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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A novel set in India and in the Indian American community. Lahiri was born in London to immigrants from West Bengal and lives in the US and Italy. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket (slightly soiled). Signed by the author on a tipped in page at the front.

New Delhi: Random House, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. The Indian edition of this novel set in India and in the Indian American community. Lahiri was born in London to immigrants from West Bengal and lives in the US and Italy. First edition from India (with a numberline ending in 1). Fine in near fine dust jacket with light edge wear. An uncommon edition.

New Delhi: Random House, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. The Indian edition of the author's third book. Lahiri was born in London to immigrants from West Bengal; many of her literary works, like this collection of stories, are set in the Indian American community. First edition from India (with a numberline ending in 1). Near fine in fine dust jacket.

Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Short fly fishing essays, limited to 1,500 copies. 111 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in the original, near fine unprinted acetate jacket. Top edge of slipcase dust-spotted, else near fine.

Barre, Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Short essays on fly fishing, published in an edition of 1500 copies. 98 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine to fine copy in the publisher's green cloth, with the original unprinted acetate jacket, which is also near fine. The slipcase is very good, with some wear to the edges. This copy is nicely inscribed by the author, "Inscribed with best wishes for Milton H. Glover. Dana S. Lamb. Sunken Meadow, December 11, 1963.

Boston: Stone Wall Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A collection of short essays, illustrated by Tom Hennessey. 139 pages. 7-1/2 by 9-1/2 inches. First edition (first printing, with no notice of later printings). Light shelf wear, else a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket that has tanned at the edges and is missing a small triangular chip from the top edge. Signed by Lamb on the front free endpaper, and somewhat uncommon thus.

Secaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Part memoir, part business philosophy, part how to get rich. Lamb was a labor lawyer and broadcasting executive. First edition (stated). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. This copy is inscribed to the former US Senator and Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern. "To George McGovern, with admiration, Edward Lamb, Toledo, Ohio." On page 211 Lamb writes, "George McGovern is clearing away the myths which separate us. Most of your American political leaders, like Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Hubert Humphrey, do not seem to recognize the fundamental ethics of revolution in forcing change and improvements.

New York: Prometheus Books, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xvii, 327 pages including the index. This book "brings together the most important essays and reviews of Corliss Lamont in the areas of humanist philosophy, civil liberties, world peace, and socialism"-dust jacket. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a like dust jacket; some dampstaining to lower portion of jacket. This copy is inscribed and signed by Corliss, "For Julian and Juliette Huxley, whose fifty years of cherished friendship match almost exactly my fifty years of essays. Corliss Lamont, 1974." In Julian Huxley's Memoirs, he describes taking Corliss in as a "paying guest in our house in Oxford" (p. 197). Huxley then goes on to describe visiting the Corliss family at their mansion in New York. "Corliss and I still correspond," Huxley wrote, "though he was, and still is, an uncompromising anti-establishment and anti-religious humanist." In addition to the nice association inscription, Huxley read… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1980. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. The first major retrospective and biography of the author-artist best-known for Where the Wild Things Are. With 261 illustrations including 94 full-color plates and what is billed as an "original Sendak pop-up" (but which is really a pull-the-flap illustration). Mounted to p. 81 is a tiny strip book (four leaves) called Where the Wild Horses Are. The reprints of this book only have pictures of the Little Red Riding Hood "pop-up" and the Horses book. Matching Hanrahan's Works of Maurice Sendak, 107, and likely signed at the same event as the bibliographer's copy. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in pictorial cloth with a clear printed acetate dust jacket. This copy is signed by both Sendak and Lanes and dated October 1980. Sendak's bibliographer Joyce Hanrahan's copy was signed at a book launch party and is signed the same way. This copy includes the original publisher's mailing box (unmailed). There is minor bumping to the… Read More

Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1980. Photograph. Fine. In this Lange image, a man and woman, both African American, stand in a field holding hoes or other farming implements. Lange took this image while working for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (two WPA agencies). The most famous image from this period in her career is Migrant Mother, the iconic Depression-era photograph. Lange's images from this era often have descriptive names rather than titles, and they have changed over time. This one is called "Cotton Sharecroppers"... on the Library of Congress website; "Greene County, Georgia" is written in pencil on the back (verso) of this photograph. At the time she took this photograph, Lange was working for the federal government and so the negatives belonged to her employer. For decades they have been on deposit at the Library of Congress and for many years, anyone could ask the library to make prints from the negatives. In this case, the negative (as… Read More

Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1980. Photograph. Near fine. One of Lange's powerful portraits of destitute farmworkers taken in California in 1936 while she was working for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (two WPA agencies). The most famous image from this period in her career is Migrant Mother, the iconic Depression-era photograph. This image shows Jess Power with his wife Zella (McCann) Power and baby Jesse Power. They were camped in Riverside County, in Southern California, when Lange came upon them. They were three of the Okies, fleeing from the Dust Bowl conditions in Oklahoma, the story told in words by John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath. At the time she took this photograph, Lange was working for the federal government and so the negatives belonged to her employer. For decades they have been on deposit at the Library of Congress and for many years, anyone could ask the library to make prints, directly from Lange's original negatives. This is one… Read More

Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1980. Photograph. Near fine. A portrait of an unidentified migrant farm worker on the edge of the California desert, just north of the Mexican border. He sits on a dirt berm, in a row of other men, suggested only by their elbows, which are visible at the edges of the image. Lange took this image while working for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (two WPA agencies). The most famous image from this period in her career is Migrant Mother, the iconic Depression-era photograph. Lange's original title, typed on a label on the print in the Library of Congress was "Migrant Agricultural Worker". It is sometimes called "Jobless on the Edge of a Peafield" or "Migrant Agricultural Worker, Near Holtville." At the time she took this photograph, Lange was working for the federal government and so the negatives belonged to her employer. For decades they have been on deposit at the Library of Congress and for many years, anyone could ask the… Read More

Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1980. Photograph. Fine. In this widely reproduced Lange image, a bulky white man appears to hold court while standing with one foot on the bumper of a car; five thin black men sit and stand behind him on the steps of a clapboard store. In the years immediately after she made the negative, this was one of Lange's most reproduced images: it appeared in U.S. Camera Annual 1939, Richard Wright's 12 Million Black Voices (1941), and Archibald MacLeish's Land of the Free (1938). Most of the time, when this image is reproduced, the glimpse of a young white man holding a cigarette, which appears on the left edge, is cropped out. Lange took this image while working for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (two WPA agencies). The most famous image from this period in her career is Migrant Mother, the iconic Depression-era photograph. Lange's images from this era often have descriptive names rather than titles, and they have changed over… Read More

Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1980. Photograph. Fine. A copy print, made from a photograph of the original print (see below). In this Lange image, six people wearing long shirts and hats are bent over at the waist tending to rows of lettuce. A dried and cracked furrow fills the left foreground. Lange took this image while working for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (two WPA agencies). The most famous image from this period in her career is Migrant Mother, the iconic Depression-era photograph. Lange's images from this era often have descriptive names rather than titles, and they have changed over time. This one is called Filipinos Cutting Lettuce on the Library of Congress website; Filipinos Working Lettuce Fields is written in pencil on the back (verso) of this photograph. At the time she took this photograph, Lange was working for the federal government and so the negatives belonged to her employer. For decades they have been on deposit at the Library… Read More

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1979. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. 144 pages. A collection of sonnets first published in 1609 by a woman who may have been Shakespeare's mistress. Introduction by A. L. Rowse. The American edition, using English sheets. First American edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket that is slightly faded at the spine.

London: Robert Hardwicke, 1860. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very good. An early edition of one of the most popular microscope books of the 19th century. This third edition indicates that 7000 copies had been sold. With hand-colored plates. 106 pages. 8 black-and-white plates. 32 pages of publisher ads. A very good copy in purple and pink cloth, with a one-inch split to the outer hinge.

London: Robert Hardwicke, 1880. Hardcover. Very good. Sixteenth edition of one of the most popular microscope books of the 19th century. 130 pages. 8 handcolored plates and one chromolithographed frontispiece. A very good copy. Previous owner's name inside.

London: Robert Hardwicke, 1860. Third Edition. Hardcover. Good. An early edition of one of the most popular microscope books of the 19th century. This third ediiton indicates that 7000 copies had been sold. 106 pages. 8 black-and-white plates. Rebacked with most of the original spine laid down. Internally very good.

Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 12012. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The 40th anniversary edition of this novel of murder and mayhem in Houston. This edition includes a short story featuring one of the characters in Act of Love as well as an interview with the author. This is one of 200 numbered copies, signed by Lansdale on a tipped in page. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. In the publisher's slipcase, which is also fine.

Austin, TX: MoJo Press, 1996. First Edition. Trade paperback. Near fine. Graphic novel / comic adaptations of Lansdale's fiction. With contributions from Neal Barrett Jr., Richard Klaw, Jack Jackson (Jaxon), and others. 304 pages. First edition (stated first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed on the title page by Joe R. Lansdale, Neal Barrett, Jr., Jaxon, and others.