New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1997. First English Language Edition. Quarto (32.5cm.); publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket; 207pp.; color illus. throughout, including 150 colorplates. Text block slightly cocked, mild toning to margins of text block, otherwise boards and text block tight, clean and unmarked. Quarter inch nick to..... More
New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1994. First Edition. Published in association with Albright-Knox Art Gallery exhibition of Mangold's works. Illus. in b&w throughout, with 61 reproduction colorplates. Oblong Quarto. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 142pp. Slight lean to spine, with mild sunning to top edge of boards and dust wrapper..... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. First Edition. In publisher's series "Indians of the Southeast" Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; xi,311pp. Trivial dust soiling to bottom edge of boards and dustwrapper, otherwise tight, clean, near-new copy. Publisher's slip laid in. Some minor shelf wear to jacket, 2" crease on..... More
London: Frank Cass, 1996. Second Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dustjacket. x, 218pp. Quarter inch pen mark to the front edge of text block. Slight lean to spine. Minor shelf wear to top edge of dustwrapper, otherwise clean, tight, unmarked copy. Near Fine. More
New York: George H. Evans, 1830. Palmer's principal work, generally regarded as the "Bible" of American Deism. Palmer (1764-1806) has been described as "the most active of the militant Deists of the [early 19th century] period...in one of his addresses to the [Universal] Society, he so forcefully denied the divinity..... More
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1954. First Edition. First printing. 12mo; cloth-backed patterned boards (hardcover); dustjacket; red top-stain; 240pp; six inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Faintly musty from storage, but still a Very Good, straight, tight copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper, price intact on front flap, with a few nick2s..... More
Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994. First Paperback Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.75cm); pictorial card wrappers; xvi,260,[4]pp. Trivial wear, else Fine and unread. More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982. First Edition. Second collection of verse in a trilogy by the Barbadian poet. "Sun Poem, leaving the female-dominated Barbadian landscape of Mother Poem, explores the male history of the island as it passes from grandfather to father to son. The sun-son-son-song progression of the work..... More
New York: Henry Emmerson, 1949. Third Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); beige linen boards, with titling and decorations stamped in black and red on spine and front cover; xii,[2],3-132pp, with frontispiece and 18 plates of illustrations. Gentle sunning to spine, light wear to extremities, with mild offsetting from binders glue to pastedowns;..... More
Toronto: The Book Society of Canada, 1950. Early biographical study of the renown African American agricultural scientist and inventor, first published the year after his death by Julian Messner (1944). With illustrations throughout by Elton Fax. Second Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; [ii],[4],5-224,[2]pp; illus. Modest wear to wrappers, a...... More
Chicago and New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1944. First Edition. An examination of the lives and major successes of some of the prominent figures in American popular music, with chapters on King Oliver, Irving Berlin, Louis Armstrong, W.C. Handy, Meade Lux Lewis, Duke Ellington, Paul Whiteman, Ferde Grofe, George Gershwin..... More
Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions, 1981. First, Limited Edition. Letter "G" of 26 special copies, signed by Dorn on his portrait following text and with a signed holograph leaf. 12mo; full beige cloth with paper spine label; 128pp. Fine in the original translucent (unprinted) dustwrapper. The portrait of Dorn is by..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928. First Edition. The second of five historical novels by Du Bois (1868-1963), set between 1923-27, following the protagonist - a Black student studying to be an obstetrician - from his exile in Germany to his return home in Virginia. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1906. Third Printing. Octavo (21cm); maroon vertically-ribbed cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt and in blind to spine and front cover; xiv,354pp, with photographic frontispiece portrait of Washington and 23 plates. Gentle sunning to spine, thin, partial crack to front hinge..... More
Boston: The Cornhill Company, [1918]. First American Edition. Unauthorized American edition of Joyce's first published book, preceding the authorized (Huebsch) edition by some months. Originally issued in London, 1907; this piracy coincides with the second London edition of 1918. SLOCUM & CAHOON 5. First printing. 12mo (16cm); publisher's green cloth..... More
Huntington, IN: United Brethren Publishing Establishment, N.d. [ca 1950]. Account, by a United Brethren minister, of a missionary trip to Honduras. Includes a rather detailed description of mahogany plantations in Honduras. The title is used unironically. Not separately catalogued in OCLC. 16mo (17cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 58pp; illus. Ex-private (church)..... More
Paris: Corrêa, 1952. First French Edition. First French edition of Himes's second book, originally published as Lonely Crusade by Knopf in 1947. A penetrating and subtle left-wing (but intensely anti-Communist) novel concerning race conflict at a California aircraft factory during World War II, which managed to offend African-Americans, whites, communists..... More
Philadelphia: The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1967. First, Limited Edition. A lovely hand-printed bestiary/abecediary by the Austrian-born painter, printer and illustrator. Siegl (1924-2009) spent most of her career in Philadelphia, where her husband Theodore was the chief conservator of paintings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The cuts are executed..... More
Philadelphia: Printed for P. Byrne, 1812. First Edition. A major work by the celebrated and controversial Anglo-American economist and legal philosopher. "Even his controversial works attest his notable scholarship, and his Institutes of Justinian (1812) and Statutes at Large of South Carolina (1836-9) remain as monuments to his legal learning"..... More
[Cairo: Dar El-Hana Press: n.d. ca 1960-61]. Exceedingly scarce and quite fiery pamphlet calling for a complete revision of the Rhodesian constitution, with input from native Africans, to overturn the decades-long system of apartheid under the rule of white settlers. "It is shere [sic] fantasy to assume that we shall..... More
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Johannesburg: Non-European and Native Affairs Department, 1943. First Edition. An exhaustive compilation of laws, opinions, and legal precedents related to the South African Natives (Urban Areas) Act of 1923 and the various proclamations and ordinances related to it. The Introduction identifies this as "the first exhaustive study of the Act..... More
London: War Resisters' International, [1936]. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed self-wrappers; 12pp. Light wear and soil; pencil annotation to front cover; Very Good. Position statement of War Resisters' International vis-a-vis the Spanish conflict. Prints the League's Declaration and Statement of Principles on rear wrapper. More
New York: Medical Bureau and North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy, [1938]. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 13pp. Slight foxing and toning to wrappers; pencil annotation to front cover; text complete and sound - Very Good. Statement of support by the American Scottish Rite Freemasons for the Nye..... More
London: [Friends of Spain], 1937. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 12pp. Covers slightly foxed and soiled; text generally clean and unmarked; Good or better. Three articles published in March and April, 1937, advocating British support of the Republican cause in Spain. More
New York: Libertarian Publishing Society, [1934]. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed paper wrappers; 24pp. Text paper tanned and slightly fragile with shallow stains in margins; chipped at corners (without loss to text), front wrapper partially split at spine-fold, but still attached; a complete, sound copy, no better than Good..... More
