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194543210New York: View Editions 1945. First Edition. Limited Issue one of 500 numbered copies signed by the author this being copy no.302. Quarto 31cm; illustrated wrappers stapled; 16pp; illus. Light wear to extremities with shallow faint dampstain affecting lower margin of text and lower edge of rear wrapper; Very Good. Slim collection of Ford's surrealist poems accomapnied by artwork by Duchamp Fini Tanguy and Tchelitchew. View Editions unknown books
1985255710Mexico: Editora del Sureste 1985. First. hardcover. very good-/very good. Hormiguero Rio Bec El Tigre. Many Illus. some in color. 200pp. 4to tan cloth d.w. back inner hinge repaired to margin of many pages lightly creased. Mexico: Editora del Sureste 1985. First Edition<br/><br/> Signed by the author.<br/><br/> Editora del Sureste unknown books
193526301New York: Alfred Knopf 1935. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8vo. Stated first edition. A 188 pp novel of the Hobo life in America during the Deoression. Now considered something of a classic. Brick orange cloth stamped and lettered at front panel and spine in black. Fairly heavy dampstaining to cloth covers along and including the spine area. Despite this flaw the interior pages are completely free of any markings or damage. Binding is still strong. A place-holder copy while waiting for a better copy to show itself. Lacks the rare dustwrapper. Alfred Knopf unknown books
1950WRCLIT70923Annandale-on-Hudson 1950. V:1-4. Four issues with index bound in cloth original wrappers bound in for J. Laughlin. Spine a shade sunned otherwise very good. Edited T. and Renée Weiss and others. An important quarterly devoted to "stimulation and innovation rather than on consolidation evaluation and scholarly taste-making" - T. Weiss in 1974. Contributors to this volume include Watkins Merrill the special Pound issue separate broadside bound in Williams Zukofsky Wilbur Eberhart Goodman et al. ANDERSON & KINZIE pp.730-1. HOFFMAN et al p. 366. hardcover books
19358568Pasadena: By the Author 1935. First Edition. Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 124pp. Tight straight copy about Fine in the uncommon dustjacket lightly rubbed and soiled but still attractive and free of losses VG or better. Satirical stage drama based on Sinclair's 1933 pamphlet "The Way Out." Produced as a fund-raiser during Sinclair's EPIC campaign but probably never staged since. Unlike most other Sinclair works from this period there was no simultaneous issue from a trade publisher. According to Ahouse Sinclair had planned this as a film and thus there are no act or scene divisions in the printed play. The film was never produced.Uncommon in jacket. AHOUSE A55a. By the Author unknown books
193318786New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1933. Reprint. Octavo 20.5cm; light blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; red topstain; 342pp. Subtle darkening to cloth at spine and edges light offsetting to endpapers and a few tiny nicks to rear pastedown; Very Good to Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped with shallow chipping tears and creasing to extremities and an old faint dampstain along spine panel most noticeable on verso; Very Good. Tichenor's satirical portait of a Depression-era banker touted on the jacket blurb as "the most withering portrayal of financial boobery in high places that has ever appeared in print." Scarce in or out of dustjacket. HANNA 3512. Farrar & Rinehart unknown books
193633945New York: Random House 1936. 12mo 18.75cm.; publisher's salmon cloth black paper wrap-around band lettered in silver black topstain; 211pp. Spine a bit cocked and faded corners bumped minor soiling to textblock else Near Very Good and sound lacking the acetate jacket. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf: "To Nina and Hale / with love and gratitude / Gale." Wilhelm inscriptions are uncommon. Wilhelm's second book an epistolary novel in which a woman turns to prostitution while her lover is in prison at San Quentin. San Francisco setting. BAIRD 2621; HANNA 3806. Random House unknown books
18097Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Two small original snapshots of the American actor later president with fellow actor Ruth Roman ca. 1950. Reagan was between his first marriage to Jane Wyman 1940–1949 and his second marriage to Nancy Davis 1952 during which time he went out several times with Roman. Fine. 2.5 x 3.5 inches 6.4 x 8.8 cm. unknown books
197226018New York: Grossman Publishers 1972. A touch of wear to the extremities else near fine in cloth boards in a near fine jacket. First Edition. Quarto. Illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white with plates by Marc Riboud Dr. Roman Vishniac Bruce Davidson Gordon Parks Ernst Haas Hiroshi Hamaya Donald McCullin and W. Eugene Smith. Edited by Cornell Capa. Publisher's advance copy ticket laid in. New York: Grossman Publishers unknown books
191652570Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company 1916. First Edition. Octavo. Red cloth boards; 434p; photographicallly illustrated halftones; frontispiece; includes glossary and index. Cracks to front and rear hinges holding; mild external wear and soil; complete and Good. Small ownership stamp "Dr. J. Madison Taylor Philadelphia" to front pastedown.<br/><br/>The author an African-American doctor addresses the matter of race relations from the assumption of biological equality between Blacks and Whites -- an unconventional hypothesis at the time. Noted by Gunnar Myrdal as "one of the most brilliant of the early discussions of the biological equality of whites and Negroes." This the copy of noted Philadelphia neurologist James Madison Taylor who was for many years an assistant to S. Weir Mitchell. F.A. Davis Company unknown books
177323455Edinburgh: Printed by Balfour & Smellie 1773 1773. First and only edition. ESTC T67787.; NCBEL II 2053 Hailes. Stitching gone; signatures loose; a good sound copy. Small 8vo disbound 51 pages fore- and bottom-edges untrimmed. ¶ A polite response with some deferential corrections to Lord Hailes and his History of Scotland published earlier in 1773. <br/><br/> Edinburgh: Printed by Balfour & Smellie, 1773 unknown books
474777 Dials London: E. Hodges from Pitt's Wholesale Toy & Marble Warehouse n. d. Ca 1840s / 1850s. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning to paper with two chips to right edge. Very Good. Broadside printed two columns with typographical border between. Woodcut 1-1/2" x 2" at top of right column. 9-1/2" x 6=5/8" <br/><br/>Rare songster from the era with none found on COPAC and OCLC showing just one holding: UMiss. E. Hodges (from Pitt's Wholesale Toy & Marble Warehouse) unknown books
2008173525Koln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig 2008. Hardcover. Text by Clint Burnham Roman Buxbaum Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Harald Szeemann. A very fine copy in a very fine dust jacket and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. An as new copy. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig unknown books
1983768New York 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Square large 4to. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. All illus. <br/><br/> hardcover books
199032511Cambridge & London: Harvard University Press 1990. First edition 8vo pp. xix 3 646; near fine in the dust jacket. <br/><br/> Harvard University Press unknown books
191448470New York: American Sports Publishing Company 21 Warren Street 1914. 1st printing thus. Blue paper wrappers lettered in white. General wear soiling & edge chipping to wrappers. Old tape reinforcement along spine with same along front hinge. An About VG copy. 6 151 36 pp. Volume concludes with 5 pages of team rosters followed by 4 pages of b/w images of teams 8 & then 27 pages of Spalding adverts for sporting goods & equipment. Numerous b/w half-tone photographic images. 8vo. 6-5/8" x 5" <br/><br/>Rare baseball publication by Spalding which research suggests began in 1911. American Sports Publishing Company, 21 Warren Street unknown books
35807Watsonville Cal: Published by Steinhauser & Eaton n. d. Printed white paper covers with blue ribbon tie. Mailing envelope. Ca late 1890s / early 20th C. Not in Rocq. A VG copy accompanied by a used mailing envelope with stamp torn away. Printed title leaf. 14 leaves printed recto only with 19 b/w images from photographs. Produced by the Albertype Co. Brooklyn NY. Oblong format: 5-3/8" x 7-1/4" <br/><br/>OCLC records only 2 institutional holdings Yale & UC Berkeley. Published by Steinhauser & Eaton unknown books
190945116Boston: Little Brown and Company 1909. 1st Edition. Pale green buckram cloth spine over printed drab paper boards. General wear & soiling to boards. Signs of use to text-block. Very Good. 8 52 pp. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6" <br/><br/>No copies found on OCLC. Rare. Little Brown and Company hardcover books
193553295New York: Albert & Charles Boni 1935. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; light gray cloth titled in red and black on a black background on spine; black topstain; dustjacket; 263pp. Faint soil to rear cover; Near Fine or better. The dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.50 with a few minor nicks and short closed tears to upper front panel; Near Fine. <br/><br/>Sanford's uncommon second novel and the first using his nom de plume nicely inscribed to his friend the screenwriter Max Lamb. Sanford went on to publish 24 books and several screenplays but in the words of his bibliographer he has remained "the finest unread author writing in English" owing in some degree to his intractability with editors but certainly also to his staunch leftist political leanings which got him blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Not in Hanna. Albert & Charles Boni unknown books
1926100966<p>8vo original cloth with gilt lettering on spine illustrated 434 pp. Some wear to spine head and heel extremities also with a little wear slight aging and toning; overall a very nice copy. Roman 1864-1934 was a physician surgeon and writer. He was the first African-American to graduate from the Hamilton Collegiate Institute in Ontario and also the first to receive training in ophthalmology. He had a outstanding career as a physician and also had a good deal of success as a writer. His best known work was Meharry Medical College: A History. The current title takes a look at the African-American in American history and also looks at what his future might be. Website of the American Academy of Otolaryngology.</p> F.A. Davis Company, books
1929WRCLIT78578New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1929. Small quarto. Gilt black cloth. Pictorial endsheets. Frontis illustrations and plates. Folding map. Non-authorial gift inscription on dedication page trace of foxing to endleaves otherwise near fine in lightly edgeworn and nicked highly pictorial dust jacket with a couple of small surface abrasions. First edition. Beautifully illustrated with photogravures of etchings by Lucien Jonas an "Official French War Artist." A series of semi-fictional sketches based on the author's experiences as a Captain with the 4th Machine Gun Battalion in France somewhat in the tradition of Thomason's FIX BAYONETS! The inscription noted is to a Captain serving at Fort Kamehameha June 12 1929 "with love from 'Your Mary'." FALLS p. 301. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
196942315Lagos: Wuraola Press 1969. First Edition. 12mo 19cm. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed textured paper wrappers; 26pp. Text printed within varicolored borders. Trivial fading to wrapper edges else Fine. A late but extremely scarce addition to the genre of Nigerian market literature. Odunlaye here presents the results of ".many years research with late Pa Olagumorioye an occulist sic a great elephant and other wild animal hunter in Owo Division.as he was my cousin with whom I moved very closely; I was able to inquire more deeply into the accuracies of what each oracle foretells." Includes illustrated instructions for "casting" the oracle and a key to interpretation. Hogg give three locations BL Birmingham and Ibadan but OCLC returns only microform holdings. This is the sole edition. HOGG 943. Wuraola Press unknown books
190942345Pasadena: Equitist Publishing House 1909. First Edition. 12mo 18cm. Publisher's red cloth boards lettered in white on spine and front cover; 4282pp. Lettering mostly rubbed away on spine; front endpaper neatly removed else a tight Very Good copy. A fictional romance of the Single Tax movement set in California written by the wife of one of the movement's primary spokesmen Warren E. Brokaw. The Soul of the World received predictably favorable reviews within the Single Tax press but appears never to have found its way into the heart of a larger audience. Bachman was deaf from birth and died young from what is described in her obituary as "progressive paralysis." SMITH B-31. Missed by Hanna and not in Baird California Fiction. Scarce in commerce; about a dozen verifiable copies in U.S. institutions. Equitist Publishing House unknown books
192328860New York: Lieber & Lewis 1923. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket blue topstain; 369pp. Chips and tears to jacket extremities including small loss to upper panel horizontal tear to spine crow some general dust-soiling. Near Fine in an About Very Good copy of the scarce dust jacket. Novel describing a young Virginian's dabbling with radicalism before maturing into conservatism. HANNA 1950. Lieber & Lewis unknown books
193814416New York: Harper & Brothers 1938. First Edition. Octavo 21cm. Tan cloth boards stamped in red and black; dustjacket; 340pp. Author's presentation copy inscribed on front endpaper: "Paul Jordan Smith - his book - Wessel Smitter - his Friend / W.H.S. / Feb. 1939." Mild toning to boards with a couple of small spots of discoloration; jacket lightly edgeworn; a tight VG copy overall. A worker's life and hard times in the Detroit auto industry written by a one-time Ford employee. The inscribee Paul Jordan-Smith 1885-1971 was a California journalist and editor who achieved notoriety in 1931 as the founder of the so-called "Disumbrationist School of Aesthetics" - an artistic hoax which took in a number of well-known art critics who responded positively to his exhibition of intentionally bad and technically inept paintings. HANNA 3285. COAN p.87. Harper & Brothers unknown books
