Titles beginning with A from small volume (49 items)

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good. 8vo. 197 pp. Pale grey cloth with white dust jacket. DJ wrinkled and creased at top edge front panel, with appx. 1 inch closed tear to head of spine panel. Cloth and interior as new, with publisher's review slip laid in at front.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover in DJ. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 270 pp. Blue paper boards backed in beige cloth with glossy white dust jacket. DJ has some discolored staining to top edge, light shelfwear. Boards slightly bowed, with light fading and soiling to front board. Interior very clean.

Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1852. Third Edition. 1/4 cloth. Good. 9.5 cm x 14 cm, 66 pp. Marbled paper covered boards backed in black cloth, paper spine label printed in red and white. Faint foxing scattered throughout, heavier at endpapers. POs inscription to fpd, "G G Library, Shenendoah". Shaken but sound. Third edition. Book no. 37 in the Societies Tract Series, Temptations of City Life.

London: The International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1976. Wraps. Very Good. 9.5 x 7.25 in. 42 pp. White stapled wraps with red and black titling. Light soiling, shelfwear, and fading to wraps. Thin line of corrective fluid to top edge of front wrapper. Few pencil markings to text margins. With an appendix: Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla by Carlos Marighella.

[New York]: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999. Limited Edition. Wraps. Very Good. 7.5 x 5 in. Stapled wraps in do-si-do style binding, 18 pp. each, with 2 decorative leaves at center dividing the two works (40 pp total). On one side is an excerpt from Ian Frazer's "On the Rez" with navy blue cover, yellow titling, and small emblem of a dog. When the book is turned over and upside-down, the cover for Jamaica Kincaid's "My Garden (Book)" is golden yellow with blue titling and small emblem of a bee. Text block is printed in dark blue, and divider leaves at center are translucent with repeated pattern of bees and dogs, to match wrappers. Limited edition chapbook, released in advance of publication. Wraps lightly rubbed, otherwise fine.

New York: The Metropolitan Press, 1909. Cloth Hardcover. Good. Russell, Mary Laf.. 8vo. Off-white cloth, white titling, paste-down illustration of Princess Sylvia. Soiling and rubbing to cloth, lightly shaken but sound. Interior clean. Illustrations by Mary Laf. Russell.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. Cloth Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good. 8vo. 308 pp. Pink cloth in price clipped pictorial dust jacket. First edition thus with full page inscription from the author's daughter, Margaret Mulford Lothrop "It has always seemed true that I could almost see the five little peppers clustered around the brown rocking chair of my mother, Mrs. Daniel Lothrop, "Margaret Sidney". In my imagination I could almost see Polly standing by brother's right elbow. someone leaning against brothers right knee and looking up at her face, sturdy Ben lounging over the back of the chair while Davie, so thrilled that he could hardly breathe, stood near. Joel would touch brothers left elbow and say Now you haven't heard about THIS and then start to tell about his latest adventure. - Margaret M. Lothrop, The Wayside, Concord, Massachusetts" Chipping along dj edges, white price sticker to rear panel of dj. Universally toned. Binding sound.

Boston: W. A. Wilde Company, 1913. Wraps. Very Good. Bruce, Josephine. 12mo. 64 pp. Chipping along spine, light discoloration to wrappers. Previous owner's inscription reads "Lida M. Richards, Feb. 1929. Reward from WIlde Company for making wheels mentioned in quarterly for Oct, Nov, Dec., 1928." Interior clean. Illustrated throughout by Josephine Bruce.

Minneapolis, MN: The Northwestern Consolidated Milling Co, 1912. Wraps. Good. Johnson, Alice Sargent. Oblong 6 x 8 in. stapled pamphlet in pictorial paper wraps. Soiling to wrappers, heaviest at spine and lower edge, affecting some interior leaves at front and rear. Bright chromolithograph illustrations, with blank coloring pages on facing leaves and instructions for using Japanese watercolor paints to fill them in. Many of the coloring pages have been partially filled in by previous owner. Promotional marketing booklet, distributed free with bags of Ceresota flour.

New York: INCR, INC, 1987. Wraps. Very Good. 4to. Wraps. Light rubbing to wrappers. Interior clean, binding sturdy. Colorful theatre posters designed by Gilbert Lesser.

London: Frederick Warne & Co, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. 64 pp. Pictorial olive green boards backed in green cloth. Soiling and rubbing to boards, cloth split at joints and chipped at spine head. Binding lightly shaken but holding sound. Pale green floral endpapers faded at edges. Few leaves chipped at fore edge. Previous owner's pencil initials to verso ffep. Text filled with bright, chromolithographic illustrations, page borders and text decoration.

New York, New York: Weekly Guardian Associates, Inc, 1978. Wraps. Very Good. 12mo. 7 pp. Mint green wraps with dark green titling. Minor creasing to wrappers, light signs of overall handling and wear. Interior clean, binding sound. Speech delivered at the Pyongyang mass rally in welcome of comrade Hua Kuo-Feng, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Part of China. May 7, 1978.

New York, 1967. Cloth in DJ. Very Good in Fair DJ/Fair. Oblong 4to. [6] 7-93 [1] + 10 color plates. Red cloth with silver titling to spine and black image of barn to front board. In black pictorial dust jacket. DJ heavily chipped and rubbed with several closed tears, loss to foot of spine and lower front panel, top edge of rear panel. Front flap price-clipped. Binding lightly shaken, cloth faded at bottom edge with some board exposed. Corners bumped. Light foxing to verso of some interior plates, rest clean. Tipped in at front flyleaf is an original signed drawing by Sloane, dated 1978 and inscribed "To Hubbard Rattle* / *What a handle! / See you next time / around.

Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1951. Broadside. Good. 11 x 8.5 inch. broadside poster, printed in blue on heavy white paper. Creasing to edges and corners, with light foxing and toning. Horizontal crease across center. Large instruction card at center left, with 3 smaller copies printed at right. Text at top instructs the recipient to "Hang the big Warning Instruction card in a conspicuous place in your house. Your family should carry the wallet-size cards." Safety precautions issued to the public in case of nuclear attack.

Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1856. Cloth. Good. 24mo. 118 pp. Brown blind-stamped cloth w/ stamped gilt titling and decoration along spine strip. Spine rolled. Edgewear to cloth, heaviest at spine ends and corners, pencil graffiti to endpapers, light discoloration throughout. Religious tract written for The Mass. Sabbath School Society, and approved by the committee of Publication.

New York: The Olympia Press, 1969. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo. 203 pp. Blue cloth with gilt titling in pictorial dust jacket. Moderate scuffing w/ a few small chips to dj edges. Clean and sound copy. From dust jacket - "moves not only through the worlds of psychic and sexual contact with women- black and white, Vietnam and its gore, love and prostitution on the low ends of Third Avenue, but also through the terrestrial ranges of himself.

Paris: Chez DeLalain, 1786. Leather. Fair. 14 cm x 8.5 cm, 304, 219-220, 328, (4) pp. Full calf, raised bands, leather spine label, marbled endpapers. Two non-consecutive volumes bound in one. Almanach des Muses 1786 & Almanach des Muses 1782. Chipping and discoloration at hinges and boards, endpapers toned, previous owners name in blue ink to verso of front flyleaf "This book was bought in Paris by Chester when Ellie, Dad & I were there". Text in French.

[London]: Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. 8 cm x 11 cm. [20 pp,] Pictorial boards backed in yellow cloth. Light toning and scuffing to boards, pencil inscription to ffep, sporadic pencil marginalia. Illustrated in color, accompanied by short poetry and prose. The illustrations for this edition were originally used in the Almanack for 1887.

New York: Warner Paperback Library. Wraps. Very Good +. 10.5 cm x 17.5 cm. 240 pp. Black, white and red paper wraps. Light scuffing along wrapper edges. Otherwise clean and sound. Develop your own brain wave control! How to reach a self-induced Alpha state at will.

Baltimore, Maryland, 1968. First Edition. Good. Square 4to. 77 pp. Rear board and spine backed in grey cloth, with pictorial orange and white 3/4 panel to front board. No jacket, presumably as issued. Inscribed by author on half title in black ink. Foxing and soiling to front board, heaviest at fore edge. Some scuffing to board edges and faint yellowing to text block edges. Printer's error to lower fore corner p. 55, with color test strip and slightly oversized leaf due to being folded while trimming. Numerous color and black and white plates throughout showing examples of the artist's sculpture, drawings, collage and watercolor paintings.