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WALT WHITMAN HANDBOOK.
Edition: Hardcover.
Chicago: Packard and Company, (1946). Hardcover first edition - A guide to critical studies, biographies, essays and other works about Walt Whitman Preface, chronology table, index. Sticker showing 'Hendricks House, New York, as the publisher affixed to the title page. xvii, 560 pp.
Condition: Very good in beige cloth (a few pencilled brackets and underlining and writing on pages), lacking the dust jacket .
Book ID: 54653More details Price: $16.50 -
THE VICTORIANS AND AFTER: 1830-1914.
Edition: 3rd edition, revised and reset.
London: The Cresset Press, (1962) dj. Hardcover - Volume four of Cresset Press': 'Introduction to English Literature' series. Covers the period from 1830-1914. Editor's preface, preface to 3rd edition, a chapter on the economic background by Guy Chapman, Most of the book is an annoted bibliography of the writers of this period and their works, arranged topically. index. xx, 360 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 55768More details Price: $18.00 -
OREGON IMPRINTS 1845-1870.
Edition: First printing.
Eugene, Oregon, University of Oregon Press, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - The definitive edition of this valuable bibliography, incorporating and expanding significantly on the imprints recorded by Douglas C. McMurtrie in 1950. Includes 700 additions recorded in four supplements by Belknap, and 262 items not previously described, for a total of 1,521 books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed in Oregon through 1870 Includes 16 pages of illustrations, an introduction by Belknap, notes and both a subject and printer index. Attractively produced, slightly larger in format, illustrated endpapers. 305 pp. ISBN: 0-871140195.
Condition: Fine in fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 74939More details Price: $45.00 -
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF TOGO (African Historical Dictionaries Series, No. 9).
Edition: First edition.
Methuen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes an introduction that covers Togo's origin, history, culture, and language, a chronology, list of acronyms, map, an extensive and in-depth bibliography, as well as the dictionary itself. The alphabetical arrangement provides useful information about the country in a convenient format. Foreword by series editor Jon Woronoff. xviii, 243 pp. Additional titles in this series available. ISBN: 0-8108-09427.
Condition: Ex-library with relatively few markings, overall very good condition, tight and clean, no dj as issued.
Book ID: 38687More details Price: $20.00 -
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF EGYPT (African Historical Dictionaries Series, No. 89).
Edition: Third edition.
Lanham, MD & Oxford: Scarecrow Press, (2003.). dj. Hardcover - Includes an introduction that covers the country's origin, history, culture, and language, a chronology, list of acronyms and abbreviations, maps, an extensive and in-depth bibliography, as well as the dictionary itself. The alphabetical arrangement provides useful information about the country in a convenient format. Foreword by series editor Jon Woronoff. xxxviii, 510 pp. Additional titles in this series available. ISBN: 0-8108-48562.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, overall very good condition in glossy illustrated boards, tight and clean, no dj as issued.
Book ID: 50227More details Price: $20.00 -
THE 50+ BEST BOOKS ON TEXAS.
Edition: First printing.
Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - An updated and expanded edition of a book originally published in 1982. A thoughtful selection of fiction, biography, natural history, and ranching - basically Greene's very personal choices - of books either about Texas or, in the case of fiction, set in Texas. Includes a full page commentary on each book, as well as a photograph of the title page. Includes the introduction to the original edition and to this new edition. Index of authors, editors and titles. xix, 120 pp. ISBN: 1-574410431.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 90516More details Price: $25.00 -
CORNERSTONES OF CONFEDERATE COLLECTING.
Edition: Third limited edition, of 500 numbered copies, of which 100 were signed by the author.
Charlottesville, VA: The University of Virginia Press for the Bibliographical Society of University of Virginia, (1982) 1953. Hardcover - Although this copy retains the title page of the second revised edition of 1953, it was actually published in Wendell, North Carolina in 1982. Includes a foreword by Clifford Dowdey, informative text and a checklist of the cornerstones followed by facsimiles of title pages. #5 out of 100 copies SIGNED and bound by hand, 35 pp plus 20 pp of facsimile title pages and colophon.
Condition: Very near fine in wheat-colored cloth with pasted on title label on the spine, small illustration of a Confederate soldier on the front cover.
Book ID: 35161More details Price: $50.00 -
HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF TANZANIA (African Historical Dictionaries Series, No. 15).
Edition: First edition.
Methuen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes an introduction that covers the country's origin, history, culture, and language, a chronology, list of acronyms, maps, list of rulers of Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Tanzania, an extensive and in-depth bibliography, as well as the dictionary itself. The alphabetical arrangement provides useful information about the country in a convenient format. Foreword by series editor Jon Woronoff. xxxi, 331 pp. Additional titles in this series available. ISBN: 0-8108-11014.
Condition: Ex-library with relatively few markings, overall very good condition, tight and clean, no dj as issued.
Book ID: 38689More details Price: $25.00 -
"READING THE WIND" The Literature of the Vietnam War. An Interpretive Critique with a Bibliographic Commentary.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 67580More details Price: $25.00 -
CHINESE IN HAWAII: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC SURVEY.
Edition: First printing.
Taipei, Taiwan: C.H. Lowe / China Printing, (1972). First edition - Foreword by Senator Hiram L. Fong. Historical sketch, chronology and a detailed descriptions of 362 items in English and 38 in Chinese. Index. Foldout map in the back. One of only 1500 copies. vi, 148 pp.
Condition: Very good in flexible light green linen covers with red lettering (tanning to the pages)
Book ID: 69313More details Price: $25.00 -
BLACKS IN AMERICA: Bibliographical Essays.
Edition: First edition.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which combines bibliography, interpretation and narrative in a topical and chronological framework. Sections include from Afica to the New World, slavery, abolitionism and the anti-slavery movement, the Civil War and Reconstruction, northward migration, the Civil Rights movement and more. Index. xxii, 430p.
Condition: Good in a good dust jacket - some scattered marginal notations, edgewear to the dj.
Book ID: 88782More details Price: $27.50 -
THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION, SEPTEMBER 1973 (Special Frederik Pohl Issue), Vol. 45, No. 3.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Mercury Press. 1973. SIGNED first edition - Special Frederik Pohl issue, with cover art by Carol Pohl (featuring Pohl himself as the wise man on the mountaintop). Includes the Pohl novella 'In the Problem Pit,' an article about Pohl by Lester del Rey and a Bibliography of his work by Mark Owings. This copy is SIGNED by Pronzini at his short story, 'I Wish I May, I Wish I Might..' Also includes a nonfiction feature 'Science: Signs of Our Times,' by Isaac Asimov; the novelet Cage A Man by F. M. Busby; and stories by Barry N. Malzberg, Ward Moore and Edward Wellen. Illustrated. 159 pp.
Condition: Near fine (usual toning to the pages, but no creasing or labels.)
Book ID: 38428More details Price: $19.50 -
"Collecting Dean Koontz" in FIRSTS: COLLECTION MODERN FIRSTS, " October, 1993, Volume 3, Number 10.
Edition: First printing.
Los Angeles: Firsts Magazine, 1993. SIGNED first edition - A magazine full of information for collectors, issued monthly. This issue features Collecting Dean Koontz, with an informal check list, information on his numerous pseudonyms and values (as of 1993) of his principle works, and articles on "Eccentric Classics of Modern Science Fiction & Fantasy", and "King Arthur". SIGNED by Koontz at the article about his works, and uncommon thus. Ads. 52 pp.
Condition: Near fine in stapled glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 90747More details Price: $65.00 -
WOMEN COMPOSERS: A Handbook.
Edition: First printing.
Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1978. Hardcover first edition - An annotated bibliography with brief information about European and North American women who were composers of classical music, and either had their work published, or performed in public, or who won an award for it. Extensive list of sources. Supplemental list and sources. vii, 191 pp. ISBN: 0-8108-11383.
Condition: Ex-library with usual markings, but overall tight and clean in burgundy cloth with gold lettering (one page torn at the edge.)
Book ID: 44922More details Price: $12.50 -
THE SOUTHERN BLACK SLAVE AND FREE: A Bibliography of Anti- and Pro-Slavery Books and Pamphlets and of Social and Economic Conditions in the Southern States from the Beginnings to 1950.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Whitston Publishing Co., 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - An extensive listing of works available on microform. 576 pages.
Condition: Fine in yellow cloth with gold lettering, no dustjacket, as issued (as new.)
Book ID: 20015More details Price: $50.00