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Small octavo (19.5cm.); cloth boards and white printed dustjacket; 215pp. Dusting to upper edge of text block, else Fine. In scarce dustjacket, rubbed and slightly soiled, Very Good.
More info about Crucible Island: A Romance, an Adventure and an Experiment
Octavo (22cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 82pp. Light shelf wear to boards and jacket extremities, shallow crease to rear flap, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author on half title: "For Cristoph / 'Open my face' / Ishmael Reed."
Octavo (19.5cm.); brown textured boards, with titles stamped in gilt on the spine and in black on the front panel; dustjacket; 280pp. Spine panel slightly toned (though gilt is still bright), with some fading to the upper boards edges and a few small scrapes to the upper edge of textblock;...
Small folio (35cm); full maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; publisher's plain card slipcase; xx,381,[3]pp. Fine in a Fine (unclipped) dustjacket and slipcase.
More info about Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile of the Extant Manuscript
Octavo (19cm); original blue pictorial cloth boards embossed in black, grey, and gilt; vii,[1],320,[8](ads)pp. Spine a bit cocked, extremities lightly rubbed, else Very Good and sound. Contemporary bookseller ticket to front free endpaper.
Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 689pp. Mild rubbing to bottom board edges, else about Fine in bright, unclipped jacket with a hint of rubbing and soil at extremities. Crisp copy of Bishop's undeservedly forgotten first novel, a hard-boiled account of drug addiction, prostitution and extreme poverty based on the author's own...
Brief 1-pp TNS on Eastman's personal Croton-On-Hudson notepaper, addressed to a "Miss Mendham", dated March 30, 1938. Old folds; holograph additions in Eastman's hand; Very Good. "I shall be delighted to have you use some of my poems in your Verse Speaking Festival...perhaps the poem called "Battle Fields" in my...
More info about Typed Note, signed. 1pp, to "Miss Mendham", dated March 30, 1938
Quarto (29.75cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Light wear and dustiness to wrappers, else Near Fine.
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...
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...
More info about Two Plays: Juno and the Paycock; The Shadow of a Gunman
Seven octavo volumes. Original linen boards; dustjackets. Slight spine toning; light external soil (to jackets); else a fine set, internally clean, tight and unmarked. Texts entirely in German.
Limited to 650 copies of which this is no. 10 of 100 illustrated with original lithographs by George Biddle. Folio (31cm.); original red maroon-backed papier-peint boards, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt, others uncut; unpaged; mounted frontispiece and four leaves of plates; 5 additional half-page plates mounted to leaves of text...
More info about The Twelve [Limited Edition, Signed by the Illustrator
Octavo. Printed wrappers; 32p. Covers slightly worn and soiled; text tanned at margins; Very Good. Boschi (1871-1956) was a militant anarchist and close associate of Malatesta. We find only three institutional holdings for this uncommon Anarchist fable; the first edition was published in 1933 and is held only by the...
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
No date (ca 1900?). Handbill or circular, 22cm x 13cm. Printed recto-only, in colors; text in two columns beneath central graphic. Faint horizontal and vertical creases; paper slightly browned; Very Good.
More info about Promotional Circular: Long Live the Little Red School House in America. Stand By It!
Quarto (30.75cm); illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Mild wear and toning to wrappers, with a few short tears to same; Very Good+.
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.
Octavo. Red cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 250pp. Warmly inscribed by editor Rigney to David Meltzer (contributor to the work) and his wife: "To David & Tina Meltzer with my deep appreciation for their very real help in producing this book - Francis Rigney." Undated, but clearly...
12mo (18.75cm.); publisher's salmon cloth, black paper wrap-around band lettered in silver, black topstain; 211pp. Spine a bit cocked and faded, corners bumped, minor soiling to textblock, else Near Very Good and sound, lacking the acetate jacket. Inscribed and signed on front flyleaf: "To Nina and Hale / with love...
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.
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 (22.5cm). Red cloth boards, stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 177pp. Warmly inscribed by Patchen on front free endpaper: "for Charles M. McKenna / with every good wish," signed and dated 1950. Also laid in is an autograph note to McKenna from Miriam Patchen...
More info about Patchen's First Will & Testament [Inscribed Copy
Octavo. Gray cloth boards, stamped in red and black; dustjacket; 309pp. Tight, fine copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper, Very Good or better.
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
Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 243pp. Fine, unread copy in fine, unworn dustwrapper - about As New. Essential critical bibliography of this influential 1970s underground Bay Area publisher.
More info about Zephyrus Image: A Bibliography. Photographs by Rob Rusk
Octavo (20cm). Red cloth boards, lettered in black on front cover and spine; red top-stain; dustjacket; 317pp. Clean, tight copy, Very Good to Near Fine, in Very Good example of the uncommon pictorial dustwrapper, with a few tiny losses at extremities and soil to lighter portions of rear panel.
Octavo (22cm). Publisher's gray cloth boards, decorated and lettered in black on front cover with pictorial paste-on; 57pp; frontispiece and two inserted leaves of plates with tissue guards. Light bumps to corners, light wear; Near Fine, with stamped ownership signature of John G. Hughes to front endpaper.
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...
First Printing. Octavo (21cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; navy blue topstain; dustjacket; 470pp. Light wear to extremities, with front board slightly splayed; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), lightly edgeworn and spine-sunned, with some dustiness to rear panel and a few...
Presentation copy, inscribed to Lowenfels's daughter and son-in-law, Michal and Norman Kane: "for Michal and Norman / with thanks for the help," dated 1960. Discoloration to endpapers, else a tight, fine copy in crisp, unworn jacket.
Octavo (20cm). Original mustard wrappers, printed in black on front cover; 100pp. Mild external wear and soil, else Near Fine.
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Two volumes. First volume 12mo, pictorial card wrappers; 258pp. Second volume quarto; staple-bound, pictorial paper wrappers; 63pp. Both volumes with light cover wear and soil; Very Good or better.
More info about Run, Little Leather Boy [with] Run No More: Sequel to Run, Little Leather Boy
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...
Quarto (31.5cm); photo-illustrated wrappers, stapled; 32pp; illus. Subtle toning to extremities, a few tiny tears, and a handful of tiny spots to upper edge of front wrapper; Near Fine.
More info about New Masses - Vol.XLIII, No.2 (April 14, 1942
Octavo (21cm). Cloth-backed boards; paper spine label; dustjacket; 73pp; illus. One of 250 signed copies, signed by the author on limitation page. Very fine in bright, unworn dustjacket.
Quarto (30.5cm); publisher's tall comb-bound sheets (rectos only), with publisher's typed labels mounted to front wrapper, and original publisher's seal along lower edge; [vi],105pp. Light wear to extremities, some mild curling to wrapper edges, with seal broken at an early date; Very Good+.
More info about The Hungered One: Early Writings [Uncorrected Proof
Small octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 303pp. Minor wear; text slightly toned; Very Good, retaining the scarce illustrated dustwrapper which is nearly Fine with just trivial dusting and a tiny chip at bottom edge.
First Printing. Octavo; gold cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in blue on spine and front panel; blue topstain; dustjacket; 287pp, [2]. Topstain a bit unevenly applied, with some minor offset to pastedowns; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly edge-rubbed, with one short tear, a touch of soil along the...
12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's two-toned cloth (white over blue), upper cover lettered and ruled in gilt, unadorned spine; [8],44pp. Some minor shelf wear, white portion of cloth binding rather soiled and toned along spine, short closed tear to title page fore-edge not approaching text, old ink spot affecting first few leaves...
Bifoilum (21.5cm); single sheet of 8.5" x 11" white stock, offset printed in black and folded vertically to create a 4pp pamphlet; BPP logo with Emery Branch P.O. Box printed at lower margin of p.4. Fine.
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