Pecked to Death by Swans
Easthampton: Adastra Press, 1993. First printing. Paperback. 300 copies printed, wraps, about fine copy. Poetry chapbook.
New Arrivals
Beauti-ful and other long poems, Wormwood Review 110-111, 1988
Stockton, CA: Wormwood Review, 1988. First printing. Paperback. No. 258 of 700. Stapled wraps, fine copy, 88 pp.
People Poems 1982-1991, Wormwood Review 122-123, 1991
Stockton, CA: Wormwood Review, 1991. First printing. Paperback. No. 271 of 700. Red decorated wraps, just about fine, 47 pp, all Buk all the time.
Wormwood Review, No. 120, Vol. 30 no. 4, 1990
Stockton, CA: Wormwood Review Press, 1990. Paperback. No. 411 of 700 copies, wraps, very good with light wear and soil. With a two poems by Buk and four by Jim Daniels, from whose collection this is from.
Wormwood Review, No. 105, Vol. 27 no. 1, 1987
Stockton, CA: Wormwood Review Press, 1987. Paperback. No. 107 of 700 copies, wraps, very good with light wear and soil. With a few poems by Buk and a couple fine ones by Jim Daniels, from whose collection this is from.
Summer Sleep
Missoula: Owl Creek Press, 1985. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, poetry chapbook, very good, light wear.
Bearing Witness - inscribed
Detroit: Ridgeway Press, 1991. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, wraps, inscribed to a fellow Michigan poet, very good, light wear. Author's first book. Later books of his were published by University of Pittsburgh, Copper Canyon, etc.
From the Bark of the Daphne Tree - signed limited edition
Easthampton, MA: Adastra Press, 2013. First printing. Paperback. No. 75 of 100 signed. 7 x 4.2 inches, fine copy. A poem, usually a rhyming quatrain, for each day of the year, many of them domestic and loving. Uncommon in the trade.
Easter Lilies, An Original Poem
New York: Art Lithographic Publishing Company, Ca. 1880s. Paperback. 6 x 4 inches, floral embossed stiff wraps, 6 pp, 2 chromolithograph plates, very good, printed in Munich. The Alabama author was a prolific poet. OCLC locates only a single copy, at Brown.
Hybridization and Germ Cells of Oenothera Mutants
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1907. Paperback. Offprint from the Botanical Gazette, July 1907. 10 x 6 inches, pale green wraps, inscribed on cover by author to (Reinhardt) Thiessen. 21 pp.
The Vascular Anatomy of the Seedling of Dioon Edule
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1908. Paperback. Offprint from the Botanical Gazette, November 1908. 10 x 7 inches, pale green wraps, very good, light soil and wear, paginated 356-380 with 7 plates. From the GeoScienceWorld website: "Reinhardt Thiessen pioneered the thin-section method of coal petrography in the United States as.....
anonymous (20th Century) - inscribed by author
New York: Braziller, 1962. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth in dust jacket, inscribed by author to an architect at State College PA. Book very good, jacket good with some fading and light shelfwear, moderate sized chip to rear panel. 262 pp.
The Rites of Passage
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960. First English language edition. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, owner's name, light wear to jacket, very good overall. A translation of 1906 Les Rites de Passage, wherein Van Gennep first coined the term "liminality" to refer to the intermediate and structureless stage in rituals.....
Special Master's Report: State of Arizona v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, etc. December 5, 1960
Washington DC: GPO, 1960. Hardcover. 3 volumes, green buckram, 433 pp. total, a photocopy of the original printing, not sure when this was made, guessing 1970s. From the US Department of the Interior Website: "The Arizona v. California Supreme Court case settled a longstanding dispute over claims to Colorado River.....
Inside France, Excerpts from the French Press, Vol. 1 nos. 1-4 (May 25, 1940 - JUne 15, 1940)
New York: French News Service, 1940. Paperback. 4 issues (complete set; there were no more published), each measures 11 x 8.5 inches, stapled wraps, 16 pp. each, very good, some light soil to covers, vertical crease, probably for mailing. At the time these were issued, France was in the middle.....
Britain Junior, Vol. 1 nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 (May 1944 - April 1945): "to help the boys and girls of America to know the boys and girls of Britain, their allies in the building of the future"
New York: British Information Services, 1944-1945. Paperback. 10 issues of this journal that continued until September 1945 (Vol. 2 no. 5). Each issue measures 15 x 10.25 inches, 4 pp, illustrated, with stories of interest to youth. Rare in commerce and in institutions. Usual folds for mailing.
5 speeches by The Marquess of Lothian 1939-1940 (British Ambassador to the US): Speeches at a Dinner in honor of the Marquess of Lothian (Plaza Hotel, Oct. 25, 1939); Totalitarianism, Democracy and Religion (11-11-39); Address to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations (1-4-40); Address to the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce (4-19-40); Address at Yale University Alumni Luncheon (6-19-40)
New York: The British Library of Information, etc. 1939-1940. Paperback. The first pamphlet was printed by the Pilgrims of the United States and also includes addresses by Nicholas Murray Butler and John W. Davis. VG with light wear and soil. Kerr died in December 1940, but from 1939 to 1940.....
11 pamphlets 1942-1945 on the British war effort: Rationing of Food in Great Britain (11-42); Nutrition in Wartime Britain (12-42); Clothes Rationing in Britain (12-42); Education in the British Army (4-43); The Care of Children Under Five in Wartime, England and Wales (5-43); The British Health Services in Wartime (6-43); The Production and Distribution of Food in Great Britain (10-43); Rehabilitation in Great Britain (1-44); British Government Machinery for Reconstruction (1-44); Report on the Flying Bomb (9-44); 50 Facts About Britain's War Effort (11-44); Adult Education in Britain (3-45)
New York: British Information Services, 1942-1945. Paperback. 9.25 x 6 inches, stapled wraps, each between 10 and 27 pp. some tanning, apparently on newsprint paper. An uncommon primary source for domestic history of Great Britain in wartime.
5 reprints of speeches by Viscount Halifax, 1939-1940: British War Aims (Oct. 7, 1939); Great Britain and German, the Issues of the War (at Leeds, Jan. 20, 1940); Challenge to Youth (abridged from Oxford address, Feb. 27, 1940); A Conflict of Youth (reprinted from The Times, excerpts from same speech at Oxford); We Shall Prevail (July 22, 1940)
New York: British Library of Information, 1939-1940. Paperback. Lot of 5 items of a few pages each, good to very good with some soil to covers. Originally in favor of appeasement in 1938, Wood changed his mind with Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia and was entirely on board with the war.....
6 issues of NEPTUNE (monthly news & photo booklet issued by Royal Navy): September & October 1940; May, June, July & August 1941
London: L. T. A. Robinson, 1940-1941. Paperback. 6 issues, each 10 x 6.5 inches, wraps, 24 pp. with many pictures. Light soil and wear.
Indian information, Vol. 6 no. 42, January 15, 1940, plus two speeches by Raman: India and the War and India Against Aggression
New Delhi & NY: Bureau of Public Information / British Library of Information, 1940. Paperback. 13 x 8.5 inches, wraps, very good, some yellowing and wear to covers, with two laid in speeches by Raman. Journal is 60 pp.
French's Mysteries
NP: Chas. C. Eastman, Ca. 1930s. Paperback. 9 x 6 inches, wraps, folds out to be a notebook of 26 reproduced typewritten pages attached with two hole-rivets, very good, light wear and soil. All magic tricks.
The Life of Harman Blennerhassett: Comprising an Authentic Narrative of the Burr Expedition
Chillicothe, OH: Ely, Allen & Looker, 1850. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, original brown-black cloth gilt, good copy, rubbing and wear to corners, spine ends and slight loss along lower outer front joint, contents very good, 239 pp, lithograph frontispiece.
"Britain's Way with her Colonies" (2/29/40) and Speech in the House of Commons on the 6th March, 1940 on PALESTINE
London: H. M. Stationers Office, 1940. The first piece is an article reprinted from The Listener of Feb. 29 1940 on the fate of Britain's "empire." The speech is a follow-up to his infamous White Paper of 1938, which advocated for a consolidated Palestinian state and against the establishment of.....
26 issues of "The Outpost" November 1942 - May 1945, published by Americans in Britain
London: American Outpost in Great Britain, 1942-1945. 26 issues; each issue is a single sheet folded once to make 4 pages and measures 13 x 8 inches folded. We have issues no. 31-52, 56, 59 & 61. Generally very good with horizontal fold. The American Outpost in Great Britain was.....