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  • The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries. A comprehensive account of upwards of one hundred. Charles William HECKETHORN.
    HECKETHORN, Charles William

    The Secret Societies of All Ages and Countries. A comprehensive account of upwards of one hundred and sixty secret organizations...

    Second edition. Two octavo volumes. Red cloth hardcovers with printed paper spine labels; top edges gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; xxvii, 352; xvi, 350, [1]pp. Mild external wear, with some rubbing and darkening to spine labels, else a tight, clean, and sound set, easily Very Good. Heckethorn's best-known work.....

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  • Animula [Limited Edition, Signed. T. S. ELIOT, Gertrude HERMES, poem, illustrations.
    ELIOT, T.S. (poem); HERMES, Gertrude (illustrations)

    Animula [Limited Edition, Signed]

    Limited Issue, one of 400 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the poet, this being copy no.57. Slim octavo (22cm); yellow paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in bronze on front cover; [16]pp, with two wood engravings (one in black & white, one in colors) by Gertrude Hermes. A bit.....

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  • Poems To Fernando [Inscribed to Nathaniel Tarn. Janine POMMY-VEGA.
    POMMY-VEGA, Janine

    Poems To Fernando [Inscribed to Nathaniel Tarn]

    First Printing, one of 3,000 copies. Octavo (15.75cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-60,[4]pp. Inscribed by the author to noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024) on the title page: "11-11-72 / Nathaniel – Blessings come to thee from the mother cloak of stars, the mother / Love, Janine." Wrappers.....

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  • "Civil Rights Paramount at White House" (Original Postcard for the 1958 Congressional. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, Abbie ROWE, photographer.
    [CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT] ROWE, Abbie, photographer

    "Civil Rights Paramount at White House" (Original Postcard for the 1958 Congressional Elections)

    Postal card, 3.5" x 5.5"; recto reproduces (in halftone) a photograph by White House staff photorapher Abbie Rowe; verso contains a printed message with space for address (unused). Light wear; faint bleed-through to image from printing on verso; Near Fine. An unusual piece of American campaign ephemera, marking a brief.....

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  • Songs Of The Road. Arthur Conan DOYLE.
    DOYLE, Arthur Conan

    Songs Of The Road

    Small Octavo. 18cm. Publisher's original blue buckram titled and embellished in gilt to spine and front board. 137pp.;[2] ads to rear. Firm and straight, a little darkened to the spine with some bumping at the corners, handsome; internally clean and fresh, fore and lower edges untrimmed, spotting to endpapers and.....

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  • San Francisco Oracle - Vol.1, No.8 (June, 1967. UNDERGROUND PRESS, Allen COHEN, Philip LAMANTIA, Richard Grossinger, contributors.
    [UNDERGROUND PRESS] COHEN, Allen (editor); LAMANTIA, Philip, Richard Grossinger, et al. (contributors)

    San Francisco Oracle - Vol.1, No.8 (June, 1967)

    Tabloid (38.5cm); original pictorial newsprint wrappers, with covers printed in metallic ink and in colors; 40pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, mild handling, with some very subtle toning to the edges; contents clean; a Near Fine example, unfolded and without postal markings. Eighth issue of the Oracle, the psychedelic brainchild.....

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  • Poetical Works of James DeRuyter Blackwell in Three Volumes, Volume I. James DeRuyter BLACKWELL.
    BLACKWELL, James DeRuyter

    Poetical Works of James DeRuyter Blackwell in Three Volumes, Volume I

    Erratum slip tipped in at contents page. Octavo (16.5cm); brown cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and black on front cover and blind embossed to rear cover; [ii],[3],4-224,[2]pp; illus. Shelf-soil and rubbing to covers and board edges, with trace foxing to edges of textblock and interior; Very.....

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  • The Horseman's Manual; Being a treatise on Soundness, The Law of Warranty, and Generally on. SPORT, R. S SURTEES.
    [SPORT] SURTEES, R.S.

    The Horseman's Manual; Being a treatise on Soundness, The Law of Warranty, and Generally on The Laws Relating to Horses

    12mo. 16cm. Contemporary tree pattern sheep or roan with a black leather and gilt title label to spine, old respine. [xii]; 132pp. Very light wear, tight and bright, hinges strong, light sunning to spine, gilt bright; internally clean and fresh albeit with fairly low production values. A very good, neat.....

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  • Tube Railway Rolling Stock; Report upon Investigations into London's Underground Tube. H. T DOWLING.
    DOWLING, H.T.

    Tube Railway Rolling Stock; Report upon Investigations into London's Underground Tube Rolling Stock With Reference to Weight Reduction. Together with...

    Tall quarto. 34cm. Screw-bound heavy bottle green boards. 154pp. Mimeo'd typewritten pages, with 50pp mounted photographs and charts, some with manuscript additions or notes. Light rubbing to extremities of the album, clean and solid; internally clean and bright, with some occasional fluctuations in repro quality as would be expected, ownership.....

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  • The Shame of the States [Inscribed. Albert DEUTSCH, Karl A. Menninger, introduction.
    DEUTSCH, Albert; Karl A. Menninger (introduction)

    The Shame of the States [Inscribed]

    Octavo (21cm); pale green paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in red on spine; 188pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) illustrations on glossy paper throughout. Inscribed by author on front endpaper: "To my dear friends Louise and Norman Reider (and Pete) / Affectionately Albert Deutsch 12.22.48". Spine-tanned, with rubbing and scuffing of paper.....

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  • Broken Record: Reminiscences. SOUTH AFRICA, Roy CAMPBELL.
    [SOUTH AFRICA] CAMPBELL, Roy

    Broken Record: Reminiscences

    First impression. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover; yellow top-stain; dustjacket; 208pp. A few spots of foxing to upper and lower edges of text block; expected offsetting to endpapers from jacket flaps, else a tight, clean, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 7s. 6d. at base of front flap).....

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  • Conversations with Film-Makers [cover title: Movie Journal Columns 1961-1975. Jonas MEKAS, Charity Colemann, Sebastian Mekas, text, editorial assistants.
    MEKAS, Jonas (text); Charity Colemann and Sebastian Mekas (editorial assistants)

    Conversations with Film-Makers [cover title: Movie Journal Columns 1961-1975]

    Folio (30.5cm); photographic paper-covered boards; 260pp; black-and-white photographic (halftone) and colorful photograph illustrations throughout. Trace shelf-soil, else Near Fine. Lithuanian filmmaker and poet shares this collection of Village Voice "Movie Journal" columns (1961-1975) discussing cinema with artists and filmmakers, including Andy Warhol, Stephen Dwoskin, and Michael Snow. [85747].

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  • Little Big Horn Diary: Chronicle of the 1876 Indian War [Dedication Copy. James WILLERT, Warren A. Van Ess.
    WILLERT, James; Warren A. Van Ess (illus)

    Little Big Horn Diary: Chronicle of the 1876 Indian War [Dedication Copy]

    One of 500 copies. This copy lengthily inscribed on front endpaper to Carol McGovern Cerf, daughter of the dedicatee (posthumous) Dr. William Montgomery McGovern (1897-1967). Quarto; blue cloth hardcover with silver foil stamping to spine and front cover; 476pp; illus. Also laid in is a substantial typed letter, signed, from.....

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  • New Collected Poems (Signed, Limited Edition. John MONTAGUE.
    MONTAGUE, John

    New Collected Poems (Signed, Limited Edition)

    Octavo. No. 106 of 110 copies for sale (after 15 hors-commerce copies). Cloth-backed, pale tan paper-covered boards (hardcover) in publisher's slipcase. Very fine in the original slipcase, mildly soiled on side panels, still Near Fine.

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  • The British System of Education: Being a Complete Epitome of the Improvements and Inventions. AMERICAN EDUCATION - LANCASTERIAN SCHOOLS.
    [AMERICAN EDUCATION - LANCASTERIAN SCHOOLS]

    The British System of Education: Being a Complete Epitome of the Improvements and Inventions Practised by Joseph Lancaster. To Which...

    12mo. Contemporary full sheep; xx,[1]-130pp; frontispiece + 5 leaves of plates. A complete but somewhat worn copy, with typical darkening to text leaves; a few brief marginal chips (including a small loss to frontispiece, costing a couple of characters of the printed margin); Good and sound. Early holograph ex-libris of.....

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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 Chestnut Rain: A Poem in Progress. 4 vols, comprising: The Snow Hen (Sections 1-7); The. William HEYEN.
    HEYEN, William

    The Chestnut Rain: A Poem in Progress. 4 vols, comprising: The Snow Hen (Sections 1-7); The Ewe's Song (8-18); Blackberry...

    Four octavo volumes; all are Letter "U" of 26 lettered copies, each signed by Heyen on colophon, from a total edition of 126. First three in full cloth with printed paper spine labels, fourth volume with stamped spine title (as issued). Uniformly fine - a new-appearing set, uncommon in this.....

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  • The Hymns of Callimachus, translated from the Greek into English verse, with explanatory notes. CALLIMACHUS, William Dodd, of Cyrene.
    CALLIMACHUS [of Cyrene]; William Dodd

    The Hymns of Callimachus, translated from the Greek into English verse, with explanatory notes. To which are added, Select epigrams...

    4to. Twentieth-century parchment-backed, paper-covered boards; [24],212,[16]p. Some external soil and wear; blank margins of final three leaves with small losses at gutter, else internally fresh and Near Fine. Includes list of subscribers and General Index; six vignettes in text by Toms and Jeffreys. In The Papers of the Cambridge Bibliographical.....

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  • The Colonel's Dream. AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, LITERATURE.
    [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] CHESNUTT, Charles W.

    The Colonel's Dream

    First Printing, in the second state binding, with Chesnutt's name spelled correctly along the lower front cover. Octavo (20.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; x,294pp. Gentle sunning to spine, light wear to spine ends and extremities, a few tiny scuffs to front cover.....

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  • Conjunctions: Bi-Annual Volumes of New Writing - Nos.1-14. Bradford MORROW, William S. BURROUGHS, William Vollmann, David Foster Wallace, contributors.
    MORROW, Bradford (editor); BURROUGHS, William S., William Vollmann, and David Foster Wallace, et al. (contributors)

    Conjunctions: Bi-Annual Volumes of New Writing - Nos.1-14

    Limited (cloth) Issues. Fourteen octavo volumes (23.5cm); variously colored cloth bindings, with titling and decorations stamped in different colors on spines and front covers; dustjackets; [2],3-295,[9]; [6],7-228,[10]; [5],6-223,[7]; [6],7-226,[4]; [6],7-237,[11]; [6],7-306,[14]; [6],7-275,[9]; [7],8-262,[10]; [6],7-289,[7]; [6],7-304,[16]; [6],7-288,[8]; [6],7-312,[8]; [6],7-275,[13]; [6],7-287,[9]pp; illus. While not marked as such, this set comes from the.....

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  • The American Shooter's Manual; Comprising, such plain and simple rules, as are necessary to. SPORTS, "A Gentleman of Philadelphia County", Jesse Y. Attrib: Kester.
    [SPORTS] "A Gentleman of Philadelphia County" [Attrib: Kester, Jesse Y.]

    The American Shooter's Manual; Comprising, such plain and simple rules, as are necessary to introduce the inexperienced into a full...

    Octavo. 18cm. Second issue of the text with "ribbon" spelled correctly on p.235. Bound in contemporary full brown calf with a black leather and gilt title label. [x-xii]; 240pp.; [1]; errata; [5] ads to rear. Some bumping to corners, a few old scrapes and scuffs to the leather and some.....

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  • The Glass Key. Dashiell HAMMETT.
    HAMMETT, Dashiell

    The Glass Key

    First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); jade green cloth, with titling, rule, and decorations stamped in maroon and dark green on spine and covers; dark brown topstain; [viii],282,[2]pp. Gentle sunning to spine and covers, base of spine crimped, with faint foxing to front cover, and some mild dustiness and two faint splash.....

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  • The Warwick Woodlands or, Things As they Were There, Ten Years Ago. SPORT, Frank FORESTER, FISHING, SHOOTING, Henry William Pseud: HERBERT.
    [SPORT] [FISHING] [SHOOTING] FORESTER, Frank [Pseud: HERBERT, Henry William]

    The Warwick Woodlands or, Things As they Were There, Ten Years Ago

    Octavo. 18cm. Bound in original publisher's paper wraps titled and bordered in black to front wrap. [iv]; 168pp. Chipping and wear to edges and extremities, spine panel heavily chipped, lacking rear wrap, strong and tight but with several closed tears, soiling etc; internally clean & untrimmed with some dampstaining to.....

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  • A History of the Third United States Cavalry. Ralph C. DEIBERT, Harry N. Cootes.
    [DEIBERT, Ralph C.; Harry N. Cootes]

    A History of the Third United States Cavalry

    Octavo (24cm). Green cloth titled in gilt; [x],[144]pp; color frontispiece, and black and white halftone portraits throughout. Ownership inscription to front pastedown. Slight rubbing to extremities, else Near Fine. Originally organized to protect travelers on the Oregon Trail, the Third Cavalry had seen action in the Mexican-American War, Civil War.....

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