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In Our Time
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In Our Time

by Hemingway, Ernest

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Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1924. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, copy number 23 of a limited 170 copies. 30 [1] pp. Bound in publisher's paper-covered boards with news-clipping design. Near Fine with light edge wear, light wear to spine ends with a closed tear roughly one-inch from the base (though suggesting no restoration), toning to spine and the usual browning to the endsheets. Housed in a custom cloth chemise case with morroco title label stamped in gilt. Hemingway's scarce second published book, and his first of short fiction. Though intended to be published in an edition of 300 copies, due to a printing error only 170 were released and originally sold through Sylvia Beach's literary juggernaut of a bookshop, Shakespeare & Company.
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Principia Mathematica
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Principia Mathematica

by Russell, Bertrand; Alfred North Whitehead

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Cambridge: University Press, 1913. First Edition. First edition. Three volumes. ix, [5], 666; xxxiv, 772; x, 491 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth, spines lettered in gilt; housed in custom folding cloth box. Good condition overall. Unsophisticated copies, pleasantly not-ex-library (very uncommon in commerce thus), but certainly fragile. Rubbing to lettering, staining and edge wear to cloth, boards exposed at extremities; contents toned, brittle with age, and sometimes faintly foxed. Hinges of Vol. I starting; rear board split at head but holding; a few pages detached; about a fifth of pp.1-2 torn off but retained; circular tear to last several leaves of the volume. Vol. II has occasional marginal chipping including to lower corners of about 160 pages, not affecting text; tiny wormholes to inner margins of prelims; hinges worn with a few pages detached. Vol. III cloth chipped along edges; bump to bottom inner corner of textblock. A truly rare first edition of one of the major intellectual… Read More
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Large Archive of Documents on Japanese Internment from the War Relocation Authority
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Large Archive of Documents on Japanese Internment from the War Relocation Authority

by The War Relocation Authority

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[Various Places]: The War Relocation Authority, 1956. A substantial archive of over 300 individual documents, plus a few duplicates, relating to Japanese internment during WWII, forming a very thorough view of the federal agency that directed their imprisonment, The War Relocation Authority. Such a sizeable collection of WRA documents is extremely rare in commerce. All the major facets of the dark, disturbing episode of Japanese internment are represented in this archive: its basic legal and historical outlines, the WRA's publicity and propaganda and its reception in the US, the WRA's groundbreaking use of social sciences in service of repressive American policies, life and death in the camps, and the ending of internment. The essential history of internment can be said to begin with Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9102 establishing the War Relocation Authority, included in mimeograph format. Around that time and later an Index-Digest of Opinions by the Office of the Solicitor compiles legal… Read More
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(An Extensive Run of a Japanese Internment Camp Newspapers) The Topaz Times [and] Topazu Taimuzu
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(An Extensive Run of a Japanese Internment Camp Newspapers) The Topaz Times [and] Topazu Taimuzu

by Katayama, Taro [Managing Editor]; Iwao Kawakami [Weekly Editor]

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Topaz, UT: The Topaz Times, 1945. Four hundred issues of The Topaz Times; 197 of which are in English and 203 in Japanese; with 47 fragments of various issues, 17 illustrated calendars, and nine pieces of ephemera including high school newspapers from Topaz War Relocation Center, Ram-bler and Topazette. Following two Pre-Issues from September of 1942, the run spans from Vol. II #49 (February 27, 1943) to Vol. X #19 (March 6, 1945). The newspaper was issued with varying frequency, from daily to weekly or less. Illustrated with drawings, many of which are cartoons. Each issue from 2 to 10 pages or so, generally printed on both sides of mimeographed sheets measuring about 36.5 x 22.5 cm (14¼" x 8 ¾"). Stitched together into monthly groups, or fascicles, with string through small holes in the top margins. Very Good overall with some edge wear, chips, and tears; very infrequent loss of text or biopredation. Most issues appear complete but archive is sold "as is" with regards to completeness. Rare. The… Read More
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics

by Feynman, Richard; Robert B. Leighton; Matthew Sands

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Reading, MA; Palo Alto, CA; London: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co, 1965. First edition. First edition, first printings of all three books, with first editions of their respective exercise books. Signed by Richard Feynman in ink beneath on preface of Vol. I. Complete in three volumes, perfect bound in original red cloth lettered in white and gilt; exercise books in stapled wraps. Very Good, with light foxing to edges and shelf wear, spine slightly sunned. No writing or marks in text. Spine of Vol. I slightly concave. slight curve to boards of Vol. III. Exercise books are in Near Fine condition overall; Vol. II wraps slightly worn. A stamped envelope and a sheet of notes from the former owner laid in. A rare signed set of the important lectures Feynman gave at the California Institute of Technology, 1961-1963. Feynman received a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics. This set belonged to the noted physicist Peter D. Zimmerman,… Read More
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The Black Panther: Black Community News Service (Collection of 233 issues, 1967-1980)
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The Black Panther: Black Community News Service (Collection of 233 issues, 1967-1980)

by Black Panther Party; Emory Douglas [Artist]; Huey Newton; Bobby Seale; Eldridge Cleaver, et al.

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Oakland & San Francisco: The Black Panther Party, 1980. First edition. An extensive collection of 236 numbers in 233 issues (Volume 2, Numbers 15-17 are printed in a single volume and Volume 6, Numbers 13 and 14 are as well). Intermittent run spanning from the first volume to the final volume (the 20th). Newspaper changed title to The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service on March 13, 1971.Contents: Volume 1, Number 6; Vol. 2, Nos. 1-3, 5-7, (15-17), 18, 19, 21; Vol. 3, Nos. 1, 3, 6, 7, 9-12, 16, 17, 19-21, 26, 27, 29, 29 [sic], 31; Vol. 4, Nos. 3, 3 [sic], 4, 7, 8, 8 [sic], 9, 12-15, 17, 18, 18 [but 19], 20, 21, 22, 22 [sic], 27, 28, 28 [sic], 29; Vol. 5, Nos. 4, 12, 13, 15-18, 20-25, 27, 30; Vol. 6, Nos. 1-6, 10, 11, (13-14), 16, 18, 21, 23-30; Vol. 7, Nos. 1, 3, 8, 19-27, 29, 30; Vol. 8, Nos. 1-25, 28-30; Vol. 9, Nos. 1, 3-8, 10, 12-15; Vol.10, Nos. 15, 18, 23, 25, 27, 28, 30; Vol. 11, Nos. 12, 14, 15, 21, 23, 26, 29; Vol. 12, Nos. 1, 7, 12, 15, 16, 30; Vol. 13, Nos. 2, 7, 11, 12, 19, 20, 21,… Read More
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Deeper Wrong; Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself
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Deeper Wrong; Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself

by [Jacobs, Harriet]; Linda Brent [Pseudonym]; Lydia Maria [Editor]

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London: W. Tweedie, 1862. First British Edition. Very Good+. First British edition, first printing of the scarce feminist narrative of escape from slavery, and the first published slave narrative by a woman. 306 pp. In a recent half faux-leather over marbled boards, new endpapers. Very Good+. Former owner bookplate and penciled "[Linda M. Brent]" to front pastedown. Contents tanned, thumbed and sporadically spotted, with an occasional corner crease. A truly scarce landmark of American literature, many times more rare in commerce and at auction than many of the 19th century ex-slave narratives with which is often compared such as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. It was long thought to be fictional, utilizing the narrative techniques of the sentimental novel as it does and published under a pseudonym, until the 1980s when historian Jean Fagan Yellin established it was Harriet Jacobs' autobiography. In particular, the attention Jacobs called to the sexual abuse and exploitation of female… Read More
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Roll, Jordan, Roll (Julia Peterkin's copy)
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Roll, Jordan, Roll (Julia Peterkin's copy)

by Peterkin, Julia [Text]; Doris Ulmann [Photographs]

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Signed Limited First Edition
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New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. Signed Limited First Edition. Signed limited first edition. Author Julia Peterkin's own copy, number #3 of only 350 copies, of which 327 were offered for sale, signed by both photographer Doris Ulmann and Peterkin on the limitation page. Presuambly the first few copies were given to the publisher, author, and photographer. Letter of provenance from a descendant of Peterkin laid in. Printed by letter press and with 90 superb tissue-guarded full-page copperplate hand-pulled photogravure plates and with an additional original signed photogravure. 342 pp. Bound in publisher's original brown paper boards over half cream cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Lacking slipcase. Near Fine with light rubbing and soiling to boards, front hinge a bit free, light foxing to contents, typical offsetting from photos. A very clean, attractive copy. "Ulmann's photographic collaboration with Julia Peterkin focuses on the lives of former slaves and their descendants on a plantation in the… Read More
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The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King
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The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers; The Return of the King

by Tolkien, J. R. R.

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London: George Allen and Unwin, 1954. First Edition. Fine. 1954, 1954, 1955. Three volumes. First edition, first printings, signed by J.R.R. Tolkien on the title page of The Two Towers. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, spines decorated and titled in gilt, with "Eye of Sauron" to front boards in gilt, dark green endpapers, and edges gilt. Housed in a red leather entry slipcase. Folding maps in red and black at rear of each volume. Fine. Pages lightly tanned. Tolkien's epic trilogy is considered one of the greatest fantasy works ever written and is among the best-selling books of all time. Its contribution to popular culture has been profound to say the least.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself

by [Jacobs, Harriet]; Linda Brent [Pseudonym]; Lydia Maria [Editor]

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Boston: Published for the Author [by Thayer & Eldridge], 1861. First Edition. Very Good. First edition. 306 pp. Bound in recent three-quarters leather over marbled boards. Very Good, page 96/97 lacking and provided in facsimile, several leaves either remargined or repaired at the gutter. Soiling, staining, creases and wear to contents throughout, contemporary former owner names to front free endpaper and top of title page, and vintage private ownership label to top margin of contents page. A truly scarce landmark of American literature, many times more rare in commerce and at auction than many of the 19th century ex-slave narratives with which is often compared such as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. It was long thought to be fictional, utilizing the narrative techniques of the sentimental novel as it does and published under a pseudonym, until the 1980s when historian Jean Fagan Yellin established it was Harriet Jacobs' autobiography. In particular, the attention Jacobs called to the… Read More
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Ulysses
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Ulysses

by Joyce, James

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First Edition Thus
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London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1937. First Edition Thus. Near Fine. An exceedingly scarce presentation copy of the first English edition printed in England, limited issue signed by James Joyce. One of 100 copies (from a total edition of 1000 copies, this copy unnumbered) printed on mould-made paper and bound in full calf vellum. This copy was reserved for presentation by the author, unnumbered at the colophon with the words "Presentation Copy" inscribed in calligraphy below the limitation. The only other copy of this edition of 100 that we could locate that bears the presentation inscription (this copy also unnumbered) was from Joyce's private library now housed in the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo. They also hold two other copies of the Bodley Head Ulysses (1/900) that also bear the words "Presentation Copy" on the edition statement: one having been owned by Joyce and the other by Sylvia Beach. Bound in publisher's original full calf vellum with gilt Homeric bows designed by… Read More
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Fahrenheit 451
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Fahrenheit 451

by Bradbury, Ray

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New York: Ballantine Books, 1953. First Edition. Asbestos Binding. Fine/Fine. First edition in perhaps the nicest example of this dust jacket extant in the world today; a rarity that practically glows. Number 25 of 200 copies with limited issue asbestos binding, hand numbered and signed by Ray Bradbury on the colophon. Approximately 50 copies of which were sold in trade dust jackets though not called for, and this is one of those copies. [viii], 199, (3) pp. Johns-Manville Quinterra asbestos binding, lettered in red. Fine, with light ambient toning to the boards, light offsetting to the front free endpaper and contents lightly tanned. In a Fine dust jacket, with absolutely no fading (we have never seen one without fading); two micro-tears to the edge, a minuscule crease to the top corner of the rear panel and trivial rubbing at the folds. The classic dystopian, anti-censorship novel, plus two short stories "The Playground" and "The Rock Cried Out." A sought-after signed limited edition with the dust… Read More
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The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby

by Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First Edition, Second Printing. Very Good. First edition, second printing, one of 3,000 copies, with all six textual errors from the first printing corrected. Signed by F. Scott Fitzgerald and inscribed "For Dorothy Bissell, April 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald, in memory of hot arguments over the Supreme Court and the autonomy of Barcelona." Bound in publisher's original dark green cloth with spine lettered in gilt and upper board in blind; lacking the scarce dust jacket; housed in a custom chemise case. Very Good with a few abrasions to the cloth most notably at the spine, a patch of slight discoloration along the top edge of the rear cover, light occasional foxing throughout. Signed copies of the author's best-known work are scarce and desirable. This copy was auctioned by Christie's in 1983, and again in 1994. In 1983 it was sold alongside copies of This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and the Damned, also inscribed by Fitzgerald to Dorothy Bissell in a… Read More
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The New Negro: An Appreciation
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The New Negro: An Appreciation

by [NAACP] Locke, Alain [Editor], W. E. B. Du Bois; James Weldon Johnson; Walter White; [Clarence Darrow]

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New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1925. First Edition. Very Good/Good. First edition in the rare dust jacket. A preeminent association and presentation copy of this cornerstone of the Harlem Renaissance signed by three of its contributors, Harlem Renaissance heavy-weights and NAACP leadership W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson and inscribed by Walter White on the half-title page to one of the foremost defense attorneys of the twentieth century Clarence Darrow. While all three signers are considered major figures in the Harlem Renaissance, Du Bois is also seen as a luminary, forefather and mentor to the movement. Additionally to Johnson and Du Bois' signatures, Walter White, who was then serving as the NAACP's assistant-secretary, has inscribed this copy "For Clarence Darrow with the warmest regard and affection of Walter White / New York / 10 December 1925". W. E. B. Du Bois was a co-founder of the NAACP and James Weldon Johnson was secretary to the organization in December of 1925. Recipient… Read More
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Moby Dick; or, the Whale
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Moby Dick; or, the Whale

by Melville, Herman

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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1851. First Edition. Very Good. First American edition of Melville's epic novel, in first issue binding and completely unrestored. In original gray cloth with publisher's device stamped in blind. xxiii, 635, [6 ads]. Very Good. Cloth lightly soiled and worn at the extremities, spine toned. Pages heavily foxed as common, owner details to front free endpaper, ink owner name to title page with offsetting to adjacent pages as well. Light, sporadic pencil notations to text, old unobtrusive tidemark to bottom margins A difficult, linguistically-innovative fever dream of a novel, which has been hailed as America's greatest contribution to world literature. Uncommon in the original publisher's binding and without any restoration; a beautiful example, housed in a custom chemise case. BAL 13664.
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