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Chicanos - Our Background and Our Pride

19721139Texas: First edition 1972. Paperback. Good. Orange paperback presumed reprint as he seems to have original written this in the 60s. Signed and inscribed by Chicano author and poet Nephtali De Leon on the title page "Para Salvador Ramirez quien me enseno a comprendar el carino de nuestro pueblo." Which translates roughly to "for Salvador Ramirez who taught me to understand the love of our people." A good only copy with heavy wear at the cover edges - scuffing to the covers and a crease to the rear cover. Inside the front cover there is some browning - appears to be from old glue - but not library indications. Mr. Ramirez has used his personal name stamp on the title page and on the last page. Pages are unmarked otherwise and the binding is intact and not split. 95 pp. with illustrations by the author. First edition paperback

Tangible Tales · États-Unis150,00 $US≈ 126,92 €

Delaney, Beauford ; David LeemingBiblio.com

Beauford Delaney

1999003931New York: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery 1999. Hardcover. Very Good /very good . 8vo. 64 pp. Bound in illustrated boards in glassine dust jacket printed in red on covers and spine. Hardbound edition of 300 copies. Illustrated with black and white photographs and full color plates. Essay by David Leeming. Includes chronology and exhibition checklist. Catalog for an exhibition held at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery New York from September 9-October 30 1999. Near Fine faint age-toning to margins minor rubbing to extremities of binding in Very Good dust jacket with 1/2" tear to bottom edge of rear cover a few shorter tears and light wear to extremities. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery hardcover

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ESQUIVEL, LauraBiblio.com

Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes Romances and Home Remedies

198931956New York: Doubleday 1989. Paperback. Translation by Carol Christensen and Thomas Christensen.12mo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 246pp. Near fine. Quite uncommon advance review copy of the first U.S. edition of this Mexican author's first book. Doubleday paperback

Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA · États-Unis150,00 $US≈ 126,92 €

Etheridge KnightBiblio.com

BORN OF A WOMAN New and Selected Poems

1980006308Boston: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 1980. Born of a Woman: Signed 1st Edition. Book in very good clean condition. Wearing along spine and edges. . Dedication signed by Author. 1st. Pictorial Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket as issued. 7" x 5". HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY paperback

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Etheridge KnightBiblio.com

POEMS FROM PRISON

1988006309Detroit: Broadside Press 1988. Book in very good clean condition. 1st Edition 8th Printing. Pictorial Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket as issued. Illus. by Preface by Gwendolyn Brooks. 7" x 4". Broadside Press paperback

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Evans, HenryBiblio.com

SPECIMEN SHEET AND PRICE LIST OF THE WORLD'S FINEST PRINTING INKS FOR ALL FINE LETTERPRESS WORK MANUFACTURED BY JÄNECKE-SCHNEEMANN K.G. OF HANNOVER GERMANY

195747529San Francisco: Peregrine Press / Henry Evans 1957. Folded sheet. Fine. Large folded sheet 12.5 x 19 inches with seven printed color examples of the nine inks offered. One of only 250 copies issued of this broadside. A fine and bright copy. Peregrine Press / Henry Evans unknown

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FAULKNER, WilliamBiblio.com

The Hamlet

19404142New York: Random House 1940. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. 421pp. Very good. Minor edgewear and minor sunning of spine. First edition a later state not in the black cloth. Lacks jacket but tight and clean with the handsome color title page. Random House hardcover

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Gallagher, CaroleBiblio.com

American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War Signed

1993009054Cambridge: MIT Press. Signed first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Cambridge: MIT Press 1993 first printing. Square 4to. 10 1/4" x 10 1/4" xxxiii426pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs. "For twelve years beginning in 1951 the United States government conducted above ground testing of nuclear weapons in the deserts of Nevada. For more than four decades it has tried to cover up the human and environmental devastation wrought by this testing. In American Ground Zero Carole Gallagher has penetrated the veil of official secrecy and anonymity to document the incredible untold story of the Americans whose misfortune it was to live downwind of the nuclear detonations - those citizens described in a top-secret Atomic Energy Commission memo as "a low-use segment of the population" - and of civilian workers and military personnel exposed to radiation at the Nevada Test Site." Inscribed by author on title page. Some dust foxing on top and front edge of page block else fine in a very good dust jacket with an internal mend along the rear fold and a crinkle along bottom front edge. . Near Fine. Hard. 1st. 1993. MIT Press unknown

The Wild Muse · États-Unis150,00 $US≈ 126,92 €

Grey, ZaneBiblio.com

Arizona Ames

19322222041Early reprint edition. Octavo. 2 halftone illustrations on endpapers by Stockton Mulford. Original blue cloth stmaped in black slight rubbing; spine faded. No dust jacket. Good. 310 pages.Boldly signed and inscribed by Grey in blue fountain pen ink on the pictorial front free endpaper: "To Hellen Louise and Virginia Leota McClure Zane Grey." Grosset & Dunlap hardcover

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HABBERTON, JohnBiblio.com

Romance of California Life; Illustrated by Pacific Slope Stories Thrilling Pathetic and Humorous

188042415New York: Baker Pratt & Co 1880. Hardcover. 8vo. Emerald green pebble-grained cloth with gilt spine rules and lettering and black rules and decorations. 502pp 2pp ads. Frontispiece numerous illustrations some full page. Very good. Mild edgewear only and bit of faint rubbing mainly at spine. A tight lovely first edition of these fictional tales about early California life many first published in "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper" under the title "Some Folks" -- which appears here on the half-title page and as the frontispiece caption. "Romance of California Life" is the best known title of this author and "New York Herald" literary and drama critic 1842-1921 -- although he also authored the anonymous and legendary1876 juvenile title "Helen's Babies. Baker, Pratt & Co hardcover

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Hinshaw, Glennis and Lisabeth Lovelace, compilersBiblio.com

A Bibliography of Writings and Illustrations by Tom Lea: An Illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibit

19712222212First edition. 8" x 10 1/4". Compilers' preface introduction by Frank Connally. 22 illustrations one double-page. Printed in brown on deckle-edge paper. Bibliography. Pictorial green dust jacket. Fine. 54 pages. No other signatures or bookplates.Number 247 of 280 numbered copies signed by Lea on limitation page.Includes 2 page invitation to opening exhibit. El Paso Public Library hardcover

Houle Rare Books & Autographs · États-Unis150,00 $US≈ 126,92 €

HOOD, ThomasBiblio.com

Works Of Thomas Hood

18690009291London: E. Moxon Son & Co. 1869. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Thick 12mos green cloth tips of vol. 1 frayed This popular cheap edition - for the people - includes some hitherto unpublished dramatic fragments. Tipped-in at vol. 1 is a Autograph Note Signed on Fun Office letterhead a thank you note written and signed by Tom Hood. E. Moxon, Son, & Co. hardcover

Thomas J. Joyce And Company · États-Unis150,00 $US≈ 126,92 €

Kotur, AlexandraBiblio.com

Carolina Herrera: Portrait of a Fashion Icon

2004009093NY: Assouline Publishing. Signed first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Assouline Publishing 2004 first printing. Folio 10 1/2" x 13 3/4" 197pp. lavishly illustrated with color and b/w photos. Inscribed by Herrera on half title: "To Annette Carolina Herrera." "Through the celebrated photography of Annie Leibovitz Francesco Scavullo Horst Robert Mapplethorpe and Mario Testino as well as the words of friends colleagues and admirers sucg as Calvin Klein Ian Schrager and Bianca Jagger among others Carolina Herrera is a portrait of one of today s most timeless designers. With an introduction by Hamish Bowles this book tells the story of one of fashion s most remarkable women." Fine in fine dust jacket. . Fine. Hard. 1st. 2004. Assouline Publishing unknown

The Wild Muse · États-Unis150,00 $US≈ 126,92 €

MAPPLETHORPE, RobertBiblio.com

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE: CERTAIN PEOPLE

19852020655Pasadena CA: Twelvetrees Press 1985. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Folio unpaginated cloth spine and dj bumped with wear. "Certain Mapplethorpes" a preface by Susan Sontag: "Mapplethorpe wants to photograph everything: that is everything that can be made to pose. . What he looks for which could be called Form is the quiddity or isness of something. Not the truth about something but the strongest version of it." One of 5000 casebound copies. Twelvetrees Press hardcover

Thomas J. Joyce And Company · États-Unis150,00 $US≈ 126,92 €

Miller, MaxBiblio.com

Typed Letter Signed

1961500438On letterhead La Jolla CA August 2 1961: to Harold Heifetz a long interesting letter regarding a proposed film project in Ensenada. 4to. 1 page.

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Montaigne, Michel de; Cotton, Charles (translator); Hazlett, William Carew (editor)Biblio.com

The Works of Michel de Montaigne:with Notes Life and Letters Complete in Ten Volumes

1910005049New York NY U.S.A.: Edwin C. Hill 1910. This is the Emerson Edition of the complete essays of Montaigne published in a limited edition of 1050 copies this is #492 in 1910 with the text translated by Charles Cotton first published in1685-86 as revised and corrected by the editor William Carew Hazlitt grandson of the English essayist Wiilam Hazlitt; the first volume includes Emerson's essay on Montaigne and a preface by the editor; the last volume includes a sketch of the life of Montaigne his letters and the notes and index for all of the volumes; each volume contains a frontispiece and three additional illustrations quarter tan cloth over green paper-covered boards title and volume number on tan paper spine label gilt top edge other edges are rough-cut; all volumes are good to very good; some volumes have worn edges and/or corners; all spines are darkened; otherwise these are clean tight sturdy copies; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore; this set can only be shipped within the United States and will require an extra shipping charge. Quarter Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Limited Edition. Edwin C. Hill hardcover

House of Our Own Books · États-Unis150,00 $US≈ 126,92 €

MOSS, GeoffreyBiblio.com

DEFEAT

1924160525ORIGINAL BLUE CLOTH STAMPED IN ORANGE; SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY MOSS TO HOLLYWOOD COLUMNIST LOUELLA PARSONS; LAID IN LOOSE IS AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED FROM THE AUTHOR TO PARSONS TRANSMITTING THIS BOOK AND ENCLOSING A PHOTOGRAPH OF HIMSELF NEW YORK CITY DECEMBER 5 1924 ON D.W. GRIFFITH LETTERHEAD; MOSS'S STORY "ISN'T LIFE WONDERFUL" WHICH IS INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK WAS FILMED BY GRIFFITH IN 1924. BONI & LIVERIGHT hardcover

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Page, MarcoBiblio.com

The Shadow Third

19462222066First edition. Octavo. Color pictorial dust jacket unclipped; few nicks. Very good. 228 pages.Second novel by the noted screenwriter Harry Kurnitz 1907-1968.Signed and inscribed by Kurnitz in black ink on the front free endpaper: "To Bill Goetz from an oarsman in the galley Marco Kurnitz."Goetz 1903-1969 noted American producer; films include: "Sayonara" 1957; "They Came To Cordura" 1958.Hagen page 226.Catalogue of Crime #1680 reprinted in 1948 under title: "Suspects All."Kurnitz authored the play "A Shot in the Dark" and "Once More With Feeling." His some 30 screenplays include "Witness for the Prosecution"; "See Here Private Hargrove"; "A Kiss in the Dark"; "How To Steal a Million." Dodd, Mead & Company

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PAUL, Elliot HBiblio.com

Impromptu: A Novel in Four Movements

19238118New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1923. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Lavender cloth. 356pp. Decorated endpapers. Good plus. Some shelf- and edgewear; a bit rubbed. First edition "March 1923" of the author's second book a tight and decent copy -- rather worn yes but respectable and a scarce title. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover

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Phelps, William LyonBiblio.com

Autographed Letter 1937 by Phelps William Lyon American Author

1937biblio37A brief note 'Easter Greetings' from your friend Wm Lyon Phelps 1937 to Ms Sarah J Newland. Some folds present otherwise a nice piece. Would go well with a Pheps Novel or book.William Lyon Phelps January 2 1865 New Haven Connecticut - August 21 1943 New Haven Connecticut was an American author critic and scholar. He taught the first American university course on the modern novel. He was a well-known speaker who drew large crowds. He had a radio show wrote a daily syndicated newspaper column lectured frequently and published numerous popular books and articles.Early life and educationPhelps' father Sylvanus Dryden Phelps was a Baptist minister. William as a child was a friend of Frank Hubbard the son of Langdon Hubbard a lumber merchant who founded Huron City Michigan. Phelps earned a B.A. in 1887 writing an honors thesis on the Idealism of George Berkeley. He earned his A.M. in 1891 from Yale and in the same year his Ph.D. from Harvard. He taught at Harvard for a year and then returned to Yale where he was offered a position in the English department. He taught at Yale the rest of life.Phelps was engaged to marry Frank's sister Annabel when Langdon Hubbard died. Annabel inherited the family estate and William christened it "The House of the Seven Gables" after the Nathanial Hawthorne story of the same name. Her father built the house in 1882 on a bluff overlooking Lake Huron. The couple was married on the estate on December 21 1892 and it became their summer home.Phelps converted the space in front of the house from a trotting track into a private 18-hole golf course golf course in 1899 and they lived there part-time from 1893 through 1933 when he retired and full-time through 1938. They had no children.Academic and professional lifePhelps was very athletic and played what was then the new game of baseball as well as golf and lawn tennis. He studied the novelists lie Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev. During his first year at Yale he offered a course in modern novels. This brought the university considerable attention nationally and internationally which upset his tenured peers at Yale. He agreed to give up the course for a while to avoid the media attention. Responding to popular demand by his students and to avoid scrutiny he taught the same course outside the official curriculum. Once the unfavorable attention died down he was appointed Lampson Professor of English Literature in 1901.Phelps' courses became the most popular and well attended on campus. He had an engaging speaking style and was personally involved with what he taught. He wrote about English and European literature. During trips to Europe he met many of the leading writers of the turn of the 19th century.Phelps taught at Yale for 41 years before retiring in 1933. From 1941 to 1943 he was the director of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans.Public speaking and writingPhelps could be an incandescent and inspirational orator drawing large audiences wherever he spoke. He lectured on the famous Town Hall Lecture circuit nationwide.5 During the summer of 1922 the pastor of the Huron City Methodist Episcopal Church asked him to preach regularly for the season. He had previously preached there occasionally and his afternoon services started to attract large crowds. The little church was remodeled twice in 1925 and again in 1929 to accommodate the crowds. His wife's parents made substantial contributions that made the expansions possible.At the height of his speaking popularity from 800 and 1000 people attended his summer services. Some first hand accounts describe overflow crowds sitting outside the packed church so they could listen through the windows.6 He became known throughout the world as a leading literary scholar educator author book critic and preacher.After his retirement from Yale he continued to present public lectures radio talks and write a daily newspaper column about books and authors. He continued to give a series of Sunday sermons each summer and offer a 20-week lecture course in literature during the winter. He presented several college commencement addresses each year and served as a judge of the Pulitzer Prize for literature and on book club selection committees.LegacyDuring his time as a Yale professor Phelps invited a number of the Senior Class' notable students together in 1884 and founded The Pundits. They dined weekly at Mory's a private club adjacent to the campus. The group regularly lampooned the campus with elaborate pranks.Phelps encouraged Alexander Smith Cochran to dedicate the Cochran family's extensive collection of Shakespearean folios and other rare books to endow a private club for the arts and humanities. This became the Elizabethan Club which is still active as of 2011.In 1938 Life magazine ran an article profiling Phelps' life. His wife Annabel died of a stroke in 1939 and William died in 1943. Phelps bequeathed the house to his niece Carolyn Hubbard Parcells Lucas. In 1951 a museum was opened in the home to house Phelps' library and to focus on the history of Huron City. In 1964 the Pointe aux Barques Life Saving Station house was moved here. In 1987 Carolyn Lucas died and the William Lyon Phelps Foundation took over the house and museum.Quotes"If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything including those things that other people are certain are impossible.""The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development who love good music good books good pictures good company good conversation are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves they are the cause of happiness in others.""If at first you don't succeed find out if the loser gets anything.""This is the first test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him."The professor asked his students to discuss the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins' "sprung rhythm" technique. One young man handed in his exam reading "Only God knows the answer to your question. Merry Christmas." Professor Phelps returned the paper after Christmas with the note "Happy New Year. God gets an A—you get an F."

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PIPER, WattyBiblio.com

The Cock The Mouse and the Little Red Hen

1925300437Presumed first edition. 8vo. 12 color and 11 b/w illustrations by Eulalie. Original color pictorial boards with dark blue cloth spine; pictorial endpapers with 10 circular vignettes including one of Little Black Sambo corners slightly rubbed. No dust jacket. Very Good. 25 pages. The Platt & Munk Co. Ltd. hardcover

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Powell, ThomasBiblio.com

Living Authors Of America.

18500007886New York: Stringer and Townsend 1850. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 365 pages inked name on title-page foxing publisher's black embossed cloth Despite this title this work includes a lengthy chapter on Edgar Allan Poe whose death in noted in its first paragraph. Washington Irving is notably absent in this list of authors which includes J. F. Cooper Emerson Dana Prescott Willis Longfellow Bryant Halleck Osgood Fuller Strickland and Jared Sparks. Stringer and Townsend hardcover

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R V HarrisBiblio.com

THE OAK ISLAND MYSTERY

1967006312Toronto: The Ryerson Press 1967. The Oak Island mystery is a 200-year-old treasure hunt centered on a suspected man-made "Money Pit" on a Nova Scotia island rumored to hold hidden pirate booty Shakespearean manuscripts or the Holy Grail. Since 1795 explorers have tried to uncover it but are stopped by ingenious flooding flood tunnels with six people having died in the search. 2nd Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good to Very Good. 7 1/2" x 5". Clear Brodart Covering. The Ryerson Press hardcover

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Rembert, Winfred and Jock ReynoldsBiblio.com

Winfred Rembert

2010004098New York: Adelson Galleries 2010. Paperback. Near Fine. Folio. 120 pp. Bound in full-color embossed wrappers. Full-color plates. Introduction by Warren Adelson essay by Jock Reynolds painting captions by Winfred Rembert. Catalog for the exhibition held at Adelson Galleries in New York City April 7-May 28 2010. Fine bright copy. Adelson Galleries paperback

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