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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. Good+/Good+. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First American Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.50); [8],289pp. Boards and jacket extremities darkened and rubbed with exposure along board margins, clear tape reinforcement to jacket verso, dark soil spots to rear jacket panel very slightly affecting rear cover, old redacted ink price to upper jacket flap; overall Good or better, internally clean and sound.

Madrid: Society of Spanish Studies, 1980. Very Good/Very Good. Madrid: Society of Spanish Studies, 1980. Presumed First Edition, with no subsequent printings noted. Octavo; 194pp +12pp b&w photo spread. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. English-language text. Jacket rubbed along edges and spine ends, with some faint scuffing and smudging to surface. Boards faded along bottom edge with light bumping at corners and spine ends. Small sticker shadow on front free endpaper. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. The third in the author's "Flamenco Trilogy," following his The Art of Flamenco and Lives and Legends of Flamenco.

London: Labour Publishing Company Limited, 1926. Near Fine. London: Labour Publishing Company Limited, 1926. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); publisher's decorative tan staple bound wrappers; vii,[1],18pp. A hint of shelf wear, else Fine. The author's first book, a short play inspired by the ongoing miners' strikes in the country. As the introduction warns, "This is admittedly a grim little play, but not, I think, grimmer than reality.

New York: Richmond, Croscup & Co, 1893. Very Good. New York: Richmond, Croscup & Co., 1893. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's grey decorative cloth embossed in dark blue, top edge gilt; 314pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Some scuffing to extremities, most notably at spine ends, corners a bit bumped, minor spine lean, later ownership signature to front pastedown and old price in black marker to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Account of the war-time activities of Mrs. Van Metre of Clarke County, Virginia, who befriended a wounded soldier of the 1st Vermont heavy artillery with whom she was able to locate and release her husband, a Confederate prisoner-of-war.

Charleston, WV: Allied Printing Trades Council / Tribune Printing Co, 1919. Very Good. Charleston, WV: Allied Printing Trades Council / Tribune Printing Co. , 1919. First Edition. Octavo. 26 pp. Frontis portrait with tissue guard. Dark brown boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards lightly shelfworn with heavy spotting/discoloration to rear. Binding sound. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked. Scarce.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970. Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1970]. First Simon and Schuster Paperback Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; [12],745pp. A hint of toning and soil to wrappers and textblock margins, else Very Good and sound. Inscribed and signed by the author on p. [i]. Contents include three novels: "Portrait of an Artist with 26 Horses"; "Go in Beauty"; and "The Bronc People.

New York: The Macaulay Company, 1933. Very Good. New York: The Macaulay Company, 1933. First Edition. Octavo. 255 pages. Dark gray cloth stamped in red. Lacks dust jacket. Wear with exposure from biopredation along extremities, spine, and edges of panels. Some light foxing to edges of text block but otherwise interior clean and unmarked. Opens easily between gatherings with a couple gaps starting to show, but binding is sound.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Very Good/Very Good. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. First Edition. Inscribed by author to journalist and language columnist William Safire on front free endpaper "To: William Safire with author's compliments. Michael Echeruo, 1998." Hallmark Hanukkah card inscribed by Echeruo to Safire and two of his Syracuse University business cards also laid in. Octavo. 283 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over orange boards with gilt lettering. Jacket is faded along spine, with no chips, tears, or marks. Boards sturdy and sharp. Spine ends nudged. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Philadelphia, PA: H.S. Eckles & Co, 1905. Very Good. Philadelphia, PA: H. S. Eckles & Co., ca. 1905. Interior plates dated 1903 with 1905 date stamped on exterior. Portfolio (15.25 inches x 11.5 inches) with a metal clasp, contains 8 full-color illustrations, four with various overlays of anatomical detail and four black and white illustrations. Accompanied by two elaborate, hand-drawn and colored anatomy charts (14 inches x 22 inches), folded, of the venous system and the arterial system, along with a typed two-sided corresponding list. Charts possible later with Miller Jr's ownership signature to verso (see below). Portfolio moderately worn with brief exposure and minor fraying. Soiling to interior and and light wear to illustrations and overlays, in particular near clasps. Charts well worn and cracked along folds with tape remnants to edges. Overall Very Good with evidence of frequent use. OCLC notes an accompanying book published by Eckels, rather scarce and not included here, and a similar… Read More

Dayton, OH: United Brethren Publishing House, 1911. Very Good-. Dayton, OH: United Brethren Publishing House, 1911. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green decorative cloth embossed in gilt; 230pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, eight leaves of plates. Corners a bit bumped, spine cocked and lettering entirely effaced, textblock rather shaken in binding, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, else a Good to Very Good copy. Uncommon biography of the late minster Andrew Jackson Newgent (1838-1904), who began his career as an itinerant "boy preacher" on the American frontier of western Ohio and Indiana.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1933. Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1933. First Edition. Octavo. 506 pp. Blue cloth stamped in dark blue; red topstain; illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket. Boards lightly worn along edges with some light general spotting and rubbing. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper and dust soiling to top edge, but pages otherwise unmarked.

Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1974. Very Good+. Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1974. Second Edition. Octavo; publisher's green cloth, white spine titling; [8],370pp. Spine a shade sunned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good to Near Fine. Includes contributions by Martin Heidegger, Oskar Becker, and Alexandre Koyré. Text entirely in German.

Boston: Fowle and Draper, 1762. Very Good-. Boston: Fowle and Draper, 1762. First Edition. Slim octavo; 19th century glazed boards, gilt calf spine label, later endpapers; 12,36pp. ([A]4 B-F4, collated and presumed complete); decorative head- and tail-pieces. Boards scuffed at extremities with exposure at corners, spine partly perished, some soil to rear board and textblock, else a Good or better, internally sound copy. Two sermons issued together with separate title pages and pagination but continuous collation, attributed to Edmund March (ca. 1704-1791). Quite uncommon, none in the trade as of April, 2023; last seen in the auction record in 1917. ESTC W14481; EVANS 9168 & 9169; SABIN 28443.

Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2002. Very Good. [Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany]: Hatje Cantz, [2002]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green and grey card wrappers, French flaps; 404pp.; illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, faint dampstain to bottom fore-edge corner of textblock, else Very Good and sound. Collected essays presented at the second Documenta11 platform held in New Delhi, India, May 7-21, 2001, many of the essays pertaining to reconciliation in relation to post-colonial African politics, ethnic conflict, and crimes against humanity.

Halle: Johann Friedrich Lippert, 1843. Good +. Halle: Johann Friedrich Lippert, 1843. Zweite, verbesserte Auflage ("Second, Improved Edition"). Octavo; contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, manuscript spine label; xiv,178pp. Ex-Philip Schiff Library of Lancaster Theological Seminary with their rather extensive markings, additional attractive contemporary (ca. 1840s) library bookplate to front pastedown, boards rather scuffed with exposure at corners, textblock fore-edge foxed, some glue residue to rear pastedown from previously removed library marking, else a Good or better reading copy overall. Updated edition of the Hegelian philosopher's treatise on metaphysics, published from lectures notes delivered at Halle University.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1951. Very Good/Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1951]. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price ($4.50), red topstain, map endpapers; xi,[1],435pp.; frontispiece and thirty-one (31) leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos. Dust jacket heavily wrinkled, chipped and worn with numerous small losses at margins, none quite touching text, extensive old tape repair to verso, corners nudged, textblock a shade toned, else a Very Good copy in a Good only dust jacket. Memoirs of the Duke of Windsor who served as King of the United Kingdom briefly in 1936 before abdicating in order to marry Wallis Simpson.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. First Edition, stated, with G-P code to copyright. Octavo; 215 pp. Pictorial dust jacket with price clipped. Black cloth over boards with lettering stamped in yellow on cover and spine. Deckled edges. Dust jacket is clean and bright with minor rubbing and edgewear. Corners are square. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Overall, a handsome copy.

Boston: G.K. Hall & Co, 1988. Very Good/Good+. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1988. Presumed First Edition. Quarto; publisher's cloth in grey photo-illustrated dust jacket retaining original price; xvi,[2],591pp. Jacket rather significantly chipped at extremities, most notably at spine crown, old tape repair to verso, corners bumped, else a Very Good copy in Good or better jacket. Inscribed and signed by Edwards on half title.

New-Haven: A. Morse, 1792. Very Good. New-Haven: A. Morse, MDCCXII [i.e. 1792]. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 33,[1]pp. ([A]-D4 [E]1, collated complete). Faint dampstaining along spine edge of title page, leaves trimmed partly affecting contemporary ownership signature at head of title page, else Very Good and sound. Ordination sermon by the Congregationalist minister and son of the more famed minister. EVANS 24291; TRUMBULL 654.

Boston: Congregational Publishing Society, 1872. Good. Boston: Congregational Publishing Society, [1872]. Reprint. 16mo (6.75" x 4.5"); 48pp. Limp green cloth cover with gilt lettering. Covers rubbed along edges with an 1.25" split along front joint from tail, shallow chipping at head, and some general smudging and soiling. Ownership inscription of Elias Dickerson of Whitneyville on cover and front free endpaper (the latter dated 1893). Opens flatly between gatherings with backing exposed between each, but binding is still holding. Occasional pencil marginalia, but text all legible. Prefatory note mentions the stereotyped plates of the original edition (1869) had been destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire, giving opportunity to revise and improve the current edition for wider circulation.