Pamphlet. Ethnically and racially exploitive advert item for Clark's O.N.T. Spool Thread. A series of short poems and etchings, each ending with "O.N.T." and playing on various stereotypes. Inside covers, front and back, are adverts. Light shelf/edge wear, light/even toning, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Color printed wraps, string bound.....
Price: $75.00
Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1935. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Light shelf wear, touch of toning at spine, owner signature at ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Red cloth boards, black ink label, gilt lettering, color frontispiece, red topstain. Small 4to. 284pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Index.
Price: $35.00
Amherst, N.S. Rogers & Black, 1973 [1874]. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Produced to stimulate settlement in the region. This Nova Scotia imprint is the scarcest edition (and First Canadian) of this well known book (N.B. most bibliographies do not identify this edition (See, Howes C-8)). A quite handsome copy of.....
Price: $450.00
Blankenburg und Quedlinburg: Reussner, 1774. First Edition. Hardcover. Binding is the remains of (presumably) the original leather binding, while it is stable in its current condition, rebinding is not unreasonable. Scarce in any condition, the textblock is quite handsome and all the plates are present. Heavy shelf/edge wear, leather missing.....
Price: $750.00
New York: Fairchild Publications, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Brief and illustrated history of lingerie. Moderate shelf/edge wear, paper cover of spine missing, rear board shows even toning, two small moisture stains at rear, tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue paper boards. Small 8vo. 81pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
Price: $45.00
Melbourne: Masterthief, 2013. Limited Edition. Stiff Wraps. "[O]ccasioned by BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, August 20, 2010, which also refers in red-printed wood type to the locations and dates of other environmental disasters associated with extractive industries. An epigraph by Lillian Hellman refers to the people who.....
Price: $1,500.00
New York: Oxford University Press, 1953. Limited Edition. Printed for the Typophiles. Designed by John Begg and Emil Antonucci. Minor shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. Red paper wraps, gold paper onlays, decorative endpages. 12mo. 30pp. Laid in presentation slip signed by Begg, Antonucci, Birch and Breed.
Price: $35.00
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Author-List of rare and out of print books in the Vatican Film Library, Manuscripta Lists of Rare and Out of Print Books. Minor shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Red cloth boards, gilt lettering. 8vo. 269pp.
Price: $30.00
Boston, MA: Marshall Jones Company, 1928. Hardcover. A very readable tale of the geological history of greater Boston. Very minor material loss to the upper corner of the text block, owner inscription on ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. Beige coated cloth boards, black ink lettering, map/chart endpages, frontispiece. 12mo.....
Price: $45.00
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925 [1929]. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Early reprint (still showing original onlay as opposed to later red boarder). Overall, a handsome copy. Minor shelf/edge wear, very minor rubbing at front onlay (very small manufacturing ripple rubbed), owners inscription on ffep and title page, pictorial endpages partly.....
Price: $45.00
[San Francisco, CA]: O.T.O. and Stellar Visions, [1984]. Reprint. Staplebound. As the title suggests, this work contains facsimiles of a number of O.T.O. related texts that were originally collected in Crowley's "Blue Equinox" (1919), comprising "Liber LII," "Liber CI," "Liber CLXI," "Liber CXCIV," and "Liber XV." The book was sanctioned.....
Price: $75.00
Hollywood, CA: [1942] c.1980s. Reprint. Staplebound. A reprint copy of the rarest "Free Distribution", non-wrap Issue this copy, as per the note to rear: "To follow the example of the English edition, a limited number of copies have been made available 'For Free Distribution among the Soldiers and Worker of.....
Price: $35.00
New York: House of Collectibles, Inc., [1974]. First Edition. Paperback. Autobiography of English high priestess and witch, Patricia Crowther, initiated under the teaching of Gerald Gardner. An intimate read from the British circle of well-practiced witches and warlocks developing Wiccan roots. Introduction by Dr. Leo Martello, New York witch and.....
Price: $275.00
New York: Evert Duyckinck, 1813. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Repaired and rebound by Amy Wertheimer in 1987 with matching slipcase with burgundy silk pull. A lovely volume. Leaves toned, touch of foxing, professional repairs of torn leaves, else tight and unmarred. Slipcase tight. Half bound, burgundy leather spine and tips.....
Price: $145.00
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926. Later Printing. Hardcover. Light shelf wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf wear, several small, closed tears, some related creasing, small chip at heel, small soil spot at top edge, else bright and clean. Brown coated cloth boards, black ink lettering.....
Price: $45.00
Various publishers, 1964-1978. [Most/All are First Printings]. Original Wraps. Robert Crumb, aka R. Crumb, is the megalith of subversive, underground, hyper-sexualized comic book illustrators. Crumb first published his psychedelic and explicit Zap Comix in 1968, at the height of the visual art revolution in San Francisco. He is most known.....
Price: $4,500.00
Hardcover. "Reprinted from Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, Vol. 33, No. 1, January, 1945" (from front wrap). A handsome copy of this somewhat uncommon volume. Light self wear, two soft creases, small, closed tear at head, toning at edges of wraps, else tight, bright and unmarred. Blue paper wraps.....
Price: $65.00
Mt. Tremper: Maureen Cummins, 2021. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. “One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg, and everything blows up.” [James Baldwin] "Newark 1967: A Narrative in Black and White was produced by Maureen Cummins during the summer and fall of 2020, with typographic.....
Price: $2,500.00
High Falls, New York: Maureen Cummins, 2016-2017. Limited Edition. The/rapist was produced by Maureen Cummins in the autumn and winter of 2016/2017, with typographic assistance from Kathleen McMillan, production assistance from Molly Berkson and Sarah Rose Lejeune, and metalwork by Charles Hubert. Initial research for the project was conducted in.....
Price: $3,300.00
Mill Valley, CA: Sunflower Press, 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Green silk boards, pictorial insert, pictorial endpapers, silver gilt on endpapers, frontispiece. 72x62mm. 35pp. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 44 of 125.
Price: $100.00
Mill Valley, CA: Sunflower Press, 1998. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Purple cloth boards, paper label on front cover, printed endpapers, frontispiece. 71x75mm. np. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 10 of 37.
Price: $100.00
Mill Valley, CA: Sunflower Press, 1987. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Grey paper boards, gilt decorative elements, orange endpapers, frontispiece. 52x50mm. 28pp. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 46 of 50.
Price: $150.00
Sunflower Press, 1995. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Red suede wraps, sculptural element on front wrap, Japanese style binding, black paper portfolio, gilt decorative box, handmade Japanese paper. 73x75mm. np. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 10 of 12.
Price: $550.00
Mill Valley, CA: Sunflower Press, 1996. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Purple paper boards, purple and gilt pictorial label, pictorial endpapers. 74x72mm. 34pp. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 8 of 35.
Price: $300.00
Denver, CO: Alan Swallow, [1964]. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Printed by Alan Swallow ; designed by Theo Jung. This copy inscribed and signed: "Inscribed for Lewis Turco, April 18, 1972 by J.V. Cunningham." Signed by dedicatee and has embossed seal of Lawrence Clark Powell Library on title page. Pamphlet bound.....
Price: $15.00