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Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, (1929). First edition. Octavo (9.25" x 7.25"), xv & 408 pages, profusely illustrated including 4 color plates. Publisher's blue cloth lettered & decorated in gilt & red, with a large color illustration applied to the front cover.
Binding slightly soiled, otherwise near fine.
Include profiles of Joan of Arc, George Washington, Daniel Boone, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Clara Barton, David Livingstone, Theodore Roosevelt, & many others.

[New York]: International Cocktail, Wine & Spirits Digest, (1946). "This copy presented with the compliments of the Southern Comfort Corporation." 16mo (6" x 4.5"), 142 & [2] pages, illustrated. Publisher's pictorial light card covers, stapled.
Covers moderately rubbed, scuffed, & soiled, internally toned, soiled, & occasionally foxed, staples rusted, otherwise good or better.
The third issue of Oscar Haimo's digest which was published annually from 1943 until 1978. Haimo was the founder of the International Bar Managers' Association, the long-time bartender at New York City's Pierre Hotel, & the creator of the General MacArthur Cocktail.

Compiler unknown. (probably Richard E. Hale of Waban, Massachusetts). Original quarto album, black simulated straight grain morocco lettered in gilt on the spine & upper cover containing 26 light card leaves of which 25 provide ephemera related to the excursion, approximately 78 items in total, corner mounted, laid-in, or inserted mostly recto only.
Binding lightly rubbed, gilt dull, contents with occasional minor wear but generally very good.
A journey of some 4000 miles, the S.S. Transylvania departed Pier 56 in New York on August 19, 1934 en route to Boston, then Quebec, and on to Hamilton, Bermuda. The return to Boston commenced on September 1.
Contents include:
14 "Programs of the Day" (inexplicably lacking September 1);Professional montage photographs issued by National Tours;Annotated amateur snapshots;2 partially printed leaves, 4 pages, completed in manuscript providing data related to sea & weather conditions, & postitions at noon;Menus often bearing the signatures of passengers;Postcards… Read More

Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866. 24mo (5.5" x 3.5"), xii & 382 pages. Publisher's bright blue cloth elaborately lettered & decorated in gilt on the spine & in blind on the covers All edges gilt
Binding lightly rubbed, slight fraying at spine extremities, hinge started at title page, otherwise Very Good. Originally published in London in 1862, this copy is one of seven titles in Ticknor & Field's "Books in Blue and Gold" series. The publisher utilized imported sheets from the original printer & provided decorative bindings which "were an instant success and made it clear that buyers do judge books by their covers" (American Antiquarian Society). As described in the preface, "The present volume is rather a condensation than an abridgment of the later volumes of Captain Hall's 'Fragments of voyages and travels,' inasmuch as it comprises all the chapters of the second and third series, only slightly abbreviated, in which the author describes the various duties of the naval lieutenant and commander."

Honolulu, Hawaii: Hardy Marks Publications, (1988). Reprint. 4to, 95, [1] pp illustrated throughout in color & black & white. Pictorial stiff paper wraps Brief wear at spine extremities & corners, otherwise very goodIncludes a chapter on "Punk Rock Tattooing"

North Hollywood, California: Barclay House (9BC - 7171), (1970). First edition., 16mo (6.75" x 4.25"), 192 pages plus 16 unnumbered pages of advertisements. Publisher's pictorial card covers. OCLC locates a single copy at the University of California Los Angeles as of 6/14/2023.
Slight edge wear, one corner creased, text browned, otherwise very good.
"A sexual combination that is being resorted to more and more by modern young ..."

Los Angeles, California: Erotic Realism Press, (1970). First edition., 8vo (8.25" x 5.25"), 256 pages, with 8 plates from photographs within the pagination. Not found in OCLC as of 6/12/2023.
Moderate edge wear, some creasing, lightly rubbed, text browned, previous owner's name & date in ink at title page, otherwise good.
"This factual study of case histories from the files of hypnoanalyst Dr. Leonard J. Mildenberger will shock and enlighten the reader ..."

Ithaca: Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, (1992). First edition, one of 1000 hardbound copies, this one of 200 issued with an original lithograph signed, dated, & numbered by the artist. Small folio, xiii & 192 pp, illustrated throughout in color & black & white. Laid in and enclosed in a folding sleeve is the untitled lithograph, number 7 of 200, measuring 11.75 inches by 8.75 inches. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in silver on the spine & upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket with slight edge wear and soiling Issued in conjunction with an exhibition at Cornell University's Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, this catalog of conceptual artist Agnes Denes' work is visually stunning. Includes essays by Peter Selz, Lowery Stokes Sims, Robert Hobbs, and Donald Kuspit. The lithograph, printed in blue ink on thick, deckle-edged paper, is not titled but represented on page 51 as "Model for Probability Pyramid - Study for Crystal Pyramid."

Chicago: Playboy Press, (1974). First edition. Quarto (11.25" x 8.5"), 110 unnumbered pages, profusely illustrated throughout from photographs in color & black & white. Publisher's gilt-lettered light green paper over boards decorated with the iconic Playboy rabbit head on the upper cover, in pictorial dust jacket.
Margins lightly sunned, slight offsetting/ foxing at endpapers & pastedowns, otherwise Very Good in soiled & rubbed dust jacket, moderately foxed on the verso, with edge wear including small losses, short tears, & a brief archival tissue repair on the verso, still Good or so.
Contributing photographers include Sam Haskins, David Hamilton, Andre DeDienes, Peter Basch, Peter Gowland, & others.
"Since the beginning, Eve has tempted man. Her elusiveness excites his imagination, and the images she creates are magic ... Her eagerness reveals a lust for living, and her satisfaction warms the earth."
 ~Excerpted from the brief text.

Philadelphia: Printed for the author, published by R. Desilver & R.H. Small, Lydia R. Bailey, Printer, 1827. First Edition. 8vo, viii, 237 pages & [1, omissions] pages. Contemporary full tree calf with a gilt-lettered maroon spine label. Shaw & Shoemaker/ American Bibliography 29175; Nipps/ Lydia Bailey: Checklist of Her Imprints 389. Binding rubbed & scuffed, joints cracked, upper cover nearly detached, shallow losses at spine extremities, front free endpaper nearly detached, previous owner's name in old ink at front pastedown, browning & foxing throughout, otherwise Good & still quite serviceable.
This book was printed by Lydia R. Bailey, an early American female printer who was competitive in a trade dominated by men. She took over her husband's failing business upon his death.

Richmond, Virginia: Virginia State Library, 1975. Complete in two volumes. First editions. Small folios, [10], 598, 57; [8], 630 pp. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, the upper covers decorated with the Seal of Virginia.
Brief wear at spine extremities (including a couple of nicks), lightly rubbed & spotted, otherwise very good.
Volume one provides holdings by author & title, volume two by subject.

New York: The Macmillan Co, (1968) First edition, this copy inscribed, signed & dated in ink in the year of publication to Cartha DeLoach. 8vo, xv, 238 pp. Publisher's gilt-lettered gray cloth, in pictorial dust jacket. Upper margins slightly sunned, otherwise fine in very good, spine faded dust jacket The author was an eight term congressman from Arkansas This copy was presented to Cartha "Deke" DeLoach who was then deputy associate director of the FBI, third in command behind J Edgar Hoover & Clyde Tolson. "Hilarious stories of American politics and politicians from the grassroots to Capitol Hill by the senior raconteur of the Kennedy-Johnson era."

London and New York: George Redway, 1897 First edition, complete in two volumes. 8vo, xlvi, 294, [2]; 379 pp, with 5 portraits Publisher's gilt-lettered green cloth. Moderately soiled, brief wear mostly at spine extremities, internally toned & occasionally foxed, still very good. "Among literary people, it seldom, I think, occurs that such a continuity of association and sympathy is found, as renders one family the storehouse and guardian of facts about individuals, and about places identified with them, during a space of years extending back from the present day to the second quarter of the eighteenth century" ~William Carew Hazlitt, from the preface.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1967.) First edition, this copy signed, inscribed, and dated in ink at the first blank page in the year of publication by Ann Head. Octavo (8.25" x 5.5"), 253 pages. Publisher's blue-gray cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket.
Spine slightly cocked, covers lightly sunned mostly in the upper margins, gilt dull, modest foxing at the edges of the text block, Good or better in lightly soiled dust jacket browned at the spine and folds, with edge wear including small losses and closed tears, Good or so.
Born in Beaufort, South Carolina in 1915, Ann Head taught creative writing at Beaufort High School where she became a mentor to Pat Conroy She passed away at age 52, just one year after publication of this book
Mr and Mrs Bo Jo Jones, which remained in print for forty years and was also the basis for a made for TV movie starring Desi Arnaz Jr and Christopher Norris, "along with S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders, is credited with launching a new realism in… Read More

Tokyo: T Hasegawa, Publisher & Art-Printer, [ca 1902]. 12mo, [24] pages (including covers) printed in color on crepe paper on 12 folded sheets, stabbed & tied with silk thread, illustrated throughout. Blanck/ BAL 7937C. Margins lightly sunned, briefly soiled, modest edge wear, otherwise very goodThe publisher's address as given in the colophon in Japanese (p. [23]) is 17 Kami Negishi which, as noted in OCLC (citing the BAL), is one of three Tokyo-only printings but preceded by an issue with the address provided as 38 Honmura-cho.

New York: Fawcett Books, (Fawcett How To Book 141), 1952. Octavo (9.25" x 6.75"), 144 pages, profusely illustrated from photographs. Publisher's pictorial, stapled paper wraps.
Covers moderately rubbed, soiled & browned, brief edge wear including corner creasing & a tiny loss, light stain affecting the back cover & the last 3 leaves, internally toned, otherwise good or better.
Chapters include Portraiture, Prize Winning Nudes, Glamour, & more.

London: David Nutt, 1898.
London: David Nutt, 1898 First edition Small octavo (775" x 525"), viii, [1] & 462 pages plus [2] pages of publisher's advertisements. Publisher's gilt-lettered & decorated green cloth. Top edge gilt
Binding lightly spotted & soiled, foxing & offsetting at pastedowns & endpapers, otherwise Very Good
The author was an authority on poet Robert Burns and Mary, Queen of Scots. Additionally, he supplied entries on Scots of note for the Dictionary of National Biography and Encyclopedia Britannica

New Hyde Park, New York: University Books, (1968). First edition. Tall quarto (12.5" x 8.75"), 127 unnumbered pages, profusely illustrated. Publisher's pictorial paper over boards. Without dust jacket as issued.
Slightly sunned, brief wear at spine extremities & corners, previous owner's small embossed stamp at the ffep, otherwise very good or better.
"Memory of my mother's lean naked smooth olive colored body emerging from her bath. Finding a naked breast in my hand at the age of eleven accompanied by unquenchable passion to capture that moment forever. My earliest fantasies, I remember they started in the winter of 1943, were naked women ..." ~Arnie Hendin, excerpted from the text.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First edition, first printing. Octavo (8.5" x 6"), 260 pages. Publisher's buff paper over boards backed in brown cloth lettered in gilt on the spine & upper cover, in gilt-lettered dust jacket.
Upper margin lightly sunned, small stain at the top edge of the text block, previous owner's illustrated bookplate at the front pastedown, otherwise very good in good or better dust jacket with soiling (including a faint cup ring on the front panel), browning at the spine, with edge wear including a couple of nicks & a half inch closed tear.
"Having read Dispatches, it is difficult to convey the impact of total experience as all the facades of patriotism, heroism and the whole colossal fraud of American intervention fall away to the bare bones of fear, war and death." ~William S. Burroughs, excerpted from the dust jacket.

Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 1975. First edition, this a presentation copy for Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore, signed on a laid in sheet by author Hewes & Brigadier General James L. Collins, Jr., Chief of Military History. Octavo (9.5" x 6.25"), xvii & 452 pages, illustrated, plus [10] folded leaves of plates. Publisher's textured maroon fabricoid simulating crushed morocco lettered in gilt on the spine & decorated in gilt with the Seal of the United States & the name of presentee Moore on the upper cover.
Spine gilt a bit rubbed, otherwise very good or better.
The first volume in the special studies series published by the Center of Military History, United States Army, this a unique copy which was presented to Lieutenant General Harold G. Moore. Moore was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for valor at the Battle of Drang during the Vietnam War. He wrote about that experience in We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young which was made into a movie starring Mel… Read More