Race and Class Matters at an Elite College [Signed]
Race and Class Matters at an Elite College [Signed]

by ARIES, Elizabeth

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23cm); glossy pictorial card wrappers; x,234,[2]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Trivial external wear, else Fine. An examination of the challenges faced by black and white students from varying class backgrounds by a Professor of Psychology at Amherst College, based on an intensive study she conducted with 58 students suring the 2005-2006 academic year.

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Severe and Mild Depression: The Psychotherapeutic Approach
Severe and Mild Depression: The Psychotherapeutic Approach

by ARIETI, Silvano and Jules Bemporad

New York: Basic Books, [1978]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in dust jacket; x,453pp. Some minor wear to jacket, including wrinkling to upper extremities, else Very Good and sound.

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New Dimensions in Psychiatry: A World View
New Dimensions in Psychiatry: A World View

by ARIETI, Silvano and Gerard Chrzanowski, eds

New York: John Wiley & Sons / Wiley-Interscience Publication, [1975]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in green decorative dust jacket; xiii,[1],446pp.; illus. A few chips to jacket extremities, brief tape repair at top edge of rear panel, corners very gently bumped, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket.

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Die Psychologie des Aristoteles, insbesondere seine Lehre vom Nous Poietikos
Die Psychologie des Aristoteles, insbesondere seine Lehre vom Nous Poietikos

by [ARISTOTLE] BRENTANO, Franz

Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1967. Facsimile reprint of the 1867 first edition. Octavo (22cm). Tan cloth, titles stamped in gilt on spine; viii,252pp. Previous owner's neat signature to front free endpaper, inconspicuous spot of soil to front cover, else minimal evidence of use - Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. A clean copy. Text entirely in German.

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Aristotle's System of the Physical World: a Comparison With His Predecessors
Aristotle's System of the Physical World: a Comparison With His Predecessors

by [ARISTOTLE] SOLMSEN, Friedrich

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, (1960). First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Maroon cloth stamped in silver; xiv,468,(2)pp. Previous owner's neat signature to front free endpaper, slight rubbing at head of spine and corners, overall Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper.

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Aristotle on Dialectic: Proceedings of the Third Sympsium Aristotelicum
Aristotle on Dialectic: Proceedings of the Third Sympsium Aristotelicum

by [ARISTOTLE] OWEN, G.E.L.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1968. First Edition. First impression. Octavo. Red cloth hardcover; 346pp. Mild toning to cloth covers; neat ink ownership signature to front endpaper, Near Fine. Edited volume of essays, with contributions by W.A. de Pater, Joseph Moreau, Gilbert Ryle, others. Text in English, German, and French.

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Aristoteles' Schrift "Von der Seele" und ihre Stellung innerhalb der aristotelischen Philosophie
Aristoteles' Schrift "Von der Seele" und ihre Stellung innerhalb der aristotelischen Philosophie

by [ARISTOTLE] CASSIRER, Heinrich

Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1968. Facsimile reprint of the 1932 first edition. Octavo (20cm). Blue cloth hardcover, titled in gilt on spine; 198pp. Previous owner's neat signature to front free endpaper; otherwise unmarked, clean and tight; Near Fine. Text entirely in German.

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Ein Anonymer Aristoteleskommentar des XIII Jahrhunderts. Questiones in Tres Libros De Anima
Ein Anonymer Aristoteleskommentar des XIII Jahrhunderts. Questiones in Tres Libros De Anima

by [ARISTOTLE] VENNEBUSCH, Joachim (ed)

Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1963. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Printed card wrappers (softcover, as issued);333pp. Previous owner's neat signature to front free endpaper, with a brief pencil annotation; faint stains to paper on spine, which is also somewhat sun-darkened; internally fresh and unmarked, Very Good. Text entirely in German.

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Die Aristotelische Physik: untersuchungen über die Grundlegung der Naturwissenschaft und die sprachlichen Bedingungen der Prinzipienforschung bei Aristoteles
Die Aristotelische Physik: untersuchungen über die Grundlegung der Naturwissenschaft und die sprachlichen Bedingungen der Prinzipienforschung bei Aristoteles

by [ARISTOTLE] WIELAND, Wolfgang

Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1962. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Tan linen-covered boards (hardcover)354pp. Previous owner's neat signature to front free endpaper, mild toning to spine; Near Fine. Text entirely in German.

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War Rumours
War Rumours

by ARKELL, Reginald; Edgar Norfield, illus

London: C. Arthur Pearson, (1939). First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Sewn, printed card wrappers; 44pp; illus. Mild toning to wrappers, else a tight, Near Fine copy, very well-preserved. A collection of satirical poems on the War, accompanied with humorous drawings by Edgar Norfield.

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The Pointer and His Predecessors: An Illustrated History of the Pointing Dog from the Earliest Times
The Pointer and His Predecessors: An Illustrated History of the Pointing Dog from the Earliest Times

by ARKWRIGHT, William

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902. First, Limited Edition. One of 750 numbered copies specially bound, this being copy no.204. Thick quarto (33.5cm); sage green paper-covered boards and white cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; xii,236,[4]pp, with pictorial frontispiece and 39 plates of illustrations. Pictorial bookplate of Ancell Harrison Ball and Isabel Taylor Ball mounted to front pastedown, with a gift inscription to Ancell from Isabel directly above it: "A.H.B. from... Read More

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Men Dislike Women: A Romance
Men Dislike Women: A Romance

by ARLEN, Michael

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1931. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine, and decoration stamped in gilt on front cover; dustjacket; [vi],309,[1]pp. Light shelf-wear; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 7/6 net), tanned, with modest shelf-wear and -soil, 1" tear to upper spine panel, 0.5" tear to upper front spine fold, and tiny chips and tears to extremities; Very Good. Arlen's romance novel is set in 1920s New York. [88031].

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The London Venture
The London Venture

by ARLEN, Michael

London: Heinemann, 1920. First Edition. First impression, with 1920 date on title page. 12mo (18cm). Publisher's pictorial black paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 178pp + 2pp publisher's list. Brief split to paper at base of front joint; mild rubbing to board edges, marginal toning to text throughout; Very Good. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, neatly split along front spine-fold, slightly sun-darkened on spine, but otherwise complete, about Very Good. Arlen's fragile first book.

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Hommage à Monsieur Teste
Hommage à Monsieur Teste

by ARMAN

[Sète]: Espace Fortant de France, [1995]. First Edition. Slim quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's white photo-illustrated card wrappers; 48pp.; chiefly color photographic illus. Wrappers a bit soiled, light shelf wear, else Very Good or better. Catalog of an exhibition mounted during the summer of 1995 featuring the French artist's destruction/recomposition sculptural works. OCLC notes a single copy as of January, 2019, in Germany.

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Arménsko múzeum pod šírym nebom [Armenia: Museum on the Open Air]
Arménsko múzeum pod šírym nebom [Armenia: Museum on the Open Air]

by [ARMENIA] VSKOČIL, Kamil (photographs); Ludmila Motalová and Milan Piovarči, text

Yerevan: Pallas, 1976. First Edition. Quarto. Tan cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 131,(2)pp; chiefly illus. Prospectus laid in. Fine copy in slightly edgeworn jacket, still Very Good or better. Photographic survey of the smallest Soviet republic. Text entirely in Armenian, though the Prospectus includes an introduction in four languages including English.

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NEW CEMETERY
NEW CEMETERY

by Armitage, Simon

Canberra, AUS: The Univ. of Canberra, 2016. First Edition. Stapled black and white wrappers; small 8vo. 22 pp. Signed by the poet on the title page. International Poetry Studies Institute chapbook no. 5. A long poem which would be the title poem of his 2017 collection. This issue by the newly installed British Poet Laureate seems to have had little distribution; certainly scarce signed. Fine.

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James Dewar, 1842 - 1923: A Friday Evening Lecture to the Members of the Royal Institution on January 18, 1924
James Dewar, 1842 - 1923: A Friday Evening Lecture to the Members of the Royal Institution on January 18, 1924

by ARMSTRONG, Henry E.

London: Ernest Benn, 1924. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cream card wrappers, yapp edges; 32pp. Wrappers a bit dust-soiled and lightly worn from handling, glue residue in title page gutter, a few unobtrusive pencil check marks in margins, else Near Very Good and sound. Lecture on the life and career of Scottish chemist Sir James Dewar, best known for the vacuum flask which was used for the liquefaction of oxygen and hydrogen.

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A Child's Easter
A Child's Easter

by ARMSTRONG, Naomi Young

[N.p.: Naomi Young Armstrong, 1971]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original white pictorial staplebound wrappers; unpaged. About Fine. Religious children's poetry, written from the point of view of a young boy.

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Autobiography of a Freedom Rider: My Life as a Foot Soldier for Civil Rights [Inscribed]
Autobiography of a Freedom Rider: My Life as a Foot Soldier for Civil Rights [Inscribed]

by ARMSTRONG, Thomas M. and Natalie R. Bell

Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, 2011. First Edition. First printing (issued only in paperback). Pictorial card wrappers; 208pp; illus. Clean, Near Fine copy; inscribed on first page of Foreword: "To Allen / Peace Always!," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Armstrong, a native Mississippian, was active in the voting rights and sit-in movements of the early 1960s.

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Warrior in Two Camps: Ely S. Parker, Union General and Seneca Chief
Warrior in Two Camps: Ely S. Parker, Union General and Seneca Chief

by ARMSTRONG, William H.

[Syracuse]: Syracuse University Press, 1978. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Red cloth in red dust jacket; [xii],244pp; black and white illustrations. Tapped at head and tail, else Fine. Jacket price-clipped, very gently rubbed at edges, Near Fine.

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To the Resurrection Station [Inscribed]
To the Resurrection Station [Inscribed]

by ARNASON, Eleanor

New York: Avon, 1986. First Edition. First printing (paperback original). Inscribed "To Laurie" on title page; signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Mass market paperback; 276pp. Wrappers lightly creased and worn; small abrasion to rear wrapper; Very Good.

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Tomb of the Fathers - A Lydia Duluth Adventure
Tomb of the Fathers - A Lydia Duluth Adventure

by ARNASON, Eleanor

Seattle: Aqueduct Press, 2010. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; 142,(6)pp. Fine. Inscribed by the author on half-title to Minnesota poet John Calvin Rezmerski.

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To the Resurrection Station [Inscribed]
To the Resurrection Station [Inscribed]

by ARNASON, Eleanor

New York: Avon, 1986. First Edition. First printing (paperback original). Inscribed on title page: "For John - Best wishes," signed, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Mass market paperback; 276pp. Trace of rubbing at base of rear cover, else a tight, Near Fine copy with minimal tanning to the text margins; publisher's yellow edge-stain bright, even and unfaded.

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Atlas of Conures: Aratingas and Pyrrhuras
Atlas of Conures: Aratingas and Pyrrhuras

by ARNDT, Thomas; Annemarie Lambrich, trans

[Neptune City, NJ: T.F.H. Publications, 1993]. Large quarto (30cm.); publisher's glossy white photo-illustrated paper-covered boards; 352pp.; color photographic illus. throughout. Light wear and soil to boards, textblock cockled from exposure to damp, else Very Good and sound. An invaluable resource for the small to medium-sized parrot enthusiast.

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Dobson's Encyclopedia: The Publisher, Text, and Publication of America's First Britannica, 1789-1803
Dobson's Encyclopedia: The Publisher, Text, and Publication of America's First Britannica, 1789-1803

by ARNER, Robert D.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. Octavo (24cm). Black cloth, in orange dust jacket; xviii,295,[3]pp. Straight and clean, lightly pushed at head and tail: Near Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed at edges, short tear at head: Very Good.

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