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193113110Zurich: Fretz & Wasmuth n.d. ca. 1931. First edition. Decorated Wraps. Very Good. Quarto pp. 67 With 8 color illustrations by Swiss Impressionist painter Giacometti. Text in German. A collection of legends and fables from the Engadine region of Switzerland featuring beautiful color illustrations and a bright color cover. Scarce in this edition and condition--no other copies currently available in the U.S. Fretz & Wasmuth paperback
18326143Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union 1832. First edition revised. Brown Cloth over Boards. Very Good light fading to decorated cover very light occasional foxing. 12 Mo 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 pp. 48 3 gatherings of 16 pages each. illustrated w b/w engravings. Nice copy of a rare title we have located none on OCLC worldwide. American Sunday-School Union hardcover
199646702Beijing: Panda Books 1996. 8vo. 10 312 2 pp. Blue boards gilt lettrng w/ d.j. mnr shlfwr NF/NF inscribed by Shapiro on half-title to Dr. Charles Grossman. First edition inscribed in English of this excellent anthology including such authors & works as Shi Nan an & Luo Guanzhong Outlaws of the Marsh; Mao Dun Epitome Wartime; Kao Yunlan Annals of a Provincial Town; Quo Bo Tracks in the Snowy Forest; Yuan Shuipo Soy Sauce and Prawns and many others. Panda Books, hardcover
194234751Sewanee Tennessee: The University of the South 1942. Wraps. Very good. Stapled illustrated wraps. 14 pages 1. Light wear. Very good condition. The University of the South unknown
197028506New York:: Knopf 1970. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good copy in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with two closed edge tears and chipping to the spine. Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound of the Mountain is a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age and the gradual reluctant narrowing of a human life along with the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate its closing. By day Ogata Shingo an elderly Tokyo businessman is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he associates the distant rumble he hears from the nearby mountain with the sounds of death. In between are the complex relationships that were once the foundations of Shingo's life: his trying wife; his philandering son; and his beautiful daughter-in-law who inspires in him both pity and the stirrings of desire. Out of this translucent web of attachments Kawabata has crafted a novel that is a powerful serenely observed meditation on the relentless march of time. Knopf, unknown
201086055New York: Random House 2010. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 24cm; black paper spine over light blue paper-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; x34-21812pp. Signed by author on title page. Designed by Caroline Cunningham. Faint sunning to lower board edges else Near Fine. Dustwrapper designed by Robbin Schiff and Anna Bauer with illustration by Niroot Puttapipat unclipped priced $25.00 with trivial surface wear else Near Fine. Rushdie's children's novel a sequel to Haroun and the Sea of Stories is dedicated to his son and includes elements of magical realism and folklore. 86055. Random House unknown
199027095<p>Literature Mercier Vivian. Beckett/Beckett: The Classic Study of a Modern Genius. London: Souvenir Press 1990. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Very Good plus copy with remainder stripe in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This classic study of the novelist and playwright Samuel Beckett has been noted for its refreshingly personal approach and its many new insights. A personal approach is blended skillfully with a persuasive dialectical discussion of the complex paradoxes in Beckett's writings—gentleman/tramp intellect/emotion Ireland/the World eye/ear artist/philosopher man/woman. It also presents a lively almost irreverent study of women in Beckett's work.</p> Souvenir Press, hardcover
198461995London: Faber and Faber 1984. Reprint. 12mo 20cm. Red paper wrappers titled in black; 222pp. Signed by the author on front flyleaf dated April 1985. Rubbed upper front corner creased two old price stickers to rear wrapper a few leaves dog-eared generally toned but sound and clean: just Very Good. <br /> <br /> Es'kia Mphahlele 1919-2008 was a distinguished South African writer and literature professor. Lauded as one of the founding figures in modern African literature he was awarded the Order of the Southern Cross in 1998 by Nelson Mandela. Down Second Avenue first published in 1959 is his autobiographical recollection of growing up under apartheid. 61995. Faber and Faber unknown
19206930Berlin: Paul Cassirer 1920. Revised. Cloth over Boards. Very Good 3" tear to lower right side of spine light sunning. Octavo pp. 103. Paul Cassirer hardcover
19137006Berlin: A.R. Meyer 1913. First edition. Original Wraps string binding brown paper. Very Good. Small Octavo pp. 16. Scarce A. R. Meyer publication from pre-WWI Germany. With an arresting front cover illustration. A.R. Meyer paperback
19066702Frankfurt: Rütten & Loening 1906. First edition. Vellum. Very Good. 8° Octavo pp. 304. Kalbsledereinband mit gold-schwarz dekorierten Titelschild und Kopfschnitt. Sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar nur minimal berieben und leicht fleckig. Unbeschnitten. Text in German Latin letters. Rütten & Loening hardcover
19236512Berlin: Benjamin Harz 1923. Limited edition. Half-Leather over Marbled Boards. Very Good. 4° Quarto pp. 126 II OHlbd. über Buntpapier. Druck schwarz u. rot auf Maschinenbütten bei Drugus in Leipzig. Rückenschild mit Kopfgoldschnitt. Einband nur wenig berieben und bestoßen sonst sehr ordentliches Exemplar. Unbeschnitten!. Exemplar Nr. 233 von 1000 dieses sehr schönen und selten Exemplares. Benjamin Harz hardcover
B7300New York: McLaughlin Brothers. n.d. Interior lightly toned else clean and crisp. . Binding: Full yellow-brown pictorial cloth boards. Notes: Very good example. Illustrated in-text. <br>Large 8vo.240 x 180mm. Size: Large 8vo Pages: 139 pp. Category: Book Literature; Book Children; McLaughlin Brothers. hardcover
19941922Oak Park Illinois: Think Fast Ink 1994. First edition. Very Good/Good. Warmly inscribed to the prior owner "Dear John We obviously suffer from the same sick racing disease. The good news is -- THERE IS NO CURE!! ENJOY!! Burt 'BS' Levy". 23.5 cm. 4540pp. Burgundy paper-covered boards lettered in bronze to the spine in pictorial dust jacket. Light soiling to text block; dust jacket edge worn with short splits to outer corners. Levy's debut novel drawing heavily and convincingly on his experience as an amateur automobile racer. The novel follows Buddy Palumbo a New Jersey mechanic who becomes involved in automobile racing during the sport's halcyon days of the 1950s. It is the first in a series of books Levy wrote about the subject. Think Fast Ink hardcover
19462495New York: Service Men's Magazine n. d. circa 1946. Good. 5-1/4 x 4 inches. Unpaginated but 32pp. Stapled white wrappers printed in red and blue with illustration of soldiers marching in front of a US flag on front cover and illustration of a soldier talking with a boy on the back cover. Light damp-stain to fore-edge of front wrapper; wrappers lightly soiled; leaves age-toned. Booklet of mostly military-themed comics and humorous stories and poems sold by mendicant ex-servicemen. Most if not all of the material is attributed to other published sources and includes at least one cartoon about WAACs. The first two pages include a cartoon about a soldier getting married; and another showing a soldier in a hail of missiles with the caption "Cheer up Kid -- it's all fun". Service Men's Magazine unknown
19462496New York: Service Men's Magazine n. d. circa 1946. Good. 5-1/4 x 4 inches. Unpaginated but 32pp. Stapled white wrappers printed in red and blue with illustration of soldiers marching in front of a US flag on front cover and illustration of a soldier talking with a boy on the back cover. Wrappers lightly soiled; light dampstain to first two leaves; leaves age-toned. Booklet of mostly military-themed comics and humorous stories and poems sold by mendicant ex-servicemen. Most if not all of the material is attributed to other published sources. The first two pages include a cartoon about two soldiers in gas masks; and another cartoon about a general his wife and the wife's friend. Service Men's Magazine unknown
63-8279Pasadena CA: Audrey Arellanes 1982. 28.5 x 18 cm. & less. Print on Wove Rag with deckled edges. Very Good.Bookplates & related material from the library of Audrey Arellanes. Pasadena, CA: Audrey Arellanes, 1982. unknown
198081463London: Penguin Books 1980. Reprint. Octavo 19.75cm; original pictorial card wrappers; 910-2871pp. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page. Light wear to extremities a few faint creases to wrappers; Very Good or better. The Nobel Prize-winning author's tenth novel centered around a merchant in postcolonial mid-20th century Africa. 81463. Penguin Books unknown
197583011New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc. / Borzoi Book 1975. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22cm; black cloth spine over paper-covered boards with titling stamped in silver and black on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; vi34-2482pp. Remainder mark to lower edge of textblock. Faint foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper designed by Paul Gamarello unclipped priced $7.95 with modest shelfwear and rubbing and faint dampstain to base of spine verso; Good. Focuses on power dynamics and challenges in a post-colonial British Caribbean island. 83011. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. / Borzoi Book unknown
196833613Richmond VA: Frederick H. Pease 1968. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; original cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket; ix10-214pp. Minor chipping along top jacket extremities minor sunning along edges and some light soiling else Fine in Very Good jacket. <br /> <br /> The author a Richmond postal supervisor has many good things to say about the Ku Klux Klan while inveighing against school desegregation mixed-race marriage voting rights for Blacks and communism not necessarily in that or any order. The book was reviewed dismissively in the Richmond Times-Dispatch for October 13 1968. Frederick H. Pease unknown
189754793New York: D. Appleton and Company 1897. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; blue-gray cloth with titling and decorative elements stamped in silver and black on spine and front cover; viii4128pp ads. Gently spine-sunned lightly edgeworn with some faint moisture staining to lower front and rear covers though contents unaffected; previous owners ink name to front endpaper with some crinkling to right edge of textblock on a few of the center gatherings; just Very Good. A Socialist single-tax utopia the sequel to Bellamy's enormously popular Looking Backward 2000-1887. "It argues that economic equality is the cornerstone on which the complete life of an industrial democracy rests - political intellectual ethical. Although it emphasizes the place of religion in the world of A.D. 2000 society needs no organized church or ordained ministry" Barron Anatomy of Wonder 1-7. BAL 967; SARGENT p.56; NEGLEY 81. D. Appleton and Company unknown
194843116New York: International Publishers 1948. First Edition. First Printing cloth issue. Octavo 20cm; orange cloth with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 89-2506pp. Clean and unmarked in original pictorial dustwrapper unclipped and generally clean but for a moisture stain extending halfway up the rear flap-fold; this had bled through to cause a faint line of discoloration to fore-edge of rear board. Very Good. Fictionalized biography of a worker-radical in the National Maritime Union. ".written as vigorously as its central characters lived but in almost all other ways.quite lacking in the art of the novel" Rideout p.267. Still very representative of the post-war Communist literary aesthetic and uncommon in such nice condition. The authors - she a Daily Worker reporter and he a waterfront strike organizer - met and married during the maritime strike of 1936-37. RIDEOUT p.267. HANNA 2592. SEIDMAN M196. International Publishers unknown
193714533New York: Viking Press 1937. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm. Original tan cloth red topstain 558pp; dustjacket. Slight lean to spine trivial spotting to foredge else binding tight and pages clean. Dustjacket is unclipped but front panel is separated at spine fold chipped with several closed tears. Good or better. Presentable copy of Halper's most straightforwardly radical novel written after his decided move to the Left following negative responses by leftist critics to his first two novels. HANNA 1548. RIDEOUT p.298. Viking Press unknown
19609678Scottsdale: Rampart Press 1960. First Limited Edition. Octavo 24cm. Originial red cloth with laid on cover and spine titles; 29pp; boldly inscribed to Richard and Margot Archer on first free endpaper. One of 400 copies. Sunning to cloth of spine else fine. A long poem on the theme of southern poverty and civil rights. Issued as Morning Star Quarto no. V. Rampart Press unknown
194062890Springfield MA: Double Action Magazines 1940. 4to. 144 pp. Text illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art by of exploding Earth split by comet yapp fore-edges uniform light interior toning as usual slight edgewear VG bright copy. First edition of this Science Fiction pulp’s 1st issue featuring the full length novel by R.H. Romans as well as “Space-Ship Derby†by Milton Kaletsky. This pulp would only run 10 issues originally by Spring 1943 and was companion to “Future Fiction.†Double Action Magazines, paperback
