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Small octavo. Rust cloth (hardcover); 63pp. Limited to 1,000 copies. A clean and unmarked copy in a moderately dusted, spotted dustjacket, about VG. Jacket illustration by Rockwell Kent. Inscribed on front endpaper: "This advance copy for Mike / who knows I have never lost confidence in her and I hope.....
Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 263pp. A brilliant copy, fully Fine in a nearly flawless dustjacket. Rarely seen thus.
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 (19.5cm). Pictorial paper wrappers; 139pp. Bilingual text, with Spanish-language portion translated by Sergio Mondragón. One thousand copies printed. Inscribed on half-title: "For Sid Finkelstein who knows how to read as well as write," signed, dated 1965. Covers sligthly rubbed; spine a shade sunned; text gently tanned; Very Good. Poems.....
More info about Land of Roseberries / Tierra de Moras. Drawings by David Alfaro Siqueiros
Third Edition (Corrected). 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.....
More info about Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence of Morals and Happiness
Octavo (22cm); gray linen, titled and blocked in gilt and black on spine and front panel; gray topstain; dustjacket; 328pp. Mild sunning to spine, a bit of offset from binders glue to gutters at pastedowns, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is edgeworn and spine-sunned, with small chips to spine ends and.....
12mo (19cm). Pictorial paper wrappers consisting of folded sheets, unstapled as issued; 24pp. Cover portrait of Mackay by F. Cotard. Tight, clean copy; minute chips to extremities, else about Fine in original wrappers. One thousand copies printed, "edition réservée aux 'Amis d'E. Armand.'" This appears to be a loose translation.......
More info about L'oeuvre littéraire de John Henry Mackay. Texte français et notes de E. Armand
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).
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.....
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' &.....
More info about The Outcast Poets. Number 8 of the Outcast Series of Chapbooks
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.
First Printing. Octavo (19cm); gray pictorial cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine, and decorative panel in black and orange on front panel; 244pp. Hint of a lean, with some soiling and staining to spine, right edge of rear panel, and upper edge of textblock; light, general edgewear, and.....
12mo. Blue cloth lettered in gilt; dustjacket; 244pp. Slight offsetting to endpapers from dustjacket flaps, else a very fine, unworn copy in nearly perfect dustwrapper with a tiny (.
More info about Blind Man's Buff. Translated from the French by Arthur Richmond
First Impression. Octavo (21.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in navy blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x,439,[1]pp. Inscribed by the author to his American publisher, Evelyn Shrifte, on the front endpaper: "To Evelyn / With love / Jim." Upper and lower rear boar corners gently tapped (though still.....
More info about Fellow Countrymen: Collected Stories [Inscribed to Evelyn Shrifte
Square 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; plain card wrappers with pictorial dustjacket; 24pp; illus. About fine in the original dustwrapper. Quite scarce privately-published volume by performance poet and musician Annie Anxiety, front-woman for the 70s punk band Annie and the Asexuals, and briefly affiliated with the British anarcho-punk ensemble Crass. Undated, but.....
Octavo (24cm.); publisher's orange cloth lettered in black; 184pp. Light scuffing at spine ends, board very slightly bowed, else Very Good or better, internally fine.
Octavo (24cm). Blue buckram boards, titled in gilt on spine; 188pp; illus. One of 1000 numbered copies in the limited First Edition. Gentle fade to spine, else fresh and tight; Near Fine. In later acetate jacket and board slipcase.
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.....
More info about The Cruise of the Training Ship; or, Clif Faraday's Pluck
Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's first issue green cloth in white, green, and brown dust jacket, brown topstain; [4],285pp. Jacket extremities rather rubbed and worn with a few tiny chips, bottom fore-edge corner of rear cover bumped with last few leaves showing subsequent faint creasing, else Very Good in Near Very Good.....
First Printing. Small octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in red and black pictorial price-clipped dust jacket signed in image by "Suba," black topstain; [10],166pp. General edge wear to jacket extremities, including small loss at spine crown not approaching text, some minor dust-soil, corners gently bumped, else Very Good or better in.....
Octavo (19cm); olive green pictorial cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in white and dark green to spine and front cover; [4], 315, [1]pp. Slight forward lean, rough erasure to previous owners name and price at upper front endpaper, with some mild external wear and pinpoint rubbing to spine.....
First Printing. Octavo (20.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front panel; gray-green topstain; dustjacket; 345pp. Some trivial wear to board edges, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned, with light wear to extremities and a few short tears tape-mended on verso; Very Good+.....
16mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed thick paper wrappers; 64pp. A tight, clean, well-preserved copy, Near Fine. A collection of pedagogical fictional vignettes, presenting the virtues of Socialism through the follies of "Pop" Weasel, so-called for his adherence to the Populist Party. Phifer was Associate Editor of Appeal to Reason and the.....
Octavo (19.5cm.); original half cloth over decorative boards in orange dust jacket; [10],484pp. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, spine a bit darkened with very shallow losses to ends, else a Very Good to Near Fine, vibrant copy. Novel of the son of Austrian immigrants who grows up to a......
Single quarto issue in original woodcut wrappers; 20pp. Overall light soil and wear; internally complete, clean and unmarked; Very Good.
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.
More info about New Poems. Eighty Songs at Eighty - The Fifth Book of Verse (signed copy
Octavo. Red cloth boards, blocked in gilt and white on spine and front cover; xiv, 284pp; 8 inserted leaves of plates (halftones). Moderately rubbed and worn; thin split to front hinge at frontispiece; a few pages with sharp slices in margin (presumably from opening); complete and Good, but best considered.....
More info about The Industrial Republic: A Study of the America of Ten Years Hence
Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; illustrated card wrappers; 23pp. Presentation copy, inscribed by Edith Segal in October, 1953: "To Lil, Moishe, & Paul, warmest regards and heads up - Edith." Moderate cover wear; mild soiling within; Very Good.
First printing. Cloth issue. Square 12mo (18cm x 14cm). Original blue cloth boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 140pp; portrait frontispiece. Pages 85-140 contain "The New Spirit" by Havelock Ellis; with separate title page and color frontispiece. Clean, tight, and sound; Very Good or better. There was.....
More info about Tolstoi: A Man of Peace by Alice B. Stockham. The New Spirit by H. Havelock Ellis
Quarto. Original pictorial wrappers; (14pp). Trivial external wear; Near Fine. Rather elaborate pictorial program for the 1937 season of Jack Kirkland's "Tobacco Road," for which Henry Hull reprised the role of Lester Jeeter which he had created three years earlier. Copiously illustrated with stills from the production, and reproducing the.....
octavo (20.5cm). Gray cloth boards, spine stamped in blue; dustjacket; 350pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in lightly rubbed pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped, Very Good to Near Fine.
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First edition, 12mo (18.25cm.); contemporary black cloth, private paper spine label printed in manuscript; 159pp.; hinges weak, textblock shaken, page edges soiled, old crude tape repair to index page; 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 (21.5cm). Original tan cloth, red topstain, 558pp; dustjacket. Slight lean to spine, trivial spotting to foredge, else binding tight and pages clean. Dustjacket is unclipped but front panel is separated at spine fold, chipped with several closed tears. Good or better.
Octavo (21cm); black cloth boards; dustjacket; 275pp. Bit of toning to endpapers, else a Fine copy in the striking pictorial dustjacket, lightly edge-rubbed and with a brief (3/4") triangular chip at base of rear panel near spine.
Octavo (21cm). Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt; dustjacket; 310pp. Warmly and lengthily inscribed to a young Stephen Sondheim in year of publication: "To Stephen Sondheim: novelist and musician - With all good wishes," followed by a lengthy quotation from Proust's The Past Recaptured. Bottom board edges rubbed; abrasions along.....
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Two volumes as described below: 1. Days of Fear. London: John Murray, [1928]. First Edition. 12mo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white dust jacket lettered in red and green. 175pp. Light wear to jacket extremities, including small coin-sized loss at bottom edge of rear panel touching one letter, else Near Fine...
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Twenty-four letterpress broadside poems, each 16cm x 11cm (5-1/2" x 4-1/4") or the reverse. Loose, as issued, with no enclosing envelope. Printed in different color inks on various cardstocks; each with imprint on verso. Together comprising Issue No. 2 of Merlyn Gorky, a short-lived radical left literary-political journal (there appear.....
More info about Merlyn Gorky vol. 1 / no. 2: "24 poemcards" [many signed
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 (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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