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  • Invisible City. ART, Ken SCHLES, PHOTOGRAPHY.
    [ART][PHOTOGRAPHY] SCHLES, Ken

    Invisible City

    Octavo. 23cm. Ltd. Ed. [2000 copies]. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled in blind to spine and front board. Dustjacket. [128pp.]; Unpaginated. The lightest traces of wear, clean and fresh, internally clean, initialled (as is his habit) and dated by the author to the title page; "K.S. NYC 2014"; in a......

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  • Silver Wings and Other Poems. WEST VIRGINIA AUTHORS, Fanny Kemble JOHNSON, aka Fanny Costello.
    [WEST VIRGINIA AUTHORS] JOHNSON, Fanny Kemble [aka Fanny Costello]

    Silver Wings and Other Poems

    First printing. 12mo (18cm). Pebble-grained morocco over cloth-covered boards; gilt cover title; top edge gilt; 60pp. Straight, clean copy, very Near Fine, in the publisher's binding. The West Virginia author's very scarce first book, preceded only by a few periodical appearances. Johnson (1868-1950) would become better-known as a short-story writer.....

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  • David Elginbrod. George MACDONALD.
    MACDONALD, George

    David Elginbrod

    First issue, without inserted frontispiece portrait of the author and "319 Washington Street" address below the title page imprint. Octavo (20.5cm); fuchsia cloth, 459,[1]; no ads. Cloth faded in spots, with some spotting to front board edge; moderate foxing throughout; Good and sound; far from pristine, but a scarce issue.....

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  • La Vuelta al Dia en Ochenta Mundos. Julio CORTÁZAR.
    CORTÁZAR, Julio

    La Vuelta al Dia en Ochenta Mundos

    First Impression, one of 12,000 copies, with the run being split in equal parts between Argentina and Mexico. Quarto (22.25cm); laminated pictorial card wrappers; pictorial endpapers; [5],6-181,[4]pp; illus.; text is entirely in Spanish. Hint of sunning to spine, base of spine and corners gently bumped, with some light surface wear.....

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  • USSR in Construction. 1934, No.5 (May. SOVIET UNION, PIATAKOV, eorgy.
    [SOVIET UNION] PIATAKOV, G[eorgy] (editor)

    USSR in Construction. 1934, No.5 (May)

    Folio (42cm); printed wrappers, saddle-stitched; [28]pp, with an incredible four-panel foldout plate with photos of workers in the slaughterhouse on both sides; illus. Wrappers dust-soiled, wear to spine-fold and extremities, with a few faint creases, and an early bookseller's label to front wrapper; contents clean, complete; Very Good or better.....

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  • Cash and Violence in Laos [Author's Edition, Inscribed to Leo Huberman. Anna Louise STRONG.
    STRONG, Anna Louise

    Cash and Violence in Laos [Author's Edition, Inscribed to Leo Huberman]

    One of fifty copies in the "Author's Edition." Inscribed on front endpaper: "for Leo Huberman / Monthly Review, 333 Sixth Ave New York... this copy no 31 of Special Author's Edition of 50 copies is sent with regards," signed by Strong with her Peking address, dated November 1961. 12mo. Cloth.....

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  • Post-Porn Modernist: My 25 Years as a Multimedia Whore [Signed. Annie SPRINKLE, née Ellen Steinberg.
    SPRINKLE, Annie (née Ellen Steinberg)

    Post-Porn Modernist: My 25 Years as a Multimedia Whore [Signed]

    First Cleis printing (much expanded). Effusively signed by the author on front endpaper. Quarto (27.5cm). Color pictorial wrappers; 216pp; illus. Clean, tight, Near Fine copy, free of notable wear. A revised and expanded version of Sprinkle's 1991 book of the same title.

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  • Composts of Tradition. A Book of Short Stories dealing with Traditional Sex and Domestic Situations. SEXUALITY, Oscar Morrill HEATH, EUGENICS, SOCIAL FICTION.
    [SEXUALITY] [EUGENICS] [SOCIAL FICTION] HEATH, Oscar Morrill

    Composts of Tradition. A Book of Short Stories dealing with Traditional Sex and Domestic Situations

    First printing. Octavo (19cm). Purple ribbed cloth, spine and cover titles in gilt; 303,(1)pp; portrait frontispiece and five unnumbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). A tight, clean copy, free of markings, with just a hint of sunning to spine cloth; very Near Fine. A collection of six short tales, each.....

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  • Henry Ward Beecher: A Sketch of His Career: with Analyses of his Power as a Preacher, Lecturer, Frederick DOUGLASS, Lyman ABBOTT, S B. Halliday.
    [DOUGLASS, Frederick] ABBOTT, Lyman and S.B. Halliday

    Henry Ward Beecher: A Sketch of His Career: with Analyses of his Power as a Preacher, Lecturer, Orator and Journalist...

    Thick octavo (23cm); brown cloth titled in gilt on spine, with the author's facsimile signature stamped in gilt within a double blind-ruled border on front cover; floral patterned endpapers; xii,[2],[13],14-670,[2]pp, with portrait frontispiece and 16 plates of illustrations. A clipped signature of Henry Ward Beecher has been mounted to front.....

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  • Plants of the Gods: Origins of Hallucinogenic Use. Richard Evans SCHULTES, Albert Hofmann.
    SCHULTES, Richard Evans and Albert Hofmann

    Plants of the Gods: Origins of Hallucinogenic Use

    Quarto (27cm); green cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 192pp; black-and-white photographic (halftones) and colorful illustrations throughout. Light rubbing to lower corners, with foxing to edges of textblock and pastedowns; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped ($34.95), with 1" tear to upper rear.....

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  • Reflections on Violence. SYNDICALISM, Georges SOREL, transl T E. Hulme.
    [SYNDICALISM] SOREL, Georges; T.E. Hulme, transl

    Reflections on Violence

    First edition in English, from the Third French Edition. Bound from British sheets, but American publication preceded the U.K. edition by some months (see below). Octavo; green cloth with gilt spine-title; x,299pp. Spine gilt dulled; rubbing to board edges, with spots of board exposure at corners; text slightly toned –.....

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  • The Flood [Signed. J. M G. LE CLEZIO, Peter GREEN, novel, translation.
    LE CLEZIO, J.M.G (novel); GREEN, Peter (translation)

    The Flood [Signed]

    First Printing. Octavo (21cm); off-white canvas cloth boards and beige cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in green and orange on spine and front cover; blue-grey topstain; dustjacket; [viii],300,[4]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $5.95), showing mild surface wear, two.....

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  • The Anti-Suffrage Rose. words, music, WOMENS' HISTORY, LITERATURE.
    [WOMENS' HISTORY & LITERATURE] HANNA, Phil (words & music)

    The Anti-Suffrage Rose

    Quarto (35.75cm); original pictorial wrappers; 6pp. Modest wear and handling, some dust-soil and faint foxing to wrappers, with several small tears and attendant creases to extremities, and a faint tide mark affecting lower right corners; complete, but just Very Good. A key piece of anti-suffrage sheet music – a strident.....

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  • End Zone [Signed. Don DeLILLO.
    DeLILLO, Don

    End Zone [Signed]

    First Printing. Octavo (22cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; 242pp. Signed by author on title page. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper, designed by Paul Bacon, unclipped (priced $5.95), with light shelf-soill, and rubbing and tiny tears to extremities; Very Good+.....

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  • Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century. Mifflin Wistar, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, LITERATURE, M. W. GIBBS, Booker T. WASHINGTON, introduction.
    [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] GIBBS, M.W. [Mifflin Wistar]; WASHINGTON, Booker T. (introduction)

    Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century

    First Printing. Octavo (20.25cm); vertically-ribbed cobalt blue cloth titled in gilt, with a blind-ruled border and decorations on front cover; floral endpapers; [iii],iv-xvi,[3]-372,[2]pp, with portrait frontispiece of the author and 38 plates of illustrations (halftones). Light wear to lower board edges, front endpaper neatly detached but present, with an old.....

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  • Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio 1864-1946. 18 Reproductions of Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz -. STIEGLITZ, Dorothy NORMAN.
    [STIEGLITZ] NORMAN, Dorothy (ed)

    Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio 1864-1946. 18 Reproductions of Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz - Tributes - In Memoriam

    Large quarto (42cm). Black card portfolio, string-tied, with printed paper cover label. Contents include a book of tributes (cloth-backed glossy paper wrappers; 62pp) and 18 loose photographic reproductions on glossy stock, printed at the Lakeside Press, Chicago. Portfolio slightly soiled and worn, with cover label toned; front page of memorial.....

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  • Заботы о. IMMIGRATION - RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, William F. RUSSELL, fwd P P. Claxton.
    [IMMIGRATION - RUSSIAN REVOLUTION] RUSSELL, William F.; P.P. Claxton, fwd

    Заботы о просвѣщеніи в Соединенных Штатах : как русскіе иммигранты могут использовать американскую систему образованія [=] Education in the United...

    Octavo (23cm). Original printed wrappers; 110pp. Mild external wear and toning, else complete, clean, and sound; Very Good. Main body of text entirely in Russian; second title page in English; appendix in Russian and English. An introduction to American higher education for recent Russian immigrants to the United States, many.....

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  • Anatomy in its Relation to Art: an Exposition of the Bones and Muscles of the Human Body with. text, illustrations.
    McCLELLAN, George (text; illustrations)

    Anatomy in its Relation to Art: an Exposition of the Bones and Muscles of the Human Body with Especial Reference...

    MDCCCC printed on title page, with 1900 on copyright. Quarto (30cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with title label on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; black and white halftones and illustrations throughout. Includes numbered pages of text, with 125 numbered and complete photographic plates. Inscribed by author on front endpaper: "John Madison Taylor with.....

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  • Nothing Is Sacred. RADICAL, PROLETARIAN LITERATURE.
    [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] HERBST, Josephine

    Nothing Is Sacred

    First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); rough blue cloth with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket and printed wraparound advertising band; [viii],244,[4]pp. Base of spine gently nudged, else a fresh, Fine copy in a bright, Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $2.00), with the wraparound publicity band Fine intact. A......

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  • Mission Pavie Indo-Chine 1879-1895. Géographie et Voyages III: Voyages Au Laos et Chez les. FRENCH INDO-CHINA, Pierre Paul CUPET, Auguste PAVIE.
    [FRENCH INDO-CHINA] [PAVIE, Auguste] CUPET, Pierre Paul

    Mission Pavie Indo-Chine 1879-1895. Géographie et Voyages III: Voyages Au Laos et Chez les Sauvages du Sud-Est de L'Indo-Chine

    Single volume (of eleven). Quarto (28cm x 24cm). Contemporary dyed calf over marbled boards, titled and ruled in gilt on spines; 428pp; photo frontispiece (portrait); fifteen maps (some double-page); photographic text illustrations (halftones). Mild external wear; crown of spine lightly pulled; a bit of foxing to preliminary leaves; still a......

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  • L'Assiette au Beurre - No.169: Texte et Dessins par Jossot (25 Juin, 1904. Gustave-Henri JOSSOT, artist.
    JOSSOT, Gustave-Henri (artist)

    L'Assiette au Beurre - No.169: Texte et Dessins par Jossot (25 Juin, 1904)

    Slim quarto (32cm); original pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.2810-2824; illus.; text is entirely in French. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, subtle toning to extremities, with a bit of oxidation to staples; contents clean, complete; Very Good+. A well-preserved issue of this illustrated French satirical magazine with anarchist and anti-colonialist sensibilities.....

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  • The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems. Henry Wadsworth LONGFELLOW.
    LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth

    The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems

    Octavo. 19cm. First State with "treacherous" for "ruddy" on line 3 of page 124. Publisher's original deep brown embossed cloth titled in gilt to spine. 215pp. + 12pp ads to rear dated October 1858. Light rubbing and bumping to corners, bumping to the tail of the spine with some shallow.....

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  • Krasnyi soldat na fronte ne obut, ne odet [=] The Red Soldier at the Front is without Footwear. RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, Dmitri MOOR.
    [RUSSIAN REVOLUTION] MOOR, Dmitri

    Krasnyi soldat na fronte ne obut, ne odet [=] The Red Soldier at the Front is without Footwear and Clothing...

    First impression. Lithographed poster, 84cm x 63.5cm (ca 33" x 25"); printed in black on thin white stock. Light original wear and soil, still Near Fine. Professionally laid down on archival canvas. A plea to workers to provide material support to Bolshevik troops during the dark days of the Russian.....

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  • Soviet River. COMMUNISM, Leonid LEONOV, Maxim GORKY, LABOR REFORM.
    [COMMUNISM] [LABOR REFORM] LEONOV, Leonid; GORKY, Maxim

    Soviet River

    Octavo. 19.5cm. Original deep red cloth titled in black to spine, with embossed publisher's imprint to front board. Dustjacket. 383pp. Bumped to spine ends, with some minor wear to corners, some minor darkening to the cloth in places; internally clean, fore-edge untrimmed, top edge a trifle dusty; in the John.....

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