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  • The Day of the Beast
    GREY, Zane

    The Day of the Beast

    Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in tan printed dust jacket; [6],351pp. Jacket extremities a bit worn with a few shallow losses and closed tears, tiny chips to flap fold ends, cloth spine a hint faded else Very Good overall. One of the author's social novels, about the Roaring Twenties as seen.....

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  • Our Town: A Play in Three Acts
    WILDER, Thornton

    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts

    Octavo (20.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial price-clipped, later issue dustjacket mentioning the Pulitzer Prize; 128pp.; illustrated endpapers, title page printed in blue and black. Some minor wear to jacket extremities, horizontal tear one inch below spine crown, jacket and cloth spine a bit faded; textblock fine. Very Good. Pulitzer Prize-winning.....

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  • Intimations of Eve [Limited Editon, Signed
    FISHER, Vardis

    Intimations of Eve [Limited Editon, Signed]

    Limited to 100 copies of which this is no. 12. Octavo (21cm.); original full red gilt-lettered morocco, top edge gilt; [4],331pp. Fine. Signed by the author on colophon. Third in the 12-volume "Testament of Man" series, this set among the Moon Woman clan. BLEILER (1972), p. 115.

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  • Manassas: A Novel of the War
    [SOCIAL FICTION] [CIVIL WAR] SINCLAIR, Upton

    Manassas: A Novel of the War

    Octavo. Original publisher's gilt-pictorial cloth; 412pp + 6p publisher's catalog. Light wear to board edges, else a tight, Near Fine copy with blue-green top-stain just slightly faded.

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  • A Tale of Two Cities
    DICKENS, Charles; H.K. Browne, illus.

    A Tale of Two Cities

    First issue with p. 213 misnumbered 113. Octavo (22cm.); recent three-quarter maroon morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine in six compartments, new marbled endpapers; viii,[2],254pp; added engraved title page and frontispiece, 14 leaves of plates. Some minor soiling to textblock and a couple plates, else Very Good or better. GIMBEL.....

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  • The Survivor and Others
    LOVECRAFT, H.P. and August Derleth

    The Survivor and Others

    Limited to 2000 copies. 12mo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket by Ronald Clyne; [6],161pp. Slight discoloration to jacket, though spine remains bright and untoned, corners a bit bumped, else Very Good or better. Collection of short stories by Derleth based on unused story ideas of the late.....

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  • Proletarskaia Revoliutsiia i Renegat Kautskii [The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
    LENIN, N. [Vladimir Il'ich Ulyanov]

    Proletarskaia Revoliutsiia i Renegat Kautskii [The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky]

    Octavo (23cm). Publisher's pebbled brown cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 144pp. Mild external wear; triangular loss to leaf 107/108, resulting in brief loss to text (not affecting sense); Very Good.

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  • Observations on the Growth of the Mind
    [SWEDENBORGIANISM] [TRANSCENDENTALISM] REED, Sampson

    Observations on the Growth of the Mind

    Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; 44pp. Light foxing, faint pencil notes at end of last leaf of text (serving as rear wrapper), else Very Good and sound.

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  • Let's Be Offensive: A Revue With Political Punch
    [GRAPHICS & ORIGINAL ART - GREAT BRITAIN] WOODS, S. John

    Let's Be Offensive: A Revue With Political Punch

    Original lithographed poster, 54cm x 41cm (21" x 16"). Professionally matted and framed (not laid down) beneath UV-protective glass. Fine, unfaded example; Grade A.

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  • When Crime Pays Off: A volume written after a continuous lesson learned in that always-existent...
    HERRINGTON, Jeff M.

    When Crime Pays Off: A volume written after a continuous lesson learned in that always-existent institution, the School of Experience

    Octavo (23.5cm.); original red card wrappers, photo-illustrated belly-band; 124pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Wrapper extremities a bit rubbed and worn, long closed tear to belly-band touching text and image without loss, rear cover of belly band quite rubbed with loss to text and image with some minor loss of meaning. Still.....

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  • Schwoabe-Spaetzle - Bound Volume of 91 Issues [May 23, 1917 - April 16, 1919
    [IMMIGRATION] [GERMAN-AMERICANS - WORLD WAR 1 - PERIODICALS]

    Schwoabe-Spaetzle - Bound Volume of 91 Issues [May 23, 1917 - April 16, 1919]

    Ninety-one quarto (29.75cm.) issues bound together in contemporary reddish-brown cloth; illus. throughout. Textblock quite toned due to poor paper stock, light edge wear to cloth extremities, else Very Good and sound. Quite possibly complete set (the numbering ends after no. 13 (misprinted 31) and a few weeks appear to have.....

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  • The Angel that Troubled the Waters and Other Plays [Limited Edition, Signed
    WILDER, Thornton

    The Angel that Troubled the Waters and Other Plays [Limited Edition, Signed]

    Limited to 775 copies of which this is no. 222. Octavo (24.5cm.); original boards in blue unadorned dust jacket; [2],xvi,[17]-149,[2]pp.; plain photographic portrait frontispiece, title page ruled in blue, blue decorative endpapers. Jacket spine a bit darkened, else Fine. Signed by the author on limitation page.

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  • Local Color
    CAPOTE, Truman

    Local Color

    Octavo. Cloth-backed patterned paper over boards; 92pp; illus. Slight rubbing to bottom board edges, else tight, clean and unmarked in the original dustwrapper, toned on spine and with some rubbing along upper edge; Very Good Plus.

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  • Photographic Album Documenting the Activities of Civilian Conservation Corps Co. 297, Kanona, NY...
    Anon [Joseph Accurio?]

    Photographic Album Documenting the Activities of Civilian Conservation Corps Co. 297, Kanona, NY and Heppner, OR

    Ca. 1937. 179 images (5 missing), ranging in dimension from 2-1/2" x 2" to 3-1/2" x 5-1/2". Artfully arranged and almost fully captioned in white ink, with names of subjects and locations; a few items dated 1937 & 1938.

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  • The Summing Up [Limited Edition, Signed
    MAUGHAM, W. Somerset

    The Summing Up [Limited Edition, Signed]

    Limited Issue, one of 375 numnbered copies signed by the author. Octavo; light gray textured cloth, with titled and blocked in crimson and gilt on spine; top edge gilt; slipcase; 279pp, [2]. A Fine copy in the original publisher's slipcase, with a bit of light shelf-wear and some sunning to.....

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  • Modern Medicine, its Theory and Practice: in Original Contributions by American and Foreign...
    [MEDICINE] OSLER, William (M.D.); assisted by Thomas McCrae, M.D.

    Modern Medicine, its Theory and Practice: in Original Contributions by American and Foreign Authors (7 vols)

    First printings. Seven large octavo volumes (24cm). Publisher's red cloth boards, titled in gilt on spines; lavender endpapers; plates; illus. Very mild external wear; rear free endpaper lacking in vol. 7, else a complete, unusually well-preserved set in the original publisher's cloth.

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  • Spanking the Maid [Limited Deluxe Edition, Signed
    COOVER, Robert, text; Rikki, illus.

    Spanking the Maid [Limited Deluxe Edition, Signed]

    Limited to 600 copies of which this is no. XVIII of 45 copies specially bound with a leaf of the fair copy manuscript. Large, slim quarto (28.5cm.); original red cushioned silk, upper cover and spine embossed in gilt, marbled endpapers; original acetate dust jacket; typographically decorated title page printed in.....

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  • A Morbid Taste for Bones: A Mediaeval Whodunnit
    PETERS, Ellis [pseud. Edith Pargeter]

    A Morbid Taste for Bones: A Mediaeval Whodunnit

    Small octavo (20.25cm.); original simulated cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 191pp. Very light wear to jacket extremities, minor soil to textblock edges, a few brief marks in black sharpie to title page and p. [192] (some bleeding through), else Near Very Good or better.

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  • Can These Bones Live. With Forty-two Drawings by James Kearns and a Preface by Sir Herbert Read
    DAHLBERG, Edward

    Can These Bones Live. With Forty-two Drawings by James Kearns and a Preface by Sir Herbert Read

    Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 179pp; illus. Warm and lengthy author's presentation to Ben Shahn on front endpaper, dated 1960. Mild foxing to upper edge of text block, else Fine in lightly soiled and edge-rubbed jacket. First printing of the Revised Edition.

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  • Broadside Diploma] Front Unique de Belgique / 1914-18 1940-45 / Diplôme d'Honneur /...
    [WORLD WAR II] [BELGIUM] [PRISONERS OF WAR] AMICALE DES POSTIERS PRISONNIERS POLITIQUES RESCAPÉS

    [Broadside Diploma] Front Unique de Belgique / 1914-18 1940-45 / Diplôme d'Honneur / Section: Prisonniers Politiques...

    Original broadside pictorial diploma (24.5x32cm.) printed lithograph on cream stock in red, gilt, and black, accomplished in manuscript and rubberstamp. Minor foxing else a fresh, Fine example.

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  • Exit
    WRIGHT, Harold Bell

    Exit

    Octavo (19.5cm); red textured cloth boards stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 315pp. Gilt slightly dulled, with some trivial soil to text edges, preliminary and terminal leaves; Near Fine. The dustjacket is remarkably bright and fresh, with some pinpoint rubbing and a few tiny nicks to note;.....

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  • Poster: "What? NAACP Peaceful Demonstration. Where? In front of Rock Island City Hall. When?...
    [AFRICAN AMERICANA] [NAACP]

    Poster: "What? NAACP Peaceful Demonstration. Where? In front of Rock Island City Hall. When? Sat., March 20, 1965 Noon to...

    Original poster, with text silkscreened in black and red on beige chipboard, measuring 36.25cm x 55.75cm (14.25" x 21 15/16"). Recto shows toning and dustiness, faint stress creasing, a few tiny tears, and a single pin-hole at upper margin; left edge shows the impact mark of either rotten fruit or.....

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  • What Socialism Will Really Mean to You
    [SOCIALISTS] BENJAMIN, Lawrence

    What Socialism Will Really Mean to You

    Folio tabloid format (41cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers; 15pp.; illus. throughout, including photographs, charts, and cartoons. Extremities rather worn and brittle due to poor paperstock, horizontal mail fold with small loss mid-fold affecting text without loss of sense, some ragged splitting at spine ends, smallish withdrawn rubberstamp of the Mooney.....

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  • Poster: The Movement of the Liberation of the Coca Plant
    [DÍAZ, Wilson and Amy Franceschini]

    Poster: The Movement of the Liberation of the Coca Plant

    Original silkscreened poster, text printed in black on thin, powder gray stock made with coca leaf pulp, measuring 49.75cm x 70cm (19.5" x 27.5"). Old folds smoothed out, small, unobtrusve tear at center, with faint smudge at upper left corner; very Near Fine / A-.

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