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1985réf. 337442London: Institute of Race Relations 1985. Magazine. 110p. wraps 5.75x8.25 inches a few small stains on front wrap else very good condition. Includes "Orientalism Reconsidered" by Edward Said plus articles on women and the Cuban revolution the African diaspora and the Italo-Ethopian crisis the US stake in South Africa and more. Institute of Race Relations unknown books
1987réf. 297565London: Institute of Race Relations and the Transnational Institute 1987. Magazine. Four issues a complete run for the period between Summer 1986 and Spring 1987. 110p. each wraps 5.75x8.5 inches rubberstamp on table of contents page of Nos. 2 and 3 otherwise very good condition. Issues present are Vol. 28 Nos. 1-4. Articles on the Middle East the Philippine resistance Nicaragua and more. Institute of Race Relations and the Transnational Institute unknown books
2002réf. 281431London: Institute of Race Relations 2002. Magazine. 94p. wraps 5.75x8.25 inches two old price stickers on front wrap else very good condition. Institute of Race Relations unknown books
2003réf. 282540London: Institute of Race Relations 2003. Paperback. 117p. wraps 5.75x8.25 inches very good condition. Institute of Race Relations paperback books
1984réf. 324369London: Institute of Race Relations and the Transnational Institute 1984. Magazine. Four issues a complete run for the period between Summer 1983 and Spring 1984. 110 110 107 and 110p. respectively wraps 5.75x8.5 inches rubberstamps on cover of No. 4 and table of contents of No. 3 otherwise very good condition. Issues present are Vol. 25 Nos. 1-4. Articles on Israel and Palestine the invasion of Grenada British racism anti-racist feminism and more. Institute of Race Relations and the Transnational Institute unknown books
1984réf. 337445London: Institute of Race Relations 1984. Magazine. 110p. wraps 5.75x8.25 inches small stain on front wrap else very good condition. Articles on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon Grenada and US foreign policy Mozambique and more. Institute of Race Relations unknown books
1951réf. 290750Harrisburg Pa: Tom Waters 1951. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Stapled photographically-illustrated wrappers. A little age-toned near fine. Self-published poetry by a retired ex-vaudevilleian turned security policeman in the Pennsylvania state capitol building. Scarce as well as unremittingly bad. OCLC locates a sinbgle copy not surprisingly in the Pennsylvania State Library in Harrisburg. Tom Waters unknown books
1856réf. 23900London: J. & C. Brown & Co 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 12mo. 309pp. Engraved frontispiece. Previous ownership name on title page dated 1858. Contemporary half-leather spine in four compartments tooled in blind with raised bands tooled in gilt black leather lettering label gilt. Marbled paper sides. Bookseller label on the front pastedown. Light wear to the edges large ownership name on the title else a near fine copy. Thirteen popular detective short stories which were previously published in 'Chambers' Edinburgh Journal' including 'One Night in a Gaming-House' 'Guilty or Not Guilty' 'Legal Metamorphoses' 'Mary Kingsford' and more. This is their first collected edition. Important early example of detective fiction. Queen's Quorum 2. . J. & C. Brown & Co hardcover books
1856réf. 53813London: J. & C. Brown & Co 1856. First edition. Very good. First authorized edition in book form of these collected police detective stories the first ever of their kind to feature an investigator from Scotland Yard. Originally published in CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL the thirteen stories of the First Series plus an eight additional episodes gathered three years later in the Second Series mark the first appearance in fiction of a Scotland Yard detective. Russell in the persona of "Waters" presented his narratives as first-person recollections in line with the conventions of the mid-Victorian police memoir then enjoying great popularity while offering to the reading public a new kind of hero: a policeman with intelligence curiosity and integrity. Detective fiction has always pressed up against the porous borders of that much-derided segment of popular literature now known as "true crime": just as the latter is frequently embellished and distorted for the sake of a better story crime and detective fiction in its earliest forms borrowed the shock of the real insisting as a matter of genre convention that the events depicted were only lightly fictionalized that the reader was given entrée into the "marginalized social space between 'respectable' and 'criminal'" Saunders occupied by the real-life police detective; that they were being told a true story by an insider. Verisimilitude was the point: "The genre was designed to take the private spaces operations and methodologies of the police force and publicize them for the reader and Russell himself explained that his memoir writing was designed to present an inside view into policing for readers" Saunders. Given the bedrock importance of this interplay between the real and the unreal at the dawn of detective fiction it is perhaps unsurprising that Sherlock Holmes the most famous fictional private detective of later Victorian decades would inspire a legion of devotees to insist on his factual reality perfectly well aware that this was not true and sublimely indifferent to it. A handsome copy of this scarce and vital Queen's Quorum and Haycraft-Queen title - especially uncommon complete in one volume. Two octavo volumes bound in one 6.25'' x 4''. Contemporary half calf marbled boards. Gilt-ruled spine with spine label. Lacking frontispiece as sometimes seen. 8 310 pages. In custom cloth slipcase. Sympathetically rebacked with reinforcement to hinges. Some rubbing chipping rear joint. Overall clean and sound. J. & C. Brown & Co unknown books
1852réf. 5759New York: Cornish Lamport & Co 1852. First Edition/Pirate Edition. Hardcover. Good Textblock Very Good. No DJ. First Edition/Pirate Edition. Hardcover. Unusual little tome of early crime fiction and one of only 5 or 6 known copies bound in red boards typically found in brown boards. "Waters" was the pseudonym for William Russell one of the earliest crafters of detective fiction in the UK. The first "official" printing was in London under a slightly different name in 1856 and then in the US later that year. This printing was apparently a pirate edition preceding the official by an inexplicable 4 years Waters Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer. London J&C Brown 1856. Queen's Quorum 2. Hubin 1994 p. 843. Noted flaws notwithstanding a rather handsome copy of this very scarce title rare in red boards. Moderate shelf/edge wear fraying at head and tail tips through light toning at spine minor soiling to boards corners gently bumped light foxing at preliminaries minor cutting error at 181/2 edge only else tight bright and unmarred. Red cloth boards gilt lettering in blind decorative elements decorative/advert endpages blue ink decorative borders and ads for various Cornish titles. Small 8vo. 238pp. Cornish, Lamport & Co hardcover books
1868réf. 732591868. Murder Will Out" "Waters" Russell William 1806-1876. Recollections of a Sheriff's Officer. London: Aldine Chambers c.1868. iv 140 pp. Octavo 6-3/4" x 4-1/4". Contemporary cloth blind fillets and gilt title to spine speckled edges. Some soiling faint dampstaining and fading to boards and spine corners just bumped hinges cracked light offsetting to endleaves contemporary armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior light foxing in a few places crack in text block between pp. 94 and 95 small tear to lower edge of second leaf not affecting text. Rare. $450. Second edition. This fine example of the genre of Victorian detective fiction first appeared in 1840 under a different imprint. Short anecdotes narrated by down-on-his-luck sheriff's officer William Sharpe cover murder abduction and theft. Contents include "Murder Will Out" "Diamond Cut Diamond" "Very Mysterious" "The Dead Alive" "A Writ of Capias" and "Nobs and Snobs." Russell was an early and prolific writer of crime stories and detective fiction sometimes under his own name and sometimes as here under the pseudonym "Waters" or "Thomas Waters." OCLC locates 2 copies of all editions and 1 copy of the present edition UT-Austin. Hubin Crime Fiction 1749-1980: A Comprehensive Bibliography 416. unknown books
1964réf. 9003611New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston 1964. 1st. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white photographs. Black-and-white pictorial endpapers. Previous owner's name in ink on the title page. Holt, Rinehart & Winston hardcover books
1960réf. 192508New York: The Renaissance Society Of America 1960. Softcover. Very Good. Two parts of volume thirteen number 1 part one is 68pp. and part two is 68-121pp. Octavos. Stapled wrappers. Spines and edges lightly age-toned else very good. Part One: List of Officers of the Society Report of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Advisory Council and Directory of Members. Part Two: "Pedro de Mexia and Spanish Golden Age Historiography by Edward James Schuster; Blurt Master Constable: A Possible Authorship Clue by Samuel Schoenbaum; An Anonymous Neo-Latin Eclogue by W. Leonard Grant; Ransom in Samson Agonistes by Ann Gossman; Renaissance Books A List compiled by Robert E. Taylor and many reviews. The Renaissance Society Of America unknown books
1959réf. 144043New York: Renaissance Society of America 1959. Softcover. Good. Good. Paperback stapled at spine rubbed at spine ends and corners ink writing and small scribble mark on front page minor margin markings. Renaissance Society of America unknown books
1960réf. 144044New York: Renaissance Society of America 1960. Softcover. Good. Good in wrappers. Paperback stapled at spine pages lightly browned at edges pen markings on front page outer page slightly torn and loosened at staples. Renaissance Society of America unknown books
1960réf. 144048New York: Renaissance Society of America 1960. Softcover. Good. Good in wrappers. Paperback stapled at spine lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners few minor pencil markings. Renaissance Society of America unknown books
1961réf. 144047New York: Renaissance Society of America 1961. Softcover. Good. Good in wrappers. Paperback stapled at spine lightly browned at page edges outer pages lightly soiled. Renaissance Society of America unknown books
1961réf. 144046New York: Renaissance Society of America 1961. Softcover. Good. Good in wrappers. Paperback stapled at spine pages lightly browned at edges lower corner bent outer cover lightly soiled. Renaissance Society of America unknown books
1961réf. 144045New York: Renaissance Society of America 1961. Softcover. Good. Good in wrappers. Paperback stapled at spine pages lightly browned at edges outer page lightly torn and loosened at staples. Renaissance Society of America unknown books
1961réf. 144042New York: Renaissance Society of America 1961. Softcover. Good. Good in wrappers. Paperback stapled at spine rubbed at spine ends and bumped corners. Renaissance Society of America unknown books
1966réf. 231332NJ: Nostrand 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Name plate on front endpaper. Corners very lightly rubbed. Orange cloth cover. Rear dust jacket discolored. Minor little tears along edges of dust jacket. Nostrand hardcover books
1942réf. 29983New York/Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart Inc. Very Good in Fair dj. c.1942. 2nd printing. Hardcover. a decent copy but with noticeable wear to the extremities half-title page partially stuck to front pastedown; the jacket has suffered paper loss along the top and bottom edges and the spine and the rear panel is blemished by a number of old yellowed tape repairs the jacket is pretty much held together by a paper-lined jacket protector which was on the book when acquired by us and which we have chosen not to replace in order not to risk further damage. "Here is the great romantic adventurous robust saga of the logging days on the Mississippi; a story of the huge drives that floated down from the north with the breaking ice each spring and the white glistening streamers with their girls and their gambling wheels that met the raftsmen at the lumber towns on the upper river. It's the epic of the empire of lumber of fortunes made and lost of forces and deeds that changed the face of a continent of the lives and loves and bitter struggles of the men and women whose life was the Mississippi and lumber." . Farrar & Rinehart, Inc. hardcover books
1942réf. 31684New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc 1942. Hardcover. 374pp. Octavo 21 cm Red cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover. Very good. The extremities are gently bumped and rubbed. The cloth along the top edge is just a little frayed. Very minor spine lean. There is a contemporary gift inscription on the front free endsheet. Subtly yellowed pages. The dust jacket is in fair condition. There is a large loss from the bottom edge of the front panel. There are also multiple small losses from the rubbed and creased edges. Subtly faded spine. The jacket actually still looks quite attractive. From the dust jacket- "River Lady is the epic of the empire of lumber of fortunes made and lost of forces and deeds that changed the face of a continent of the lives and loves and bitter struggles of the men and women whose life was the Mississippi and lumber. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc hardcover books
1950réf. 114703New York: n. pub 1950. 16p. 9x12 inch publicity brochure edgeworn red and black wraps with photo of Ethel Waters on the cover. n. pub unknown books
2002réf. 154088Ibaraki: Contemporary Art Center 2002. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery Art Tower Mito from April 13 through June 9 2002. Text in Japanese and English. Fine and unread in card wrappers with a Fine dust jacket. Contemporary Art Center unknown books
