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191133358New York: Saml Gabriel Sons & Company 1911. Color pictorial wrappers stapled. A VG copy. Unpaginated though 10 pp. Illustrated including 4 full page color images. 8-5/8" x 6-5/8" <br/><br/> Saml Gabriel Sons & Company 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
1971049267Freiburg Schweiz: Univerisitätsverlag Freiburg Schweiz 1971. 238p. original stiff printed wrappers Scrinium friburgense; Veröffentlichungen des Mediaevistischen Instituts der Universität Freiburg 2. Univerisitätsverlag Freiburg Schweiz unknown books
40951San Jose CA: Better Literature Guild of California & Home Bible Study League Central California Branch n. d. Ca. 1939 - 1958. Buff printed paper. Age-toning and slight wear to paper. WIthal a VG collection. 7 periodicals each a single sheet folded once and printed on all four sides. B/w illustration to front of each. 11" x 8" <br/><br/>Collection of 7 of the New Day Series periodicals with headings such as: The Mastery of Europe Can One Man Win It and Keep It; History's Climax Nears! The Bible Predicts the Literal Return of Christ to this World in Our Day and Generation; Our Vanishing Freedom; Satan Takes a Holiday; The Test of Citizenship; Do we Keep the Sabbath Christ Kept; The Revival of Rome; God's Appeal to a Doomed World. No records of this series are found on OCLC. Better Literature Guild of California & Home Bible Study League Central California Branch unknown books
193145148Fredericton N.B.: New Brunswick Tourist Bureau 1931. 1st printing thus. Date of publication inferred from text on pages 2 and 3 of covers which is titled: "Fishing and Hunting Seasons in New Brunswick Revised to April 1st 1931". Color printed card stock covers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Modest wear. Very Good. Unpaginated though 28 pages. Text printed in brown on glossy pale-yellow stock 9-1/4" x 11" stapled in the text block folded vertically in the center. Profusely illustrated primarily from photographs. 2 maps. 9-1/4" x 5-3/4" <br/><br/>An early edition of a promotional work first published in 1929 and evidently continued under this title into the mid-1940s. New Brunswick Tourist Bureau unknown books
197465868Millbrae:: Celestial Arts. Very Good. 1974. Paperback. 0912310782 . Black and white photographs throughout. First printing thus revised paperback. Some age darkening to covers else very good in pictorial wraps. . Celestial Arts, paperback books
194248791Wichita Kansas: Published by The National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress 1942. 1st printing thus. Orange paper covers printed with black & white. General wear & soiling. Some age-toning to paper. Overall Very Good. 172 pp. Numerous b/w half-tone photographic images including suite of images at center "National Tournament in Pictures As the Show Began". Pictures by Jerry Rodgers Official Photographer. 7-7/8" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> Published by The National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress unknown books
194048856Wichita Kansas: Published by The National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress 1940. 1st printing thus. Photographic blue paper covers. Wear with front cover becoming detached. About VG. 128 D-32 Directory. Numerous b/w half-tone photographic images. 7-7/8" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/> Published by The National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress unknown books
194232920New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1942. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20.75cm; beige buckram with printed title label applied to spine; reddish-brown topstain; dustjacket; 10210pp. Hint of sunning to spine else Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.50 with light wear to extremities some faint creasing along front panel edges and a sharp vertical fold slightly left of the front joint; still an attractive Near Fine example. Attractive copy of the National Book Award-winning author's first book a novel based on a roadtrip Morris took with his father from the midwest to the west coast. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
1929WRCLIT84740London: Peter Davies 1929. Gilt red cloth. Frontis. Endsheet maps. Cloth somewhat hand-dulled edges dusty but good and sound without dust jacket. Second edition in English newly translated by the publisher of MA PIECE first published in France in 1916 and in a slightly expurgated translation in 1917. This edition included in Davies' series of "Soldier's Tales" includes a foreword by Marshal Joffre. The author was killed on the Lorraine Front four days after correcting the proofs for the 1916 edition. From the library of Siegfried Sassoon with the monogram label from the posthumous library dispersal on the verso of the front free endsheet. Falls denotes this "among the finest documents of its kind ever published. He is one of the few writers whose powers of description and of self-analysis are equally great." FALLS pp.212-3. BLUNDEN et al p.7. Peter Davies hardcover books
185728207Sydney: James W. Waugh 1857 1857. First edition. Some stains and foxing; binding worn at the corners and boards faded; a good copy. 12mo contemporary dark green quarter calf marbled paper boards red leather spine label gilt rules and lettering. Half-title present. An uncommon work of over 40 poems and sonnets by Sir Henry Parkes 1815-1896 an Englishman who migrated to Australia in 1839 and eventually became one of its most prominent political leaders. See Wikipedia. Interesting contemporary annotations in ink on the title-page one which reads "Not published / Aug 15 1857." <br/><br/> Sydney: James W. Waugh, 1857 hardcover books
199716529Norwich VT: New Victoria Publishers 1997. 1st edition. INSCRIBED. Black wrappers. Nr Fine. 203 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/>Inscribed by Beale on the title page. New Victoria Publishers unknown books
12715Used; Like New/Used; Like New. Vintage and striking modernist shot of women testing parachutes for flaws in 1942. Approx. 8.5"x 6.5" Glossy fiber silver gelatin photograph. Shot 1942 Printed 1942 w/ Snipe agency stamp date stamp and notations on verso. Excellent image quality with waviness to the paper dings and surface imperfections throughout. Small corner bends/creases. unknown books
1620257033Lutetiae Parisiorum i.e. Paris: E Typographia Renati Giffart 1620. Title-page printed in red and black with large engraved vignette by Jaspar issac. Printed in red and black throughout illustrated with full-page engravings engraved borders woodcut initial capitals in red and printed music. 1 vols. Folio. Early calf nineteenth century marbled endpapers. Covers much worn joints cracked spine perished. Defective copy lacking numerous leaves but with 17 iinserted leave printed on velllum including the entire "Canon Missae" 8 leaves. Title-page printed in red and black with large engraved vignette by Jaspar issac. Printed in red and black throughout illustrated with full-page engravings engraved borders woodcut initial capitals in red and printed music. 1 vols. Folio. Bbl-7CcDD7-EE6 &HH7-II2 are printed on parchment. OCLC: 633338957 1 copy E Typographia Renati Giffart unknown books
1792252168Edinburgh: Printed by J. Robertson South Bridge-Street 1792. Second edition revised and enlarged. The first edition 1791 was of 240 pages. Pp. 335 1 on a proposed translation of Buchanan. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary sheep red spine label. Spine defective ends worn cracked but holding internally clean. Second edition revised and enlarged. The first edition 1791 was of 240 pages. Pp. 335 1 on a proposed translation of Buchanan. 1 vols. 8vo. Assembly of literary essays and poems by Francis Garden Lord Gardenstone 1721-1793 judge and landowner in Kincardineshire.<br/><br/>"He was a man of many peculiarities one of which was an extreme fondness for pigs. It is related that a visitor called on him early one morning before he was up and being shown into the bedroom in the dark stumbled against something which gave a terrible grunt. At this Gardenstone said 'It is just a bit sow poor beast and I laid my breeches on it to keep it warm all night'" ODNB citing an anecdote in Kay A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings. Printed by J. Robertson, South Bridge-Street 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
2019173034Vancouver British Columbia Canada: Rennie Collection 2019. First edition. Hardcover. 111 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran November 8 2014 through March 28 2015. Introduction by Bob Rennie. Essay by Horia-Roman Patapievici is in English French and Romanian. Includes numerous color illustrations. A fine copy in blue cloth boards. No dust jacket as issued. Rennie Collection unknown books
1999000294Magadan: Kordis 1999. Soft cover. Near Fine. First edition; 8vo; pp. 1 4-162; original pictorial wraps; a few faint blue spots to spine and minor dust-dulling to margins of back cover else fine. 1 of only 500 copies ever printed. Signed/inscribed by Tchaikovsky to Prof. Anatoly Liberman a prominent academician and author from the Department of German Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota. The book follows the music and literary art of Okudzhava during the last 15 years of his life and more specifically the challenges of translating his poetry into other languages while keeping the flow and beauty of the original Russian. Magadan: Kordis paperback books
2010129555Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura 2010. Softcover. VG- corners bumped and slightly creased light stain to block edge interior is otherwise clean. Red/tan wraps with red blue and bw stamp images 297 pp. profuse illustrations in color and bw. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Museo de Filatelia de Oaxaca Mufi Aug. 2010-Jan. 2011. Essays by Roberto Liera Gutierrez Marcus Winter Samuel Villela F. Mireida Velazquez and Susana Herrera Avina. Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura paperback books
201584355Durham:: Duke University Press. Fine. 2015. Paperback. 9780822360346 . First paperback edition. Fine in pictorial wraps. . Duke University Press, paperback books
1960174850Mexico D.F.: INAH 1960. Paperback. VG/VG- light wear to wraps. moderate corner/edge wear to dust jacket plus some light scuffing. Cream wraps with brown lettering and illustration. 178 pp. Illustrations map. Text in Spanish. Contains bibliograpical references and index. INAH paperback books
198137941San Francisco: Merlyn Gorky N.d. ca 1981. First Edition. Twenty-four letterpress broadside poems each 16cm x 11cm 5-1/2" x 4-1/4" or the reverse. Loose as issued with no enclosing envelope. Printed in different color inks on various cardstocks; each with imprint on verso. Together comprising Issue No. 2 of Merlyn Gorky a short-lived radical left literary-political journal there appear to have been only two numbers issued edited by the feminist poet Susu Jeffrey. Fourteen of the cards are signed a few with inscriptions; two dated May-June 1981. Complete and fine. <br/><br/>Of particular note is the signed contribution by "Pancho Aguila" - this was the prison pseudonym of notorious poet/criminal Roberto Solis convicted of murder in an armored car heist in 1969 released in 1992 and currently 2018 a fugitive from justice wanted in connection with a $3-million armored-card robbery in 1993. His autograph is uncommon. Issues 1-2 apparently all issued; no. 1 not located in OCLC no. 2 rare with OCLC recording one location only Delaware. Includes the following signed or inscribed where noted: <br/><br/> • Beyond Skinner's box / Steve Abbott signed<br/> • Mummy / Pancho Aguila signed<br/> • Spring Day / Dick Bakken<br/> • An ode to the great migrations / Andrew Benson signed<br/> • The Jew and the gentile / Carol Bergé<br/> • Mission district / Peter Brett signed<br/> • The warmonger's beatitude / Chinweizu<br/> • Nine lines / Geoffrey Cook<br/> • Dialectic / R. V. Cottam signed<br/> • As the general / John Curl signed<br/> • Just a note for the darkness / Tony D'Arpino<br/> • I dreamed I killed a butterfly. / Mathew Forstater<br/> • Postcard V for Susan Roach / Gary Gach signed with initials "ggg"<br/> • It makes all the difference / Phillip Guddemi<br/> • I used to lie on my back / Philip Hackett signed dated 6/1/81<br/> • A broad casting / Susu Jeffrey signed<br/> • Mist / Joyce Jenkins signed<br/> • War is a game / S. Lee<br/> • Why do the young always die / John Mueller signed<br/> • Identity crisis / Peter Pussydog<br/> • Ingredients / John S. Selby<br/> • Fish knot / Calvin Senter signed<br/> • 26 x 76 / David Shevin signed<br/> • Postcard / C. W. Truesdale inscribed: "for the San Francisco Poster Brigade / C.W. Truesdale" dated 20 May 1981. Merlyn Gorky unknown books
191018220New York: Henry Holt and Company 1910. First Edition. First Issue per Ahearn one of approximately 613 copies. Octavo; vertical-ribbed maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; 252pp 10 ads. Some trivial rubbing to extremities with light spotting to upper edge of text; Near Fine. A collection of letters written between Mencken and his friend Robert Rives La Monte who worked at the Baltimore News as well as being an editor for the International Socialist Review. La Monte who whole-heartedly believed in the promise of socialism wrote six letters to his friend in an effort to convince him to reject his selfish ways and become a comrade in the revolution. Mencken an avowed individualist presents his fiery responses to La Monte's plea for total equality and universal brotherhood. Scarce in the trade particularly in this condition. APG 011a. Henry Holt and Company unknown books
195461332Mexico: Imprenta Universitaria de Mexico 1954. Paperback. Very Good. 276p. Original wrapper. 24cm. Backstrip darkened. Spanish text. <br/><br/> Imprenta Universitaria de Mexico paperback books
1994234356Mexico City: ISSSTE Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado 1994. Magazine. 80p. 8x10.5 inches text in Spanish illustrations and photos color plates history art cinema literature very good magazine in brown pictorial wraps. ISSSTE [Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado] unknown books