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Tours: Mame et Fils, 1876. 12mo (17.75cm.); contemporary vellum-backed marbled boards, unadorned spine; [2],47,[1],156,95pp. Boards heavily rubbed and worn with some substantial loss of marbled paper, additional loss of vellum mid-spine, whereas contents are still very good and sound. Good overall. "Livre de l'élève," comprised of three individually numbered sections on grammar, orthography, and a dictionary. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label tipped to front pastedown. This edition unlocated in OCLC as of June, 2016.
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Exercices Orthographiques: Cours de Première Année mis en rapport avec l'extrait de grammaire des Frères des écoles chrétienn [sic]
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Drug Manufacturing For Fun And Profit
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[San Francisco]: Chthon Press, 1969. No statement of edition or printing. Small octavo; staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 16pp; illus. A few spots of soil to wrappers, else Fine. Instructions for manufacturing DMT (N-Dimethyltryptamine), an African aphrodisiac called "Khala-Khij," Hashish, etc. "Mary Jane Superweed" was a pseudonym that appeared over a variety of pot-growing manuals in the late Sixties and early Seventies; it has been attributed by one contemporary to a Bay Area cannabis researcher named Djanandruan Baba (also clearly a pseudonym, assuming the attribution is even accurate - it appears nowhere else). [see D.Gold, "D Gold, Author of Cannabis Alchemy, 1971, Shares Cannabis Extraction History Unfolding!"; guest post on the blog Skunk Pharm Research, 2016].
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The Super Grass Grower's Guide: a Handbook for High Power Pot Farming
by MARY JANE SUPERWEED (pseud Djanandruman Baba?)
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[San Francisco]: Stone Kingdom Syndicate, 1970. No statement of edition or printing. Small octavo; staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 16pp; illus. Mild external dusting; minor pencil marginalia; Near Fine. A rudimentary, if ubiquitous, how-to manual for marijuana cultivators. Reprinted numerous times, as recently as 2000. "Mary Jane Superweed" was a pseudonym that appeared over a variety of pot-growing manuals in the late Sixties and early Seventies; it has been attributed by one contemporary to a Bay Area cannabis researcher named Djanandruan Baba (also clearly a pseudonym, assuming the attribution is even accurate - it appears nowhere else). [see D.Gold, "D Gold, Author of Cannabis Alchemy, 1971, Shares Cannabis Extraction History Unfolding!"; guest post on the blog Skunk Pharm Research, 2016].
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Military Intervention in African Politics (a Comparative Study)
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[Iponri, Lagos: Progressive Outlook Printers], 1971. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original pink decorative staplebound wrappers; [2],24pp. A touch dust-soiled, with slight fading along spine, else Near Fine. Produced in the tradition of Nigerian market literature, this provides brief accounts of countries in which the army had to take over the government. Includes sections on Nigeria, Ghana, Congo, Upper Volta, Central African Republic, United Arab Republic, Sudan, Mali, Libya, Uganda, Algeria, Togo, and Sierra Leone. HOGG 331.
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Almon W. Babbitt, Delegate from Deseret. April 4, 1850
by [BABBITT, Almon W.] UNITED STATES CONGRESS - COMMITTEE OF ELECTIONS
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[Washington: Government Printing Office?], 1850. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); removed; 16pp. Light wear, else Very Good to Near Fine. At head of title: "31st Congress, 1st Session, Rep. No. 219." Report submitted regarding "the credentials of Almon W. Babbitt, esq., and his memorial praying to be admitted to a seat in the House of Representatives." The text opens with a description of the provisional General Assembly of the State of Deseret at which Babbitt was elected to travel to Washington petitioning statehood, which instead led to the creation of the Territory of Utah. Scholarship describes Babbitt as one of the earliest members of the Church of Latter Day Saints following its establishment, though his activities in Washington reveal political ambition above the interests of the Church, creating false partisan issues and stoking animosity towards President Zachary Taylor in the few months prior to his demise in office (see Bruce Worthen, "The Political Intrigues of Almon Babbitt," "Utah…
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Why Do We Spend So Much Money? Illustrations by Nancy Brigham. Third edition
by [BABSON, Steve and Nancy Brigham]
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Somerville, MA: Popular Economics Press, 1977. Third edition. Quarto; staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 50pp; illus. Mild external creasing and wear; internally clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good copy. Primer on American economic policy, from a center-left perspective. Illustrated throughout with humorous drawings by Nancy Brigham.
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Immigrants in Our Own Land & Selected Early Poems
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[New York]: New Direction Book, [1990]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original white pictorial card wrappers; [8],86pp. Fine.
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MARTIN & MEDITATIONS ON THE SOUTH VALLEY
by Baca, Jimmy Santiago
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New York: New Directions, 1987. First edition. First printing trade paper issue. The front wrap includes ABA award seal. Signed and dated (12-15-88) by the author. Introduction by poet Denise Levertov, who helped Baca become a published poet. Very Good.
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Martín & Meditations on the South Valley
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[New York]: New Directions Books, [1987]. Seventh printing. Octavo (20cm.); original white photo-illustrated card wrappers; xviii,104pp. Remainder mark to bottom textblock edge, else Fine.
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Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande [Signed & Inscribed]
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[New York]: New Direction Book, [2004]. First Edition. Octavo (20.25cm.); original white photo-illustrated card wrappers; [10],101pp. Fine. Signed author inscription to p. [iii].
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Near the End of the Symphony Strike
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Colorado Springs, CO: The Press at Colorado College, 2006. First Edition. Single sheet folded, sewn into decorated (in three colors) acetate covers; 12mo. Specially signed by the author. One of 110 copies (plus 40 included in a portfolio) of this "broadside" (it is printed on both sides and here sewn into wrappers) for the author's appearance for a reading at the college. Designed by Chris Forsythe at the press, printed on Lana Laid in Myriad type. Quite attractive. The author was then associated with McSweeney's and has since been nominated for a National Book Award for fiction; he has an MFA from Florida. Fine.
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The House of the Three Ganders
by BACHELLER, Irving
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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1928]. First Edition. Octavo (19.25cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 315pp. Jacket extremities rubbed, 3-inch tear and creasing to upper cover with old tape-repair to verso, spine faded, textblock about fine. Fine in Good or better dust jacket. Mystery novel based on the true events of "a trial famous in the legal annals of New York state" (from upper jacket flap).
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The Oxen of the Sun: A Novel of Our Times
by BACHELLER, Irving (novel); Richard Burton (introduction)
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1935. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); yellow cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in dark brown on spine; brown topstain; dustjacket; 287pp. A few tiny spots of foxing to rear board, else Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly spine-sunned, with light wear to extremities and two clear tape mends at spine ends on verso; Very Good+. Late novel by Bacheller, a journalist and author best-known for founding the first modern newspaper syndicate in the United States. A sweeping panorama of American life, centered around several characters from Bacheller's previous novels and covering the era of mass-production, with the moral showing the lack of fulfillment which comes with a lifetime of chasing the almighty dollar. A poor seller in its time, selling just 4,612 copies. Scarce in dustjacket, with an attractive designed by Arthur Hawkins.
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A Manual of Excavation in the Near East. Methods of Digging and Recording of the Tell en-Nasbeh Expedition in Palestine
by BADÉ, William Frederic
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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1934. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo. Cloth hardcover; viii,81pp; illus; frontispiece and three inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones) not reckoned in pagination. Contemporary gift inscription to front endpaper; slight toning to prelims; Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. A seminal work in its field, regarded as "...the first book dedicated to documenting the work of an excavation and the development of its methodology" (see Jeffrey Zorn, "William Frederic Badé" in Biblical Archaeologist, March 1988). Badé was Director of the Palestine Institute of Archaeology at Berkeley; he was also an early President of the Sierra Club and served as the literary executor for the estate of Sierra Club founder John Muir.
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Lessons from the 'Varsity of Life
by BADEN-POWELL OF GILWELL, Robert, Baron
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London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1933. Second impression (April 1933). Octavo (22cm). Blue cloth titled in gilt and blind; 320pp; color frontispiece, eight inserted plates, and numerous in-text illustrations. A firm, upright copy, heavily faded on spine and board edges, gently rubbed, internally clean: Very Good. Memoris of the founder of the Scout Movement, discussing his early life, scouting, the military experience in South Africa, the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, and WWI.
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Mapmaker. With introduction by Sandra Cisneros
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Chicago: Red Triangle Books, 1994. Second printing. Small octavo; pictorial gray card wrappers; 84pp. Inscribed and signed by author on half-title, undated. Early collection by the Argentinian-American poet.
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The United States With An Excursion into Mexico: A Handbook for Travellers 1893
by BAEDEKER, Karl (ed.); Henry Steele Commager
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New York: Da Capo Press, 1971. Reprint. Octavo (22cm). Blue cloth, in orange and blue pictorial jacket; cviii,516pp; color maps, including folding frontispiece. Fine. Jacket trimmed 1/8'-inch shorter than book, else Very Good.
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Switzerland and the Adjacent Portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol: Handbook for Travellers
by BAEDEKER, Karl
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Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1903. Twentieth Edition. 12mo (15.75cm.); original limp red blind- and gilt-embossed cloth, all edges marbled; xxxviii,537pp.; color folding map frontispiece, 65 plates of which 32 double-paged and 29 folding; additional text illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, map frontispiece has longish closed tear, one folding panorama split along fold but still complete, another folding map separated but neatly tipped at end of text leaf. Overall a Near Very Good copy. HINRICHSEN E86.
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The Paradise Myth in Eighteenth-Century Russia: Utopian Patterns in Early Secular Russian Literature and Culture
by BAEHR, Stephen Lessing
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Stanford: Stanford University Press, [1991]. First Edition. Octavo (22.25cm.); publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket; xiv,[2],308pp.; illus. Two tiny closed tears at top edge of rear jacket panel, spine a hint sunned, else Fine.
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Coffin Corner
by BAGBY, George [pseud. Aaron Marc Stein]
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New York: Crime Club / Doubleday, 1949. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. (20.5cm); red simulated cloth titled in white on spine; dustjacket; 219pp. Shallow loss to spine ends; rubbing/bump to top corners; tanning to text edges; tiny chip to the foredge of the first 10 pages; and upper right corners of pp.175-219; Good to Very Good. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.25); spine is sunned and edgeworn with a few tiny holes, numerous nicks and tears; Very Good. Book #16 in the Inspector Schmidt Series. HUBIN, p.19.
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