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  • Body of This Death: Poems
    BOGAN, Louise

    Body of This Death: Poems

    Slim octavo (20.25cm.); original linen-backed boards in cream dust jacket printed in blue; [10],30pp.; text printed in red and black. Jacket split into two pieces along rear spine hinge, the whole toned, faint damp-splash to upper panel, loss to spine ends, the one at foot affecting text; contemporary gift inscription.....

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  • Poster: "Through the strength realized from music women create an energy that is solely their own"
    [WOMEN]

    Poster: "Through the strength realized from music women create an energy that is solely their own"

    Original illustrated poster, silkscreened in red and black on white stock, measuring 74cm x 46cm (29" x 18"). Edgeworn, extremities slightly toned and creased, with several tears ranging from 1/4" to 1 3/4"; Very Good.

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  • The Old Man's Place
    [RADICAL LITERATURE] SANFORD, John B (pseud Julian Shapiro)

    The Old Man's Place

    Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 263pp. A brilliant copy, fully Fine in a nearly flawless dustjacket. Rarely seen thus.

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  • Guardian: Independent Radical Newsweekly [Run of 45 Issues from 1969
    [UNDERGROUND NEWSPAPERS] SMITH, Jack A. (editor)

    Guardian: Independent Radical Newsweekly [Run of 45 Issues from 1969]

    45 Tabloid issues (42.5cm); pictorial newsprint wrappers; illus.; publication sequence runs as follows: Vol.21, Nos.14-17, 19-28, 30-45, 47-50; Vol.22, Nos.1-10, 12-13 (January 4 - December 27, 1969). All issues show mild wear and toning to extremities, a few with tiny nicks, tears, and some occasional foxing; Nov.29 issue has a......

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  • The Apes of God
    LEWIS, Wyndham

    The Apes of God

    First Printing. Octavo; light gray textured cloth, with titling and rule stamped in red on spine and front panel; red topstain; dustjacket; 625pp. Tasteful bookplate to front pastedown, touch of sunning to spine, with light offsetting from binders glue on pastedowns; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, gently sunned at spine.....

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  • Selected Poems 1965-1975
    HEANEY, Seamus

    Selected Poems 1965-1975

    First Impression, cloth issue. Octavo (20.5cm); blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [9],10-136pp. Hint of sunning to spine and upper board edges, faint foxing to upper edge of textblock, else Near Fine. In the first issue dustjacket, with the £3.95 price unclipped; trivial wear, else.....

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  • Resist the Draft - Nov.14
    [NEW LEFT]

    Resist the Draft - Nov.14

    Bifolium (21.5cm); single sheet of 8.5" x 14" white stock, folded once vertically to create a 4pp pamphlet; offset printed. A few faint creases and mild signs of handling; Very Good+. Accompanied by an 8.5" x 11" flyer from the same event, similarly printed; old horizontal fold at center, else.....

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  • The Fountainhead
    RAND, Ayn

    The Fountainhead

    First Printing. Octavo; second issue green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; 754pp. A few faint smudges to panels, minor wear along endges and spine ends, faint stain to lower edge of text closed to spine, touch of offsetting to pastedowns, with the paper along.....

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  • Comrade Jill
    ADAMS, Herbert

    Comrade Jill

    Octavo (19.5cm); brown cloth with titles stamped in red on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 248pp. Light foxing to text edges; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly rubbed, with a few shallow chips and tears, and light soil to rear panel; Very Good+.

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  • Wanderer of the Wasteland
    GREY, Zane; Herbert Dunton, illus.

    Wanderer of the Wasteland

    Octavo (19.25cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; [10],419pp.; frontispiece, 2 plates. Some shelf wear to jacket extremities, including a few tiny losses, faint blemish to upper panel, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. SMITH G-519.

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  • Heart of an Indian. A Gripping Story Based upon A Great American Truth [Inscribed Copy
    CALLAHAN, Robert E.

    Heart of an Indian. A Gripping Story Based upon A Great American Truth [Inscribed Copy]

    Octavo. Blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 339pp. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper, "with all good wishes / Robert E. Callahan." Further inscribed by composer Charles Wakefield Cadman, "with best wishes;" and by the Native-American performer (and the book's dedicatee) Tsianina Redfeather, "with deepest appreciation.".....

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  • The Life, Labors, and Travels of Elder Charles Bowles, of the Free Will Baptist Denomination ......
    [BOWLES, Charles] LEWIS, John W. and Arthur Dearing

    The Life, Labors, and Travels of Elder Charles Bowles, of the Free Will Baptist Denomination ... Together with an essay...

    Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's brown blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 285pp. Boards slightly scuffed with brief exposure at corners, spine ends a bit softened, contemporary blue pencil ownership signature to front free endpaper, textblock significantly foxed, else a Very Good, still quite fresh copy.

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  • Season of Peril [Limited Edition, Signed
    OATES, Joyce Carol

    Season of Peril [Limited Edition, Signed]

    Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.121. Quarto (26cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and red cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [10],11-24,[4]pp. Tiny indentation to upper rear board edge, else very Near Fine in.....

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  • Strange Coast: A Novel
    PAWLE, Liam [pseud. William Edward David Allen and Paula Gellibrand]

    Strange Coast: A Novel

    Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket; [4],284pp.; map endpapers. Upper jacket panel rather dust-soiled, some minor shelf wear, corners bumped, else Very Good or better. Novel set in a fictional country based on Georgia, pseudonymously authored by the British Fascist sympathizer and historian of the South Caucasus.....

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  • The Game
    LONDON, Jack

    The Game

    Second Issue, with rubber-stamp of Metropolitan Magazine Co. on copyright page. Octavo; teal vertical-ribbed cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt, white, red and brown to spine and front panel; decorative endpapers; top edge gilt; 182pp, [6] ads; illus. Brief contemporary inscription to verso of frontispiece, some trivial rubbing.....

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  • dem [Bound Galley Copy
    [AFRICAN AMERICANA] KELLEY, William Melvin

    dem [Bound Galley Copy]

    Octavo (29.5cm); publisher's galley sheets, bound into pale blue wrappers, with photo-copied publication information glued to front cover; [iv],1-66a,[3]pp. Modest wear, subtle toning and dust-soil to wrappers, with a few faint creases and tiny tears, and publication label loose but present; Very Good+.

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  • Moods: Cadenced and Declaimed [Limited Edition, Signed
    DREISER, Theodore

    Moods: Cadenced and Declaimed [Limited Edition, Signed]

    Limited to 550 copies of which this is no. 434. Octavo (23cm.); original half cloth, brown morocco gilt spine label, original black paper-covered board slipcase; x,[2],328pp. Leather spine label rubbed with a few tiny losses, else Very Good or better. Signed by the author on limitation page.

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  • My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and Philosophical Novel
    [ANARCHISTS & I.W.W.] TILLIER, Claude; Benj. R. Tucker, trans.; Ludwig Pfau, sketch of the author's life

    My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and Philosophical Novel

    Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's red gilt-lettered cloth; 312,[3](ads)pp.; added color lithographic title page. Light shelf wear, miniscule damp spot to upper cover, spine a shade darkened, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper and bookplate to front pastedown, late 20th-century bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, else Very Good or better.

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  • Broadside Diploma] Front Unique de Belgique / 1914-18 1940-45 / Diplôme d'Honneur /...
    [WORLD WAR II] [BELGIUM] [PRISONERS OF WAR] AMICALE DES POSTIERS PRISONNIERS POLITIQUES RESCAPÉS

    [Broadside Diploma] Front Unique de Belgique / 1914-18 1940-45 / Diplôme d'Honneur / Section: Prisonniers Politiques...

    Original broadside pictorial diploma (24.5x32cm.) printed lithograph on cream stock in red, gilt, and black, accomplished in manuscript and rubberstamp. Minor foxing else a fresh, Fine example.

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  • When God Laughs and Other Stories
    LONDON, Jack

    When God Laughs and Other Stories

    First printing. Title leaf a cancel (as with all copies, per Blanck). Octavo (19cm). Original pictorial cloth boards, stamped in colors on spine and front cover; ix, 319, (4)pp; illus. Previous owner's bookplate pasted inside front board; cloth slightly rubbed at crown and heel; spine design slightly dulled; a tight.....

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  • Drop title] Bank Robbery
    [CRIME & THE UNDERWORLD] [MOORE, Langdon W. a.k.a. Charley Adams] CONCORD NATIONAL BANK

    [Drop title] Bank Robbery

    Broadside (28.5x19.5cm.); faint previous horizontal mail fold, light wrinkling from handling, else a Very Good or better, fresh copy. Text signed in print by Geo. Heywood, President of the Bank, and Geo. M. Brooks, President of the Middlesex Institute for Savings.

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  • Reply to Dr. Stillé's Strictures on the Harvard Examinations for Women [wrapper title
    [WOMEN - EDUCATION] DUNBAR, Charles F.

    Reply to Dr. Stillé's Strictures on the Harvard Examinations for Women [wrapper title]

    First separate edition. Octavo. Sewn pamphlet; printed blue paper wrappers; 12pp; errata slip bound in after final leaf of text. Rear wrapper neatly detached; old tide-line to upper margin of front wrapper; text tight and unmarked - a Good, complete and sound copy. Signed in type and end of text.....

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  • The Lewis Carroll Picture Book: A Selection from the Unpublished Writings and Drawings of Lewis...
    CARROLL, Lewis; COLLINGWOOD, Stuart Dodgson (editor)

    The Lewis Carroll Picture Book: A Selection from the Unpublished Writings and Drawings of Lewis Carroll, Together with Reprints from...

    First Impression. Octavo; crimson cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; top edge gilt; 375pp, [1]; illus. Contemporary owner's name to front endpaper, spine ends gently nudged, with lower rear corner gently tapped and light rubbing to joints and extremities; hinges perfectly sound; bright.....

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  • The Covenant and Official Magazine of the Grand Lodge of the United States, I.O.O.F. A Monthly...
    [ODD FELLOWSHIP] RIDGELY, James L. (P.G.M.)

    The Covenant and Official Magazine of the Grand Lodge of the United States, I.O.O.F. A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the...

    Large octavo (23.5cm). Full morocco gilt; AEG; pp.iv,[1]-608. Bound volume of twelve issues, comprising the entire first year of the journal. Minor rubbing and wear; front hinge slightly pulled, but holding; mild ageing to contents; still Very Good or better in a spectacular and well-preserved 19th-c. American publisher's binding. Pencil.....

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