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2pp, ca 1860's? (11 x 8 " sheets). The author offers the narrative example of how a sypathetic woman can rescue a lost alcholic man and return him to society.

Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, 1958. Third edn. Large 8vo, pp. 1839. Cover slightly worn at ends of spine, o/w a good tight copy. Illustrated encyclopedia of usual erms in all the sciences.

NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1991. First Edition. 4to, pp. 135. Publilshed to accompany an exhibition. With 100 color plates and 39 black-and-white illustrations. A nice copy in somewhat scuffed dj. Constructivist artist and designer Popova (1889-1924) was active in Russia during WWI and the Russian Revolution. She contrributed to Constructivist theory and to Soviet utopian efforts to establish a scientific basis for the creation of art.

NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1998. First Edition. 4to, pp. 336. Bibliography, glossary. Published in conjunction with a 1998 exhibition at the Museum and other locations. With essays by Aleksandr Lavrent'ev and Varvara Rodchenko. Copiously illustrated with photographs and reproductions. Paper wraps. Cover slilghtly scuffed, o/w a nice copy. Very heavy.

Great Barrington MA: Penmaen Press, 1982. First Edition. Michael McCurdy. 8vo, pp. 94. Illustrated with wood engravings by Michael McCurdy.Printed in an edition of 900 copies, 300 of which were case-bound. This is one of the 75 case-bound copies that were signed by the poet and artist. Dj very faintly soiled and bumped at upper corners, o/w fine.

Chicago: L. T. Palmer, 1877. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 480, 11 plates. Bound in little rubbed maroon cloth stamped in black. Small library label on the spine, library stamp on the corner of the title page, a very good copy. Howes D5. Howes also lists a St. Louis issue with identical collation, but suggests no priority. The first and still the standard account of the great Railway Strike of 1877, generally considered the first full-scale national strike in the United States.

NY: Knopf, 1974. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 210.A Vg tight copy. Short stories.

NY: Knopf, 1980. First Edition. 8vo, Pp. 245. Fine in dj. An adult romp.

NY: Knopf, 1960. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 308. Cover little faded and spotted, no dj, owner's bookplate on flyleaf, o/w VG. A novel.

New Haven: Yale, 1981. First edn. 8vo, pp. 250. Name on title-page. VG in dj. Six essays on original research that discuss the roles of women in pre-historic groups-.

NY, 1930. First US Edition, intro. by D. H. Lawrence. spine slightly faded, lacks the rear e.p. Billings Alc, McDonald Supplement p.86. Author's first book.

NY: New Directions, 1960. First New Directions edition. Fine in some soiled dj. The first edition of this was published in 1941. This is the first state (1/1500 copies). This copy is inscribed to the owners of the noted 8th Street Bookstore in NYC, in a 13 line presentation, signed by the author 12 days before publication date. Literary criticism. Billings A5c.

NY: Braziller, 1971. First printing. 8vo, pp. 312. Index. A VG tight copy in little chipped and soiled dj.

NY: Crowell, 1976. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 184. A nice copy in price-clipped and slightly scuffed dj. A novel.

New Haven: Yale, 1981. First printing. 8vo, pp. xi, 250. Notes, index. Illustrated with photographs. Edges lightly spotted, o/w a nice copy in little scuffed dj. Six essays discuss the roles and activities of women in prehistory and among contemporary hunter-gatherers.

NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1941. First edn. 8vo, Pp. 158. A fine copy in chipped dj. Billings A5a.

New Paltz, NY: McPherson & Company, 1986. Reveiw copy with press release laid in. 8vo, pp. 128. Paper wraps. A nice copy. A collection of Dahlberg's best short essays and poems.

NY: paddington Press, 1979. Second printing. 8vo, pp. 287. Illustrated with maps, photographs, and reproductions of drawings and paintings. A nice copy in slightly torn dj. A literary scholar and a veteran cartographer illustrates how a "sense of place" has colored the literary imaginations of major British writers.

London: Macmillan, 1910. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 379. Appendix, index. Dark red cloth, stamped in gilt. Owners' bookplates on endpapers, cover little worn at corners and ends of spine, o/w VG. Lectures given at Cambridge from 1895 to 1899, plus portions of class discussions on the literature of the Revolution.

Stocksfield UK: Oriel Press, 1980. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 169. Illustrated. A nice copy in little yellowed dj. A history of "one of the most distinguished provincial theatres in England.