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1984rif. 14565Franklin Center PA: Franklin Library. Fine. 1984. First Edition; First Printing. Full-Leather. A special Limited first edition/first printing preceding the trade edition SIGNED by author Joyce Carol Oates in unread Fine condition; A combination of three gothic mystery stories: "The Virgin of the Rose-Bower" "The Devil's Half Acre" and "The Blood-Stained Gown" - all starring detective Xavier Kilgarvan and said to be among the author's personal favorites. This outstanding book is bound in genuine leather and features gilded sewn in pages and ribbon marker simply superb quality Franklin Library at its best; 8vo; xxiv 482 4 pages; Signed by Author . Franklin Library hardcover books
1974rif. 310519Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards. Fine in fine original unprinted acetate dustwrapper. One of 1000 hardcover copies. Black Sparrow Press hardcover books
1992rif. 314645New York: E.P. Dutton 1992. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proofs. Fine in in wrappers. E.P. Dutton unknown books
1976rif. 277162Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1976. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Small spot on front wrap else fine in stapled wrappers. Black Sparrow Press unknown books
rif. 2353683Princeton: Bollingen Series / Princeton University Press 1963. Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6x1x9. 1989 14th printing. Near fine in very good jacket. Lacks slipcase. Faint red smudge to rear jacket panel minimal wear to jacket corners. Binding tight and square pages clean bright and unmarked. 1963 Hard Cover. xxv 1743 pp. This was at the time of its publication the only complete one-volume edition of Plato in English translation. Contents include: Editorial Note; Introduction; Socrates' Defense Apology; Crito; Phaedo; Charmides; Laches; Lysis; Euthyphro; Menexenus; Lesser Hippias; Ion; Gorgias; Protagoras; Meno; Euthydemus; Cratylus; Phaedrus; Symposium; Republic; Theaetetus; Parmenides; Sophist; Statesman; Philebus; Timaeus; Critias; Laws; Appendix: Epinomis; Greater Hippias; Letters; Index. Bollingen Series / Princeton University Press hardcover books
1991rif. 574150New York: New Directions 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Cloth modestly soiled else a near fine copy in a near fine lightly age-toned dust jacket. A novella. New Directions hardcover books
1991rif. 579210New York: New Directions 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Light offsetting on half-title page and rear fly near fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight toning at the edges. A novella. New Directions hardcover books
1962rif. 6353New York: Atheneum 1962. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Janet Halverson dust jacket design. 8vo. Pp. 2 3-176 1. Bound in purple half-cloth over gray paper-covered boards. In the illustrated dust jacket that shows old creases and a one-inch closed tear to lower fore-edge corner; light soiling to front panel. Price of $3.95 intact on front flap. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable clear archival sleeve. Signed by Glassman on the front free endpaper. The position of Glassman in the Beat movement is well documented especially her relationship with Kerouac. According to Douglas Brinkley in XXX "XXX" This copy was owned by Dorothy Lobrano Guth daughter of noted New Yorker literary editor Gus Lobrano and herself a longtime staffer at the magazine. A goddaughter of E. B. White she's perhaps best recognized as the editor of The Letters of E. B. White. Signed by her at the top of the FFEP "D. J. Lobrano" Dorothy Jean Lobrano. Atheneum hardcover books
2005rif. 412006New York: Ecco 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Ecco hardcover books
1984rif. 404422New York: E.P. Dutton 1984. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Near fine with corners lightly bumped in a very good dustwrapper with internal edges reinforced with tape. Briefly Inscribed by the author. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
1983rif. 404483New York: E.P. Dutton 1983. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
1845rif. 68028London: Joseph Smith 193 High Holborn 1845. 16mo pp. xii 533 1 ads; inserted engraved frontispiece and title page illustrated with woodcuts throughout; original olive cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine a.e.g.; light wear; very good clean and sound. Includes lengthy sections on mechanics astronomy hydrostatics pneumatics optics magnetism electricity and galvanism. Joseph Smith, 193, High Holborn unknown books
1996rif. 569088New York: E.P. Dutton 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by the author. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
1974rif. 576413Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards. Fine in an about fine original unprinted acetate dust jacket with slight rubbing. One of 1000 hardcover copies. Black Sparrow Press hardcover books
2006rif. 64230London: Hakluyt Society 2006. Large 8vo pp. xcvii 1 341 1; ; frontispiece plus 10 maps and illustrations; a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Issued as no.15 in the Hakluyt Society's Third Series. "Sir Walter Ralegh's account of his 1595 expedition to the Orinoco in search of the fabled empire of Eldorado was an immediate publishing success and is one of the most important pieces of Elizabethan travel literature. Hakluyt Society unknown books
2010rif. 64722Iowa City: JOMO Publishing 2010. 8vo pp. 60; fine in original pictorial wrappers. From the library of Allan Kornblum poet fine press printer and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. "Concrete blocks uses anagrams to tell the love story of Lily and Fred." Joyce Holland is one of several pseudonyms used by Dave Morice. Iowa only in OCLC. JOMO Publishing unknown books
1984rif. 61602Berkeley Los Angeles & London: University of California Press 1984. First edition folio pp. iii-229 1; illustrated throughout some in color; fine copy in the dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker with his ownership signature and date on front free endpaper in red ink. "The Speculum humanae salvationis occupies a unique place in the history of the book. It is the only medieval work that exists in manuscripts in blockbooks and in sixteen later incunabula" jacket blurb. University of California Press unknown books
1978rif. 61681Amsterdam: Nico Israel 1978. Second printing small folio pp. 255 1; map endpapers 3 bifolium inserts printed in color illustrations throughout; a fine copy in original charcoal cloth stamped in white on upper cover and spine; the dust jacket with a few short tears and nicks. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy inscribed by Adrian Wilson on the half-title: "For Kim Merker / best of friends / and best of printers / Adrian Wilson October 14 1983." Mr. Wilson reconstructs "the making of the Nuremberg Chronicle; the compilation of manuscript sources by its author; the artists' first concepts for the illustrations; the patrons' agreements for financing the publication; the layouts; the printing; the advertising; the distribution and the final settlement" p.11. Nico Israel unknown books
1995rif. 62303Iowa City Iowa: University of Iowa Center for the Book Offset Workshop 1995. 4to pp. 24 self-wrappers; illustrated in color throughout; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker. "Special giant sized 1995 issue spectacular!" "Produced by Jim Snitzer and Janice Frey at the offset workshop under the auspices of the University of Iowa Center for the Book." OCLC notes that the edition size was 1250 copies 250 of which were signed by the artist. This is unsigned. University of Iowa Center for the Book Offset Workshop] unknown books
1996rif. 453623New York: E.P. Dutton 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Briefly Inscribed by the author. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
1987rif. 211450New York: Dutton 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Dutton hardcover books
1958rif. 15491New York: Viking Press 1958. First American edition 8vo pp. xxii 266; 2 portraits on recto and verso of 1 plate; fine copy in the jacket. "Quoted in the text are several unpublished or uncollected pieces of early Joyce writings preserved by Stanislaus" jacket blurb. Viking Press unknown books
1987rif. 42202New York: E.P. Dutton 1987. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Remainder mark else fine in fine dustwrapper. E.P. Dutton hardcover books
1934rif. 140949980New York: Random House 1934. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First authorized American edition first printing. xvii 768pp. Bound in publisher's cream-colored cloth lettered in black an red over beveled boards top edge stained red. Near Fine with light wear and toning to cloth two bookplates to front paste down. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with designer's name Reichl to bottom corner of front panel spine darkened and extremities toned a few closed tears archival tape to verso reinforcing the ends of the spine and flap folds and the entire front flap fold. Slocum 21. A nice copy of the novel that was sued in the Southern District of New York in 1933 in the famous trial named United States vs. One Book Called Ulysses. Random House publisher Bennett Cerf and attorney Morris Ernst arranged a deliberate legal challenge. The U.S. government brought an in rem action a lawsuit against the physical object to seize a copy of Ulysses under tariff and obscenity laws. Federal Judge John M. Woolsey ruled that the book was not obscene effectively lifting the ban and permitting its publication in the United States. Random House unknown books
1971rif. 17215Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good . First Edition. Hardcover. This first edition of Mississippi civil rights activist Joyce A. Ladner's pioneering sociological study of urban Black girlhood comes from the library of the late influential Jewish lesbian feminist theorist activist and scholar Dr. Bette S. Tallen 1950-2023. "Joyce A. Ladner spent four years interviewing observing and socializing with more than a hundred girls living in the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis. She was challenged by preconceived academic ideas and labels and by her own past as a black child in rural Mississippi. Rejecting the white middle-class perspective of "deviant" behavior she examined the expectations and aspirations of these representative black girls and their feelings about parents and boyfriends marriage pregnancy and child-rearing. According to Ladner 'The total misrepresentation of the Black community and the various myths which surround it can be seen in microcosm in the Black female adolescent.'" - University of Nebraska Press Ex-Ramapo College of New Jersey Library with associated label to spine and occasional stamps to pages. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xxvi 304pp. Moderate wear to price-clipped dust jacket with library label to spine bumping to head and tail of spine heaving toning to flaps and library stamp to top edge of text block. Bound in light gray cloth over boards with spine lettered in silver. Light soiling to cloth. Library glue to pastedowns and card to rear free endpaper. Occasional pencilled notes or underlines to pages throughout. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
