0 To 9, Number Three, January 1968
by Bernadette Mayer and Vito Hannibal Acconci [eds.]
New York: Vito H. Acconci, 1968. Good. New York: Vito H. Acconci, 1968. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's grey staple bound wrappers; [2],82pp. Lacking rear wrapper, upper wrapper evenly toned, else a Good copy (essentially near fine except for the missing rear wrapper), contents in clean and sound condition. Contents include poetry by Clark Coolidge, Guillaume Apollinaire, John Giorno, Ted Berrigan, Aram Saroyan, as well as both editors.
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![The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists: Volume 1-4 [Four volume set]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/162/465/1639465162.0.l.jpg)
The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists: Volume 1-4 [Four volume set]
by Bernard Lightman [ed.]
Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. Very Good. Bristol, UK: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004. First Editions. Four octavo volumes, complete. Black cloth stamped in gilt and violet. No dust jackets. Touch of dust soiling to top edges. Bindings sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good or better set.
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Unnatural Acts
by Bernadette Mayer and Ed Friedman [eds.]; Jean Boudin, Shelley Cholst, Sheri Fein, Yancy Gerber, Dan Icolari, Suzanne Kaufman, Michael Ladin, and Frances Waldman [contribs.]
New York: St. Marks Poetry Project, 1972. Very Good. New York: St. Marks Poetry Project, 1972. First Edition. Staple-bound quarto (28cm); unpaginated. Publisher’s wrappers printed with black text. Wraps toned, bumped, and smudged. Front panel shows two nickel-sized coffee stains. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages toned. Very Good. Inaugural issue of Unnatural Acts, a collaborative magazine co-edited by Bernadette Mayer and Ed Friedman, so-titled because the poems within were published without attribution. The first... Read More
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![From the Center of the Earth: The Search for the Truth About China [Inscribed to William Safire]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/539/011/1283011539.0.l.jpg)
From the Center of the Earth: The Search for the Truth About China [Inscribed to William Safire]
by Richard Bernstein
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. First Edition. Octavo. Unclipped photographic dust jacket; red boards in red cloth with spine and front stamped in gilt; 260pp. Jacket shows a few small chips and one tear along edges, with toning along the spine and rubbed at joints. Boards worn and a bit faded at edges and corners. Binding is sound and interior unmarked. Signed by author to William... Read More
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Money and the Economic System
by Edward Morris Bernstein
Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1935. Very Good. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1935. First Edition. Octavo. 516pp. Charts and graphs. Brown cloth boards stamped in black and silver; no dust jacket. Boards worn with some smudging. Rear hinge cracked but binding holding. Bookseller stamps ad pencil scribbling to preliminaries, else unmarked; Very Good. Bernstein was a leading international economist and helped establish the international monetary system near the end... Read More
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![So Going Around Cities: New & Selected Poems 1958-1979 [Inscribed to Harris Schiff and Judy Pomerantz]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/803/484/1699484803.0.l.jpg)
So Going Around Cities: New & Selected Poems 1958-1979 [Inscribed to Harris Schiff and Judy Pomerantz]
by Ted Berrigan
Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1980. Very Good. Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1980. First Edition, wrapper issue. Signed at front free endpaper "Ted Berrigan, Hand-corrected for Judy and for Harris Aug, 1980 - Tear it in half when you hate each other. Harris: p. 376, Judy: p. 383. Love, Ted," with manuscript prompts for respective poems in text. Large octavo. 403pp. Illustrated wraps featuring a Donna Dennis painting to front. Wraps worn with staining along bottom half,... Read More
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![In a Blue River [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/551/561/1699561551.0.l.jpg)
In a Blue River [Signed]
by Ted Berrigan
New York: Little Light Books, 1981. Very Good. New York: Little Light Books, 1981. First Edition, Limited Issue of 500 copies. Octavo (21.7cm); illustrated wraps with cover art by Susan Cataldo; [48]pp. Rubbing and spotting to edges of wraps; binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by Berrigan at title page with inscription to Harris Schiff and his wife Judy "Ted Berrigan loves you both forever... so don't let appearances deceive you. Dec 81.
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![The Sonnets [Inscribed to Joe LeSueur]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/778/559/1699559778.0.l.jpg)
The Sonnets [Inscribed to Joe LeSueur]
by Ted Berrigan
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1967. Near Fine. New York: Grove Press Inc., 1964. Stated First Printing of first trade edition. Slim octavo (20cm); 72pp. Stiff staple-bound printed wraps retaining $1.50 price. Wraps lightly bumped and scuffed; verso toned at edges. Binding sound. Textblock and endsheets show some foxing and toning; interior pages remain clean. Former owner and inscription dedicatee’s personal ex-libris stamp at full title page. Very Good or better. Signed and inscribed by the author on... Read More
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![So Going Around Cities: New & Selected Poems 1958-1979 [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/754/129/1721129754.0.l.jpg)
So Going Around Cities: New & Selected Poems 1958-1979 [Signed and Inscribed]
by Ted Berrigan
Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1980. Very Good. Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1980. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); illustrated wraps with Donna Dennis painting; 403pp; drawings by George Schneeman. Covers edgeworn with bumping to bottom corners and some stray smudges and scuffs to surface. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the author on first blank with inscription "For Ken & Anne with love & kisses / Ted Berrigan / NYC Nov 1981," most likely Ken... Read More
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![The Sonnets [Inscribed to Harris Schiff]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/487/868/1699868487.0.l.jpg)
The Sonnets [Inscribed to Harris Schiff]
by Ted Berrigan
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1964. Very Good. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1964. Second Printing of the Grove Press Edition. Signed by Berrigan at half title with inscription, "by Ted Berrigan, this copy for Harris Schiff Sept. 29th, 1964 NYC Happy Birthday, Ted." Octavo; 72pp. Printed wraps. Light wear to edges; diagonal crease to rear; binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy and a remarkable association to Berrigan's fellow poet, friend, and collaborator.
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![Carrying A Torch [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/418/565/1699565418.0.l.jpg)
Carrying A Torch [Signed]
by Ted Berrigan
Brooklyn: Clown War, 1980. Very Good. Brooklyn: Clown War, 1980. First Edition, one of 500 trade copies. Signed by Berrigan at dedication to Harris Schiff , "For Harris, my torch-bearer, from Sister Ted," and additional inscription at base of page. Oblong octavo; unpaginated. Illustrated stapled wraps. Mild rubbing and creasing to edges of wraps; binding sound; pages unmarked; Very Good or better.
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The Dream Songs
by John Berryman
London: Faber and Faber, 1990. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Faber and Faber, 1990. First thus. Octavo. 427 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in white. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Price sticker to bottom of front flap. Light edgewear at spine ends of boards. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. The volume combines 77 Dream Songs and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which were published together as The Dream Songs in the U.S. in... Read More
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![His Thought Made Pockets & The Plane Buckt [Limited Edition, Signed by Berryman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/816/566/1699566816.0.l.jpg)
His Thought Made Pockets & The Plane Buckt [Limited Edition, Signed by Berryman]
by John Berryman
Pawlet, VT: Claude Fredericks, 1958. Very Good +. Pawlet, VT: Claude Fredericks, 1958. First Edition, Limited Issue of 500 copies, this being #484. Signed by John Berryman without inscription at title page. [16]pp. Sewn wraps. Housed in the original printed mailing envelope, which Berryman has also signed. Wraps tight in binding and pages unmarked. Envelope worn and creased along edges with mild soiling. Fine in a Very Good envelope. Stefanik A 8.I.a.
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![Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism In America [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/552/645/1751645552.0.l.jpg)
Black Resistance/White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism In America [Signed]
by Mary Frances Berry
New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1971. Very Good. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1971. First paperback edition. Octavo (20cm). Illustrated paper wraps. 268 pp. Wrappers rubbed with edge wear; tear on front bottom left corner near spine. Price stamp on half title page. Binding sound. Edges foxed. Pages clean and unmarked. Overall, Very Good condition. Signed on title page without inscription by author and American historian Mary Frances Berry.
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I Valdesi ossidano i Cristiani-Cattolici Secondo la chiesa primitiva abitanti le cosi dette valli di Piemonte: Cenni Storici
by Amedeo Bert
Torino: Gianini e Fiore, 1849. Very Good. Torino: Gianini e Fiore, 1849. First Edition. Octavo (18cm.); late 19th-century parchment, gilt-lettered spine, all edges red, marbled endpapers; [12],498pp. Parchment margins and spine a bit toned, scattered foxing to textblock, ownership signature to front free endpaper verso, else a Very Good copy. History of the pre-Reformation Waldensian ascetic sect published a year after its members were granted civil rights by King Albert of Sardinia.
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Science et Philosophie chez Goethe
by [Goethe] Rene Berthelot
Paris: Librairie Felix Alcan, 1932. Very Good. Paris: Librairie Félix Alcan, 1932. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's green printed wrappers; [4],188pp. Minor shelf wear, later bookseller ticket inside upper wrapper, ownership signature to half title, rather extensive but erudite ballpoint pen annotations and underlining throughout. A Good to Very Good copy. Forms part of the series Bibliothèque de Philosophie Contemporaine.
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Vernacular Picture-Book Dedicated to New Jersey Music Teacher Bertha Battersby
by [Bertha Battersby] Henry S. Hulse, Jr.
Elizabeth, NY, 1956. Very Good -. Elizabeth, NJ: 1956. Large quarto scrapbook (33x26cm.); black paper over paste-paper boards; [27]ll. filled to two-thirds completion. Boards rather scuffed and toned, leaves brittle with shallow chips and tears to margins not affecting contents, preliminary leaf separated but present; overall Good to Very Good, contents remaining clean and sound. This hand-made picture book opens with an autograph poem dedicated to Bertha Battersby (1891-1960) and signed by a Henry S. Hulse, Jr.,... Read More
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American Popular Illustration: A Reference Guide
by James J. Best
Westport, CT: American Popular Culture / Greenwood Press, 1984. Very Good. Westport, CT: American Popular Culture / Greenwood Press, 1984. First Edition. Octavo. 171 pp. Beige cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. Some smudging and scuffing to boards. Binding is sound and pages clean and unmarked.
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![Ear Magazine New York, Vol. 1, no. 3, Summer, 1975 [Jackson Mac Low's copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/796/329/1703329796.0.l.jpg)
Ear Magazine New York, Vol. 1, no. 3, Summer, 1975 [Jackson Mac Low's copy]
by Beth Anderson and Richard Hayman [eds.]; John Cage [contr.]
New York: Ear N.Y., 1975. Very Good-. New York: Ear N.Y., 1975. First Edition. Tabloid format (42cm); self-wrappers, disbound as issued; [8]pp.; illus. Rather worn and toned with tears along old mail fold affecting text without loss of meaning, damp stain affecting upper cover; Good to Very Good only. Single issue of this uncommon newspaper devoted to music culture and sound poetry. With original postage stamp and manuscript address to the American poet and composer Jackson... Read More
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![The Informed Heart: Autonomy in a Mass Age [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/793/143/1699143793.0.l.jpg)
The Informed Heart: Autonomy in a Mass Age [Signed]
by Bruno Bettelheim
Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1960. Very Good/Very Good. Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1960. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's two-toned cloth, orange topstain, in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; viii,[2],309pp. Dust jacket rather chipped and rubbed at margins, spine panel sunned; overall Very Good and sound. Signed by the author on front free endpaper.
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Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories
by Doris Betts
New York: Harper & Row, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Row, [1973]. First Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($6.95); [10],192pp. Light wear and dust-soil to jacket with brief tape repair to verso of jacket spine ends, corners nudged, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy. The North Carolina author's most celebrated short story collection including the titular story which was adapted into the 2012 Academy... Read More
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![The Gentle Insurrection and Other Stories [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/821/201/1624201821.0.l.jpg)
The Gentle Insurrection and Other Stories [Signed]
by Doris Betts
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth, green topstain, in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; [8],274pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few small chips and closed tears not approaching text, topstain a bit sunned and corners nudged, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy. Signed by the author on half title page. The North Carolina author's first book, a collection... Read More
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![[Text in Vietnamese] Giuong Buom Lên! Chuyên ve các nhà di bien và các nhà du lich noi tieng có minh hoa](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/371/434/1471434371.0.l.jpg)
[Text in Vietnamese] Giuong Buom Lên! Chuyên ve các nhà di bien và các nhà du lich noi tieng có minh hoa
by [Alexander Bezlich] A-léc-xan-dro' Be-xlích
Mát-xco-va [Moscow]: Tre Nho, 1984. Very Good -. Mát-xco-va [Moscow]: Tre Nho, 1984. First Vietnamese Language Edition. Quarto; publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; eight leaves of color pop-ups. Covers rather worn with small loss at spine foot and minor chipping along margins, old tape and glue remnants to rear cover, gift inscription to front cover and first leaf, else a Good or better copy, pop up elements remaining in mostly fine condition. Rather unlikely pop-up book... Read More
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![Evangeliarium Quadruplex: Latinae Versionis Antiquae seu Veteris Italicae [Four volumes in Two]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/391/272/1721272391.0.l.jpg)
Evangeliarium Quadruplex: Latinae Versionis Antiquae seu Veteris Italicae [Four volumes in Two]
by [New Testament] Josepho Blanchino Veronensi [Giuseppe Bianchini]
Romae [Rome]: Typis Antonii de Rubeis, apud Pantheon, in via Seminarii Romani, 1749. Very Good. Romae [Rome]: Typis Antonii de Rubeis, apud Pantheon, in via Seminarii Romani, 1749. First Edition. Four folio volumes (41x28cm) bound in two; full contemporary calf with seven raised bands, gilt decoration, and leather title labels to spine; sponge painted edges; marbled endpapers; half titles; titles in red and black; 96; DLXXII; [3] pp.; [14]; DCXXXIV pp., 19 plates, 5 of which are folding,... Read More
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![[New Testament in Cherokee] Itse Kanohedv Datlohisdv Ugvwiyuhi Igatseli Tsisa Galonedv utseliga: Digalvquodi Goweli Diniyelihisdisgi Unadatlegv Watsiniyi tsunileyvtanvhi](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/761/943/1743943761.0.l.jpg)
[New Testament in Cherokee] Itse Kanohedv Datlohisdv Ugvwiyuhi Igatseli Tsisa Galonedv utseliga: Digalvquodi Goweli Diniyelihisdisgi Unadatlegv Watsiniyi tsunileyvtanvhi
by [Bibles; Cherokee language] C.C. Torrey [ed.]; S.A. Worcester, Elias Boudinot, & Stephen Foreman [translators]
New York: American Bible Society, 1860. Very Good. New York: American Bible Society, 1860 (but ca. 1861-62). First Edition. Octavo; bound in black cloth with spine stamped in gilt; edges sprayed red; new endpapers; 408pp., collated and complete. Corners bumped; minor shelfwear and rubbing; binding sound; tape remnants to front endpapers; minor creasing; a Very Good or better copy. First Edition of the first complete New Testament published in the Cherokee language. Individual books and portions... Read More
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