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1974ref. 42452Flint: Brass Ring/WABX 1974. Fine. SUPPORT SUBURBAN ROCK AND ROLL!" The Dolls were presumably on tour to promote their recently released second album TOO MUCH TOO SOON while Kiss's self-titled debut album had been released only several months prior. An early record of KISS's career and their meteoric rise to fame alongside the Dolls who were one of their major precursors in glam rock. Broadside 17" by 11" approx. Purple sheet printed offset recto only in dark blue. Fine. Clean and vivid. Brass Ring/WABX unknown books
1971ref. 43806Hull: Hull University 1971. First Edition. Very good. Original poster for an Afro Rock event at Hull University featuring one of the most important bands of the movement Assagai. Afro Rock which had its strongest incarnation in the UK in the late sixties and early seventies combined Western rock instrumentation with African and Afro-Cuban rhythms and percussion. Assagai featured emegrees from both South Africa and Nigeria as well a Ghana; the lineup included drummer Louis Moholo trumpeter/flautist Mongezi Feza alto saxophonist Dudu Pukwana tenor saxophonist Bizo Mngqikana guitarist/bassist Fred Coker their chief songwriter and Terri Quaye - the first professional female congaist in the UK. Assagai issued just two highly-reguarded albums both in 1971 on Vertigo Records one of the few if not the only all-black band signed to that legendary rock label and this poster dates from that peak. While they broke up shortly after this gig the members went on to long careers in various other jazz and prog groups. A striking poster from this significant but poorly documented group. Poster silk-screened in blue gold and red. Mild wear creasing. Some rubbing. Else bright and sound. Very good. Hull University unknown books
1887ref. 859121887. Rare Bookseller's Catalogue from 1887 Including Books of Distinguished Provenance from the Libraries of Judges and Lawyers Barons and Earls Roche James. A Catalogue of Miscellaneous New And Second-Hand Books In All Classes of Literature Comprising History Biography Travel And Fiction By the Best Standard Authors Offered at Exceedingly Low Prices For Cash By James Roche New and Second-Hand Bookseller 1 Southampton Row Holborn W.C. Libraries Purchased.-Book Societies Supplied on the Most Liberal Terms. Post Office Orders Made Payable at High Holborn. Receipts Not Sent for Amounts Under Five Shillings. At head of title: No. L. 1887. London: Bowden Hudson & Co. Printers 1887. 42 pp. Octavo 8-1/2" x 5-1/2"; 21.5 x 13.8 cm. Stab-stitched pamphlet in colored self-wrappers. Light toning light edgewear to wrappers light soiling to exterior brief annotations and ink marks to front wrapper pencil marks to several pages of text. A very good copy. $150. A scarce survivor from the late-Victorian book trade this catalogue No. L represents the specialized stock of James Roche an established bookseller operating from 1 Southampton Row Holborn a premier location near the British Museum. Roche was a noted specialist in Standard Library Editions and the "Distinguished Provenance" cited-including the libraries of Judges Barons and Earls-reflects the significant liquidation of landed estate libraries during the Great Agricultural Depression of the 1880s. Printed by Bowden Hudson & Co. a firm known for high-quality bibliographic work the catalogue's emphasis on "Low Prices For Cash" highlights Roche's role in the 19th-century "Discount Bookseller" movement which disrupted traditional long-credit systems in favor of immediate liquidity. Roche's catalogues are historically significant for tracking the dispersal of aristocratic collections. OCLC locates no copies of this 1887 issue with related catalogues held only at the Grolier Club New York Public Library and the British Library. unknown books
1969ref. 55917New York: Vantage Press 1969. First edition. Very good plus in a very good jacket. Garrulously inscribed first edition of this scarce self-published first-person account of life on the road with the Chicago Outlaws. Unassuming factory worker George "Rock Conte" Mitchell falls in with the notorious Chicago Outlaws seemingly out of nothing but curiosity: "I had never met or encountered anything which split my imagination as this group did." He published this account with Vantage Press at his own expense reporting credulously and forgivingly on the gang "many of the stunts they pulled off just didn't seem to make any sense . I had seen only one member smoke marijuana" some of whom were also seen and heard from in Danny Lyon's THE BIKERIDERS. Inscribing the book six years after publication Conte echoes the also presumably self-penned jacket copy in comparing his mission to that of John Howard Griffin in BLACK LIKE ME but OUTLAWS FOREVER brought no publicity to the divide between the straight world and that of the riders. Perhaps because HELL'S ANGELS had already claimed it all for Hunter S. Thompson several years before. OCLC locates just six scattered holdings. 8'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth boards silver stamped spine. In original unclipped $4.50 pictorial jacket. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs. 216 pages. Inscribed to front free endpaper: "To / Rob & Sue: / I feel like 'John / Howard Griffin' author of / 'Black Like Me'. There is / always another side to a story. / Sometimes one may pay a / dear price & suffer but one / should never give up. / I wish the two of you the best of everything and hope / your dearest dreams come true. / Sincerely Your friend / Always / Rock Conte / 5-24th-75." Jacket lightly toned with minor soil and few small chips. Faint toning to text block. Bit of pushing to spine tail. Overall sound and clean. Vantage Press unknown books
1952ref. 87579Rome Italy: Istituto Italiano Per Il Medio Ed Estremo Oriente 1952. First Edition. Two Volumes. Octavo. 25.5cm. Publisher's original printed pale green card wraps titled in black to spines and front covers. Glassine Dustjackets. xi; 383pp.; 90; 423pp.; 85. Volumes are paginated contiguously with extensive unpaginated sections of plates expanatory matter and errata. Clean and strong lightly sunned to spines; internally clean fresh illustrated throughout; in original glassine covers with some wear and chipping to the corners and extremities and some chipping and creasing to edges most notably the bottom edge of the rear panel of Vol.I. A very good cean set indeed. An extensive ethnological analysis of the history and rites of the Na-Khi Naga cult practised by the people of the autonomous Lijiang Region of Yunnan in China. Essentially the primary academic text on the mythology and belief system underpinning the practice. Istituto Italiano Per Il Medio Ed Estremo Oriente unknown books
1974ref. 87997Anchorage Alaska: Alaska Methodist University Press 1974. Softcover. Octavo 23cm; white pictorial paper wrappers; ii45-1153pp; frontispiece portrait. AMU Press Book 19. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his inked ownership and date to front flyleaf. Tanned with light shelf-wear and trace soil; Very Good. Editor of The Tundra Times published letters addressed to him on the Fairbanks Alaska bi-weekly newspaper before meeting the demand for this later book form. Letters are signed by Naugga Ciunerput and Wally Morton pseudonyms of Alaskan Eskimo Bigjim and Peace Corps volunteer Ito-Alder. The two wrote these letters while at university to ask their questions on social events to a larger audience. 87997. Alaska Methodist University Press unknown books
2006ref. 88083Oldcastle: Gallery Books 2006. First Limited Edition. First impression. Number 117 of 150 copies signed by both poet and illustrator. Octavo 22cm. Printed sewn card wrappers; 24pp. Fine apparently unread copy. Gallery Books unknown books
1929ref. 809041929. Rock Francis J. J. Ross Browne: A Biography. A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the School of Letters of the Catholic University of America in Partial Fulfillment of its Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Washington DC: Catholic University of America 1929. x 80 pp. Original printed wrappers a bit rubbed but well preserved. Internally clean. $65. unknown books
1995ref. 213875England: Pinewood Studios 1995. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features an introduction by Kevin Cann Jeremy Reed and Marco Livingstone. A terrific collection of color and black and white photographs of David Bowie Queen Lou Reed and others. A near fine copy with some slight bumping to the bottom of the spine and in near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear. Signed by Rock on the front free endpaper. Pinewood Studios unknown books
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2019ref. UROCNIG00fpSoho Press 2019. Fine. Rock Peter. The Night Swimmers. New York: Soho Press 2019. 264pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine. Soho Press paperback books
1956ref. 87668Roma: Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente 1956. First Edition. First printing. Large octavo 25cm. Printed paper-covered boards hardcover; 194pp text; 82 unnumbered leaves of photographic plates halftones each with a printed caption on facing tissue-guard; five large folding maps in color housed in rear pocket. Some mild toning and hand-soil to binding; minor bump to base of front board; overall a well-preserved Very Good or better copy with the text complete clean and unmarked. Issued as the twelfth volume in the Institute's "Serie Orientale Roma." A scholarly study of the lands flora fauna and peoples of the Amnye Ma-Chhen Range in eastern Tibet based on explorations made in 1924 and 1926. A notable work mapping for the first time the course of the headwaters of the Yellow River. Illustrated with photographs by the author. Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente unknown books
1827ref. 9033066Philadelphia: J.J. Woodward 1827. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in calf with red and black leather spine labels spine stamped in gilt. Ex-library apparent only by penciled call number on title pages and rear paste-down endpaper. Calf bindings look great have very minor wear. Foxing to pages. 2 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches. J.J. Woodward hardcover books
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2001ref. UWILCRA00carjThe Salt Lake Acting Company 2001. Very Good. Williams Terry Tempest. Crabbies Cowboys and the Tree of the Weeping Virgin: Short Plays by Utah Writers. Rock Peter. Salt Lake City: The Salt Lake Acting Company 2001. 144pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. The Salt Lake Acting Company paperback books
1929ref. 199757Boston MA: Little Brown and Company 1929. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 423 pages. Number 189 from an edition of 365 of which 350 were for sale. A fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in a fair slipcase that has wear and splitting. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by De La Roche on the limitation page. An attractive editoin. Little, Brown and Company unknown books
2009ref. RROCPRA00tpmProgetto Prada Arte 2009. Fine. Rock editor Michael. Prada Milano DAL1913. Milan: Progetto Prada Arte 2009. 707pp. Illustrated. Bibliography. 4to. Book condition: Near fine with gently bumped extremities. Cardboard has a few scuffs and the outermost box has lightly bumped corners. Compendium of Prada's history and projects with artful photographic showcases. Progetto Prada Arte unknown books
1942ref. 202111London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd 1942. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 214 pages. A novel from this Canadian author. A near fine copy in cloth boards and in a very good dust jacket with some chipping to the spine ends and some other minor wear. Macmillan & Co. Ltd unknown books
1978ref. RSPEFAE00kwYale University 1978. Fine. Spencer Edmund. The Faerie Queene. Roche Thomas P.; O'Donnell C. Patrick. New Haven: Yale University 1978. First Yale edition. 1246pp. 8vo. Gray cloth with gilt lettered spine. Book condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with gently rubbed edges. In DJ protector. A part of the English Poets Series by Yale University. Excellently flexible yet tough binding. Yale University hardcover books
1998ref. UEBECHA00efHillsdale College 1998. Very Good. Ebeling Richard M editor. Champions of Freedom 25: Between Power and Liberty Economics and the Law. The Ludwig von Mises Lecture Series. Roche editor Lissa. Hillsdale Michigan: Hillsdale College 1998. 169pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with infrequent light marginalia in pencil. Hillsdale College paperback books
1953ref. 56614Boston: Little Brown & Co 1953. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo 20cm. Green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 307pp. Fine and unmarked in a crisp Near Fine and unclipped dustwrapper priced $3.75 on front flap. The twelfth title though the sixth in terms of narrative sequence in the Canadian author's beloved Jalna series of novels portraying the lives of an Ontario family over a 100-year period. Little, Brown & Co unknown books
ref. 55097Antwerp: De Schutter 1978. Limited Edition. #287 of 510 copies. Elephant folio 56cm. In half red morocco boards covered in red cloth titled in gilt on spines and on red leather labels on front boards; plain endpapers; vol. I: 9 6-156 4pp; vol. II: vol. II: 6 5-122 4pp; vol. III: 6 5-125 3pp; vol. IV: 1-13 14-387 3pp; with 179 color plates vol. I: 57; vol. II: 60; vol. III: 54; vol. IV: 8. Bilingual edition vol. IV with French and English on facing pages. A beautiful clean set with slight fraying to edges of cloth on vols II and IV one or two minor bumps to corners and head caps and one or two small spots to cloth; contents clean and bright near fine; overall: Very Good or better. A lavish full-size facsimile of the best-loved work of the great botanical illustrators Pierre-Joseph Redouté 1759-1840. Les Roses produced under the patronage of Empress Josephine is simultaneously a scientific compendium and a work of art. This edition is a "complete facsimile reprint of the three folio volumes of the original" edition printed by Didot from 1817-1824 with a fourth volume of biographies bibliographies commentaries and an English translation of the original French text. NOTE: this is a large heavy volume and may not be possible to ship to all destinations. If you wish to place an order from outside the United States please inquire before purchasing. De Schutter unknown books
1963ref. 175465Chicago IL: Choice Magazine 1963. First edition. Softcover. The third issue of this terrific journal. Features photographs by Rodney Galarneau and Steffens Lienwohl. Includes poems by Marvin Bell Robert Bly Paul Carroll Carolyn Kizer Paul Roche James Wright and others. Also features a long tipped in foldout poem by Paul Goodman in the rear that has some creases. A close to near fine copy in wrappers with some minor wear. Choice Magazine unknown books
1946ref. 53899Boston: Little Brown & Co 1946. First American Edition. First Printing. White Oak Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; light green cloth covered boards titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket by Lee Thayer; 462pp. Spine ends gently pushed; mild offsetting inside covers; faint foxing to top of textblock; Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.75 with toning to the spine; tiny nicks along extremities; Very Good or better. Book thirteen in the Whiteoak Saga- "The Whiteoak family reunites after a year of separation. Piers Renny and Wakefield return in 1943 during the Second World War. Finch has been off on a concert tour and Maurice has come home from Ireland. Fifteen-year-old Adeline returns from school and is now the stunning reflection of her namesake. It's a time of change and strain but the family remains united against all others." from the publisher. Little, Brown & Co unknown books
1941ref. 53898Boston: Little Brown & Co 1941. First American Edition. First Printing. White Oak Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; light green cloth covered boards titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket by Lee Thayer; 406pp. Minor toning inside covers; spine endds gently nudged; Near Fine. The duatjacket is unclipped priced $2.50 with short closed tear to lower rear panel and tiny nicks to the extremities; spine is a shade toned; Very Good or better. Eighth book in the Whiteoak Saga- "On his arrival in London Renny sees at once that Wakefield has fallen in love with a young actress. There is something about the girl that troubles Renny and the course of Wakefield's love affair which also involves Renny becomes the centre of this moving story." from the dustjacket. Little, Brown & Co unknown books
