Recent Arrivals from 20 Ants Fine Books, IOBA

Recent Arrivals from 20 Ants Fine Books, IOBA

[Sammelband] Portrait Painting  : Old Articles
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[Sammelband] Portrait Painting : Old Articles

by Various authors and artists

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Used - Very Good-
Edition
Unique Copy
Published
1880s-1890s
Binding
Hardcover
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Private Printing. Very Good-. 1880s-1890s. Unique Copy. Hardcover. All extremities rubbed. Larger, rubbed area of the spine at the tail. Paper covers rubbed at corners. Overall foxing to the free endpapers. Joints cracked, but holding well. Very occasional, light pencil notations.; This is a Sammelband that assembles twenty-four articles about Victorian portrait painters and photographers, all… Read more about this item
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Pathways to Manhood  : Young Black Males Struggle for Identity

Pathways to Manhood : Young Black Males Struggle for Identity

by Billson, Janet Mancini

Condition
Used - Very Good+
Edition
Second Revised Edition
Published
1996
Binding
Paperback
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New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers. Very Good+. 1996. Second Revised Edition. Paperback. Noticeable bow to text block.; The book follows five boys as they grow and strive in Roxbury, Massachusetts in the racial and political turmoil of the late 60s and early 70s. In socially and physically decaying environments they developed different styles of coping with adversity. Despite some commonalities, they… Read more about this item
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The Prophets Really Prophesy As Mystics. The Commentators Merely By  Statistics  : A New Poem by Robert Frost
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The Prophets Really Prophesy As Mystics. The Commentators Merely By Statistics : A New Poem by Robert Frost

by Robert Frost

Condition
Used - Fine
Published
1962
Binding
Brochure
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New York: The Spiral Press. Fine. 1962. Brochure. One of the various little booklets printed by The Spiral Press, this copy is a Christmas keepsake with an additional preliminary page, printed thus: "Greetings / Christmas / 1962 / From Robert Frost". This was Frost's short poem about the push and pull of nature, and mystic belief vs. science. "In other… Read more about this item
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What You Know With No Name For It
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What You Know With No Name For It

by Abbott, Keith

Condition
Used - Fine
Edition
Limited Edition
Published
1976
Binding
Softcover
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San Francisco: Cranium Press. Fine. 1976. Limited Edition. Softcover. Keith Abbott's wide-ranging poem that bounces through successive observations about himself and life. Boldly inscribed by Abbott to Kenward Elmslie, on the front endpaper in elaborate calligraphic script using a chisel-point pen. "The Ken- / ward / Elmslie / Copy / (a calligraphic flourish) / Keith" Provenance: From the library and… Read more about this item
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How To Be A Woodpecker
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How To Be A Woodpecker

by Padgett, Ron, and Winkfield, Trevor

Condition
Used - Fine
Edition
Limited/Numbered Signed Edition
Published
1983
Binding
Softcover
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West Branch (Iowa): Toothpaste Press. Fine. 1983. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Softcover. Faint, small scuffing to the matte finished wraps.; This collaboration between author and artist has five short, non-rhyming poems by Ron Padgett, each with a facing page having an utterly quirky illustration by Trevor Winkfield. Yes, woodpeckers and woodpecker society are occasionally involved. This is copy 78 of a… Read more about this item
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In London

In London

by Creeley, Robert

Condition
Used - Very Good-
Edition
Limited Edition
Published
1970
Binding
Softcover
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Bolinas, California: Angel Hair Books. Very Good-. 1970. Limited Edition. Softcover. Wraps toned and soiled, as so many are with this edition. Some toned offsetting from an adjacent book. A bit of wave to the head edge of the front.; Thirty-five minimalist, idiosyncratic, freely-constructed poems of experimental technique. Most are terse, some are brief prose poetry, all… Read more about this item
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Little Mysteries
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Little Mysteries

by Mikolowski, Ken

Condition
Used - Fine
Edition
Limited Edition
Published
1979
Binding
Softcover
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West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press. Fine. 1979. Limited Edition. Softcover. Seven, tiny poems, each creating a scenario for a mystery. Example: "You return to / your bedroom / visibly shaken / as you turn down / the covers a cobra / leaps for your throat / paralyzed you collapse // you are no longer suspect". Each is… Read more about this item
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Erratics

Erratics

by Eshleman, Clayton

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Edition
Limited Edition
Published
2000
Binding
Softcover
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Rosendale, NY: Hunger Press. Near Fine. 2000. Limited Edition. Softcover. Seventy-eight short poems, some as short as a single line and thus begging the question 'what is poetry?' Some surreal, some straightforward, all juxtaposed and unrelated, and all representative of Clayton Eshleman's free verse style. Written in 1986-2000 when the poet was Professor Emeritus at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti,… Read more about this item
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Yes Virginia (Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus)  : The Classic, New  York Sun Answer Made To The Question
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Yes Virginia (Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus) : The Classic, New York Sun Answer Made To The Question "Is There A Santa Claus?"

by Church, Francis Pharcellus

Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
Limited/Numbered Signed Edition
Published
1939
Binding
Hardcover
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Norwich, New York: Private Printing. Very Good. 1939. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Hardcover. Some splay to the front cover and a slight roll to the spine. The title label was applied at a slight angle. The glassine wrapper has a couple of nicks. The box is darkened with wear to the extremities.; In 1897, young Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to… Read more about this item
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[Broadsides] Roycroft Printed Mottos, 12 total
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[Broadsides] Roycroft Printed Mottos, 12 total

by Hubbard, Elbert

Condition
Used - Fine
Edition
Reprint
Published
1929
Binding
Broadside
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New York, NY: William H. Wise. Fine. 1929. Reprint. Broadside. Some leaves have slight binding perforations at the left edge.; Twelve of Elbert Hubbard's mottos, or "epigrams," as he would sometimes call them. Each motto printed in an Arts and Crafts style: text within a graphic frame with decorative borders, some styled after similar borders by … Read more about this item
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Three Centuries Passed  : The Fitzhugh Family
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Three Centuries Passed : The Fitzhugh Family

by Fitzhugh, Marie

Condition
Used - Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Edition
Limited/Numbered Signed Edition
Published
1975
Binding
Hardcover
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San Antonio, TX: Naylor Company. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1975. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition. Hardcover. Dust jacket is sunned on the spine with lettering still contrasting well, slightly sun-darkened fore and head edges, a tiny nick to the front and several to the head edge of the back.; Both a history and genealogy, this book starts… Read more about this item
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[Poetry Broadsides] Twowindows Folio VI

[Poetry Broadsides] Twowindows Folio VI

by Blazek, McCord, McDonald, Ramsey, Wagner, Wild

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Used - Very Good+
Published
1970
Binding
Broadside
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San Francisco: Twowindows Press. Very Good+. 1970. Broadside. Some broadsides have very light, shallow creasing from handling. Folder has creasing and bumped corners, quite common to these.; Six poetry broadsides, printed on the recto, by authors Douglas Blazek (Figuring Things Out, 1970). Blazek was the founder of Open Skull Press and was one of the driving… Read more about this item
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Poems for the Pagan Heart
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Poems for the Pagan Heart

by Greenwood, Lorelei

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Used - Fine
Published
2016
Binding
Softcover
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Lexington, KY: CreateSpace Publishing. Fine. 2016. Softcover. Poems, hymns, and chants celebrating Pagan views of life, earth, and nature. Fifty-three works are grouped under these Chapters: Samhain, Yule, Imbolic, Ostara, Beltane, Midsummer, Lughnasadh, Mabon, Goddess and God, and Various. Author signed "Lorelei" in green ink on the title page. The author lives in Maine and had… Read more about this item
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Asteros Polyp
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Asteros Polyp

by Mazzucchelli, David

Condition
Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
Edition
First Edition; Fourth Printing
Published
2009
Binding
Hardcover
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New York: Pantheon Books. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2009. First Edition; Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Slight rub to spine tail. Faintest marring to the surface of the paper belly band.; This veteran cartoonist's first graphic novel is Asterios Polyp's "...search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions." It's his life presented in graphic fashion. The… Read more about this item
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Wood Flower
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Wood Flower

by Le Gallienne, Richard (Richard Thomas Gallienne)

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Edition
Limited Edition
Published
(1947)
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Softcover
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Madison, NJ: Brayers Club. Near Fine. (1947). Limited Edition. Softcover. Tiny nicks to the head edge of the front wrap.; This tiny book contains a facsimile of the holograph manuscript of Wood Flower, a 2-verse poem by Richard Le Gallienne. The narrator finds a flower growing in the woods and wishes to pluck it. Comparing the flower… Read more about this item
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Prospectus for Hacienda, with checklist of Previous Publications of  Harrison of Paris

Prospectus for Hacienda, with checklist of Previous Publications of Harrison of Paris

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Used - Near Fine
Published
c.1934
Binding
Booklet
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New York, NY: Harrison of Paris. Near Fine. c.1934. Booklet. The lightest, short crease at the tail fore corner and at the spine head.; Monroe Wheeler and Barbara Harrison Westcott founded Harrison of Paris in 1930. They issued 12 publications from their Paris press before moving to New York, NY and issuing their final book: Hacienda :… Read more about this item
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Three Years of the Manticora Press

Three Years of the Manticora Press

by (Neal F. Grenley)

Condition
Used - Near Fine
Edition
Limited/Numbered Edition
Published
1969
Binding
Softcover
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Princeton, New Jersey: The Manticora Press. Near Fine. 1969. Limited/Numbered Edition. Softcover. Tiny, closed tears to the head edge of the wraps, adjacent to the spine head. Just a bit of wear to the spine tail.; The bibliography of this tiny ephemeral press that produced 3 books; two previous books and this one. Founded in 1967 by… Read more about this item
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The Philosophy of Limited Editions

The Philosophy of Limited Editions

by Le Gallienne, Richard (Richard Thomas Gallienne)

Condition
Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
Edition
Limited Edition
Published
1929
Binding
Softcover
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Westport: Privately Printed. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1929. Limited Edition. Softcover. Faintest sunning to the edges of the wraps. Tail corner of front wrap has tiny, light crease.; The author's essay on why limited editions should exist in the wide world of publishing, reading, and collecting. "Why do the heathen so furiously rage against limited… Read more about this item
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Indiana Stonecarver  : The Story of Thomas R. Reding
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Indiana Stonecarver : The Story of Thomas R. Reding

by Nolan, Ann and Buckley, Keith

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Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Published
1984
Binding
Softcover
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Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1984. Softcover. Spine is sunned, typical of this edition, and the edges of wraps a bit less so.; A concise, well-written history of the life and career of Thomas R. Reding (1807-1852), a stonecutter of gravestones in Indiana. Initially a cabinetmaker, then a saddle maker, he… Read more about this item
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The Divine Comedy  : The Vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise
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The Divine Comedy : The Vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise

by Alighieri, Dante

Condition
Used - Fine with no dust jacket
Edition
First Edition Thus
Published
1966
Binding
Hardcover
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New York: Washington Square Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1966. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Volume I has an imperfection to the rear pastedown at the head corner and this has impressed the lightest crease at the same corner of a few leaves. Minor marks to the slipcase.; The Divine Comedy is Dante Alighieri's medieval vision of… Read more about this item
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