Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 197 pp. The first book published in the US by the Belorussian Nobel Prize-winning author for 2015. A groundbreaking choice for the Literature prize as the author is a journalist, her works in the oral history tradition. Quite scarce in hardcover. An essentially as.....
Octavo (21.5cm.). Green cloth; dust jacket; [6],233pp. A tight, clean, and unmarked copy, with little evidence of aging or use; Very Good to Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.00 on front flap); light wear and tiny chips to extremities, with a small loss at spine foot and.....
Small oblong quarto (17.25x23.5cm.); original cloth in mauve pictorial dust jacket; unpaged. A few tiny chips and tears to jacket extremities, spine and flap folds sunned to green, else Fine in Very Good jacket. TOLEDANO B40a.
Broadside, ca. 24" x 16", on newsprint. Old folds; marginal losses; brief ink annotation at upper right. Brief losses to text, without loss of sense, at center fold.
First printing. Deluxe issue; no. 39 of only 50 copies signed by both Mariani and Moser, with a bound-in triptych following the limitation leaf. Octavo (22cm); cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 231pp. Fine and unread, in a fine dustwrapper. A new-appearing copy.
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); tan cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black and red on spine and front cover; viii,350pp, with frontispiece and five plates of illustrations by Armand Both. Decorative bookplate of Douglas R. Vining to front pastedown, some offsetting to cloth at spine (likely from binders glue).....
Staple-bound pamphlet, 23cm x 16cm (ca 9" x 6"). Printed plain paper wrappers; 12pp. Wrappers toned; rear wrapper sound but discolored, apparently from having once been laid down in an album; contents clean and unmarked. Good and complete. Includes fundraising pledge form bound in after final page of text.
Early American reprint. Half-bound in contemporary black leather with marbled paper over boards; plain endpapers; 320pp; 13 illustrations, two bound out of order. Sewing holes visible. Sound but externally rubbed, with occasional spots of foxing to margins: Very Good. Preceded by the Harper edition and the Lea & Blanchard issue.....
Folio (39cm). Two volumes in contemporary parchment over boards, ms title on brown spine labels, all edges sprinkled red; plain endpapers; vol. I: [iv],[144],406pp; vol. II: [iv],416pp; frontispiece portrait and engraved decorative headpieces in vol. I, relief decorative capitals and tailpieces in both vols. Title page printed in two colors.....
First Printing, preceded by a limited edition of 350 copies. Octavo (22cm); blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; black topstain; dustjacket; 251pp; illustrated with 70 full-page photographs by Doris Ulmann. Hint of sunning to spine ends, some trivial wear to corner tips, with a tiny splash mark.....
First Impression, one of 5,000 copies. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [iv],268,[4]pp. Wear at crown, some erosion to cloth with resulting board exposure at upper edge of rear cover, and some trivial dust-soil to text edges; Very.....
One of 125 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.48. Single leaf, folded twice and hand-sewn into stiff card wrappers, with printed title label applied to front cover. Barest hint of sunning to extremities, else Fine.
First printing. Octavo. Publisher's deep red ribbed cloth, titled in gilt on spine; xvii+278pp; 3pp ads. Bit of sunning and wear to cloth backstrip, slight soil to upper edge of text block, else a tight, VG or better copy. Small bookseller label (W.B. Clarke, Boston) at base of front pastedown.....
Original pictorial poster (42.75x61cm.) printed offset in black on white stock. Wrinkling from handling, as well as some old tape repairs to verso not showing through to image, else About Very Good. Squatters movement protest poster issued in response to the newly passed vacancy law ("leegstandswet"), which allowed home owners.....
Third edition. Octavo; publisher's green cloth, decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; xx,[1]-409pp; frontispiece portrait and 17 inserted leaves of plates (halftones); three folding maps inserted in the text, a fourth ("Map of the North Western Frontier of India Showing the Pamir Region and Part of Afghanistan").....
First printing, with uncorrected text on p.21 reading "lifed". 12mo (17.5cm). Publisher's blue-green embossed cloth, with gilt titles and decorations to spine; pale yellow endpapers; vi,[7]-256pp; frontispiece and six inserted leaves of plates. Printed bookplate of Philadelphia lithographer John Louis Ketterlinus inside front cover. A superb copy: aside from a......
Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in red and tan decorative dust jacket; 308pp. Light wear to extremities, jacket spine rather toned, front free endpaper browned from previously-removed newspaper clipping (?), else a Very Good copy, much nicer than generally seen. Bookplate signed by the author, presumably at a much later date.....
Copy 303 of 500. Quarto (28cm). Half cream linen, red cloth over boards, titled on red paper labels on spine and front, in the original glassine; plain endpapers; xviii,113pp; 27ll of illustrations. Ink inscription to front pastedown, dated 1974. A straight, bright copy with slight dustiness to cloth, glassine chipped.....
Eight original octavo issues, comprising the first two years of publication, bound together in plain cloth with gilt spine title; original card wrappers bound in. Each issue 64pp; illus. A clean, tightly-bound volume, with the individual issues clean and unmarked; about Fine. Well-preserved run of this important West Coast literary.....
First printing. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 887pp. Tight and straight, with a small bruise to rear board at fore edge; Very Good. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 on front flap), slightly sunned on spine, else complete, clean, and but lightly worn; Very Good. An omnibus trilogy of.....
Original pictorial poster (70x50cm.) printed silkscreen in red, white, and blue on pale blue stock; stock a bit wrinkled, tiny chips at top edge, short closed tear at bottom edge not approaching text or image, one small dampstain, else Near Very Good overall. Poster advertising the premier of a 40-minute.....
Limited to 775 copies of which this is no. 370. Octavo (23.5cm.); original parchment-backed decorative boards, printed paper spine label, in black paper-covered slipcase, printed label mounted to upper panel; 179pp.; title page printed in magenta. Spine rather toned with some light scratches and small dampstain at foot, some wear.....
Demi octavo (18cm). Original olive-green cloth boards, lettered in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 231pp; 8 inserted leaves of plates by Arthur William Brown. Bit of dusting to upper edge of text block, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the scarce pictorial dustwrapper, lightly nicked at spine.....
Octavo (19cm.); original red pictorial cloth embossed in black and gilt, grey glazed endpapers; vii,[2],248pp.; original mounted albumen photographic frontispiece labeled and ruled in purple ink, illus. and sheet music throughout. Cloth a bit rubbed wtih tiny exposure at corners, spine rather sunned, some light foxing to flyleaves, else Very.....