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Scalo, Gottingen, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. PROLL, ASTRID. Baader Meinhof, Pictures on the Run 66-77, Gottingen: Scalo, 1998. Octavo, first edition, pp. 140, illustrated matte boards, text by Proll in German/English side-by-side translation, photos by Proll and others, some unknown. Fine, some leaves over-opened.Proll, the editor, was trained as a photographer and joined the Baader Meinhof group early on. She doesn't seem to have been cut out for the terrorist life, and was arrested within about a year, after which she did some extremely isolated prison time. She tells us the images here are free of their mass-media context. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo.… Read More

Simon & Schuster, New York, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. WODEHOUSE, P.G. Bachelors Anonymous, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.Octavo, first edition, pp. 186, Blue cloth boards with silver lettering and devices to spine, silver cupid on front.Condition of this book:Fine. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Humour; 1970s; Fiction. ISBN: 0671217410. ISBN/EAN: 9780671217419. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55199. . 9780671217419

Greenwillow Books, New York, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. JAMES STEVENSON. Barbara's Birthday, New York: Greenwillow Books, 1983.Octavo, first American edition (there was a London edition of unknown priority), 30 pages, some without a pop-up, 1 fold-out, printed boards. Montanaro, p. 26: "Eight double-page pop-ups increase in size and complexity as the pages proceed."Condition of this book:Fine, no flaws. This is the first USA edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; United States; 1980s; Art & Design. ISBN: 0688014186. ISBN/EAN: 9780688014186. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55005. . 9780688014186

Whitney Museum, New York, 1996. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. [Various contributors] Beat Culture and the New America, 1950-1965, New York: Whitney Museum, 1996.Quarto, pp. 280, wraps, color and halftone illustration, released to accompany a museum exhibit on the leading artists and writers of the era. Prologue by Allen Ginsberg and articles by various other writers. Condition: minor wrintkles at spine ends, all else fine. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; United States; 1950s; Poetry. ISBN: 0874270987. ISBN/EAN: 9780874270983. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 53353. . 9780874270983

Univ. of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Fine Condition/Fine. GREGORY MACKIE. Beautiful Untrue Things, Forging Oscar Wilde's Extraordinary Afterlife, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.Octavo, first edition, pp. xii, 287, printed boards, half-tone illustration. A fascinating deconstruction of legitimate and fraudulent posthumous Wilde material and the charlatans who kept him in the public consciousness. Oscar probably would have loved this.Condition of this book:Fine, no flaws. Shipments outside the U.S. may be subject to local taxes. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; England; 1900-1920; Magic, Paranormal & Occult. ISBN/EAN: 9781487502904. Pictures of this… Read More

Houghton Mifflin/Riverside, Boston, 1896. Early Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. HARTE, BRET. The Bell Ringer of Angel's and Other Stories, Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1896.12mo, early printing (first was in 1894), pp. [viii], 334, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, black rule, lettering and floral decoration to front, label on front pastedown identifying this as part of the Estelle Doheny Collection of American Literature. Doheny, wife of the oil baron played by Daniel Day Lewis in "There Will Be Blood," amassed a valuable collection that was dispersed in auctions in the 1980s after she died.Condition of this bookFine, no flaws -- an exceptional copy. Size: 12mo. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo.… Read More

Artpress, n.p, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover (in Slipcase). Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. ABBOTT, BERENICE. American Photographer, n.p.: Artpress, 1982.Folio, copy No. 262 of an edition of 400, pp. 256, red cloth boards with silver lettering on front and spine, slipcased, duotone photos, signed on the limitation page by Abbott. This edition was issued with a signed print, but the present copy lacks that. A beautifully printed retrospective on Abbott's entire career.Condition of this book:Very near fine with some flaking to the silver lettering on the spine. Slipcase has a few minor marks. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: Large Folio (bigger than A3). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Photography; United States; 1980s; Biography &… Read More

McGraw Hill, New York, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. O'NEAL, HANK, and ABBOTT, BERENICE. Berenice Abbott, American Photographer, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.Large folio, first edition, pp. 256, red cloth boards with silver-stamped lettering to spine and front, duotone photos. Career review with some photos previously unseen by the public, full plate and double plate. See Roosens/Salu 26.Condition of this book:Dust jacket lightly worn, toned at edges; leaves also toned at edges, images fine. Size: Large Folio (bigger than A3). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Photography; United States; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0070475512. ISBN/EAN: 9780070475519. Pictures of this item not already displayed here… Read More

Gehenna Press, Northampton, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/Very Good. ANNE HALLEY. Between Wars and Other Poems, Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1965.Octavo, No. 44 of an edition of 500, pp. 69, 1 (colophon), green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 40 poems with illustration by Leonard Baskin, former owner's library ticket on rear paste-down.Condition of this book:Fine. Dust jacket shows areas of age-toning. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; United States; 1960s; Literature & Literary. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55464. .

Tudor, New York, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). As New/Fine. MARC CHAGALL. The Biblical Message, New York: Tudor, 1973.Folio, English-language edition, pp. 199, 1 (note), gray cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front, original acetate wrap over dust jacket, original cardboard slipcase, original lithograph frontispiece printed at Mourlot Freres by Chagall, titled "Moses and His People" (Sorlier 689). Presents his biblical painting series accompanied by the appropriate Bible excerpts.Condition of this book:Jacket at bit darkened near spine ends, overall fine. This is the first USA edition. Size: Large Folio (bigger than A3). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Art & Design; 1970s; Religion & Theology. ISBN: 081480568x.… Read More

Herbert Jenkins, London, 1965. Later Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/Near Fine. WODEHOUSE, P.G. Big Money, London: Herbert Jenkins, 1965Small octavo, Autograph Edition, pp. 208, turquoise cloth boards with label on spine and blind-stamped signature on front, top edge tinted green. With original cardboard and acetate packaging, The only autograph here is a facsimile on the title page.Condition of this book:Fine; dust jacket is darkened at the spine. Special Limited Edition, first issue in this format. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Humour; United States; Fiction. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55196. .

Random House, New York, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Very Good. WILLIAM FAULKNER. Big Woods, The Hunting Stories, New York: Random House, 1955.Octavo, first edition, pp. 210, green cloth boards with black label on spine, gilt lettering and black paw print on front, decorations by Edward Shenton. Four stories in the great Southern outdoors.Condition of this book:Jacket is price-clipped, chipped at edges, overall very good. Book is near fine with a bit of edge wear. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; United States; 1950s; Fiction. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 53824. .

Twin Palms, Santa Fe, 1997. Later Edition. Hardcover (in Slipcase). Fine Condition/Fine. LYON, DANNY. The Bikeriders, quarto, Santa Fe: Twin Palms, 1997.Quarto, new edition, pp. xi, 96, 1 (colophon), black cloth boards with red lettering to the spine and front.First issued in 1968, this book is considered Lyon's second important contribution to the "new journalism" school of photography, the first being his civil-rights era work compiled in "The Movement" (1964). Robert Hirsch, in Seizing the Light," says "Bikeriders" was the result of Lyon's work as a so-called staff photographer for the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle gang. "The authenticity of the photographs was evidenced by over forty text pages of the bikers' telling their own stories."From Parr & Badger, Vol. 1, pp. 256: "The Bikeriders, an important and influential work, was one of the first books to bring a new genre to late twentieth-century photography, a genre… Read More

David Nutt, London, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. EMERSON, P.H. Birds Beasts and Fishes of the Norfolk Broadland, London: David Nutt, 1895.Octavo, first edition, pp. xix, 396, 3 (Opinions of the Press), blue-green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, green lettering and labeling on upper panel with image of three swimming ducks, halftone photos by T.A. Cotton. Former owners' names and bookseller ticket on pastedowns. It is sad to note that Emerson, one of the greatest photographers of the 19th century, did not take the pictures, as he had given up on photography as an art by this time. See the Eastman House's Imagining Paradise, p. 194: "Depicts the Norfolk coastal landscape as a holistic ecosystem and in a sense parallels Emerson's first book about the region, Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads. ... He constantly cites his own observations as a basis of contradicting expert… Read More

Lee & Shepherd, Boston, 1873. Early Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. OSGOOD, MRS. M.A. Black Cato, New York and Boston: Lee & Shepherd/Dillingham, 1873.12mo, early printing of a book released in 1872 as part of the Little Canary Series of children's books, pp. 207, frontis and 2 title pages (one illustrated) pebbled green cloth boards with gilt-stamped lettering and illustration. Adventures of white children and an ex-slave, 22-year-old Cato; plenty of dialect to think about here.Condition of this book:Overall very good, boards lightly worn with rubbing at extremities.Name penciled on front pastedown, free front endpaper lacking, other leaves clean and tight, toning, tissue protecting title page is foxing. Size: duodecimo. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity… Read More

Orion, London, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Signed by Author. CAROLINE CARVER. Blood Junction, London: Orion, 2001.Octavo, first edition, pp. [i - acknowledgements], 280, paper-covered boards, signed on the title page by Carver. Murder and suspense in the Outback.Condition of this book:Fine in fine jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; Australia; Modern; Fiction. Signed by Author. ISBN: 0752838466. ISBN/EAN: 9780752838465. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55243. . 9780752838465

Random House, New York, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/As New. Signed by Author. THOMAS PERRY. Blood Money, New York: Random House, 1999.Octavo, first edition, pp. 351, 3 (notes), blue paper-covered boards, signed on the title page by Perry. The art of disappearing has its complications. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; United States; 1990s; Fiction. Signed by Author. ISBN: 0679453040. ISBN/EAN: 9780679453048. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55354. . 9780679453048

Random House, New York, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Signed by Author. ALAN FURST. Blood of Victory, New York: Random House, 2002.Octavo, first edition, pp. 237, 3 (notes) black paper-covered boards, signed by Furst on the title page. Suspense in World War II oil markets.Condition of this book:Fine in fine dust jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; 1940s; Military & Warfare. Signed by Author. ISBN: 0375505741. ISBN/EAN: 9780375505744. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55347. . 9780375505744

Frederick Stokes, New York, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. MARY FENOLLOSA. Blossoms From a Japanese Garden, A Book of Child-Verses, New York: Stokes, 1913.Octavo, first edition, pp. 60 plus 20 color illustrations mounted on card stock, gray cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and gilt lettering, black birds and a color print on front. English-language rhymes about the people of Japan, illustrated by unidentified Japanese artists.Condition of this book:Spine ends and fore corners rubbed, spine gilt dulled, small stain on free front endpaper, overall very good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; United States; 1900-1920; Antiquarian & Rare. Pictures of this… Read More

Knopf, New York, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Fine. ROSS MacDONALD. The Blue Hammer, New York: Knopf, 1976.Octavo, first edition, pp. 270, 1 (note), turquoise paper-covered boards quarter-bound in black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine, top edge tinted yellow. A Lew Archer case.Condition of this book:Near fine with touch of dust at top edge; sunning at boards' edges. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Crime Fiction; United States; 1970s; Fiction. ISBN: 0394404254. ISBN/EAN: 9780394404257. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 55227. . 9780394404257