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Raymond: Keith Printing Co., Inc, 1984. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". 75pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light toning and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. A spot of non-sticky sticker residue to front cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this history of the 1863 siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Vicksburg: The Print Shop, 2003. Second Edition. Paperback. Good +. Second Edition. Paperback. Signed by author in ink to front free endpaper. 9" X 6". 75pp. Mild wear to pictorial paper wraps with light toning and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Price sticker to rear cover. Occasional inked underlining to pages. Binding is sound. An overall solid, signed copy of this history of the 1863 siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Blaine: Academy of Oriental Heritage, 1987. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 7". xiii, 365pp. Mild wear to flexible pictorial boards with rubbing and toning to covers and edges. Covers have been reinforced by hand-lamination. Front hinge is beginning to start, but remains soundly attached to text block. Inked notation to pages throughout. Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this unique work on the ancient practice of acupuncture.

Albany, California: verygraphics, 1990. Staplebound. Good +. Staplebound. 11" X 8 1/2". 49pp. Light creasing and wear to covers. Some rubbing to front and rear covers. Staplebound binding is sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Includes black and white and color erotic art, poetry by Michael Campbell, Rachel Loden, Donald Rawley, and Rachel Guido DeVries, and short stories by Carole Maso, Charles Holdfer, and Li Ang.

Winchester: Warren and Son, Ltd, 1921. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 10 1/4" X 5 1/4". Unpaginated. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with foxing and toning to covers and light creasing to corners and edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. With black-and-white photographs throughout. An overall solid copy of this theater program from the Winchester Amateur Operatic Society's performance of The Yeomen of the Guard. ABOUT THE WINCHESTER AMATEUR OPERATIC SOCIETY: The origins of the Winchester Amateur Operatic Society (WAOS), which subsequently became the Winchester Operatic Society (WOS) and then as we are now known - Winchester Musicals and Opera Society (WMOS) are intriguing, as there are several photographs in the archive of the society dated 1902, showing children in costume, possibly performing in Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Iolanthe', and an early newspaper cutting also suggests that our Society was formed as early as 1901. But apart from these early documents, there is no further… Read More

New York: Esso Standard, Humble Oil & Refining Company, 1958. Staplebound wraps. Very good. Staplebound wraps. 10 1/2" X 8". 15pp. Mild wear to staplebound printed wraps, with creasing to corners and light toning to rear wrap. Binding is sound. Pages are musty, but clean and unmarked. A delightful copy of this 1950s guide to computers ("sometimes called 'giant brains,' 'thinking machines,' or 'robots that think'") and the binary system prepared for classroom use by Esso Standard Oil, with a history of numbering systems as well as tricks, problems, and experiments, illustrated throughout in helpful diagrams and charming illustrations. As James Cortada writes in Second Bibliographic Guide to the HIstory of Computing, Computers, and the Information Processing Industry, Volume 2, "Publication of such a booklet as early as 1958 is indicative of the rapid spread of awareness of computers in the 1950s." It's additionally interesting that such a booklet would come to classrooms via an oil company, and that… Read More

New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1975. Mass market paperback. Good. Mass market paperback. 7" X 4 1/4". 190pp. Rubbing, toning, and creasing, to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Small sticker to rear cover. Crease and lean to spine. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Bookstore stamp to front endpaper. Age-yellowing to unmarked pages. Binding is sound. "Yolanda, the beautiful sexologist, on an intergalactic mission of love!

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink to title page. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 336pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Brown cloth over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Barry Hannah has long been considered one of the country's best living writers, whose singular voice and wicked genius for storytelling have earned him legions of diehard fans. His first novel in 10 years, Yonder Stands Your Orphan opens with the establishment of an orphans' camp and the discovery of an abandoned car with two skeletons in the trunk. Man Mortimer, a pimp and casino pretty boy who resembles dead country singer Conway Twitty, has just been betrayed, and his… Read More

Nashville: Convention Press, 1960. Spiral_bound. Good. Spiral_bound. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 123pp. Spiral-bound copy. Rubbing to front and rear covers. Light ink marks to front cover. Mild creasing to covers. Dust spotting to edges of text block. Ink marks to half-title page. Foxing to inside of covers and front and rear fly leaf pages. Pages clean and free of marks. Binding is sound. A solid copy of this collection of hymns and instructions on leading groups in song.

New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at bookplate at front endpaper. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 10 1/2" X 9 1/4". Unpaginated. Very minimal shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in pictorial paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Based on Theresa Wilson's (a.k.a. Theresa tha S.O.N.G.B.I.R.D.'s) beautiful, viral spoken word poem of the same name, You So Black is a picture book celebration of the richness, the nuance, and the joy of Blackness. Black is everywhere, and in everything, and in everyone—in the night sky and the fertile soil below. It's in familial connections and invention, in hands lifted in praise and voices lifted in protest, and in hearts wide open and filled with love. Black is good. Accompanied by powerful yet tender illustrations by… Read More

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1889. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 6 3/4". 245pp. Wear to pictorial over boards with rubbing and toning to covers and edges. Corners are bumped with boards showing through. Light foxing to some pages. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. An overall clean, solid copy of this children's book from 1889.

New York: Dutton, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". xii, 110pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Red paper over boards with spine backed in blue and lettered in silver. Head and tail of spine are gently bumped. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A highly presentable first printing of this 1995 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Horton Foote. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Young Man from Atlanta tells the story of a couple living in Houston in 1950, suffering the aftershocks of the mysterious death of their son. Will and Lily Dale Kidder try to hold onto their beliefs about their son's life and death and the possibilities for their own lives, but both are dealt a shattering blow by the young man of the title, a friend of… Read More

Editions "Lucos" Mulhouse, 1955. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 7 1/4". Unpaginated. Book presents nicely with pictorial paper over boards encased in protective archival sleeve. Mild wear to boards with rubbing and gentle bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Plastic moveable grasshopper has broken from base at rear of book, but is present. A bit of wear around edges of manufactured holes in pages. Faint age-toning to pages. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this French children's book about a grasshopper. This book is from the estate collection of prominent pop-up book collector and longtime Movable Book Society member Geraldine Lebowitz.

Zurich: Lars Muller Publishers, 2017. Paperback. Very good +. Paperback. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". 526pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In light of the reawakening interest in R. Buckminster Fuller's works and thoughts, and of their growing importance for our technological world, it is time for a reedition of this comprehensive and legendary publication from 1999. The visual reader Your Private Sky examines and documents Fuller's theories, ideas and projects, and critically deals with his ideology of "rescue through technology." This book provides a highly multifaceted insight into Fuller's world, also showing many of its less known sides. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was one of the most revolutionary technological visionaries of the 20th century. He established new standards that can be seen as decisive for future-capable design. "How to make the world work" - to this task he… Read More

New York: Random House, 1978. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink to half-title page. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xiv, 256pp. Mild wear to price-clipped dust jacket with toning and creasing to covers and edges. Bookseller's ticket to front flap of jacket. Very light foxing to inside of jacket. Bound in white paper over boards with spine and front cover stamped in gilt. Toning to covers of boards. Light dust-spotting to edges of text block. Faint toning to front and rear endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The Yugoslavian-born journalist bases his profile of his native country and its people on conversations with hundreds of citizens, dissidents, and government figures.(Publisher).