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New York: Pathfinder, 1991. Perfect-bound, [octavo], illustrated wraps, 376 pp. Very good.
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Fighting Racism in World War II
by C.L.R. James, George Breitman, Edgar Keemer
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Cheesebox: Being the life and times of Cheesebox Callahan, King of the underworld's "wiremen
by Paul S. Meskil with Gerard M. Callahan
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- 9780131283978 / 0131283979
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New York: Prentice Hall, 1974. First printing. Hardcover octavo black cloth boards with gilt lettering in illustrated dust jacket, 281 pp. Very good, lightly soiled pastedown pages/Good jacket, chipped and worn at spine ends and edges, vertical tear to seam of front flap with mild soiling throughout front and rear of jacket. Jacket design by Carl Koenig with photography by Jack Pitkin. Allied with Daily News columnist Paul S. Meskil, Gerard 'Cheesebox' Callahan recounts his life story of ingenuity in the underworld during an era of criminality when government technocrats were staking the odds. Groomed in the gashouse of Tammany Hall New York City, Callahan grew into a adolescent boxer before developing a penchant for electronics while driving ambulances to and from Roosevelt Island. He developed his namesake after his invention "The Cheesebox": simple electronics housed in a wooden perishables container which, when plugged into a house phone, could scramble any potential wiretap and make the call…
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell
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New York: Pantheon, 1949. Hardcover, large octavo, quarterbound black cloth spine and green cloth boards, gilt spine titles and black cover decoration; xxiii, 416 pp., with index. Good condition, heavy shelf wear (boards exposed at all corners), shaken binding, speckling to textblock edges, discolorations to base of spine.. From the collection of New York School poet, librettist and publisher, Kenward Elmslie. Inscribed on the front free endpaper from poet and friend Gerrit Lansing: "for Kenward [two astrological symbols] Happy Birthday, 1952 from Gerry ..." the real music of changes"...." A fair copy of Campbell's landmark work of comparative mythology, desirable primarily for its notable association.
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Molinari studies
by Campbell, James D.
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- 9780969273035 / 0969273037
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49th Parallel, 1987. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Good. Some wear and scratches to wrap. Slight warping due to humidity. Tight binding, clean text block, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing.
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Money: and Other Stories
by Karel Capek
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New York: Brentano's, 1930. First American edition. Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, black spine and cover titles, cover board gilt decoration, no dust jacket, 279 pp. Very good book, spine soiled, cloth boards worn, front paste down owner inscription. Capek's first published collection of short stories translated from the Czech by Francis P. Marchant, Dora Round, F.P. Casey, O. Vocadlo with introduction by John Galsworthy.
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Innocence, Loss and Recovery in the Art of Joan Didion
by Michelle Carbone Loris
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- 9780820406619 / 0820406619
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New York: Peter Lang, 1989. Hardcover, 6" x 8 3/4", in glossy pictorial boards, no dust jacket, 160 pp. Near fine. Literary criticism of Joan Didion, focusing on Run River, Play It as It Lays, A Book of Common Prayer, Democracy, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The White Album, Salvador, and Miami.
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Russia: The Story of War
by Gregory Carleton
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Cambridge, Massachussetts & London: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2017. Hardcover, octavo quarter bound navy cloth spine with silver lettering and red boards in pictorial dust jacket, red end papers, 288 pp. Near fine/Very good jacket.
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Deco Ceramics: The Style of an Era
by Casali, Caludia; Rucellai, Olivia; Fiorucci, Lorenzo
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- 9788836636075 / 8836636071
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Silvana Editoriale, 2017. Soft cover. New. New in shrink plastic. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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Another Way To Be
by Rosario Castellanos
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Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1990. Perfect-bound, [octavo], illustrated wraps, 146 pp. Very good. Cover photograph Oscar Bonifaz. Edited and translated by Myralyn F. Allgood with foreword by Edward D. Terry.
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Step Right Up!: I'm Gonna Scare the Pants Off America
by William Castle
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1976. First edition. Hardcover red cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 6" x 8 1/2", 256 pp. Very good, good dust jacket with close wear and tears to edges and 2" x 2" tear to rear flap. Jacket design by Coco McConnell.
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CARLOS LEON
by Fernando Castro Florez
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- 9788493439743 / 8493439746
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Junta de Castilla y León, 2005. Soft cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Light edgewear and light scratches on rear cover, else a near fine copy with tight binding and crisp interior. Bilingual with English on recto, Spanish on Verso. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
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Perceptions of Promise: Biotechnology, Society and Art
by Caulfield, Sean; Gillespie, Curtis; Caulfield, Timothy
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Department of Art and Design, University of Alberta, 2011. Soft cover. Near Fine. Slight edge wear to dust jacket. Tight binding, clean text block, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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Marco Bagnoli
by Germano Celant
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- 9788857222387 / 8857222381
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Skira Editore, 2018. Hardcover. Near Fine. Llight wear to the dust jacket from handling. Clean boards, tight binding, clean text block, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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Transmigration Solo
by Joseph Ceravolo
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West Branch, IA: The Toothpaste Press, 1979. First Edition of 1,100. Signature-bound duodecimo (7-7/8 in) in illustrated orange textured wraps. 45 pp. Near Fine. Cover by Mona daVinci.
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Wild Flowers Out of Gas
by Joseph Ceravolo
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New York: Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1967. One of 300 total copies. Signature-bound in wraps printed in purple on front cover only, 7-1/2 x 7-1/2 in. 30pp. Toning and soiling to wraps; one small spot of soiling top of textblock fore-edge. Very good..
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Millenium Dust
by Joseph Ceravolo
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New York: The Kulchur Foundation, 1982. Perfect-bound, [quarto] in b/w pictorial wraps, 126 pp. Very good, lightly foxed wraps and a few very small tears to spine. Cover by Mona Da Vinci; Author Photo by Vico Giacalone.
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Picasso's Ladies: Jewellery by Wendy Ramshaw
by Chadour-Sapson, A.
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- 9783925369803 / 3925369805
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Paris, France: Arnoldsche, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. Very slight wear and discoloration on boards from handling, otherwise this is a near fine copy with tight binding and bright clean pages. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One
by Emma Chambers
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London: Tate, 2018. Softcover large octavo (9.75"), stiff illustrated wraps, 128 pp. Very Good, slight edgewear, bumped bottom corner to front wrap.
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Navlipi: A New, Universal, Script ("Alphabet") Accommodating the Phonemic Idiosyncrasies of All the World's Languages. Volume I, Another Look at Phonic and Phonemic Classification: Navlipi
by Prasanna Chandrasekhar
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Boston: Branden Books, 2012. Pre-Publication edition. Perfect-bound in glossy pictorial wraps, 4to, 576 pp. Very good, written on cover wrap in sharpie, 'Pre-Pub. Edition'.. This book presents a universal script, Navlipi, designed to express all the world's languages.
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Callaloo Volume 23, Number 2
by Charles Henry Rowell, Ed.; Paul Naylor, Guest Ed
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Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. Signature-bound, quarto, pictorial wraps, [5], 500-817, [13] pp. Very good, spine and covers lightly soiled, edges lightly worn, corners beginning to peel with some wear, text block edges lightly soiled. A special issue dedicated to and including the works of Nathaniel Mackey.
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