Mystique Magazine No. 20 October, 1972
by Potosky, Donna
Cleveland: Unknown Publications, 1972. First Edition. Staplebound. Near Fine. 10p. Near Fine. Paper lightly bumped at the bottom-left corner. Firmly bound with two staples, clean internally. The first interim issue of Flying Saucer Digest with this title, with most of the issued dedicated to sea serpents [Eberhart 9614]. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX-CXVII
by Pound, Ezra
London: Faber and Faber, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped (20s £1.00 net) generally soiled, a few bumps and very shallow chips. Black cloth, boards slightly splayed, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Love Poems of Ancient Egypt
by Pound, Ezra; Stock, Noel
New York: New Directions, 1962. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps toned and soiled, lightly rubbed. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Cantos LII-LXXI
by Pound, Ezra
New York: New Directions, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. With the pamphlet present in the rear pocket. Very Good in a Fair dust jacket, unclipped ($2.50), old tape reinforcements at the edges, soiled and with rippling from moisture damage, adhered to a brown paper backing. Black cloth, faintly rubbed, with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, soiled at the endpapers, former owner's signature on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. A collection of twenty... Read More
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Ezra Pound: Composer
by Pound, Ezra; Hughes, Robert
San Francisco: Cultural Institute of San Francisco, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Wraps rusted around the staples. Firmly bound, clean internally. Includes the laid-in slip with a biography of John Argue and Dorothy Barnhouse. This program accompanied the Arch Ensemble for Experimental Music's performance of Ezra Pound's music, which featured the American premiere of "Le Testament" as well as the world premiere of "Cavalcanti.
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The Fifth Decad of Cantos
by Pound, Ezra
New York: New Directions, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Second issue. Very Good in an about Good dust jacket, clipped, generally soiled, neatly adhered to a brown paper backing. Black cloth bumped at the corners, with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, soiled at the edges and endpapers, clean otherwise. The third installment of Pound's series, a collection of ten more cantos.
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King David's Spaceship
by Pournelle, Jerry
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Pournelle on the title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($11.95), a short tear at the top edge of the back panel. Quarter black cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. One of Pournelle's works set in the same galactic empire as that in The Mote in God's Eye.
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Widow's Might
by Powel, Harford
New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Black cloth, lightly rubbed, with orange ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Bound with some reading wear and a forward lean, faded orange topstain, clean internally. An early novel from the former editor of Harper's and Collier's. According to Editor and Publisher, this novel is "very much worth the reading of anyone interested in the business of writing, anyone... Read More
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The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons
by Powell, John Wesley
New York: Penguin Books, 1987. Paperback. Fine. Introduction by Wallace Stegner. Later Printing. Near Fine. Wraps with a faint crease on the front cover. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Powell's classic account of his expedition through America's western canyons.
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The Minoan Phaistos Hieroglyphic Clay Disc
by Powell, Ted
Marshall: Would You Believe, 1991. First Edition. Staplebound. Very Good. Would You Believe #80. About Very Good. Covers toned and soiled. Firmly bound with four staples, clean internally. One copy located in OCLC. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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Morte D'Urban
by Powers, J.F.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Herman Kogan's review copy with a signed note from Powers laid-in. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($4.50), generally rubbed, some creases at the edges. Black buckram with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, Doubleday stamp inside the front board, clean otherwise. Powers's debut novel, winner of the National Book Award, about a Midwestern religious... Read More
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The Overstory
by Powers, Richard
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($27.95), lightly rubbed at the edges. Brown paper on the boards with bronze gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, name and short notes on the front endpaper, sparse marginalia. Powers's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of "activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world.
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Unseen Academicals
by Pratchett, Terry
New York: Harper, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($25.99). Quarter tan paper with yellow paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. One of Pratchett's Discworld novels, this one focusing on the Unseen University's football team.
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The Cinema of John Huston
by Pratley, Gerald
Cranbury: A.S. Barnes and Co., Inc, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($12.00), faded at the spine, bumped at the top edge with a closed tear at the rear panel. Grey boards with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Pratley's film criticism drawn from fourteen hours of Huston discussion his films.
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The World of Premchand
by Premchand
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Translated by David Rubin. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (£1.75 net), bumped at the top edge, a crease to the front flap. Orange cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound with an orange top stain, clean internally. Published as part of the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works Indian Series, a selection of stories from the Hindi writer whose stories... Read More
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The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
by Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T.V.F.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Edited by Preminger and Brogan. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, unclipped (no price), lightly bumped at the top edge. Blue cloth, bumped at the head of the spine, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, faintly soiled at the top edge, clean internally. A completely revised edition, "a comprehensive reference work dealing with all aspects of its subject: history, types, movements,... Read More
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When M.I.T. Was "Boston Tech" 1861-1916
by Prescott, Samuel C.
Cambridge: The Technology Press, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in an about Very Good jacket, unclipped ($6.00), generally toned and rubbed, a few small chips near the spine. Grey buckram with red ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Prescott's "personal report, an essay in interpretation and remembrance which is important both for what it tells about M.I.T.'s first half-century and for what it tells about what Dean Prescott finds... Read More
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The World's Greatest UFO and Alien Encounters; Conspiracies, Abductions, Little Green Men
by [Alva Press]
Edison: Alva Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (no price). Glossy pictorial boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of more than 500 pages of anecdotes about supernatural, unexplained experiences.
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The New English Bible with Apocyrpha
by Delegates of the Oxford University Press
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Red buckram, bumped at the foot of the spine. Square and firmly bound, inscription inside the front board, a few instances of pencil marginalia. The first edition to feature The Old Testament and Apocrypha translated according to the task established by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
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With Nixon
by Price, Raymond
New York: Viking Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($12.95), bumped at the top edge. Quarter grey cloth with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A political memoir of the Nixon years by one of Nixon's speech-writers and friends.
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A Generous Man
by Price, Reynolds
New York: Atheneum, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Price on the title page. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.95), lightly toned and soiled, a crease at the front flap. Green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a spotted red topstain, foxed at the edges, clean internally. Price's novel of Milo Mustian and his passing into manhood in rural North Carolina.
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Good Hearts
by Price, Reynolds
New York: Atheneum, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Price on the title page. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped ($18.95), lightly toned and bumped. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a yellow topstain, clean internally. The seventh novel from the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer.
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Blue Calhoun
by Price, Reynolds
New York: Atheneum, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Price on the title page. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($23.00), faded at the spine. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Permanent Errors
by Price, Reynolds
New York: Atheneum, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by Price on the title page. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($6.50), multiple creases down the front flap, generally toned. Grey cloth, faded at the edges, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain, clean internally. A collection of related stories divided into four parts, all of which "share a controlling effort--the attempt to... Read More
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The Names and Faces of Heroes
by Price, Reynolds
New York: Atheneum, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Price on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.95), lightly toned. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a blue topstain, clean internally. A collection of seven stories from the Southern author.
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