Ty buv chuzhyi. Braziliia ochyma Ukraintsia (You Were a Stranger. Brazil Through the Eyes of a Ukrainian)
by Ovechko, Ivan
San Paulo (Sao Paulo): By the author, 1957. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 1/2 x 5 3/4; pp. [2, 5-114; beige and green wraps, printed and ruled in black; title in Ukrainian and Portuguese on facing pages; illustrated with numerous photographs; a small split to head of spine and several spots, mostly to back wrap; previous owner's personal stamp to half-titlte and title pages; overall in very good condition. Ivan Ovechko (1920 - 2002) was a Ukrainian... Read More
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Ne plach, Ukraino! Vibrani poezii
by Owechko, Iwan
Los Angeles: By the author, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [6], 7-45, [3]; blue cloth over boards; gilt title to front board; minor rubbing to corners and tips of spine; very light spotting and fading to margins; very good condition. Iwan Owechko (1920 - 2003) was a well-known Ukrainian emigre journalist, poet, educator, and professor of foreign languages at the University of Northern Colorado. He also published several books, including... Read More
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Short Talks
by Packard, Dan
Chicago: Wm. Wrigley Jr. & Co., 1910. Very good. First edition presumed, n. d. (early 20th century); 6 x 3 1/2; pp. 2-16; pictorial light-brown wraps, printed and decorated in green; illustrated with small vignettes at end of chapters; a small nick to top edge of front wrap and a few minor spots; in very good condition. Published as an advertisement for the Wrigley Company and their Juicy Fruit gum - "Copies sent by mail anywhere in the US... Read More
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The Fate of Madame La Tour. A Tale of Great Salt Lake + A Small Archive of Contemporary Newspaper Clippings with Anti-Mormon Articles
by Paddock, Mrs. A. G.
New York: Fords, Howard, & Hurlbert, 1881. Hardcover. First edition; 5 x 7; pp. 352; red cloth over boards illustrated and titled in black; a few small nicks to tips of spine; small bump to upper corner of front boards; cloth on spine a bit sun-faded; minor repair to upper corner of first blank leaf; very good. An anti-Mormon novel, combining fiction with Utah history. Tipped-in in a small plastic sleeve are four (what appear to be contemporary) newspaper clippings... Read More
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Casein Colors by Luminall for Painting, Tinting, Artwork
by Luminall Paints
Chicago / Newark / Los Angeles: Luminall Paints, 1950. Very good. Advertising brochure, n. d. (1950s); 8 1/2 x 7; pp. [4]; pictorial wraps with a silhouette of the Eiffel Tower in white, purple, and green; 15 square sample chips in bright, brilliant colors; generally very mild wear - a faint spot from a removed bookshop label to back wrap; one of th echips with a tiny scratch; in very good or better condition. A lovely advertising and sample... Read More
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The Baltoscandian Confederation
by Pakstas, Prof. Kazys
S. l. (Chicago): Lithuanian Cultural Institute, 1942. First Edition. Good. First edition in book form (compiled from lectures, given by the author in 1934); 8 3/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [3], 6-27, [1]; stapled, off-white, pictorial wraps; illustrated with a map and tables; small, rubbed spot to upper right corner of front wrap (removed bookshop label [?]); small cuts around staples with wraps partially pulling; in good to very good condition. Kazys Pakstas (1893 - 1960) was a Lithuanian... Read More
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Pohlybliuimo plastovu pratsiu
by Paliiv, Tsopa (Kekyliia)
Miunkhen: Molode Zhyttia, 1950. Very good. First edition; 8 x 5 3/4; pp. 2-16; self-wraps in light-brown, printed in black; a small chip to tail of spine and minor spotting; in very good condition. A DP (displaced persons) camp publication. Tsopa (Kekyliia) Palliv (1906 - 1969) - educator, founder and vice-president (1967–1969) of the Ukrainian School Council, at one time Head of the underground organization "Plast;" spent time in DP camps in Germany, then emigrated to Canada.
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bible Numerics. Two Lectures Given at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on February 19th, 1934
by Panin, Ivan
Aldershot, Ontario: By the author, 1934. Only authorized edition; 6 1/2 x 4; pp. 50; off-white wraps printed and ruled in black; a bit of age-toning to margins of wraps; faint crease to back wrap; very good condition. Ivan Panin (1855 - 1942) was a Russian-American author, lecturer, and Harvard graduate, known for claiming to have discovered numeric patterns in the texts of the Greek and Hebrew bibles. Though critics of his work doubted his claims that his statistical findings... Read More
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The Last Twelve Verses of Mark. Their Genuineness Established [Bible Numerics: a Periodical Devoted to the Defence of the Faith]
by Panin, Ivan
Aldershot, Ontario: Printed privately for the numeric family, 1930. Softcover. First edition presumed; 6 1/4 x 4 1/4; pp. 84; beige wraps printed and ruled in black; small creases to corners; a bit of age-toning to margins of wraps; manuscript notes and calculation to some pages; very good condition. Ivan Panin (1855 - 1942) was a Russian-American author, lecturer, and Harvard graduate, known for claiming to have discovered numeric patterns in the texts of the Greek and Hebrew bibles. Though... Read More
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Zverinyi Znak [The Sign of the Animal]
by Panteleimonov, Boris
Paris: Published by the Author, 1948. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 8 1/2; pp. 230; beige wraps printed in brown; small chips to tips and a closed cut along spine and front wrap; minor age-toning and spotting to covers; thin discolored band along margins of pages, not affecting text; good to very good. Boris Panteleimonov (1888-1950) was born in Muromtsevo, in the Omsk region of Western Siberia. With a degree in chemical engineering, in the late 1920s Panteleimonov went to... Read More
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Muzyka Igraet Tak Veselo. Fel’etony, Parodii, Druzheskie Poslaniia, Rasskazy, Memuary, Dnei Minuvshikh Anekdoty [Signed/Inscribed by Author]
by Papernyi, Zinovii
Moscow: Sovetskii Pisatel', 1990. Softcover. First edition; 5 x 7 3/4; pp. [3], 6266, [4]; glossy pictorial wraps; minor creasing to lower corner of front cover and a small nick to fore-edge; mild age-toning to pages; portrait frontis; near fine condition. Signed by the author with a lengthy and amusing inscription. Zinovii Papernyi (1919-1996) was a scholar, critic, writer, and one of Russia's most widely-known literary parodists. In 1975, his entry on Boris Pasternak in "The Great Soviet Encyclopedia" was... Read More
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This is a Mystery [Limited Signed First Edition]
by Pardoe, Geoffrey
London : S.D. Frances, 1940. Hardcover. Limited, signed, first edition [this copy #363 of 2000]; 5 x 7 1/2; pp. 152; brick red cloth over boards with gilt title; beige DJ printed in brown; book with minor rubbing to corners and tips of spine; very good to near fine; jacket with a few small nicks to corners, in about very good condition. Signed by author on limitation page. A progressive work for its time, the book focuses on the subjects... Read More
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Cholovik ta zhinka. Pro strateve zhyttia ta stratevi khvoroby (Man and Woman. Sexual Life and Venereal Diseases)
by Parfanovych, Sofiia
Avgsburg (Augsburg): Nakladom Pylypa Volchuka (Printed with the permission of the UNRRA), 1946. Third edition. Very good. Third corrected and revised edition for the youth; 8 x 5 3/4; pp. 3-32; red wraps, printed and ruled in black; black and white illustrations; light rubbing and wear to tips of spine and corners; very good to near fine condition. A small manuscript note to title page identifies the book as donated by the author herself. Sofiia Parfanovych (1898 - 1968)... Read More
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Nasha dopomoha khvoromu. Osnovni zavdannia dohliadu khvorych persha dopomoha pry nahlikh zakhvoriuvanniakh nauka pro poviazky (Our Help to the Patient...)
by Parfanovych-Volchuk, Sofiia
Avgsburg: Vydavnytstvo Pylypa Volchuka, 1946. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 x 5 3/4; pp. 3-118; olive-green wraps, printed and ruled in black; illustrated with 104 drawings; chips to tips of spine with small loss of paper; light sun-fading to margins; personal stamps of previous owner to wraps and title page (Rev. Andrew Kist - a prominent Ukrainian-American priest and pastor at St. Michael's Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Minneapolis and St. George's Ukrainian Orthodox Church in St.... Read More
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A Late-19th-century, Miniature, Glass-leather-tin, Travelling Inkwell
by A. Parker
London, The Strand, 1890. Good. Miniature inkwell, n. d. (late 1800s); 1 3/4 x 1 3/4 x 1 1/2; glass ink reservoir, enclosed in a tin box; lid with hinges and a spring-button; covered in black morocco with gilt manufacturer's name; a few tiny rust spots; a small puncture along one of th ehinges; cork stopper appears to have been replaced at a later time; in good condition. In the late 19th century, with the great expansion of steamship... Read More
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Capital Punishment. The Heritage of Children
by Parker, Franklin E.
S. l. (Boston): By the author, 1908. Very good. New edition (first published in 1907); 6 1/4 x 4 3/4; pp. 1-42; red wraps, printed and decorated in black; a bit of rubbing and small cuts along staples; leaflet, advertising the Moral Obligation Society pasted to front wrap verso; overall in very good condition. Christian Theosophist Franklin Ellsworth Parker, a well-known crusader against capital punishment (studied and refuted in detail here, often using biblical references and calling capital punishment... Read More
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Washington's Tested Recipes
by Parkinson, Jennie; et al
Morris Plains, New Jersey: G. Washington Coffee Refining Co., 1920. First Edition. Near fine. First edition, n. d. (ca 1920); 6 x 3 1/4; pp. [1], 4-30; stapled, pictorial wraps in off-white, red, and blue; minor wear - in near fine condition. Published as an advertisement for the G. Washington Coffee Refining Company, the booklet contained a variety of baking recipes and coffee drinks, including Mocha Layer Cake, Fancy Coffee Macaroons, G. Washington's Iced Cafe Au Lait, etc.
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Peter Parley's Method of Telling About Geography to Children
by Parley, Peter (Goodrich, Samuel Griswold)
New York: Huntington and Savage, 1843. Good. Early edition; 5 1/4 x 4 1/2; pp. [6], 9-120; pictorial card stock wraps and 1/4 calf, decorated and ruled in black; illustrated with 9 maps and 75 woodcuts; age-toning and wear along margins; occasional spotting; corners of leaves curling; small manuscript note to ffep; in good condition. Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793 - 1860), writing under the pseudonym Peter Parley, would write a series of educational works for children in order "to... Read More
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Our Boys' Story Book
by Parry, D. H., Weedon, L. L.; et al
London / New York: Ernest Nister / E. P. Dutton & Co., 1914. First Edition. Very good. First edition presumed, n. d. (ca 1914); 8 1/2 x 6 1/4; pp. [7], 6-144; chromolithographed paper over boards and 1/4 textured, dark-green paper spine cover; illustrated with chromolithographed and black-and-white plates and in-text drawings; hinges a bit wobbly; a small nick to fore-edge of front board and small rubbed spots to corners and tips of spine; a few minor spots... Read More
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Poverkh Bar'erov. Stikhi Raznykh Let [Limited to 3000 copies]
by Pasternak, Boris
Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Khudozhestvennoi Literatury, 1931. Hardcover. Good. Second revised edition; 4 1/2" x 5 3/4"; pp. [4], 5-164, [4] index; original boards with cloth spine; paste-on label with title to front cover; wear mostly along edges and corners of boards; some rubbing to head and tail of spine; pages clean; good or better. This edition limited to 3000 copies. The present book, "Over the Barriers," contains one of Pasternak's earlier collections, before he was forced to... Read More
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Na Rannikh Poezdakh. Novye Stikhotvoreniia (On Early Trains. New Poems) [Limited to 3000 copies]
by Pasternak, Boris
Moskva: Sovetskii Pisatel, 1943. Soft cover. Near Fine. First edition, 12mo 4 1/2" x 6"; pp. 3-50, [2] index; original printed wraps; minor wear to covers with a few small faint spots; near fine. Pasternak wrote his collection of poems 'On Early Trains' at a time, when Socialist realism as a cultural model was becoming more and more constricting, thus forcing the author to abandon his natural avant-garde style and resort to, in his own words, a "shoemaker"... Read More
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Dve Knigi. Stikhi [Limited to 3000 copies]
by Pasternak, Boris
Moskva/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo, 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second edition; 8vo 5 1/2" x 8"; pp. [6], 5-207, [1]; original blue/green boards with printed DJ; minor wear and discoloration to bottom edge of back cover; portrait frontis; near fine. DJ fair with a few closed tears and small losses of paper. Uncommon in the elusive DJ. "Two books" was the first collected edition of Pasternak's major collections of poems - 'Sestra Moia Zhizn' (My Sister - Life), considered seminal... Read More
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Winter Festivities
by Pasternak, Boris
Santa Barbara: Centaur Press, 1963. Softcover. First edition presumed; 5 x 4; pp. [28], recto only; illustrated beige wraps; paper label with title laid-on; faint crease to lower corner; two small smudges to illustration on front wrap (moisture drops [?]); overall in very good condition. A beautiful edition, possibly a first English translation, of Pasternak's poem "Zimnie prazdniki," it was published by a mystery small press in Santa Barbara, operating under the name Centaur Press (but not the New York... Read More
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What Every Young Doll Mother Should Know
by Aunt Patsy
New York: Fleischaker & Baum, 1934. First edition thus. Very good. First edition thus; single sheet, two-fold to form a booklet; 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 folded; white stock, ruled and printed in blue and black; illistrated with drawings; mild wear to edges; a few minor spots; very good condition. A sweet pamphlet, published by the manufacturers of the famous Eff an Bee Dolls, it was distributed with each Dy-Dee Baby and contained a personal message to the lucky-to-own-it... Read More
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New York and Coney Island Cycle March: Two-Step
by Paull, E. T.
New York: E. T. Paull Music Co., 1896. First Edition. Good. Sheet music, presumed first printing (an almost identical copy with the same copyright date, but for a slight difference in the attire of two of the figures and a different song advertised on back wrap at the NYPL) ; 13 1/4 x 10 1/2; pp. 3-7; chromolithographed wraps; illustrated with an engraving of the composer; thin worn strip along spine and a small spot to upper margin... Read More
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