Coaching Days and Coaching Ways
by W. Outram Tristram; Herbert Railton and Hugh Thomson [illus.]
London: Macmillan and Co, 1888. Very Good-. London: Macmillan and Co., 1888. First Edition. Large quarto; publisher's deluxe binding of three-quarter maroon morocco over cloth, gilt-tooled spine in six compartments, top edge gilt; xiii,[3],367pp.; frontispiece, extensively illustrated throughout. Binding recased with original spine leather laid down, new endpapers (binder's ticket to rear pastedown), leather a bit scuffed at margins, dampstaining to upper cover slightly bleeding into textblock; overall a Good to Very Good, internally sound copy. ... Read More
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Pennsylvania: A Guide to the Keystone State
by Compiled by workers of the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Pennsylvania [WPA]
New York: Oxford University Press, 1946. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Oxford University Press, 1946. Second Printing. Octavo. 660pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations, map to rear pocket. Illustrated dust jacket. Light green boards stamped in red; front map endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket lightly wrinkled with chipping and creasing along edges; spine toned. Boards show light edgewear and binding sound. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown; interior else unmarked; a Very Good copy. Forms part of the... Read More
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Instruction sur la Contribution Fonciere
by M. [Jean Francois] Royer-Desgrantes and M. Guedy; Justine Giroud [printer]; Jean-Baptiste Letourmi [Letourmy] [wrappers]
Grenoble: Ve. Giroud & Fils, 1792. Very Good. Grenoble: Imprimé & se vend...chez Ve. Giroud & Fils, Impr. Libr. place aux Herbes, 1792. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); blockprinted wrappers No. 135 by Orleans printer Jean-Baptiste Letourmi (a.k.a. Letourmy); xxiv,271pp.; decorative head- and tail-pieces, tables throughout text. Light wear to wrapper margins including brief biopredation along top edge of upper fore-edge corner, red portion of design faded to pink, occasional finger soil to textblock, contemporary owner's manuscript note inside... Read More
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![[Original Manuscript] Chronologica Carolo Alberto](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/648/514/1740514648.0.l.jpg)
[Original Manuscript] Chronologica Carolo Alberto
by [Chronograms and Calligraphy] Anonymous; Georg Christoph Stoy [paper wrappers]
Bavaria, Germany, 1742. Very Good+. Bavaria, Germany: 1742. Folio (30cm); stitched wrappers of a nearly full sheet of gold on green Bronzefirnispapier (bronze varnish paper); [8]ll. filled nearly to completion with five manuscript calligraphic chronograms, the Roman numerals accomplished in gold with red shading, the rest of the text in black. Light soil to upper cover bleeding through to first leaf (blank), else a Very Good to Near Fine example. Collection of five chronograms in both Latin... Read More
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![C— D— Stomped in Nude Pro Wrestling" [Photo Album]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/483/715/1733715483.0.l.jpg)
C— D— Stomped in Nude Pro Wrestling" [Photo Album]
by [Vernacular Photography - Nude Women's Wrestling]
United States, 1980. Very Good. United States: n.d., [ca. 1980]. Octavo (21cm); pictorial QSS 1-hour photo album containing twenty-two (22) original color snapshots (8.5x13cm), with an additional photograph added to the final snapshot as a collage element. Wrappers rather rubbed, old marker annotation to both covers—"Pro Girl Wrestlers in Nude Bowl[?]"—with "C— D— Stomped in Nude Pro Wrestling" in pen to front. Contents about fine. Very Good overall. A series of twenty-two blurry snapshots taken of a... Read More
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![Xionia [Signed Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/663/566/1699566663.0.l.jpg)
Xionia [Signed Limited Edition]
by Charles Wright
Iowa: Windhover Press, 1990. Near Fine. Iowa: Windhover Press / The University of Iowa, 1990. First Edition, Limited Issue of 250 copies printed on handmade paper and signed by Wright at colophon. Quarto; red cloth-backed boards with paper label to spine; 37pp. No dust jacket as issued. Light shelfwear; binding sound; spotting to top edge of text block; Near Fine.
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![Collected Poems [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/651/559/1699559651.0.l.jpg)
Collected Poems [Signed and Inscribed]
by James Wright
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. Very Good/Very Good +. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. Stated First Edition. Octavo (24cm); 215pp. Publisher’s pictorial dust jacket with $7.95 price intact; boards bound in charcoal cloth with gilt and silver stamping to spine; mustard yellow endsheets. Dust jacket gently bumped; spine slightly toned. Jacket rear panel toned with some soiling; tears forming at top edge. Boards bumped but otherwise clean. Binding sound. Textblock toned; endsheets and interior pages clean.... Read More
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![Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/929/439/1576439929.0.l.jpg)
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David [Signed]
by Lawrence Wright
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. First Edition. Signed by Lawrence Wright without inscription at title page. Octavo. 345 pp. Black and white photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black and blue boards stamped in silver. Unclipped dust jacket lightly rubbed along edges with mild surface scratching. Boards with light shelfwear and some general smudging. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Near Fine.
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![Poor, Black and in Real Trouble: A Novel [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/880/354/1616354880.0.l.jpg)
Poor, Black and in Real Trouble: A Novel [Inscribed and Signed]
by Jerome Dyson (Wright)
Baltimore, MD: Community Residence Center, 1976. Very Good +/Very Good. Baltimore, MD: Community Residence Center, 1976. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($7.95); [10],308pp. Light toning and a few chips and closed tears to dust jacket margins, corners nudged, else a Very Good and sound copy overall. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author on title page. First novel by the African-American educator who "completed school, attended college, and became... Read More
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The Throne of Saturn
by S. Fowler Wright
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1949. Very Good/Very Good. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1949. First Edition. Octavo; viii, 186pp. 3062 copies printed (3000 stated on colophon at back). Original dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; book in Holliston Black Novelex cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Jacket a bit scuffed along folds and at spine ends, but crisp with no chips or tears. Boards are square, with some rubbing and exposure along top edge, nudging to spine ends, and... Read More
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Planet Stories - Summer 1945
by W. Scott Peacock [ed.]; Wilbur S. Peacock; Emmett McDowell [contribs.]; Harry Lemon Parkhurst [illus.]
New York: Love Romances Publishing Co, 1945. Good. New York: Love Romances Publishing Co., 1945. Octavo; 128pp. Pulp magazine. Illustrated paper wraps. Front cover cleanly separated along spine, held with two small pieces of clear tape hinged over spine and onto back; shallow tears and creasing along overhung fore-edge, with creasing to front spine corner and an inch closed tear at bottom back. Small old price sticker and brief pencil writing at top corner. Colors bright. Paperclip impression... Read More
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Of Human Bondage
by W. Somerset Maugham; Selina Hastings [intro.]; Michael Kirkham [illus.]
London: The Folio Society, 2011. Near Fine. London: The Folio Society, 2011. First Thus. Large octavo. 579 pp. Color illustrations. Illustrated boards; dark red endpapers. Housed in publisher's slipcase. Boards tight in binding and pages unmarked. Slipcase with light rubbing along open and top edges, else sound and stable. A Fine copy in a Near Fine slipcase.
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History of Chapel Street Church. A Discourse delivered on the twentieth anniversary of the origin of the Chapel Street Church and Ecclesiastical Society
by W.T. Eustis, Jr.
New Haven: Chapel Street Ecclesiastical Society / J.H. Benham, 1858. Very Good. New Haven: Published by the Chapel Street Ecclesiastical Society / J.H. Benham, Printer, 1858. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cream glazed wrappers printed within decorative border; 24pp. Moderate wear and spotting to wrappers, light dust-soil, else a Very Good, internally fresh and sound copy.
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Jennifer Lorn: A Sedate Extravaganza
by Elinor Wylie
New York: George H. Doran Company on Murray Hill, 1923. Very Good/Very Good. New York: George H. Doran Company on Murray Hill, 1923. First Edition, issue B with title page a cancel as usual. Octavo. 302 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Tan cloth stamped in gilt over marbled boards. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn with mild general soiling and spine sunned. Boards with mild shelfwear. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A Very Good copy of Wylie's first novel. ... Read More
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![Creatures of Habit and Creatures of Change: Essays on Art, Literature and Society 1914-1856 [Limited Edition Signed by Edwards]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/210/134/1626134210.0.l.jpg)
Creatures of Habit and Creatures of Change: Essays on Art, Literature and Society 1914-1856 [Limited Edition Signed by Edwards]
by Wyndham Lewis; Paul Edwards [ed.]
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. Very Good. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1989. Limited First Edition, numbered 54 of 126 deluxe copies on limitation statement at rear. Octavo (235cm); 425pp. Illustrated paper-covered boards and maroon cloth backing with paper spine label; clear acetate jacket. Boards lightly shelfworn with a small, faint stain at top edge. Acetate jacket is a bit cloudy but clean and crisp. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Signed by editor Paul Edwards... Read More
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![Volcanic Heavens: Essays on Wyndham Lewis's Painting & Writing [Limited Edition, Signed by Edwards]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/676/459/1717459676.0.l.jpg)
Volcanic Heavens: Essays on Wyndham Lewis's Painting & Writing [Limited Edition, Signed by Edwards]
by Wyndham Lewis; Paul Edwards [ed.]
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1996. Near Fine/Near Fine. Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1996. First Edition, Limited to 126 deluxe signed copies of which this is no. 46. Octavo; publisher's cloth over pictorial paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label, in original clear acetate dust jacket; [2],194pp.; 12 leaves of plates, about half in color. Just About Fine. Signed by the editor on leaf bound in after title page. Handbound by Earle Gray. ... Read More
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Snooty Baronet
by Wyndham Lewis; Bernard Lafourcade [ed.]
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. Very Good. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1984. Limited Deluxe Edition. Octavo (23.5 cm); 313pp. Publisher's illustrated boards with yellow cloth spine and paper spine label; yellow endpapers. Boards are sturdy and square with light edgewear along bottom. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the editor on tipped-in leaf at front and numbered 11 of 226 deluxe copies on colophon at rear.
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The Rosemary Touch: A Novel About the Advertising Business
by Lois Wyse
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1974. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1974. Stated First Edition. Inscribed in blue ink by author on front free endpaper to journalist William Safire: "For William Safire -- My op ed favorite -- / Lois Wyse." Octavo; 258 pp. Pictorial dust jacket with original $6.95 price. Maroon cloth binding with lettering stamped in gold on spine. Dust jacket slightly toned on spine, light rubbing and edge wear. Binding... Read More
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Mao's Generals: Chen Yi and the New Fourth Army
by Lanxin Xiang
New York: University Press of America, Inc, 1998. Very Good. New York: University Press of America, Inc., 1998. Octavo. 223pp. Black boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Bumping and light wear to edges and spine. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy.
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Auspicious Ju-i Scepters of China 吉祥如意文物特展圖錄
by Xiasheng Chen 陳夏生
Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1995. Very Good/Very Good. Taipei: National Palace Museum, 1995. First Edition. Octavo in slipcase (volume 29x22x2.5cm; slipcase 30.5x22.5x3cm); 287pp. Full-color full-page plates for each of 130 catalogued items; images repeated as B&W thumbnails for final index of specifications. About 90 additional color and B&W photographs and documentary images in introduction. Principally in Chinese; augmented with image captions and core introductory text in English. Note that the volume, while intended principally for a... Read More
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![X-Ray Number Six: Winter 1996 [A Visit from Jake by Brautigan laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/550/562/1699562550.0.l.jpg)
X-Ray Number Six: Winter 1996 [A Visit from Jake by Brautigan laid in]
by [X-Ray Book Co.] Johnny Brewton [ed.]; Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, Linda Cervon et al.
San Francisco: X-Ray Book Co, 1996. Near Fine. San Francisco: X-Ray Book Company, 1996. First Edition, limited issue of 226 copies, of which 200 were numbered, this being #101. Octavo; unpaginated. Illustrations on multi-color varying types of paper stock; envelope, cards, notes mounted throughout. Acetate covers secured in hard black plastic fasteners; yellow cover decorated in felt; "Red Man American Red Grape Wine" label to rear. "A Visit from Jake" chapbook by Brautigan laid in. Rubbing to edges;... Read More
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Exhibition of Art Development in the Republic of China 中華民國美術發展展覽專輯
by Xu Shiwen 徐世文 [ed.]; [et al.]
Taichung City: Taiwan Museum of Art 台灣省立美術館, 1989. Very Good. Taichung City: Taiwan Museum of Art, 1989. This is the second printing from March of 1989 of the catalog first published in June of 1988. Quarto (slipcase 35.5x26.5x4.5cm; volume 34x26x4cm); 430pp. Densely illustrated in color throughout. Text almost entirely in Chinese and intended for Chinese usage; official introductory statements and a few minor technical matters in parallel English. Uncommon in retail. Illustrated slipcase with black and gold... Read More
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![108 Images [WITH] Earthly Paradise [Two Volume Set] [Signed by Ginsberg with original drawing]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/631/563/1699563631.0.l.jpg)
108 Images [WITH] Earthly Paradise [Two Volume Set] [Signed by Ginsberg with original drawing]
by Allen Ginsberg and Hiro Yamagata
Turin / Santa Monica, CA: Umberto Allemandi & C. / Fred Hoffman Fine Art, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good. Turin / Santa Monica, CA: Umberto Allemandi & C. / Fred Hoffman Fine Art, 1995. First Edition. Two volumes; oblong octavos; publisher's pictorial die-cut paper-covered boards in original printed card slipcase; illustrations throughout, original text pamphlets accompanying each volume laid in. Corners of both volumes bumped, light wear and foxing to slipcase, else a Very Good and sound set. ... Read More
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![Bending at the Elbow [Signed Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/842/018/1721018842.0.l.jpg)
Bending at the Elbow [Signed Limited Edition]
by Matvei Yankelevich
Hadley, MA: Minute BOOKS, 2011. Very Good +. Hadley, MA: Minute BOOKS, 2011. Limited First Edition of 360 copies, the first 60 of which being signed and numbered of which this is number 20. Chapbook (18cm); string-bound card wraps; [32]pp. Covers crisp with a couple very faint scuffs to surface. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the author and numbered 20/60 on colophon at rear.
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![Hawaiian Cowboys [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/071/426/1717426071.0.l.jpg)
Hawaiian Cowboys [Limited Edition, Signed]
by John Yau
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. Very Good/Near Fine. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. First Edition, Limited to 100 signed hardcover copies of which this is no. 93. Octavo; publisher's brown cloth over pictorial paper-covered boards in original clear acetate dust jacket; 169pp. Light shelf wear to board margins, else Very Good and sound. Signed by Yau on colophon in rear.
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