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Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1982. Small slim quarto (23.5cm.); original card wrappers in marbled dust jacket, printed paper label mounted to upper panel, disbound as issued; 21 leaves; portrait plate. Fine, with the printer Alan Anderson's manuscript corrections in red ink throughout.
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A.J.A. Symons to Wyndham Lewis: Twenty-Four Letters with Comments by Julian Symons [Printer's Corrected Proofs]
by SYMONS, A.J.A.
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Abaft the Funnel
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New York: B.W. Dodge, 1909. First American Edition. Octavo (20cm). Pictorial deep blue textured cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 360pp. Publisher's presentation copy, inscribed on front endpaper: "Best wishes of the publisher (see title page) and his wife / Xmas 1909." First issue, with gilt stamping to cloth (later issues stamped in red). A fine, bright copy in the original dustwrapper, lightly worn, a trifle darkened on spine, Very Good.
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Abortion: The Struggle in the Labour Movement [cover title]
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[London]: Labour Abortion Rights Campaign, n.d. [1979]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original cream pictorial staplebound wrappers; 28pp. Fine. Includes a history of abortion rights by Mary Donnelly and the essay "The 1967 Abortion Act and its opponents," by Ann Kingsbury. 3 copies in OCLC as of May, 2015, UC Davis & Northwestern only in North America.
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Abstract of Text from Builders' Jewel and Builders' Chest-Book (London, 1746)
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Washington DC: Reprint Company, n.d., ca. 1906. Slim folio (33.5cm.); publisher's two-toned cloth (tan and maroon), upper cover lettered in gilt, spine stamped in tan and gilt; 15pp. & [20]ll. reproducing 89 plates. Ex-University of Mary Washington with their usual markings and deaccession rubberstamp, boards rubbed with some exposure at corners, spine lettering partly effaced, textblock a bit dust-soiled, else Good or better.
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Across the Plains
by STEVENSON, Robert Louis
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (19cm). In original red publisher's cloth, titled in gilt on spine; grey coated endpapers; 12 pp of publisher's ads at rear; [x], 317, [1], 12pp. A sturdy copy, with minor dirt and rubbing to cloth, internally clean: Very Good. 12 essays, mainly reprinted from Scribner's Magazine. The titular essay concerns a journey by train from New York to San Francisco; other essays describe visits to San Francisco and France, autobiographical snippets in Scotland, and ideas about religion, ethics, and charity, especially in "Pulvis et Umbra" and "A Christmas Sermon." NCBEL III: 1007. Cf. PRIDEAUX 33.
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Adamastor: Poems
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London: Faber and Faber, [1930]. First Trade Edition. First issue dust jacket with author's name printed twice on spine. Small, slim octavo (19cm.); original cloth in decorative teal price-clipped jacket printed in red and black, green topstain; 108pp. Jacket extremities a bit toned, mostly to spine, a few tiny chips and closed tears, none approaching text, spine just a hint cocked, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket.
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An Address Delivered by William Morris at the Distribution of Prizes to Students of the Birmingham Municipal School of Art on Feb. 21, 1894
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[London: Chiswick Press, 1898]. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth-backed printed paper-covered boards; [2],25pp. Boards a bit rubbed and faintly soiled, early 20th-century ex libris to front pastedown, else Very Good, internally fine. Features the Golden type designed by Morris for the Kelmscott Press.
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An Address Delivered to the Inhabitants of New Lanark, on the First of January, 1816, at the Opening of the Institution Established for the Formation of Character [Inscribed]
by [UTOPIAN THOUGHT] OWEN, Robert
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. Third Edition. Octavo (25cm.); later 19th-century green pebbled cloth; 48pp. Cloth boards bumped at corners, added endpapers causing considerable browning to title page and final leaf of text, some light spotting throughout textblock, else a Very Good, still quite sound copy. Inscribed by Owen at head of title page: "With the Author's Regards." Robert Owen first purchased the textile mill at New Lanark, Scotland, from his father-in-law in 1799 and set about experimenting his socialist theories in the management of the business and its community. Owen's greatest success was revolutionizing the early education of worker's children, the foundation of which he expanded to include worker education. The present New Years address delivered at the opening of the Institute for the Formation of Character, which offered education from infancy through adulthood. Owen opened his oration by delineating the main far-reaching purposes of the Institute, "The first…
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Address Delivered Before the Historical Society of the University of North-Carolina, June 6, 1855
by ATKINSON, [Thomas]
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Raleigh: Holden & Wilson, 1855. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); removed; 32pp. Front signature separated but present, some shallow chips and tiny losses along margins, textblock rather foxed; Good only. Admiring account of the life and deeds of Oliver Cromwell by the Bishop of North Carolina. SABIN 2286.
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An Address of Members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, to their constituents, on the subject of the war with Great-Britain
by [WAR OF 1812] [SULLIVAN, George et al]
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New-York: C.S. Van Winkle, 1812. Octavo (22cm.); removed; 32pp. Stock a bit brittle and toned, final leaf separated but present; Good or better overall. Oft-reprinted letter signed by more than two dozen members of the Federalist Party attacking changes made by the Thomas Jefferson administration and the declaration of war against Britain in the years following his presidency. SABIN 67197; SHAW & SHOEMAKER 24548.
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An Address of Members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, to their constituents, on the subject of the war with Great-Britain
by [WAR OF 1812] [SULLIVAN, George et al]
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Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin, 1812. Octavo (22.5cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 24pp., printed on pale grey stock. Light chipping to extremities, else a Very Good or better, unopened copy. Oft-reprinted letter signed by more than two dozen members of the Federalist Party attacking changes made by the Thomas Jefferson administration and the declaration of war against Britain in the years following his presidency. SABIN 393; SHAW & SHOEMAKER 24543.
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Adventures in the Skin Trade. A Play from the Novel by Dylan Thomas
by [DYLAN THOMAS] SINCLAIR, Andrew
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London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1967. First Edition. Octavo. Black cloth, titled in silver on spine; dustjacket; 89pp. Tight, Near Fine copy in slightly rubbed but unclipped dustwrapper, Very Good.
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The Adventures of Inspector Lestrade
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London: Macmillan, 1985. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (21.5cm). Tan cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; 224pp. Tight and straight, with the usual mild tanning to the text stock. Still very Near Fine in a fine, unclipped dustwrapper (priced £7.95 net). The first title in the series, featuring Trow's reimagined Inspector Lestrade from the Sherlock Holmes stories.
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Adventure
by SEELY, J. E. B.
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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1930. First American Edition. Octavo (22cm). Orange cloth stamped in black; yellow endpapers; [xviii],326pp; black and white illustrations. An upright copy, spine faded, pushed at spine ends and corners, internally clean. John Edward Bernard Seely (1868-1947) was a British MP and Army general. [62177].
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Adventures Among Birds
by HUDSON, W.H.
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London: Hutchinson & Co, 1913. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original green gilt-ruled cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt; viii,316pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. A hint of shelf wear else Fine. WILSON 30.
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Africa, Africa! A Continent Rises to Its Feet
by KARTUN, Derek; Alphaeus Hunton, foreword
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New York: International Publishers, [1954]. First Edition. Wrapper issue. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's yellow card wrappers lettered in red; vii,[3],99pp. Wrappers slightly worn and dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound. Account of "the struggle for freedom throughout British colonial Africa in the face of terrible repressions.
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African Students in Alien Cultures
by ANUMONYE, Amechi
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Buffalo: Black Academy Press, [1970]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; viii,148pp. Mild dust-soiling, else Very Good and sound. Nigerian doctor's psychological study of a group of African students in Britain.
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African Achievement: Building Tomorrow in British West Africa
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[New York: British Information Services, 1946]. Revised Edition. Oblong octavo (15.75x21cm.); original brown photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers; unpaged; chiefly photographic illus. Fine. Photographic record of the progress made under British rule in Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), and Nigeria.
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The African Witch
by CARY, Joyce
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London: Gollancz, 1936. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (20cm). Black cloth, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 448pp. Faint foxing to text block edges, else Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, priced 8/6 net on spine panel; slightly dusty and toned, with a ca. 1/2" closed tear on rear panel and a shade darkened on spine, still Very Good. Cary's third published book, based on his own service as a colonial administrator in Nigeria.
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The Age of Churchill: Heritage and Adventure 1874-1911
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London: Thames & Hudson, 1961. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (25cm). Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 628pp; illus. Tight, clean and unmarked, Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 42s net at base of front flap), slightly curled at extremities with incipient separation of lamination; Very Good.
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