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1970rif. 250417-MB36Dove Press 1970. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket Limited edition errata slip . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Dove Press Hardcover
1940rif. A37752New York: Cadillac Publishing Co. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1940. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book is in generally clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front pastedown page. The edges of both front and rear endpapers have spotting and foxing. The price clipped dust jacket has edge tears nicks and chips missing along with spots of ground-in dirt and rubbing. . Cadillac Publishing Co. hardcover
1989rif. 250909-RD27Re/Search Publications 1989. Very good paperback. Illustrated with black and white photogrpahs by Bobby Neel Adams. Paperback. Very Good. Re/Search Publications Paperback
1995rif. 250909-RD28Amerotica 1995. Very good paperback. Paperback. Very Good. Amerotica Paperback
rif. 79065Single-page manuscript from an 1839 deposition filed on behalf of an Ohio woman swearing she was of “good moral character and chaste conduct”. The reasons for the deposition are not made clear; however it is likely Nancy Chambers née Delong 1809–69 stood accused of sexual relations with someone other than her husband just before their marriage. Signed by eight of her friends the deposition states specifically they were aware of her conduct from July 1833 until May 1834. On May 14 1834 she married Elias Chambers 1806-70 a brick mason. Their first son Matthew was born 10 months after their marriage. The deposition was made August 5 1839 before a justice of the peace at the home of the accused’s friend in Cross Creek Township Ohio. At the time the Chambers had three children. They later moved to Illinois where two additional children were born. Chastity until marriage was a strong societal expectation for women during the 19th century. The divorce laws of the time would have favored the plaintiff’s husband under adultery laws and fraudulent contract if he discovered she was not a virgin. unknown
rif. List2943Likely Chicago area 1944. Single 5 x 8 inch journal with forty-two double-sided pages filled out and many more blank. Near fine. Offered here is an unusual document: a dream journal from the 1940s. Written by an anonymous woman the journal documents dreams from January and February of 1943 and 1944. Dream interpretation is an ancient practice with many varied purposes1 but given the rising popularity of psychoanalysis at the time in the US2 it is plausible that this journal was kept for therapeutic purposes. Indeed there would be quite a bit for an analyst to say about A.B.’s dreams. She recalls moments from dreams such as when “It seems that also I have a sexual organ very faint from no cause at all” January 15 1943 “It seems I almost have to bite my mother to make her let me go” January 16 and: “I had a dream of going to Chicago with my brother. We went to a hotel as husband and wife. He slept in the same bed but nothing sexual passed between us.” February 16 1944 One dream in particular deals in some detail which we omit with A.B.’s history of onanism or lack thereof. This dream includes the sensation that: “someone is trying to probe into the dark recesses of my ‘past’ to unearth the little secret hidden sins of childhood and the lapses of young girlhood and womanhood” February 9 a feeling that would likely be close to the truth if A.B. were in fact the subject of analysis. Other themes include work health and money and bizarre imagery such as “a left arm swaddled in a white surgical bandage from wrist to armpit” January 15. Overall an uncommon survival and a peculiar read of interest to dream interpreters and their historians. 1 J. Donald Hughes “Dream Interpretation in Ancient Civilizations” Dreaming 10 2000: 7–18 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009447606158. 2 Otto Kernberg “Psychoanalysis in America” interview by Sergio Benvenuto and Raffaele Siniscalco Multi-Media Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences for Radiotelevisione Italiana July 1996 transcript https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/articles/psychoanalysis-in-america/. unknown
1982rif. 1913First Edition. 72 pp. illustrated program book for an event officially known as The Scholar and the Feminist : Toward a Politics of Sexuality held on Saturday April 24 1982 at The Women's Center now the Barnard Center for Research on Women. 8vo. Very good. Illus. Glossy wrappers slightly creased. 1772 A landmark document of the so-called "feminist sex wars" of the 1980s most copies of this conference program were preemptively seized and destroyed by Barnard College officials under pressure from activists associated with Women Against Pornography WAP. The episode remains a hotspot of conflicting allegations and rumor. Leading up to the date of the conference Ellen V. Futter then President of Barnard College became the focal point of an anti-pornography phone call campaign by WAP members and their allies. In response to the calls College officials confiscated 1500 copies of the Diary hours before the event was scheduled to begin. The booklet which had been intended for distribution to conference attendees consists of steering committee minutes personal narratives information about conference events and sex-positive artwork by feminist illustrators including erotic images that had provoked the ire of anti-pornography crusaders. Examples rarely surface. [Barnard College Women's Center]
1930rif. 26027London U.K: The Dilettanti Society 1930. Hardcover. Collectible: Good. 8vo - over 7. This is just one volume of the two- volume set but no indicator of which volume it is. Good condition no dust jacket undated limited edition no. 369 of 625 printed text tight clean and unmarked age toning if present light and uniform damp-stain on front board at tip and along fore-edge damp-stain on back board along top edge text unaffected. The Dilettanti Society hardcover
2012rif. 2047170Encyclopedia Destructica 2012. Soft cover. Very good/No jacket. Encyclopedia Destructica unknown
1901rif. 001265Brooklyn NY: Hebrew Publishing Company 1901. Rare 1901 Siddur Jewish Prayerbook with Celluloid Covers This is a well-loved well-used volume. Book opens right to left. 511 pages. 32mo: 4.75 by 3.5 inches in size and 1.75 inches thick. Sewn binding. Cream colored celluloid cover front back and spine with cream cloth underneath. An ornate brass medallion is centered in the middle of front cover. A plain hinged brass clasp is missing the peg to hold the volume closed. The endpapers are an ivory moire. Both pastedowns are cracked. The sewn binding has several loose sections: pages 160-192 are held in by a loose thread pages 193 to 222 are detached and laid in. The book is shaken. The page marked 322 is actually page 223. The remainder of the book appears firmly bound. The pages are bordered with bright gilt on all sides. Pages 508 to 511 are cut very tight on the top margin so that the page numbers are not visible. The blank pages after page 511 to the endpaper are chipped at the midpoint where the clasp is. We note small stains on pages 224 and 225 and fingermarks in the margin of page 121. Overall the pages are bright and clean. The celluloid cover is chipped at three out of four spine points and on corners of back cover. The front cover is cracked at both corners. The cloth underneath the celluloid is frayed in the spine area. There are some scratches and some light soil to the celluloid. As you'll note in our photographs cello tape has been used across the spine and onto the covers. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. Celluloid. Fair/No Jacket. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Hebrew Publishing Company Hardcover
1994rif. 240809-MB21Clear Light Publishers 1994. Very Good Hardcover with dustjacket illustrated SIGNED by R.C. Gorman slight foxing on front endpapers. Signed. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Clear Light Publishers Hardcover
1990rif. 240721-RD03The University of Chicago Press 1990. Very good paperback. Trade Paperback. Very Good. The University of Chicago Press Paperback
1913rif. 240712-MB03E. W. Allen & Co. 1913. Very Good original hardcover 1913 numerous old photographs and drawings . Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. E. W. Allen & Co. Hardcover
rif. 1532915330.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1996rif. 240611-D08Thunder's Mouth Press 1996. Very good softcover. Softcover. Very Good. Thunder's Mouth Press Paperback
1980rif. 2211New York: Free Press 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. Signed and inscribed by the revered couples' therapist on the front free-endpaper "For Susan Enjoy! Lonnie Barbach." Susan's bookplate is neatly on the front pastedown opposite the inscription. Blue hardcover with gilt spine titles in dustjacket 1st edition. The book is very good with minor shelf-wear to the board edges and some bending at the head of the spine. Interior is clean and unmarked other than the author's inscription. Age toning to the front textblock edge. The jacket is only fair - included ofr completeness rather than quality - scuffing pen marks and a large stain to the front panel and chipping at the panel edges. 237 pp. indexed one of Barbach's earliest ground-breaking books. Scarce when signed. Free Press hardcover
rif. MQ-L6Q8-F9R5Fine. 6 copies only brand new. unknown
2013rif. 160119-MG18La Fábrica/Fundación Banco Santander 2013. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket As New. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. La Fábrica/Fundación Banco Santander hardcover
1937rif. 231013-MB20Farrar and Rinehart Inc. 1937. Very Good Hardcover with dustjacket slight chipping on DJ edges previous owner's inscription. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Brazelton Julian. Farrar and Rinehart, Inc. Hardcover
1899rif. 052721Sydney: William Applegate Gullick Government Printer 1899. 65pp folding graphs at rear tables appendices. Cloth backed gray stiff card. Some minor marks and toning to cover prev owner name on front free endpaper. A very nice copy of this extremely scarce little volume detailing various aspects of childbirth in New South Wales in the late 19th century. It looks as number of children to a marriage first births barren marriages illegitimate births sex fertility multiple births deaths in childbirth among other aspects of childbirth. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo. William Applegate Gullick Government Printer Hardcover
2005rif. 230830-MB37Ballistic Publishing 2005. Very good folio-size softcover with color pictures. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Ballistic Publishing Paperback
2005rif. 220829-RD90Ballistic Publishing 2005. Very good folio-size softcover with color pictures. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Ballistic Publishing Paperback
1979rif. 051927Melbourne: Gryphon Books 1979. LARGE HEAVY BOOK-will require additional postage to most destinations. iv 126pp bw & col ills. Green quarter leather decorative cloth in slipcase. A near new copy. Uninhibited even by his standards Donald Friend's erotic masterpice was heavily oversubscribed on publication and in an edition of only 150 copies this tour de force of Australian publishing remains rare. This copy out of sequence and so described where it would normally be numbered. SIGNED by Friend. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Slipcase. Illus. by Friend Donald. Elephant Folio. Gryphon Books Hardcover
1937rif. 001500New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1937. The Hill was first published in 1905. One of more than 50 novels written by its author it depicts the friendship between two boys who attend Harrow. Harrow School founded in 1572 is a highly prestigious boys boarding school in London still going strong today. 8vo size green cloth cover with navy blue titles on spine and navy blue titles and decorations on front cover. The cover appears to be an incomplete printing of the design that appeared on other books: Darker colored cloth books of the earlier 1900s dark blue or black had a illustration on the front cover of a hilly skyline with a tall building spire - which depicts the campus of Harrow School. This silhouette is made from the color of the clothbound book. The illustration on top of that is completed by two different colors on ink in green and white. In this book a later edition the cloth binding appears to be a shade of green represented by the color of the ink in the earlier version. You can see the very light embossing of the hillside and spire and you can see the void as the spire rises between the bands of navy blue ink that make up the design on front cover. These navy blue design elements are part of the sky background. Earlier editions would have used white ink to fill the voids between the navy blue ink and the embossed design of the hillside. It appears that there is a significant publishing error the the front cover design where an layer of white ink is missing. If one didn't know the design of earlier editions you might just take the cover for an abstract design. There is an embossed illustration on the spine of books on a shelf which also would have been filled in with green ink on the earlier edition and which is devoid of ink in this copy. The printing error has produced a unique cover. The book has 325 deckle edged pages with a unique toning or foxing that resembles a wood grain pattern please see our photos. This pattern appears throughout the book with varying degrees of darkness. Horace Vachell 1861 - 1955 was a prolific English author publishing novels 22 plays short stories essays and autobiographical works. Much of his writing features an idealized prosperous English way of life. Please see our photograph of the notation from a previous reader of this book - it is her recommendation. The book has a bumped and worn head and heel of spine sunned spine penciled name on fep which is creased at bottom corner note on half title page and some small white spots on front cover. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Dodd Mead & Company Hardcover
2018rif. 230509-MB27Routledge 2018. Very Good softcover . Softcover. Very Good. Routledge Paperback
