The Education of Henry Adams
by Adams, Henry; Lodge, Henry Cabot (Editor)
Washington: Privately Printed, 1907. First Edition. Very Good. Privately printed first edition, one of two printings comprising a total of 100 copies. vi, 451 pp., laid paper with wide margins. Quarto, bound in publisher's blue cloth, tan morocco title label to spine, laid endpapers. Very Good with light mottling and soiling to cloth, moderate rubbing to extremities, chipping to morocco label, and light worming to upper textblock edge. Hinges tender, upper right corner slightly bumped throughout, bookplate to... Read More
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Democracy: An American Novel
by Adams, Henry
New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1880. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Mixed state as per BAL with front pastedown dated March 31, 1880 like BAL's A (earliest), 112 on the title page, but lacks signature mark F on p. 65. White linen stamped in black. Very Good with lean to binding, soiling and wear to cloth, spine toned and worn at ends. Former owner inscription to front blank. An early state of the classic American political... Read More
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Democracy: An American Novel
by Adams, Henry
London: Macmillan and Co, 1882. First British Edition. Paperback. Very Good. First British edition, wrappered issue. (Apparently issued simultaneously with the much more common cloth issue.) 280, (4, ads) pp. Wraps. Very Good condition for a paperback of this era despite wear: loss at head and tail, some soiling, chips and creasing to fragile wraps, and front wrap partially detached. Slight lean. A few slightly creased page corners. Most paperbacks from this time period are in much worse... Read More
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Henry Adams of Somersetshire, England and Braintree, Mass. His English Ancestry and Some of His Descendants. (The Henry Adams Genealogy)
by [Adams, Henry]; J. Gardner Bartlett
New York: Privately Printed, 1927. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, limited issue. One of 500 copies. xvi, 170, [8] pp., illustrated with plates protected by loose tissue guards. Bound in publisher's navy blue cloth boards with decorative gilt stamping, top edge gilt, cartographical endpapers. Near Fine with light rubbing to covers and minimal offsetting from plates. Compiled by J. Gardner Bartlett for Edward Dean Adams, the latter's complimentary slip laid in. An elegantly-designed book tracing the genealogy... Read More
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A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America
by Adams, John
Philadelphia: Printed for Hall and Sellers; J. Crukshank; and Young and McCulloch, 1787. First edition. Near Fine. First American edition of John Adams' influential treatise on government. Association copy owned by John Beckley, his signature and that of Mary Anne Beckley to title page. xx, [3] - 390 pp., laid paper, collated complete. Duodecimo, bound in sixes, contemporary calf rebacked in leather, contemporary morocco title lable laid on spine. Near Fine with moderate rubbing to boards and age-toning... Read More
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Watership Down
by Adams, Richard
London: Rex Collings, 1972. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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Watership Down
by Adams, Richard
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co, 1974. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Richard Adams on the title page and inscribed to former owners. Bound in publisher's tan paper-covered over tan spine cloth lettered in gilt. Good with lean to binding, soiling to covers and textblock edge, textblock sunken. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with toning and edge wear, several short closed tears and a crease to the spine. ... Read More
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Circus Day (Little Folks Library)
by Ade, George; McCutcheon. John T. [Illustrator]
Chicago and New York: The Werner Company, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition, first issue. 128pp. Tiny book measuring 2 3/8" x 2 3/16", bound in boards with a cloth-like finish. Good only with offsetting to spine and inner edges of covers from binding, front cover rubbed along edges with delicate hinge near front, a few small stains to covers, small hole in ffep matching small glue spot on front paste down. Pages 37-44 and 51-60 loose.... Read More
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Experimental and underground cinema directors at the founding of Berks Filmmakers in 1975 (Photographic archive)
by Adelstein, Linda [Photographer]; Jerry Tartaglia; Tony Conrad; Jonas Mekas; Ondine, Beverly Grant Conrad; Iimura Takahiko
[Reading, PA]: [No Publisher], 1975. A photographic archive documenting the beginnings of Berks Filmmakers in Reading, PA in 1975, an independent film cooperative that continues to this day. Linda Adlestein, wife of Berks co-founder Gary Adelstein, took candid portraits of a number of attendees, many of whom were major figures in experimental cinema and underground film including Jonas Mekas (called "The Godfather of American Avant-Garde Cinema), actor and Warhol associate Ondine, queer cinema pioneer Jerry Tartagalia, Beverly Grant Conrad... Read More
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Ad Hoc Bulletin (Marxist-Leninist) (Three issues of the FBI's COINTELPRO-era fake Maoist newsletter)
by Ad Hoc Committee for a Marxist-Leninist Party, USA; [Federal Bureau of Investigation]
Chicago & New York: Ad Hoc Committee for a Marxist-Leninist Party, USA, 1971. Three issues: Vol. 8 Nos. 2 & 3, Vol. 9 No. 1. Bound in publisher's corner stapled sheets. 11; 11; 14 pp. respectively. Very Good, sheets folded in the middle, light toning, creased corners to the issues in Vol. 8. Rare.Until Aaron Leonard uncovered that the Ad Hoc Committee was an FBI front group designed to attract and surveil radicals as well as damage the Left... Read More
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Tougher than Leather: The Authorized Biography of Run-DMC
by Adler, Bill
New York: Signet, 1987. First edition. First edition. Signed by author Bill Adler on the dedication page with the inscription, "8-14-87 To Steve, from his old pal Adler, who's finally found a job he likes (and I don't mean p.r.). Love, Adler." 192 pp. with 16 pages of photos. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good, typical shelfwear and rubbing along edges, faint crease to spine, pages toned with age. One of the very first books devoted to hip-hop, a... Read More
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Aesop's Fables
by Aesop; Rackham, Arthur [Illustrations]
London: William Heinemann, 1912. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Deluxe limited edition; copy #540 of 1,450 signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. Publisher's buckram cloth, stamped in gilt. Very Good. Cloth lightly soiled, darkened at spine, lightly toned and with light staining to edge of rear cover. Dark stain to gutter at top margin of roughly the first third of pages, stain to bottom for edge margin to last several leaves and endsheet. Thirteen full-color plates... Read More
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![The Chinese Merchants of Honolulu Request the Pleasure of Your Company at a Ball to be Given by Them, in Honor of their Majesties, Kamehameha IV. and Queen Emma [...]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/052/839/1615839052.0.l.jpg)
The Chinese Merchants of Honolulu Request the Pleasure of Your Company at a Ball to be Given by Them, in Honor of their Majesties, Kamehameha IV. and Queen Emma [...]
by [Afong, Chun]; [The Chinese Merchants of Honolulu]
Honolulu, HI: Committee of Invitation, 1856. Near Fine. 5.8"x7.25. Single sheet with scalloped edges and decorative embossed borders, with text printed in gold and blue. Near Fine with minor soiling, light toning and old folds. One of the earliest printed works commissioned by Chinese immigrants in what is now the United States. While the first Chinese explorers reached Hawaii in the late 18th century, Chinese immigration to any part of the United States began in appreciable numbers about... Read More
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![[LGBTQ] Two Collage Photo Albums of a 1960s Fire Island House Party with Drag Queens](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/769/998/1717998769.0.l.jpg)
[LGBTQ] Two Collage Photo Albums of a 1960s Fire Island House Party with Drag Queens
by [Aggie]
[Fire Island]: N/A, 1960. Near Fine. Two albums, both filled to completion, chronicling a drag queen house party at Fire Island during the late 1960s. Quarto "Easy-Mount" photo album, spiral bound in faux leather with embossed front board, containing 7 double-card leaves protected by plastic covers. Quarto "Scrap Book," cord bound in green paper-covered boards, containing 14 card leaves. Overall Near Fine with light rubbing to covers, light toning to scrap book sheets, and light foxing to photo... Read More
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Wild Style: Break Dance, Scratch, Rap, Graffity Art; Hip-Hop Rap in Newyork Ghetto
by Ahearn, Charlie; Grandmaster Caz; Cold Crush Brothers; Rammellzee
Tokyo: JICC, 1983. First edition. First edition. [64] pp. Staplebound booklet with plastic clamshell case containing cassette tape. Fine booklet, Near Fine case with a little rubbing and leaning to spine. Lacking obi band. Rare. A deluxe photo book to accompany the Japanese release of the classic film Wild Style, with early hip-hop soundtrack featuring first generation American hip-hop artists like Cold Crush Brothers, Grandmaster Caz, and Rammellzee; on a dubbed generic cassette-- fairly uncommon and expensive technology at... Read More
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How to Commit a Murder
by Ahearn, Danny
New York: Ives Washburn Inc, 1930. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Danny Ahearn, inscribed on the bottom half of the title page to Hollywood columnist Jimmy Starr, "Best of Good-Luck in[?] anything you ever [?] take to. May our friendship go on for decades to come, from one Human guy to another. Sincerest regards [signed] Danny Ahearn." Hollywood bookstore (The Satyr Book Shop) ticket on rear endpaper. 254 pp. with photo frontispiece. Bound in publisher's red cloth with... Read More
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The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
by Aiken, Joan
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First British Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Joan Aiken and inscribed "Best wishes from the author" on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's black cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in silver. Near Fine with slight lean to binding and small stain to fore edge of textblock extending into the margins of a few pages. In a Near Fine vibrant unclipped dust jacket with fading to spine, light rubbing... Read More
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Poems
by Akhmatova, Anna
Moscow: State Publishing House of Fiction, 1958. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition of Anna Akhmatova's 1958 poetry collection. Association copy signed by Anna Akhmatova on the title page and inscribed to Ilya Ehrenburg's literary secretary, Natalya Ivanovna Stolyarova, and dated October 1959. 131, [1] pp. with errata slip tipped to final leaf. Bound in publisher's maroon faux leather stamped blind and in gilt. Near Fine with light rubbing to extremities and scuffing to spine; binding square and... Read More
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Dark Prophecy: A Mystery Novel
by Alan, Marjorie
New York: M.S. Mill Co. Inc, 1945. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. (Published in the UK earlier under the title Masked Murder.) [iv], 188 pp. Publisher's gray cloth with green lettering. Near Fine with light foxing to edges and endpapers, former owner's bookplate on paste down, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with foxing to flaps, a few small scratches. A mystery in the "Had I But Known" style popularized by Mary Roberts Rinehart;... Read More
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Interaction of Color
by Albers, Josef
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Large quarto. 14.5" x 11" x 5.75". Bound in publisher's black cloth slipcase lettered in white, housing a matching cloth-bound text volume and a black cloth chemise slipcase housing 80 folders containing 93 color plates with protective tissues collated complete, with softcover commentary volume. Plates are printed in as many as twenty colors, with a combination of silk-screen, four color separation and photo-offset processes.... Read More
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Josef Albers: Despite Straight Lines, An Analysis of His Graphic Constructions
by Albers, Josef [Artist]; Francois Bucher
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1961. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Josef Albers on the title page. [88] pp. Bound in publisher's cream leatherette boards stamped in blind over black backstrip stamped in white, partial remnants of the jacket are laid-in at the front gutter. Very Good with slight fading to spine, faint bowing to boards, light soiling and foxing to edges with a few smudges to the boards. Errata slip... Read More
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Flower Fables
by Alcott, Louisa May
Boston: George W. Briggs & Co, 1855. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. [ii], 182 pp., complete with 6 wood engraved plates including frontispiece. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt, yellow endpapers. Very Good with sunned and moderately rubbed cloth and slightly bumped corners; overopened with stitches showing. Offsetting and light soiling to front endpapers, staining and occasional foxing and pencil marks to contents throughout, and 1-1/4 inch chip to lower margin... Read More
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The Brightfount Diaries
by Aldiss, Brian; Pearl Falconer [Illustrator]
London: Faber & Faber, Inc, 1955. First edition. First edition. Signed by Brain Aldiss on the title page. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket, unfaded and unclipped (12s 6d net). The British scifi author's first book, just plain old literature, but semi-autobiographical, about toiling in a large provincial bookshop. An excellent copy, from a collection of an old book scout that sat undisturbed for decades.
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The Marijuana Review: A Magazine to Coordinate Marijuana Information (Vol. 1 No. 1-Vol.1 No. 5)
by Aldrich, Michael [Editor]; Ed Sanders [Editor]
Buffalo: LeMar International, 1970. The first five issues of the first periodical in America devoted to cannabis. Vol. 1 No. 1-No. 5. 16; 24; 24; 24; [32] pp. Newsprint. Very Good+ overall, typical toning with age, wraps slightly brittle and chipped. Square in back wrap of No. 1 cut out, probably for subscription card. Price on No. 2's front wrap crossed out and 25 (cents) written in sharpie, chipping a little heavier than other issues. Faint corner crease to... Read More
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Somebody In Boots
by Algren, Nelson
New York: Vanguard Press, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 322 pp. Original orange cloth with black spine lettering, reddish brown top stain. Very Good with light spine sunning, very faint scuffs, and small ink spot along front gutter; internally excellent with barely any foxing and straight binding. A very nice copy of Algren's rare first novel.
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