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1982WRCLIT34113Garden City: Doubleday 1982. Cloth and boards. First edition trade issue. Tiny ink name in endsheet gutter else about fine in dust jacket. Doubleday hardcover books
1994132143New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland: Doubleday 1994. Octavo pp. i-vii viii-ix x-xi xii xiii-xiv 1 2-562 illustrations cloth-backed boards. First edition. Winner of 1995 Hugo Award for best nonfiction book. Published posthumously with an epilogue by his wife and a checklist of Asimov's books. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #132143 Doubleday unknown books
195326692New York: Beechhurst Press 1953. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm.; original cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket; 400pp. Jacket upper panel and extremities a bit rubbed with a few short closed tears and very shallow chipping to spine ends. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Includes works by Isaac Asimov Ray Bradbury Lester Del Rey and Arthur C. Clarke. Beechhurst Press unknown books
1986Embry 197045Easton Press 1986. Fine. Full tan leather gilt. Easton Press, 1986. hardcover books
1770397London: Pr. for R. Butters ca. 1770. 12mo. 54 pp. <br><br>Removed from a nonce volume sewing loosening. Without the frontispiece. Foxing to first four pages and occasional spots elsewhere. Mercantile Library stamp on p. 54. Top outer corners of first two leaves chipped. A few small dog-ears. Pr. for R. Butters unknown books
192332219New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1923. First American Edition. Octavo 19cm.; publisher's blue decorative buckram stamped in orange; 43945adspp. Spine a bit sunned bottom edge of rear leaves publisher's advertisements a bit ragged from having been clumsily opened else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the series The European Library. Italian journalist poet's first novel. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
1830185363Wilkesbarre PA: Shap D. Lewis 1830. Hardcover. VG ex-lib copy Associated library markings on cover and inside book Cover and spine have general wear fading staining. Bookblock has age toning. Interior pages have age toning and foxing. Brown cloth boards black title lettering on spine. 209 1 pages. Shap D. Lewis hardcover books
1983173328Berkeley: I. Cronin 1983. 24p. wraps lightly smudged; Cronin's Berkeley address crossed out in pencil and new contact address in Chicago penciled in. Ford 168 is a different edition of this work. Script for a short film based on Situationist theory illustrated with black and white stills I. Cronin unknown books
1972Embry 82750U. of Oklahoma Press 1972. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. U. of Oklahoma Press, 1972. First edition, first printing. unknown books
200765770New York: The New York Public Library 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road was a touchstone for a generation and the centrepiece of the Beat movement in literature and art. This new book examines Kerouac's life and career and accompanies a major exhibition at The New York Public Library to celebrate the 50th anniversary of On the Road's publication in 1957. Kerouac's achievement as both a literary and cultural figure is traced including his innovations in narrative techniques and in character development. His counterculture vision is explored showing his image as a seer and sage who wanted to save America from its obsession with consumerism the inhibition of sexuality and other conventional bourgeois pieties. The author also explores Kerouac's relationships with Allen Ginsberg William S. Burroughs and other Beats as well as the Beat movement in general. The book is heavily illustrated with material from the extensive Kerouac literary archive owned by The New York Public Library. This copy is inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf with material related to the NYPL exhibition laid in. Quarto. Original black cloth binding with red titles. Very light bumping to the corners and tips; else fine in a fine dust jacket. The New York Public Library hardcover books
192224676Cincinnati: Kidd 1922. First Edition. 8vo pp. 487. Rear hinge broken bookplate on pastedown library accession note on flyleaf o/w VG. A critique of drama in various countries at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Kidd unknown books
192718712Girard KS: Haldeman-Julius 1927. First Edition. Small octavo. Staple-bound wrappers; 63pp. Text toned; small nick to upper margin of final 10 or so leaves; Very Good. Published as Haldeman Julius Big Blue Book No. B-46. Catalog on rear wrapper lists up to no. 45. Frank and relatively enlightened essays on sesxual hygiene from one of the only purveying publishers of same in 20s & 30s America. Haldeman-Julius unknown books
009841Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard 1845. First Edition. Cloth. Fair. Octavo 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 548 pp. Moderate foxing throughout. small tear at corner of p. 261-261 on American intelligence with about 20 words missing. Plates woodcuts of Uterus. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845 unknown books
2005224518Leiden: Brill 2005. Hardcover. xliii 478p. cloth boards dj very good. Social Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East a by Isaac Hollander. Brill hardcover books
012355Tucson2007: University of Arizona. First Edition. Octavo. 272p. a fine copy of a book that tells the story of the search by the Zuni people for a culturally relevant public institution to help them maintain their heritage for future generations. They developed the A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center to mediate between Zuni and Anglo-American values of history and culture. Extensive use of tribal archival records deals with past and the present in opening up a rich culture. Bound in light brown cloth spine lettering in light blue foil in fine pictorial dust jacket. University of Arizona unknown books
1991255879Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1991. Hardcover. x 192p. 6 x 9.25 inches very good first edition in like dj. Cambridge University Press hardcover books
1978S10564Cambridge UK:: Cambridge University Press 1978. 1978. 8vo. xxi 415 pp. Frontispiece 4 plates index. Printed wrappers; spine creased. Very good. ISBN: 0521294363 Cambridge University Press, 1978. unknown books
1987Embry 137470Classics of Medicine 1987. Facsimile reprint. Fine. Full olive leather gilt. Includes "Notes from the Editor" pamphlet. Classics of Medicine, 1987. Facsimile reprint. hardcover books
006198Paris: Centre Du Documentation Juive Contemporaine 1967. Original Wraps. A Very Good Copy 1st. 9"x10". 138 pp. Photographs throughout. Exhibits from the memorial to Jewish combattants in France. Paris: Centre Du Documentation Juive Contemporaine, 1967 unknown books
1980018626Franklin Center PA: Franklin Library 1980. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. xii 223 pages of text. Green hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Signed by the author on a special limitation page. Illustrated by Phero Thomas. Minor spotting to the gilt on the top edge of the closed pages. First thus edition. Franklin Library Hardcover books
ABE-1192970736Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Farrar Straus Giroux hardcover books
1988152285Franklin Center PA: Franklin Library 1988. First edition. Hardcover. A collection of stories from this Nobel Prize winning author and with a special message from Singer not present in the trade edition. A clean and tight very near fine copy in full leather binding with all edges gilt and a silk book marker. Signed by Singer. Franklin Library unknown books
1962WRCLIT37236London: Secker & Warburg 1962. Cloth boards. First U.K. edition. Translated from the Yiddish by Mirra Ginsburg Cecil Helmley Martha Glicklich et al. Ink ownership inscription black tape over copyright date has bled through to title page top edge dusty else very good or better in dust jacket with light soiling to the rear panel and a bit of darkening to the spine. Secker & Warburg hardcover books
198521319Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America 1985. First American Edition. Octavo 23.5cm.; original blue-grey cloth-backed decorative boards embossed in black and gilt matching board slipcase; viii212214pp. Fine. "Philip and Muriel Berman Edition." Forms part of the Author's Workshop series. Includes the title story "Gifts" in the original Yiddish. Jewish Publication Society of America unknown books
1970JC8140New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Purple cloth gilt-stamped lettering on spine; full-color illustrated dust jacket; square 4to; pp. 32 beautifully illustrated in full-color throughout. Book is fine. Dust jacket the tiniest bit scuffed at extremities and price-clipped else fine. A lovely copy. <br/><br/> Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books