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199982665Montgomery: Black Belt Press 1999. First Edition. First printing. Quarto; pictorial glossy card wrappers softcover as issued; 543pp; illus. Mild corner-creasing and wear to covers; internally clean complete and unmarked; Very Good. <br /> <br /> Anthology of writings from participants in the Civil Rights struggles of the Sixties; contributors include Julian Bond Guy and Candie Carawan Bob Dylan Myrlie Evers John Lewis Bob Moses Pete Seeger and many others. Published in partnership with the Cultural Center for Social Change. Black Belt Press unknown
198782648New York: William Morrow and Company 1987. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 24cm; beige paper-covered boards and dark grey cloth backstrip with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 78-592pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "Max Kennedy / "We'll never turn back" / Mary King." Old splash marks affecting upper half of front pastedown faint foxing to text edges though contents are clean; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $22.95 with light surface wear some rubbing to extremities faint foxing on verso and a few tiny splash marks to front flap; Very Good. <br /> <br /> Memoir by King b.1940 a white civil rights activist drafted into the movement by Ella Baker recounting her involvement with SNCC the 1964 murder of three of her fellow workers in Mississippi and her association with Julian Bond Marion Barry Andrew Young Martin Luther King Jr. and others. 82648. William Morrow and Company unknown
197487300Washington DC: Howard University Press 1974. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.5cm; maroon cloth with titles stamped in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x23-1011pp. Fine in a Very Good dustjacket unclipped priced $6.95 with light wear to extremities a few small closed tears and attendant creases. First five plays by the former playwright-in-residence at Howard University . 87300. Howard University Press unknown
200686001Cambridge MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2006. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 24cm; black cloth with tiltes stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xii6111pp; illus. The book would be about Fine but for highlighting to a dozen early pages along with some light pencil marginalia to same; Very Good. Dustjacket is Near Fine and unclipped priced $39.95. The definitive biography of the noted Harlem Renaissance author and Guggenheim Fellow. 86001. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press unknown
195983745New York: Harper & Brothers 1959. First Edition. First Printing with "First Edition" and the publisher's "D-I" code on copyright page. Octavo 21.75cm; red and black cloth-covered boards with titling and publisher's logo stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xiv2091pp. Crown gently nudged light wear to lower board edges and upper corners with some faint foxing to upper edge of textblock; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.95 shelfworn gently spine-sunned with several tears attendant creases and losses to extremities and a significant triangular chip to upper rear panel; only Very Good. Important memoir by Blossom 1906-1965 the former Superintendent of Schools in Little Rock Arkansas who oversaw the integration of Little Rock Central High School. Portions of the book were published as a series of articles in the Saturday Evening Post. 83745. Harper & Brothers unknown
195082692New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1950. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21.5cm; beige cloth with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; x3091pp. Spine ends lightly nudged with a stray tiny ink mark to lower edge of textblock; contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $3.00 with remainder price rubber-stamped directly beneath; gently spine-sunned a bit shelfworn and dusty with a few tiny nicks and tears and a 2.5" split alont lower front joint; Very Good. <br /> <br /> "As Told To" autobiography of Haywood Patterson one of the nine defendants in the Scottsboro case. Patterson served 12 years of a life sentence before escaping to New York in 1945. A thorough account of the "crime" of which the Nine were clearly innocent and its aftermath but the book is best for its descriptions of Alabama prison and chain-gang life in the thirties. Patterson's co-author Earl Conrad was a white leftist loosely affiliated with the C.P. and the author a number of African American biographies all with a Marxist slant. He was drummed out of Party circles after his 1952 novel Rock Bottom was criticized for portraying inner-city Blacks as "degraded" characters. BLOCKSON 4603; SEIDMAN P49; SUVAK 248. 82692. Doubleday & Company, Inc unknown
190912170Berlin: J. Hermann Herz. 1909. Hardcover. Good. Boards darkened. Light rubbing to spine ends. Hinges started. First few pages frail chipped and detached but present. Tanned pages throughout; Profusely illustrated. Fold out map inset. Business advertisements featured throughout; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 867 pages . J. Hermann Herz hardcover
198013709New York: George Braziller 1980. First American edition. Boards. Very Good in Very Good DJ. Octavo pp. 247. Indexed illustrated with 20 b/w photos and numerous b/w drawings plans and details. Includes publisher's press release. A well-researched book on the development of Edwardian architecture in England and America focusing on the work of important architects and designers such as Newton Lutyens Voysey and Elgar and the influence of the Edwardian response to the decorative excesses of the Victorian era and a return to traditional building techniques and materials. From the Old House Journal Reference Library. George Braziller hardcover
16369University Press of Kansas. Hard Cover w/illustrated DJ. Near Fine in Near Fine DJ. Octavo pp 296 including index. Extensively illustrated with b/w photographs drawings and floor plans. A thorough technical and architectural history of the development of balloon frame construction in Midwestern houses. Its innovative features popularity among settlers and influence on other building types is explored. University Press of Kansas hardcover
201528873New York:: Simon & Schuster 2015. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. When Orville and Wilbur Wright worked together no problem seemed to be insurmountable. They had no more than a public high school education and little money but that didn't stop them from teaching the world how to fly. Master historian David McCullough captures the timeless importance of the Wright brothers' achievement and what it took to make their dream come true. Simon & Schuster, unknown
1980000015136Dublin: Premier Print Company Limited 1980. Poster. Very Good or better. 31" x 20". Poster. Text in white and yellow below a reproduction of the illuminated image of Christ taken from the Book of Kells. Everything printed on a purple background. The poster discusses the monastery of Kells and the history of the production of the Book of Kells. Some rubbing to the poster's recto and light wear to its verso. Premier Print Company Limited unknown
198354321Tempe: School of Art Arizona State University 1983. First edition. Alexandra. Small 8vo. 14 pp. 4 b&w photos. Stiff wrappers. Fine. Queen Alexandra was the eldest daughter and second eldest child of Prince Christien of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderbury-Glucksburg; she married Edward Prince of Wales in 1863. By the time the Danish Princess of Wales became Queen she had been a recognized royal amateur photographer for fifteen years. Besides family scenes her interests were architectural seascape and country genre studies. No. 5 of the History of Photography Monograph Series; limited to 200 copies. School of Art, Arizona State University unknown
198354319Tempe: School of Art Arizona State University 1983. First edition. Ricca Barbara Lynn. Small 8vo. 24 pp. 6 full-page b&w illustrations. Stiff wrappers. Fine. Ms. Ricca a native New Yorker and graphic designer recounts the limitations imposed upon Victorian ladies which have evolved from being told how what and when to wear certain clothes. A treatise on photographic fashion and the bicycle. No. 7 of the History of Photography Monograph Series; limited to 200 copies. School of Art, Arizona State University unknown
197686312Austin Texas: University of Texas Press 1976. Stated Third Printing. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's bright blue cloth titled in black and silver gilt to spine. Dustjacket. xvii; 552pp. Clean and sharp very light wear; internally clean and fresh; in a bright priceclipped dustjacket with some light scuffing to the front panel. A very good clean copy.<br /> <br /> An attempt to separate historical fact from mythological fiction regarding migration of ancient peoples from the Old World to the New via ocean travel. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn noted poet translator and anthropologist bearing his bookplate to the front pastedown. University of Texas Press unknown
196614184Beirut: Palestine Liberation Organization 1966. First edition. Original Wraps. Good condition but mild ex-library. Pages tanned front cover creased FFEP and first few pages cut rear hinge loose otherwise good and legible. Small Quarto pp. 221. Number 4 in a series entitled "Palestine Books" whose publication was funded by the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center during the contentious period surrounding the War of 1967. Some mild wear to the book Ex-library copy but otherwise in great condition. Limited number of copies printed. Scarce. Palestine Liberation Organization paperback
19336644Stuttgart: Erhard Walther Verlag für Nationalsozialistische Schriften 1933. First edition. Cardboard Covers. Very Good. 8° Octavo pp. 86 Opbd mit Titelillustration. Beschabt und etw. bestoßen Papier altersbedingt gebräunt sonst sehr ordentliches Exemplar. Karl Grunsky gehört zu den bekanntesten Nazionalsozialistischen Historikern. Diese Ausgabe erschienen im Jahre 1933 vergleicht die Judenpolitik des NS Regiemes mit der des 16. Jahrhunderts. Einzig weltweit verfügbares Exemplar! Erhard Walther, Verlag für Nationalsozialistische Schriften unknown
195213953Munich: Verlagshaus der Americanischen Hochkommission 1952. First edition. Cardboard Covers with protective jacket. Good condition but mild ex-library. Octavo pp. 187. . Good copy of a scarce publication. Verlagshaus der Americanischen Hochkommission unknown
193414350Mexico City: Talleres Graficos del Museo Nacional de Mexico 1934. First edition. Original Wraps. Good condition but mild ex-library. small quarto. 133 pp. indexed. illustrated with color plates. text in Spanish. scarce. Talleres Graficos del Museo Nacional de Mexico paperback
1972S11345Mexico City:: Sociedad Mexicana de Historia de la Ciencia y de la Tecnologia 1972-79. 1972. 3 volumes nos. 3 4 & 5; Vols. 4-5 stated one of 1000 copies. 8vo. iv 352; iv 348; iv 147 pp. Original printed wrappers; lightly smudged and rubbed rear cover Vol. 4 with small closed hole. Burndy Library bookplates. Very good. Featuring an entire volume dedicated to the memory of Izquierdo a prolific Mexican doctor and historian of science who specialized in physiology. Sociedad Mexicana de Historia de la Ciencia y de la Tecnologia, 1972-79. unknown
197823510New York:: Viking 1978. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine tight copy with a previous owner name on the front pastedown in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine. This collection of literary essays focuses on Cowley's assessments of literary generations Ernest Hemingway William Faulkner Erksine Caldwell Paris in the 1920s Greenwich Village and the youth movement of the 1960s. Viking, unknown
194285966Washington DC: U.S. Office of Indian Affairs 1942. First Edition. First printing. Large octavo 25.5cm. Pictorial card wrappers softcover; 216pp; illus. Tight straight and unmarked Very Good or better in the original wrappers. Introduction to Ojibwa traditional crafts; includes many photographs and nearly 50 full-page plates with stencil patterns. Fifth title in the series "Indian Handcrafts. U.S. Office of Indian Affairs unknown
176636493London: Printed for L. Davis et. al 1766. Soft cover. Poor. 12mo. Volume I. xxiv 12 index 1 page publisher advertisement. Illustrated with twenty one copper engravings several folding. Binding is in poor condition. No covers or spine. Text block only. Tissue covered spine. Preliminary pages up to xii are detached. Light toning to the contents. Engraving on page 131 torn in the margin with no loss of content. Engraving opposite page 255 torn at the fold with no missing content. Prevfious owner name top of the title page. Printed for L. Davis et. al unknown
195587048London: Collins 1955. Third Edition. Octavo. 22cm. Publisher's bottle green buckram titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. xxxii; 304pp. Bright and smart light bumping to spine ends and a little wear to the corners; internally clean and fresh illustrated throughout; in a strong example of the dustjacket with some soiling to the paler portions and some toning and scuffing to edges and spine panel. A very good copy.<br /> <br /> A reprint of number 14 in the highly collectable Collins New Naturalist series. Collins unknown
194386625Colorado: For The Colorado Museum of Natural History February 1 1943. First American Edition. Octavo. 26cm. Publisher's burgundy pebble grain cloth titled in gilt to spine. 113pp. Light scuffing and wear to the spine ends a little cosmetic bumping to corners; internally clean and fresh ownership signature to front flyleaf. A very good handsome copy indeed.<br /> <br /> An account of a dog sled journey along the coast of Alaska and Bailey's work collecting data and samples to complete his list of the birds and sea mammals observable on the Bering Strait during the early 1920's. At the time of publication Bailey was the Director of the museum. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn noted poet translator and anthropologist with his ownership signature. For The Colorado Museum of Natural History unknown
200060379Berkeley CA: Graniterock 2000. 4to. 173 5 pp. Photo & text illustrations throughout lavishly illustrated borders in green & black. Green printed boards gilt lettering front cover & spine Fine copy from the library of Columbia Steel Casting Co. First edition of this excellent local history tracing the development of the famed Granite Rock Co. from its founding by Arthur Roberts and Warren Porter in 1900 as it contributed the crushed gravel sand concrete asphalt and paving services which fed the West Coast’s demand for railways and road construction through the 20th Century. Graniterock, hardcover
