![Archive]: New York American Basketball Club. Letter File No. 1 Beginning August 9, 1940](/pictures/thumb/391648.JPG?v=1565117549)
Softcover. Card wrappers brad bound at the top. File of correspondence covering the years between 1940 and 1942, including original correspondence, retained carbon copies, original responses, some early-format photocopied responses, telegrams, and mimeographed flyers. Nearly 40 separate items in total. Modest soiling on the wrappers, very good or better. Files..... More
Beijing: Huangshan, (1993). Hardcover. First edition. Small bumps to the corners else fine in a near fine dustwrapper with similar bumps. More
![Photo Album]: Young Woman in Prague Late 1940s](/pictures/thumb/423033.JPG?v=1523635800)
Prague: late 1940s - early 1950s. Hardcover. Oblong octavo. Measuring 10" x 6". Screw-bound brown leather album. Contains 122 black and white silver gelatin photographs measuring between 1" x 1" and 5" x 5" with captions in Czech. Very good album with rubbing and some tears with very good or..... More
(New York): Pleiades Club / Grannis Press, (1908). Hardcover. First edition. Leather boards with a lovely inset bronze madallion on the front board of a fairy confronting a court jester's bauble. Boards rubbed and a bit soiled, small nick to one page, and a short tear to another, the medallion..... More
Edinburgh: Printed by Andrew Shortrede, 1838. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 100pp. Disbound. Library of Congress surplus stamp on front wrap, modest age-toning, very good. Report of students tried for engaging in an overly rambunctious snowball fight! More
New York: Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, 1963. Unbound. Broadside. Printed pale blue and black on white card stock. Approximately 11.5" x 17". Horizontal crease and slight age-toning at the extremities, else near fine. Broadside poster for the fourth iteration of the premiere American rare book fair. Unlocated in *OCLC*..... More
Erie, Pennsylvania: The A-No. 1 Publishing Company, 1920. Softcover. First edition. Wrappers. 135pp., illustrated. Pages browned else a very good plus copy. Apparently Livingston's marriage had mellowed him somewhat as this, the penultimate title in the series (and one of the scarcest), while not losing his censorious tone, allows a...... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. Hardcover. First edition. 204 + [4] pp. Pictorial tan cloth. Illustrated with black and white plates by Peter Newell. C. Vanderbilt's copy with his contemporary signature on the front fly. Frontispiece loose and laid in, spine darkened with head chipped, a good only copy..... More
[New York: Kenkeleba House, 1980]. Softcover. Quarto. 14pp. Stapled printed leaves. Old horizontal crease, else near fine. Inscribed by the author on the front leaf: "For Leonard, Best to You! Amiri Baraka 1982." Offprint of a previously printed scholarly article printed for a reading by Baraka in New York City..... More
London: Labour Publishing Company, (1926). Softcover. First edition. 12mo. String-tied printed self-wrappers. Slight split at the top of the spine, else about fine. Bates's first book. Signed by the author on the dedication page. More
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1929. Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in just about fine dustwrapper with a small chip on the rear panel. A very attractive copy in the Irving Politzer-illustrated jacket. More
New York: Macmillan, 1950. Hardcover. First American edition. Foxing to the endpapers and jacket flaps, else fine in near fine Arthur Hawkins, Jr.-illustrated dustwrapper with slight wear at the extremities. Advance Review Copy with slip and publisher's publicity material laid in. An Inspector Littlejohn mystery published in the U.K. as..... More
(Concord NH?): The Author, (1904). Hardcover. First edition. Close grain green cloth gilt (also seen in a pebble grain cloth, no priority). 259pp. Illustrated from photographs. Small ownership inscription on the front fly else a fine copy. More
New York: Diane Di Prima, [November] 1963. Softcover. Magazine. (32)pp. Single sheets printed both sides and secured with a staple. Folded once for mailing with a cancel, stamp and ink address. Some of wear at the extremities with splash marks, "discard" stamp and lacking the final sheet, good. An influential..... More
(Greenwich, Connecticut): David M. Block, (2011). Softcover. First edition. Pictorial card covers. Fine. Laid in is the author's handwritten note to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife Elena. Scarce. More
California: circa 1980s. Unbound. A collection of 20 fabric sticker backstage passes or Patches featuring heavy metal bands performing in San Francisco circa 1980s. The passes vary in size from 3.75” x 3.” to 4.75” x 3”. Light soiling from the back of the stickers peeling with some fraying, near..... More
(Madison Minnesota): The Sixties Press, 1962. Hardcover. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in cloth and fine dustwrapper. Signed by Robert Bly. The hardcover issue is uncommon. More
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1879. Hardcover. First edition. Small chip on front fly, very modest rubbing, near fine. Three attractive bookplates: of writers John Drinkwater and Maurice Baring; as well as Emma C. Chamberlayne. Early ownership signature of writer John Drinkwater on half-title: "John Drinkwater 1922" with his note..... More
Boston: David R. Godine, (1984). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The dedication copy, Inscribed by Busch to author Nicholas Delbanco and his family: "January 5, 1985 To the chickenpox family, with love from their bearish pal - Fred." the printed dedication reads simply: "For Nick" More
Edinburgh: for Thomas Constable, by Edmonston and Douglas, 1860. Hardcover. First edition. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine title. Spine cocked, extremities worn, thus good only. John Brown, a Scottish Theologian who supported the view of separation of Church and State. Inscribed on the front fly by William Peace on July 16..... More
Reading, Connecticut: January and May, 1779. Unbound. Autograph Manuscript signed by many Revolutionary War soldiers. Two large leaves of laid paper (with watermark of "GR" and a crown) tipped together. Approximately 8" x 25". Old folds and small tears, very good or better. Headed: "Re[a]ding January 1779. We the subscribers..... More
Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, (1958). Hardcover. First edition(?). Pictorial cloth. Ben Shahn's copy with his ownership signature, Roosevelt address, and phone numbers. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn. Shahn has doggeared a few..... More
(Cape Town): (University of Cape Town), (1985). 6(1)pp. stapled wrappers. Fine. The text of a lecture delivered at the University. Scarce. More
Tualatin, OR: Norwood Press, 2006. Hardcover. First edition. Fine with gilt lettering and fine marbled slipcase. One of 52 numbered copies Signed by the author. Illustrations by Bill Farnsworth. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn. More
Paris: A. Morel, 1868. Hardcover. First edition. Large folio. Measures approximately 15" x 20.5". [8], 32pp., [48] numbered plates (including three double-page plates, one folding plate, and three color lithographic plates. Complete as issued. Contemporary dark red half morocco, marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. Ex-library with bookplate on..... More