The Phonographic Reader: A Complete Course of Inductive Reading Lessons in Phonography
by ANDREWS, S. P.; Augustus F. Boyle
New York: Andrews & Doyle, 1848. Eleventh edition. 12mo (19cm). In original boards, printed with title on front and ads on rear, with leather spine; plain endpapers; 60pp. A sturdy copy, with gentle wear to boards: Very Good or better. A popular title, designed for use with the Complete Phonographic Class-book, the Phonographic Reader went into 16 editions between 1845 and 1850 (Westby-Gibson). WESTBY-GIBSON p.7.
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The Primary Synopsis of Universology and Alwato
by ANDREWS, Stephen Pearl (Madeleine B. Stern, introd)
Weston, MA: M&S Press, 1971. Reprint. Facsimile reprint of the 1871 edition, with an added introduction by bookseller-scholar Madeleine Stern. 12mo (17.5cm). Sage cloth-covered boards (hardcover); no dustwrapper, as issued; 224pp. A new, unread copy. The M&S Press, publishing arm of the Rhode Island antiquarian bookseller Dan Siegel, specialized in high-quality facsimile editions of hard-to-find 19th-century works of radicalism, reform, and social history. Lorne Bair Rare Books has acquired the entire inventory of the M&S Press and... Read More
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North Carolina Slave Narratives: The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, & Thomas H. Jones
by ANDREWS, William L. (editor)
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2003. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); brown cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [xiv],279,[3]pp; illus. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Collects four key North Carolina slave narratives, with a long general introduction by Andrews, and extensive notes for further research.
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14 Poems
by ANDROLA, Ron
Prentice, WI: Jump River Press, n.d., ca. 1980s. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's brown pictorial staplebound wrappers; [18]pp. Fine condition. Short poetry chapbook by the Pennsylvania author. Not in OCLC as of November, 2018.
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CURLS THROUGH THE LANGUAGE / PLANET DETROIT CHAPBOOK, Vol. 1, No. 6
by Androla, Ron; Kurt Nimmo (ed.)
Detroit: PLANET DETROIT MAGAZINE, 1984. First Edition. Stapled chapbook; small 8vo. [24 pp.] Early book from this prolific small press poet (not to be confused with the magazine). Planet Detroit published chapbooks with Lyn Lifshin, Gerald Locklin among others, and a magazine. The influence of Bukowski readily apparent. Only 3 copies found on WorldCat. Staples tarnished, else about fine.
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![Apocalisse con la Miniature del Codice Ashburnham 415 della Biblioteca Laurenziana [Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/118/604/1118604118.0.l.jpg)
Apocalisse con la Miniature del Codice Ashburnham 415 della Biblioteca Laurenziana [Limited Edition]
by ANGELINI, Cesare, trans
[Parma]: Franco Maria Ricci, 1980. First Thus. Limited to 3000 copies of which this is no. 1956. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's brown gilt-lettered cloth, color plate mounted to upper cover, in original celluloid dust jacket; 233pp.; 52 color plates tipped into text. Cloth extremities a hint sunned, gift inscription by Bernarda Shahn on half title page: "Jonny -- I probably bought this 'testamento' in Italy intending to read it -- or to try to. But I didn't read it, and... Read More
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Eduard Angeli
by [ANGELI, Eduard] Hans Dichand and Joe Berger, introduction;
Wien: Galerie Phoenix, [1979]. First Edition. First printing. Oblong quarto (27.5 x 31cm.); printed flexible boards, natural tan color; [46pp]. A gallery book for Austrain painter Eduard Angeli; contains introductory text and biographical information (in German), and 17 color illustrated plates (unpaginated). Institutional stickers remain on first and final pages. Text block has some edge wear and yellowing at the margins. Front and rear boards bear minor scratches, abrasions, and soiling; front panel has stray paint and spots of... Read More
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Broadside: Young America - Stop Conscription!
by [CPUSA] [LOS ANGELES]
Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Committee, Young Communist League, [1940]. Broadside, with text offset printed in black on beige stock, measuring 23cm x 30.5cm (9" x 12"). Toning to extremities, a few tiny nicks and tears along the edges, with a brief pencil notation at upper left and lower right corners; Very Good+. Anti-conscription broadside, issued in June, 1940 by the Young Communist League of Los Angeles, linking FDR's proposal for the compulsory military training of American... Read More
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From Vermont to Michigan. Correspondence of James Burrill Angell: 1869-1871
by ANGELL, James Burrill; James Rowland Angell (fwd); Wilfrid B. Shaw (ed)
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1936. First Edition. 12mo. Brown cloth boards (hardcover); 301pp. Frontispiece portrait. Tight, unmarked, Near Fine copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Angell the third and longest-serving President of the University of Michigan (1871-1909).
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Petite Suzanne
by ANGELI, Marguerite de
Garden City: Doubleday, 1937. Later printing. Quarto. Cloth-backed pictorial boards; dustjacket; [88]pp; illus; pictorial endpapers. Very Good, with mild soiling and wear to board edges; jacket chipped at extremities, with loss to "I" in author's name at heel; just VG. Edition not stated, but in the correct ($2.00) dustwrapper according to Baumgarten (2004). Depiction of French-Canadian farm life, written and illustrated by de Angeli. BAUMGARTEN (2004) p.58.
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Favorite Flies and Their Histories. With Many Replies from Practical Anglers to Inquiries Concerning How, When, and Where to Use Them
by [ANGLING] MARBURY, Mary Orvis
Boise: Houghton Mifflin, [1892]. Fifth impression. Large octavo (24cm). Forest-green cloth over lighter green, pictorial cloth-covered boards; x,[1]-519pp; frontispiece and 45 unnumbered leaves of plates, of which 32 are in color. Trace of wear at crown of spine, slight darkening to board edges, else a complete and tidy copy, Near Fine. Early gift inscription, "Ever attachedly yours," signed by an Ervan G. Riggs, dated 1906. A very nice copy of this classic of angling literature, featuring thirty-two... Read More
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A Century of Injustice: synopsis of a message to the people of South-Africa, sent by the government of the South-African republic. An earnest representation and historical reminder to Her Majesty Queen Victoria ... in view of the prevailing crisis, by P.J. Joubert ... A proclamation to the burghers of the Orange Free State, by M.J. Stein ... Preceded by The struggle of our brethren in South-Africa to maintain their independence, a communication to the American people, by C.W. Van der Hoogt
by [ANGLO-BOER WAR] [J.C. SMUTS] VAN DER HOOGT, C.W.; P.J. Joubert; M.J. Stein [Steyn]
Baltimore: Privately Published, 1899. First Edition. Octavo. Printed buff wrappers; 119pp; portraits. Generally clean, but with a faint diagonal crease to lower 1/3 of text block throughout; mild external soil and small paper losses at spine ends, still about Very Good. Anti-British propaganda issued on behalf of the Orange Free State of South Africa for American readers, compiled by a Dutch-American citizen of Baltimore. Though attributed to neither author here, the essay "A Century of Injustice" has... Read More
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Something About My Father and Other People
by ANGOFF, Charles
New York: Thomas Yoseloff, [1956]. First edition, octavo (21.5cm.); original blue-green cloth, spine lettered in red, in pictorial dust jacket; 366pp. Spine toned, shallow tears along jacket edges not affecting text; Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. A collection of short stories by "the foremost interpreter in fiction of Jewish life in America" (front jacket flap).
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In the Dark, Move Slowly
by ANHAVA, Tuomas (poems); Anselm Hollo (translation and selection)
London: Cape Goliard Press / Grossman Publishers, 1969. First Edition. First Impression, cloth issue. Octavo (22cm); blue-green cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [40]pp. Remainder mark to lower edge of textblock, with very slight spine lean, and lower corners lightly bumped; Very Good+. Dustwrapper has modest shelfwear, dust-soil and rubbing, and damp-stains to lower spine panel, rear spine fold, and rear flap hinge; red remainder marks to flap folds; Good. Finnish author Anhava... Read More
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The Continuing Zionist Revolution. A reply to Dr. Abu-Lughod's 'The Continuing Palestinian Revolution'
by ANKORI, Zvi
Jerusalem: Israel Academic Committee on the Middle East, [1970]. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 42pp. Near Fine. A rebuttal to remarks made by Abu-Lughod at a 1969 University of Iowa symposium on "Middle East Problems in Perspective.
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A Child Analysis with Anna Freud
by [ANNA FREUD] HELLER, Peter
Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1990. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; cloth hardcover, dustjacket; liv,383pp; illus. Fine, unmarked copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper. A new-appearing copy.
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Stileto2, The Disinherited
by ANNIS, Michael (editor, publisher, contributor); Nathaniel Tarn, Albert Goldbarth, Diane Wakoski (et al) (contributors)
[Denver]: Howling Dog Press, [1992]. First Edition. Softcover, with folded A.L.s. from publisher Michael Annis to fellow contributor Nathaniel Tarn, and four of Annis's business cards laid in. Oblong octavo (29.5 x 12.5cm); flexible black leatherette covers; glossy pictorial dustjacket; colorful illustrations throughout, including four fold-out illustrated poems. This contributor's copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024). Very light wear to lower front cover, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper has trivial surface wear,... Read More
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An Address to the Quarterly, Monthly, and Preparative Meetings and the Members Thereof, Composing the Yearly Meeting of Friends, Held in Philadelphia, By the Committee appointed at the late Yearly Meeting to have charge of the subject of slavery
by [ANNUAL YEARLY MEETING OF THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS] JACKSON, John
Philadelphia: John Richards, 1839. First Edition. 12mo (12cm.); unadorned tan wrappers; 12pp. Rear wrapper a bit dust-soiled, faint dampstain at bottom textblock edge, else Very Good or better. Address signed in text "John Jackson," and "Extracted from the Minutes of the Yearly Meeting of Women Friends" by Deborah Fisher Wharton (1795-1888), the Quaker minister and suffragist. DUMOND, p. 55.
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Plain Directions for Acquiring the Art of Shooting on the Wing
by AN OLD GAMEKEEPER (pseud.)
New York: The Industrial Publication Company, 1873. First Edition. Industrial Publication Co. Issue (priority uncertain). 12mo. (17.5cm); publisher's original dark brown cloth titled in gilt on spine, with blind-embossed double-ruled border and decorations on covers; vi,[7-9],10-88 + [8]pp ads bound at rear, with tissue-guarded frontispiece of a wounded snipe. Modest external wear, hint of sunning to spine, with a crack to gutter following title page (though binding is still sound); an old hunter's penciled notes to margins of three... Read More
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The Official CB Slang Dictionary Handbook
by ANON
Communication Books, Inc, 1976. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); black wrappers; 185pp. Price sticker to front cover, with modest shelfwear, and clean interior; Very Good. Describes information and terminology related to operation of CB type radios, and includes cross references and code lists. [83614].
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The Wife and The Mistress, or, The Italian Spy. A Domestic Tale from the Milanese: Containing Matrimonial Infelicity, Intriguing Countess, Fascinating Marchioness, and Her Green and Silver Ridicule, with Many Other Particulars of A Noble and Well Known Family in the Last Century
by [ANON]
London: J. Bailey, 116 Chancery Lane, [1820]. First Edition. Slim Twelvemo. 18cm. Late 19th century half mottled calf over marbled paper covered boards by Bayntun of Bath, with a red title label to the spine titled in gilt, very much in the style of an older binding. 24pp. [with 24pp binder's blanks to rear, to stabilize the binding]. Light scuffing to corners and spine ends, darkening to spine label and a little dulling of the gilt, strong, tight, and... Read More
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Poster: Yuppie Go Home
by [GRAPHICS] [ANTI-GENTRIFICATION] Anon
[San Francisco]: S.i., [n.d. but 2000s]. Original illustrated poster, with text and pictorial elements silkscreened in black and red on white posterboard, measuring 66.5cm x 51cm (26 1/8" x 20 1/8"). Faint foxing around upper right corner, some trivial dustiness on verso; Near Fine. Bay Area poster designed by an anonymous artist, featuring a simple message above the corpse of the Monopoly Man, who is clutching a bag of money in one hand and a fist full of cash... Read More
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The Progressive Rake's Progress
by [GREAT BRITAIN - GREAT UNREST] [AVIATION] Anon
London: W.H. Smith & Son, N.d. (ca 1914). Lithograph in colors, 77cm x 50cm (ca. 30" x 20"). Mild toning in margins, with subtle repair to closed tears; Near Fine. Professionally mounted on archival linen. An anti-Progressive satirical image, using a crash-landed bi-plane to symbolize the recklessness of Asquith's Liberal government; the unfortunate banged-up chap at center appears to be a caricature of David Lloyd George, Asquith's Chancellor of the Exchequer (and later Prime Minister). The artist... Read More
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Elinor Fulton
by [ANON] LEE, Hannah Farnham Sawyer [ORNE, Elizabeth Ropes]
Boston: Whipple & Damrell, 1837. Stated First Edition. Small Octavo. 15cm. Stab bound, with no evidence of ever having been in wraps or a binding. 144pp. The title page and last leaf form the covers for this volume, so there is some light soiling and spotting to both leaves, with some old, flattened creasing and discoloration to the final leaf; internally clean and fresh, ownership signature to title page, strong and solid, with a little dogearing to the lower... Read More
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Toxar; A Romance
by ANON [NICHOLSON, Joseph Shield]
London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1890. First Edition. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's dark blue bevelled boards, titled in gilt and blind to spine and front board. 289pp.+16pp. ads to rear. Light bumping to spine ends, a little scuffing to extremities, strong and handsome; internally clean with some marginal toning to page edges, top-edge untrimmed. A very good, strong copy with only light wear. Published anonymously, and one of only three "romance" titles written by Professor Nicholson, presumably in... Read More
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