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1967ref. 603929New York: RM Publishing Co. Inc. for Alcoholics Anonymous 1967. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Oblong 12mo. Measuring approximately 7" x 3½". Wrappers foxed thus very good. 25 1 pp. Joe has a good family and a good job gets in trouble with alcohol finds help. Reissued with new art and possible storyline differences in 1985 and 2004. RM Publishing Co., Inc., for Alcoholics Anonymous unknown books
1830ref. 1727431830. ANONYMOUS. Le Savant de huit ans suivi du Petit Coloriste. iv 96 pp. illustrated with 10 woodcuts of which 6 are hand-coloured. Oblong 8vo 92 x 114 mm. bound in contemporary sheep. Lille: Blocquel 1830. A charming little children's book on the practical aspects of arts and sciences. There are text illustrations of charts for drawing in proportion printed music and many definitions of arts and trades. The second half is taken up by an introduction to colour information on simple and composite colours some of which are illustrated on the title. The coloured plates including the title surrounded by fourteen colour samples illustrate painter sculptor engraver copperplate printer letterpress printer and finally bookbinder. Some rubbing and light wear the binding otherwise in fine condition with bright interior. Very rare with OCLC listing only Princeton Newberry Morgan Library. Not in Gumuchian. unknown books
1918ref. 605308New York: Funk and Wagnalls 1918. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second Authorized edition. New preface by the author. Octavo. 256pp. 13 plates. About fine in near fine dust jacket with some light splitting at the flap folds. Impressions of Middle Eastern and Eastern countries including Turkey Romania Serbia and Bulgaria before WWI. Scarce in jacket. Funk and Wagnalls hardcover books
1973ref. 587224no place: Adventures in Poetry 1973. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. Stapled pictorial covers. Staples oxidized a bit of wear along the edges near fine. A group of brief selections most two or three words from Clark Coolidge's poems picked out by Coolidge and Larry Fagin for their resemblance to names. Examples: Pip Oversmokes; The Magic Crease Elf; Rib Wrists Niblet; Sherry Crustacean; Fudge Dormer. (Adventures in Poetry unknown books
1932ref. 574477San Francisco: Chinese National Salvation Publicity Bureau 1932. Softcover. Very Good. Offprint. Octavo. 17pp. printed in double columns. Printed blue wrappers. Small number stamped on front wrap a bit of sunning at extremities of the wrappers very good or better. Likely a very early copy of the infamous "Tanaka Memorial" Japanese Prime Minister Giichi Tanaka's supposed plan for world domination "presented" to Emperor Hirohito in 1927. According to the document Japanese domination begins with China and the domination of China begins in Manchuria and Mongolia. The Memorial was first printed in 1929 in a Chinese Nationalist publication. Its first appearance in English seems to be in 1931 in the China Critic a Shanghai publication. Scholars now believe that the Memorial is a clever piece of anti-Japanese propaganda although whether it was created by Chinese nationalists the KGB or someone else remains unknown. Historian Meirion Harries calls the document "one of the most successful 'dirty tricks' of the twentieth century - a bogus document so brilliantly conceived that thirty years later Westerns were still being taken in by it." Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Army 1991. An early printing of an infamous piece of early 20th Century psychological warfare. Chinese National Salvation Publicity Bureau unknown books
1937ref. 574480San Francisco: T.W. Chinn Linotype Composition 1937. Softcover. Near Fine. Offprint. Octavo. 14pp. printed in double columns. Printed pale green wrappers. Small number stamped on front wrap a bit of soiling at extremities of the wrappers else near fine. A copy of the infamous "Tanaka Memorial" Japanese Prime Minister Giichi Tanaka's supposed plan for world domination "presented" to Emperor Hirohito in 1927. According to the document Japanese domination begins with China and the domination of China begins in Manchuria and Mongolia. The Memorial was first printed in 1929 in a Chinese Nationalist publication. Its first appearance in English seems to be in 1931 in the China Critic a Shanghai publication. Scholars now believe that the Memorial is a clever piece of anti-Japanese propaganda although whether it was created by Chinese nationalists the KGB or someone else remains unknown. Historian Meirion Harries calls the document "one of the most successful 'dirty tricks' of the twentieth century - a bogus document so brilliantly conceived that thirty years later Westerns were still being taken in by it." Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Army 1991. T.W. Chinn Linotype Composition unknown books
1960ref. 557976No place: The Author 1960. Unbound. Near Fine. No edition stated. Introduction by the anonymous author. Slim octavo. Four folio sheets folded to make 16pp. Measuring approximately 7" x 8½". Spirit-duplicated. Owner stamp and signature of a noted American psychologist on the cover and title inked on the spine else very near fine. Gives brief diagnoses on issues for each sign of the Zodiac followed by three Manipulative Procedures for the spine. The author is unnamed but in the introduction he thanks Drs. Goetz Dr. J. A. Lange and his father and "Charles Robert Wilson our teacher in Psychosomatic Methods when we attended his Order of the Holy Grail." OCLC locates no copies. The Author unknown books
1910ref. 550603Pittsburgh: Freedmen's Department of Woman's Board of Home Missions 516 Market Street 1910. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 24mo. 11pp. Stapled white printed self-wrappers. Few sewn marks along spine where once bound with other publications else a very good copy. Freedmen's Department of Woman's Board of Home Missions, 516 Market Street unknown books
1854ref. 506176Boston: Redding and Company 1854. Softcover. Near Fine. Second thousand. Octavo. 29pp. Sewn self-wrappers. Early light dampstain at inner margin of most pages chips at the bottom of the wrappers else near very good copy. Redding and Company unknown books
1856ref. 515577New York: Published by Mason Brothers 1856. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo. 407pp. Publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Very slight wear to cloth else a fine bright copy. Wright II 836. Novel set in Boston. Published by Mason Brothers hardcover books
1983ref. 456936New York: Grove Press 1983. Softcover. Near Fine. First Grove Press edition. Paperback. A little rubbing on the wrappers and usual page-toning near fine. Grove Press unknown books
1945ref. 454452San Marino California: The Huntington Library 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Octavo. xxiv 66pp. Both hinges neatly repaired some offsetting on endpapers very good in a good only price-clipped dust jacket with splits and loss and ringmarks on the cover. Written by an anonymous Virginian in 1701 "his proposals for liberty under the British Crown with two memoranda by William Byrd. The Huntington Library hardcover books
1942ref. 423853Zurich 1942. Softcover. Near Fine. Seven leaves folded to make 14pp. 13 illustrations. Stitched with cord. Some spotting on the handwritten wrappers and final leaf slight splitting at the spine ends else very good or better. Handwritten and illustrated on rectos only with cryptic dedication on first leaf. From an unidentified hand a tender work of reassurance dedicated to Frau Anzia Weilenmann the wife of a Swiss psychoanalyst and member of the literary circle that formed around Adrien Turel in 1940s Zurich. Apparently composed to alleviate Mrs. Weilenmann's anxiety over the crisis in Swiss culture precisely at the time of its dark flirtation with Nazism the illustrated poem mobilizes wordplay jocular images and botanical metaphors to playfully insist upon the inevitable resistance of the Swiss people. unknown books
1969ref. 420585San Diego: Nouveau Classique Press / Publisher's Export Co 1969. Softcover. Very Good. First edition.Supposedly translated from the Spanish by Manuel de Ortega. Paperback original. Illustrated green wrappers. Crease on spine rubbing on wrappers pages toned but sound and very good. Purported memoir of a sexy nun from Nicaragua. Spoiler alert: Satan is Hell in bed! OCLC locates no copies. Nouveau Classique Press / (Publisher's Export Co unknown books
1897ref. 413899New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1897. Hardcover. Good. Stories originally published separately first published together here. 16mo. 224pp. Three quarter olive leather ruled in gilt marbled papercovered boards top edge gilt. Front board and preliminary pages detached but present lacking most of the spine only the title remains a fair to good only copy. Containing Doyle's first ever short story Mystery of Sasassa Valley Long Odds by Haggard King Bemba's Point by Landers Ghamba by Scully Mary Musgrave by Anonymous and Gregorio by Hemingway. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1954ref. 405212No place - possibly either Palm Springs or Laguna California: Palm Pub Co 1954. Softcover. Near Fine. Holliday Associates edition presumably a later edition as it bears a copyright date of 1945. 16mo. 16pp. titlepage vignette diagrams. Stapled illustrated red wrappers. Gift inscription "Florence Deinert from Helene Schell" staples a little rusted very good or better. A relatively perfunctory pocket edition of practical advice aimed at golfers with scores between 85 and 110. OCLC locates no copies. Not in Donovan and Murdoch. The Game of Golf and The Printed Word 1566-1985. Palm Pub Co unknown books
1996ref. 112332New York: Random House 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Later printing. Spine slightly cocked near fine in fine dust jacket. A novel of politics. Random House hardcover books
1816ref. 1435761816. PARIS. Graphic Illustrations of the Most Prominent Features of the French Capital; with Characteristic Figures in the Foregrounds comprised in Twelve Stroke Engravings From Accurate Designs Taken in Paris during the Imperial Reign of Buonaparte. With Descriptive Notices and Interesting Anecdotes. 26 pp. illustrated with 12 double-page engravings. Folio 430 x 380 mm. bound in contemporary French three-quarter black morocco over marbled boards gilt title and floral vignettes on spine paper label with ms. number "20" on front cover and spine. London: Harper and Co. 1816. A fine copy of this extremely rare collection of views of Paris consisting of twelve artistically conceived views of Paris engraved by English artists. The large double-page engravings incorporate local Parisians participating in daily routines within the setting of each view. Panoramic views include: the Military School and the Church of the Invalides; View of Paris from the South Boulevard; View of Paris from Montmartre; South View of the Old and New Louvre; The Mint and The Façade of the Louvre; View of La Place de la Concorde; The Garden of the West Front of the Tuileries; Palace of the Tuileries Facing La Place du Carrousel; Garden of the Tuileries; The Luxembourg or Palais du Senat with the Gardens; The Elysian Fields Distant Gardens of the Tuileries; Entrance to Les Champs Élysées and La Place de la Concorde. Each plate is followed by two pages of text giving historical details and anecdotes about the site illustrated. Minor wear to outer edges of binding plates and text clean. Rare: OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide of which only one is held in America Bowdoin College. hardcover books
1813ref. 1285581813. ANONYMOUS. Tableau ou Description de la Russie. Avec les Moeurs Usages Coutumes Religion de ses Divers Peuples. Orne de Jolies Figures. 4 139 1 pp. with 7 plates. 12mo 130 x 80 mm. bound in half reddish calf over red marbled paper covered boards. Paris: Chez H. Nicole Rue de Seine 1813. A charming little book on various aspects of Russia which is very rare and would appear to be unrecorded since we can find no record of it in any data base or any of the standard bibliographies. Although the format is the same as the work by Breton de la Martiniere published in the same year the illustrations are far less sophisticated and of course the book is a fraction of the length. Hinges head and tale worn but sound internally fine. hardcover books
1969ref. 362157New York: Midwood Enterprises 1969. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition paperback original. Else fine with a bit of light wear to lower edge of front panel. From The Collectors Classic Series. Scarce. OCLC locates no copies of this first edition. Midwood Enterprises unknown books
1968ref. 362461New York: Grove Press 1968. Softcover. Near Fine. First Evergreen Black Cat edition. Mass market paperback. Near fine with spine creases and edge wear. Grove Press unknown books
1974ref. 362462New York: Bantam Books 1974. Softcover. Near Fine. Reprint. 340pp. Mass market paperback. Crease on front cover else about near fine with slight rubbing and edge wear. Bantam Books unknown books
1982ref. 156906New York: Star Dist 1982. Paperback. 180p. illustrated with explicit drawings very good first printing PBO in original explicit camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Rough Trade RT-521. Star Dist paperback books
1930ref. 280705New York: Horace Liveright 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Introduction by W.E. Woodward. A tiny owner's stamp on the front fly else fine in a modestly rubbed near fine dustwrapper with tiny nicks and tears and jacket art by Sugar. Epistolary and practical advice on the stock market delivered in a series of letters between an uncle and nephew. Very scarce in jacket. Horace Liveright hardcover books
1933ref. 76416New York: Macaulay 1933. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in a moderately worn very good dustwrapper with several chips and tears at the extremities. Advance Review Copy with publisher's promotional material soliciting a review laid in. Trials and tribulations of a divorced and pregnant woman. Scarce. Macaulay hardcover books
