Five Men and Pompey: A Series of Dramatic Portraits
by Stephen Vincent Benet
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1915. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1915. First Edition, First Issue. 12mo. 47 pages. Printed purple-gray dust jacket pasted into brown boards at spine, as issued, though now separated per notes below. Dust jacket lightly chipped at spine ends, toned along spine, and coloring of exterior has largely faded to gray. Dust jacket now detached from boards due to glue deterioration. Boards with some light chipping along fore... Read More
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They Burned the Books
by Stephen Vincent Benet
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1942. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1942. First Edition. Octavo. 25 pages. Plain blue paper dust jacket. Red boards stamped in black. Housed in black slipcase with title label to spine. Dust jacket is lightly worn along edges with toning to spine and around flaps. Boards show light edgewear and some general creasing. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Slipcase sound. An anti-Nazi radio-play... Read More
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The Great Magoo
by Ben Hecht; Gene Fowler; Herman Rosse [illus.]
New York: Covici-Friede / Van Rees Press, 1933. Very Good. New York: Covici Friede / Van Rees Press, 1933. First Edition. Octavo; black cloth boards stamped in green; 208pp; illustrated in color including a full-page illustration on title page. Very light scuffing to front board, spine ends slightly bumped, spine is cocked, dust soiling to text block edges, else pages are unmarked and binding is sound, a Very Good copy.
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The Great Magoo [Signed and Inscribed by Fowler]
by Ben Hecht; Gene Fowler; Herman Rosse [illus.]
New York: Covici-Friede / Van Rees Press, 1933. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Covici Friede / Van Rees Press, 1933. First Edition. Octavo; black cloth boards stamped in green; pictorial dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; 208pp; illustrated in color including a full-page illustration on title page. Boards are slightly worn with bumping to corners and spine ends, spine is a bit cocked, dust soiled top edge with toning throughout text block, otherwise pages are unmarked and binding... Read More
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The Life and Art of Lois Mailou Jones [Signed by Jones and Benjamin]
by [Lois Mailou Jones] Tritobia Hayes Benjamin
San Francisco, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1994. Near Fine. San Francisco, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1994. First Edition, stated; paperback issue. Large quarto (30.5cm); publisher's glossy pictorial card wrappers; xvii,[1],142pp. Old price sticker to rear; covers lightly edgeworn with faint superficial scratching. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by both Loïs Mailou Jones and author Tritobia Hayes Benjamin without inscription on full title.
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Benjamin Tompson 1642 - 1714, First Native-Born Poet of America: His Poems. Collected with an Introduction of Howard Judson Hall
by Benjamin Tompson; Howard Judson Hall [intro.]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1924. Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1924. Limited Edition of 400 copies, this being #277. Octavo. 164, [4] pp. Black cloth over blue-gray paper covered boards with paper title label to spine. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Light shelfwear to boards and binding is sound. Previous owners' inscription and stamp to front pastedown, but pages otherwise unmarked. Mild wear with brief exposure to corners of... Read More
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The Life and Art of Lois Mailou Jones [Signed by Jones and Benjamin]
by [Lois Mailou Jones] Tritobia Hayes Benjamin
San Francisco, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1994. Near Fine/Near Fine. San Francisco, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks, [1994]. First Edition Stated. Large quarto (31cm); publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; xvii,[1],142pp.; illus. throughout. Very light shelf wear, brief black ink spot to textblock fore-edge, else Very Good to Near Fine. Signed by both Loïs Mailou Jones and the author Tritobia Hayes Benjamin on title page.
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![The Open Door and the Mandates System: A Study of Economic Equality Before and Since the Establishment of the Mandates System [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/943/416/1581416943.0.l.jpg)
The Open Door and the Mandates System: A Study of Economic Equality Before and Since the Establishment of the Mandates System [Signed]
by Benjamin Gerig; William E. Rappard [fwd.]
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1930. Very Good. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1930. First Edition. Signed by Benjamin Gerig with brief inscription to previous owner at front free endpaper. Octavo. 236 pp. + advertisements. Black and white charts and illustrations. Green cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Light shelfwear to boards, corners bumped, minor soiling. Binding is sound. Toning and mild foxing to edges of text block and endpapers; interior else unmarked. Very Good.... Read More
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The Great Western Railway in West Cornwall
by Alan Bennett
Southampton: Kingfisher Railway Productions, 1988. Very Good. Southampton: Kingfisher Railway Productions, 1988. First Edition. Signed. Quarto (27x22x0.5cm); 80pp. Ninety-four B&W reproductions of documentary photographs, maps, timetables, and railway ephemera. Photographic card wrappers. Card wrappers show some touches of shelfwear at edges and a bit of sunning near the card spine, which is uncracked. Textblock unmarred and unmarked apart from author's signature on verso of front cover. In addition to its primary goal of providing historical information... Read More
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Insanity Runs in Our Family
by Hal Bennett
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1977. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1977. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in black unclipped dust jacket; x,[2],299pp. Ex-United States Air Force with usual internal markings as well as a Library of Congress surplus rubber-stamp to front free endpaper, moderate wear to dust jacket margins, top textblock edge dust-soiled, spine a bit cocked, else Very Good and sound. Quite uncommon collection of short... Read More
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The Inheritor
by E.F. Benson
London: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd, 1930. Very Good +. London: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd, 1930. First Edition. Octavo. 286 pages + publisher's "Summer 1930 List." Pink boards stamped in black. Lacks dust jacket. Boards are lightly worn with brief exposure and spine and top edge toned. Binding gives a little with some separation along spine, but overall bounding is holding soundly. Foxing to preliminaries and bookseller ticket to rear pastedown. Pages otherwise unmarked. A supernatural melodrama... Read More
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Paul
by E.F. Benson
J.B. Lippincott Company: Philadelphia, 1906. Very Good -. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's tan decorative cloth stamped in black and red; [2],363pp. Extremities rubbed with some brief exposure at corners and spine ends, cloth darkened along margins, especially spine, brief discoloration to rear cover, rear hinge cracked but holding; Good or better overall. Novel by the son of Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, in which young lovers are separated by... Read More
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![Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/470/364/1279364470.0.l.jpg)
Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories [Signed]
by Benson Saler; H.G. Hippenberg [ed.]; E.T. Lawson [ed.]
New York: E.J. Brill, 1993. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: E.J. Brill, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. 292 pages. Signed by author on front free endpaper with inscription, "To Paula and Abe, / with fondest regards. / - Benson." Number 56 in the Numen Bookseries - Studies in the History of Religions. Purple illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Jacket creased along edges and toned at rear panel, with some fading to... Read More
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Opere del Cardinal Bentivoglio
by Guido Bentivoglio
Parigi [Paris]: Appresso Nicolo Redelichuysen, nella strada di S. Giacomo, alla Croce d'Oro, 1645. Very Good. Parigi [Paris]: Appresso Nicolo Redelichuysen, nella strada di S. Giacomo, alla Croce d'Oro, 1645. First Thus, "nuovamente raccolte insieme." Folio (44cm); full contemporary calf; six raised bands, gilt stamping, and red leather title label to spine; edges sprayed red; [12], 172, [6], 673, [2]pp., collated and complete. Boards worn and scuffed; cracked along joints but holding firm; remnants of bookplate to front... Read More
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Della Guerra di Fiandra [Three Volumes in One]
by Guido Bentivoglio
Venetia [Venice]: Appresso il Ciera, 1702. Very Good. Venetia [Venice]: Appresso il Ciera, 1702. Quarto; full contemporary pig skin, gilt tan spine label, all edges speckled blue; three parts bound in one volume (collated complete); woodcut printer's devices to each title page. Boards a bit soiled, faint contemporary manuscript shelf number to spine foot, occasional light finger soil throughout, else a Very Good, fresh and sound example. The Italian Cardinal's history of the Eighty Years' War, first... Read More
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The Life of Benvenuto Cellini Written by Himself (Two Volumes)
by Benvenuto Cellini; John Addington Symonds [trans.]; Royal Courtissoz [intro.]
New York: Brentano's, 1906. Very Good. New York: Brentano's, 1906. Two volumes. Octavo; Vol. I xxx + 360pp.; Vol II 387pp including index. Both volumes half-bound in brown leather with gilt seams front and back; spines with (pseudo) raised bands and gilt stamping. J.W. Meyer & Co. binding signature on verso of front free endpaper top edge. Gilt top edge of text block; deckle-cut fore-edge. Some unopened index pages. "Forty Original Portraits and Views Illustrating His Life" in... Read More
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Big Up [Signed and Inscribed by Watts]
by Ben Watts; Emil Wilbekin [fwd.]
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003. Very Good +. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003. Stated First Edition. Folio (35cm); unpaginated. Publisher’s photographic boards with $75.00 price sticker at rear. Black-and-white and color photographs and collages throughout. Boards bumped at spine ends and corners; otherwise clean. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. A Very Good or better. Signed and inscribed by Watts on first free endsheet. Inscription reads “Big Up Karren Thanks for buying... Read More
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La Turquie et l'Hellénisme Contemporain
by Victor Bérard
Paris: Félix Alcan, 1911. Very Good +. Paris: Félix Alcan, 1911. Sixième Édition. 12mo (18cm.); recent calf over the original cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine; xvii,[1],352pp.; map in text. Stock a bit brittle and toned, else a Very Good or better copy in sturdy and handsome new binding. Treatise on the "Macedonian question" of the late 19th century by the French diplomat and Hellenist Victor Bérard (1864-1931). Includes the introductions to the Second and Fifth editions. ... Read More
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It's Still in the Family [Signed]
by Stanley Berenstain; Janice Berenstain
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1961. Good +/Very Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1961. First Edition, stated. Quarto (26cm); illustrated dust jacket over orange buckram boards with black lettering to spine; 128pp; illustrated throughout. Price-clipped dust jacket shows long tear to rear panel with adjacent creasing, along with smaller chips and tear along edges and folds, and some general smudging to surface; dampstaining to rear panel, mostly visible to verso. Boards bumped at corners and... Read More
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Memoire pour le Sieur Bergasse, dans la cause du Sieur Kornmann, contre le Sieur de Beaumarchais, et contre le Prince de Nassau
by Nicolas Bergasse
Paris: s.i., 1788. Very Good. [Paris?] s.i., 1788. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm); original stitched self-wrappers, margins untrimmed, retaining the two original waste wrappers (see below), loose as issued; viii,139pp. Light wrinkling and wear, contemporary signature at bottom edge of title page, else a Very Good, marvelously preserved example. Account of the Kornmann Affair by the prosector Nicolas Bergasse (1750–1832), a disciple of Franz Mesmer who became an important figure of the Monarchien Party at the beginning... Read More
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King: A Street Story [Signed Bookplate Mounted in]
by John Berger
London: Bloomsbury, 1999. Near Fine. London: Bloomsbury, 1999. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's white decorative boards; [6],231pp. A hint of wear to extremities, else Near Fine. Upside-down Bloomsbury bookplate signed by the author affixed to front free endpaper. Part novel, part homage to a fictitious unhoused community, told from the point-of-view of King the dog.
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A Painter of Our Time
by John Berger
London: Secker & Warburg, 1958. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Secker & Warburg, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. 238pp. Frontis. Illustrated dust jacket with 18s net price intact. Brown cloth stamped in black. Jacket lightly rubbed along edges and spine notably unfaded. Boards bumped at corners, with a few minor smudges and light fading to cloth. Binding sound and interior unmarked; a Very Good or better copy of Berger's first book.
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The Rare Coins of America, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, Germany, and Spain
by William von Bergen
[n.p.]: William von Bergen, 1889. Very Good. [n.p.]: William von Bergen, 1889. First Edition. 12mo (16 cm); 106pp+4 memo. Illus. throughout. Boards full bound in maroon cloth with gilt stamping and blind decoration to front cover only. All edges gilt. Two-tone floral endsheets. Board extremities shelfworn with bumping and wear to corners and spine ends. Scuffing and minor soiling to boards with scratches to page edges. Previous owner pencil to front flyleaf on both sides, including a name,... Read More
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Death in the House
by Anthony Berkeley
New York: The Crime Club, Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1939. Very Good. New York: The Crime Club, Inc. / Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1939. First Edition stated. Octavo (20 cm); [xii], 273pp. No dust jacket. Boards full bound in mauve cloth with dark blue stamping. Blue top stain and fore edge deckled. Boards worn at corners with bumping to spine ends and minor discoloration to margins. Binding slightly cocked but sturdy. Endsheets toned with off setting... Read More
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George Berkeley: A Study of His Life and Philosophy
by John Wild; [George Berkeley]
New York: Russell & Russell Inc, 1962. Very Good +. New York: Russell & Russell Inc., 1962. Reprint. Octavo. 552 pp. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Spine lightly sunned and boards show gently rubbing along edges. Binding sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked.
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