![[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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![Approaches to Writing [Inscribed and Signed to Henry Steele Commager]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/693/991/1573991693.0.l.jpg)
Approaches to Writing [Inscribed and Signed to Henry Steele Commager]
by Paul Horgan; James Kraft [bibliography]
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1973]. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($10.00), pictorial endpapers printed in green; xi,[3],331pp. Light toning and soil to jacket, corners tapped, textblock margins rather heavily foxed, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Lengthily inscribed and signed to American historian Henry Steele Commager in which Horgan admits that he is breaking... Read More
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The History of the Early Turkish Carpet
by Kurt Erdmann; Robert Pinner [trans.]; Hanna Erdmann [bibliography]
London: Oguz Press, 1977. Very Good/Very Good. London: Oguz Press, 1977. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); publisher's boards in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; xvi,[2],101pp.; halftone photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear to jacket and board margins, shallow white paint residue along bottom edge, else Very Good and sound.
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Es-Ka Bicycles Poster Stamp
by Es-Ka Bicycles
Cheb, Czechoslovakia, 1920. Very Good. Cheb, Czechoslovakia: Es-Ka Bicycles, [ca. 1920]. Ephemeral poster stamp (13cm). Single thin sheet with shorn top edge; some toning to front and foxing to rear. Very Good or better. First called Elite, Es-Ka Bicycles was founded in Cheb, Czechoslovakia in 1911 by Ambros Swetlik and Heinrich Kastrup. Located in the far west of the country near the German border, Cheb was the center of a German-speaking region called Egerland. Though Es-Ka... Read More
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![France and Hereditary Monarchy [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/857/560/1699560857.0.l.jpg)
France and Hereditary Monarchy [Inscribed and Signed]
by John Bigelow
London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1871. Very Good. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1871. First Edition. Slim octavo (23cm); publisher's bright blue gilt-lettered cloth; [4],80pp. Moderate wear to cloth margins, corners significantly bumped and spine cloth darkened though contents remain clean and sound. Very Good overall. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "Miss Olga [?] / with the compliments and regards of John Bigelow / October 22, 1892." A study of hereditary sovereignty... Read More
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![President Clinton's Legacy to Africa [Signed by Hillary Rodham Clinton]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/543/637/1697637543.0.l.jpg)
President Clinton's Legacy to Africa [Signed by Hillary Rodham Clinton]
by [Bill and Hillary Clinton] Sharolyn Rosier Hyson, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, and Erieka Bennett
Washington, DC: African Communications Agency, 2001. Very Good/Very Good. [Washington, DC]: African Communications Agency, [2001]. First Edition. Square quarto (26cm); publisher's boards in unclipped green photo-illustrated dust jacket; 180pp.; color photographs throughout. Jacket a bit wrinkled and worn at spine ends, brief soil to rear panel, else Very Good and sound. Ex libris of the Black Leadership Forum to front pastedown. Signed by Hillary Rodham Clinton on title page.
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Pennies from Heaven Vernacular Photo Album
by Bill Brumfield [artist]; David Mobley [photo.]
Sullivan, IL: s.i., 1972. Very Good +. [Sullivan, IL: 1972]. Quarto (25cm); comb-bound vernacular photo album, heaavy coated cardboard with collaged covers and black and white photos pasted to every page, including cover versos; [12]pp. Comb missing the first single and last two teeth, otherwise intact. Superficial scratches and light soiling to covers with toning and foxing throughout; photographs lightly finger smudged. Overall Very Good or better. Most likely compiled as a presentation piece for the artist Bill... Read More
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti: A Comprehensive Bibliography to 1980
by Bill Morgan; Lawrence Ferlinghetti [intro.]; Larry Smith [fwd.]
New York: Garland Publishing, 1982. Very Good. New York: Garland Publishing, 1983. First Edition. Octavo (22.1cm); publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine; xxviii,397pp. Boards lightly shelfworn with nudging at spine ends. Opens flatly between a few gatherings but binding sound. Pages unmarked.
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![Roy Rogers: A Magazine of the Arts & Sciences [with] Roy Rogers: One Line Poems [Two Issues, All Published]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/084/566/1699566084.0.l.jpg)
Roy Rogers: A Magazine of the Arts & Sciences [with] Roy Rogers: One Line Poems [Two Issues, All Published]
by Bill Zavatsky [ed.]; Adrienne Rich, Paul Auster, et al [contrs.]
New York: Horsipality House / Bill Zavatsky, 1970. Very Good. New York: Horsipality House / Bill Zavatsky, 1970- 1974. First Editions. Two volumes; quartos; the earlier issue bound in staplebound photo-illustrated card wrappers, the second issue staplebound wrappers in pictorial dust jacket. Light toning and shelf wear, else a Very Good and sound set. The only two issues published (four years apart) of this poetry Little Magazine, featuring classic (and classical) authors like William Butler Yeats,... Read More
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The Other German: Willy Brandt's Life and Times
by David Binder
Washington, D.C.: The New Republic Book Company, 1975. Very Good/Very Good. Washington, D.C.: The New Republic Book Company, 1975. First Edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with brief inscription to writer and columnist William Safire. Octavo; 373pp. Printed photo-portrait dust jacket with original $12.50 price; book in beige cloth-covered boards with red and black lettering to spine. Jacket toned along edges and down spine, with a light paperclip imprint at top center. Boards... Read More
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The Reign of Princess Naska
by Amelia Hutchison Stirling; Paul Hardy [illus.]; Talwin Morris [binding]
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, Old Bailey, E.C., 1899. Very Good +. London: Blackie & Son, Limited, Old Bailey, E.C., 1899. First Edition. Octavo. 208 pp. + 34 pp. publisher's advertisements. Black and white illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth boards decorated in green, gilt, and white, designed by Talwin Morris. Gray endpapers. Light rubbing to extremities. Boards slightly bowed, but binding is sound. Prize gift inscription from the Tenterfield S.P. Girls' School to front fly leaf (to... Read More
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In Morocco
by Edith Wharton; Margaret Armstrong [binding]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Very Good -. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. First Edition. Large octavo; 288pp. Map and photographic plates, collated and complete. Publisher's blue cloth binding designed by Margaret Armstrong stamped in red, yellow, and green; no dust jacket. Boards show moderate wear to edges; spine rubbed; corners bumped. Rear hinge cracked, else holding. Previous owner's notes and marks in pen throughout text; a Good to Very Good copy.
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The Transfiguration of Miss Philura
by Florence Morse Kingsley; Margaret Armstrong [binding]
New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1902. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1902. Later printing with "Fourteenth Edition" to title page. Octavo. 81 pp. + 2 pp. series advertisements. Illustrated dust jacket. Beige publisher's cloth decorated in pink and black and with Margaret Armstrong's monogram to front. A few minor nicks to edges of jacket with general rubbing and smudging. Discoloration to bottom and top edges of boards and preliminaries. Binding sound.... Read More
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The Lady Of The Lake
by Sir Walter Scott; Howard Chandler Christy [illus.]; Bertha Stuart [binding]
[N.p.]: Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1910. Very Good +/Very Good. [N.p.]: Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers, 1910. First Thus. Quarto. Unpaginated. Color illustrations by Christy throughout. Restored illustrated dust jacket (details below). Green cloth stamped in light green, yellow, and gilt, designed by Bertha Stuart with her initials to bottom right. Dust jacket restored with archival backing and color touch-up along edges and folds, with evidence of prior chips and tears at corners and along folds, current scuffing along front... Read More
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![Auguries [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/891/429/1602429891.0.l.jpg)
Auguries [Inscribed and Signed]
by Laurence Binyon
London: William Heinemann, 1913. Very Good. London: William Heinemann, 1913. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red gilt-lettered cloth; [8],97pp. Light rubbing to cloth margins, spine a bit sunned and cocked, small dampspot to top textblock edge not bleeding into text, else a Very Good, still quite brilliant copy. Inscribed and signed by the author in year of publication on half title page.
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A Catalogue of Japanese & Chinese Woodcuts Preserved in the Sub-Department of Oriental Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
by Laurence Binyon
London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1916. Good. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1916. First Edition. Octavo (25x20x5cm); lii, including intro., chronology, and bibliography + 605pp, including 10pp of artists' signature seals and index. Thirty-seven reproductions on 31 plates; three in color; all present. Plates are printed on solid tissue stock, itself tipped onto leaves of laid paper with original deckle edge, and these leaves bound into gatherings. Boards in dark olive; blue-black coated endpapers. Ex-lib, withdrawn... Read More
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![Faces & Facts By and About 26 Contemporary Artists [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed by Birchman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/401/138/1699138401.0.l.jpg)
Faces & Facts By and About 26 Contemporary Artists [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed by Birchman]
by James Montgomery Flagg [intro.]; Willis Birchman [biographies]
New Haven: Privately Printed, 1937. Very Good +/Very Good. New Haven: Privately Printed, 1937. First Edition, Limited to 526 copies of which this is no. 188. Small quarto (22cm); publisher's linen in yellow pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($5.00); [118]pp.; illus. throughout. Dust jacket rubbed and quite browned at margins and spine panel, else Very Good and sound. Signed by Birchman on limitation page with lengthy inscription on front free endpaper, "To Janet Marshall, When... Read More
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The Hawaiian Archipelago. Six months among the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands
by Isabella L. Bird
London: John Murray, 1881. Good. London: John Murray, 1881. Fourth Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, dark blue glazed endpapers; xv,[1],318,[2],32(ads)pp.; half-tone frontispiece, illus. throughout, many full-paged. Cloth rather scuffed and worn at extremities with brief exposure at corners, splitting along both joints, front hinge cracked and textblock significantly shaken in binding; overall a Good copy only of a book frequently found in wretched condition.
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![A North Dakota Boy [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/894/633/1518633894.0.l.jpg)
A North Dakota Boy [Signed]
by George A. Birdsall
New York: Carlton Press / Reflection Book, 1965. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Carlton Press / Reflection Book, 1965. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($1.95); [8],75pp.; illus. Jacket rather cockled and damp stained with a number of tiny closed tears to extremities, verso foxed, textblock only very slightly affected by external damp staining. Overall a Good to Very Good copy, signed by the author on front pastedown. Self-published... Read More
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Letter on Colonization Addressed to the Rev. Thornton J. Mills, Corresponding Secretary of the Kentucky Colonization Society
by [Abolition] James G. Birney
New York: Office of the Anti-Slavery Reporter, 1834. Very Good. New York: Office of the Anti-Slavery Reporter, 1834. First Edition. 12mo. 46 pp.; wraps, removed. Light soiling and rubbing to wraps. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Very Good. James Birney was a prominent Kentucky planter and slave owner who gradually grew enamored first of the concept of colonization. Birney's view evolved and, with the publication of this pamphlet, he freed his remaining slaves and became a... Read More
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![Juke Joint: Photographs [Inscribed and Signed by Imes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/821/383/1722383821.0.l.jpg)
Juke Joint: Photographs [Inscribed and Signed by Imes]
by Birney Imes; Richard Ford [intro.]
Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi, 1990. Fine/Very Good. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi, [1990]. First Edition. Oblong quarto (26x29cm); publisher's cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; 16pp. + 58 leaves of color photographs. Moderate wear and curling to dust jacket margins, else a Fine example in Very Good jacket. Promotional bookmark laid in. Warmly inscribed and signed on title page, "To Bernice -- With appreciation and gratitude for the wonderful performance / Birney Imes / Columbus,... Read More
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![Through Four American Wars: The Impressions and Experiences of Brigadier General William Henry Bisbee as told to his grandson William Haymond Bisbee [Inscribed and Signed by both William Bisbees, Autograph Letter Signed with Prospectus Laid in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/882/000/1741000882.0.l.jpg)
Through Four American Wars: The Impressions and Experiences of Brigadier General William Henry Bisbee as told to his grandson William Haymond Bisbee [Inscribed and Signed by both William Bisbees, Autograph Letter Signed with Prospectus Laid in]
by William Henry Bisbee and William Haymond Bisbee
Boston: Meador Publishing Company, 1931. Very Good+. Boston: Meador Publishing Company, 1931. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's blue gilt-lettered buckram; 281pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, fifteen leaves of plates (collated complete). Very light shelf wear, spine gilt a shade dulled, textblock a bit toned, else a Very Good to Near Fine example. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "Dear Friend and Companion: May your kindly Christian life be reflected in many blessings / With all good wishes, Sincerely... Read More
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Exercises at the Bi-Centennial Commemoration of the Burning of Medfield by Indians in King Philip's War, February 21, 1876
by [Robert R. Bishop]
Medfield, MA: George H. Ellis, 1876. Good. Medfield, MA: George H. Ellis, 1876. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 56pp. Textblock lightly toned, else Good and sound, though apparently lacking wrappers.
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