating screed against the French-born Episcopalian minister Antoine Verren (1801-1873), whom the author accuses of "epistolary slanders" against... Read More
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Aphorisms on Men, Manners, Principles and Things. Physiognomy, a Poem: and the Blessings of Poverty
by Joseph Bartlett
Boston: Printed by Jonathan Howe, 1823. Very Good. Boston: Printed by Jonathan Howe, 1823. Second Edition. Octavo. 148; 16 pp. + errata. Original sheep and tips over paper boards. Printed dedication to John Quincy Adams. Staining to boards, worn at edges and extremities with brief exposure and shallow loss to crown. Binding is sound. Previous owner's stamp to front pastedown, touch of spotting to interior but otherwise pages unmarked.
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![My Cruise Diary: North Cape and Russia Cruise 1931 [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed] [Laid in Autograph Postcard Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/323/816/1630816323.0.l.jpg)
My Cruise Diary: North Cape and Russia Cruise 1931 [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed] [Laid in Autograph Postcard Signed]
by Hamilton M. Baskerville
Richmond, VA: Privately Published by the Author / Whittet & Shepperson, 1932. Very Good. Richmond, VA: Privately Printed for the Author for Distribution Among His Friends / Whittet & Shepperson, n.d. [but ca. 1932]. First Edition, Limited to 200 copies of which this is no. 53. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; 134pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout including maps. Light wear to cloth, endpapers toned, else a Very Good, sound example overall. Inscribed and signed on front... Read More
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![Glorious Technicolor: The Movies' Magic Rainbow - Eightieth Anniversary Edition [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/409/733/1427733409.0.l.jpg)
Glorious Technicolor: The Movies' Magic Rainbow - Eightieth Anniversary Edition [Signed]
by Fred E. Basten
Burbank, CA: Technicolor Inc, 1994. Very Good/Very Good. Burbank, CA: Technicolor Inc., 1994. Second Edition. Signed by Basten on half title without inscription. Quarto. 253 pp. Black and white and color illustrations and photographs throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Pink boards stamped in gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket rubbed along edges with a few very short closed tears. Top corners of boards slightly bumped, light edgewear with a few smudges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. ... Read More
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Anselm Kiefer: Dein und Mein und das Alter der Welt: Your Age and Mine and the Age of the World
by Anselm Kiefer; Heiner Bastian
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1998. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1998. First Edition. Quarto (31.5x25x1cm); 64pp, including catalog of works. Text presented in parallel German and English. Sixty full-color reproductions, many as double spreads, one with additional gatefold. Dustjacket reproduces Kiefer painting. Volume in flecked sand-color laid paper boards with gray-brown lettering on spine and front panel. Autographed Gagosian Gallery "Compliments" card from Bob Monk, one of the gallery's directors, laid in. Jacket clean and... Read More
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![Father's Day [Signed and Inscribed to William Safire]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/567/366/1279366567.0.l.jpg)
Father's Day [Signed and Inscribed to William Safire]
by John Calvin Batchelor
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994. Second Printing. Octavo. 528 pages. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket is lightly worn at edges with one chip to top front corner and more heavily creased at bottom of spine. Red boards in black cloth are stamped in red at spine. A touch of wear to spine ends and corners are bumped. Binding is sound and pages are clean and unmarked. ... Read More
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The Last Bread: A Play in One Act
by H.E. Bates
London: Labour Publishing Company Limited, 1926. Near Fine. London: Labour Publishing Company Limited, 1926. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's decorative tan staple bound wrappers; vii,[1],18pp. A hint of shelf wear, else Fine. The author's first book, a short play inspired by the ongoing miners' strikes in the country. As the introduction warns, "This is admittedly a grim little play, but not, I think, grimmer than reality.
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![New Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/886/862/1735862886.0.l.jpg)
New Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies [Signed and Inscribed]
by Najmieh Batmanglij
Washington DC: Mage Publishers, 2009. Very Good +/Very Good. Washington DC: Mage Publishers, 2009. Third Edition. Square quarto (25cm); 447pp. Publisher’s photographic dust jacket; matching boards and photographic endsheets. Color photographs throughout. Dust jacket a bit bumped with small tear at spine head; rear panel superficially scratched. Boards lightly bumped at spine ends; otherwise clean with sharp corners. Spine ever-so-slightly cocked. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. Signed, inscribed, and dated by the author at first... Read More
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The Log: USNR 43rd Mobile Power Construction Battalion, 1942-1946
by [United States Navy Reserve] 43rd U.S. Naval Construction Battalion
Baton Rouge, LA: Army & Navy Pictorial Publishers, 1946. Very Good. [Baton Rouge, LA: Army & Navy Pictorial Publishers, 1946]. First Edition. Quarto (31cm); publisher's brown pictorial blind-embossed cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt; 153pp.; halftone illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, corners bumped, textblock a bit shaken in binding; overall Very Good.
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Le Berger Fidele
by Battista Guarini; Antoine de Torche [trans.]; Jacobus Harrewyn [illus.]
Brusselles: Jean de Smedt, 1705. Very Good-. Brusselles: Chez Jean de Smedt, a la Conversion de St. Augustin, 1705. 16mo (13cm.); full contemporary roan, gilt spine in five compartments, all edges red, marbled endpapers; [16],471,[1]pp.; engraved frontispiece and five full-page illus. signed in text by Jacobus Harrewyn. Leather rather worn and dried with shallow losses at spine ends, rear free flyleaf and endpaper torn with loss, brief biopredation to bottom margin of final leaf of text slightly affecting... Read More
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![Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae: Band 25 Geschichte des Breslauer Schulwesens vor der Reformation und Band 26 Geschichte des Breslauer Schulwesens in der zeit der Reformation [Collected Documents Pertaining to Silesia: Vol 25 History of Wroclaw Schools Before the Reformation and Vol 26 History of Wroclaw Schools During the Reformation] (Two Volumes Bound as One)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/128/597/1332597128.0.l.jpg)
Codex Diplomaticus Silesiae: Band 25 Geschichte des Breslauer Schulwesens vor der Reformation und Band 26 Geschichte des Breslauer Schulwesens in der zeit der Reformation [Collected Documents Pertaining to Silesia: Vol 25 History of Wroclaw Schools Before the Reformation and Vol 26 History of Wroclaw Schools During the Reformation] (Two Volumes Bound as One)
by Gustav Bauch
Wroclaw (Breslau): Ferdinand Hirt, KGL. Universitäts- und Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1911. Very Good. Wroclaw (Breslau): Ferdinand Hirt, KGL. Universitäts- und Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1909-1911. Quarto; Vol 25 xii + 313pp; Vol 26 xi + 402pp; each volume indexed separately. Original broché quartos with card covers united in institutional reference binding with pale rust canvas spine; shelving info on paper spine label. Clay-colored panels in heavy stock. Entirely in German. Terminal pages of each volume have been repaired with archival paper, undoubtedly... Read More
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Marion Alive
by Vicki Baum
London: Michael Joseph, 1943. Very Good/Very Good. London: Michael Joseph, 1943. First Edition. Octavo (19.8cm); illustrated dust jacket with 10/6 net price intact; boards in publisher's red cloth with silver lettering; 452pp. Jacket shows a clean tear along top front joint, with lighter tears and chips at folds and fairly heavy foxing, likely common given the war economy stock. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends, with another bump at fore-edge and a brief impression at top front.... Read More
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A Call to the Unconverted, to turn and live and accept of mercy, while mercy may be had, as ever they will find mercy in the day of their extremity, from the living God
by Richard Baxter
Brookfield, MA: E. & G. Merriam, 1828. Very Good. Brookfield, MA: E. & G. Merriam, 1828. 24mo; full contemporary gilt-tooled calf; xxvii,[28]-192pp. Light scuffing to leather extremities, tiny chip mid-spine, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else a Very Good copy in an attractive American binding. Scarce American edition of the English Nonconformist minister's tract first published in 1658. None in the trade or auction record as of February, 2023. Just four copies in OCLC (Yale,... Read More
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Raft
by Stephen Baxter
London: Grafton Books, 1991. Very Good/Very Good. London: Grafton Books, 1991. First Edition. Octavo (22 cm); 264pp. Boards in blue cloth with gilt stamping to spine, wrapped in publisher's intact illustrated jacket (£14.99). Jacket gently scuffed with minor bumping to margins and dampstaining visible at verso. Board corners and spine ends nudged and all extremities lightly dust-soiled. Page edges foxed but binding firm and interior mostly clean with some light foxing to a few middle pages. Overall a... Read More
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![Swing Low, Sweet Harriet [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/104/136/1699136104.0.l.jpg)
Swing Low, Sweet Harriet [Inscribed and Signed]
by George Baxt
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1967]. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (22cm); publisher's boards, lilac topstain in acid green pictorial dust jacket by Lawrence Ratzkin retaining original price ($3.95); 173pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few tiny closed tears, spine panel faded with small soil spot, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "2/23/67/ Darling Jacqueline: With love and kisses / from... Read More
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Examen Microscopique du sperme desseche sur le linge, ou sur les tissues de nature et de coloration diverses
by Henri L. Bayard
Paris: J. B. Bailliere, 1839. Very Good. Paris: J. B. Bailliere, 1839. Side stitched octavo (23 cm); [3],47pp+1 foldout plate illus. Untrimmed pages lightly soiled and creased, particularly at margins, with corners rubbed and rough with shallow tears. Edges toned internally with light soiling and foxing throughout. Minor water damage to bottom corner of pages and foldout plate illustration at rear. Offsetting from plate to verso of last page. Overall a Very Good copy. Bayard was... Read More
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![[Broadside] Hit of the Year! Do You Remember - The Fabulous Flames](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/595/644/1703644595.0.l.jpg)
[Broadside] Hit of the Year! Do You Remember - The Fabulous Flames
by Bay Tone Records; The Fabulous Flames [Louis Madison, J.W. Archer, Willie "Snake" Johnson, and Bill Hollings
San Francisco: Bay Tone Records, 1960. Very Good. San Francisco: Bay Tone Records, [1960]. Photo-illustrated broadside (15.2x43.5cm) printed offset in red on white stock promoting the group's first single "Do You Remember." Vertical fold; crease with curling to top left-hand corner; Very Good overall. An offshoot of James Brown's The Famous Flames, this group was composed of members abruptly fired by Brown following the success of their single "Trust Me." Taken under the wing of Bay Tone... Read More
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Mémoires d'une Vieille Fille
by René Bazin
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1908. Very Good. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, n.d. but 1908. First Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm); contemporary red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [2],338pp. Spine a bit toned and very slightly rubbed at crown, else Very Good and sound. Novel in the form of the journal entries of an aging and unmarried woman.
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Beyond Control
by Rex Beach
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. Very Good/Good only. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1932. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's cloth in orange pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); [4],310pp. Jacket extremities significantly chipped and worn, long tear across upper jacket panel with heavy subsequent wrinkling (tape repaired on verso), large loss at spine crown entirely effacing title, spine panel additionally sunned and spine cloth a shade toned where left unprotected; light soil to boards, corners bumped,... Read More
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![Collection of Eleven Photographs Taken at Camp Nyoda, Oak Ridge, New Jersey [many signed by Tarbox]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/129/120/1611120129.0.l.jpg)
Collection of Eleven Photographs Taken at Camp Nyoda, Oak Ridge, New Jersey [many signed by Tarbox]
by Jessie Tarbox Beals
New York: Jessie Tarbox Beals, 1920. Very Good. New York: Jessie Tarbox Beals, n.d., ca. 1920. Collection of eleven photographs (ca. 15x23 to 18.5x24cm. or the inverse). Light wear from handling, one image with tiny pinholes in all four corners, many of the images signed by Beals in pencil or pen in the lower margin, a few images with manuscript captions and the note "Please return to Mrs. G.D. Smith" on versos, else a Very Good, bright collection.... Read More
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The American Boys' Book Of Signs, Signals And Symbols
by Dan Beard
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1918. Very Good. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1918. First Edition. 362 black and white illustrations. Octavo (21cm). Publisher's cloth binding. 250 pp. Cloth binding has light fingerprint smudging; some rubbing to crown and foot of spine. Top corners bumped. Contemporary holiday inscription in pencil on back free endpaper. A Very Good copy. Part of the Woodcraft Series. A compendium of trail symbols one might encounter on the open road or... Read More
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Romare Bearden: Origins and Progressions
by Romare Bearden
Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1986. Very Good. Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1986. First Edition, one of a thousand copies printed. Slim quarto (29cm); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 46pp.; full color illus. throughout, text printed on brown stock. Margins a bit rubbed, rather heavy foxing to rear cover; overall Very Good, internally clean and sound. Catalog accompanying Bearden's solo exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts, September 16 to November 16, 1986. ... Read More
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![Strength of Stones [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/707/188/1503188707.0.l.jpg)
Strength of Stones [Signed]
by Greg Bear
Wallington, Surrey: Severn House, 1991. Very Good +/Very Good +. Wallington, Surrey: Severn House, 1991. First Hardcover Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; 221pp. Minute wear to jacket extremities, spine panel a shade toned, else Very Good to Near Fine. Signed by the author on title page. First published in paperback by Ace in the U.S. (1981) and Gollancz in the UK (1988).
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Distinguished Negroes Abroad
by Beatrice J. Fleming; Marion J. Pryde; Lois M. Jones [illus.]
Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, 1946. Very Good/Very Good. Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, 1946. First Edition. Octavo; original boards in illustrated dust jacket retaining $2.65 price; 272pp.; illus. throughout. Dust jacket chipped and creased along edges; general rubbing. Boards show light edgewear, ownership stamp to top edge of text block and preliminaries, though textblock otherwise unmarked; a Very Good copy. Collection of short biographies, including profiles of Antar of Arabia, Dumas père and fils, and Toussaint... Read More
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Poems on Several Occasions
by James Beattie
Edinburgh: Printed for W. Creech, 1796. Very Good. Edinburgh: Printed for W. Creech, 1796. Second Edition. Small octavo. 83 pp. Contemporary calf with gilt ruling and decoration to spine. Boards lightly scuffed and worn with brief exposure at extremities, chipping to top of spine with minor fraying and split along top and bottom of front joint, though binding is sound. Mild marginal toning and staining but otherwise pages unmarked and text legible throughout. Includes... Read More
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