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New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1899. "A was an Apple-pie; B bit it;..." Classic pie-desire abecedary, with b/w line drawings, some with red tinting & accents. McLoughlin's 'New Little A.B.C. Series', their number 1125; the entire book printed on linen, full color covers. Worn, with some creases, pencilled gift note on first page, minor staining inside. 8 pages, including the covers.. Staple Bound Softcover. Good. 4½" by 6½".
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A.B.C. of the Apple Pie
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A. K. A. Ruby Brooklyn
by Rand, Maria
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San Francisco: Goddesses We Ain't Press, 1994. Novel of a cheerfully bisexual woman in mid-twentieth-century America who loves her freedom more than anything. Paperback, red cover, black titling. Light wear, minor creases. Text clean (if salty); [8], 353 pages + note on the author.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 5½" by 8".
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"A Time for Reaping"
by Miles, Mary Helm & Jane Penderghast O'Reilly
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Author Full green cloth, gilt titling. Light wear, text clean. Xix, [3], 129 pages, b/w plates. Genealogy and autobiography of Beloit, Wisconsin lady whose family includes McMurdo, Helm, Reed, & Clark roots.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 6" by 9¾".
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ABC of Nature
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New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1884. One of a series of large-format ABC books published by McLoughlin in the 1880s, printed on actual linen, with verses very peripherally related to nature: A for Anchor, B for Baker, C for Chinaman (!), D for Dromedary, et cetera; vivid chromolithographed art, one sub-panel for each letter (I & J share one). Worn, covers frayed & chipped, interior creased & stained, ink name inside cover. 16 pages counting the covers, half in full color; sewn pamphlet.. Pamphlet. Fair. 7¾" by 10¼".
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ADS: August Derleth Society Newsletter Winter 1993
by Price, Kay; editor
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Sauk City, WI: August Derleth Society, 1993. Winter 1993 issue, contains more news items about the Society than serious articles about Derleth; some b/w photos. Unstapled 12-page pamphlet. Some creases, stickers & rubberstamp marks from mailing on the rear cover. . First Edition. Folded sheets. Very Good. 8½" by 11".
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Sauk City: August Derleth Society, 1993 Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Autumn 1993 issue of unstapled 10-page pamphlet. More news items about Society than serious articles about Derleth..
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY
by Powys, John Cowper
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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1934. Acclaimed memoir, considered one of Powys' major works; in it, the author, lecturer & critic aims to be completely frank about himself & his eccentricities, though without discussing in any detail most of the women in his life. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the first American edition, preceding the British by some months. Light wear to book; jacket rubbed with some foxing & chipping, all four corners evenly clipped with $3.50 price rubberstamped to upper rear flap, light crease & wrinkling to spine; some foxing internally, in the gutters. Text clean; [8], 595 pages + list of other Simon & Schuster publications; b/w frontispiece portrait, publisher's response card laid in. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Large Octavo.
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Abe Martin: Hoss Sense and Nonsense
by Hubbard, Kin
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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1926. Pithy epigrams from the man Will Rogers is said to have declared "America's Greatest Humorist". Thin hardcover, full orange cloth, green titling. Light general wear; jacket chipped at spine ends, rubbed & lightly darkened; label of Lofland Books and Stationery, Los Angeles inside rear cover. Text clean; [128] pages, small cartoons. "If ther's any worse bore than a dumb-bell, it's an over-read person.". First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 5¼" by 7½".
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About Things
by Windsor, Mary
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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1935. Essays about the origins & nature of various things, including blotters, lamps, maple sugar, candles, Easter eggs, Valentines, candy, Santa Claus, peanuts, Edam cheese, wooden shoes, checkers, clogs, tepees, igloos. Hardcover, black cloth spine over full color boards. General wear, corners bumped & frayed, edges chipped, light foxing; bookplate & ink name/date/note inside front cover; minor smudges within; inch-long tear to lower margin of page 13/14. Text clean; [51] pages, color & b/w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Charlotte Stone. 9½" by 12½".
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Abraham Lincoln: An Essay
by Schurz, Carl
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Boston / New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. Essay on the late President; Schurz was a Union General in the Civil War after serving briefly as Lincoln's Minister to Spain in 1861, and later political reformer in the Senate & Hayes administration. INSCRIBED by Schurz to the teen son of friends, with a later note from that youth, New York book/manuscript dealer George S. Hellman, commenting on Schurz's friendship with his parents, as well as Hellman's earlier name & date, presumably from the time of Schulz's presentation. The inscriptions read: "Try to become like the subject of this little book and believe me very sincerely yours C. Schurz" and "Schurz, who was a dear friend of both my parents, used frequently to come to our house in Forty-fourth Street, and I still remember him with affection as one of the finer influences in my boyhood. G.S.H. 1924." Hellman's name on the endsheet is dated 1896. Small hardcover, as pictured; first or early…
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Abroad in Ireland
by Gibbons, John
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London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1936. Chatty description of Ireland for the tourist. Hardcover, full green cloth with blue lettering; map end sheets. Slight wear, bookseller's label (Parker & Son, Oxford) inside front cover; light foxing on rear endsheet; previous owner's name scrawled across title-page. Text clean; [4], 291 pages; index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Small Octavo.
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Abschied von Sidonie: Erzählung
by Hackl, Erich
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Zürich: Diogenes, 1989. Second novel by this Austrian writer, later published in English as Farewell Sidonia. Text in German. Small hardcover in jacket, showing very light wear, near fine; publisher's brochure laid in. Text in German.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Duodecimo.
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Accents as Well as Broad Effects: Writings on Architecture, Landscape, and the Environment, 1876-1925
by Van Rensselaer, Mariana Griswold; edited by David Gebhard
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Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1996. 32 essays. The author, the only woman in her field at the time, wrote for the popular market as well as for professional publications on architecture & landscape design; she is best-remembered for her biography of H. H. Richardson. Hardcover. First edition (first printing) with full number string. Hint of wear to book & jacket, near fine. Text clean; viii, 367 pages; index, bibliography, b/w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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The Accidental Universe
by Davies, P. C. W.
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Study of cosmology & particle physics, intended for intelligent general readers, examining the strange balance of equations necessary for our existence, and relating them to the anthropic principle, which asserts that a universe will contain apparently miraculous coincidences which are, in fact, essential to the observers' existence. Black hardcover, gilt titling. light wear to book; jacket shows hints of tanning; near fine. Text clean; [xii], 139 pages; index, bibliography, equations, a few figures.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Octavo.
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The Accidental Theorist And Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science
by Krugman, Paul
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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998. Essays written mostly from 1995-1997, about half first published in Slate; Krugman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008. SIGNED by Krugman on the half-title, dated 1999. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Stated first edition (first printing) with full number string. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Small Octavo.
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According to the Evidence
by Cecil, Henry
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Fifth crime novel by this British judge, writing under a pen name, though only the third to be published in America, and featuring ex-safecracker Ambrose Low, his wife Elizabeth, and Colonel Brain. Of particular note is the jacket art, by Andy Warhol, before he found fame in the pop art world; there is also a jacket blurb by P. G, Wodehouse. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; stated first edition (first printing). Light wear to book; corners rubbed & tanned; price-clipped jacket shows some chipping, tanned spine; endsheets & pages tanned, couple of small stains to top edge. Text clean, no names or marks. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Andy Warhol. Octavo.
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Acres for Cents: Delinquent Tax Auctions in Frontier Iowa
by Swierenga, Robert P.
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Westport, CT/London: Greenwood Press, 1976. Scholarly study of taxation, bureaucracy, land ownership, & confiscation in Iowa from 1860-1900; the author argues that, contrary to the Populist view that taxes were a means to control speculation, "taxes generated growth capital, not class unrest." Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, likely as issued. Number 46 in the publisher's Contributions in American History series. Light wear, corners slightly bumped/rubbed; minor scuffing to front cover. Text clean; xix, blank, 262 pages + note on the author; notes, appendixes with many charts & tables, bibliography, index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo.
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The Acrobats
by Richler, Mordecai
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. Canadian author's first novel; the Ahearns report that fewer than 1000 were printed of this first American edition. Black hardcover, black & red titling. Light wear to book, corners slightly rubbed; jacket shows some edgewear & light chipping, spine quite faded, faint foxing inside jacket.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo.
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Addresses Educational and Patriotic
by Northrop, Cyrus
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Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Company, 1910. 29 speeches & addresses by the then-president of the University of Minnesota, mostly on education & its importance, with several on teachers, 'great men', progress; Washington, Franklin, McKinley, Lincoln, Roosevelt. Northrup was earlier associeted with Yale, but few of his speeches from that period were transcribed. The second president of U of M, serving from 1884-1911, he greatly expanded its size & quality, and was a beloved figure in his day. Stout hardcover, as pictured. Light wear, minor rippling & bumps to spine; niges a little tender with minor damage (a small hole) to the inner rear. Text clean; x, 533, ix pages; index, frontispiece portrait. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Large Octavo.
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Addresses and Presidential Messages of Theodore Roosevelt 1902-1904
by Roosevelt, Theodore
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New York/ London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904. 39 speeches, a few (eight, by my count) letters, and 178 pages of official messages mostly to congress, a few to newspapers & the Secretary of the Navy. First edition, specifically the 'Popular Edition', in a smaller format, issued simultaneously with the more decorative 'Standard Library Edition'. Hardcover, full red cloth, gilt titling. Shows some wear, corners bumped & rubbed, the upper corners rather badly so; small scratches to rear cover, tiny white marks to cover. Text clean; xiii, blank, 485 pages + 2 pages ads for other TR works.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 5¾" by 8¼".
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