Polkacide / Descendents, August, 23 1986 at The Farm, San Francisco (Original flyer)
[San Francisco]: Unknown, 1986. Fine. Single sheet flyer, 8.5" x 11". Fine with no holes, tears, sunning, etc. Also on the bill, according to other flyers for the same night, but not mentioned here were NoMeansNo and Sea Hags.
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Late Victorian/ early Edwardian photo album with thirteen portraits of cross-eyed boys and men
[No Place]: [No Publisher], 1890. Very Good. A collection of late 19th portraits of cross-eyed (strabismus) boys and men. Ten cabinet cards, two cartes de visite, and one cardboard mounted black and white photo. Housed in a contemporary Art Nouveau album bound in green tapestry cloth and wooden upper cover carved in the style of Alphonse Mucha; with ornamental brass anchor and catch plates, lacking the clasp; all edges gilt. 10.75 x 8.5 x 2.25". Very Good with... Read More
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![Picayune Creole Cookbook for A.A.C. of W. Convention [with] Tourists' Guide to New Orleans for A.A.C. of W. Convention (Compliments of The Times-Picayune, South's Greatest Newspaper)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/247/704/1483704247.0.l.jpg)
Picayune Creole Cookbook for A.A.C. of W. Convention [with] Tourists' Guide to New Orleans for A.A.C. of W. Convention (Compliments of The Times-Picayune, South's Greatest Newspaper)
New Orleans: The Times-Picayune, 1919. Special edition. 28; 40 pp. Two books, bound dos a dos in publisher's wraps. Good with worn head and foot, tidemark, small horizontal tear to front wrap of cookbook side and title page. Rare.Selected recipes from The Creole Cook Book and local sites to see for the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World.
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Day at the Farm II: 7 Seconds / Fang / Victim's Family / The Mighty Farm Band / July 27, 1986 at The Farm, San Francisco
[San Francisco]: Unknown, 1986. Single sheet flyer, 11" x 17". Good +with staple holes in corners, small tape repair to verso, slight discoloration along edges. Printing a little light at nebulous monster in middle of flyer.
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Verbal Abuse / Celebrity Skin / Fang / DRI / MDC, Alabama Slama '86, August, 8 1986 at MLVS School San Francisco
[San Francisco]: Unknown, 1986. Single sheet flyer, 11" x 17". Very Good with staple holes in corners, light wear and a little sunning. Features a number of prominent '80s hardcore and thrash bands.
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The Holy Bible (Three Volumes in Signed Zaehnsdorf Bindings)
London & Edinburgh: The Ballantyne Press, 1911. Limited Edition. Limited edition. Complete in three volumes finely bound by Zaehnsdorf in full calf, stamped and ruled in gilt, inner paneling, gilt dentelles, purple endpapers, all edges gilt. This edition has no verse numbers and is printed in paragraph form. Heavily illustrated with color lithographs. Very Good+ with a little rubbing or cloudiness to the dark leather on the fronts and backs, spines sunned a more brownish color, joints worn but... Read More
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Salamandra
by Ka-Tzetnik 135633
Tel Aviv, Palestine: The Dvir Co. Ltd, 1946. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. 287 pp. Publisher's paper-covered boards with brown cloth backstrip, lettered in gilt. In Hebrew. Very Good with bumped corners and edge wear, edges foxed. The very first book by Yehiel Dinur, the Holocaust survivor who wrote House of Dolls and his other works under the pen name of the number tattooed on his arm, Ka-Tzetnik 135633. This autobiographical novel was written in Yiddish in... Read More
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Black Sun
by Abbey, Edward
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1981. Paperback. Fine. First softcover edition. Signed by Edward Abbey, inscribed to former owner. 159 p. Fine in wraps. Clean, bright pages and sturdy binding.
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Jonathan Troy
by Abbey, Edward
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the front free end paper, inscribed to former owner in "Glen Canyon 1981". Very Good with light rubbing at tips, small indent to spine near bottom, light lean to spine, previous owner book plate to front paste down. In a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price of $3.50 intact, light rubbing, light fading to spine panel,... Read More
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Fire on the Mountain
by Abbey, Edward
New York: Dial Press, 1962. First Edition. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Edward Abbey on the front free endpaper. [viii], 211 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow cloth-affect boards over red spine cloth lettered in black. Very Good with slight lean to spine, light wear and soiling, and adhesive residue to endpapers and upper and lower board edges. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning to spine and flap folds and light... Read More
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The Monkey Wrench Gang
by Abbey, Edward
Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1975. Advance reading copy. Very Good. Advance reading copy, issued before publication of the first edition. 352 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow printed wraps, map endpapers. Very Good, wraps and edges a little soiled, toned, and foxed. Abbey's best-known novel, chronicling the adventures of a gang of misfits in the American Southwest who sabotage the bulldozers of progress. It has inspired many environmentalists, anarchists, and assorted lovers of unspoiled desert... Read More
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
by Abbey, Edward; Peter Parnell [Illustrator]
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First Edition. Near Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Edward Abbey on the front free endpaper. xiv, [2], 269 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with white and tan lettering to spine. Near Fine with slight lean to spine and trivial edge fading to cloth. In a Fine unclipped dust jacket with very light wear and toning to extremities. A fantastic copy of this environmental classic, signed by the author. ... Read More
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Fire on the Mountain
by Abbey, Edward
New York: Dial Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 211 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth. Very Good+ in Very Good unclipped original dust jacket. Light foxing to cloth and top edge, heavier on front paste down next to bookplate with former owner's name crossed out in ink. Jacket presents well, foxed along edges, slightly chipped at head (not badly) with small creased closed tear to front panel, a few surface nicks to front panel as well, wear along... Read More
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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
by Abbey, Edward; Peter Parnell [Illustrator]
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by Edward Abbey on the front free endpaper and dated "Tucson, '79." . xiv, [2], 269 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with white and tan lettering to spine. Near Fine with light wear and fading to cloth and rubbing to extremities. Previous owner inscription to front free endpaper, blindstamp to half-title page. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light... Read More
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Changing New York
by Abbott, Berenice [Photographer]; Elizabeth McCausland
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. 208 pp. Bound in publisher's dark blue coarse cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with former owner's name written on paste down, slight wave to text, rubbed along bottom edge, in an excellent, unsophisticated example of the black-and-white dust jacket that is very close to Fine with very little shelf wear, tiny closed tears to bottom edge, small soil spot on back panel. A... Read More
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Changing New York
by Abbott, Berenice
New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Publisher's dark blue coarse cloth stamped in gilt. Pages slightly musty, previous owner details to front free end paper, light offsetting to endsheets, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with light edge wear and small loss to the corners and spine ends. A very lovely copy.
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
by Abbott, Edwin A.; A Square [Pen name]
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1885. First American Edition. Good. First American edition of the classic mathematical fantasy novel. Bound in publisher's original pictorial mustard cloth over semi-flexible boards, front panel stamped in black, spine panel stamped in gold, all edges stained red. Good. Light wear to cloth at edges, darkening to spine and soiling and scuffing to rear cover. Former owner details to front free endpaper, several geometric pencil drawings to rear endsheet and blanks, pages tanned. A novel... Read More
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
by Abbott, Edwin; Ray Bradbury [Introductory Essay]; Andrew Hoyem [Book Designer]
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1980. Limited edition. Near Fine. Limited edition. Copy #190 of 275, Signed by sci-fi author Ray Bradbury. Illustrated with 14 line drawings and 10 die-cuts by Andrew Hoyem, with watercolor added by hand. Bound accordion-style in original decorated aluminum covers, edges dyed black with the scarce paper instruction sheet. Housed in a hinged, locking aluminum frame. Near Fine with light shelf wear and slight soiling to instruction leaf. An inventively-designed deluxe edition of... Read More
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Damn Yankees
by Abbott, George; Wallop, Douglass
New York: Random House, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. (Stated "First printing" on copyright page.) 164pp. Gray cloth with black and gilt stamping, mounted photo at front, orange top stain. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. Jacket spine panel darkened and a little scratched, faint scratch on back panel, price intact ($2.95). A lovely copy of the Broadway smash.
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Alien Souls
by Abdullah, Achmed; [Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff]
New York: The James A. McCann Company, 1922. First edition. First edition. [viii], 248 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with navy lettering. Near Fine with tiny closed tear in Table of Contents, slight lean to spine, small stain to rear gutter, in Very Good+ dust jacket with rubbing along edges, light wear, unclipped ($1.75). Rare in jacket. Stories set in various foreign lands with fantasy and adventure themes.
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Memory of Departure
by Abdulrazak, Gurnah
New York: Grove Press, 1988. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Abdulrazak Gurnah on the title page. Bound in publisher's blue paper boards over black spine cloth lettered in silver. Very Good with toning to edges, bumping to corners, several pages creased and soiling to copyright page. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and light wear, toning to the blindside. The Nobel Prize-winning author's first book. ... Read More
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The Woman in the Dunes
by Abe, Kobo; E. Dale Saunders [Translator]
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. First American Edition. Fine/Fine. First American edition, first printing. Bound in teal cloth stamped in brown and gold. Fine, with a tiny mark to the front free endpaper, in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. A superior copy of the critically acclaimed Japanese novel.
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The Woman in the Dunes
by Abe, Kobo
London: Secker & Warburg, 1964. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First British edition, first printing. Signed in Japanese by Kobo Abe on the front pastedown and front free endpaper with an inscription to a former owner. Bound in publisher's green cloth-affect boards lettered in silver. Near Fine with lean to binding, corners slightly bumped. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning to spine and trivial edge wear. The first British edition of the Japanese novel,... Read More
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(18th Century Travel Guide to Venice) Forestiero illuminato intorno le cose piu' rare, e curiose antiche, e moderne della citta' di venezia e dell'isole circonvicine: con la descrizione delle Chiese, Monisterj , Ospitali, Tesoro di S. Marco, Arsenale, Fabbriche pubbliche, Pitture celebri, Funzioni e Dimonisterivertimenti, e di quanto v'è di più riguardevole : Opera adornata di molte bellissime vedute in rame, e corretta dai moltiplici errori trascors nell'ultima Edizione
by Abrizzi, Giovanni Battista
Venice: Francesco Tosi, 1796. Later Edition. Near Fine. Later edition. Bound in 19th century Italian decorative paper wraps with manuscript spine label. xiv, 342, [2] pp. Near Fine with light edge wear, small patch of loss at spine label. Contents bright with minor instances of damp stain. All 41 plates present without tears. A rare, desirable edition of one of the most famous historical-artistic 18th century guidebooks to Venice compiled by the famous Venetian printer and publisher Giovanni... Read More
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Arrow of God
by Achebe, Chinua
New York: The John Day Company, 1967. First Edition. Near Fine/Fine. First American edition, first printing. 287 pp. Bound in publisher's original magenta cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with slight black stains to top edge of covers and area of rub-through at top of rear spine joint, in a Fine unclipped dust jacket with trivial edge wear and no spine fading. A fantastic copy of the Nigerian author's third novel, the last of The African Trilogy.... Read More
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