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New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1968 . First Evergreen Black Cat Edition. Softcover. Paperback in illustrated wraps. SIGNED on the title page William S. Burroughs and additionally INSCRIBED For R Leane sic Dahlberg/in memory of/a memorable/evening/William. R'Lene Dahlberg was the wife of the writer Edward Dahlberg, publisher of the Pequod Press, and close friend of Herbert Huncke's. A little browning of the cheap paper;

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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. Reprint. Hardcover. Decorated red cloth. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the blank page facing the title page: To J. J. Campbell/Friend & veteran ? /With regards/Andrew Carnegie/New York/Jany 1st/1903. Campbell was auditor for the Carnegie Steel Company. Campbell has written in pencil on the title page: Read with much pleasure and interest in the spring of 1903. Light

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Photograph. Attractive 8 x 10 color photograph of Carter standing before a bookcase and an American flag. SIGNED in the white margin beneath the image Best Wishes to -- Jimmy Carter. Fine. Item #019811

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Venice: F. Valgrisi and N. Moretti, 1603. Early Printing. Hardcover. Large octavo 7 x 10 bound in early full vellum, 16 654 32 pages. The complete and corrected ORLANDO FURIOSO, with Ruscelli's dedication to the Duke of Ferrara dated 1556 and an account of the life of Ariosto by Battista Pigna. Illustrated with an engraved title page, 51 full-page woodcuts, ornamental headpieces, and initial letters. The woodcuts,

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorated green cloth. Virginia author's first book, a novel published anonymously. This in the first state binding with no name on the spine. Owner name of Belle Mayo on the top of the title page and Mrs. P. H. Mayo of Richmond dated 2 April 1897 on the front endpaper. A lovely copy, Near Fine. Item #019976

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Paris: J. Rothschild, 1873. Second Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo 7 x 10-3/4 bound in half red morocco leather with matching corners, gilt-ruled marble paper sides, gilt-lettered and decorated spine with five raised bands, all edges gilt, marble endpapers. Illustrated with a frontispiece, 60 hand-finished chromolithographs of roses, some on tinted paper, with tissue guards and descriptive pages of text, and 60 woodcuts

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Newbury-port and Boston: John Mvcall for William Green, 1782. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto 5 x 7-3/4 in contemporary sheep with a gilt-lettered morocco spine label; 352, 14 , 2 - ads pages. First published in 1762, and in America in 1775, Burgh's work helped shape the theories of speech delivery for over a century. Containing a 62-page essay on the art of speaking with the remainder of the book consisting of

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Santa Rosa : Black Sparrow Press , 1979 . First Edition. Photograph. A photographic half-tone reproduction 10 x 8 by Michael Montfort removed from Bukowski's book SHAKESPEARE NEVER DID THIS, published in 1979. SIGNED by Bukowski in purple ink. Fine. Item #019284

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Rochester, NY: Stecher Lithographic Co., 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong octavo 9-1/4 x 6-1/4 in black cloth lettered in red. A handsome nursery specimen book with 85 chromolithographs, printed on both sides of the sheet, of trees, flowers, and fruit. Plates bright and clean. Slight looseness of covers. A Near Fine example of an attractive nursery specimen book. Item #019991

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Washington, DC: 1890. Document. A deed SIGNED by Bruce as Recorder of Deeds, a position appointed to him by President Benjamin Harrison replacing Frederick Douglass. Bruce is best known as the first African-American to serve a full term in the United States Senate. Crease marks from folding. Very Good. Item #002044

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New York : Jerry Poynton , 1996 . First Edition. stiff wraps. Folio in stiff black wraps, spiral bound with the cover from the Huncke memorial volume pasted on the front. Most pages are blank. Eleven pages contain SIGNATURES or drawings including Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Gregory Corso with a 5-line poem titled Oblivion , John Wieners, Ted Morgan, Gerard Malanga, Fielding Dawson, Phil Yeh who authored the first,

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Boston : L. Prang & Co. , 1863 . First Edition. Stiff Wraps. Shape book: 6-5/8 x 2-3/8 , 16 pages; stiff chromolithographed wrappers sewn . Charming toy book in the shape of a standing Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf crouched around her ankles. L. Prang & Company issued a series of Doll books in 1863 which, along with other juveniles, toy books, and games, were among its first publications. Katherine McLinton

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Rome: B. Deuersin, & Z. Masotti, 1654. Third, and best, Edition. Hardcover. Folio 8-1/2 x 12-1/2 bound in contemporary vellum; xxxii including engraved title-page , 618, 24 pages. Title page printed in red and black with engraved printer's device; additional engraved title page; woodcut initials; head- and tailpieces; full-page engraved arms of the dedicatee, Ferdinand IV; about 50 tables and several examples of

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London: George Virtue, 1836. First Edition. hardcover. Two quarto 8-1/4 x 11 volumes bound in plum embossed cloth with polished green calf leather spines and corners, matching morocco spine labels. Illustrated with engraved title pages in each volume, 106 steel-engraved plates after Bartlett, and a folding lithograph map of Switzerland. Most plates free from foxing, a few with moderate to heavy foxing. Some rubbing to the

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London: J ohn L egat to be sold by George Hutton, 1639. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto 5-1/8 x 7 in later polished blue morocco leather-backed boards; A4, a4, B-P4, Q2. 2, blank , 33, 1 , 92, 1 errata , 1 blank pages. Complete with the original first blank. Woodcut initials and head-pieces. An important early treatise on agriculture by one of the earliest advocates in England of an improved system of

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Paris: Ruault, 1776. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 7-7/8 x 10 bound in contemporary gilt-ruled polished calf leather rebacked preserving the gilt-decorated spine with morocco spine label, marbled endpapers; xii, iv , 206, 2 pages. Complete with the half-title page and 119 full-page engraved plates numbered to 120 as issued, including the frontispiece , a few folding, largely depicting the botany and birds 79

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Photograph. An 8 x 10 photo of Belafonte with his business manager, Jay Kennedy, and another man, apparently producer Sidney Buchman, Kennedy's partner, at a restaurant table from the early to mid-1950s. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Belafonte to Kennedy: Dad! Dad!! Dad!!! On this day we released ourselves to further pursue the course we have chosen for ourselves. To you I'm indebted to Sidney I'm grateful, and perhaps History will thank us all. Your Harry. Also INSCRIBED by Buchman: To Jay, a