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1960265484New York: Wholesale Book Corp./Mutrix Books 1960. Magazine. 51p. 5x7 inches illustrated with b&w photos of transvestites very worn digest-sized magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. A Mutrix Book. Irving Klaw was the publisher of Nutrix which later became Mutrix under Ed Mishkin. Both were published out on NYC in the 1950s until Kefauver Hearings of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. Wholesale Book Corp./Mutrix Books unknown books
1970289564Garden City New York: The Crime Club; Doubleday & Company Inc 1970. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Good binding/Good dust jacket. EX-LIBRARY COPY. With scotch tape repair and staining to the endpapers unobtrusive library stamps to the title page and library slip and stamps on the rear endpapers. Minor shelfwear to the dustjacket and evidence of sticker removal at the bottom of the spine. Blue cloth. Good binding / Good dust jacket. The Crime Club; Doubleday & Company, Inc unknown books
1956286326Richmond VA: The William Byrd Press 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. A memoir of the son of Hunter McGuire of Confederate fame who was Dean of the Medical College of Virginia and served in World War I organizing and commanding United States Base Hospital No. 45 in Toul France. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. There are also copies of two 2 letters the same previous owner wrote to the author's brother and a newspaper clipping all stuck in after the title page. Otherwise no notes in the text; foxing on the fore edge of the text block. A serviceable copy. Near Fine binding. The William Byrd Press unknown books
197340286Detroit: Broadside Press 1973. Paperback. Very good. 500cc. Light crease to top of front else very good. <br/><br/> Broadside Press paperback books
1924WRCLIT47157Boston: Privately printed 1924. Large octavo. Three-quarter cloth and paper over boards stamped in gilt t.e.g. Portrait and illustration. First edition of this posthumously published collection with a foreword by the author's mother. Boards dust-smudged few marginal marks on plates else near very good. Includes the teenage author's essays on Barrie and Strachey. Privately printed hardcover books
199144096Boston:: Little Brown. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1991. Hardcover. 0316770183 . Illustrated by the author. Second printing. Slightly warped at the base of the spine else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Little, Brown, hardcover books
1920135874New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1920. Octavo four inserted plates with illustrations by Clinton Balmer original green cloth stamped in white. First edition. Collects eight stories. Smith American Fiction 1900-1925 S-115. A fine copy. #135874 Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
197410618New York: Barlenmir House 1974. 1st edition. Fine without dust jacket as issued. Covers hand-painted each are a bit different; this one is in green. Schechter has crossed out 1972 copyright date and written in the correct 1974 date. New York: Barlenmir House, unknown books
1973002669Hildesheim Etc.: Georg Olms Verlag 1973. 201p. original stiff wrappers Spudasmata 28. Georg Olms Verlag unknown books
197028994.1New York: Avalon Books 1970. 1st edition. Green cloth binding with black spine lettering. Dark pink pictorial dust jacket. Faint line of glue residue from original publisher's dust jacket to edges of boards. Otherwise a Nr Fine copy in a similar jacket. 189 1 pp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Avalon Books hardcover books
1953016966New York: Philosophical Library 1953. Compiled edited and translated by Nyogen Senzaki and Ruth Strout McCandless. ix 91p. lightly chipped dj. Philosophical Library unknown books
194059683NY:: Dodd Mead & Company. Very Good. 1940. Hardcover. First edition. Light offsetting to endpapers else very good in blue cloth. No dust jacket. . Dodd, Mead & Company, hardcover books
1946219213New York: Harper and Brothers 1946. Hardcover. 321p. very good first edition stated in blue cloth boards with red panels gilt-titled; the unclipped dj is a bit worn with closed tears. Ruth Seid was the lesbian daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants who worked for the WPA and began selling short stories to the likes of Harpers but also Crisis and New Masses. Her writing usually dealt with the struggles of immigrants in the USA. This her first novel concerns Russian Jewish immigrants. In a blurb at the back Richard Wright compares the book favorably to Joyce's "Dubliners Harper and Brothers hardcover books
196286187London: Oxford 1962. 1st ed. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. frontis portrait ills 2 maps 1 folding index xi 230p. Original cloth. dj. 22cm. <br/><br/> Oxford hardcover books
SKU1025796Privately Printed. Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket Included. B003AK2QR2 Good copy in a wrapped dust jacket- cloth boards are clean has a good binding modest wear to dust jacket has some foxing along pages edges pages are clean and crisp no interior marks or notations. Ships from our bookstore in West Columbia S.C.! lz Privately Printed hardcover books
1963WRCLIT20501New York: Gotham Book Mart 1963. Printed wrappers. Slight darkening at edges else near fine. First edition of this collection by the editor of TIGER'S EYE inscribed by her to George and Jean Reavey. Laid in is a separate pamphlet printing comments by Marianne Moore Kenneth Rexroth et al. Gotham Book Mart unknown books
1899113134New York: The Century Co. 1899. Octavo original pictorial gray cloth. First edition. Wright III 5305. Owner's name on front free endpaper. Some dust soiling and foxing to cloth else a very good copy. #113134 The Century Co. unknown books
1970138074Freeport New York: Books for Libraries Press 1970. Octavo cloth. Later edition. Text offset from the 1911 Century edition. Collects the four stories named in the title. The second and third are about African-Americans. The first is an ambiguously supernatural tale about a photo of a hotel that burned killing the heroine's late husband; the photo may or may not show him carrying on with another woman. The story bears some affinity to M. R. James's "The Mezzotint" 1904 but whether this is a case of a magical object or a deranged observer the story would seem to fall into the general category of the fantastic. Bleiler 1948 p. 261. Smith American Fiction 1900-1925 S-1092. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. #138074 Books for Libraries Press unknown books
1904243471904. STUART Ruth McEnery. THE RIVER'S CHILDREN. NY: Century Co. 1904. 12mo. decorative green cloth. First Edition. Very Good little edgewear & spine bit dull front endpaper bit browned small number stamped rear endpaper. $25.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1905113823New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1905. 1905. Octavo twelve inserted plates with illustrations by A. B. Frost and E. W. Kemble original pictorial green cloth. First edition. Smith American Fiction 1900-1925 S-1095. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. Cloth rubbed at edges cloth dusty hairline crack along inner front hinge but a sound good copy with clean interior. #113823 Harper & Brothers Publishers 1905. unknown books
190431429New York: The Century Co 1904. First Edition. Octavo 18cm; hunter green cloth with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 8 179; frontispiece and four illustrations by Harry C. Edwards. Hint of a forward lean spine ends gently nudged with light wear to extremities and lower board edges; brief contemporary ink inscription to front endpaper with a few splits along rear hinge and 4-digit rubber-stamped price to upper left corner of rear endpaper; Very Good. A novel of "Negroes and Creoles in the delta country of Louisiana" HANNA 3418. Superb though uncredited art nouveau cover. SMITH S-1094. The Century Co unknown books
191047583New York: The Century Co 1910. First Edition. Octavo 18cm; light green decorative cloth stamped in black dark green and gilt; top edge gilt; 240pp frontis. 10 plates. Boards moderately soiled and toned; mild edgewear and rubbing. Textblock shows reading wear with light smudging throughout; dackled edges. Overall just about Very Good.<br/><br/>Louisiana native Ruth McEnery Stuart contemporary of Grace King and Kate Chopin was especially known as an author and orator of "dialect" stories. Sonny's Father the sequel to her popular Sonny: A Christmas Guest 1896 is written entirely in a southern dialect as narrated by the eponymous father of Sonny a precocious and frankly spoiled rotten boy who was born on Christmas day. Of particular interest may be our narrator's report of a suffrage meeting he attended and supported. Illustrators are not credited but plates at pgs. 44 and 156 can be identified as the work of Jessie Willcox Smith. The Century Co unknown books
1993167503Quincy Ca: Feather Publishing / Plumas County Historical Society 1993. ii 24p. keyboard-set text doublespread line map several period portraits and a cover repro of an old print of "Taylor's Mills." Staplebound 11x8.5 inch wraps mildest handling soil a very good copy. The editor has neither tampered with text except to insert names of statelines as these were crossed nor standardized orthography. Feather Publishing / Plumas County Historical Society unknown books
1983261043Toronto: The Body Politic Collective/Pink Triangle Press 1983. Newspaper. 52p. tabloid newspaper illustrations photos news reviews Out in the City film and theatre reviews section opinion resources ads very good on newsprint in stapled wraps. Ten page feature on The New Diseases Among Us. Living with Kaposi's Sarcoma. The real epidemic - paranoia. Also Filmfest: Fassbinder's "Querelle" More. The major Canadian LGBTQ periodical from the 1970s and 1980s. Very political and under constant attack from the Right. The Body Politic Collective/Pink Triangle Press unknown books
194636973Santa Fe: Laboratory of Anthropology 1946. Hardcover. Very good. Second Edition. 161pp. Very good hardback in a rubbed and darkened jacket that has soe minor loss at the extremities and a few internal tape repairs. <br/><br/> Laboratory of Anthropology hardcover books
