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[Portland, Oregon]: [Gloria Alten], 1993. Unbound. Nine linear inches of loose 4"x6" drugstore prints intended by the artist to make postcards with. A handful of unused postcard backings and some completed postcards are present. Some images are duplicates. Portland artist Gloria Alten (1923-2014) sat in front of her T.V. and took hundreds of pictures of the news, and with her camera focused on her T.V. set, she captured some of the spectacle that was the early '90s media landscape.
The bulk of the photographs (5 linear inches) are of Bill Clinton and his early presidency: debates with George Bush and Ross Perot, his inauguration, State of the Union Address, appearances on The Phil Donahue, and appearances by Hilary, Chelsea, Al Gore, Janet Reno, Oprah and Muhammad Ali, etc. Yes, he is shown playing the saxophone.
The second largest subject photographed (2.5 linear inches) is Tonya Harding. Images trace her saga from the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics, with Tonya in tears over a broken lace…
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The T.V. Photography of Gloria Alten
by Alten, Gloria
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TELLUS: The Audio Cassette Magazine, #13 Power Electronics
by Nechvatel, Joseph [Editor]
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New York: TELLUS, 1986. Stereo cassette in cassette with single-sided fold-out J-card. Issue #13. NM. "This issue is dedicated to all the home tapers, power electricians, noise artists, and difficult musicians." The "power electronics" sub-genre of noise was introduced to many listeners with this compilation, which includes Japanese superstar of noise Merzbow, Al Margolis's long-running project If, Bwana, Maybe Mental, and No Wave composer Rhys Chatham.
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The Tables of the Law and The Adoration of the Magi
by Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]
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London: Elkin Mathews, 1904. First Edition, Deluxe Issue. Hardcover. Very Good. 60 + 4 pp ads. First published edition, one of an unspecified number of copies in the deluxe issue, bound in quarter buff linen cloth and blue-grey paper over boards (Wade 25). Very Good. Small damp stain at head. Covers darkened with age and lightly marked and soiled; small nick to edge of boards. Crease to bottom corner of title page. Pages lightly toned and dust soiled; slightly exposed hinge toward center of text block though binding remains solid. Printed on slightly thicker paper than the wraps issue, and also far more uncommon.
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The Tables of the Law and The Adoration of the Magi
by Yeats, W. B. [William Butler]
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London: Elkin Mathews, 1904. First Edition, Deluxe Issue. Very Good. First published edition, one of an unspecified number of copies in the deluxe issue, bound in quarter buff linen cloth and blue-grey paper over boards. Very Good with toning to covers and light wear at extremities, soiling to spine with fraying to ends. Several hinges over-opened, contents lightly toned.
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The Tailor of Gloucester
by Potter, Beatrix
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London: Strangeways and Sons, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Privately printed. Bound in original pink paper-covered boards, stamped in black with vignette of three mice sewing on the front cover. Very Good, with some foxing and browning to covers,small bump with some creasing near spine, foxing to text block edge and offsetting to endsheets, else a rather nice and neat copy. (Quinby 3.).
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Taipei
by Lin, Tao
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New York: Vintage Books, 2013. Uncorrected Proof. Very Good. Uncorrected proof, issued before the first edition. Signed by Tao Lin on the front free endpaper, inscribed to former owner with a small bug drawing, dated 1/20/13. [viii], 258, [1] pp. Wraps. Very Good with a few faint stains to wraps, light shelf wear. The author's third novel, the inspiration of the 2018 film High Resolution.
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Take Me Home
by Flora, Fletcher; Harry Schaare [Illustrator]
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Derby, CT: Monarch Books, 1959. First edition. Very Good+. First edition, first printing. 156, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's pictorial wrappers illustrated by Harry Schaare; all edges stained red. Very Good+ with lean to binding, spine lightly creased. An adult erotic novel with a lesbian theme. From the back cover: "Forbidden love. This is an unconventional story of beautiful Ivy Galvin and her strange emotional involvement with two men-- and a woman." Monarch Books #120.
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The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse
by Potter, Beatrix
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London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co, 1910. Reprint. Very Good. Dated 1910, but a later printing. Signed by Beatrix Potter on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original paper-covered boards lettered in green with illustrated onlay to upper board. Very Good with glue repair evident to spine along rear joint, lean to binding, toning to spine and wear to spine ends, soiling to covers. A non-authorial 1928 Christmas gift inscription is above the author's signature on the half-title page.
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Dickens, Charles
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first issue. Three quarter leather binding over marbled boards, with marbled endsheets. Light rubbing to leather at corners and fore edge. Previous owner details to prelim, with a short repaired tear. Pages sporadically foxed, a bit heavier to plates. The classic Dickens tale set during the French Revolution, with the iconic opening line "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
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The Tale of the Little Pig Robinson
by Potter, Beatrix
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London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co, [nd]. Reprint. Very Good. [1941]. Later edition, June 1941 per the printer's imprint on the final page of text. Signed by Beatrix Potter on the half-title page and dated "Feb. 6. 43", Potter died in December of that year. Bound in publisher's original paper-covered boards lettered in brown with illustrated onlay to upper board. Very Good with spotting to to covers heaviest at rear, toning to the spine. Though this was the last book in Potter's Peter Rabbit series, it was among the first to be written.
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A Tale of Satisfied Desire (The Story of the Eye)
by Bataille, Georges [writing as Pierre Angelique]; Audiart [Translator]
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Paris: The Olympia Press, 1953. First edition. First English language edition. 105, [5] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good, spine darkened, a few light scratches to front wrap, toning to wraps. The first English translation of Georges Bataille's erotic novella The Story of the Eye.
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit [bound with] The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
by Potter, Beatrix
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Frederick Warne and Co, 1904. Early and First Edition. Very Good. Signed. The Tale of Peter Rabbit. London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., N.d. [1904-1906]. Early printing. 86 pages; frontispiece and 26 illustrations, all in color. Bound together with The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1904. First edition. 86 pages; frontispiece and 26 illustrations, all in color; vignette on title page in black and white. Signed on the front free blank flyleaf by Beatrix Potter, who has written "This is an early edition of Peter Rabbit and I believe it a first edition of Benjamin Bunny - Beatrix Potter Nov. 1929." Bound in contemporary half blue morocco over blue marbled paper by Harrison of Pall Mall. Very Good with superficial edge wear and toning to binding. Two leaves in Peter Rabbit have edge-tears, frontis in Benjamin Bunny is partially detached along the bottom joint. Quinby 2D & 6.
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The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
by Potter, Beatrix
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London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co, 1909. Reprint. Near Fine. Early reprint of the author's fourteenth book. Signed by Beatrix Potter on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original paper-covered boards lettered in green with illustrated onlay to upper board. Near Fine with foxing to the textblock edges. Laid in is an 8-page folded leaflet promoting Beatrix Potter's books, and a dealer's card and description from several decades ago.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Highsmith, Patricia
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London: Cresset Press, 1957. First British Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. First British edition of Patricia Highsmith's best-known work and signed by her on the title page. Bound in publisher's original red cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good or better with light edge wear, slight bumping to crown, slight odor to pages, foxing to textblock edges, tanning to endsheets. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with toning, darkening to the spine and light dust-soiling.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Highsmith, Patricia
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New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1955. First Edition. Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth-affect boards with spine titles stamped in green. Good with soiling and slight lean to binding; moderate edge wear with bumped corners; remnants of effaced former owner's name on front free endpaper. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket trimmed slightly short for the binding (an anomaly?), with fading to spine, light foxing, moderate edge wear; small tear to rear joint and damp stain to spine at verso.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
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New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1955. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. New York: Coward-McCann Inc, 1955. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth-affect boards with spine titles stamped in green. Near Fine with light rubbing at corners and spine ends, evidence of a small address label being removed from the front paste down, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a small chip to the top edge of the spine and another to the front panel, light sunning to spine; former owner name and date written in marker to the blindside.
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Tales from the Russian by Nicolai Karamsin
by Karamzin, Nikolai; Feldborg, A.A. [Translator]
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London: Printed for J. Johnson by G. Sidney, 1804. First Thus. About Very Good. First thus. (A reprinting with a slightly different title, different preliminary matter, and no frontispiece, of an 1803 edition. Line, Ettlinger & Gladstone: p. 21, Karamzin 2., second entry.) xii, 262 pp. with one illustrated plate. 19th century leather backstrip with paper-covered boards. About Very Good with wear to boards along edges, rubbing, and strip of toning to front board; a few pencil marks on paste down, marginal dampstain to plate at p. 204., a few dog-eared pages. A rare collection of stories by a Russian author sometimes compared to Lawrence Sterne. One of the earliest Russian works to be translated into English, long before the late 19th century boom.
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Tales of the South Pacific
by Michener, James
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing stated. Signed by James Michener, and inscribed to a former owner in the year of publication, reading "21 February 1947 / Dear Gates / Would that this had been pulled from the production line of the 30th printing. Live the poems of [?], these stories are sent to a friend -- and a fine one, too. [signed] Jim Michener." Bound in publisher's beige-orange colored cloth with spine stamped in blue. Very Good, with pages toned and cloth rubbed at the extremities. In a supplied later state dust jacket with price printed horizontally; lightly edgeworn and lightly edge-stained, and a bit rippled. Michener's first book, a Pulitzer Prize winning collection of short stories about the Pacific Campaign in World War II.
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The Tales of Guy de Maupassant
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Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1977. Hardcover. Like New. Collector's edition bound in maroon genuine leather, lettered and edged in gilt, silken endpapers. xii, 472pp. Former owner's bookplate on first blank page, else Fine. A nice copy.
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Tales of Beatnik Glory
by Sanders, Ed
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New York: Stonehill Publishing Company, 1975. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Ed Sanders on the title page. [x], 274 pp. Bound in publisher's light grey cloth with white spine lettering. Very Good+ with slight foxing to edges, small scuff to bottom edge, hinge at front starting. In About Very Good edge-worn jacket with chip at corner of front panel, tape mend to tear near head on verso, scratches. The wild doings of publisher, poet, provocateur, and [first and foremost!] bookseller Ed Sanders in his younger days are recounted here. Uncommon signed.
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