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2005rif. 000473Bangkok: Orchid Press 2005. The Naga of Burma is the result of the author's over 30 years' research and fieldwork on the Naga people of far western Burma a loosely related fiercely independent group of tribes practicing headhunting until well into the 20th century. Tracing their origins and examining their social structures religion and ritual architecture arts and crafts hunting and warfare costume and ornament the present work is destined to become an essential study for all with interest in these fascinating people and their rich traditional culture now rapidly being lost to the forces of modernity. "A major addition to the ethnography of the Naga peoples." Alan Macfarlane Professor of Anthropological Science Cambridge University. xiv 212 pp. 153 colour plates 56 line drawings 4 maps . First Edition. Soft Cover. New. Illus. by Photography by Dominique Viallard. 23 x 22 cm. Orchid Press Paperback
1976rif. 230719New York: Viking Press 1976 . Second Printing. Hardcover. Good/price-clipped . Octavo 182 pages clothbacked boards prior owner's name blacked-out on free endpaper; dj torn on rear panel edgeworn. Note: the first two leaves of each signature are trimmed shorter than the other leaves. Signed by Bellow on an inserted leaf typical of Chicago's Kroch's & Brentano's bookstore First Edition Circle selections. Bellow paid another visit to Israel in 1975. He describes the nation extensively here but also reflects upon the relationship of the U.S.A. and Israel Viking Press hardcover
1997rif. 3117185New York: Viking Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670860751 . First edition. INSCRIBED by Saul Bellow in 1998 to playwright Peter Littlefield on title page. 104pp. 5 1/4" X 8 1/4" From the library of John Martin publisher of Black Sparrow Press with his printed sticker on rear paste-down. ; 5 1/4" x 8 1/4"; 112 pages . Viking Press hardcover
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1964rif. 14822New York 1964. Ephemera. Very good condition. Autographs of four Nobel Prize winners for Literature on a First Day Cover commemorating Four Hundredth Birthday Anniversary of William Shakespeare with portrait of Shakespeare at the left and the text "English Poet Player and Playwright 1564 - 1964. First Day of Issue" below. With the signatures of Patrick White Saul Bellow Eugenio Montale and Samuel Beckett along the bottom of the envelope. With a Shakespeare 5 cent stamp with a cancellation stamp reading 'First Day of Issue'; and a post office stamp from Stratford Conn dated Aug 14 1964. Patrick White was the first Australian author to win a Nobel for Literature; he did so in 1973. Beckett won his Nobel in 1969 Montale in 1975 and Bellow in 1976. 6 1/2 x 3 3/4". Very good. A rare combination of literary autographs. unknown
1975rif. 1187Viking 1975. First Edition. First Printing Very good in bright yellow boards. Price-clipped dust jacket has small brown stain otherwise near fine very nice copy. Viking unknown
1975rif. 1328456New York: The Viking Press 1975. First Edition Third Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 487 pages; VG/G; in yellow dust jacket yellow spine with brown titling; some rubbing and wear particularly to spine including small tears and sun-fading corners with some chipping; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price uncut '$10.00'; pages brittle; Inscribed on the second free endpaper by Saul Bellow "For my friend Rachel / with affection / Saul"; JM consignment;. shelved Case 6. Rachel MacKenzie was a fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1956 through 1979. Known for nurturing the careers of such literary giants as Isaac Bashevis Singer and Saul Bellow she also had a correspondence with Muriel Spark and encouraged her to submit to the New Yorker. Charles McGrath former writer and editor for The New Yorker writes "MacKenzie was a bluestocking a former college professor who had a discerning eye for talent she more or less discovered Isaac Singer and was a supporter of the young Philip Roth." Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times in 1954 1965 and 1971. 1328456. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Viking Press hardcover
1969rif. 61-1252Knopf 1969. 1969. 1st ed. 228p. Jacket priced. Fine/Fine Copy. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Knopf, 1969. Hardcover
1997rif. 312009NY: VIKING. Fine with no dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Fine in glossy pictorial printed wrappers. . VIKING. paperback
1938rif. 7471NY: Academy Photo Offset Inc. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1938. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full burgundy cloth Hebrew lettering gilt on cover. title page in color. Illustrated with fine etchings by Saul Raskin Text in English and Hebrew. Covers very lightly soiled Hebrew inscriptions on ffep very mildly shelf-worn else fine. The dust jacket now in Mylar is moderately chipped with some loss at the head of the spine. All of the etchings are in bright clean condition. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. . Etchings. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 124 2 pp . Academy Photo Offset, Inc. hardcover
1949rif. 117422G.P. Putnam 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Authors. 1st Edition. In brown cloth. Light shelf wear to bottom boards. Inscribed by Alinsky and signed " Saul". No jacket. . G.P. Putnam Hardcover
rif. 18403new pb Basil Blackwell (out of print) paperback
1935rif. 23033Windham Conn.: Hawthorn House 1935. First US edition. Light wear to cover but near fine in very good slipcase. 40 pp. small octavo gray cloth spine and pale rose boards slipcase. A book of poems. Inscribed by author on front blank leaf: "For Alex Heyman With kind regards A. E. Coppard." Edition of 300 copies. From the library of John K. Martin of Black Sparrow Press with his small exlibris label to rear pastedown. Hawthorn House hardcover
1935rif. 23034Windham Conn.: Hawthorn House 1935. First US edition. Light wear to cover but near fine in very good slipcase. 40 pp. small octavo gray cloth spine and pale rose boards slipcase. A book of poems. Edition of 300 copies. From the library of John K. Martin of Black Sparrow Press with his small exlibris label to rear pastedown. Hawthorn House hardcover
2001rif. L2 box223 v5rTrigonometry. By I. M. Gelfand Mark Saul. Birkhäuser paperback
1996rif. 18Milano Gorlich 1964 . Hardcover with dustjacket mylar protected: Volume II: 169-377. Text in Italian. fine condition book and d j like new. Eighteenth Century Italian furniture and decorative art. Gorlich hardcover