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1906ref. 331186London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons 1906. Hardcover. 323p. iv ads rubricated title page ownership stamps on front free endpaper light foxing on rear endpaper very good first edition hardcover bound in faded green cloth with bright gilt titles and border lines ragged partial remains of the dust jacket laid-in at rear. Novel of young lovers caught up in the English Civil War in the 17th Century. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons hardcover books
1911ref. 330884New York and London: Harper & Brothers 1911. 231p. 5x7.25 inch original blue cloth boards with titling in gilt; illustrated corners slightly bumped else in very good condition. Biography of an anonymous man who left behind his conventional but low-paying professional life for a prosperous rural life. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1741ref. 7395Erfurt: Jungnicol 1741. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo. 327 pages. Bound in tan boards vellum spine with title printed in black. Title page printed in red and black. A very handsome tight copy; text block is very clean; first few leaves with faint stain. Jungnicol unknown books
1840ref. 202531840. A charming Folk Art watercolor probably English but there's no way to know for sure. The girl's face is rendered skillfully -- it appears true-to-life. The features are not the least bit distorted and such details as skin color are nicely captured as well. But the rest of the body is positioned in a manner not humanly possibleN.d. Circa 1840 based on the clothing. The painting is on a card leaf measuring about 28 by 22 cm. The artist drew a neat pencil line in which to keep the painting thereby creating a margin of about 3 cm around the whole perimeter. unknown books
1990ref. 102119New York: Star Dist 1990. Paperback. 156p.ads very good first printing PBO in camp pictorial cover by Craig Esposito wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Man to Man MN-101. Star Dist paperback books
1928ref. 587941Chicago: Canterbury Press 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Orange cloth stamped in black. A couple of paper remnants on the front board else near fine in faintly stained very good dust jacket with a couple of small chips. Fictional autobiography of an African-American preacher from Chicago almost certainly written by the white journalist and writer Opie Read. In nicer than usual jacket. Canterbury Press hardcover books
1926ref. 149788New York: Brentano 1926. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in an about Very good dustwrapper. Dustwrapper has two chips and two tears and is moderately faded. A nice art deco front panel. Brentano hardcover books
1863ref. 160438New York: Sheldon and Company 1863. Hardcover. Good. Good Spine ends bumped and rubbed with a few small tears on top spine end panel corners bumped and worn light water stains on top edge and bottom corners of pages panels and spine rubbed with light soiling light browning of page edges some pages show some light brown spotting. Sheldon and Company hardcover books
1975ref. 149458Italy: Rizzoli 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Pages clean. Cover clean. Outer edges of pages light brown. Dustwrapper slightly shelf rubbed. Solid condition. In Italian. Rizzoli hardcover books
1969ref. 248279New York: Grove Press 1969. Hardcover. Good/Good. First edition. Good in good dust jacket. Hardcover and dust jacket both lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners book cover stained near side edges and faded at top and bottom edges. Dustwrapper lightly soiled and worn with browned spine. Grove Press hardcover books
1996ref. 203434New York: Random 1996. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library copy. Random hardcover books
1971ref. 227769AA World Services 1971. Tenth Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 5x0x8. Hardcover with dust jacket in protective wrapper. Slight chipping along the edges and some age toning. Not price clipped $2.75. Collectible early copy. Professional packaging and prompt shipping. AA World Services hardcover books
1971ref. 227770Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc 1971. Twelfth printing. Hardcover. Good/Missing. 4x1x7. Hardcover in blue cloth covered boards. Has some spotting stains on the front board. Internally pages are clean unmarked and the binding is sound. This is the Twelfth printing of the Second Revised edition which was published in 1955. Publication date is 1971. Early edition. Professional packaging and prompt shipping. Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc hardcover books
1796ref. 12796London: J. Owen 1796. Very Good. London: J. Owen 1796. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 488pp. A2 B-M4. Leather remnants along spine title page a bit toned else Very Good and sound. Political tract first published in an unspecified "Morning Paper" delineating a path for peace between France and England in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars. The anonymous author is especially concerned with the effect of the war on British trade arguing at one point that "Having reduced all the French Settlements on the Continent of Asia and masters as we are of the Cape and Trincomalé with a superior Naval Force I may fairly assume that should the present War be protracted we shall remain invulnerable in that quarter." pp. 57-8. ESTC T43799. J. Owen unknown books
1796ref. 12801London: J. Debrett 1796. Very Good. London: J. Debrett 1796. First Edition. Octavo; removed from covers; 490pp. A2 B-M4 N1 half title present. Some minor toning to textblock with a few cover remnants along spine else Very Good and sound. Oft-reprinted contemporary account of the ongoing conflict between Great Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars. ESTC 1257. J. Debrett unknown books
1915ref. 007538Paris and Nancy: Berger-Levrault 1915. Limited First Edition. Wraps. Very Good Plus. No. 169 of 208 limitation and one of 200 copies on Arches paper. 4to. 26.5 by 20.5 cm. Charming children's book addressing the quotadien concerns of a child with each plate touching on an issue or aspect of a child's world and thinking. An example is a segment that gently broaches the subject of death in this case of a Grandfather. Unpaginated 16 leaves with eight color pochoir plates and other color vignettes and decoration including the two rondel portraits on the front cover. Only four copies on OCLC First Search. Condition: a few stains on wrap covers but cumulatively still a minor issue in our view. A few darker stains on rear inside cover. Otherwise quite clean with signs of light use but nothing beyond that. Berger-Levrault unknown books
1940ref. 25623New York: Richard R. Smith. Very Good-. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket moderately shelfworn copy with numerous abrasions to cloth along top and bottom edges of both covers some wear at spine ends modest bumping at all corners some discoloration in gutters. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To Robert Rainer / With kindest regards / Frederick Hazlitt Brennan / Santa Ana Jan. 4 1944." One of the odder novels you'll ever run across -- as one contemporary reviewer described it "a singularly unclassifiable mixture of whimsey dullness vulgarity and illuminating thought." It's kind of a fantasy-satire in which the title character a Big Thinker expounds at great length upon his plan to establish an experimental educational institution rather ominously dubbed "The Laboratory" the purpose of which would be to teach people particularly children to love their country through a program of lectures thought experiments and entertainments. Brother Barnabas has holed himself up in a poorhouse in order to hatch his scheme which he hopes to persuade a rich acquaintance to bankroll to the tune of ten million dollars. Another critic of the day praised it as some of "the most exciting social sermonizing that you will read in many a dreary year" and opined that "you are as dead as John Marshall if you do not thrill to the blasting dynamic fire-spitting challenge of brave Brother Barnabas who thinks that Americans should be taught to love their country even if they need strip-teasers and Mickey Mouse pictures to coax them to it." Apparently the idea behind Brennan's publishing the book pseudonymously was so that his own reputation primarily as a prolific author of magazine fiction and sometime-screenwriter wouldn't get in the way of his Big Ideas about what was ailing modern American society and how to fix it. In any event however the anonymity had a short shelf-life: the book was published in April 1940 and by early July he'd already been outed as its author by who else Walter Winchell. There was a little flurry of gossip-column items that July in fact claiming that the book was "a sensation in Hollywood" and that a movie version was in the offing -- backed by "top democrats" in one telling; possibly to star Raymond Massey in another -- but no such film ever materialized. Signed-by-the-author copies are for understandable reasons uncommon. Signed by Author . Richard R. Smith hardcover books
1933ref. 21769New York: The Macaulay Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. c.1933. First Edition. Hardcover. nice tight clean copy minor shelfwear only; jacket very attractive with just a touch of soiling and a couple of tiny edge-nicks. The trials and tribulations of an unwed mother -- or more precisely a divorcee who gets knocked up by her lover then refuses his half-hearted marriage proposal and subsequently suffers "pain hunger want." The jacket copy really goes to town in the best Macaulay house style: "No human experience is so profound and rich in emotion as the long crisis of pregnancy . . . and when the expected child must legally be fatherless then crisis is added upon crisis. . . . It is amazing that this situation has never before been treated in all its dramatic fullness. In this book the anonymous author tells a story that for sheet intensity and stark realism has not been equalled in modern fiction. . . . The book is more than literature. It is life itself." Hoo boy. . The Macaulay Company hardcover books
1943ref. 0072801943. Hardcover. Cloth Box. Very Good. Inimitable and disarming tales that represent the pinnacle of outsider art and folk art with the naive drawings richly full of life as they speak of the daily routine at a British army camp during the Second World War from the point-of-view of a camp mascot cat who excels at mangling English in its creative attempts at phonetic spelling. Folios are oblong 41 by 30 cm each. The first folio contains "The Alterbyografy" a 56 pages long unpaginated with 54 illustrations including the folio cover 28 of which are full page 24 of which are half page. The second folio is entitled "Kamp Karacters" . This is 51 leaves with 92 illustrations including the cover 51 of which are full page 40 a third page generally with the area above entirely blank. Illustrations are rendered with colored pencil and crayon. The first manuscript is a continuous narrative of army life its humdrum rhythms and routines its various inanities its social life sports and other activities etc. while the second part is more character sketches. The second folio is even more visually driven than the autobiography. Another distinction between the two is that the autobiography is done with the leaves oblong while the character studies are applied with the leaves vertical. While one part isn't exactly a sequel to the other the two parts are truly complementary. The two folios are of a rough burlap material with a large title sheet mounted on their front cover. The folios have three flap folds to hold the loose sheets in plus ribbon ties on their right sides. hardcover books
1983ref. 313238New York: Star Dist 1983. Paperback. 170p. personals ads explicit drawings scuff on cover else a very good first printing PBO in explicit camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Rough Trade RT-533. Star Dist paperback books
1968ref. 31283no place: Twi-world Publications 1968. Paperback. 187p. 15p. nude male photography a very good first printing PBO in original explicit nude photo wraps. Gay pulp fiction. TWI-20. Twi-world Publications paperback books
1770ref. 103721770. Hand-coloured engraving. Trimmed as usual and mounted on washline background. Mounting sheet is watermarked laid paper. Image size: 14 1/8 x 20 1/8 inches. A wonderful romantic view in the grand tradition of the picturesque English landscape. Towards the middle of the eighteenth century a trend developed amongst English artists and printmakers which sought to visually record the natural beauties of England and Wales. Sparked by a sense of national confidence and patriotism English printmakers began to publish topographical prints of the important sights in the British Isles. In addition to being a visual record of the countryside they were meant to encourage public recognition of the beauty and history of England. They were aimed at English and foreign tourists who desired a memento of their travels or at those vicarious tourists who collected topographical prints instead of traveling. This is a wonderful example of a picturesque eighteenth century landscape print. By trimming the image within the platemark and mounting it on a decorative washline background the print has the effect of a landscape painting. The likeness is heightened by the addition of added body colour in the image and the use of a heavy painterly technique of engraving. This practice was common amongst engravers and printsellers who wished to capitalize on this trend for picturesque landscapes of the English countryside. This print is from the famed Oettingen-Wallerstein collection which was compiled over two centuries by various members of the royal household. The collection is known for its stunning impressions and the immaculate condition of its prints. Clayton The English Print 1688-1802 p. 155; Lugt Les Marques de Collections Supplement 2715a. unknown books
1986ref. 198785New York: Star Distributors 1986. Paperback. 180p. very good first edition PBO in original camp explicit pictorial yellow wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Finland Books FIN-115. Bikers! Critical Ass! Star Distributors paperback books
1980ref. 88669New York: Star Dist 1980. Paperback. 180p.photo ads price-sticker else very good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Gaytimes Book Club NM-37. Star Dist paperback books
1983ref. 311553New York: Star Dist 1983. Paperback. 180p. ads price sticker on cover else a very good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Gaytimes Book Club NM-57. Star Dist paperback books
