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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

London: John Long Limited, 1937. First Edition. Near Fine. First English edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt; lacking the scarce dust jacket. Near Fine with cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities, lightly frayed at spine ends. Pages toned, foxed at preliminary pages and textblock edge. After Nabokov's disappointment with the translation of his Camera Obscura into English, he took it upon himself to translate his next novel, Despair, which greatly lead to him becoming an English-language writer. The first American edition would not be published until 1966.

New York: Phaedra Inc, 1966. First Edition. Very Good+/Near Fine. First American edition. (Matches many points of variant a in Juliar's updated draft of Descriptive Bibliography of Vladimir Nabokov: first signature of pages on acid-free paper, correct first issue jacket with white design, pages are 20.9 X 13.7 cm, but lacks extra address line on back flap of jacket (like d) and sheets bulk to 1 cm). [vii], 111 pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in black. Very Good+ with a few small stains to top edge that intrude slightly into margins, rubbing to cloth, in price-clipped dust jacket with sticker shadow to front flap, basically Near Fine.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1959. First American Edition. First American edition. The correct first in English as well. Juliar A16.2. 223 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth and paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, red topstain. Fine in a very bright, attractive dust jacket, Fine, unclipped, with trivial wear. A very sharp copy.

New York: Doubleday, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first state. (Juliar's first state with correct number, 31, on last page of text.) 214 p. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. Toning with age, bumped corners. Jacket worn at head, orange lettering faded on spine, rubbing, price intact ($3.50). A nice copy.

Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1938. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, first printing in publisher's original second state brown cloth binding. Light bumping to edges of covers, and pages toned, else Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with the affects of unnecessary tape repairs made to the verso.

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing, first issue with "Francs : 900" printed on the rear cover of each volume. In two volumes. 188 p. (with no pages 11-12 as noted by Juliar); 223 p. Original green wraps. Near Fine with light creasing to wrappers; toned spines, a small stain to rear cover of volume one and first page of volume two. The first appearance of Nabokov's still-controversial novel from Maurice Girodias's pioneering, Paris-based publishers Olympia Press. Housed in a custom levant leather chemise case tooled in gilt with striking marbled covers.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1961. First Edition. Near Fine/Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul on the title page. Bound in publisher's original rose paper-covered boards with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with a lean to the binding, light sunning and light wear at edges, and foxing heaviest at textblock edge, preliminary and terminal pages. Pages toned. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with chipping to edges, soiling and slight fading to the spine.

London: Andre Deutsch, 1963. First Edition. First edition. 160 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Former owner's name and date written on front free endpaper in ink, else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with no sunning or fading, faint crease to spine panel, a little foxing to verso. An attractive copy.

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2002. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by John Nash and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Bound in publisher's black cloth with titles stamped in silver on the spine. Fine, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear.

[New York]: United Nations, 1951. Nos, 1-10 (covering the first ten meetings of the AEC at Hunter College and Lake Success, NY), with supplements 1, 3, and 4 (missing 2), Special Supplement Report to the Security Council, and the volume Atomic Energy Commission Official Records: Sixth Year, Index to Documents 1 January 1946 to April 1951. Stapled wraps in various sizes. Very Good condition overall with faint creasing to top of many issues, light wear and thumbsoiling, a few marginal penciled checkmarks. Small closed tear and two tiny chips to front wrap of No. 1. Grease pencil notation to top margin of No. 6. Light dampstain along front wrap of the Index. Uncommon documents summarizing early United Nations meetings on atomic energy.

London: Macgibbon & Kee, 1966. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Near Fine with toning ton pages, in a Near Fine dust jacket with light wear, fading to red ink on spine and light rippling to rear panel; toning to blank verso. Laid in is a handwritten letter signed by the author.

New York: Coward-McCann, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. (Published simultaneously with British and French editions.) 316 p. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Fine in Good dust jacket. Jacket spine panel sunned, creased and chipped with a few tiny pieces of archival mending tissue on verso, price intact ($2.00). A novel of Transylvanian life, the author's first following a banned volume of stories, Storm. Rare in jacket.

New York: TELLUS, 1986. Stereo cassette in cassette with single-sided fold-out J-card. Issue #13. NM. "This issue is dedicated to all the home tapers, power electricians, noise artists, and difficult musicians." The "power electronics" sub-genre of noise was introduced to many listeners with this compilation, which includes Japanese superstar of noise Merzbow, Al Margolis's long-running project If, Bwana, Maybe Mental, and No Wave composer Rhys Chatham.

New York: The John Day Company, 1948. Second Printing. Near Fine/Very Good. Second printing. Signed by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India following the country's 1947 independence ending the British Raj. Bound in publisher's black cloth lettered in green. Near Fine with light wear to covers, light foxing to textblock edge. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with sunning to spine and edge of front cover, soiling, a short tear with associated creases to the bottom of the front panel and several small tape mends made to the blindside including one to a small nick on the spine panel. Nehru was one of Gandhi's lieutenants and named by him as his "chosen heir"; the two men where perhaps the most central figures in Indian history in the 20th century.

New York: James T. White & Co, 1900. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition. Signed by John G. Neihardt on front free endpaper, warmly inscribed to author and authority on Japanese prints Louis V. Ledoux, dated January 1906. Ledoux's bookplate on paste down.Three author's holograph corrections to text, plus his note on title page, "written in 1898," i.e. when he was only 17. 46 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow buckram, front board lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with darkening to cloth (especially spine), small rub or gnaw spot along top of front board, top edge lightly soiled. Scarce signed. The very first book by the author of Black Elk Speaks (the famous memoir of an Oglala Lakota medicine man), a narrative poem based on Hindu mysticism. Only ten copies located in OCLC.

New York: William Morrow & Company, 1932. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by John G. Neihardt and inscribed to a former owner on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original crimson cloth with bronze stamping; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Uneven sunning to cloth at spine and edges, front inner hinge is exposed with webbing visible and a little fragile. Pages lightly toned, with bottom corners lightly bumped throughout. An inspirational classic of Native American literature, a series of interviews with a Lakota holy man named Black Elk who had survived the Battle of Little Big Horn and the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Madrid: Libreria de Miguel Guijarro, 1879. First Edition. About Very Good. First edition. [2], 512; 638 pp. Complete in two volumes. Early 20th century black cloth with leather backstrips, spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Text in Spanish. About Very Good overall with heavy rubbing along edges, typical toning to contents, foxing throughout as well, prelims creased, hinge cracked but holding towards second half of Vol. II with a few pages protruding slightly; front hinges of both volumes starting. Bookplates of novelist and bullfighting aficionado Barnaby Conrad on front free endpapers; his copies with gift inscription to him at front of first volume. A comprehensive guide to bullfighting with many portraits of famous toreros.

Columbia, SC: Hampton Publishing Company, 1944. First Edition. Good/Poor. First edition of this scarce novel written by an African American woman who worked as a teacher and librarian in South Carolina. Bound in publisher's original reddish-brown cloth stamped in brown. Good, cloth mottled, boards splayed and worn through at edges. Foxing to textblock edge and pages toned, inner hinges exposed. In a tattered dust jacket repaired from the verso with mending tissue at the spine, front flap detached.The author's second published novel. Nelson was the first African American in South Carolina to publish a novel. All three of her novels were reprinted in 1976.

Santiago, Chile: Prensas de la Editorial Universitaria, 1959. First Edition. Near Fine. Folio. First edition with text in the original Spanish language. Copy number 198 of a limited 270 signed by Pablo Neruda in his characteristic green ink. In publisher's original wraps printed in black red, with lithograph signed by the illustrator laid in. Near Fine with toning and light wear. A collection of sonnets written by the Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate dedicated to his beloved wife (at the time), Matilde Urrutia. It is divided into the four stages of the day: morning, afternoon, evening, and night.