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1990151139Berkeley CA: University of California Press 1990. Book of the month club. Hardcover. 526 pages. A new verse translation of this Greek classic. Includes 12 engravings by Marialuisa de Romans. A tight near fine copy in an about very good dust jacket with some fading to the spine and the front flap slightly folded wrong. A solid reading copy. University of California Press unknown books
193512014New York: Albert & Charles Boni 1935. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 263pp. A brilliant copy fully Fine in a nearly flawless dustjacket. Rarely seen thus. Sanford's second novel and the first using his nom de plume set in Depression-era New York and dealing with a gang of ruthless game-poachers. 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
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
1896WRCLIT69266London: Henry & Co. 1896. Quarto. Lavender cloth decorated in gilt. Plates and illustrations. Cloth lightly sunned and soiled but very good. First edition regular paper issue of the first of only two volumes issued of this distinguished annual including literary contributions by Yeats Gray Moore Johnson Beerbohm Cunninghame-Graham "Field" Henley et al. Illustrative material by Rossetti Ricketts Millais Whistler Housman et al is included. This copy still has the original lithograph by Whistler intact. WADE 295. Henry & Co. hardcover books
262693Bombay: Libertarian Book House n.d. Pamphlet. 22 3 stapled wraps 4.75x7 inches wraps worn and chipped front wrap stained and lightly silverfished stamp of the Libertarian League of New York on rear wrap staples rusted. Cover title: The philosophy of Rudolf Rocker. Cook was one of the founders of The Libertarian League of Los Angeles. Libertarian Book House unknown books
194216900Truro MA: Pamet Press 1942. First Edition. Octavo. Green cloth boards lettered in white on spine; dustjacket; 233pp. Light wear and fading to board extremities; jacket faded and with small losses at edges; Very Good. An odd left-wing political allegory set within a community of orchard-dwelling birds; Robin Red-Breast a class-conscious defector from the bourgeois ranks occupies the central and heroic role; sparrows comprise the proletariat; sparrow-hawks the Capitalists apparently of the avian kingdom and blue-jays their fascist lackeys are the villains. Boyden from an upper-middle-class Cape Cod background worked primarily as a poet her first collection Toward Equilibrium won the Midland Author's Prize for 1930. She was a member of the American Writer's Congress and was among the delegation of writers including Jack Conroy and Nelson Algren that traveled to Alabama in 1935 to challenge the state's sedition laws. The current work uncommon. Not in Hanna. Pamet Press unknown books
190037589Chicago: Rand - McNally & Co 1900. 1st printing thus presumed. Green paper wrappers printed in blue. Light toning and edge chipping to wrappers with ~ 2-1/2" x 1/2" at widest triangle of loss to lower corner of front wrapper; faint dampstain to foot of front wrapper and gutter foot throughout; small closed tear to fore-edge of rear wrapper and last few leaves. Pages otherwise clean and bright. About VG. 16 pp. 6 pages of text double-column. 6 full color maps 4 double-page. Text illustrated with 16 photographic images showing divers aspects of China & its people. Folio. 14-3/16" x 11-1/4" <br/><br/>Appears to be the same size text and illustrations as that of Rand-McNally's "Geographical Series" Vol. 19 No. 1 July 19 1900 albeit presented as a promotional item; F. A. Ferris & Co. advertisements are printed to the inside covers including a full-page cartoon of "The Western Ham-isphere". The entire first page of text is devoted to a brief history of China its religious culture monarchy and foreign trade culminating in an anti-Boxer analysis of the Boxer Rebellion. Institutionally scarce in any format with OCLC recording just one holding. Rand - McNally & Co unknown books
171148783London: Printed and Sold by J. Baker at the Black Boy in Pater - Noster - Row 1711. 1st Edition. Disbound now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning. Stain to title leaf and gradually diminishing through the new few. Stains in upper portion of the E gathering. A Good copy. 48 pp. 8vo. 7-11/16" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/> Printed and Sold by J. Baker, at the Black Boy, in Pater - Noster - Row unknown books
191521273Brooklyn: Writers' Publishing Co 1915. First Edition of 1000 Printed in September 1915" octavo 19.25cm.; original brown cloth double ruled and printed in dark brown; 102404adspp. Fine. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by the author and his wife Jessie to noted Americana collector Dr. William C. Braislin with author's own photographically illustrated bookplate on front pastedown. Popular history of the laboring class here personified in the figure of "Dennis Hathnaught." Composed within a loosely fictional framework by MacCarthy in order that the presumably working-class reader "may be taught to judge more intelligently of his own time and its problems if he has some idea of past times and their institutions." The "history" begins with "Dennis Hathnaught's Lowly Origin; His Biological Ancestry; Primitive Man; Ancient Contempt for Labour Effects of Evolution and Suggestion of Human Progress" and proceeds through the various eras of English-speaking Hathnaughts starting with the Saxons and progressing through the Middle Ages 16th and 17th century England and the Industrial Revolution. Interspersed with chapters on "Fritz Hathnaught" "Jacques Bonhomme" and the "Slavic Hathnaughts Ivan and Michael. Writers' Publishing Co unknown books
1980300170New York Gelilah/Grove Press 1980. 1980. First edition first printing so stated. Frontispiece portrait of Polanski; halftones from b/w photographs. 4 pages introduction by Thomas Kiernan. Pictorial dust jacket photograph by Wilde World unclipped. Very good. 262 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Gelilah/Grove Press [1980]. hardcover books
190415715Chicago: Charles H. Kerr 1904. First English Language Edition. Octavo 22cm. Publisher's gray cloth boards decorated and lettered in black on front cover with pictorial paste-on; 57pp; frontispiece and two inserted leaves of plates with tissue guards. Light bumps to corners light wear; Near Fine with stamped ownership signature of John G. Hughes to front endpaper. Lafargue's classic anti-Capitalist parable first published in French in 1900. This edition ranslated by Charles Kerr himself and illustrated with halftone plates by Dorothy Deene. Paul Lafargue 1842-1911 though best remembered as Karl Marx's son-in-law was an important socialist critic and journalist in his own right author of the famous and much-reprinted tract Le droit à la paresse "The Right To Be Lazy" in 1887. Charles H. Kerr unknown books
190731253Girard KS: The Appeal to Reason 1907. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20cm; red cloth with titles stamped in white on spine and front cover; 416 vi 2pp. Slight forward lean scattered foxing to text edges lower corners bumped with some rubbing to lettering though still quite legible; Very Good sound copy. A novel of the Colorado mine wars billed in the Publisher's introduction as "unique.from the fact that the author has introduced a new experiment in realistic story writing in that all his characters are real persons and only in a few instances are fictitious names used." HANNA 1864; BLAKE p.231; RIDEOUT p.292. The Appeal to Reason unknown books
184247080Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society 1842. First American stated. Not found in American Imprints. Publisher's printed blue paper wrappers. General wear & soiling/staining to wrappers with japanese paper reinforcement along spine. Holes to rear wrapper extending through the last two leaves affecting the text though not the sense thereof. Foxing. A Good copy. 52 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrated with cuts. 5-3/4" x 3-3/4" <br/><br/>OCLC records just a single institutional holding. Massachusetts Sabbath School Society unknown books
18764763London: T. Nelson and Sons 1876. First Edition. Chromolithograph frontispiece and vignette title-page. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth gilt. Fine. First Edition. Chromolithograph frontispiece and vignette title-page. 1 vols. 8vo. With presentation inscription on the half-title from the author dated April 7 1876 Edinburgh: "To Archibald H. Bryce Esq. D.C.L. & L.L.D. With the sincere esteem of the Author A. Young." The collected hymns and poems of this author - "a work which entitles him to high rank among Scottish minor poets." DNB. T. Nelson and Sons unknown books
185944076Bangor: Wheeler & Lunde Printers 1859. 1st Printing. Original publisher's printed yellow paper wrappers sewn. Average wear & soiling. Faint vertical fold line. Very Good. 12 pp. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/> Wheeler & Lunde, Printers 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
195347331New York: The Blue Heron Press 1953. Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. One of an unstated number of copies signed by the author on a decorative plate tipped onto the front pastedown this being copy no.497. Octavo 21cm; publisher's mauve and white patterned paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip with titles stamped in gilt on spine; mauve topstain; publisher's original glassine overlay; xviii2646pp. Trivial wear to lower corners tiny tear with attendant crease to right margin of half-title page else very Near Fine in a glassine with numerous tears creases and small losses. Handsome edition of this cornerstone sociological work by Du Bois first published by A.C. McClurg in 1903. "Souls Of Black Folk was written beautifully in a style which Du Bois labored to perfect. It is one of the noteworthy books not merely of the period but of the epoch. The monumental work was the opening salvo in the struggle that has dominated the century for black and white Americans: the quest for dignity justice and equality.Every page is filled with spirituality and with spontaneity" Blockson 52. This edition bears a new foreword by Du Bois titled "Fifty Years After" and introductory matter by his wife Shirley Graham Du Bois. The Blue Heron Press unknown books
197938454Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press 1979. 8vo pp. xii 308; a near fine copy in original red cloth in a lightly worn dust jacket. <br/><br/> Indiana University Press hardcover books
8076London: William Reeves. Second Edition. 1891. Original printed wrappers; iv 117 2pp. Losses to spine; covers chipped at extremities; early ownership signature to title page. Text intact and quite fresh; a Good or better copy of the ephemeral second British edition issued as No. 12 in the publisher's "Bellamy Library." The author was a nephew of John Humphrey Noyes and grew up as a resident of Noyes's Oneida Community. The novel promotes the technique of "Male Continence" as practiced at Oneida and suggests that women are entitled to withhold sex from their husbands as a means of birth control the "Strike of a Sex" of the title. Octavo. William Reeves unknown books
192326692Philadephia Pennsylvania: Presbyterian Board of Publications and Sabbath School Work 1923. 4 pages; with black and white illustrations. Includes the cover story by Grace E. Osborne "The Best Fishing Day" and an anti-Hindu beliefs pro-Christian missionary promotional "The Goddess of Smallpox" by Elizabeth Donovan. Approx. 6 3/4" x 9 3/4" size; old fold lines; light wear and in very good condition. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Presbyterian Board of Publications and Sabbath School Work paperback books
18605280fdLondon: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge n.d. ca. 1860. Oblong quarto decorated stiff orange wrappers 49 pp. Illustrated with twenty-two wood engravings by Josiah Wood Whimper. Good; cover shows wear front hinge broken interior clean and complete. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d. [ca. 1860]. unknown books
192626140.1Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1926. 1st US edition. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. Printed red paper dust jacket. VG slight cock/VG some modest extremity wear & chipping. xviii 153 1 blank pp. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/>"The strange story of a war hero who read his own obituaries and sat down in protest to write the naked truth about himself." - dj blurb. A work of fiction by this Oxford historian. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
197916393Beijing: Foreign Languages Press 1979. First English Language Edition. 12mo. Original pictorial card wrappers; 64pp 10 leaves of photographic plates halftones. Covers slightly rubbed with spot of sticker residue at head of front wrapper else Near Fine. Collection of poems produced during the first state-sponsored Tiananmen Incident in April 1976 when hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens rallied to commemorate the late premier Zhou Enlai and to effect the state-ordained downfall of the Gang of Four. Includes ten leaves 20 pages of photographic illustrations. Foreign Languages Press unknown books
192546513Cambridge: Washburn & Thomas 1925. 1st edition thus. Black cloth spine over green paper-wrapped boards. Printed paper title labels to spine & front board. Printed green paper dust jacket. Modest wear a VG book in a Fair - Good jacket lacking the spine panel. 49 1 pp. Illustrations from Cruikshank's 19th C efforts. 12mo. <br/><br/> Washburn & Thomas hardcover books
1824014652Glasgow: Printed for Chalmers & Collins 1824. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. 224 pages of text followed by iv pages of publisher's advertisement. Original maroon three quarter leather binding with marbled paper-covered boards and bright green spine label; moderately rubbed and slightly darkened. Illustrated by a frontis of Richard Gordon drawn by A. Henderson and engraved on steel by J. Swan. Original Wm. Collins bookseller ticket on the inside front cover. Lacks the front endpaper. The first 24 pages are very slightly foxed and this quire is slightly loosened. An attractive little volume with no copies in worldwide library holdings as shown on WorldCat. First edition. Printed for Chalmers & Collins Hardcover books
