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Richmond, California: Richmond Art Center, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. H.C. Westermann. A fine and loving homage to the life and work of H.C. Westermann, and with contributions by David King and Melani McKim-King, the editors, and also by each of them singly, and by John Fitz Gibbon, Allan Frumkin, Phil Linhares, David McCarthy, Phil Pasquini, Martha Westermann Renner and Peter Selz. 96 pp. Several score full color and black-and-white illustrations. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. 128 pp. and featuring a fine likeness of H.C. Westermann at frontis on stiff glassine paper, and with reflections on Westermann by William T. Wiley, Jim Newman, William Allan, Terry Allen, Tony Berlant, Peter VandenBerge, David Nash, Clayton and Betty Bailey, Michael Stevens, Gerald Walburg, Richard Shaw, Michael Stevens, Gerald Walburg, Richard Shaw, Suzanne Adan, Billy Al… Read More

London: Laurence King Publishing, 2004. Softcover. As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series Monographics, edited by Rick Poynor. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial covers, in gate-fold. According to the publisher's blurb, "This is the first monograph in English on the work of the renowned Dutch printer and typographer Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman (1882 - 1945), who is celebrated for his asymmetric typographic compositions and for his experimentation with letterpress printing techniques." 112 pp., and with 132 full color reproductions of Werkman's best work in painting and typography, printed on high-gloss paper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Chicago: L. M. Stein Publisher, 1942. Second Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Yiddish language text, being the Second Enlarged Edition and a Presentation Copy by the author, who inscribes the first free endpaper in Hebrew, dated to 1942. 404 pp., bound in 1/2 leather and green cloth boards, and with silk linen ribbon bookmark. Rough-cut fore-edges. Includes English title page on verso of Hebrew-language title page. Some pages are carelessly opened but with no loss of text, bumping to and scuffing of spine head and foot, toning to endpapers, some slight torque to spine. 62 full-page duotone plates. A fine and due homage to the Habimah and to Judaica, being a scion of the Jewish-Russian theater of the 20th century. Laid in is an index card with typescript snippets from Jacob Leschinsky's review, from April of 1942. Illustrated with a number of b/w facsimile photographs of important figures and historical casts from certain plays performed by the Habimah ("The… Read More

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Award the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, this being a fine collection of 17 short stories. First Edition. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn, protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. Small closed tears at spine tips and fore-edge corners. Short section of tape repair to back of jacket front edge.310 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Poland: Simche Freund, Ksiegarnia i Wydawnictwo (bookstore and publishing house). Softcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A difficult item to catalogue properly, but appears not to be otherwise available on-line or listed in WorldCat dot org or on the Passover Haggodot in the Library of Congress web-site. Overall Good, sturdy condition copy of the Haggadah Shel Pesach, an octavo format copy in stiff softpaper boards, printed, covered now in stiff Mylar. Entire publication in Hebrew but for "Printed in Poland" on front cover. 64 pp., with five black-and-white illustrations that appear to be engraved woodblock prints. Some toning and staining to front endpapers, dissipating. Printed in Poland by the publisher, Simche Freund, Przemysl. Neither author's name nor precise place of publication nor date of publication shown, but appears to be about the 1920s Rear pastedown showing short splits, else overall a remarkably sturdy and clean, however toned, copy of the Passover manual.… Read More

Tokyo, Japan: Kodansha International, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, bound in a big, tall, folio format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities, bright and shiny dust jacket, sunned at spine, lightly toned at front panel, jacket flaps taped front and rear. 48 pp. including a full bibliography. The front panel features Benkei and Young Bull by Buson (1716-1784), and back panel features Basho's Narrow Road to a Far Province: Passwater Barrier, by Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841). The author was then the Professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Tokyo, Japan: Hokuseido, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover exemplar of the fourth of the four volumes in the series. Bound in tan oatmeal cloth over boards, black lettering and kanji characters to front cover, lettering to spine. Clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities, plentiful black-and-white illustrations including at frontis, tissue-guarded, and with black-and-white illustrated endpapers on glossy paper. 396 pp. including full index plus a fold-out chart of English & Japanese literatures from roughly 500 A.D. to the present.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Another fine contribution from the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers. Bound in short hardcover format, black cloth over boards, gilt-stamped illustration and lettering to cover and spine. Introduction and notes provided by Sharon K. Dean. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the General Editor for the Schomburg Library, then another one, "In Her Own Write," quite fetching and in praise of Phyllis Wheatley. 294 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Creative Time Books, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Haluk Akakce. Fine looking, structurally sound catalog, bound unusually and quite attractively, featuring the work of Haluk Akakçe: Sky is the Limit, edited by Peter Eleey, and with contributions by Alex Farquharson, Anne Pasternak, Louise Wilson, and Joshua Abbey. Interviews, essays, and several score brilliant, full-color illustrations.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Vorpal Gallery, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. As New. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Yozo Hamaguchi. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. A fine gallery exhibit catalog, and laid in is a rice-paper invitation and then a price-guide to the pieces shown at the Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery in Chicago, 33 pieces. No text, but a chronology and list of exhibitions. Plentiful thumb-nailed reproductions, some larger and also full-page, full-color reproductions.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Santa Rosa, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Wanda Coleman (1946 – 2013), known as "the L.A. Blueswoman" and as "the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles". The artist notes following pagination recount that she was a child of the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles in the 1950s and 1960s. She was wife first of the white Southerner Charles Coleman, a leading S.N.C.C. spokesperson, and to two more husbands. She was also mother of Luanda and Anthony from him and another, Ian, from her second husband. Her third husband was also a poet. She wrote for men's magazines under the pseudonym Andrew L. Tate, too. She was massively talented and published fifteen works of poetry but also mixed-genre books, short stories, a novel and two additional works of poetry criticism and essays. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear. Special Limited Edition, bound in… Read More

New York: Pantheon Books, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Stellar copy of a marvelous book on neurology, anatomy, evolutionary theory, cognitive psychology and creativity. Replete with black-and-white illustrations throughout. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear to the gray paper over boards, gray cloth-backed covers, bright interior, unmarked. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn beyond a bit of upper edge-wear. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xiv [2], 3-397 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Warner Books, 1990. First English Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Translated from the original Russian Stefani Hoffman. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Frontis matter + 2-314 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, tightly bound, clean copy with little discernible wear to exterior beyond remainder mark along top edge. Bright and shiny dust jacket, not price-clipped, a clearly unread copy. Following 130 pp. of literature and literary criticism, a fine memoir of the celebrated writer's life and work, there follow three Appendixes: 1: Three Plays Laurel and Hardy Go to Heaven, Blackouts and Hide and Seek, 2: Action Baseball, 3: Squeeze Play, by "Paul Benjamin," 449 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Pelican Publishing Company: Gretna, Louisiana, 1985. Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Printed, illustrated dust jacket present, moderately worn and chipped, not price-clipped. Presents years' worth of research by the two art historians on the Audubon prints, complete with a then current price list of Audubon prints. Plentiful black-and-white photographs. [8], 9-124 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London, England: Imperial War Museum & The Battery Press, 2005. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder, and the only new copy available on-line at present. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Originally published in 1943 by the U.S. Army as Technical Manual TM 30-410, this important reference work has chapters on the organization of the British Army by Corps, rank, uniform and insignia, armament and equipment, tactics, maps and abbreviations. There are also supplements for the Royal Air Force and Civilian Defense Organizations. Reprint by the Battery Press of the original 1943 edition. vii, 2-403 pp., and with plentiful tables and illustrations.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be… Read More

Mahwah, Nj: Lawrence Erblaum Associates, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade, being only three additional copies available on-line. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the raspberry-colored wraps, with light crease along rear panel. A fine, multi-disciplinary examination of the specific methodological issues inherent in conducting human sexuality research. The methodological techniques and advances that are familiar to researchers trained in one discipline are often unfamiliar to others. Will enrich collaboration between representatives of many different disciplines in human sexuality research, sociologists to anthropologists, clinicians to statisticians. Will show readers how to measure sexuality variables; how to design studies, recruit participants and collect data; how to consider cultural and ethical issues; and how to perform and… Read More

Cambridge, Maryland: Cornell Maritime Press, Inc. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 12mo 7" - 7. 428 knots, 47 nice plates. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of green and tan softpaper covers, less to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Published first in 1945, undated publication date but with an exceedingly low I.S.B.N., thus likely 1970 or 1971. 194 pp. including a full index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Leipzig und Ronneburg: August Schumann, 1807. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Scarcely available to the trade, there being only two copies available in Germany and one in the Netherlands, in libraries. A perfectly serviceable reference copy, text in German; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Moderately soiled endpapers, else fairly clean throughout. Three-quarter leather and with marbled paper over boards, with gilt label on spine. Moderate wear and tear to covers, title page foxed a bit, very light foxing throughout, else a clean and unmarked copy. viii + 336 pp. + 2 pp. of Errata.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Portland: The Alcuin Press, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 12mo 7" - 7. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear, mostly in the form of light sunning along the edges, to the printed (duh!) stiff card wrappers. The book was designed by Charles Bigelow, using an adaptation of the thirteenth century Villard canon, set by Irish Setter in Aldine Roman and Bembo type, printed by John Laursen. xiv [2]-156 pp., including a full bibliography and notes.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.