The Rose of Solitude
by ANTONINUS, Brother [pseud. William Everson]
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original two-toned cloth in black price-clipped dust jacket; xiv,[2],125pp. General minor shelf-wear to jacket extremities, else Fine in Very Good jacket. "A Love Poem-Sequence" - upper jacket flap.
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Die Dichter und der Krieg: Deutsche Lyrik 1914-1918
by ANZ, Thomas and Joseph Vogl, eds
[München]: Carl Hanser Verlag, [1982]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's yellow pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; 271pp. A hint of dust-soil and shelf wear, else Near Fine. Anthology of German World War I poetry.
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South Africa 1986: A Permanent State of Emergency. 1986 Annual Report, Southern Africa Project / Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
by [SOUTH AFRICA - APARTHEID]
Washington DC: Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 1986. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial glossy wrappers; 39pp; illus. Light wear; Near Fine. Articles on the State of Emergency, the Rent Boycott Campaign, Political Trials, etc.
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South Africa: The Boss Law
by [SOUTH AFRICA] [APARTHEID]
London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd, 1971. Third printing. Slim octavo (21cm); stapled wrappers; 13,[1]pp. A Fine copy. Discussion of the South African government's BOSS (Bureau of State Security) laws.
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South Africa: "Resettlement" - The New Violence To Africans
by [SOUTH AFRICA] [APARTHEID]
London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd, 1969. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.75cm); stapled wrappers; 46,[2]pp; illus. Pinpoint wear to extremities, else Fine. Discussion of the South African government's policy of mass "resettlement," which uprooted hundreds of thousands of people and moved them to so-called "homelands." One of the pillars of apartheid.
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South Africa: Arms and Apartheid
by [SOUTH AFRICA] [APARTHEID]
London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd, 1970. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm); stapled wrappers; 18pp. Some pinpoint wear along spine-fold, else a Fine copy. "This pamphlet does not attempt to deal with all aspects of the sale of arms to South Africa. It answers two popular fallacies: (a) that trade, investment and friendship are persuading the South African government to abandon apartheid; and (b) that economic forces inside South Africa are... Read More
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Apartheid's War Against Angola: An Account of South African Aggression Against the People's Republic of Angola
by [APARTHEID] HOLNESS, Marga
New York: Centre Against Apartheid, United Nations, 1983. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 24pp; illus. A Fine copy. Richly-illustrated pamphlet, prepared by the UN Special Committee against Apartheid, giving a brief account of aggression by South Africa towards the People's Republic of Angola. "The People's Republic of Angola has been the worst victim of apartheid aggression, suffering the loss of untold lives and damage estimated at ten billion dollars. For it was born in defiance of... Read More
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Myths and Attitudes: An Inside Look at the Coloured People [Inscribed]
by [APARTHEID] VAN DER ROSS, R. E.
[Cape Town]: Tafelberg, 1979. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Black paper-covered boards in orange dust jacket; cartographic endpapers; [viii],116pp; ad to rear jacket panel. Inscribed by the author on title page, 1981, to J. Wayne Fredericks, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1961-67. Lightly rubbed at extremities, else Fine. Jacket rubbed at edges, small perforation and tear to center of rear panel, else Very Good. During apartheid, "coloured" was a legally defined racial classification, codified... Read More
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I Write What I Like
by [APARTHEID] BIKO, Steve
San Francisco: Harper & Row, [1978]. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Tan paper-covered boards, backed in light brown cloth, in black dust jacket; viii,216pp. Slight rubbing at lower edge, minor mark to fore-edge, else Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed, mildly toned along extreme edges, with price label to front panel: Very Good or better. Biko (1946-1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, a leading figure in the South African Students' Organisation, and a developer of the... Read More
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Krakatit
by ČAPEK, Karel [Trans: Lawrence Hyde]
New York: Macmillan, 1925. First American Edition. Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's blue cloth with geometrically decorated golden paper title labels to spine and front board. Lacking dustjacket. 408pp. Light bumping to spine ends, some scuffing to the edges of the cloth on the spine, fading to paper title label, otherwise clean, bright and strong. Handsome and solid. Internally clean. Cited by some as being the first nuclear thriller, in which an engineer develops an explosive of world destroying power, that... Read More
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Three Novels: Hardubal; Meteor; An Ordinary Life
by ČAPEK, Karel
New York: A.A. Wyn, 1948. First American Edition. Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's vivid orange cloth titled in black to spine and front board. Dustjacket. Some darkening of the cloth at edges, with light fraying at spine ends, in a dustjacket with some toning and discoloration, with shallow chipping and loss to the edges. The verso of the printed dustjacket is a WW2 Ministry of Defense map of East Sumatra, a not unusual but still delightful aspect of post-war London publishing... Read More
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Alcools: Poems 1898-1913 [Inscribed]
by APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume (poetry); William Meredith (translation; foreword); Francis Steegmuller (introduction; notes)
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1964. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling and decoration stamped in gilt on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 242pp. Inscribed by author on front endpaper: "For Alice and David Halliday with affection and esteem from their friend Guillaume / June 1976". Signed by translator, William Meredith, on title page. Light rubbing to board edges, else Near Fine. Dustwrapper, designed by Harry Ford, unclipped (priced $4.95), with trivial surface wear and rubbing... Read More
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![Tired of Giving? You don't know what it is to be tired! Every Jew is asked to subscribe to the United Jewish Appeal [...]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/722/667/1737667722.0.l.jpg)
Tired of Giving? You don't know what it is to be tired! Every Jew is asked to subscribe to the United Jewish Appeal [...]
by [JUDAICA-AMERICANA] [ZIONISM] UNITED JEWISH APPEAL
Newark: United Jewish Appeal, N.d. (ca. 1927). Broadsheet, 54.5cm x 40.5cm (ca. 21½ x 16 inches), folding down to ca. 5-1/2" x 4". Old vertical and horizontal folds (as issued); faint dampstaining, ½-inch puncture in lower margin; complete and Very Good. A novel metamorphic fundraising broadsheet which, as it is unfolded, features the repeating phrase: "TIRED?" in heavy type on all five of the revealed panels, finally opening to a large portrait of a downtrodden refugee over... Read More
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Badenheim 1939
by APPELFELD, Aharon (Dalya Bilu, transl)
London: J.M. Dent & Co, [1980]. First U.K. Edition. Small octavo. Maroon cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 148pp. Neat ownership signature to front endpaper, else Fine in unclipped dustwrapper. British issue, printed from American sheets (originally published in America by Godine, 1980).
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Not So Much Love of Flowers, Poems 1969-1972
by Appel, Allan
West Branch IA: Toothpaste Press, 1975. First edition. One of only 26 copies (of 501 total) issued in hardcover; hand-cased and signed by the author, of which this is Copy C of the 26 lettered and signed copies. Orange-red cloth covers with paper spine label; tall 12mo. Harvard College Library embossed stamp on front end paper, with the library's blind-stamped release mark. A special (and scarce) sample of Toothpaste Press in hardcover. Ex-libris else Very Good. Toothpaste Press... Read More
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The Raw Edge
by APPEL, Benjamin
New York: Random House, 1958. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 384pp. Inscribed to Ben Shahn and family on front endpaper: "On the edge of the Assinpunk [sic] 1958 - to a fellow author; Bernarda; and kids / Ben Appel." Endpapers slightly browned, light wear to board edges; Very Good or better in the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed and edgeworn, Very Good. A hard-boiled novel of the New York waterfront, in the vein of Appel's 1930s proletarian crime... Read More
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Why the Japanese Are the Way They Are
by APPEL, Benjamin
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1973]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in yellow photo-illustrated dust jacket; [8],151pp.; maps. A few closed tears to jacket extremities, the longest approx. 1.5" to spine crown, spine a bit faded, top textblock edge dust-soiled, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Unsigned gift inscription in Italian to Bernarda Shahn on front free endpaper. From the Library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label to front free endpaper. We have... Read More
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The People Talk
by APPEL, Benjamin
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1940. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; brick red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 502pp. Some offsetting to pastedowns and endpapers, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, and states "Second Printing" along the lower edge of the front flap; rubbed at the extremities, with several short tears and some chipping along the upper edge (not affecting lettering or artwork); Very Good. Reprint of Appel's fourth book,... Read More
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The People Talk
by APPEL, Benjamin
New York: Johnson Reprint, 1972. Facsimile Reprint. Octavo (22cm). Green cloth boards, lettered in silver and gold; 502pp. Facsimile reprint of the 1940 Dutton edition, inscribed on title page to artist Bernarda Bryson Shahn: "Happy birthday bernarda so you can hear the peoples of the world talk and talk as a jet-setter over all the continents, Love, Ben Appel," dated 1973. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate label tipped on to front pastedown. Reprint... Read More
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But Not Yet Slain
by APPEL, Benjamin
New York: A.A. Wyn, Inc, 1947. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; Dustjacket; 183pp. Mild soil to boards and jacket; light wear at spine ends; small chip missing at bottom of two leaves; else pages are clean and unmarked. Good or better condition. A novel about Washington politics during the post-New Deal era. It follows the optimistic Matt Wells who moves to Washington D.C. with the dream of being a great politician only to be seduced by money, debauchery, and... Read More
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Appel's Appels [Inscribed]
by APPEL, Karel [Christiaan] (artwork); John H. Devlin (introduction)
[Canada]: Rothmans of Pall Mall Canada Limited, [1972]. Softcover, bilingual text (French and English). Quarto (34cm); pictorial paper wrappers; 80pp; black-and-white and colorful photographs and illustrations throughout. Inscribed by author on front endpaper: "To Geoffrey Molder amité C.K. Appel / 28 Nov 78 NYC". Modest shelf-wear and soil, with tiny nick to lower rear panel, and inked note to introduction page; Good. Catalogue includes details on a Candian art exhibition by Appel, an avant-garde movement CoBrA co-founder. Rothmans... Read More
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Recollections of College Life, at Marshall College, Mercersburg, Pa., from 1839 to 1845: A Narrative, with Reflections
by APPEL, Rev. Theodore
Reading, PA: Daniel Miller, 1886. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm). Original gilt-lettered olive-green beveled cloth-covered boards (hardcover); floral endpapers; viii,[9]-348pp. A quite fresh and attractive copy, with gilt bright on spine and cover, text clean, fresh and unmarked; Near Fine. The author was a graduate of Marshall College and a long-time faculty member of Franklin & Marshall College following the merger in 1853.
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Recollections of College Life, at Marshall College, Mercersburg, Pa., from 1839 to 1845: A Narrative, with Reflections
by APPEL, Rev. Theodore
Reading, PA: Daniel Miller, 1886. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm). Original gilt-lettered blue-gray beveled cloth-covered boards (hardcover); floral endpapers; viii,[9]-348pp. Slight rubbing to covers, still a fresh copy; Near Fine. In variant binding of blue-gray cloth (we have also noted copies in olive green cloth and brown cloth). The author was a graduate of Marshall College and a long-time faculty member of Franklin & Marshall College following the merger in 1853.
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![Out in Inner Space: A Psychoanalyst Explores The New Therapies [Inscribed & Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/265/886/1054886265.0.l.jpg)
Out in Inner Space: A Psychoanalyst Explores The New Therapies [Inscribed & Signed]
by APPELBAUM, Stephen A.; George Leonard, foreword
Garden City: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1979. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xxii,529pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, spine a shade faded, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Inscribed and signed in the year of publication: "To Denise, Here's to joyful inner spaces. Stephen A. Appelbaum.
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Esterne. Appiano Alessandrino Delle guerre esterne de Romani
by [APPIAN] APPIANUS; Alessandro Braccesi (trans.)
Venice: Pietro di Nicolini da Sabbio, 1538. Octavo (16cm). Early nineteenth-century half red leather and marbled paper over boards, titled in gilt on spine, all edges sprinkled red; blue marbled endpapers; fol. 1-191,[1]; relief frame on title page. Brief but numerous contemporary manuscript annotations throughout. Printed in an Italic typeface. General moderate wear, front hinge completely cracked but for one thread, binding slightly unstable, minor dampstain to lower margin of 2 gatherings, but text complete and clean: around Good.... Read More
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