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London: Jonathan Cape, 1957. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 3 volumes, all first impressions. Octavo (19 x 13cm). Elegantly hand-bound in half black oasis morocco over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six comparments with raised bands. You Only Live Twice gilt-stamped with Japanese characters to front cover. Contents clean and bright, exterior unmarked. A near fine set in an attractive recent leather binding. .

Chicago & London: Open Court, 1915. First English edition.. 8vo. Original green cloth, lettered and ruled in black. Light rubbing to hinges, a clean and attractive copy in unusually nice condition. Issued as No. 1 in The Open Court Series of Classics of Science and Philosophy. 14 page catalogue at the rear. Small bookseller label on the inner front cover from Thornton & Son, Oxford. This is the English translation of Cantor's seminal paper "Beiträge zur Begründung der Transfiniten Mengenlehre" (1895-1897). A significant book in the history of mathematics, considered a foundational work on Set Theory.

AudioGO Limited. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

This is a brilliantly colored serigraph, from one of 50 hors commerce prints, of Cellist, produced in 2001 by the Ukrainian artist and architect Anatole Krasnyansky (1930-2023).
The image is a surreal clown with a modified cello.
Krasnyansky was born in Kyiv and eventually, after obtaining his MA in architecture, moved to Saint Petersburg where he became known for his work on the restoration of the Potemkin Palace (Tauride Palace), the Marble Palace and the Hermitage. While in Russia, he also designed hospitals, art galleries and monuments. In 1975, he moved to the US, where he worked as a set designer for the major networks, on films such as Battlestar Galactica, and for the Academy Awards. He had many major exhibitions and is now known for pioneering techniques in watercolor by experimenting with texture.
This piece is on white wove paper and is signed in ink.
It comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from the artist's Miami gallery, and an appraisal; in 2003, it was valued at $695. US (see… Read More

This is a limited edition print of what I'm calling "Woman with Flowers" by the Israeli artist Itzchak Tarkay (1935-2012). It is untitled and undated--it's from the early 2000s.
Tarkay worked in acrylic and watercolor. He was also a graphic artist and his rich tapestry of form and color was achieved primarily through the use of the serigraph. In his serigraphs, many colors are laid over one another and used to create texture and transparency. He is very well-known for his portraits of women.
This piece is 31/300. Tarkay signed it in pencil, bottom right.
The image is 8 3/4" x 10 1/2". The finished piece is 19" x 21 1/2".
It is double matted, under museum-quality glass and is in a very heavy black frame. The frame has a slight mark on the upper right edge. Otherwise perfect condition.
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John Murray 1861. Third edition. Post 8vo, pp. xix + 538 + [2 (advts)]; green buck bds paneled in blind; spine lettered & decorated in gilt; top & fore edge deckled; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with moderate chipping; moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; heavy cracking to front hinge, detatched from text block, ffep & ht loose, tape repair attempt; prev ownership inscriptions in pencil to ffep verso & in black ink to ht; heavy cracking to central & rear gutters, final pg loose; moderate cracking to rear hinge with tape repair attempt; binder's sticker to rear pastedown (Edmonds & Remnants)).

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First American edition of J.M. Barrie's tale of Peter Pan's boyhood adventures, the foundation of most future adaptations, issued simultaneously with the first English edition. Barrie's first account of Peter Pan, published in The Little White Bird (1902), featured Peter as a baby, inspiring Barrie's collaboration with Arthur Rackham in Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906). Peter and Wendy is based on Barrie's subsequent play featuring Peter Pan as a boy, a major event on the London stage, introducing the iconic characters of Tinker Bell, Captain Hook, and Wendy Darling to the Peter Pan legend: "Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end." A very good copy, with bright gilt, in the first-issue jacket. Single volume, measuring 8 x 5.5 inches: x, 267, [1]. Original olive pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, original black pictorial dust jacket printed in gilt, priced at $1.50. Frontispiece, pictorial title… Read More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961. First edition of Joseph Heller's groundbreaking anti-war novel, inspired by Heller's experiences as a bombardier in World War II. Catch-22 was the product of almost a decade of revision; editor Michael Korda recalls that an "aura of myth hovered around the book" in the hallways of Simon and Schuster. The character of John Yossarian, a disaffected Air Force captain whose efforts to leave the service are frustrated by the circular logic of his superiors, would become an enduring symbol of the bureaucratic abuse of power: "there was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind." Ownership signature, dated 1963, of literary scholar Yvonne Noble. A very good copy of a modern classic. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: 443, [1]. Original blue cloth boards lettered in white, top edge stained red, original unclipped color pictorial… Read More

One of 1500 copies. Signed by Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Raven Chacon

George Allen & Unwin 1955. THREE VOL SET. FIRST EDITION, VARYING IMPRESSIONS. Demy 8vo, pp. 423, 352, 416; red buckram bds, spine lettered in silver gilt; top edge stained red, maps to rear, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with sl chipping; light to moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges (moderate tanning & soiling to vols 2 & 3); light tanning & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals (moderate tanning & foxing to vols 2 & 3); sm tear to front hinge at head (vol. 1); prev ownership inscription to ffep; some foxing throughout); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping, esp to spine extrems; light to moderate tanning & foxing; moderate red staining (vol. 1); lg closed tear rear flap at fold (vol. 1)). Vol. 1, fourth impression; vol. 2, second impression; vol. 3, first impression;… Read More

New York: Harrison Smith, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth with publisher's emblem in gilt on front cover. Spine faded; some modest fading along edges of boards. Photographic endpapers. Previous owner's first name erased on half-title page, else internally clean. A handful of unopened leaves near conclusion. Features seven full-page photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, including the endpapers and frontispiece. xv + 283 pages. A descriptive characterization of the social conditions and the progress of industrialization in the Soviet Union, written near the conclusion of the first Five Year Plan. Also includes chapters on the intelligentsia and Soviet writers. Illustrated with photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, the first Western photographer allowed to enter the Soviet Union, who had made trips there in 1930, 1931 and 1932. The author, Louis Fischer (1896-1970), was an American journalist and Soviet expert who had lived and traveled extensively in the Soviet Union… Read More

Arlington, Virginia, 1980. Wraps. All five issues, along with the "free supplimentary" distributed between the first and second issues. A foundational part of D.C.'s emerging punk scene, Capitol Crisis was created by musician and disc jockey Xyra Harper. It was a response, in part, to Georgetown University's decision to end the student-run radio station WGBT, which included Harper's punk music program "Revolt into Style". "Rock clubs were closing, there were very few places for bands to play - people felt stifled by bureaucracy," Harper recalled in a 2016 interview with The Washingtonian, reflecting on the title Capitol Crisis. "People were bursting to get out and be creative, and they had to create something because there wasn't anything." Music scholar Shayna Maskell said Capitol Crisis "worked to contest the dominant maleness of D.C. hardcore and its cultural production." In editorials Harper wrote for the zine, she never addressed gender specifically, but did acknowledge what she called… Read More

Stated First Printing. Deluxe hardcover, maroon boards, w/ gilt decoration and lettering, appears unread but upper board corners dented, bottom ones less so, one faint print.

New York: The Viking Press, 1979. First  edition of this classic work, basis for the 1983 thriller film directed by David Cronenberg.  Octavo, original half cloth. Boldly signed by Stephen King on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by One + One Studio. The Dead Zone is Stephen King's New York Times bestseller about a reluctant clairvoyant who must weigh his options when he suddenly sees the terrible future awaiting mankind.

Chevalier D'Eon, famed transgender French spy and duelist. One of the earliest well-known openly trans women in history. Two Autograph Letters Signed by the Chevalier D'Eon to her close friends Colonel and Madame John Kemeys-Tynte. Six handwritten pages total. French. Both dated March 8th, 1793. Both letters pertain to D'Eon's plan to drop off a "cassette" (a small case) with the Tyntes for safe-keeping before a trip to France, despite the ongoing French Revolution. D'Eon was in a precarious position as a noble and former diplomat but she believed she would be able to sort out her late mother's affairs in Tonnerre and receive her inheritance before the Revolution descended into chaos. She writes "I received yesterday all the necessary passports to return to Paris in a more honest and graceful manner than if I were the sister of Monsieur Egalite". Here D'Eon is referring to the Duke of Orleans, a supporter of the French Revolution who changed his name to Philippe Egalite in 1792. He would be executed… Read More

Salinger, J.D.  American author of Catcher in the Rye. Archive of six typed letters signed and two booklets from Salinger's personal library sent from the writer to his friend Eileen Paddison. Letters date between 1971 and 1980 and chronicle the friendship between Salinger and Paddison, as he opens up to her about the private thoughts, neuroses, and spiritual beliefs which greatly influenced his most famous works Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey. Salinger would characterize the relationship between himself and Eileen in 1975 as one between "a brother or sister, or some kind of close blood relative anyway", one born of warmth and mentorship which mirrored the sibling bond of Holden and Phoebe Caulfield and Franny and Zooey Glass. Typed on goldenrod paper, as usual, and signed in Salinger's hand "J", "JDS", or "Jerry". Eileen Paddison first got in touch with Salinger in the winter of 1971, when she was a young college student and aspiring writer. In the earliest letter, dated December 18th,… Read More

Chevalier D'Eon, famed transgender French spy and duelist. One of the earliest well-known openly trans women in history. Autograph Letter Signed by the Chevalier D'Eon to her close friend Madame Jane Kemeys-Tynte in which she expresses bitter disappointment in the failure of the French Revolution. Two handwritten pages total. French. June 14th, 1798. Signed "Ch: D'Eon". In this letter, dated between the War of the First Coalition and War of the Second Coalition in the summer of 1798, D'Eon thanks Madame Tynte for a basket of goods from her country home and writes "I cannot express how much my heart was touched. I am still very sick and far from my homeland, ungrateful and cruel, deprived from my pension and my inheritance. Our famous revolution should have made us all happy, but it made us all miserable. The dignified fruits of the beautiful garden of a blind philosophy, which has ripped out the true God from our hearts and planted instead the Gods of Egypt who I will eat today in the salad of the… Read More

[Lesbian] [LGBTQ] Archive of 28 black and white silver gelatin photos depicting lesbian love and female companionship among young women. Photos range in size from 2.25" x 3.25" to 4.75" x 6.5" taken throughout the 1930s with a few leading up to the 1950s. Photographs depict several groups of college aged women laughing and smiling together, some sharing more intimate affections towards one another. A few photographs have inscriptions en verso with their first names, some dated 1930. Most photographs are of groups of women, taken outside. One photograph depicts two women sleeping side by side in bed, another shows two women seated outside on a park bench holding hands and gazing at each other affectionately. Another photo, dated Jan. 1959, shows an up close and personal image of two older women dancing cheek to cheek while a similar photo shows two teenage girls holding hands and dancing outside circa 1942. These images were captured at a time when homosexuality was considered taboo and depict defiant… Read More

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. Limited manuscript edition of this complex and revealing biography of one of the most popular Presidents of the United States. Octavo, four volumes bound in the publisher's cherry-red three-quarter crushed morocco at the Riverside Press with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments, top edge gilt, red silk ribbons tipped in, tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Abraham Lincoln and additional tissue-guarded color plate views of the Lincoln Memorial to each volume, illustrated with thirty-two tissue-guarded plates and maps throughout, window-mounted leaf of the author's manuscript research notes adhered to the front flyleaf of Vol. I, some pages uncut, stamp-signed by the Riverside Press. One of one thousand numbered sets printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, U. S. A., this is number 130. In fine condition, bookplate from the library of American banker and philanthropist Frank K. Houston to the front flyleaf of Vol. II. Praised… Read More

King Jr, Dr. Martin Luther. Conscience For Change: Massey Lectures, 1967. Toronto: CBC Publications, 1968. First Edition, Second printing. 46 pages. Original paperback binding. 8 x 5". A series of five transcribed lectures by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr broadcasted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation only a year prior to his devastating assassination in 1968. This remarkable collection contains original material from Dr. King on a wide array of subjects including the Vietnam War, the role of the youth in the social movements of the 1960s, the strategy of non-violence in the struggle for civil rights, and many others. Perhaps most interestingly, the lectures present an exposition of Dr. King's stance against the Vietnam War and his active refusal to buy into sentiment that served as the war's justification. Overall very good condition. Previous owner name inside front cover. This collection gives a fascinating look into the late intellectual development of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther… Read More