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Quarto (31cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Light wear and toning, several nicks and tears to extremities and along upper margins; Very Good+.
Octavo (19.25cm.); original green decorative cloth embossed in gilt; [8],615,[1],[7](ads)pp. Cloth rather worn and textblock rather loose in binding, spine gilt quite dulled, else a Good and sound copy. Inscribed and signed by Upton Sinclair on front free endpaper: "To Mother / with Love / Xmas, 1918 / Upton."
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Octavo. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine, with pictorial device to front board; 114pp. Spine gilt dulled, a little shaken, still a Very Good, unmarked copy, signed by the prominent socialist poet on front endpaper. Lacking jacket.
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Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in yellow decorative dust jacket printed in brown; [6],199pp. A few short closed tears to jacket extremities, minor soil and shelf-wear, some brief soil spots to bottom textblock edge, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First two plays of the author's proletarian Dublin Trilogy, the.....
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Octavo. Original publisher's gilt-pictorial cloth; 412pp + 6p publisher's catalog. Light wear to board edges, else a tight, Near Fine copy with blue-green top-stain just slightly faded.
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); maroon cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; [vi],527,[3]pp. Forward lean, some wear to spine ends, with rough erasure to previous owners name to front endpaper; contents clean; Very Good+.
First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (20cm); orange cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [8],9-250,[6]pp. Clean and unmarked in original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped and generally clean but for a moisture stain extending halfway up the rear flap-fold; this had bled through to cause a faint line of discoloration.....
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First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); red cloth with titles and design stamped in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; 268pp, [2] ads. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with a few tiny nicks at spine ends and three faint splash marks on the spine.
Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 124pp. Tight, straight copy, about Fine in the uncommon dustjacket, lightly rubbed and soiled but still attractive and free of losses, VG or better.
Green cloth boards; dustjacket. One of an unspecified number of publisher's presentation copies, with tipped-on label bearing author's signature to front pastedown. Remainder issue, in Grosset & Dunlap dustjacket but with correct publisher's slug to spine, title page, and copyright page (jacket not supplied; as issued). Endpapers a little grubby.....
Octavo. Publisher's orange pictorial cloth; floral endpapers; [4],[i]-v,[5]-317pp; inserted portrait frontispiece. Mild rubbing to cloth at spine ends; few small spots where cloth is lifting on front and rear boards, still a nice, bright copy with firm joints and hinges, quite fresh internally.
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Octavo (19cm); red cloth with titles and design stamped in gilt on the spine; dustjacket; 268pp, [4] ads. Split at front hinge neatly mended; Very Good, clean throughout, with bright cloth and the spine gilt unrubbed. Dustjacket is slightly toned at the spine, with light, general wear at the extremities.....
Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's red cloth, decorative spine stamped in black and gilt, red topstain; [6],365pp. Cloth rather discolored from damp and soil, most heavily so to rear cover, spine cocked, brief and shallow loss of cloth and board at top edge of rear cover. Good to Very Good only. Inscribed.....
Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's cloth in blue printed price-clipped dust jacket; xvii,[1],554pp. Jacket extremities rather toned, tiny chips including loss at spine crown affecting a couple of letters without loss of meaning; overall Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Text divided into three sections: "The Youth of Bentham (1776-1789)"; "The Evolution.....
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Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, yellow, blue, and green; [6],ii,[7],281,[1],[32](ads)pp.; frontispiece. Extremities a bit rubbed and worn, general dust-soil, spine rather dulled with some fraying at ends, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. OCLC locates 7 copies as of November.....
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Small, slim 12mo (16cm.); publisher's tan pictorial card wrappers, yapp edges; [2],38pp.; printed on stiff tan handmade stock. Light edge wear, faint dampstaining along spine edge of upper and rear cover (not bleeding into textblock); Very Good overall, internally fine and unopened. "Driftwood Chapbook No. 2."
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First printing. Octavo (20cm). Maroon cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 250,[4]pp. Straight, tight, and clean with a brief (ca 3/4") split to inner front hinge at gutter; Very Good or better. Gilman's first full-length novel, originally published serially in her magazine The Forerunner from 1909.....
Small octavo (19cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 94pp. Covers somewhat worn, with a few spots of discoloration; gift label inside front cover; text complete, clean and unmarked. A solid, presentable copy, about Very Good.
Octavo (19.5cm); purple cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamed in pale metallic green on spine and front cover; 248pp. Forward lean, small stain to lower left corner of front board, with a hint of sunning to spine; clean throughout; Very Good+ or better. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly edgeworn and.....
First printing. Octavo; cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 73pp. Fine and unmarked in fine dustwrapper. First bilingual edition of of the Martiniquan author's early masterpiece, originally published in French in 1939.
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Small octavo (19.25cm.); original cloth in green pictorial dust jacket, blue top- and fore-edge stain; 237pp. Some wear to jacket extremities, including a few tiny shallow losses at corners; light spotting to jacket spine; Fine in About Very Good jacket.
First Printing. Thick octavo (19.25cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; xii,[2],3-672pp; with pictorial color frontispiece and three inserted plates of illustrations. Previous owners name (in ink) to front endpaper, with Oswald Train bookplate to verso of same, dated 5/19/52; light external.....
Octavo (21.25cm); royal blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; blue topstain; dustjacket; xii,265,[3]pp. Spine ends gently nudged, topstain dulled, with some minor bubbling to cloth at covers; contents clean; Very Good+ or better. Dustjacket gently spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny tape-mended.....
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Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers printed in green and yellow; 160pp. Extremities a bit toned and dusty, a few leaves dog-eared, else Very Good or better.
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); orange cloth, with titles stamped in navy blue on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 212pp. Hint of sunning to spine, minor dust soil to upper board edges, with faint offsetting to endpapers and touch of foxing to right edge of textblock; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped.....
Octavo. Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover, with gilt decorative device to center of rear board; dustjacket; unpaged. Number 120 of 250 hand-numbered and signed copies in the "Grayson Books" series of limited editions. Prelims foxed; jacket toned on spine with small losses; Very Good.....
Pale sea-green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and front cover; 283pp; page edges and margins tinted yellow. Corner chip to front free endpaper, else a tight, clean copy, just lightly soiled on boards; Very Good or better.
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Small octavo (19.5cm.); original purple printed wrappers; 240pp. Upper wrapper unevenly faded along fore-edge, spine a hint faded as well, else Very Good or better. At head of title: "Amerikos Lietuviu Darbininku Literaturos Draugijos Leidinys No. 38" (translates as "American Lithuanian Workers Literary Society Publication no. 38"). Author's name appears.....
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Folio (33cm). Original morocco-backed paper-covered boards in publisher's slipcase; unpaged [28pp]. No. 43 of 365 hand-numbered copies in the regular edition (there were also 35 copies with a signed proof). Frontispiece is a portrait of Wilfred Owen, drawn by Shahn and printed from a block by Leonard Baskin; text includes.....
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First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (19.25cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 329,[1],[5]pp ads. Crown gently nudged, small circular sticker shadow to upper right corner of front endpaper, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is gently spine-sunned, showing moderate edgewear and dust-soil overall, with several.....
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); bound in oatmeal buckram, with titles and decoration stamped in black and brown on spine and front panel; gray topstain; dustjacket; 172pp. Some trivial offset to gutters from binders glue, topstain slightly dulled, else very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, spine-sunned, with a few tiny nicks.....
Octavo. Green cloth; dustjacket; 341pp. Bright, Near Fine copy with deep blue topstain. In the scarce dustwrapper, lightly worn at extremities, a bit faded on spine (still perfectly legible); easily on the better side of Very Good.
Quarto. Loose sheets in printed envelope, as issued. Small abrasion and pin-hole to envelope's upper extremity, else Fine. This is Willeford's first appearance in print, preceding his first book by more than a year. ('Entrance To An Era'; In Time of This'; 'I Passed Over the River'; 'Basement Pastoral' &.....
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12mo (17cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 10pp. Shallow chips and tiny losses to wrapper extremities, the whole a bit toned and dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Publisher's advertisements printed on pp. [11] and [14] (rear wrapper).
12mo (19.25cm.); original red cloth, red printed paper label mounted to upper cover; [12],139pp. Some edge wear, small hole to spine cloth, else Very Good, internally near fine. Includes works by Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, and others, compiled and translated by Emily Dickinson's niece and editor.
First printing. Octavo; pictorial card wrappers (softcover); 76pp. Inscribed by Algarín on half-title, to Mark: "To listen is to reveal what words intend, to read is to lift off the page what words sound and how they hit emotions," signed, undated. Covers slightly rubbed, with corners of wrappers rounded and.....
16mo (13.5cm). Printed card wrappers; 14pp. Fine, unread copy. Reprints an article originally published by Tucker in 1903; adds a 1-pp introduction by Labadie, concluding: "...it is with the expectation of stimulating interest in this remarkable libertarian's principle work [sic], Instead of a Book...that this modest pamphlet is printed."
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Four 12mo volumes (18cm), in uniform pictorial buff wrappers printed in black ink. Wrappers toned, lightly soiled; one with a small (1/4") closed chip near upper spine; Very Good. Lacking wrap-around outer jacket as described in Ahouse (never seen by us).
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Limited Issue, one of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the editor, this being copy no.38. Octavo (24cm); beige buckram, with gilt-stamped leather title labels mounted to spine and front cover; maroon topstain; dustjacket; publisher's original slipcase; xx,662,[2]pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, price-clipped, with some.....
Octavo. Black cloth boards; dustjacket; 79pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper with a bit of foxing on lighter portions; Very Good.
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