HOMEWARD JOURNEY AND OTHER STORIES By Contemporary Chines Writers.
Foreign Languages Press: Peking 1957. 8.5 x 5.5", cloth backed boards, 234pp, covers rubbed, front hinge loose. library of Congress dup, so marked. More
LITERATURE
"The Hound of the Baskervilles, Eight Color Prints from "The 221b Collection"
(Tekna: UK), nd. Paperback. Eight prints, 12 x 8", reproduced from the original illustrations and colored by Michael Coot, very good condition. SCARCE. More
IDEAS & IDEALS.
(Brooks Press: Wirksworth 1920). 6x4.5", boards, 54pp, covers moderately worn, spine darkned, top edge spitted. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES. More
IF THIS WERE THE LAST CHRISTMAS, Editorial from the Woman's Home Companion.
(Kurt H. Volk, Inc.) n.d. (1930's?). 5x3.5", boards, 12pp, spine torn, worn. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, SIGNED BY VOLK. More
IN THEIR TIME: 1920-1940, Fiestas, Moveable Feasts and "Many Fetes," An Exhibition at The University of Virginia Library, December 1977-March 1978.
Bruccoli Clark: Bloomfield Hills, MI, 1977. Photos, 9.25 x 8.75, printed wraps, unpag, minor wear else a nice copy. Exhibition catalog of materials on Ernest Hemingway, F.Scott Fitzgerald and the "Lost Generation." More
INDEX TO THE WEIRD FICTION MAGAZINES, INDEX BY TITLE.
T. G. L. Cockcroft: Lower Hutt, New Zealand. WITH: INDEX TO THE WEIRD FICTION MAGAZINES, INDEX BY AUTHOR. John Milne: Wellington 1967. 9.75 x 6.75", stapled wraps, 100pp total, moderately yellowed from cigarette smoke with accompanying odor else ok. FIRST EDITION and SECOND EDITION respectively. The pair…... More
INSCRIBED AND SIGNED PROGRAM FOR "AH WILDERNESS" at the Clinton Playhouse.
N.p. (Clinton, Conn) week of July 22nd to 27th (1940). Ads, 9x6", stapled wraps, 16pp, folds, cover soil else good. INSCRIBED "Cordially" & SIGNED (in pencil) BY SINCLAIR LEWIS, who appeared in this production with his girlfriend Marcella Powers, and Barbara Bel Geddes. Signature is not typical, condensed to about..... More
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.
(Los Angeles) 1978. "Fotonovel", color illus from film with captions, 7x4", front hinge loose else minor wear. "From the screenplay by W.D. Richter, Based on the novel, by Jack Finney. FIRST PRINTING, INSCRIBED "Best Wishes" AND SIGNED BY FINNEY. More
"Jerry Rubin: Yuppie. Abbie Hoffman: Yippie. The Great Debate," cover on The Learning Annex, Feb. 1985.
Chicago, IL, 1985. Photos, 10.5 x 8, pict stapled wraps, 16 pp, some wear else vg, inside front cover is announcement about an upcoming debate between those two wacky 60s guys. Rubin's presentation is titled "Promotion and Entrepreneurship in the 80s," and Hoffman's is "How to Organize for Fun, Profit..... More
John Burrough's Original "Arrangement of Places" booklet for Mark Twain's 70th Birthday party at Delmonico's on December 5, 1905
np (NY), 1905. Paperback. 9.5 x 7.5", tied wraps, covers toned, worn, soiled and splash-stained, front upper fore-corner dog-eared, contents soiled with a stain along the foredge; booklet shows the seating arrangements for the tables marked A to V, two to a page. This is John Burrough's own copy with..... More
THE JOURNAL OF AYN RAND STUDIES [17 issues, Fall 1999 to Spring 2008]
(Journal of Ayn Rand Studies Foundation: Port Townsend, WA), (1999-2008). Paperback. 17 issues. 8.25 x 5.5", glossy blue wraps, vp, very minor wear (if any) else a nice lot. Vol. 1 #1 (Fall 1999) through Vol. 9 #2, MISSING VOLUME 5 #1. More
KENNEY'S TWENTY POEMS FOR A LOST TAVERN.
The Windhover Press: University of Iowa, 1970. 8.75 x 5.75, boards, unpag, covers moderately sunned else ok. FIRST ED, LIMITED TO 250 COPIES, WITH BAND EXPLAINING THE EXCISING OF A PARAGRAPH IN THE INTRODUCTION. Contributor include Anselm Hollo, Robert Mezey, William Stafford, James Tate and others including Philip Levine. (Though..... More
THE KEROUAC CONNECTION, No. 27, winter, 1995.
xxxx. 8.5 x 5.5, pict wraps, 76 pp, vg, edited by Mitchell Smith. Special NYU Conference issue. More
THE KEROUAC CONNECTION, No. 28, summer, 1998.
xxxx. 8.5 x 5.5, stapled wraps, vg, edited by Mitchell Smith. More
KHAYYAM, THE RUBAIYAT OF……… Rendered Into English Verse of Edward Fitzgerald.
The John C. Winston Co.: Philadelphia (1898). Frontis, 7x5", cloth, 75pp, t.e.g., ink inscription, one corner bumped else a nice fresh copy in soiled taped box. More
KING CHARLES THE FIRST: An Historical Tragedy, Written in Imitation of Shakespeare As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields
J. Watts: London, 1737. Hardcover. Frontispiece ("At this sad scene who can from tears refrain?"), 7.5 x 5", half leather; marbled boards, 61pp + Epilogue, covers rubbed, extremities bumped and worn, front hinge cracked (and glued?), spine ends chipped, Thomas Gaisford's (once Curator of the Bodleian Library) bookplate inside front..... More
KLEINE SCHWARMER UBER DIE NEUESTE DEUTSCHE LITERATUR: Eihe Xeniengabe Fur 1827.
Heinrich Ludwig Bronner: Frankfurt a. M., 1827. 5.5 x 3.5, boards, 263 pp, errata slip tipped in, spine and boards worn, moderately foxed, good. FIRST ED. More
KOTTABOS, Trinity College, Dublin, Michaelmas Term, MDCCCLXX.
William McGee: Dublin, 1870. 8.5 x 5.5, front cover of original wraps bound in cloth covers, pp 123-154, wraps cover heavily worn, soiled, edge torn w/ ink names, pp browned and spotted and worn, cloth covers heavily worn, hinges loose, spine fraying, chipped masking tape repair, end paper torn at..... More
L. RON HUBBARD CENTENNIAL 2001, Celebrating one of the most remarkable lives of the 20th century; author, philosopher and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard.
Author Services, Inc: np, 2011. Photos, oblong 11 x 8.5, plastic spiral bound silver decorated boards, 41 pp, covers with a little wear else a nice, fresh, clean copy. Scarce. More
LA GRANDE ILE, Poems Malgaches.
Editions Equed: Tel Aviv, Israel. 9.5 x 6.5", boards, unpaged, corners bumped else good in used dw. Intro by Golda Meir. Translated by Chimchon Inbal. More
THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII. Viols. 2 & 3 (of 3).
London 1834. 7.5x4.5", 3/4 leather, marbled boards, 296; 315 pp with errata slips, ink inscriptions, covers well worn. FIRST EDITION. More
LAST WAVE. Winter 1986. Volume One, Number Five.
Framingham, Mass 1986. 8 x 5.5", stapled wraps, 96pp, covers a bit yellowed & worn with minor cigarette smoke odor. More
LEAFLETS OF MEMORY: An Illuminated Annual for MDCCCLV.
E. H. Butler and Co: Philadelphia, 1855. 11 engravings by Sartain (including extra title which is in color), 9.25 x 6.5, full highly gilt stamped red leather, all edges gilt, 314 pp, binding a bit worn and scuffed, lacks f.e.p., minor margin stain pp 27-37, else ok. FIRST ED with..... More
Leinhard Und Gertrud; Ein Buch fur's Volk
Frankfurt und Leipzig, 1785. 6.5 x 4", leather backed patterned boards, 416pp, covers very heavily worn, leather spine badly worn and missing bottom 1", outer hinges cracking, inner hinges cracked, pp well used, soiled and toned with some finger soiling, old ink inscription from former owner on front fly. Usable..... More
"LENTEN TART" reprint of an old XXII Century recipe on a brown paper lunch bag
The Red Hanrahan Press: np (Highland Park, MI), nd. Paperback. 10.5 x 5", brown paper lunch bag, unused, some age wrinkling but still a nicely preserved piece. A recipe for a tart, with figges, raisignges, wyne, appuls, peres, salmon or codlynge or hadok, ginger, etc. Nice. SCARCE. More