![Soft & Loose [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/507/562/1699562507.0.l.jpg)
Soft & Loose [Signed]
by Justin Aidan
New York: Fulton Ryder, 2014. Very Good +. New York: Fulton Ryder, 2014. First Edition; published in a run of 350. Square quarto paperback (21.5cm); 112 unnumbered pages. Publisher’s stiff white wrappers with black stamping to spine; binding characteristics. Color images of artwork throughout; no text. Wrappers lightly bumped and smudged. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. Very Good or better. Signed by the artist without inscription on full title page.
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The Charnel Rose: Selin: A Biography and Other Poems
by Conrad Aiken
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1918. Very Good. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1918. First Edition. Octavo; blue cloth boards stamped in gilt; 156pp. Corners are bumped with some soiling to boards, tiny closed tear to bottom edge of back board, wear to spine including faded gilt titling, chipping to crown and tail, pages are lightly toned with some pencil annotations, contemporary ownership signature to front flyleaf (see below), else a Very Good and sound copy. ... Read More
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![Earth Triumphant and Other Tales in Verse [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/322/808/1738808322.0.l.jpg)
Earth Triumphant and Other Tales in Verse [Signed]
by Conrad Aiken
New York: Macmillan Company, 1914. Very Good+. New York: Macmillan Company, 1914. First Edition. Octavo (19 cm); ix,[2],219pp+6ads. Boards in pale green cloth with gilt stamping. Board corners and spine ends lightly rubbed and bumped; mild dust-soiling overall; gentle rippling to bottom half of spine; damp staining to back board bottom corners. Page edges and pages toned lightly as expected. Interior clean. Clipping of book description laid in loosely at rear. A Very Good or better copy of... Read More
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Selected Poems
by Conrad Aiken
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Very Good +/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition. Octavo (20 cm); xiii, 361pp. Boards in black cloth with gilt stamping and decoration to spine, wrapped in publisher's intact yellow jacket ($3.50). Fore-edge deckled. Jacket lightly soiled with chips and rubbing to margins. Spine and verso heavily toned. Price has pencil slash through it but still visible. Board corners and spine ends gently bumped with minor scratching and toning... Read More
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The Pilgrimage of Festus
by Conrad Aiken
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First Edition. Octavo; decorative paper-covered boards, orange paper label, yellow dust jacket with $1.75 price intact; 75pp. Board corners are bumped with brief exposure, some soiling to top and bottom edges of boards, surface scratches to back board, crown and foot of spine bumped with some chipping, topstain slightly faded, minor chipping to bottom edge of textblock, two small surface scratches to foredge,... Read More
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A Letter from Li Po and Other Poems
by Conrad Aiken
New York: Oxford University Press, 1955. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955. First Edition. Octavo (23cm); publisher’s graphic dust jacket with $3.50 price intact; sage green boards; 93pp. Cream endsheets. Dust jacket shows scratching and staining; minor chipping to spine edges; toning to jacket verso with dampstain down spine, mostly visible to interior. Bumping to board extremities; otherwise clean. Endsheets lightly toned. Binding sound; pages clean. A Very Good copy in like jacket. ... Read More
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The House of Dust: A Symphony
by Conrad Aiken
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1920. Very Good. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1920. First Edition. Small Octavo; gray cloth boards stamped in black; 148pp. Board corners lightly rubbed, crown and tail of spine slightly bumped with some toning to spine, light toning throughout text block, otherwise binding is sound and pages unmarked, a Very Good copy.
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![Conversation [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/902/317/1686317902.0.l.jpg)
Conversation [Signed]
by Conrad Aiken
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940. Very Good/Good +. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940. First Edition Stated. Octavo (21 cm); 256pp. Boards in blue cloth with silver stamping, wrapped in publisher's intact pictorial jacket ($2.50). Green top stain. Jacket faded at top margin and spine with creasing, chips, and tears to all margins, with minor loss to front cover bottom margin and rear joint. Panels gently soiled with minor scratches and water staining. Verso shows... Read More
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Priapus and the Pool
by Conrad Aiken
Cambridge: Dunster House, 1922. Very Good +. Cambridge: Dunster House, 1922. Limited edition of 425 copies. Octavo (22 cm); unpaginated. Boards half bound in black leather and blue cloth with gilt stamping to spine; edges gilt. Board margins, corners, and spine ends lightly worn and bumped with the leather flaking slightly at inner margins. Endsheets offset by leather at corners. Pages relatively clean. Uncommon but contemporary binding of this limited edition, which was originally bound in brown paper... Read More
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Nocturne of Remembered Spring
by Conrad Aiken
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1917. Very Good +. Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1917. First Edition. Octavo (20 cm); 140pp+2ads. Missing jacket. Boards bound in black cloth with gilt stamping. Fore-edge deckled. Boards, corners and spine ends gently bumped and rubbed with fading to spine, though titling still legible. Endsheets show erased pencil inscription and previous owner date and decoration to first pastedown. Minor rippling to bottom of prelims but otherwise pages clean. A Very Good or... Read More
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Leibniz: A Biography
by [Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz] E.J. Aiton
Bristol: Adam Hilger Ltd, 1985. Fine/Near Fine. Bristol: Adam Hilger Ltd, [1985]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; xiv,370pp.; halftone illus. throughout. A Fine copy.
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Circle of Animals
by Ai Weiwei; Susan Delson [ed.]
Munich: Prestel, 2011. Fine/Very Good +. Munich: Prestel, 2011. First Edition. Large square quarto; publisher's simulated cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; 219pp.; photographic illus. throughout, chiefly in color. Minute shelf wear and very faint soil to jacket extremities, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy.
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![Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Courts of Pennsylvania Before and Since the Revolution [Volume I, Third Edition; George S. Graham Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/445/521/1332521445.0.l.jpg)
Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Courts of Pennsylvania Before and Since the Revolution [Volume I, Third Edition; George S. Graham Copy]
by A.J. Dallas; Thomas I. Wharton [ed.]
Philadelphia: P.H. Nicklin and T. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1830. Very Good. Philadelphia, P.H. Nicklin and T. Johnson, Law Booksellers, 1830. Volume I, Third Edition. Octavo. 538 pages. Tan buckram with black leather spine label stamped in gilt. Ex-library [Library of Congress]. Ownership stamp of George S. Graham to front and rear pastedowns. Graham was a member of Congress from Pennsylvania and prosecutor of the infamous serial killer H.H. Holmes. Over the bookplate at front is a Library... Read More
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![Cumulo Lucumo [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/868/561/1699561868.0.l.jpg)
Cumulo Lucumo [Signed and Inscribed]
by Andres Ajens
La Paz, Bolivia: Editorial 3600, 2015. Very Good. La Paz, Bolivia: Editorial 3600, 2015. First Edition. Square octavo (20.6cm); illustrated dust jacket over printed paper wraps; 87pp; illus. Text in Spanish. Jacket clean and crisp with some bumping to top corner; curve to textblock and front cover / jacket at fore-edge. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the author with brief inscription on full title. One copy found via OCLC at the University of... Read More
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![Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/469/186/1694186469.0.l.jpg)
Chains and Images of Psychological Slavery [Inscribed and Signed]
by Na'im Akbar
Jersey City, NJ: New Mind Productions, 1984. Very Good. Jersey City, NJ: New Mind Productions, 1984. Seventh (1987) Printing. Slim octavo (21.5cm); publisher's grey card wrappers; [8],76pp. Light shelf wear to wrapper margins, small soil spot to upper cover, else Very Good. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page, "Peace be with you! Na'im Akbar." Study by the psychologist Na'im Akbar, who worked as an aide to Nation of Islam leader Imam Warith Deen Mohammad.... Read More
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Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem in Three Books
by Dr. [Mark] Akenside
Portland: Thomas B. Wait, 1805. Very Good. Portland: Thomas B. Wait, 1805. Slim octavo; contemporary black sheep-backed marbled boards, gilt spine; viii,84pp. Boards and leather rather rubbed with some brief loss of paper to upper cover, preliminaries quite foxed, else Near Very Good, internally Near Fine. Didactic poem first published in 1744, the year the author traveled to Leiden to earn a medical degree. This edition issued by Thomas Baker Wait, the publisher of Maine's first... Read More
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The Complete Poetical Works, with a Biographical Sketch of the Author
by Mark Akenside
London: Published by Knight and Son, 1800. Very Good. London: Published by Knight and Son, [ca.1800]. First Thus. 12mo. 300pp. Black and white engravings. Bound in dark green morocco; four raised bands; decorated in gilt with medallion vignette to center of front and rear; all edges gilt. Light wear to edges and joints; spine toned. Binding sound. Lacks front free endpaper. Pencil annotation and mild spotting and toning to endpapers; else unmarked; a Very Good and handsome copy... Read More
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An Ode to the Country Gentlemen of England
by Mark Akenside
London: R. and J. Dodsley / M. Cooper, 1758. Very Good. London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall; and Sold by M. Cooper in Pater-noster-Row, 1758. Quarto (25cm); removed; 11,[1]pp. (A4 B2). Light dust-soil, faint horizontal fold, contemporary ownership initials "A.V." to title page, else Very Good. First appearance of this Ode by the poet-doctor Mark Akenside (1721-1770), who was appointed principal physician at Christ Hospital a year later, where "He wore a large... Read More
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Landmarks of Baghdad: 12 Sketches by the Iraqi Artist
by Akram Shukri; Memdouh Zeki [ed.]
Baghdad: Times Press, 1950. Very Good. Baghdad: Times Press, n.d., [ca. 1950]. Oblong octavo (16x21cm); publisher's white staple bound wrappers printed in red and black; [1]ll. text followed by twelve (12) plates printed on rectos only. Margins a bit toned and rubbed from handling, brief splitting at spine ends; Very Good, internally fresh and sound. Rare artist's book by the Iraqi artist and architecture Akram Shukri (1910-1983). Born in Baghdad, Shukri traveled to London to study... Read More
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![Die Nigger Die! [Marj Swann's copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/437/567/1699567437.0.l.jpg)
Die Nigger Die! [Marj Swann's copy]
by H. Rap Brown [Jamil Abdullah al-Amin]
New York: The Dial Press, 1969. Very Good/Very Good. New York: The Dial Press, 1969. First Printing Stated. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's cloth, photo-illustrated endpapers, unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; 145pp. Dust jacket rubbed with some creasing to top front fore-edge corner; small tear at top edge of spine; wear to folds and creases. Gift inscription written on front flyleaf : "To May for Mother's Day." Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Overall, a Very Good copy in like jacket. Activist H. Rap... Read More
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![Poems [Signed Bookplate by Dugan Laid-in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/594/154/1738154594.0.l.jpg)
Poems [Signed Bookplate by Dugan Laid-in]
by Alan Dugan; Dudley Fitts [intro.]
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1961. Very Good +/Good +. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1961. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); 62pp. Publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; boards bound in red cloth with black stamping to spine. Dust jacket rather bumped and toned with tears and chips throughout. Jacket verso shows amateur tape repair to spine head. Boards bumped. Book opens easily where gatherings have become loose. Textblock toned with faint foxed; endsheets rather... Read More
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![Poems [Signed Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/116/150/1738150116.0.l.jpg)
Poems [Signed Limited Edition]
by Alan Dugan; Dudley Fitts [intro.]
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1961. Very Good +. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1961. First Edition; one of one hundred copies. Slim paperback (20cm); 62pp. Publisher’s illustrated white wrappers retaining $1.25 price. Wraps lightly bumped and faded. Binding sound. Textblock a bit foxed; endsheets and interior pages clean. Very Good or better. Signed without inscription by the author on title page. Dugan’s first collection, selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, which... Read More
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![Eleven chapbooks from Song Cave, including: Building Castles in Spain, Getting Married, Some Books, A Farm Boy, Tonal Saw et al. [Limited Editions, each Signed by the Author]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/578/894/1754894578.0.l.jpg)
Eleven chapbooks from Song Cave, including: Building Castles in Spain, Getting Married, Some Books, A Farm Boy, Tonal Saw et al. [Limited Editions, each Signed by the Author]
by Alan Felsenthal [ed.]; Ben Estes [ed. and contrib.]; C.D. Wright, Amanda Nadelberg, Amaranth, Borsuk, and Monica de la Torre et al. [contribs.]
Northampton, MA: The Song Cave, 2009. Very Good +. Northampton, MA: The Song Cave, 2009 - 2014. Limited numbered editions of 50 or 100 copies, each signed by the author. Octavo; illustrated wraps. Mild rubbing to edges; bindings sound; pages unmarked; Very Good or better. Collection of poetry chapbooks from the Song Cave, still publishing today and dedicated to "recovering a lost sensibility and creating a new one by publishing books of poetry, translations, art criticism." Includes the... Read More
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One of Us Is a Murderer
by Alan Le May [alt. spelling LeMay]; Vladimir Bobri [illus.]
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. First Edition. Octavio; publisher's black cloth boards, red-lettered spine and cover (with logo) in pictorial dust jacket. 321pp. Light wear to cover but in Very Good condition, tear in the top right corner of upper flyleaf. Light spotting on title page. Internally clean and sound. Dust Jacket in Very Good condition with some rubbing and chips along margins and mid-spine... Read More
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![Israel: Poems on a Hebrew Theme [Limited Edition signed by Sillitoe and Steadman]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/287/556/1570556287.0.l.jpg)
Israel: Poems on a Hebrew Theme [Limited Edition signed by Sillitoe and Steadman]
by Alan Sillitoe; Ralph Steadman [illus.]
London: Published by Ralph Steadman at the Steam Press, 1981. Near Fine. London: Published by Ralph Steadman at the Steam Press, 1981. Limited Edition of 98 copies signed by Sillitoe and Steadman at colophon, this being #31. Two volumes in one, quarto, and both volumes bound in black cloth case with spine lettered in gilt; Steadman's 18 b&w illustrations to one side Sillitoe's poetry to another. Housed in publisher's slipcase. A few minor smudges to cloth case. Binding... Read More
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