Lektsii o dushevnykh bolezniakh (Lectures on Mental Illnesses)
by Senkei, U.; [Translated by] Isain, I.
S. Peterburg (St. Petersburg): Izdanie O. I. Baksta, 1868. First Edition. Very good. First Russian edition; 7 3/4 x 5 1/4; pp. [5], VI-VIII, 1-317, [3]; dark-brown, textured cloth over boards; purple, silk page marker; several small, rubbed spots along spine and corners; a few scattered spots of foxing; some of the text underlined in pencil; illustrated with a full-page plate of woodcuts; overall in very good condition. Although an early prototype of a psychiatric institution in Russia was... Read More
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Shtany latani u klitku - vykonuem piatylitku....
by Senko, H.
Buenos Aires: Peremoha, 1950. Very good. First edition presumed, n. d. (ca 1950); 7 1/4 x 5 1/4; pp. 3-34; orange pictorial wraps; illustrated with numerous caricatures; uniform age-toning to text; spine with a few minor nicks to paper; very good condition. An unusual and amusing collection of folk art, rhymes, satirical songs, etc., the book mocked Stalin, his Five-Year-Plan, and his using folklore as means to control people.
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Narodni prypovidky-chastivky pro natsionalno-vyzvolnu borotbu 1917-21 rr.
by Senko, H.
Buenos Aires: Peremoha, 1953. First Edition. Very good. First edittion; 7 1/4 x 5 1/4; pp. 3-46; two sets of beige wraps, printed and ruled with an intricate border; small nicks to tips of the extra wraps; ink number to upper margin; light age-toning; very good or better condition. Hryhorii Senko (1913 - 1957) was a Ukrainian ethnographer-folklorist, who emigrated to the US in 1950, after spending time at DP camps in Germany. His current work covered the period... Read More
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Novoe v Preduprezhdenii i Lechenii Maliarii [Stenogramma Publichnoi Lektsii, Prochitannoi v Tsentralʹnom Lektorii Obshchestva v Moskve]
by Sergiev, P. G.
Moscow: Pravda, 1948. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 23; stapled printed wraps; very minor wear - near fine or better. “Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo po Rasprostraneniiu Politicheskikh i Nauchnykh Znanii†(The All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge) replaced the ‘League of Militant Atheists’, or ‘The Union of the Godless’, in 1947. The League had been formed in 1925, by the Communist Party, as an atheistic and anti-religious organization of common workers and intelligentsia.... Read More
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A Forest Fire Prevention Manual for the School Children of California. Bulletin No. 6
by State Forester and United States Forest Service
Sacramento: State Printing Office, 1922. Soft cover. Very Good. First edition; staple-bound 6" x 9"; pp. [3], 6-31, including text to back cover verso; original printed wraps; a few slight crease lines; minor soiling to covers; name of previous owner in ink to upper margin of front cover; photographic illustrations and maps; very good. Prepared for the Superintendent of Public Instruction (Will C. Wood). The pamphlet contains chapters on the forests in California, causes of fire, fire prevention,... Read More
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Eight Tragedies in One
by Shakespeare, William; et al
London: Thomas Dolby, 1824. Hardcover. Eight plays, bound as one, 1824 - 1825; 5 3/4 x 3 3/4; pp. [17], 10-65, [12], 8-56, [9], 8-57, [8], 8-47, [12], 10-46, [11], 8-45, [20], 10-54, [15], 14-64, [4]; marbled boards and 3/4 brown morocco; embossed spine decorations and gilt title; some fading and rubbing to paper on boards; a bit of wear to corners, edges, and along spine; small bookshop label to front board verso; illustrated with woodcut engravings, including such... Read More
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The Works of William Shakespeare
by Shakespeare, William; [Edited by] Clark, William George and Wright, William Aldis
London / New York: Macmillan and Co.,Limited / The Macmillan Company, 1900. Very good. The Globe Edition; 7 1/4 x 5; pp. [12], 1-1138, [4]; full, polished, burgundy calf; spine with five low bands, brown label, and lavish gilt decorations; ornate gilt crest of The Royal Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh to front board; marbled endpapers and fore-edge; text in two columns; a few small scratches to leather and several very light spots; minor wear... Read More
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Taina plemeni Golubykh Gor
by Shaposhnikova, L. V.
Moskva: Nauka, 1969. Very good. First edition; 8 1/4 x 5 1/4; pp. [2], 5-316, [2]; pictorial wraps; illustrated with numerous photographs; a few small cuts to edges of wraps and mild age-toning; in very good condition. An interesting ethnographic study of the traditional culture and life of the indigenous people of the Eastern Sayan Mountains (Tofa/Tofalar) in India.
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Taina Plemeni Golubykh Gor
by Shaposhnikova, L. V.
Moscow: Nauka, 1969. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. [2], 5-316; pictorial wraps; some rubbing to tail of spine; faint crease lines to corners; illustrated with full page color and b&w photographs and maps; very good. An interesting ethnographic study of the Toda people of Southern India. Though the population of the tribe is less than a 1000 - they have always attracted the attention of anthropologists and ethnographers with their striking unlikeness to any other culture in... Read More
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Nebo kolokol. Poema, 1919 - 1965 (The Sky Bell. A Poem, 1919 - 1965)
by Sharshun, Sergei (Charchoune, Serge)
Parizh (Paris): Vopros, 1965. Very good. Second, expanded edition; 6 x 4 3/4; pp. [2], 5-53, [2]; beige-and-gray patterned wraps, printed in brown; light wear to corners and tips and a bit of age-toning to spine; in very good condition. Sergei Sharshun (1888 - 1975) was an important modern painter and the first Russian Dada poet, who arguably never belonged to an individual School of Art and whose style was described as an "alternative abstraction," when compared to his... Read More
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Podvernuvshiisia sluchai /Emigrantskaia lirika/ (Happenstance /Emigrant Lyrics/)
by Sharshun, Sergei (Charchoune, Serge)
Parizh (Paris): Vopros, 1966. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 6 x 4 3/4; pp. [2], 5-89, [6]; beige-and-gray patterned wraps, printed in brown; light wear to tips and a bit of age-toning to spine; in very good condition. Sergei Sharshun (1888 - 1975) was an important modern painter and the first Russian Dada poet, who arguably never belonged to an individual School of Art and whose style was described as an "alternative abstraction," when compared to his contemporaries.... Read More
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Shopotnye aforizmy (Whispering Aphorisms)
by Sharshun, Sergei (Charchoune, Serge)
Parizh (Paris): Vopros, 1969. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 5 x 3 3/4; pp. 3-14; brown wraps, printed in black;small nicks to tips of spine; manuscript letter to front wrap and title page; in very good condition. Sergei Sharshun (1888 - 1975) was an important modern painter and the first Russian Dada poet, who arguably never belonged to an individual School of Art and whose style was described as an "alternative abstraction," when compared to his contemporaries. Spending... Read More
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Dolgolikov. Poema (Long-face. A Poem)
by Sharshun, Sergei (Charchoune, Serge)
Parizh (Paris): s. n., 1961. Second Edition. Very good. Second edition; 6 x 4 3/4; pp. [2], 5-164; beige-and-gray patterned wraps, printed in brown; light wear to corners and tips and a bit of age-toning to spine; in very good condition. Sergei Sharshun (1888 - 1975) was an important modern painter and the first Russian Dada poet, who arguably never belonged to an individual School of Art and whose style was described as an "alternative abstraction," when compared to... Read More
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Bez maiaka. Chetyre peizazha (Without a Lighthouse. Four Landscapes)
by Sharshun, Sergei (Charchoune, Serge)
Parizh (Paris): Vopros, 1969. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 6 x 4 3/4; pp. [2], 5-89, [5]; beige-and-gray patterned wraps, printed in brown; light wear to corners and tips and a bit of age-toning to spine; in very good condition. Sergei Sharshun (1888 - 1975) was an important modern painter and the first Russian Dada poet, who arguably never belonged to an individual School of Art and whose style was described as an "alternative abstraction," when compared to... Read More
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Uspekhi Michurinskoi Biologii v Molochnom Zhivotnovodstve [Stenogramma Publichnoi Lektsii, Prochitannoi v Tsentralʹnom Lektorii Obshchestva v Moskve] (Succesful Applications of Michurin's Biological Studies in Dairying)
by Shaumian, V. A.
Moscow: Pravda, 1949. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 24; stapled printed wraps; some rubbing to head and tail of spine and a small nick to lower corner; very good. Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo po Rasprostraneniiu Politicheskikh i Nauchnykh Znanii (The All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge) replaced the League of Militant Atheists, also called The Union of the Godless, in 1947. The League had been formed in 1925, by the Communist Party, as an... Read More
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Civil War Discharge Papers of Samuel W. Dogan, Company C, 5th Minnesota Infantry, Participant in the Siege of Vicksburg, the Battle of Nashville, and the Battle of Tupelo
by Sheehan, T.; et al
Demopolis, AL: By the author, 1865. Good. Printed document, filled in manuscript; 11 1/4 x 9; single leaf of pale-blue stock; illustrated with an engraving; a few small chips; old fold lines with splits to edges; spotting to verso, not affecting readability; in good or better condition. Demobilized at the end of the Civil War, Private Samuel W. Dogan served under Captain Timothy J. Sheehan in the Company C of the 5th Minnesota Infantry and took part of several... Read More
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Disfranchisement of Rebels. Speech of Hon. S. Shellabarger, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives, April 21, 1866
by Shellabarger, Samuel
S. l. (Washington, DC): Congressional Globe Office, 1866. First Edition. Very good-. First edition; 9 1/2 x 6; loose leaves, folded, pp. [1], 2-7, [1]; fragile, with nicks and cuts along folds (mostly not affecting readability); a bit of foxing, mostly to margins; overall in good to very good condition. Delivered during the Reconstruction period, the speech was presented by Republican US Representative Samuel Shellabarger (1817 - 1896).
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The Butterfly Trees
by Shepardson, Lucia
S. l.: Pacific Grove Tribune Printers - Lithographers, 1950. Very good. Revised edition; 7 1/4 x 4; pp. [6], 9-35; orange, pictorial wraps, printed and decorated in brown; illustrated with monochrome images and a small map; a small chip to tail of spine; a tiny nick to upper corners of first few leaves; previous owner's personal label to ffep; in very good condition. An amateur entomologist, Lucia Shepardson first wrote her booklet in 1914, documenting a Monarch Butterfly migration... Read More
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The Sherman Clothes Wringer, Warranted Without Cog Wheels
by Sherman, Orin
Boston: By the author, 1860. Good. Small broadside, n. d. (1860s); 8 3/4 x 5 3/4; off-white stock printed in black and illustrated with a woodcut; a small nick to right edge and a tiny puncture to lower margin; a bit of age-toning and spotting; in about very good condition. A fabulous, mid-19th-century advertising piece, it showed a lady using the Sherman Wringer, dressed in a patriotic, American-Flag-pattern dress. Historically, laundry was a dreaded household chore in the 19th... Read More
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Sherman's Improved Clothes Wringer
by Sherman, Orin
Boston: By the author, 1870. Very good. Small broadside, n. d. (1870s); 8 1/4 x 5 1/4; off-white stock, printed in black and illustrated with a wood engraving; a few minor spots and light creasing to corners; in very good condition. A common, everyday task - washing clothes took much longer time and more effort in the 19th century than it does today. Among the various inventions, designed to ease the process were drying closets, mangling machines, laundry stoves,... Read More
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Arkhitektura. Ezhemesiachnik, 3-5 (Architecture. Monthly Review, No. 1-2)
by Shervinskii, E.; Shchusev, Aleksei; et al; [Illustrated by]Vesnin, Aleksandr; et al
Moskva (Moscow): Moskovskoie Arkhitekturnoie Obshchestvo, 1923. Good. First editions, 1 of 2000 copies, issue1-2, bound with the wraps of issue 3-5 (publisher's error); rebound in (unfortunately-garish burgundy, green, and yellow) felt-over-boards, with the original wraps bound-in; 12 1/2 x 10; pp. [1], 2-50 +14 pp. of publisher's advertisements; illustrated with numerous photographs and drawings; repair of 2"-loss of paper to fore-edge and very faint traces of erased pencil notes to front wrap; back hinge and gutter between pp.... Read More
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[Education] K Izucheniiu Istorii
by Shestakov, A. V.; et al
Moskva: Partizdat (TSK VKP[b]), 1937. Soft cover. First edition; 5 ½†x 8†; pp. [2], 3-38, [2]; original brown boards with embossed title in red; wear and slight soiling mostly to edges of covers; very good.
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[Education] Ob Izuchenii Istorii SSSR
by Shestakov, A. V.; et al
Moskva: Molodaia Gvardiia (TSK VLKSM), 1938. Soft cover. First edition; staple-bound 5†x 7 ¾†; pp. [2], 5-38, [1]; original printed wraps; minor wear along edges of covers, very good or better.
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Sola Fide - Tol'ko Veroiu. Grecheskaia i Srednovekovaia Filosofiia Liuter i Tserkov'
by Shestov, Lev
Paris: YMCA Press, 1966. Softcover. First edition; 6 1/2 x 9 3/4; pp. [6], 9-295; printed stiff wraps; minor chipping and bumping to spine tips and corners; very good to near fine. Though considered by those who are familiar with his work to be one of the truly great religious philosophers of our time, Lev Shestov's stature has not been generally recognized nor have his writings been widely studied. He was born in 1866 in Kiev and educated in Moscow... Read More
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Kobzar (vybrani Poezii). Do 85-littia zo dnia smerty T. G. Shevchenka i do stolittia zo dnia napysannia "Zapovitu"
by Shevchenko, Taras
Regensburg: Vidannia Spilki "Ukrainske Mistetstvo" kooperativa z obmezh porukoiu v Regensburzi, 1946. Softcover. First edition thus; 6 1/2 x 4 3/4; pp. 124 of 126, lacking last leaf; beige and blue front wrap, lacking back wrap; chips and loss of paper to spine and lower right corner of front wrap; portrait frontis; good condition. Taras Shevchenko (1814 – 1861) - Ukrainian poet, writer, and artist, considered the forefather of modern Ukrainian literature and, by extension, the modern Ukrainian language -... Read More
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