The Mozambican Woman in the Revolution
[Richmond, B.C. LSM Press, 1974]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original green and grey pictorial staplebound wrappers; 28pp.; illus. & maps throughout. About Fine. More
[Richmond, B.C. LSM Press, 1974]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original green and grey pictorial staplebound wrappers; 28pp.; illus. & maps throughout. About Fine. More
[Washington, DC]: Library of Congress - General Reading Rooms Division, 1985. First Edition. Quarto (28m.); publisher's tan pictorial die-cut staplebound wrappers printed in green; [4],22pp.; text printed from typescript. Fine condition. More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. First Edition. Travel narrative detailing the Lindbergh's 1933 trans-Atlantic flight from Africa to South America. Winner of the National Book Award for Non-Fiction. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); red cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; blue..... More
New York: William Morrow & Co., [1931]. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth, white decorative paper labels mounted to upper cover and spine, pictorial dust jacket, purplish-brown topstain; 269pp. Two shallow losses at top edge of upper panel only just touching text, spine a bit sunned, else Fine in..... More
New York: J.S. Redfield, 1868. First American Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's burnt-orange cloth, gilt-lettered spine, yellow glazed endpapers; xii,13-371pp. Extremities shelf worn, spine cocked, some foxing and finger-soil throughout textblock, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Very Good only. Series of anti-feminist articles by Eliza Lynn Linton, the first..... More
[Chihuahua: Revista Azar], 1992. First Edition. Small narrow quarto (28cm.); original pictorial pink and blue staplebound wrappers, French flaps; 28,28pp.; folding double-page plate, text illus. throughout. General wear from handling, some dust-soil, else About Very Good. Mexican literary magazine; contents include a collection of quotations by Clarice Lispector, translated by..... More
Boston: D. Lothrop Company, 1890. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); green pictorial publisher's cloth with red and black printing, stamped in gilt on front and spine; 175pp, frontis., 7 plates. Boards show mild soiling, abrasions and material wear, especially to extremities; lower leading corners gently bumped; spine cocked; textblock partially detached..... More
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866. First Edition. First printing, with the second state of the advertisements. Octavo (20cm) in three vols. In brick-red publisher's cloth, stamped in blind on boards and titled in gilt on spines, variant of Baker & Ross binding B; yellow coated endpapers; 4pp of ad..... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1863. First Edition. First book edition, first issue. Octavo (19.5cm) in three volumes. In early twentieth-century black half morocco with marbled paper over boards, titled on spines in gilt, all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; vol I: iv, 336pp; vol II: iv, 333pp; vol III: iv..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Co., 1963. First Edition. A tremendous association copy of Sontag's uncommon first book, inscribed at the beginning of her fiction-writing career to the critic who would become her greatest and most persistent adversary. Kramer (1928-2012) and Sontag worked together on the staff of Commentary. What..... More
Galesburg: Log City Books, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 201pp; illus. Near Fine in original wrappers; text free of markings or wear. More
[Rochester, NY]: Privately published, [1918]. Edition not stated. Octavo (19.5cm); one quarter dark brown cloth, with lighter brown paper sides, stamped in gilt; 6-76pp, frontis., 3 plates. Spine cocked; boards gently scuffed and bumped, with mild soiling and wear. Textblock slightly toned; spot of soiling on plate adjacent to pg..... More
[St. Paul]: New Rivers Press, 1985 [c. 1986]. First Edition. Slim octavo (22.75cm.); publisher's green pictorial card wrappers; 109pp.; illus. Light shelf wear, tiny chip at spine crown, else Very Good or better. Minnesota Voices Project Number 25. More
New York: Random House, 1950. Second Printing. Home front life in Louisville, Kentucky during WW2. Georgia author. HANNA 2229; COAN p.199. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 278pp. Offsetting to endpapers, else Near Fine in lightly worn and spine-toned dustwrapper. More
New York: Random House, [1942]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket, grey topstain; [6],306pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed and chipped, general light dust soil, contemporary kraft tape reinforcement to verso not apparent to exterior, spine slightly cocked, else Near Fine in Near Very..... More
New York: Richard R. Smith, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in green decorative dust jacket, price removed somewhat cleanly; xi,[3],239pp.; 12 photographic and facsimile plates. Dust jacket extremities rubbed, spine crown rather ragged, rear panel soiled. About Very Good. Memoirs of a Dean at Goucher College. More
New York? Privately Printed for the Pierre Louÿs Society, [1927]. First Thus. Limited to 1250 copies of which this is no. 1015. Octavo (26cm.); publisher's cloth in black pictorial dust jacket printed in red; 270pp.; color frontispiece, nine leaves of plates with tissue guards, full-page illustrated chapter breaks printed in..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. (18cm.); blue spine over pink boards; paper title plates on cover and spine; dustjacket; 311pp.; A bit of dust/soil to top textblock, still a Fine copy. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00) with major chips/tears around the spine. A Good+ or..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. First American Edition. Suspense novel centered around the life and activities of English serial killer and bigamist George Joseph Smith, notorious for drowning three of his wives in bathtubs. Jenny Newstead touches the outer edges of this famous case, told in the voice of..... More
New York: Workers Age Publishers, [1940]. 12mo. Printed card wrappers; xii, 56pp. Mild external wear and fading; Very Good. First Worker's Age edition, with a foreword by Bertram Wolfe. More
Basel: Mundus-Verlag, [1945]. First Thus. 12mo (17cm.); publisher's stiff card wrappers, printed paper labels to upper cover and spine, in cream dust jacket printed in orange and black; 85pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece and one facsimile. Shallow chipping to jacket extremities, some dust-soil, else Very Good and sound. Erbe und Gegenwart..... More
Washington DC: Government Printing Office / Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, [1973]. First Edition. Quarto. Printed card wrappers; 209pp. Includes bibliography. Fine, unmarked and apparently unread copy. More
Detroit: Broadside Press, [1972]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21.5cm.); original white staplebound wrappers printed in blue; 32pp. Fine. Boston-born African-American poet and organizer of the Third World Media Workshop (see BAILEY, pp. 76-77). More
Williamsburg / Chapel Hill: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 2006. First Edition. Wrapper issue. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's pictorial wrappers; [12],420pp.; illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, occasional pencil annotations in text, else Very Good or better. More
Toronto: Hunter, Rose & Company, 1881. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's pictorial terracotta cloth embossed in black and gilt; [2],ix,[3],175pp. Cloth rubbed along extremities, spine rather darkened, front hinge starting to crack but holding, some finger soil to textblock, else About Very Good. Canadian poetry collection with "An Introduction by..... More