"Romeo et Juliette" (Film-ballet en couleur d'apres la tragedie de Shakespeare)
by [Directed by] Arnshtam, Lev and Lavrovski, Leonid
S.l. (Moscow): Mosfilm, 1954. Very good. Program and tipped-in scenario; 10 3/4 x 7 1/4; pp. [8] + single leaf scenario, pp. [2]; pictorial wraps; illustrated; a small nick to bottom edge of front wrap, else minor wear; in very good or better condition. A beautiful program and scenario for the film version of Prokofiev's ballet - the Bolshoi Theater's "Romeo and Juliet" with Galina Ulanova and Iuri Zhdanov - it was produced by Mosfilm in 1954 and released... Read More
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Another Part of thr Forest (Post-production Screenplay for the 1948 Drama)
by [Director] Gordon, Michael; [Screenwriter] Pozner, Vladimir; [Starring], O'Brien, Edmond; et al.
Universal City: Universal-International, 1947. First Edition. Very good. Continuity and dialogue script, here under the working title "Destiny of a Woman;" 11 x 8 1/2; textured, yellow wraps, bound at the top edge with two large brads; "Continuity and Dialogue / Master Copy / Prod. # 115125 / Charge # 563" to front wrap; several light, penciled-in annotations throughout; mimeographed text to rectos only; a few minor spots to upper margin of front wrap; several leaves with creases... Read More
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[Statistics]Introduction to Statistical Analysis
by Dixon, W. J. and Massey, F. J.
[Eugene, Or.?] : [s.n.], 1949. Soft cover. Good. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, [1], 32; illustrated with diagrams and tables; original speckled yellow wraps; an inch-long piece missing from tail of spine resulting in a crease line to lower left corner of cover; a few small creases to corners; some wear along spine edges; pages have some pencil underlining. A fairly uncommon first printing, of which OCLC lists 9 copies in major institutions and libraries. In the preface,... Read More
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This Will Please That Wife of Yours
by Dobbins, Bro. & Co.
Lancaster, PA: Press of Inquirer P. & P. Co., 1890. Softcover. First edition presumed, n. d. (late 19th century); 3 3/4 x 2 3/4; pp. 1-16; beige wraps, ruled and printed in black; a few small spots and a slight crease to upper right corner; illustrated with wood engravings and silhouette art; very good condition. A potpourri of ads, quackery, cookery, and racist jokes, the little booklet was published by the Dobbins, Bro. & Company as an advertisement for their... Read More
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Detskie Infektsionnye Bolezni, Ikh Lechenie i Profilaktika [Stenogramma Publichnoi Lektsii, Prochitannoi v Tsentralʹnom Lektorii Obshchestva v Moskve]
by Dobrokhotova, A. I.
Moscow: Pravda, 1951. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 40; stapled printed wraps; faint crease to upper corner, else very minor wear and age-toning; illustrated; in about near fine condition. “Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo po Rasprostraneniiu Politicheskikh i Nauchnykh Znanii†(The All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge) replaced the ‘League of Militant Atheists’, or ‘The Union of the Godless’, in 1947. The League had been formed in 1925, by the Communist Party, as an atheistic... Read More
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30 Ex Libris. Original Woodcuts,1935 - 1937
by Dobrovolsky, Jaroslav
S. l.: Hodonin, 1938. Softcover. Very good. First edition, limited to 120 signed, inscribed, and numbered copies (this copy #116); 11 1/2 x 8; pp. [8] - two loose sheets, folded; light age-toning to margins and small cuts to tips of spine; 30 loose sheets of textured brown stock with bookplates pasted on; cloth-backed, bluish-green portfolio with nicks and small cuts to top edge, else very minor wear; overall in very good to near fine condition. Jaroslav Dobrovolsky (1895... Read More
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Price List 54 [Government Publications] Political Science. Government, Crime, Liquors, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, Un-American Activities
by Superintendent of Documents
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947. Softcover. Revised (30th) edition; stapled printed wraps; 6 x 9; pp. 44; few small nicks to fore-edge of front cover; few spots of foxing to wraps; minor crease line to lower corner of back cover; very good or better. A price list,descriptions, and binding (when applicable) of hundreds of documents and publications printed and sold by the Government Printing Office. The only copy in the trade.
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Manuscript Letter, in French, by Prince Vladimir Petrovich Dolgorukov
by Dolgorukov, Prince Vladimir
St. Petersburg: By the Author, 1760. Softcover. Very good. Holograph manuscript; 6 x 7 3/4; pp. 4, second leaf die-cut to form an envelope when folded; old fold lines; remnants of a red wax seal to last page; "Dolgorukii" written in later hand to upper margin of first page; overall very good. Addressed to one Mademoiselle Theodora Einhoust, merchant of lace in Paris, the letter read: "Please accept my apologies, Mademoiselle, for not having sent any news, and even now... Read More
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Godini (Years) [Signed/Inscribed by the Author to His Wife]
by Donchev, Anton
Sofiia (Sofia): S. n., 1926. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 1/2 x 5; pp. 3-16, [4]; grey wraps, illustrated in black; light age-toning and spotting to margins; a few minor spots to pages; very good condition. Cover art by Pencho Georgiev. Signed and inscribed by the author to his wife on the title page: "To Mrs. Doncheva / From the Author / 4/20/26." Anton Iliev Donchev (1883 - 1944) was a Bulgarian author and publicist, best known... Read More
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Vid Mistiki do Politiki
by Dontsov, D.
Toronto: Spilka Vizvolennia Ukraini, 1957. Softcover. First edition; 5 3/4 x 8; pp. [2], 5-61, [1]; illustrated beige wraps; minor wear to tips of spine and corners; faint age-toning and dust-dulling to margins of wraps; two closed cuts to half-title page radiating outwards from upper staple; very good. Title and publisher's imprint in both Ukrainian and English on facing pages. Tipped-in sheet with a summary in English. Dmytro Dontsov (1883 – 1973) was a Ukrainian author, journalist, and a radical... Read More
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Pravda pradidiv velykykh (The Veracity of the Great Great-grandfathers)
by Dontsov, D.
Filadelfiia (Philadelphia): Golovnoi Upravy Organizatsii Oborony Chotyrokh Svobid Ukrainy, 1952. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [2], 5-95, [1]; light-brown, pictorial wraps, designed by Natalia Gerken-Rusova; spotting to margins; in about very good condition. Dmytro Dontsov (1883 - 1973) was a Ukrainian author, journalist, and a radical political thinker with great influence over the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Born in a Cossack officer's family, Dontsov joined the Ukrainian Social-Democratic Labor Party in 1905,... Read More
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Pidstavy nashoi polityky (Basis of Our Politics)
by Dontsov, D.
New York: Organizatsiia Oborony Chotyrokh Svobid Ukrainy, 1957. Very good. Uniform edition (first published in 1921 in Vienna); 8 3/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [4], 5-210, [2]; burgundy leatherette over boards, with title embossed in gilt; minor rubbing to tips of spine and corners; very light wear to boards; very good or better condition. Dmytro Dontsov (1883 - 1973) was a Ukrainian author, journalist, and a radical political thinker with great influence over the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Born... Read More
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Khrestom i mechem. Tvory (With Cross and Sword. Works)
by Dontsov, D.
Toronto: League for the Liberation of Ukraine; et al, 1967. Very good. Second edition, published right after the original first; olive pictorial wraps, printed and decorated in black; fading to spine cover and margins of wraps; minor rubbed spots to tips of spine; a few light creases to corners; overall in very good condition. Dmytro Dontsov (1883 - 1973) was a Ukrainian author, journalist, and a radical political thinker with great influence over the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. Born... Read More
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Poetka ukrainskoho risordzhimenta (Lesia Ukrainka) (The Poetess of the Ukrainian Risorgimento (Lesia Ukrainka))
by Dontsov, Dmytro
Lviv: Vydavnytstvo Dontsovykh, 1922. Good. First edition in book form (initially published in the first two issues of "Literaturno-naukovyi vistnyk" journal); 9 x 6; pp. [1], 4-35; bluish-green wraps, printed in black; sunning and a few small spots to margins of wraps; a small note and personal stamp of previous owner to title page (author, activist, and church historian Demyd Burko, pseud. Danylo Sviatogirskyi, 1894 - 1988); chips with small loss of paper to tips of spine; in... Read More
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Forpost svobody. Problema zapadnogo Berlina (Outpost of Freedom. The West Berlin Problem)
by Dontsev, R.
Miunkhen (Munich) : Izdatelstvo Tsentralnogo Obedinennia Politicheskikh Emigrantov iz SSSR, 1959. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 1/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [2], 5-31; textured blue wraps, printed in black; small creases to corners of wraps and a small spot to lower margin of front wrap; in very good condition. On the occupation zones in Germany in the aftermath of WWII, the division of Berlin in different sectors, etc.
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Nas Narodni Zivot [Our People's Life] In 10 Volumes
by Dordevic, Tihomir
Belgrade: Geca Kon, 1930. First edition, 10 volumes published from 1930 to 1934; 5 x 7 3/4; white wraps printed in black; deckled page edges; text clean; generally in very good to about near fine condition with a few small nicks to tips of spine and edges and minor spotting to wraps of several of the volumes. Tihomir Dordevic (1868-1944), considered to be one of the founding fathers of Serbian Ethnology and the very first Chair of Ethnology at the... Read More
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The Sermon on the Mount
by Dore, Gustave
New York: Vistus Balch, 1869. Very good. Engraved broadside; sheet 24 x 19, plate 20 1/2 x 16; small, scattered spots of foxing to margins; a few mild creases to edges; overall in very good condition. A magnificent depiction of Jesus preaching on the mount, an event recorded in Matthew 5-7, it was created by Gustave Dore (1832 - 1883) and engraved by prominent Utica and New York engraver Vistus Balch (1799 - 1884).
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Po ridnomu kraiu. Podorozhni vrazhinnia i zamitky (Through the Native Land. Travel Impressions and Notes)
by Doroshenko, Dmytro
Lviv: Nakladnia Mykhaila Taranka, 1930. Very good. Second edition, rewritten and expanded; 6 3/4 x 5; pp. [3], 4-155, [1]; blue cloth over boards, with title in gilt; illustrated with images, drawings, engravings, and historiated initials; small bumps to upper corners of boards; light wear to tips of spine; light, uniform age-toning; staples at back hinge very-slightly showing (hinge solid); small bookplate and signature of previous owner to ffep and title page (Prof. Alexander A. Granovsky - Ukrainian-American... Read More
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The Tijuana Bible. Book 1
by Dowers, Michael
Seattle: Starhead Comix, 1991. First Edition. Very good. Single issue, No. 1; 9 1/2 x 7; pp. [30]; pictorial wraps; profusely illustrated; one leaf with a small, archival repair to lower corner, else minor wear to edges of wraps; very faint age-toning to margins; in very good or better condition. Considered predecessors to the underground comix genre, deemed illegal, and sold in secret, the so called Tijuana bibles (allegedly so called, because it was believed they were printed... Read More
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The Wonder and the Worth of Books
by Downey, David G.
New York / Cincinnati: The Methodist Book Concern, 1915. Very good. First edition presumed, n. d. (ca 1915); 6 3/4 x 4; pp. [13]; grey wraps, printed and ruled in black and blue; light wear and creasing to edges and tips of spine; in very good condition. David G. Downey (1859 - 1935) was an author, educator, and long-time book editor for the Methodist Episcopal Church. His current pamphlet contained a short, but poignant essay on the significance of... Read More
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Filings From an Old Saw. Reminiscences of San Francisco and California's Conquest [Limited Edition of 750 Copies]
by Downey, Joseph T.; [edited by] Rogers, Fred Blackburn
San Francisco: John Howell, 1956. Hardcover. Limited edition (750 copies designed by Lawton Kennedy and printed by The Howell-North Press in Berkeley, CA); 6 1/2 x 9 1/2; pp. [10], v-vi, [2], 1-170, [2]; illustrated green cloth over boards; gilt title to spine; deckled page edges; portrait frontis; minor wear to corners and tips of spine, near fine condition. Clear acetate jacket with 2 closed cuts to upper corners and faint wear, very good. Initially published as 18 separate articles... Read More
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Littl Manitu. Lechebnoe ozero v provintsii Saskachevan - Kanada (Little Manitou. The Healing-waters Lake in the Saskatchewan Province of Canada)
by Drachinskii, Petr G.
Vankuver (Vancouver): By the author, 1969. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [2], 5-30, [1]; yellow wraps, printed and ruled in black; illustrated with a photograph, a drawing, and a map; a small nick to tail of spine and minor wear to edges; in very good to near fine condition. An interesting example of medical geography literature, the booklet focused on Lake Little Manitou in Saskatchewan, known as the "Dead Sea of Canada"... Read More
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Pro voliu viry (On the Will to Believe)
by Drahomaniv, Mykhailo (Drakhomanov)
New York: Naklad Myroslava Sichynskoho, 1918. Very good. First edition published in the US; 7 1/2 x 5 1/4; pp. [1], 4-30; light-brown wraps, printed and ruled in black; small splits to spine cover around staples; very faint, bookshop stamps to front wrap and title page; in very good condition. Mykhailo Drakhomanov (1841 - 1895) was a Ukrainian economist, historian, philosopher, political theorist, educator, ethnographer, and one of the leaders of the Kyiv Hromada. He was exiled to Geneva... Read More
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Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly. A Domestic Drama, in Six Acts. To Which Are Added - A Description of the Costume - Cast of the Characters - Entrances and Exits - Relative Positions of the Performers on the Stage, and the Whole of the Stage Business
by [Dramatized by] Aiken, George L.; Stowe, Harriet Beeche
New York / London: Samuel French & Son, Publishers / Samuel French, Publisher, 1878. Good. Part of French's Standard Drama, No. CCXVIII; two publisher's addresses to front wrap and title page, indicating a publishing date between 1858 and ca 1880; 7 1/2 x 4 1/2; pp. [1], 4-60; orange wraps, tied with a decorative string; small nicks to edges; spine cover splitting and separating; minor spotting to margins and a few faint, penciled-in notes; in good condition. Aiken's script... Read More
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Collected Poems [Two Volumes Limited Signed Edition]
by Drinkwater, John
London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1923. Hardcover. Edition limited to 230 sets of which 200 are for sale (this set hand-numbered #18); 7 x 9 1/2; pp. 234 vol. I (1908-1917), pp. 240 vol. II (1917-1922); white cloth over boards; gilt title; silk page marker detached but present in both volumes; top edge gilt; all edges deckled; hand-made paper; age-toning to spine and margins of covers, else minor wear; signature of previous owner to first blank page; no slip cases;... Read More
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