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Manhattan, KS: Sunflower University Press, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 263pp. Illustrations, maps. Fine/near fine. A handsome and tight first edition -- signed boldly by Raab in blue ballpoint on the title page and with modern sepia-tone postcard portrait of Loring and his Florida cemetery plot laid in. Rather uncommon.
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W.W. Loring: Florida's Forgotten General
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The Complete Works of Rabelais: The Five Books of Gargantua and Pantagruel
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New York: The Modern Library, n.y.. Hardcover. Translation by Jacques Le Clercq. 8vo. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xxxii, 841pp, (2pp ads). Near fine/very good. Slightest bit of jacket wear. Later printing (mid- to late1950s) of the 1944 Modern Library Giant edition (#G65), tight and most attractive. One of this publisher's best-ever dust jacket graphics.
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Gargantua & Pantagruel: The Five Books
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New York: The Heritage Press, 1942. Hardcover. Translation by Jacques LeClercq. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. Small 4to. Tan cloth, slipcase. xxix, 146pp, 124pp, 178pp, 175pp, 141pp. Frontispiece, line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Mild slipcase edge and corner wear; discreetly, archivally mended tear to leaf 133-34, else tight, clean, quite nice. Handsome slipcased "poor man's LEC" edition of this mid-16th century satire about two giants -- the trade edition of the fine 1936 Limited Editions Club small printing.
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The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel
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Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1982. Hardcover. Translation by John M. Cohen. Illustrations by Frank C. Pape. Small 4to. Full burgundy calf with gilt lettering and decoration, raised bands. 715pp. All edges gilt. Numerous illustrations, decorative endpapers. Near fine. Couple of inoffensive abrasions on front flyleaf (likely from bookplate removal). Handsome modern edition, with Pape's illustrations from the 1927 two-volume Bodley Head edition.
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The Complete Works of Doctor Francois Rabelais, Abstractor of the Quintessence...
by RABELAIS, Francois
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London: John Lane, 1927. Hardcover. Illustrations by Frank C. Pape. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xxxviii, 499pp; xvii, 730pp. Frontispieces, full-page plates, line drawings. Very good. Faintest edgewear only. A tight and lovely set of this large edition, limited to 4300 numbered sets (this #3464). Gilt bright and bold.
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The Complete Works of Doctor Francois Rabelais, Abstractor of the Quintessence...
by RABELAIS, Francois
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London: John Lane, 1927. Hardcover. Illustrations by Frank C. Pape. Complete 2-volume set. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. xxxviii, 499pp; xvii, 730pp. Frontispieces, full-page plates, line drawings. Very good overall. Bindings a bit rubbed and faintly scuffed, with heads of spines delicate. Tight, nice set of this edition, limited to 4300 numbered sets (this #797 and #798).
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Race Relations in the Urban South, 1865-1890
by RABINOWITZ, Howard N.
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Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1980. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed brown pictorial wrappers. xvi, 441pp. Tables, 5 maps. Near fine. First of this "Illini Books" paperback edition, tight and attractive. A volume in series editor August Meier's "Blacks in the New World" series.
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Signed First Day Cover
by RABUT, Paul (1914-83)
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American artist and illustrator known for tropical and Native American scenes. Signed First Day Cover, 6½" X 3½", cancelled in New York, New York on 1970 May 6 and with "First Day of Issue" boldly stamped. Single Rabut-designed 6-cent "Haida Ceremonial Canoe" stamp at upper right. Fine. No decorative cachet at left; no distracting recipient's name/address. At lower right, in blue ballpoint, Rabut signs bold and handsome.
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American artist and illustrator known for tropical and Native American scenes. Signed First Day Cover, 6½" X 3½", cancelled in Honaunau, Hawaii on 1972 May 3 and with "First Day of Issue" boldly stamped. Single 11-cent "City of Refuge -- Hawaii" stamp at upper right. Fine. At lower right, in blue fineline, Rabut signs small but bold, adding "Designer." Interestingly, two of the persons responsible for creating the carved figure depicted on the stamp have also signed: JACOB LINDBERG-HANSEN (who signs at upper left in black fineline, adding his Hawaiian name: "Kimolaui haukaua Koi") and VIRGINIA C. BICKERDYKE (who signs at lower left in blue fountain pen, adding "Carver"). Accompanied by a small Autograph Note Signed from Lindberg-Hansen, 2pp, heavy stock 6½" X 3½" card, n.p., n.y. Signs with his Hawaiian name and gives names of Hawaiian master carver and demonstrator, "one of the last pure Hawaiians...." Transmittal envelope also present.
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Samuel Butler: A Biography
by RABY, Peter
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Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, dust jacket. xi, 334pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition.
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Building America: "Let us rise up and build.
by RACHIE, Elias
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Minneapolis: Building America Company, 1936. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth. 320pp. Illustration, 2 color maps. Very good. First edition of this weird, idiosyncratic prescription on how to cure all of America's ailments and keep her on the straight and narrow. From the library of Frank O. Lowden (1861-1943), governor of Illinois -- not bearing his bookplate or ownership signature, but a collector's bookplate on the front pastedown indicates it was acquired at the sale of his estate in 1949.
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Indians of the Plains
by RACHLIS, Eugene
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New York: American Heritage Publishing Co, 1960. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pictorial cloth. 153pp. Numerous color illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Abrasion on title page, else a tight, clean later printing of this volume in the "American Heritage Junior Library" series.
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Portrait of an American Labor Leader: William L. Hutcheson
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New York: American Institute of Social Science, Inc, 1955. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 430pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. Tight and attractive fifth printing of this "Saga of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America 1881-1954.
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Tennessee: Cry of the Heart
by RADER, Dotson
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Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo. Light green cloth spine with gilt lettering and grey paper over boards, dust jacket. 348pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket spine faintly sunned. Tight and nice first edition of this (to cite front jacket panel) "Intimate Memoir of Tennessee Williams.
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Blood Dues
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth spine and red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 211pp. Very good/very good. Tight, handsome first edition of this essay collection, bearing a handsome presentation inscription by the author on the half-title page "For Christopher, / who saw much the / same in his youth, / and survived it better. / With deep admiration, / love, / Dotson / Fbr. 18, 1974." YOUNG 3171.
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by RADER, Don R. (1893-1983)
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Third baseman and outfielder who debuted with the Chicago White Sox in 1913. Bold signature in blue ballpoint, 5" X 3" card, n.p., n.d. Near fine. Nice later life example. Uncommon.
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South of Forty: From the Mississippi to the Rio Grande -- A Bibliography
by RADER, Jesse L.
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Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1947. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth with black spine lettering. xi, 336pp. Near fine. A tight and lovely first edition, sans jacket, of this indispensable guide. Limited to 1,000 copies.
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The Story of the American Indian
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New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with red and gilt stamping. xiv, 371pp. Color frontispiece, 5 color plates, numerous illustrations, line drawings. Very good. Almost but not quite rates a "Near fine," for it's tight, clean and quite nice. First edition of this hefty overview, in exceptional lovely condition.
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WLS Family Album (group of 7)
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Chicago: The Prairie Farmer, 1936. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 48pp, 48pp, 48pp, 56pp, 52pp, 48pp, 487pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good overall. Slight bit of faint wear to outer wrappers (only). A tight and handsome grouping of this interesting annual booklet from the days when this radio station was THE rural station for farmers to listen to as they milked the cows. Features photographs of the staff ("Our Office Girls," etc.), the "talent" (including a juvenile "Georgie" Goebel), show profiles, etc. A great period piece, with volumes covering the years 1936, 1938, 1939 (lacks rear wrapper), 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1951.
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WLS Family Album 1946
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Chicago: Prairie Farmer, 1946. Paperback. 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 48pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Slightest bit of faint wear to outer wrappers (only). A tight and handsome copy of this interesting annual booklet, featuring countless photographs of the staff, the "talent," etc.
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