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Noto dayori | Letters from Noto : 1955-1964 能登便り with English Translation
by Winans, Hideko. Photographs by David Beckman
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- Used
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- 2009
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- Hardcover
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- 9784833017237
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$75.00
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Kanzawa: Hokkoku Shinbunsha 北國新聞社, 2009. Hardcover. 181p. Illustrated. Text in Japanese and English. Fine. Inscribed and signed by Yvonne Nimnicht Beckman (daughter of the author and photographer). "An excerpt from a collection of letters" written from the author while she was in Noto Japan to her parents (living in Berkeley at the time). The photographs are by her then… Read more about this item Item Price
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By Kenya possessed: The Correspondence of Norman Leys and J. H. Oldham, 1918-1926
by Cell, John, editing and introduction
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- 1976
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- Hardcover
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- 9780226099712
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$15.00
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Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1976. Hardcover. ix, 382p., two portrait photos, hardcover with dj. Front free endsheet bears a small dried patch of paint, offset to dj flap, jacket mildly rubbed, an otherwise very good copy. Item Price
$15.00
The letters of Lytton Strachey
by Strachey, Lytton, edited by Paul Levy, assisted by Penelope Marcus
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- 2005
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- Hardcover
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- 9780374258542
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New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 2005. Hardcover. xxi, 698p., introduction, select bibliography & sources, the letters, index, very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Item Price
$15.00
Ming xian shou ji jing hua / Calligraphy of Ming literatis in correspondence
by Cheng, Hsi; collected by S.P. Yen
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- 1977
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- Hardcover
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$18.00
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Hong Kong, 1977. Hardcover. viii, 56, 4p., hardcover, front cover crushed with ugly tears in the paper, interior textblock very good; a reference copy. Facsimile reproductions of calligraphy by Ming-era scholars. Cheng was a professor at the University of Iowa. Item Price
$18.00
Tanoshii hagaki hyaku gojissen
by Kunisada, Keichiku
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- 1988
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$12.00
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Tokyo: the author, 1988. [150p.], very good in red cloth. OCLC lists one holding as of January 2023. Color reproductions of 150 decorative letters featuring Kunisada's calligraphy. Item Price
$12.00
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Traivellin man, a sequence o poems [signed letter laid-in]
by Glen, Duncan, with frontispiece by John Hodkinson
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- 1977
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$45.00
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Preston: Harris Press, 1977. 27p., 4.5x10 inches, frontis, very good chapbook in stapled pictorial wraps. Nice copy. Laid in is a signed holograph note on Akros Press letterhead from Duncan Glen to poet Robert Wells discussing publication. Scottish poet, printer, educator and editor of Akros Magazine. He died in 2008. Item Price
$45.00
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[Postcard from Donna and Red Kelly to John Wittwer]
by [Kelly, Red, Donna Kelly, John Wittwer]
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- 1951
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- Postcard
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$30.00
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Bloomington, IL, 1951. Postcard. 5.5x3.25 inches, plain cardstock postcard with handwriting of D.M. Kelly (Donna Kelly) to friend jazz pianist John Wittwer in SF with cancelled 3 cent stamp. Donna writes about her travels with husband Seattle-based jazz bassist Thomas "Red " Kelly on a tour with Claude Thornhill. The card is canceled in Bloomington but the return address… Read more about this item Item Price
$30.00
Love-Letters Of Margaret Fuller, 1845-1846
by [Ossoli, Margaret]
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- 1969
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- 9780837114514
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New York: Greenwood Press, 1969. xvi, 228p., previous owner's name and date in pen on ffep else very good hardcover; reprint of 1903 edition. Item Price
$12.00
Letter to Fellow Democrats; San Francisco, April 21, 1928
by Phelan, James D.
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- 1928
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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San Francisco: James D. Phelan, 1928. 1 page printed letter with Phelan's letterhead and facsimile signature, folded twice for mass-mailing, yellowed with edgewear. Five paragraphs and final admonition "Be not deceived!" In support of Democratic candidate Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York. On verso find pencil shopping list including "gargle and spinnage" Onetime Mayor of San Francisco, a… Read more about this item Item Price
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The last words of Adolf Joffe: a letter to Leon Trotsky
by Joffe, Adolf
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- 1950
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- Pamphlet
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Colombo, Ceylon: Lanka Sama Samaja Publication, 1950. Pamphlet. 7p., paper browned, staples removed leaving mild rust stain, slightly rubbed wraps, publishers stamp on back wrap, else very good. Farewell letter to Trotsky before the author's suicide. Item Price
$12.00
Poetica exotica; three delightful, suppressed items from the pens of three great American writers, plus other curious items
by Franklin, Benjamin, Eugene Field, James Whitcomb Riley, et al.
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- 1938
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no place: Esoterika Biblion Society, 1938. unpaginated, 6x9 inches, very good in original blue wraps with some foxing on cover edges. Mild scatology. The other "curious" items, are reprints of love letters between persons, mostly Frenchmen and Germans, famous in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Item Price
$15.00
The letters of John Cheever
by Cheever, John, edited by Benjamin Cheever
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- 1988
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- Hardcover
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- 9780671628734
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. Hardcover. 397p. + 12p. photographs, very good first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj. Item Price
$15.00
Straight Hearts' Delight: love poems and selected letters, 1947-1980
by Ginsberg, Allen and Peter Orlovsky, edited by Winston Leyland
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- 1980
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- Paperback
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- 9780917342653
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1980. Paperback. 239p., nude frontis-portrait, editor's note, chronology of letters, index, photos, very good first edition stated trade paperback in wraps. Item Price
$25.00
In Touch: the letters of Paul Bowles
by Bowles, Paul, edited by Jeffrey Miller
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- 1994
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- Hardcover
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- 9780374185107
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$18.00
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994. Hardcover. xx, 604p. + 8p. b&w glossy photos, foreword, chronology, Arabic glossary, biographical glossary, notes, index, very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Item Price
$18.00
Alice Hamilton: a life in letters
by Sicherman, Barbara
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- 1984
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- Hardcover
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- 9780674015531
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. Hardcover. 460p., first edition, previous owner's name penned on free front endpaper, else very good condition in an unclipped and shelf worn dust jacket. Item Price
$12.00
