Rio Grande Fall
by Anaya, Rudolfo
New York: Warner Books, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; black and yellow paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in red foil on spine; dustjacket; 359pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket. The second Sonny Baca mystery.
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Tortuga [Inscribed]
by ANAYA, Rudolfo
Berkeley: Editorial Justa Publications, Inc, 1979. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo; illustrated card wrappers; iv,197,[1]pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page, shortly after publication: "To: Harlan Umansky - To a healthful life for us all - Rudolfo Anaya / 11-3-79." Light wear and faint foxing to wrappers, with some scattered foxing to text edges; Near Fine. The author's third book dealing with "the soft, hidden under-belly of man's indomitable courage while facing illness, death, and... Read More
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Zia Summer [Review Copy]
by ANAYA, Rudolfo
New York: Warner Books, 1995. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's promotional letter laid in. Octavo; gold and green paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in tomato red on spine; dustjacket; 386pp. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket. Anaya's first mystery novel featuring Chicano detective Sonny Baca.
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OBOE 6
by Anbian, Robert (ed.)
San Francisco: Night Horn Press, Spring 1983. First Edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers; Folio. 48 pp. A literary and graphic magazine published from 1978-82. Cover collage by Paul Kwan. Poems by Juan Felipe Herrera, D. Nurske and others, photographs by Howard Munson, and an interview by Anbian of Jack Hirschman with bibliography and poems by Mayakovsky, Eluard and others translated by him. Corners worn else a very good copy. Robert Anbian is a poet, musician, writer, journalist based in SF... Read More
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Avant-Garde Page Design 1900-1950
by ANDEL, Jaroslav
New York: Delano Greenidge Editions, 2002. First Edition. Quarto; yellow paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in red on spine and blind-stamped design on front cover; dustjacket; 388pp; illus. Trivial wear to extremities, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with some mild wear to panels and a short tear to upper edge of rear panel. Volume chronicling "the defining contributions to the history of twentieth-century page design by artists, architects, filmmakers, and designers who participated in the major art... Read More
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Hammer or Anvil: The Story of the German Working-Class Movement
by ANDERSON, Evelyn
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1945. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); dark blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [4],5-207,[1]pp. Tanning to text edges, oxidation to spine gilt, with mild sunning to spine; Very Good+. Dustjacket is shelfworn, gently spine-sunned, with light dustiness, and a few tears with attendant creasing; Very Good. Detailed survey of the German Working Class movement, spanning the years 1875-1945, by a British subject of German background who was herself a member... Read More
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Las Vegas: The Success of Excess
by ANDERTON, Frances and John Chase (text); COLLIE, Keith (photographs)
Köln: Könemann, 1997. First Edition. Quarto; photo-illustrated wrappers; 80pp; illus.; text is in English, French, and German. Light wear to extremities, else Near Fine. Volume containing photographs of architecture on and off the Las Vegas Strip.
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Reflections [Signed]
by Anderson, Jane McDill
N.p.: Riverrun Press, 1986. First Edition. Unpaginated. Signed on the title page by Jane McDill Anderson: "Love, Jane". A Very Good copy.
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Laurie Anderson
by [ANDERSON, Laurie] GOLDBERG, RoseLee
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 2000. First Edition. Quarto (26cm x 26cm). Pictorial paper boards (hardcover); pictorial dustjacket; 204pp; illus. Fine copy; appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight shelf wear to extremities; one small tear to top cover panel, else clean and sound. An exploration of the entire scope of multi-media performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson's work from the 1970's through the 1990s. Performance Art expert RoseLee Goldberg examines Laurie Anderson's inventions, videos, body instruments, stage... Read More
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The Eighteenth Missouri
by ANDERS, Leslie
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1968. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 404pp; illus. Fine, unmarked copy in crisp, clean dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap) a half-shade faded on spine, still Near Fine.
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My Thirty Years' War: an Autobiography
by ANDERSON, Margaret
London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. First U.K. Edition. First impression. Large octavo (24cm). Blue cloth, titled in orange on spine and front cover; frontispiece; 274pp, 16 inserted leaves of plates and one double-page facsimile not reckoned in pagination. Straight and tight, with a bit of chafing to boards, a couple of tiny specks of white paint to spine; Very Good. Lacking the dustwrapper. Quite attractive copy of this significant memoir, recording the development of Anderson's Little Review and... Read More
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The Little Review - Vol.III, No.4 (June-July, 1916)
by ANDERSON, Margaret (editor); Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Lee Masters, Padraic Colum, et al. (contributors)
San Francisco: Margaret C. Anderson, 1916. First Edition. Slim octavo (24.5cm); original taupe wrappers printed in black, with printed title label mounted to front cover; 45,[3]pp ads. Chips to corners and paper over spine, loss at lower spine, crease to front wrapper, textblock uniformly browned: around Very Good. Contents include poetry and short works by Amy Lowell, Sherwood Anderson, Richard Hunt, Roscoe Brink, Harriet Dean, Florence Kiper Frank, Shipwith Cannell, Edgard Lee Masters, Mark Turbyfill, Padraic Colum, Mitchell Dawson,... Read More
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The Little Review - Autumn 1921 (Brancusi Number)
by ANDERSON, Margaret (editor)
New York City: Margaret C. Anderson, 1921. First Edition. Octavo (24.5cm); cream card wrappers vertically striped in blue; 112pp; twelve inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Mild external wear and soil, with brief losses to paper at spine ends; still tight and sound, internally free of markings or wear. A solidly Very Good copy. Remnants of the original bright fuchsia publisher's label to front wrapper. Celebrated single issue of this legendary American literary magazine, which billed itself as "the... Read More
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The Little Review - Vol.II, No.7 (October, 1915)
by ANDERSON, Margaret (editor); Ben Hecht, Mitchell Dawson, Witter Bynner, et al. (contributors)
Chicago: Margaret C. Anderson, 1915. First Edition. Slim octavo (25.5cm); original taupe wrappers printed in black, with printed title label mounted to front cover; 48pp. Trivial wear to extremities, else a fresh, Fine copy. Contents include poetry and short works by Ben Hecht, Mitchell Dawson, Alexander S. Kaun, Burt Harris, Ellen Key, Witter Bynner, and others.
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TLS, [1966] with Recipe for "Norman Sauce for Meat and Vegetables
by ANDERSON, Marian (1897-1993)
Typed letter, signed, on Anderson's personal letterhead. Addressed to the editors of the 1967 Raider, the yearbook of Cameron County High School, Emporium PA. Undated; original mailing envelope included, postmarked July 6, 1966. Faint paper-clip stains to envelope, else fine. Presumably answering a solicitation for favorite recipes, the acclaimed African-American contralto sends along her instructions for making "Norman Sauce." Signed in full, "Marian Anderson" at conclusion. Anderson was born and attended high school in Philadelphia; her connection... Read More
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The Little Review - Vol.III, No.2 (April, 1916)
by ANDERSON, Margaret (editor); Carl Sandburg, Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, et al. (contributors)
Chicago: Margaret C. Anderson, 1916. First Edition. Slim octavo (25cm); original taupe wrappers printed in black, with printed title label mounted to front cover; 40,[4]pp ads. Mild toning to text edges, faint diagonal crease to rear wrapper, else very Near Fine. Contents include poetry and short works by Carl Sandburg, Elizabeth Buehrmann, Sherwood Anderson, Arthur Davidson Ficke, Ezra Pound, Alexander S. Kaun, Margaret Anderson, Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne, William Saphier, Charles Zwaska, Lupo de Braila, and Allan Ross Macdougall. ... Read More
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Guatemalan Textiles Today
by ANDERSON, Marilyn
New York: Watson-Guptill, 1978. First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Tan cloth; dustjacket; 200pp; illus. Tight, clean copy, unmarked and with minimal evidence of use. In the original dustwrapper, with publisher's $24.50 price intact on front flap, Near Fine. A nearly new copy. Photographically illustrated throughout (halftones), with three leaves of color plates included in the pagination.
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The Wingless Victory: A Play in Three Acts
by ANDERSON, Maxwell
Washington DC: Anderson House, 1936. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); light gray cloth, with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in maroon on spine and front cover; gray topstain; dustjacket; [vi],133,[1]pp. Decorative bookplate of Ruth Swetland Kane mounted to front pastedown; lower right corner of front board gently tapped, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), with pinpoint wear to extremities, else Fine. A three-act tragedy set in the year 1800.
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Night Over Taos: A Play in Three Acts
by ANDERSON, Maxwell
New York: Samuel French, 1932. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original cloth in off-white pictorial dust jacket, green topstain; [4],200pp. Jacket spine toned, a few tiny closed tears and minor rubbing to extremities, else Very Good or better, now housed in custom cloth slipcase. Historical drama, set in pre-Civil War New Mexico. The play was first produced on Broadway by the Group Theatre, March 9, 1932, directed by Lee Strasberg and starring Luther and Stella Adler. The Group... Read More
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You Who Have Dreams
by ANDERSON, Maxwell
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1925. First Edition. First printing. Regular issue, of 1000 numbered copies (this is no.853). There was a simultaneous deluxe issue of 25 signed copies. Small octavo; paper-covered boards, with printed spine and cover labels; 72pp. Mild toning and soil to covers, else a tight, Near Fine copy, lacking the dustwrapper. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's first book, a volume of poems.
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Storm Operation: A Play in Prologue, Two Acts and an Epilogue
by ANDERSON, Maxwell
Washington DC: Anderson House, 1944. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); gray cloth, with titling and author's facsimile signature stamped in maroon on spine and front cover; dark gray topstain; dustjacket; vi,126pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $2.50), with a few tiny tears to extremities. Sharp copy of this play set during the African campagin in World War II.
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Mary of Scotland. A Play in Three Acts [Special Limited Edition, Inscribed by Helen Hayes]
by ANDERSON, Maxwell, Helen Hayes
New York: Anderson House, 1933. First, Limited Edition. One of 550 copies. Full calf, decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 156pp. A few minor scuffs to leather binding; faint foxing to prelims, still a Very Good or better copy. This copy inscribed on the front endpaper by Helen Hayes, who debuted the role of Mary in the play's 1933 premiere. The inscription, to a Helen Loewen, is dated 1935. Additionally, there is a laid-in... Read More
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You Who Have Dreams
by ANDERSON, Maxwell
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1925. Limited Edition. First Printing, one of 1000 copies, of which this is no.877. Octavo (21.5cm); light blue cloth-covered boards, with title labels on spine and front cover; light blue endpapers; dustjacket; 71pp; illus. Modest shelfwear, with light tanning and rubbing to spine ends and board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2), with modest shelf-wear and tanning, 2.5" tear to front spine fold and mostly separated along rear spine fold, 1" tear to... Read More
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Common Ground - Vol.II, No.3 (Spring, 1942)
by ANDERSON, M. Margaret (editor); GUTHRIE, Woody, Langston Hughes, Thomas Mann, Pearl S. Buck, et al. (contributors)
New York: Common Council for American Unity, 1942. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm); yellow and black printed wrappers, stapled; 120pp; illus. Starting oxidation to staples, with faint dustiness to wrappers; Near Fine. Highly important single issue of the CCAU's monthly literary magazine, issued from 1940-49, which was devoted to bridging ethnic and minority differences and to reflecting America's cultural diversity. This issue includes a substantial (13pp) short story by Woody Guthrie, "Ear Players," which marked his debut as a published... Read More
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Sioux Memory Gems
by ANDERSON, Myrtle Miller; J[ohn] A. Anderson (illus.)
[s.l.: s.n.], 1929. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm) Brown leatherette stamped in blind; tan endpapers; unpaginated; 14 halftone photographs. Lightly rubbed at edges, internally clean and bright: Very Good. Myrtle Miller and John A. Anderson lived with the Sioux on the Rosebud Indian Reservation for over four decades. This book, pairing his photographs with her poetry, is one of two books of John Anderson's photographs published in his life time. MARKEN & HOOVER 629.
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