The Encomienda in New Spain
by [AMERICANA] SIMPSON, Lesley Byrd
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1950. First American Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. [xv]; [1]; 257pp. Light bumping to spine ends, a little scuffing and rubbing to the corners and extremities, with some slight dulling to the gilt, strong and solid; internally clean and fresh, inscribed by the author to the front flyleaf. A very good, handsome copy, lacking its dustjacket. Inscribed by the author: "For William... Read More
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Merry Chimes: A Collection of Songs, Duets, Trios, and Sacred Pieces, for Juvenile Classes, Public Schools, & Seminaries. To Which is Prefixed Elementary Instructions, and Attractive Exercises
by [AMERICAN SONGSTERS] EMERSON, L. O. (et al)
Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co, [1865]. Oblong octavo (13.5cm). Blue printed paper over boards, backed in tan leather; 224pp; publisher's ads to rear panel. Dealer's stamp of S. R Leland and contemporary pencil ownership marks to front free endpaper. General mild wear, with two-inch splits at lower and upper front joint, mild foxing throughout: Good or better. A collection of mostly secular songs, including many lyrics written for this work by Mary B. C. Slade of Fall... Read More
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La Medicina Naturale. Rivista Bimensale. No. 17 (July-Aug 1918)
by [AMERICAN POPULAR MEDICINE - NATUROPATHY] FERRI, N.A. [Nicandro], ed
Chicago: G. Bertelli, 1918. Single quarto issue in tan paper wrappers; 16pp; illus. Wrappers present but tattered, with chips to margins; contents complete and fresh. A sound, Good copy. Apparently unrecorded Italian-language journal of naturopathy, published in Chicago under the editorship of Nicandro A. Ferri, who also published a few naturopathic titles in English including "The Behavior of Health" (1930) and "Soybeans, the Wonder Food" (1938). The magazine's focus appears to have been primarily on nutrition and... Read More
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Return to Human Decency [drop title]
by AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE, NEW ENGLAND REGION
[Cambridge, MA: American Friends Service, New England Region, ca. 1957]. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm.); photographically illustrated bifolium printed on cream stock. Fine. Compilation of quotes by various newssources and scientists against nuclear bomb testing, all dated 1957. Unlocated in OCLC as of September, 2015.
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Kantutas [Inscribed and Signed]
by [AMERICA LATINA] CASTRILLO, Primo
New York: [Las Americas Publishing Company], 1963. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers printed in red and black; 157pp. Light toning to wrapper extremities, especially rear cover, else Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author to a Prof. Reyes Carlionell on half title. Text entirely in English. Born in the Bolivian Andes, the author Primo Castrillo emigrated to the United States in the 1920s where he made a career as a New York City architect.... Read More
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Alabama: "Kind of Tough Living Here." A report on bad rural housing in all 67 Alabama counties
by [AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE] KAMPER, Rita (introd)
Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, [1976]. First Edition. Square quarto (22.75cm.); original photo-illustrated card wrappers; 100pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Mild wear from handling, with small loss at spine foot; internally clean, tight and unmarked - Very Good. Photo-documentary work showcasing the worst housing available in each Alabama county, including shacks located on the property of John D. Garrett, state director of the Farmers Home Administration. Photos are credited to The American Friends Service Committee and the Florida... Read More
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The Ethnography of Franz Boas; Letters and Diaries of Franz Boas Written on the Northwest Coast from 1886 to 1931
by [AMERICANA] [ED: ROHNER, Ronald P.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. First Thus. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's slate grey cloth titled and decorated in red to spine and front board. Dustjacket. [xxx]; 331pp. Clean and sharp, very light bumping to spine ends and a little shelfwear; internally clean, bright red endpapers, bookplate to front pastedown, 6pp of black and white photographs; in a clean and striking example of the dustjacket with some very minor scuffing and wear, and a little soiling to the white rear... Read More
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Every Saturday: Journal of Choice Reading Selected from Foreign Current Literature. Vols I-V (Jan 1866- Jun 1868)
by [AMERICAN PERIODICALS] ALDRICH, Thomas Bailey (ed)
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866-68. Five large octavo volumes (26cm). Publisher's embossed cloth, titled in gilt on spines; 728+802+828+828,42 [includes extra Christmas number]+828pp. Unbroken, well-preserved run; occasional toning or edgewear to text; easily Very Good overall. The first five volumes (of an eventual eight) of this substantial post-Civil War literary magazine that introduced a number of English and Continental authors to American readers. The journal was edited by a young Thomas Bailey Aldrich, at this time still... Read More
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Recollections of The Last Ten Years, Passed in Occasional Residences and Journeyings in the Valley of The Mississippi, From Pittsburg and The Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, and From Florida to the Spanish Frontier; in a Series of Letters to Rev. James Flint of Salem Massachusetts
by [AMERICANA] FLINT, Timothy
Boston: Cummings, Hilliard and Company, 1826. First Edition. Octavo. 26cm. Bound in a 20th century institutional brown cloth, titled in gilt to spine. 395pp. The binding is strong, tight, and eminently functional; internally clean, almost entirely untrimmed, endpapers contemporary with the binding, lacking a half-title, there are marginal repairs to the title page which has been laid down onto archival backing, some chipping to the edges of the prelims not interfering with the text, ink ownership stamp of "Jos.... Read More
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Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling and the Sorrowing
by [AMERICAN TRADE BINDINGS] [TEMPERANCE] ARTHUR, T.S. (Timothy Shay)
Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss, 1861. Later edition (first published 1856). 12mo (18cm). Publisher's full morocco, elaborately embossed with gilt titles and matching gilt devices to front and rear boards; all edges gilt; 300pp; frontispiece, engraved extra-title and 4 inserted leaves of plates; 4pp publisher's catalog bound in at end of text. Mild overall rubbing, with some softness to leather at head and heel; top edge gilt slightly oxidized; still a sound, Very Good copy in a quite... Read More
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Flood Tide of Empire; Spain and The Pacific Northwest, 1543-1819
by [AMERICANA] COOK, Warren L.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1973. First American Edition. Octavo. 26cm. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. [xiv]; 620pp. Very light wear, mostly confined to some minor bumping at the spine ends, strong and tight; internally cleand and fresh, bookplate to front pastedown, illustrated throughout; in a clean, sharp, priceclipped dustjacket with a little light edgewear and some pale sunning to the spine panel. A very good, handsome copy indeed. A historical overview... Read More
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Archive of Unpublished Primary Correspondence from the Dorr Rebellion
by [AMERICAN INSURRECTIONS] [DORR REBELLION] GREENE, Welcome Arnold, et al.
Providence, New York, & Stonington, CT, 1842-3. Quarto and small folio, totaling 40 pages (not including address panels), all very legible with the exception of the last, most with typed transcriptions, and all in very good to fine condition. A collection of 14 letters dating from 6 April 1842 to 4 May 1843, written by Rhode Island landowners who opposed the Dorr Rebellion, during the most intense phase of the uprising. In 1841 Rhode Island... Read More
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Morals in Politics: a Collection of Essays
by [AMERICAN POLITICS] CHAMBERLIN, William; DEWEY, John; EASTMAN, Max; HOOK, Sidney
New York: New Leader Publishing Association, 1945. First edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed wrappers (softcover); 32p. Near fine.
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Manuel Neri: Early Work 1953-1978
by AMERSON, Price, et al. (text)
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto; gray cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and in blind to front cover; dustjacket; xvi,424pp; illus. Spine ends gently nudged, upper corners tapped (though still sharp), else Near Fine in a Near Fine, lightly shelfworn dustjacket. Volume published in conjunction with The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. With a foreword by Jack Coward and introduction by Henry Geldzahler.
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Philine, from the Unpublished Journals of Henri-Frédéric Amiel
by AMIEL, Henri-Frédéric; Van Wyck Brooks, transl & ed; Edmond Jaloux, introd
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Fuchsia cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xil,401pp. A tight, clean copy; the spine gilt slightly dulled and the publisher's top-stain somewhat faded, else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 on front flap), dusted, a shade darker on spine panel, lightly worn at extremities, still VG or better. A selection of unpublished fragments from the Swiss philsopher and critic's private journals. ... Read More
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A Look Round the Estate: Poems 1957-1967
by AMIS, Kingsley
New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1968. First American Edition. Small octavo. Cloth-backed patterned paper boards; dustjacket; 49pp. Near Fine in lightly rubbed dustwrapper, unclipped but with price crossed out in ink and shadow from a remainder price sticker on inside front flap; Very Good.
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My Enemy's Enemy [Signed]
by AMIS, Kingsley
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1962. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm.); red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 224pp. Author's clipped signature mounted on title page. Offsetting to half-title page, lower corners gently bumped, with light sunning to lower board edges; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 18/- net), gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn and dust-soiled, with a few tiny nicks and tears; Very Good+. The author's first collection of short fiction, containing seven short stories... Read More
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That Uncertain Feeling: A Novel
by AMIS, Kingsley
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1955. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); red cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 254pp. Light tanning to spine and board edges, with shelf-soil, trace foxing to edges of textblock and interior, and bookshop sticker and residue to rear pastedown; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 12/6 net), tanned, with shelf-soil, and chips and creases to upper spine panel and extremities; Very Good. Novel follows John Lewis, a young librarian, as he navigates his... Read More
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That Uncertain Feeling
by AMIS, Kingsley
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 247pp. Modest rubbing to spine ends and board edges, with trace foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Arline and Marvin Oberman, unclipped (priced $3.50), spine-faded, with shelf-soil and tiny tears to extremities; Very Good. This novel follows John Lewis, a young librarian, as he navigates his inadequate salary, unhappy marraige,... Read More
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House of Meetings: A Novel [Signed, Advance Uncorrected Proof]
by AMIS, Martin
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First Edition. Advance uncorrected proof, softcover. Octavo (21.5cm); blue paper wrappers; 247pp. Signed by author on title page. Lightly spine-sunned with trace soil; Near Fine. The author's memoir-style novel focuses on two brothers in an Arctic gulag during Stalin's rule. [85517].
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Success [Signed]
by AMIS, Martin
London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [6],7-224pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Base of spine gently nudged, with some faint, scattered soil to lower edge of textblock, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced £3.95 net), with light wear to extremities, and just a hint of sunning to spine; Near Fine. Attractive copy of the Amis's third novel. ... Read More
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The Snow Poems
by AMMONS, A.R.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1977. Second Printing. Octavo (22cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xii,292pp. Crisps, clean, Near Fine copy in a Near Fine dustjacket (priced $12.50, with lower corner of front flap clipped by the publisher), with some light wear to crown. Twelfth published collection by the National Book Award-winning poet.
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The Snow Poems [Inscribed]
by AMMONS, A.R.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1977. Second Printing. Octavo (22cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xii,292pp. Inscribed by Ammons on the half-title page: "For Julian Mason / all good wishes ever / from Archie Ammons / 10 May 86 / Old Salem." Crown gently nudged, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket (priced $12.50, with lower corner of front flap clipped by the publisher), with some light corresponding wear to crown.... Read More
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DIVERSIFICATIONS
by Ammons, A.R.
New York: Norton, 1975. First edition. First printing. A lovely copy, with the front flap clipped at the bottom as usual, not affecting price, and only a tiny spot of binding glue affecting the binding.
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WORLDLY HOPES
by Ammons, A.R.
New York: Norton, 1982. First edition. Black cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 51 pp. This book has a signature which I do not believe is genuine, otherwise a fine copy. A fine copy in like dust jacket, as new.
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