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Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [6],376pp.; frontispiece & 3 leaves of plates. Extremities shelf-worn with a few tiny losses and closed tears, jacket spine rather sunned, else Very Good in About Very Good jacket.
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.....
Broadside, 44cm x 57cm. Printed offset in black on white uncoated lithograhic paper; text in two columns beneath headline in Gothic type. Minor wrinkling at margins, else Fine.
Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, yellow, blue, and green; [4],ii,[7]-250,vpp.; frontispiece. Boards a bit rubbed and corners bumped, some light soiling, spine cloth a bit dulled, else Very Good and sound. Slightly later (1928) gift inscription to front free endpaper.
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Publisher's tape-bound galley. Quarto (28cm); photo-mechanically reproduced galley sheets, bound with teal canvas tape; xvi,296,[1]pp. Holograph corrections (all in copy) throughout text. Crown gently bumped, mild handling and light wear, else Very Good+, with the publisher's review letter folded and laid in.
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16mo. Printed wrappers; 75p. Faint soil and creasing; text clean and unmarked. Text entirely in French. Scarce work. Not found via OCLC.
More info about La Poesie Populaire Bulgare. Avant-propos de Nicolai Dontchev
Single quarto issue in original woodcut wrappers; 20pp. Overall light soil and wear; internally complete, clean and unmarked; Very Good.
Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 384pp. Inscribed to Ben Shahn and family on front endpaper: "On the edge of the Assinpunk [sic] 1958 - to a fellow author; Bernarda; and kids / Ben Appel." Endpapers slightly browned, light wear to board edges; Very Good or better in the original pictorial dustwrapper.....
16mo (14cm.); publisher's pink and white wall-paper wrappers, 64pp.; text printed in dark purple on double leaves. Chips and wear to wrapper edges, with ca 1/4" x 3/4" loss at bottom of front cover; contents clean, tight and unmarked. Very Good overall, in unusual wallpaper wrappers.
Octavo. Original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; 519pp. Front hinge a little tender at bottom 1" of gutter at title page, else a rather well-preserved copy, straight and tight in the original publisher's cloth.
Octavo (20cm); cloth boards; dustjacket; 437p. Tight, clean copy, Very Good or better. In original printed dustwrapper, chipped at margins and with small clear-tape reinforcements at flap-folds; Good.
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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Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed card wrappers; 32pp. Publisher's catalog inside rear cover. Wrap-around cover illustration by Frans Masereel. Small chips and soil to wrapper edges; text generally clean and unmarked; Very Good. Scarce volume of anti-Fascist essays by German writers-in-exile including Ludwig Renn, Willi Bredel, Franz Braun, Gregor Gog, Theodore.....
Second issue jacket. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 74p. Remarkable copy, fully Fine in brilliant jacket with minimal evidence of use; just a small closed nick at upper corner of rear panel, couple of small dust-smudges, else Fine. The jacket spine, which is very prone to darkening on this title, is.....
More info about Three Plays: Awake and Sing! Waiting for Lefty. Till the Day I Die
Octavo. Publisher's blue-gray cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; blind-stamped decorative borders to front board; red edge-stain; frontispiece portrait; x,[1]-512,[1]pp. A typically worn copy; boards evenly rubbed and soiled, with board exposure at upper corners and mild fraying to spine ends; both hinges thinly cracked (but holding); text clean.....
First Printing. Octavo (19cm); vertical-ribbed crimson cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 314pp. Spine gilt slightly dulled, bookplate to front pastedown, with some faint dampstaining to lower board edges and front joint; Very Good+ and clean throughout. Dustjacket is chipped and worn along the.....
Octavo (20cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 304pp. Lightly worn copy, VG or better, in the original pictorial dustjacket which is lightly rubbed with a few small edge-chips, still on the better side of Very Good.
First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 300pp. Hint of sunning to spine, with rubber-stamped 'C' on rear pastedown; very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, spine-sunned, with light edgewear and a few tiny nicks at the crown; Very Good+.
Octavo (18cm). Printed buff wrappers; 891pp + ads. Covers and text mildly toned; still a tight, lightly worn copy of the unusual wrappered edition. Simultaneously reprinted in cloth by Sinclair; initially published by John C. Winston & Co. in 1915.
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Third Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); gray paper and taupe cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; orange topstain; dustjacket; vi, [7]-255pp. Inscribed by Darrow on the front endpaper: "To Mr & Mrs Burgess Johnson / As a testimonial to their / good cheer and.....
Octavo. Bifolium (single folded sheet); 4pp. On newsprint. Paper slightly age-toned, but still Very Good, with minimal evidence of handling.
Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's thick linen lettered in red; [6],423pp. Minor paper flaws to front and rear free endpapers from previously removed bookplates, else Fine, albeit lacking jacket. Proletarian novel set amongst the oppressed Irish workers in the Cape Cod cranberry region. COAN, p. 82; HANNA 1371.
Cloth boards; paper spine label; dustjacket; 141pp. Fine, tight copy in bright, Near Fine dustwrapper. Uncommon thus.
Small octavo (19cm.); original cloth in red decorative dust jacket; 304pp. Some short clean splitting at jacket folds, minor wear to spine crown, rear panel a bit dust-soiled. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Historical novel set in the slave-labor mahogany camps of tropical Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
Octavo; gilt-pictorial cloth; 465pp. Text block edges mildly dusted; top-stain faded, else Fine in the scarce and fragile pictorial dustwrapper, lightly edge-worn, mildly eroded at spine-ends, but unclipped and quite handsome.
First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 300pp. Small, vintage booksellers ticket to lower rear pastedown, with some offsetting to same from binders glue, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), spine-sunned and edgeworn, with several small nicks to spine ends and corners.....
First Printing. Octavo (20cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in white on spine and front cover; 416, vi, [2]pp. Slight forward lean, scattered foxing to text edges, lower corners bumped, with some rubbing to lettering (though still quite legible); Very Good, sound copy.
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Octavo. Original brown decorated cloth (hardcover); 312pp. Straight, clean copy, unsoiled and unmarked, in crisp jacket with a bit of wear and heel and crown. A slow-witted but gentle Czech immigrant participates in, then quells a bakery strike. Striking jacket design by Karl S. Woerner. HANNA 3824. BLAKE p.246. COAN.....
Quarto (29cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Hint of toning to extremities, tiny tear at upper margin of front wrapper, else Near Fine.
One of 3,000 copies. Slim octavo (21.5cm); original stapled wrappers; 20pp. Starting oxidation to staples, hint of tanning to text edges, else a bright, Fine copy.
First Printing. Octavo (ca.21cm); cream linen, titled and blocked in navy blue and gilt on spine; dustjacket; 246pp. Hint of spotting to upper rear fore-edge, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with some pinpoint rubbing to extremities and a tiny bruise to lower front joint. Gorham's first novel.....
Octavo. Blue cloth boards; dustjacket; 128pp. Mild fading to cloth at board edges; text block edges faintly foxed; still a Near Fine copy in a lovely example of the striking dustwrapper. Short story collection including "Aria and Finale", "The Last Voyage", and "Stoker Haslett"
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.....
12mo. Original flexible paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 96pp. Publisher's trade list (4pp) laid in. Mild wear to spine and covers; printed bookplate of noted folklorist Mellinger E. Henry to front pastedown; offsetting to endpapers from laid-in items. Very Good or better in the fragile dustjacket, which has small loss at base.....
Octavo (20.75cm); red cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; dark gray topstain; dustjacket; 416pp. Two unobtrusive scratches to topstain, else Near Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $2.50), with light edgewear, a few short tears and small nicks...
Slim 12mo (16.5cm.); publisher's grey card wrappers; 55,[9](ads)pp. Just About Fine. Single issue of the individualist anarchist bimonthly magazine. Contents cover the Roosevelt presidency, including the article "Roosevelt and Diocletian" by Steven T. Byington; and the events at the International Socialist Congress at Stuttgart. Also features Tucker's recurring column "On.....
Octavo. Black cloth boards; dustjacket; 80pp; illus. Inscribed on front endpaper: "For an old friend and ever-present inspiration - Happy Birthday!/ "Mike," dated September, 1968 (Ben Shahn's birthday month). Boards gently faded at margins; light wear to jacket; VG to Near Fine.
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First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); orange cloth, with title label mounted at upper spine, and publisher's logo embossed on front cover; orange topstain (first issue, per Ahearn); dustjacket; xiv,347,[5]pp. A few small patches of paper adhesed to crown and base of spine, hint of offsetting to pastedowns, else cloth and contents.....
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Octavo (21cm.); cloth-backed printed boards; iv,5-80pp. Discoloration to board edges, these rather rubbed with some exposure, spine ends a bit fraye;, Good or better, internally sound. The prolific radical poet's first book, a collection of aesthetic verse displaying only glimpses of the vigorous, polemical tone of Lowenfels's later work.
First Impression. Octavo (20.75cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-255,[1]pp. Crown gently nudged, small vintage booksellers label to front pastedown, with subtle offsetting to pastedowns and endpapers, else clean throughout; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 36s net), gently spine-sunned, with some modest shelfwear;.....
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