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1) NEW BLOOD," Number 10, July 1983
Murray, Niko, editor

NEW BLOOD," Number 10, July 1983
Boulder, Colorado New Blood Press 1983., 1983. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial paper covers and contents in very good condition. 8.25" x 5.25" 88pp Comprises many pieces by various contributors, including: The Pelicans by Charles Bukowski; Urban Aboriginal Art by Jud Hart II; Ernesto Cardenal poems, translated by K.H. Anton; Granpa, Let's Trade Our Teeth: Written accounts of a Texas Kickapoo Indian, by Jim Salvator and Ekon-es-kaka; &c.; &c. Illustrated by photos & drawings in text. First Edition. Binding is original wraps. (more information)

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2) NEW BLOOD," Volume II, Number 1, 1981
Murray, Niko, editor

NEW BLOOD," Volume II, Number 1, 1981
Boulder, Colorado Artz Press 1981., 1981. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial paper covers and contents in very good condition. 8.25" x 5.25" 92pp Comprises many pieces by various contributors, including: For Walt Whitman by James Ruggia; The Fat Man by Eliot Katz; Cantinela by Anne Waldman and Reed Bye; Drawing by William Burroughs, Jr.; The Morning Line by Ted Berrigan; My Neighborhood by Allen Ginsberg; Frank (Tortilla) Garcia by James Cody; &c.; &c. Illustrated by photos & drawings in text. First Edition. Binding is original wraps. (more information)

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3) THE MODERNIST MOVEMENT IN BRAZIL: A Literary Study
Nist, John

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Original cloth; minor mark on dust jacket. pp: (v), 223, index. 8.5" x 6". (more information)

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4) A HOOSIER ROMANCE, 1868: Squire Hawkins's Story
Riley, James Whitcomb

NY: Century, 1910. First Edition. Pictorial cloth. Very Good. John Wolcott Adams. 87pp; 8 color plates, b&w illus in text. Printed at The DeVinne Press. [Blanck, Bibliography of American Literature, #16791.] 8.75" x 6". (more information)

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5) BIBLIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES OF SEVEN AUTHORS OF CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA
Russo, Dorothy Ritter & Thelma Lois Sullivan

Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1952. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: xv, 486, index; 11 plates. Contains full bibliographical entries and annotations on the works of Lew and Susan Wallace, Maurice and Will Thompson, Mary Hannah and Caroline Virginia Krout, and Meredith Nicholson. 9.5" x 6". (more information)

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6) AN UNKNOWN LAND
Samuel, Viscount

AN UNKNOWN LAND
London George Allen and Unwin (1944)., 1944. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Shelf-back of dust jacket replaced, else in very good condition. 8.5" x 5.75" illustrated dj 221pp A classic Utopian novel, with the dust jacket illustrated by Arthur C. Turner. Illustrated by foldout map. 2nd printing edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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7) ECCLESIASTES, OR, THE PREACHER: Copied & Illustrated by Ben Shahn
Shahn, Ben, illustrator

Paris / NY Trianon Press / Grossman 1971., 1971. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Book and dust jacket in fine condition. 12.25" x 9.25" decorative dj unpaginated This is a reprint of the 1967 limited edition which was published by the Trianon Press and limited to 240 copies. Illustrated by illuminated, color plates. 1st Trade Edn. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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8) EIGHTEEN SONGS OF A NOMAD FLUTE: The Story of Lady Wen-Chi. A Fourteenth-century Handscroll in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Shang, Liu

EIGHTEEN SONGS OF A NOMAD FLUTE: The Story of Lady Wen-Chi. A Fourteenth-century Handscroll in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
NY Metropolitan Museum of Art (1974)., 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition in a very good slipcase. 10" x 10.75" pict slipcase unpaginated Introduction, commentary, and translation of poems by Robert A. Rorex and Wen Fong. Illustrated by illus throughout, some color. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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9) EIGHTEEN SONGS OF A NOMAD FLUTE: The Story of Lady Wen-Chi. A Fourteenth-century Handscroll in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Shang, Liu

EIGHTEEN SONGS OF A NOMAD FLUTE: The Story of Lady Wen-Chi. A Fourteenth-century Handscroll in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
NY Metropolitan Museum of Art (1974)., 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition in a very good slipcase. 10" x 10.75" pict slipcase unpaginated Introduction, commentary, and translation of poems by Robert A. Rorex and Wen Fong. Illustrated by illus throughout, some color. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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10) STEPHEN CRANE: A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Stallman, R.W

Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1972. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. pp: xxxii, 642, index; 12pp illustrations. This first comprehensive, annotated bibliography of Crane begins in 1888 and runs through addenda in 1972. 9.25" x 6". (more information)

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11) CHARACTERS AND COMMENTARIES
Strachey, Lytton

London: Chatto & Windus, 1933. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: xi, 320, index; portrait. Essays which Lytton omitted from the volumes published during his lifetime are here collected by his brother. 9" x 5.5". (more information)

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12) A RADICAL'S AMERICA
Swados, Harvey

A RADICAL'S AMERICA
Boston: Little, Brown, 1962. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/Good. pp: xvii, 347. Collects the author's essays written over a 10-year period: American workers, pop culture, educated women, &c. 8.5"x 5.75". (more information)

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13) HENRY JAMES
Swan, Michael

London: British Council, 1950. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 43pp; portrait. A select bibliography and an index of James's short stories follow the biographical essay on the man and his work. 8.5" x 5.5". (more information)

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14) LUTE TAYLOR'S CHIP BASKET... Lectures, Essays, Addresses, Editorials...Correspondence
Taylor, Lute A

LUTE TAYLOR'S CHIP BASKET... Lectures, Essays, Addresses, Editorials...Correspondence
Hudson, WI: Star & Times Printing House, 1874. First Edition. Full leather. Good. Corners of first few leaves stained. 218pp; portrait. In the publisher's gift binding of full morocco, gilt cover illustration, blind-stamped decorations, all edges gilt. Taylor (1835-1873) was a Wisconsin journalist. This volume contains 58 of his pieces, leading off with a long, admiring edssay on women's-rights activist Margaret Fuller. Other titles include: Ventriloquism; What I Know about Stammering; Graves and Graveyards; Radicalism; etc. 7" x 4.5". (more information)

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15) THE ROSE AND THE RING. Reproduced in facsimile from the Author's original manuscript.... Introduction by Gordon N. Ray
Thackeray, William Makepeace

NY Pierpont Morgan Library 1947., 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition in a very good slipcase. 8.5" x 11" slipcase unpaginated Limited to 1,000 copies. Illustrated by illustrated throughout text. 1st edn thus. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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16) SHELLEY. With an Introduction by the Rt. Hon. George Wyndham
Thompson, Francis

London: Burns and Oates, 1910. Later printing. Original Cloth. Very Good. 91pp, index; one plate. This poetic and masterly critique of Shelley's work, by the poet Francis Thompson, was published after Shelley died. 7.5" x 4.5". (more information)

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17) ENGLISH PAST AND PRESENT
Trench, Richard Chenevix

NY Redfield 1855., 1855. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Spine ends bit worn, rear endpaper gone, else in good condition. 7.5" x 5" pp: ix, 213 Based on Trench's series of five lectures at King's College School, London, examining English as a composite language. 1st US Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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18) ON THE STUDY OF WORDS. From the Second London Edition, Revised and Enlarged
Trench, Richard Chenevix

NY Redfield 1852., 1852. Hardcover. Spine ends rubbed, front endpaper excised, some spotty foxing. 7.5" x 5" 236pp w/index Comprises six lectures: Morality in Words; The History of Words; The Rise of New Words; etc. Enlarged Edn. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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19) A LITERARY JOURNEY THROUGH WARTIME BRITAIN
Ward, A.C

NY: Oxford University Press, 1943. First Edition. Original cloth. Very Good. Frederick T. Chapman. 96pp, slipcase: 18 plates from photographs, endpaper maps. Ward surveys the wartime damage to literary landmarks in London, Sussex, Cornwall, Bath, Yorkshire, etc. 8.25" x 5.5". (more information)

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20) ASPECTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Wasserman, Earl R., editor

ASPECTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1965. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/Good. Some edge wear to dust jacket. pp: vi, 346. Comprises essays by experts in French, German & English literature, history, philosophy, music, art, science & ideas. 9.25" x 6". (more information)

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21) BEAT ZEN, SQUARE ZEN, AND ZEN
Watts, Alan W

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1959. Later printing. Original wraps. Very Good. pp: (vi), 25. Watts looks at Zen Buddhism and its relationship with art and the American Beat movement. 8" x 5.5". (more information)

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22) JULIUS CAESAR: An Historical Tragedy in Five Acts
Willard, Edward

JULIUS CAESAR: An Historical Tragedy in Five Acts
Philadelphia: Horace Willard, 1890. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. Binding cloth slightly mottled. 116pp. This five-act drama on the death of Caesar and the battle of the Philippi includes an appearance by Caesar's ghost. 8.5" x 5.75". (more information)

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23) A WRITER'S DIARY: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf. Edited by Leonard Woolf
Woolf, Virginia

NY Harcourt, Brace (1954)., 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Binding and contents in very good condition. 8.5" x 5.5" no jacket pp: (xi), 356 Index. 1st US Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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24) ALL'S FAIR
Wormser, Richard

NY Modern Age Books (1937)., 1937. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Binding and contents in very good condition. 7.75" x 5.5" pp: 148,(2)ads This important novel about the labor movement features a steel mill in Pittsburgh. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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25) THREE MONTHS WITH THE NEW YORK HERALD, or Old News on Board of A Homeward-Bounder
Wright, Capt. A. Minott

THREE MONTHS WITH THE NEW YORK HERALD, or Old News on Board of A Homeward-Bounder
NY: William Beverley Harison, 1891. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine. 222pp. An old newspaperman speaks out on many subjects. 7.25" x 4.75". (more information)

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