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  • Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry. A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, National Gallery of...
    [BEN SHAHN] MARITAIN, Jacques

    Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry. A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

    Quarto (25cm). Cloth-backed tan linen boards, stamped in gilt; xxxii, 423pp; tipped-in color frontispiece & 68 leaves of plates. Inscribed on front endpaper by artist Ben Shahn to his wife Bernarda, dated 1955. Minor external wear; internally clean and unmarked; Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. From the library of Ben.....

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  • Group Portrait of the Detroit Polish Socialist Congress, 1928
    [SOCIALISM] HOFFMAN PHOTO STUDIOS

    Group Portrait of the Detroit Polish Socialist Congress, 1928

    Original (vintage) print, sight area ca 27cm x 45cm (ca 11-1/2" x 17"). Captioned in image. Professionally matted and framed, with UV-protective plexiglas glazing. Sight condition fine; not examined out of frame.

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  • Exilforschung: Ein Internationales Jahrbuch. No. 1 - No. 28 (1983 - 2010, complete
    [GERMAN EXILE LITERATURE] Various Authors & Editors

    Exilforschung: Ein Internationales Jahrbuch. No. 1 - No. 28 (1983 - 2010, complete)

    Together, 28 octavo volumes. Original printed card wrappers. Condition uniformly fine - free of markings or significant wear. Texts entirely in German.

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  • The Journal of Albion Moonlight
    PATCHEN, Kenneth

    The Journal of Albion Moonlight

    Octavo (23.5cm.); original boards in matching dust jacket; [6],313pp. Jacket spine a bit toned and extremities slightly rubbed, some foxing along flap folds, boards have some minor shelf wear, else Very Good and sound. Contemporary ownership bookplate to front pastedown. Novel originally published in a limited edition in 1941.

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  • The Extraordinary Exploits and Experiences of Munchausen, M.D
    BRANDEIS, Julian W; William Gropper (illus)

    The Extraordinary Exploits and Experiences of Munchausen, M.D.

    Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 229pp; illus. Tight, Near Fine copy in the very scarce original dustwrapper, toned and slightly ragged along edges, with small losses as head and heel of spine panel; just about VG.

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  • Espinas
    RENDÓN de OLAZABAL, Eugenia

    Espinas

    Limited to 250 signed and numbered copies (this no. 74). Large folio. Emerald silk-covered boards in publisher's pictorial board slipcase; [44pp]; illus. Slipcase with a few minor surface scratches and mild bumps to corners, else Fine. Sensual, dramatic large-format black-and-white photographs of cacti and succulent plants by the Mexican photographer.....

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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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  • Gebed om Vrede [Prayer for Peace
    [CHARLES D'ORLÉANS; Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, printer]

    Gebed om Vrede [Prayer for Peace]

    Limited to just a few copies for the friends of the Blue Barge (number not given). Quarto (29cm.); original blue decorative stencil-illustrated wrappers in white and magenta; [4]pp.; title page stencil illustartion in red. Light fading to wrapper extremities, else Very Good or better.

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  • $60 Reward
    [AFRICAN AMERICANA] MOYER, William H.

    $60 Reward

    First edition, broadside (41.75x21cm.); adorned with plain photographic mug shots; some clean tears from previous folds, additional tears and shallow losses along edges, occasionally affecting text without loss of meaning; Good to Very Good.

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  • Alida; or, Town and Country [Bound with] Abednego the Money Lender: A Novel
    [SAMMELBAND] SEDGWICK, Susan Anne Livingston and Mrs. Gore

    Alida; or, Town and Country [Bound with] Abednego the Money Lender: A Novel

    Two volumes bound in one; octavo (23cm.); contemporary half black morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine ("Alida" only); text of both novels printed in double column. Boards scuffed, a few leaves in the first volume rather curled, pp. 22/3 separated but present, contemporary owership signatures to both title pages, else.....

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  • Original Panoramic Photograph: Delegates to the 16th National Convention of the Socialist Party,...
    [SOCIALIST PARTY] SPIESS, William (photographer)

    Original Panoramic Photograph: Delegates to the 16th National Convention of the Socialist Party, April 15, 1928

    Original (vintage) silver-gelatin print, ca 8" x 35" (image area 6-1/2" x 33"). In contemporary (possibly original) glazed frame. Sight condition fine but for one small poorly-developed area at left side of image, partially obscuring the faces of three subjects (not examined outside of frame). Captioned in image, with studio.....

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  • Panamarenko: For Clever Scholars, Astronomers, and Doctors [cover title
    PANAMARENKO [pseud. Henri Van Herwegen]; Jon Thompson, essay

    Panamarenko: For Clever Scholars, Astronomers, and Doctors [cover title]

    Folio (42.5cm.); original white photo-illustrated boards; unpaged; photographic illus. Light dust-soil, else Fine. Photographic catalogue of the works of Belgian assemblage sculptor Panamarenko, who specializes in imaginary flying vehicles, dirigibles, and flying saucers.

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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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  • We, the People: A Play in Twenty Scenes
    RICE, Elmer

    We, the People: A Play in Twenty Scenes

    First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); orange cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 253pp.; photographic frontispiece Light edge wear to jacket extremities, including tiny close tear at top edge of upper panel, spine just a hint faded, tiny dampspot to upper panel, top textblock edge foxed.....

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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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  • Up The Ladder of Gold
    OPPENHEIM, E. Phillips

    Up The Ladder of Gold

    First Printing. Octavo; orange cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in red on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 312pp. Some trivial rubbing to lower board edges, else Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, edgeworn, with several small nicks and short tears, and some unnecessary clear tape reinforcement along edges on verso; Very.....

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  • Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence of Morals and Happiness
    GODWIN, William

    Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence of Morals and Happiness

    Two volumes; octavos (21.5cm.); contemporary straight-grained morocco, rebacked at a later date (ca. 19th century) in tan calf, black gilt spine labels, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; lvi,436;ix,[1],554pp. Boards a bit rubbed along extremities, some clean peeling to upper cover leather of Vol. I, spine leather slightly cracked but not.....

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  • Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers
    MAPPLETHORPE, [Robert]; Herbert Muschamp, essay

    Mapplethorpe: The Complete Flowers

    Oblong folio (28x38.75cm.); original cloth in orange photo-illustrated dust jacket; unpaged; photographic frontispieces & 202 full-page illus. in color and black and white. A few faint scratches to upper panel else Near Fine.

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  • Jarmark Umeni ("The Art Fair"
    [CZECH AVANT-GARDE] TEIGE, Karel

    Jarmark Umeni ("The Art Fair")

    12mo (18cm). Pictorial yellow wrappers designed by Frantisek Muller; 68pp. Mild external soiling; Very Good.

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  • Proletarskaia Revoliutsiia i Renegat Kautskii [The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
    LENIN, N. [Vladimir Il'ich Ulyanov]

    Proletarskaia Revoliutsiia i Renegat Kautskii [The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky]

    Octavo (23cm). Publisher's pebbled brown cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 144pp. Mild external wear; triangular loss to leaf 107/108, resulting in brief loss to text (not affecting sense); Very Good.

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  • Valiant is the Word for Carrie
    BENEFIELD, Barry

    Valiant is the Word for Carrie

    First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; blue-gray topstain; dustjacket; 292, [10]pp. Minor rubbing to covers, with pinpoint wear gilt lettering at base of spine; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), lightly edge-rubbed and gently spine sunned, with a few.....

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  • The America, Published on the High Seas, Vol. IV, nos. 1-7, June 11- 17, 1919
    [WORLD WAR I]

    The America, Published on the High Seas, Vol. IV, nos. 1-7, June 11- 17, 1919

    7 bifolium volumes bound in one; octavos (23cm.); disbound from larger volume with paper remnants to spine; No. 1 with splitting at previous folds affecting text without loss of meaning, other issues Very Good and sound overall.

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  • Paper-Making By Hand in Japan
    JUGAKU, Bunsho

    Paper-Making By Hand in Japan

    Quarto (30cm). Cream vellum boards, stamped in gilt; illustrated dustjacket; 75pp text and [26pp] of photographic plates, followed by xxiv tipped-in paper specimens. This copy inscribed on second blank: "To Mrs. Bernarda B. Shahn, with the compliments of Bunsho Jugaku," dated in 1970 and with the author's address penned above.....

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  • One Came Out
    [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] WILSON, Margaret

    One Came Out

    Octavo (19.25cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial silver foil dust jacket printed in black; [6],285pp. Some general shelf wear to jacket extremities, a few tiny chips and closed tears, some minor scratching to rear panel, else Near Fine in a Very Good example of the uncommon dust jacket. Publication date on.....

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