The End of Eternity
by Asimov, Isaac
Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, Inc, 1955. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Isaac Asimov on the title page and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's original black cloth stamped in red. Near Fine with slight wear to cloth at extremities, scratch to rear cover, pages tanned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light soiling, light tanning and light edge war, chipping to rear flap fold.
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The Black Cap: New Stories of Murder & Mystery
by Asquith, Cynthia [Compiler]; J.M. Barrie; Belloc Lowndes; W. Somerset Maugham; Hugh Walpole; D.H. Lawrence; Edgar Wallace; Arthur Machen; L.P. Hartley; W.B. Maxwell
London: Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), Ltd, 1927. First edition. First edition. (Precedes the American edition.) 318, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with blue stamping. Very Good+ with sunning along top edge of front board and to spine (through jacket), name on front free endpaper, light foxing to edges, in correct dust jacket priced at 7'6 net, Very Good with spine panel a little toned, two closed tears to top of front panel, dampstain along front flap fold,... Read More
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Large archive of American amateur press publications
by [National Amateur Press Association]; [United Amateur Press Association]; [American Amateur Press Association]
[Various places]: Various publishers, 1980. Approximately 850 individual issues of 340 different amateur press publications, spanning from the late 1920s to the 1970s. Includes over a hundred duplicate issues as well. Almost all publications were published in the United States, mainly in the '40s, '50s, and '60s. As is typical these were generally printed in very limited runs, sometimes of only a dozen or so copies. Near Fine overall, occasional light wear or staining. Full catalog of the archive's... Read More
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Isotopes
by Aston, Francis William
London: Edward Arnold and Company, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. viii, 152pp. illustrated with 18 figures. Original navy cloth with gilt lettering. Very Good, sans jacket. Cloth has spots of foxing, light wear, former owner's name stamped on paste down, pages toned. Small slip "Printed in Great Britain" pasted on copyright page, presumably by publisher. Chemist and physicist Aston won a Nobel Prize in the year of publication for his discovery of isotopes. A title... Read More
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Atget - Photographe de Paris
by Atget, Eugene
New York: E. Weyhe, 1930. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original maroon cloth over boards lettered in gilt, top edges stained yellow; in original stapled card slipcase. Near Fine with slight fading to spine cloth, contents toned. Slipcase is toned, lightly soiled and edge-worn with a partial split along one joint. With a frontis portrait of Atget taken by Berenice Abbott and 96 plates reproducing in collotype photographs mainly from the Abbott... Read More
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Atwood, Margaret
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1985. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First Canadian edition, first printing. Signed by Margaret Atwood on half title and inscribed to the former owner. 324 pp. Bound in publisher's two-toned beige and red cloth-affect with spine lettered in white. Very Good with wear to spine ends, bumping to top corner of upper board and light soiling to cloth. Stain to fore edge and bottom edge of textblock intruding into some early margins. In a... Read More
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Atwood, Margaret
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1985. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Canadian edition, first printing. Signed by Margaret Atwood on half title and inscribed to former owner. 324 pp. Bound in publisher's two-toned beige and red cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in white. Near Fine with light wear to extremities, contemporary gift inscription to verso of half title page. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with small chip at crown, light edge wear and minor sunning. A... Read More
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Poems
by Auden, W.H.
London: Faber & Faber, 1930. First edition. Very Good+. First edition, first printing of the poet's first published book. [vi], 79 pp. Bound in publisher's blue printed wraps over cardstock covers. Very Good+ with slight slant to spine, light toning to spine and edges, rubbing at joints with minor bumping to corners. Slight soiling covers and minor foxing to textblock edges. Joints holding well, a nicer copy than usually found of this fragile production. A beautiful copy of... Read More
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The Enchafed Flood: Or the Romantic Iconography of the Sea, Three Critical Essays on the Romantic Spirit
by Auden, W.H.
New York: Random House, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. First edition signed by Auden on the title page in black ink, crossing-out his printed name. 154 p. Seagreen cloth with white lettering. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. Slight wear at foot. Head of jacket spine panel has a thin tear, spine panel darkened, a bit toned, price intact ($2.50). A collection of three lectures by the American poet: "The Sea and the Desert," "The Stone and... Read More
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The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue
by Auden, W.H.
New York: Random House, 1947. First Edition. Fine/Very Good+. First edition, first printing preceding the British edition. Signed by W. H. Auden on the title page "with best wishes" in slightly watery blue ink. [viii], 138 pp. Bound in publisher's dark teal cloth with spine blocked and lettered in gilt and brown; brown top stain. Fine in a Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket with light chipping to ends, tear to rear joint with associated small patch of loss.... Read More
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The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories
by Audubon, John James
New York: V.G. Audubon, 1856. Second octavo edition, the first edition with fully colored backgrounds. Complete in seven volumes. With 500 beautiful hand-colored lithographed plates. Bound in publisher's full brown morocco decoratively stamped & lettered in blind on covers, spines lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Very Good+, wear and scuffing to bindings, a couple of joints rubbed; light foxing to some prelims and occasionally to margins of text leaves but not to the plates,... Read More
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The Quadrupeds of North America
by Audubon, John James; John Bachman
New York: V.G. Audubon, 1854. First Octavo Edition. First octavo edition. Complete in three volumes. 20th century leather with marbled paper, spines lettered in gilt. With all 155 beautiful hand colored plates present. Near Fine with contents generally very bright, some small scratches to spines and light wear along edges, front hinges a little over-opened, former owner's armorial bookplates to paste downs. Vol. 1 has small stain to p. 45 and verso of plate 6; plates I, V, XIV,... Read More
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Ein Jahr in Arkadien: Kyllenion
by August, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenberg [Emile Leopold Augustus]
[Jena, Germany]: [Frommann and Wesselhoft], 1805. First Edition. Near Fine. A rare presentation copy of the first edition of "the earliest known novel that centers on an explicitly male-male love affair," written by the cross-dressing Duke August Emil Leopold von Sachsen-Gotha (1772-1822). The ruler of a miniscule German territory during the Napoleonic Era, he was Queen Victoria's grandfather-in-law. With a presentation inscription on a preliminary leaf possibly in a secretarial hand reading, "Vom Verfasser [From the author] /... Read More
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Emma: A Novel
by Austen, Jane
London: John Murray, 1816. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing of Austen's beloved fourth novel and the last to be published during her short lifetime. [vi], 322; [ii], 351, [1, printer's imprint]; [iv], 363, [1, publisher's adverts]. Three volumes uniformly bound in emerald green straight-grain morocco finely tooled and lettered in gilt, with inner gilt dentelles; all edges gilt. Near Fine with top quarter-inch of title page renewed in volume I not affecting text, likely removing... Read More
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Emma
by Austen, Jane
London: Richard Bentley, 1833. Second Edition. Near Fine. Second edition (the first was published in 1816). Bound in period-style full tree calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and boards, red morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers. Near Fine with short tear repaired at base of title page, trivial foxing to contents throughout. A beautiful copy of the last novel published in Austen's lifetime. Charming, comedic and satirical - Emma remains a definitive favorite amongst Austen's fans. "No English reissue of Austen's... Read More
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Mansfield Park: A Novel
by Austen, Jane
London: Richard Bentley, 1837. [2], 424 pp. Frontispiece & added engraved title with vignette illustration, both engraved by Greatbatch after Pickering. Bound in period calf rebacked with later calf, spine tooled in gilt, morocco lettering piece. Very Good with some scratching and rubbing to covers, corners showing; light stain to lower margins of frontispiece and added title, affecting imprints, with some foxing to those leaves as well. Two bookplates on paste down, and inscription on front flyleaf dated 1847. ... Read More
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Pride and Prejudice
by Austen, Jane; Charles E. Brock [Illustrations]
London: Macmillan and Company, 1895. First Edition Thus. Near Fine. First Charles Brock illustrated edition, signed and dated in black ink by Charles E. Brock with an original drawing of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy in cameo on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original burgundy cloth with boards ornately patterned in blind, with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Near Fine with slight fading to spine, bookplate of William Heighway to front pastedown, some foxing... Read More
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Pride and Prejudice
by Austen, Jane
London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1817. Third Edition. Near Fine. Third edition. Two volumes, with half-titles present in both. Ex libris Supreme Court Justice and early supporter of Austen, Joseph Story (1779-1845), with his signature in several places, a handwritten marginal note in light pencil on page 70 (volume one) mentions a trip to Worcester, Massachusetts on May 8, 1841, the year Justice Story wrote the landmark Amistad decision. Bound in period-style half red-morocco over marbled boards with... Read More
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Airplanes and Air Shows (Archive of over 1,550 vernacular photographs, 1970 to 1990s)
by [no author]
[no place]: [no publisher], 1995. A collection of over 1,550 vernacular color photos by an unknown photographer, almost all of airplanes, many of American air shows in the late 1970s through the 1990s. Housed in three binders. Pit pass to a 1979 International Air Race & Show, general admission ticket to another show, a few postcards, and 20+ aviation-themed bumper stickers included. Includes photos of jets in flight, crowds and mechanics at air shows, a few cities from the... Read More
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[Photo Album] Two Photography Albums of US State Capitol Buildings
by [no author]
[no place]: [no publisher], 1930. Near Fine. Two photography albums consisting of 764 black and white images of the (then) 48 state capitol buildings plus the US Capitol in Washington, D.C. Compiled by an unknown photographer and neatly arranged in two identical string-bound black paper-covered boards decorated in blind and titled in gilt. Organized by page and arranged in alphabetical order by state name, with the first volume containing Alabama through Montana, and the second Nebraska through Wyoming.... Read More
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![[Two photograph albums of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/859/315/1667315859.0.l.jpg)
[Two photograph albums of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team]
by [no author]
[no place]: [no publisher], 1940. Very Good. Two albums containing black and white photographs of members of the 442nd Infantry Regiment, a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry (Nisei) who fought in World War II. The regiment was formed in response to the War Department's call for volunteers to form the segregated Japanese American army combat unit, initially comprising 2,686 volunteers from Hawaii and another 1,500 drawn from mainland U.S. internment camps.... Read More
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Photograph and Marketing Archive of White's Pit Stop, a Custom Drag Racing & Motorcycle Shop
by [no author]
[Chicago Area]: [no publisher]. Unbound. Very Good. [Chicago]: [ca. 1970s]. A large archive documenting motorcycle and custom car culture, centering around White's Pit Stop, a Chicago-area auto retailer, and its sister store Chopper Corner. Containing roughly 175 unbound original photographs, varying in size, including roughly 75 8" x 10" prints and 100 snapshots, one illustrated company catalog, a catalog of motorcycle-themed clip-art designs, and various articles of ephemera. An archive of product, marketing, and race photos compiled and... Read More
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Photo Album with 232 Photographs of Mushrooms In Their Native Habitat
by [No Author]
[North America]: [no publisher], 1975. Very Good. Blue cloth three-ring binder of 232 color print photographs of different mushroom species with taped manuscript spine label written in black and blue pen. 29 double-sided plastic sleeves with four compartments at front and back. All photographs are tipped onto sleeve sheets with 4 per page. All with Linnaean scientific name and a penciled number written below each photograph. Very Good with lifting to tape label at binder's spine, light scuffing... Read More
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Aunt Julia's Cook Book
by [no author]
[no place]: Esso, 1934. Good. Publisher's stapled wraps. Good, with toning, soiling and wear, some staining. An advertising pamphlet relying upon African American culinary traditions, and prominently featuring a color tinted photograph of two "Aunts" in handkerchiefs in the kitchen. Featuring a variety of Southern staples, interspersed with advertisements ranging from oil, tires, car accessories, petroleum products, furniture polishes and more..."for Happy Eating use these recipes, for Happy Motoring buy at the Esso sign.
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Aunt Julia's Cook Book
by [no author]
[no place]: Esso, 1934. 32 pp. Publisher's stapled wraps. Very Good, some spots of biopredation to front wrap,slight crease to bottom corner of front wrap, rubbing, contents toned with age. An advertising pamphlet relying upon African American culinary traditions, and prominently featuring a color tinted photograph of two "Aunts" in handkerchiefs in the kitchen. Featuring a variety of Southern staples, interspersed with advertisements ranging from oil, tires, car accessories, petroleum products, furniture polishes and more..."for Happy Eating use these... Read More
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