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Harrisburg: Lane S, Hart, 1878. First Edition. 8vo, 1000. Bound in publisher's cloth. a very good copy. Complimentary slip of Senator Horatio G Fisher tipped in to the end paper. Wikipedia: "The Great Railroad Strike of 1877, sometimes referred to as the Great Upheaval, began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States after the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (B&O) cut wages for the third time in a year. This strike finally ended some 45 days later, after it was put down by local and state militias, and federal troops. Because of economic problems and pressure on wages by the railroads, workers in numerous other cities, in New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland, into Illinois and Missouri, also went out on strike. An estimated 100 people were killed in the unrest across the country. In Martinsburg, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and other cities, workers burned down and destroyed both physical facilities and the rolling stock of the railroads - engines and railroad cars. Local populations feared that… Read More

Paris: Guillaume Desprez & P. Guillaume Cavelier, 1741. Nouvelle Edition. 12mo. xxiv,439,(5)pp. Allegorical woodcut vignette on title page. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spine & edges, burgundy calf spine label, 1" split at top of front hinge but still perfectly sound. Barbier Vol. IV, column 195, lists the first edition as Paris 1641, which is odd as the author's dates are 1649-1730, and OCLC does not record any edition of this title! A very scarce 18th century edition. Rules for a Christian marriage.

Koln: Taschen, 1995. Original edition. 4to, pp. 319. Artist's biographies, index, works consulted. Copiously illustrated in color. About as new in slightly scuffed dj. Heavy.

NY: McKay, 1959. 8vo, pp. 376. Owner's name on flyleaf, spine little faded, o/w a good tight copy. An exploration of class behavior in the U.S.

NY, 1978. 8vo, pp. 116, printed wraps, a very good copy. Includes work by Charles Bukowski, interview with William Ramsey, Erica Jong, A.R. Ammons, Jesse Stuart, Richard Eberhart (poetry and interview), etc.

NY: New York Quarterly Poetry Review Foundation, 1971. Periodical. 8vo, pp. 105. Paper wraps. Cover little yellowed and soiled, o/w a VG tight copy. Includes an interview with Denise Levertov, several portrait photographs, many poems by various authors, including Charles Bukowski, Marguerite Harris, David Ignatow; article on The Native American poet, history and influences.

NY: New York Quarterly Poetry Review Foundation, 1974. Periodical. 8vo, pp. 156. Editor's presentation to poet and editor Willilam Claire; "for Bill Claire / with best thanks for / his own life example. / Wm Packard." Paper wraps. Cover somewhat soiled, o/w a VG tight copy. Includes an interview with Erica Jong, several portrait photographs, an article on pornograpfhy and eroticism, interview with Stephen Stepanchev, many poems by various authors, including Charles Bukowski, Rosemary Daniell, W. M. Ransom, David Ignatow.

each printing, in red, a 3 line poem with the author's name printed below. Typed on a brown slip of paper: "for bill clair best wishes for 1972," (signed in black) Bill Packard. The whole housed in a small plastic sleve. In fine condition . Scarce.

Racine WI: WHitman, 1929. 8vo, pp. not numbered. Pictorial paper over boards. Cover little soiled, and worn at edges and spine, title page little soiled, but o/w a VG copy. A book of pictures, many in full color, of the children in the Hal Roach comedies, with story. Pictures are scored along inner edges for removal from the book if desired.

NY: Riverhead Books, 2003. Second printing. 8vo, pp. 238. Signed by the author on the title page. Her first book. A collection of short stories by the African American writer.

Chicago: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. First Edition. Joe Brainard. 8vo, pp. 86. Ex library. Cover llittle scuffed and faded, o/w VG. Jacket and endpapers by Joe Brainard. Padgett's first trade book. Poems.

NY: Abrams, 1996. 4to, pp. 207. Chronoloby, bibliography, glossary, index. Foreword by J. Carter Brown. With 203 illustrations, including 188 color plates. Published to accompany an exhibition. Fine in slightly bumped dj.

NY: McGraw-Hill, 1960. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 369. Bibliography, index. A VG tight copy in somewhat scuffed and chipped dj.

NY: Appleton-Century, 1939. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xiv, 373. Appendices, bibliography, index. Illustrated. Map on endpapers. Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Cover somewhat scuffed, and darkened on spine, o/w VG.

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page, 1917. Periodical. 8vo, pp. 241-347. Illustrated with photographs and maps. Paper wraps. Cover detached, several leaves loose, o/w VG. Features Herbert Hoover's interview with Lloyd-George, an article on Gibralter, and an eye-witness account of scenes in Petrograd during the Russian Revolution.

Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1968. First Edition. 8vo, pp. x, 300. Illustrated with photographs. Introduction by John le Carre. Red cloth stamped in gilt. Edges of leaves little darkened, o/w a nice copy in scuffed and little chipped dj.

Baton Ruge, LA: Louisiana State University, 1980. 8vo, pp. 226. Illustrated with photographs. A nice copy in little soiled dj. A book on the big band era from the viewpoint of one of the travelling musicians who played behind the big names.

NY: Dodge, 1910. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 85. Frontis portrait tipped in. Owner's signature on flyleaf, o/w VG.

Chicago: Poetry, 1944. 8vo, pp. 239-296. White paper wraps. Cover slightly browned at spine, little bumped at rear edge, o/w a VG tight copy. Also includes contributions by, among others, Babette Deutsch, Rolfe Humphries, Randall Jarrell, Robert Johnston; an essay, "Radio and Poetry," by Milton Kaplan, and reveiws by E. S. Forgotson of "Seven Poets in Search of an Answer" by Thomas Yoseloff, and by Ruth Stephan of Alfred Hayes' "The Big Time.

London: Methuen, 1986. First Edition. Small 8vo, pp. 96. Bibliography.[Series: Writer files.] Paper wraps. Fine. A chronology and brief description of the plays and other writings.