Crusade, Commerce & Culture
by ATIYA, Aziz S.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1962. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo (20cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 280pp. Very Good or better in slightly rubbed, price-clipped dustwrapper.
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House Scraps
by ATKIN, G. Duckworth; George Cruickshank, F.C. Gould, Lucien Davis et al., illus
London: Published by the Author at the Stock Exchange, 1887. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original plum cloth, upper cover double ruled in black, gilt lettered spine, marbled endpapers; vi,183pp.; double frontispiece, one additional plate, text illus. throughout. Boards rather rubbed with shallow losses at spine ends, spine a bit sunned, else Good or better, interior about fine. Published "For Private Circulation Only" (title page heading).
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Low Company
by ATKINSON, Hugh
Melbourne, Australia: F.W. Cheshire, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); white paper-covered boards, with green titling and decorations to spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [iv],203,[1]pp. Mild tanning to board edges with modest foxing to upper edge of textblock; minor thumbing to lower edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket price-clipped with a mild stain to front panel verso, modest shelfwear, some foxing on verso, with a few tiny nicks, tears, and attendant creases; Very Good+. Wrap-around dustjacket... Read More
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Craft for a Modern World: the Renwick Gallery Collection
by ATKINSON, Nora (text)
Washington DC: Smithsonian, 2015. First Edition. Quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 208pp; illus. Fine in fine dustjacket; a new copy. Highlights of the collection.
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Address Delivered Before the Historical Society of the University of North-Carolina, June 6, 1855
by ATKINSON, [Thomas]
Raleigh: Holden & Wilson, 1855. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); removed; 32pp. Front signature separated but present, some shallow chips and tiny losses along margins, textblock rather foxed; Good only. Admiring account of the life and deeds of Oliver Cromwell by the Bishop of North Carolina. SABIN 2286.
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Thinking Aloud in Verse
by ATKINSON, William H[enry], Sr
N.p.: William H. Atkinson, Sr, 1963. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm.); original tan printed staplebound wrappers; 40pp.; author photograph on title page. Fine. The author's first book of poems, most touching on religious and racial themes. A second collection, Little Rays for the Dark Places, also self-published, appeared in 1968. FRENCH, Afro-American Poetry and Drama, 1760-1975, p. 148.
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Congress and the Atom
by [ATOMIC WARFARE] [LAW] MARKS, Herbert S.
Stanford: Stanford Law Review, 1948. Staple-bound pamphlet; original printed wraps; pp 23-42. Toning and light soil to covers; internally fine. Offprint from the Stanford Law Review, Vol. 1 No. 1 (November 1948).
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Everything Good Will Come: A Novel [Inscribed]
by ATTA, Sefi
Northampton, MA: Interlink Books, 2005. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-336pp. Inscribed by the author on the title page to Puerto Rican editor, translator, and literary critic Roberto Marquez: 4/18/07 / To Roberto / from Sefi." Touch of dust-soil to upper edge of textblock, else very Near Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $24.95). First novel by the Nigerian-born author and playwright, centered around the fate of... Read More
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Beside the Paths of Glory: Poems
by ATTO, Harold Lynn
New York: Henry Herrison, [1937]. First edition, slim octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in orange decorative dust jacket; 64pp. Jacket edges chipped and worn, edges rather faded, spine darkened; a Fine copy in about Very Good dust jacket.
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The Reds and the Blacks: A Personal Adventure [Inscribed]
by ATTWOOD, William
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Red and black three-piece cloth binding, in grey, red, white, and black dust jacket; cartographic endpapers; x,341,[1]pp; black and white photographs. Inscribed by the author to Anne and J. Wayne Fredericks on half-title: "For Wayne-who was always passing through town, and Anne-who taught him all about protocol-With affection and admiration-Bill Atwood." With Fredericks' 1967 ownership inscription above. A sound copy, lightly rubbed with slight dustiness to top... Read More
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Bluebeard's Egg
by ATWOOD, Margaret
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1983. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); beige and brown paper-covered boards, titled in beige on spine; dustjacket; [10],11-285,[3]pp. Tiny indentation at upper left corner of spine, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $18.95), with just a hint of sunning to spine panel; very Near Fine. Atwood's second collection of short fiction, gathering a dozen stories.
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True Stories
by ATWOOD, Margaret
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1981. First Edition. First Impression, a trade paperback original. Octavo (21.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-103,[1]pp. Contemporary owners name on verso of front wrapper, a bit of subtle yellowing to wrapper extremities; Near Fine. Atwood's ninth collection of poems, dealing with issues of war and human rights.
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The Animals in That Country
by ATWOOD, Margaret
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's simultaneous wraps edition in purple and red pictorial card covers, sharing the design with the subsequent Little, Brown edition. 69pp. Wraps are clean and bright with some minor edgewear, but there is some tanning and creasing to the spine panel which detracts from the appearance a little without causing any structural causes for concern. A good, presentable copy. Internally clean with an old rare book catalog entry laid in... Read More
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THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY
by Atwood, Margaret
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1968. First Canadian edition. The author's second book a collection of poetry. A Review copy of the scarce hardcover issue, with review slip tipped to the ffep verso. Poet Martin Booth's copy, with his book plate. Top edge heavily speckled, light foxing to boards; the dust jacket is price-clipped and permanently laminated, otherwise about very good (wrinkled at crown and foot) dust jacket. Only a good copy, but uncommon and very scarce as a review... Read More
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Good Bones
by ATWOOD, Margaret
[Toronto]: Harbourfront, 1992. First Edition. Regular Issue, one of 500 copies. Slim octavo (17.75cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled; [8]pp. Fine. A poem issued in the "Harbourfront Reading Series" of chapbooks.
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You Are Happy [Signed]
by ATWOOD, Margaret
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974. First American Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (21cm); red paper and blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [7],8-96,[4]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $6.95). The Booker Prize-winning author's sixth collection of poems, covering "a wider range than ever before in her work, from the personal to the mythological, from the negative... Read More
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Encounters With the Element Man [Limited Edition, Signed]
by ATWOOD, Margaret
Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, Publisher, 1982. First, Limited Edition. Wrappered Issue, one of 100 numbered copies signed by the author and artist, this being copy no.34. Slim octavo (23cm); letterpress printed sheets, hand-sewn into unprinted white card wrappers; dustjacket; [2],vi,7-16,[6]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with a small puncture at upper spine-fold, with a faint dampstain around same on verso. A handsome production of Atwoods short story, written in the winter of 1970-71, which originally appeared in... Read More
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The Journals of Susanna Moodie [Signed]
by ATWOOD, Margaret
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1970. Reprint, without the $1.95 price at upper front wrapper, and neither a code nor mention of later printings on the copyright page. Octavo (22cm); pictorial card wrappers; [10],11-64pp; illus. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Light wear to extremities, small price sticker to rear wrapper; Near Fine. An early collection of poems by Atwood, inspired by English-Canadian author Susanna Moodie (1803-1885). APG 013a.
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Nouvelle Histoire Universelle de l'Art
by AUBERT, Marcel, ed.; Émile Mâle, pref
Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie Éditeurs, [1932]. First Edition. Two volumes; small quartos (26cm.); contemporary half dark green morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers; [2],viii,379; [6],420pp.; illus. throughout, many full-paged. Ex-University of Mary Washington Simpson Library with their usual markings, spine labels removed though faint glue residue remaining, spines sunned to tan, some light shelf wear to extremities with brief exposure at corners, else Very Good, internally near fine.
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Mr Secretary Thurloe: Cromwell's Secretary of State, 1652-1660
by AUBREY, Philip
London: Athloe Press, [1990]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[3],252pp.; portrait frontispiece. Tiny chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, light toning and dust-soil, brief fraying at bottom corner of upper board, else Very Good and sound. Posthumously-published biography of John Thurloe (1616-1668), one of the most powerful men in Oliver Cromwell's cabinet.
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The Injustice Collectors [Signed Bookplate Laid-in]
by AUCHINCLOSS, Louis
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950. First Edition. Signed bookplate laid-in. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); full gray cloth boards embossed in red on cover and spine; dustjacket; 248pp.; Fine; Dustjacket is un-clipped (priced $2.50), light edgewear, with a few closed tears along bottom edge, sunning to spine panel, a very good copy. Bookplate signed by the author laid in at the front. Author's debut collection of short stories, the first to be published under his real name. His first efforts were... Read More
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![The Romantic Egoists [with Signed Bookplate]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/031/185/1454185031.0.l.jpg)
The Romantic Egoists [with Signed Bookplate]
by AUCHINCLOSS, Louis
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Original black cloth, backed and stamped in red, with black dust jacket; plain endpapers; [x],210pp. Signed bookplate laid in at front. A straight copy, spine darkened, endpapers discolored: Very Good. Jacket unclipped (priced $3.00), lightly rubbed, minor browning to rear: Very Good. Short story collection by the National Medal of Arts recipient.
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The Injustice Collectors
by AUCHINCLOSS, Louis
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1950. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); gray cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in red on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 248pp. Bookshop sticker on front endpaper. Faint dampstain to lower spine and edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Garrett Price, unclipped (priced $4.50) with dampstain to lower spine verso, and tiny tears and creases along spine ends and extremities; Very Good. Collection of eight short stories. [83759].... Read More
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Russian Literature & Art: Auction 29 October, 2008 [Sale NY017]
by BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
New York: Bloomsbury Auctions, 2008. First Edition. Slim quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 159pp.; color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, shallow crease to bottom fore-edge corner of upper cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. Bilingual (English and Russian) promotional booklet laid in.
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![Antæus No. 42, Summer, 1981 [cover title: The Prolific and the Devourer]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/641/984/1033984641.0.l.jpg)
Antæus No. 42, Summer, 1981 [cover title: The Prolific and the Devourer]
by AUDEN, W.H.; Daniel Halpern, ed
Tangier / London / New York: [Ecco Press], 1981. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket; 93,[19](ads)pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Jacket a bit cockled, spine quite sunned, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket.
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