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  • Erotoscope. EROTICA, Tomi UNGERER, ART, Michel HOULLEBECQ.
    [EROTICA][ART] UNGERER, Tomi [HOULLEBECQ, Michel]

    Erotoscope

    Folio. 35cm. Publisher's black and magenta decorated paper covered boards. Dustjacket. 415pp.; [1]. Light signs of wear to the extremities and joints, strong and solid; internally clean, decorated endpapers, inscribed by Ungerer to the verso of the front flyleaf: "For Edward, Tomi Ungerer.", a little thumbing to the page edges;.....

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  • The Letters of F. Stanley Russell. The Movements of Company H Thirteenth Virginia Regiment, F. Stanley RUSSELL, Douglas Carroll.
    RUSSELL, F. Stanley; Douglas Carroll (ed)

    The Letters of F. Stanley Russell. The Movements of Company H Thirteenth Virginia Regiment, Confederate States Army 1861-1864

    Limited to 100 copies (unnumbered). Octavo. Printed card wrappers (softcover, as issued); 80pp. Mild fading to wrapper edges, else tight, clean, and Near Fine. Transcriptions of Russell's letters to his family over a period of four years as a member of the Virgiinia 13th, giving "an unusually accurate and comprehensive.....

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  • Love Poems and Others. D. H LAWRENCE.
    LAWRENCE, D.H.

    Love Poems and Others

    Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's original purple cloth titled in gilt to spine. 89pp. Spine darkened, with dulling of the gilt, minor light wear to extremities and spine ends, internally clean, a very good, solid little copy. Bearing the exlibris of poet, essayist and café philosopher Glenway Westcott to the front flyleaf.....

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  • What the World Made Them. By the author of "Travels of an American Owl&quot. Virginia Wales JOHNSON.
    [JOHNSON, Virginia Wales]

    What the World Made Them. By the author of "Travels of an American Owl"

    First printing. Small octavo (19cm). Beveled, cloth-covered boards, decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 284pp. Front cover sunned at fore-edge, else a tight, clean copy. With gift inscription to "Master Erastus R. Olmsted," dated Christmas 1874. A novel of American Gilded Age society, contrasting the before-and-after lives.....

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  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968. Martin Luther KING JR.
    [KING, JR., Martin Luther]

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968

    Offset lithograph memorial poster, printed in black on white stock; 28" x 21-1/4." Tiny spots of wear at corners, still Near Fine. Unbacked. Issued without attribution. An anonymously-produced photo-collage poster celebrating the life of MLK Jr, whose face appears at center image, surrounded with faces and scenes of the Black.....

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  • THREE ACADEMIC PIECES. Wallace Stevens.
    Stevens, Wallace

    THREE ACADEMIC PIECES

    No. lxvii of 92 copies on Beauvais Arches paper (of a total edition of 246 copies in three issues). Light blue paper-covered boards; 37pp. Lacking the plain white paper dustjacket. Binding by Arno Werner; initial letters by Wightman Williams. Spine and edges faded, previous owner's name on front endpaper, else.....

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  • Invitation To An Inquest [Presentation Copy, Inscribed to Miriam Moskowitz. ROSENBERGS, Walter and Miriam SCHNEIR.
    [ROSENBERGS] SCHNEIR, Walter and Miriam

    Invitation To An Inquest [Presentation Copy, Inscribed to Miriam Moskowitz]

    First printing. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To Miriam Moskowitz / who lived a part of this story - with deep appreciation and best wishes," signed by both authors, undated but apparently contemporary with publication. Octavo (24cm). Blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 467pp. Mild rubbing to bottom board edges, else a tight.....

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  • Two Reports on the German-American Bund, Issued by the National Americanism Commission of the. GERMAN-AMERICAN BUND.
    [GERMAN-AMERICAN BUND]

    Two Reports on the German-American Bund, Issued by the National Americanism Commission of the American Legion, 1939

    Two mimeographed reports, printed from typescript. Corner-stapled sheets, 11" x 8-1/2", printed recto only; 11pp + 8pp. First is dated March 14, 1939; second report undated, but compiled from information "released on April 3, 1939, by the Department of Justice, from the Washington D.C. office." Mild overall toning; oxidation with.....

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  • Race Rock: A Novel [Signed. Peter MATTHIESSEN.
    MATTHIESSEN, Peter

    Race Rock: A Novel [Signed]

    First Printing. Octavo (21cm); blue cloth spine over black boards, with titling stamped in yellow on spine; yellow topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 306pp. Signed by author on title page. Sunning to spine ends with trace soil to upper edge of textblock; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50), tanned, with 0.5".....

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  • Les Philosophies Indiennes; Les Systemes. René GROUSSET.
    GROUSSET, René

    Les Philosophies Indiennes; Les Systemes

    Two Volumes. Octavo. 20cm. French language. Publisher's printed and decorated card wraps, printed in black and brown. 344pp.; 416pp. Tight and handsome, some soiling to the pale cream wraps, a little wear to extremities; internally clean and fresh, unopened, inscribed by the author to the front flyleaf of volume I......

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  • Mainspring; The grassroots story of human progress, what it means to you and me and how NOT to. Henry Grady WEAVER.
    WEAVER, Henry Grady

    Mainspring; The grassroots story of human progress, what it means to you and me and how NOT to prevent it.

    Octavo. 20cm. Publsiher's grey cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. 236pp. Strong and tight, spine gilt dulled, a little wear to extremities; internally clean and fresh, inscribed to front flyleaf, original promotional ephemera laid in at the front. A very good, clean copy, with an interesting association.....

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  • An Afternoon With Hugh Macdiarmid. Hugh MACDIARMID.
    MACDIARMID, Hugh

    An Afternoon With Hugh Macdiarmid

    Quarto. 30cm. #26 of 55 copies only. White plastic slide bound sheets of card and photographic paper, titled to front cover in white. Slipcase. 28pp. of text, and 437 images on photographic contact sheets. A little unobtrusive wear to the extremities; internally clean; in a strong clean tailor made slipcase.....

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  • The Rise of Our East African Empire: Early Efforts in Nyasaland and Uganda. EAST AFRICA, F. D. LUGARD, COLONIZATION.
    [EAST AFRICA] [COLONIZATION] LUGARD, F. D.

    The Rise of Our East African Empire: Early Efforts in Nyasaland and Uganda

    First printing. Octavo (23cm). Two volumes in red cloth, stamped in black and yellow; blue coated endpapers; [xx],563,[1]pp; [x],682pp; 54 b/w plates, 9 color maps (two in pockets on pastedowns), several in-text illustrations. Sound but externally rubbed and dustsoiled, spines darkened, rear hinge partially cracked, occasional internal dustsoil: around Very.....

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  • Matrix II. Valdamar VALERIAN.
    VALERIAN, Valdamar

    Matrix II

    Quarto. 28cm. Original velobind closures with clear acetate covers. [xv]; 459pp. Clean, strong and tight with some toning of the clear acetate, and with the rear cover having some creasing and wear to the lower front corner; internally clean and fresh. A very good copy of a rather oddly produced.....

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  • Falkland Road; Prostitutes of Bombay. ART, Mary Ellen MARK, PHOTOGRAPHY.
    [ART][PHOTOGRAPHY] MARK, Mary Ellen

    Falkland Road; Prostitutes of Bombay

    Quarto. 28.5cm. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled in gilt and blind to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 17pp. text, the photographic leaves unpaginated. Light wear and sunning to the extremities of the cloth, a little scuffing and discoloration in places; internally clean, signed by Mary Ellen Mark to the title.....

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  • Drop Title] Calendriers Illustrés Pour 1849 et 1850. Louis BINET, REVOLUTIONS OF 1848 - FRANCE.
    BINET, Louis [REVOLUTIONS OF 1848 - FRANCE]

    [Drop Title] Calendriers Illustrés Pour 1849 et 1850

    Original oversized pictorial broadside (52.5x78cm.); adorned with calendars for the years 1849 and 1850 on left and right margins and eleven steel-engraved vignettes of scenes from the February Revolution in Paris, 1848. Previous folds with some subsequent splitting touching text and images without loss, general wrinkling and a few soil.....

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  • Die Marx'sche Werththeorie zur Einführung in das Studium von Marx. SOCIALISM, Paul FISCHER, GERMANY.
    [SOCIALISM] [GERMANY] FISCHER, Paul

    Die Marx'sche Werththeorie zur Einführung in das Studium von Marx

    Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's orange wrappers printed within typographically decorative border; 52pp.; text printed entirely in blackletter. Some shallow chipping to upper cover fore-edge not approaching text, some light soil, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good copy, internally clean and sound. At head of title: "Berliner Arbeiter-Bibliothek," IX. Heft.

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  • "Ikuiset Uhritulet" [trans: Eternal Sacrificial Flame. Lauri LUOTO.
    LUOTO, Lauri

    "Ikuiset Uhritulet" [trans: Eternal Sacrificial Flame]

    Octavo. 19cm. Publisher's cream colored illustrated cloth boards, titled and decorated in black to spine and front board. 364pp. Bumping to spine ends and some small instances of marginal rubbing or scuffing, some cosmetic soiling of the light colored boards in places; internally clean with some toning to page edges.....

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  • Facts for the People. Vol. I, no.3 [ca. May-June,1837. ABOLITION NEWSPAPER, Benjamin S. JONES.
    [ABOLITION NEWSPAPER] JONES, Benjamin S. (ed)

    Facts for the People. Vol. I, no.3 [ca. May-June,1837]

    Single quarto issue (29cm x 23cm; ca. 11-1/2" x 9-1/4"). Bifolium (4pp), pages numbered [9]-12. Issued monthly. Old horizontal fold at center (as issued?); small loss at upper margin (away from printed area), brief separations at folds, without loss to text; complete and Good. Single issue of this very scarce.....

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  • Fall River and Its Manufactories. 1803-1888 [-1890; -1894; -1896; -1898; 1910]. With Valuable. MASSACHUSETTS FALL RIVER, Henry H. EARL.
    [FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS] EARL, Henry H.

    Fall River and Its Manufactories. 1803-1888 [-1890; -1894; -1896; -1898; 1910]. With Valuable Statistical Tables, Compiled From Official Sources

    Six original biennial issues in original wrappers, comprising the 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th, and 20th editions. Issue for 1888 in glazed, printed wrappers, 13cm x 8.5cm; remaining issues in uncoated wrappers, 14.5cm x 8cm; contents range from 56pp to 72pp. A few with slight discoloration and/or wear to wrappers.....

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  • Yankee Komisar [Presentation Copy, lengthily inscribed to Vilhjalmur Stefansson. S. M RIIS, Sergius Martin.
    RIIS, S.M. [Sergius Martin]

    Yankee Komisar [Presentation Copy, lengthily inscribed to Vilhjalmur Stefansson]

    First printing. With a lengthy inscription to the noted Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson on front fly-leaf, reading in full: "On the occasion of my 25th anniversary as active member of the Explorers Club, I wish to present this book to its honored President Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, whose sympathies and unfailing.....

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  • Stand: No.3, 1952; No.6, Winter 1953; The Twelve; No.7, Spring 1954; No.12, Winter 1956/7; Vol.4, Jon SILKIN, Ken Smith, Gene Baro, American.
    SILKIN, Jon and Ken Smith (editors); Gene Baro (American editor)

    Stand: No.3, 1952; No.6, Winter 1953; The Twelve; No.7, Spring 1954; No.12, Winter 1956/7; Vol.4, No.1-4; Vol.5, No.1-4; Vol.6, No.1-4...

    Softcovers. Octavo issues (21cm); pictorial paper wrappers; illustrations. Full pagination available upon request. All issues lightly tanned, with modest shelf-wear and -soil; overall Very Good. Collection of poetry with quarterly publications, with contributions by Dan Jacobson, Raymond William Zuk, Alexander Blok, and Andrew Bailey. Stand published privately in close association.....

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  • Lyme Regis (Philpot) Museum: Curator's Report with notes on recent research and new. John FOWLES, Liz-Anne Bowden.
    FOWLES, John; Liz-Anne Bowden

    Lyme Regis (Philpot) Museum: Curator's Report with notes on recent research and new acquisitions. Complete run of 22 Reports in...

    17 individual issues in original staple-bound, printed wrappers (Reports for 1987-88, 1995-96, and 1997-1999 are combined in single volumes). Occasional mild sunning to spines, still a uniformly Fine set in the original wrappers. Four issues (1979, 1980, 1983, and 1987-88) are signed by Fowles on front cover; included with the.....

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  • The Indian Historian Volumes 1-11 [42 Issues Total. Jeannette HENRY, Philip Galvan, Leatrice Mikkelsen, Edward P. Dozier, illustrations.
    HENRY, Jeannette (editor); Philip Galvan (illustrations); Leatrice Mikkelsen; Edward P. Dozier

    The Indian Historian Volumes 1-11 [42 Issues Total]

    Volumes 1-11, all softcovers (42 issues total). Quarto (28cm); stapled pictorial paper wrappers; black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. Full pagination available upon request. Published by the American Indian Historical Society, incorporated by Indigenous individuals of North America in 1964, with a focus on promoting education on Native American social.....

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