Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982. First printing. Gray cloth boards in dust jacket, 228pp.
New Arrivals
Art & Money
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. First printing. Green and red cloth boards in dust jacket, 213pp.
Lady Susan (The Jane Austen Library)
New York: Schocken Books, 1984. First printing. Red cloth boards in dust jacket, 173+pp.
Enter Plato: Classical Greece and the Origins of Social Theory
New York: Basic Books, Inc, 1965. First printing. Peach cloth boards, no DJ, bookplate to front pastedown, some marginalia, 407pp.
The Philosophical Imaginary
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989. First printing. Black cloth boards in dust jacket, 199pp.
Henry David Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986. First printing. Gray cloth boards in dust jacket, erasable pencil marginalia, 455pp.
Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. First printing. Paperback, mild marginalia, 382pp.
Southern Slavery and the Law 1619-1860
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996. First printing. Black cloth boards in dust jacket, 575pp.
Iowa
NP: Violet Press, 1977. First printing. Paperback. Square quarto, wraps, good plus copy with some slight restoration and rubbing along front joint, light wear generally. Contents very good. Stunning photos.
The Democratic Digest, August 1948, Truman campaign issue with Democratic Party Platform
Washington DC: Women's Division DNC, 1948. Paperback. 10.5 x 7.5 inches, stapled wraps, very good, 31 pp, illustrated. Issued in advance of the party's presidential nominating convention, with much on Harry Truman, including a complete printing of the Democratic Party platform, headliners at the convention, etc.
The Hindu Musical Scale, and the Twenty-Two Shrutees
Poona: Arya Bhushan Press, 1910. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, blue cloth, good copy, lacking flyleaf, light wear. 49 pp. Uncommon in the trade and in institutions.
A La Rector, Unveling the Culinary Mysteries of the World Famous George Rector
New York: The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, C. 1933. First printing. Hardcover. Tall 8vo, pictorial boards, signed by Rector on the verso of the flyleaf, good with some cloth reinforcement to spine, light corner wear. 110 pp, illustrated, with inserted culinary advice bookmark from the A&P Carnival at.....
Woman and Artist
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1900. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo, olive cloth, very good, minor wear and soil, some soil to top edge of text block. Novel about a woman torn between her duties as a wife and her aspirations to be an artist.
Piemonte in Bocca
Palermo, Sicily: Edizioni e Ristampe Siciliane, 1986. Hardcover. 10 x 7 inches, cardboard covers with color illustration on front, contents printed on interesting mustard yellow paper, 187 (20) pp, illustrated, with occasional color plate. Rare edition. Light wear to corners and edges of boards, inscription on flyleaf.
Crude Ditties, a Collection of Limericks - with 45 pp. of additional handwritten limericks and joke rhymes
London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1903. First printing. Hardcover. 12mo (approximately 5 x 3.5 inches), pictorial cloth, good copy with covers somewhat soiled and a little rubbed, contents good to very good, light soil and with a few funny newspaper clippings affixed to pastedowns. 87 pp. Ownership signature of Kate Macbeth Simpson.....
Revista Seleccion Cuadernos mensuales de Cultura, No. 3 (1933), with movie reviews by Borges and Lynch's "El Estanciero"
Buenos Aires: 1933. Paperback. 3rd and final issue of this important cultural journal, 7.5 x 5.5 inches, wraps, very good, light wear and soil, with 2 pp. of film reviews by Borges including of King Kong, and printing the whole of Lynch's "El Estanciero" -- Lynch was a reclusive Argentine.....
Coal Oil Johnny, Story of His Career as Told by Himself
Franklin, PA: The Author, 1902. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, pictorial gilt maroon cloth, very good, light wear. Story of the western Pennsylvania orphan who inherited property from his foster family that turned out to be oil-rich. He made a fortune, had an incredibly lavish lifestyle and died a nearly penniless.....
4 1894 issues of Miscellaneous Notes and Queries, A Monthly Magazine of History, Folk-Lore, Mathematics, Mysticism, Art, Science, Etc
Manchester, NH: Gould, 1894. 9 x 6 inches, orange wraps, all very good, light wear and soil, July, August, September and December, 1894, each about 30 pp, with articles on esoterica, kabbalah, astrology, Essenes, Neo-Platonism, astronomy, arcana and the occult. Uncommon journal. Several articles are by Ernest De Bunsen.
Madre America, Novela
Buenos Aires: Coleccion Claridad, 1935. First printing. Paperback. 8vo, pictorial wraps, very good, light wear and soil, owner's name. First edition of this Argentine-Jewish author's second novel of a trilogy of man-against-nature narratives.
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Na Svite, Verse [On the Light]
Turciansky Sv. Martin (Slovakia): J. Gasparica, 1905. Hardcover. Second edition. 12mo (6 x 4.25 inches) cloth, good with some soil and light wear to binding, neat strengthening to inner hinges, pages beginning to tan. 98 pp. Uncommon book of poetry by this major Slovak author. Few in OCLC. in Slovak.....
Annual Report of the First Baptist Church of Pittsburgh, 2 volumes: 1912-1913; 1913-1914
Pittsburgh: 1913-1914. Paperback. 2 volumes bound together, 8 x 5.5 inches, wraps, 58 & 65 pp, ex-library, no deaccession stamp but we assume legitimately withdrawn. The church was in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh at Bayard and Bellefield streets. The reports give earnings, expenses, reports on construction, classes, membership, programs.....
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O povrezhdenii nravov v Rossii [On the Morality of Russia] plus Chaadaev's Filosofskiye Pisma & Apologia za Sumasshedshiye [Philosophical Letters and Apologia for the Insane]
Moscow: Russkoe tovarishchestvo, 1908. Paperback. Wraps, good, light restoration to spine, small chip to fore-edge of front wrap, small tear to first 50 pp of fore-edge margin. 169 pp, a few plates. Two late 18th and early 19th century exponents of Russian enlightenment. Chaadayev wrote eight "Philosophical Letters" about Russia.....
1913 flyer for "The Price of Thoughtlessness" a Safety Motion Picture staged by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit System and Vitagraph Company of America...
Brooklyn: Bureau of Public Safety, Brooklyn Rapid Transit System, (1913). 9 x 6 inches on pale orange thick stock, very good, small repaired chip to left edge, light wear to one corner. The movie was produced to teach children about the dangers of living in a city, including reckless drivers.....
The Complete Histoy of the City of Allegheny in Pennsylvania, 1740 to 1890
Allegheny, PA: The Author, 1891. First printing. 11 x 7.5 inches, recent paper covers with original covers mounted, good copy, 155 pp plus many plates, ads. Contents good, light wear and soil, first page of ads with corner loss, some smudging and waterstains to a few pages, not too intrusive.....
Large 1911 View Book Ricordo di Firenze inscribed by Henry J. Heinz
(Florence): (1911). 12.5 x 9 inches, handsome decorated wraps with "rope" binding, 30 photoplate views of Florence within, a fair copy only with wear to wraps and evidence of dampness, some rippling to pages, soil, short tears, corner loss, etc. ... but inscribed, "Compts of H. J. H. April 12th.....