Souffleuse der Isolation
by Kai Althoff
Zurich: JRP/Ringier, 2013. Very Good+/Very Good-. [Zurich: JRP/Ringier, 2013.] First Edition. Square quarto; publisher's cloth, decorative endpapers, in grey photo-illustrated dust jacket; 261pp.; full color illus. throughout. Dust jacket wrinkled and a bit worn at margins, several faint black smudge marks to upper jacket panel; overall a Near Fine copy in About Very Good jacket. Comprehensive catalog of the work of German artist Kai Althoff (b. 1966), including paintings, collages, video art, and installations. Uncommon in commerce.... Read More
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![Khorsabad: Part II - The Citadel and the Town [Volume II only]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/521/123/1768123521.0.l.jpg)
Khorsabad: Part II - The Citadel and the Town [Volume II only]
by [Ancient Assyria; Iraq] Gordon Loud and Charles B. Altman
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938. Very Good. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1938. First Edition. Folio (48x39cm); gray and brown cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt; 105pp. 91 plates, final 3 in color, all present and complete. Boards worn stained; binding sound; ownership inscription to preliminaries; periodic dampstaining to gutter and along bottom edge; still a Very Good copy.
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![Stepping Through the Ashes [Signed by Richards and Altongy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/632/946/1745946632.0.l.jpg)
Stepping Through the Ashes [Signed by Richards and Altongy]
by Eugene Richards and Janine Altongy
New York: Aperture, 2002. Near Fine/Near Fine. [New York]: Aperture, [2002]. First Edition Stated. Quarto (29.5cm); publisher's cloth-backed boards in unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket; 176pp.;halftone photographic illus. throughout. Very light shelf wear, else a Near Fine example. Signed by both Eugene Richards and Janine Altongy on half title page. Photobook documenting the hours and days following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Yale College in 1875: Some Statements Respecting the Late Progress and Present Condition of the Various Departments of the University, for the information of its graduates, friends, and benefactors...June 1, 1875
by [Yale College] Executive Committee of the Society of the Alumni
[New Haven]: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1875. Very Good. [New Haven]: [Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor], 1875. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 28pp. Ex-New York State Library with their contemporary rubber-stamp to title page; large patch of toning and light edge soiling to rear and flattened dog-ears to most pages. Lower stitch expired and top stitch untethered, with gatherings cleanly separating Includes the University's budget and a list of donations to the library and museums over the... Read More
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![How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/164/498/1699498164.0.l.jpg)
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents [Signed]
by Julia Alvarez
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991. Very Good/Very Good. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1991. First Edition, first printing. Signed by Julia Alvarez with brief personalized inscription at title page. Octavo; 290pp. Illustrated dust jacket; green cloth-backed boards; peach endpapers. Unclipped dust jacket rubbed along edges with some minor soiling. Boards show light shelfwear; binding sound; spotting to edges of text block; extensive gift inscription by previous owner to front free endpaper,... Read More
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![Los Cuentos de Juana [Limited Edition, Signed by Obregon]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/128/614/1617614128.0.l.jpg)
Los Cuentos de Juana [Limited Edition, Signed by Obregon]
by Alvaro Cepeda; Alejandro Obregon [illus.]
Barranquilla, Colombia: Editorial ACO, 1972. Very Good. Barranquilla, Colombia: Editorial ACO, [1972]. First Edition, Limited to 999 copies of which this is no. 938. Large slim folio (34cm.); publisher's white and yellow pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; 76pp.; color illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit soiled and rubbed along margins, brief foxing to upper cover, old strip of tape to title page, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. Signed and inscribed "Por Alvaro / Obregon." ... Read More
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The Collected Writings of Alvin Lustig
by Alvin Lustig; Philip Johnson [intro.]; Holland R. Melson, Jr. [design and publisher]
New Haven, CT: Holland R. Melson, Jr., 1958. Very Good +. New Haven, CT: Holland R. Melson, Jr., 1958. First Edition, from a run of 600 copies. Octavo; 94pp. Photo-illustrated boards; lacks glassine wrapper. Light wear to edges and joints; mild toning to spine; binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good or better. Includes Lustig's thoughts on typography, the role of the designer, and California Modern, among others.
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![Montaigle, ou Le Roman de Gille et de Midone [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed to Albert Van Hoeck]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/721/755/1744755721.0.l.jpg)
Montaigle, ou Le Roman de Gille et de Midone [Limited Edition, Inscribed and Signed to Albert Van Hoeck]
by Amaury de la Chevalerie; Andre Solder [illus.]
Dinant, Belgium: Bourdeaux-Capelle, 1973. Very Good+. Dinant, Belgium: Bourdeaux-Capelle, 1973. First Edition, Limited to 50 Deluxe copies printed on Hollande Van Gelder of which this is no. 46. Folio; publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 131pp.; full-page illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, some faint finger-soil, mainly to rear wrapper, else a Very Good, internally fresh and sound copy. Warmly inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "A notre cher Albert Van Hoeck / amical hommage / de... Read More
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Standardized Textbook of Barbering
by Associated Master Barbers of America
Chicago: Associated Master Barbers of America, 1931. Very Good -. Chicago: Associated Master Barbers of America, 1931. Revised Edition. Octavo; publisher's maroon decorative cloth embossed in white and blind; [6],310pp.; illus. throughout, many photographic. Moderate wear to cloth margins including exposure at corners and spine ends, spine a bit cocked, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Good to Very Good copy. Uncommon textbook for the master barber promising that "It pays to look well."... Read More
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![A Manual for Survival: A Counter-Subversive Study Course [Signed by Bundy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/828/793/1497793828.0.l.jpg)
A Manual for Survival: A Counter-Subversive Study Course [Signed by Bundy]
by Edgar C. Bundy; Church League of America
Wheaton: The Church League of America, 1961. Very Good. Wheaton, IL: The Church League of America, 1961. Second Printing, Revised Edition, November 1961. Signed by Bundy without inscription on flyleaf. Quarto (11" x 8.5"); 218pp. Printed paper wraps over stapled textblock. Covers rubbed along edges and a bit smudged, with a 3" razor slit at bottom front not quite splitting cover and just scratching page beneath. Bookplate of Roland K. Kiebel attached below Bundy's signature on flyleaf. Binding... Read More
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![Utopian News [Collection of Four Issues]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/734/604/1626604734.0.l.jpg)
Utopian News [Collection of Four Issues]
by The Utopian Society of America
Los Angeles, CA: The Utopian Society of America, 1935. Very Good. Los Angeles, CA: The Utopian Society of America, 1935. Four issues, including Vol. 2, nos. 6, 15, 17, & 25. Folios; self-wrappers; mixed pagination; text in three columns. Rather brittle with chips, toning, and short tears; previous mail folds; wear heavier to No. 17 with spine largely perished; pencil scribbling to front of No. 24. else a Good to Very Good lot. Includes news of the New Deal,... Read More
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![[Newspaper] Here and There With the 31st: Volume 1, Number 2](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/569/619/1745619569.0.l.jpg)
[Newspaper] Here and There With the 31st: Volume 1, Number 2
by [American Expeditionary Force, Siberia] 31st Infantry Regiment, United States Army
Vladivostok, Siberia: 31st Infantry Regiment, 1919. Very Good -. Vladivostok, Siberia: 31st Infantry Regiment, 1919. First Edition. Oversized tabloid (59.5cm); 6pp. Folds, chips and a few splits along edges; paper toned and a bit brittle; Good to Very Good. Quite scarce publication from the 31st Infantry Regiment, published "Every Once In A While," "Wherever We Happen To Be." This issue was published during the Russian Civil War and the United States' failed Siberian Intervention. The paper... Read More
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![On the Wings of Tomorrow [Signed and Inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/216/330/1408330216.0.l.jpg)
On the Wings of Tomorrow [Signed and Inscribed]
by John Quincy Ames
Nappanee, IN: E.V. Publishing House, 1939. Very Good. Nappanee, IN: E.V. Publishing House, 1939. First Edition. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with inscription "January 21, 1942. To Mr. Bernard Rosen in appreciation of his courteous treatment. J. Quincy Ames." Bookplate of Adele and Bernard Rosen on front pastedown. Octavo; 307pp. Publisher's green cloth with silver lettering and decoration. Missing dust jacket. Boards lightly shelfworn, with fairly heavy darkening down spine and a few spots... Read More
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An African Frame of Reference
by Johari M. Amini
Chicago, IL: An IPE Publication / Institute of Positive Education, 1972. Very Good -. Chicago, IL: An IPE Publication / Institute of Positive Education, 1972. First Edition. Octavo; illustrated wraps; 8pp. Light rubbing and spotting to wraps; bent/warped and pamphlet curls and doesn't quite lay flat; binding sound and pages unmarked; Good to Very Good. Scarce work from the co-founder of Third World Press, this work originally published in Black World under the title "Re-Definition: Concept as Being.... Read More
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![Malcolm X as Ideology [Limited Edition, Signed by Baraka]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/034/121/1724121034.0.l.jpg)
Malcolm X as Ideology [Limited Edition, Signed by Baraka]
by Amiri Baraka [aka LeRoi Jones]; Theodore Harris [illus.]
Candia, NH: John LeBow, 2008. Near Fine. Candia, NH: John LeBow, 2008. First Edition, Limited to 150 signed copies bound in Rives wrappers, with this copy being unnumbered / out of series. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's photo-illustrated stitched wrappers; [2],37pp.; full color collage frontispiece by Theodore Harris tipped in to front cover verso. Covers clean and crisp. Binding sound and pages unmarked. From the colophon: "Mark Olson of Innerer Klang Press has letterpress printed the title page,... Read More
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What Became of Jane Austen? and Other Questions
by Kingsley Amis
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970. First Edition. Octavo (22.1 cm), 223pp. Publisher's photographic black jacket with price intact (£2.40). Boards full bound in blue paper with gilt stamping on spine. Dust jacket creased and chipped with minor tears at margins and spine ends. Verso has minor previous owner repair to corner of front cover. Board corners and spine ends bumped. Minor scratches on page edges. Endsheets toned from dust jacket.... Read More
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A Case of Samples: Poems 1946-1956
by Kingsley Amis
London: Victor Gollancz, 1956. Very Good/Very Good. London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1956. First Edition. Octavo (22.1 cm), 72pp. Publisher's cream dust jacket intact with price (15/-). Boards bound in black cloth with gilt stamping on front and spine. Ex-library with minimal markings: call number on spine and institutional rubber stamp on copyright, with no institutional markings or pasting to jacket, Dust jacket lightly soiled; toned all over with minor tears and creases on all margins and spine ends.... Read More
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A Look Round the Estate: Poems 1957-1967
by Kingsley Amis
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. Very Good +/Very Good +. London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (22.2 cm), 57pp. Publisher's green illustrated dust jacket intact with price (18s). Boards quarter bound in green cloth and cream paper. Dust jacket lightly sunned on spine and margins slightly toned. Minor rubbing and soiling at the margins and spine ends. Board corners and spine ends bumped. Pages clean. A Very Good or better copy overall.
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![The Old Devils [Signed Limited Edition]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/502/565/1699565502.0.l.jpg)
The Old Devils [Signed Limited Edition]
by Kingsley Amis
London: Hutchinson, 1986. Very Good +/Very Good. London: Hutchinson, 1986. Limited First Edition of 250 copies, this being number 87. Octavo (22.2cm); glassine dust jacket; marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine and gilt lettering;[xii],294pp. Jacket chipped at head with rubbing at corners and edges. Boards sturdy and square. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by the author without inscription on limitation page at front. Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize.
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![Bright November [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/308/561/1699561308.0.l.jpg)
Bright November [Signed]
by Kingsley Amis
London: Fortune Press, 1947. Very Good +. London: Fortune Press, [1947]. First Edition. Signed by Kingsley Amis at title page, inscribed to Michael Curtis. Octavo; 32pp. Black cloth with spine stamped in gilt; lacks dust jacket. Mild rubbing to edges; corners slightly bumped. Binding sound. A couple faint spots to endpapers, else unmarked; a Very Good or better signed copy of Amis' first book.
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Lucky Jim
by Kingsley Amis
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1954. Very Good/Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. First American Edition Stated. Octavo. 256 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.50 price present. Brown cloth boards with spine stamped in white. Dust jacket lightly worn along edges with a few nicks and light creasing; previous owner has filled in some worn areas with black ink, principally visible at verso; a couple spots of toned staining and brief tape... Read More
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![3 Plays: The Other Side of the Wall / The Place of Wrath / Helen [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/213/035/1721035213.0.l.jpg)
3 Plays: The Other Side of the Wall / The Place of Wrath / Helen [Inscribed and Signed]
by Lola Jones Amis
New York: Exposition Press, 1965. Very Good. New York: Exposition Press, 1965. First Edition stated. Octavo (21cm); publisher's green gilt-lettered cloth; 88pp. Light shelf wear and spotting to cloth margins, front hinge very slightly starting, else Very Good, though evidently lacking dust jacket. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper, "To a dear teacher and friend, Dr. Harold Herman, Lola / 10-25-65." Collection of three short plays by the Black academic who also edited the 1991 essay... Read More
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![The Second Plane [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/670/439/1616439670.0.l.jpg)
The Second Plane [Signed]
by Martin Amis
London: Jonathan Cape, 2008. Near Fine/Near Fine. London: Jonathan Cape, 2008. First Edition, with full numberline. Octavo (20.4 cm), x, 214pp. Publisher's black and blue illustrated dust jacket with price intact (£12.99). Boards full bound in black cloth. Navy blue endsheets. Dust jacket joints, margins and spine ends very lightly scuffed or bumped; Verso shows minor board rubbing at joints and spine. Board corners sharp; top edge toned closest to the spine. Pasted endsheet and first free endsheet... Read More
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![Experience [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/402/493/1616493402.0.l.jpg)
Experience [Signed]
by Martin Amis
New York: Talk Miramax Books, 2000. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Talk Miramax Books, 2000. First US Edition with full numberline. Octavo (24.1 cm), [viii], 406pp. Publisher's pictorial dust jacket with price intact ($23.95). Boards quarter bound in dark grey paper and black cloth with gilt stamping on spine. Fore edge deckled. Dark grey endsheets. Sixteen (16) pages with photographs present. Dust jacket lightly scuffed; Margins and spine ends lightly bumped or creased. Board corners and spine ends... Read More
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![Two Stories: Denton's Death & Let Me Count the Times [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/621/191/1403191621.0.l.jpg)
Two Stories: Denton's Death & Let Me Count the Times [Signed]
by Martin Amis
London: Moorhouse & Sorensen, 1994. Near Fine. London: Moorhouse & Sorensen, 1994. Limited Edition, signed by Amis and numbered 30 of 326 total copies, this being one of 100 signed special edition copies, with 26 signed and lettered de luxe copies and 200 unsigned standard copies completing the print run. Tall quarto (11" x 7"); 29 pp + colophon. Blue and yellow cloth with blue lettering to spine. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. No dust jacket as... Read More
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