FS: Latest Arrivals: Fiction, African-American, Misc.
The Book Garden Gallery
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We would like to offer for your consideration:
[6016] --, --. PSEUDO-PHROPHECIES AND PSEUDO-SCIENCES. Also
includes, "A Test of the Accuracy of the Testimony of Bystanders."
Boston Society for Physic Research: May 1930. Bulletin XII, 100 pp.
Wrappers; one closed tear else light wear, lettering to front faded,
contents clean, sound. Mother Shipton, Palmistry, Numerology, 19th
century prophecies in Boston. George Clover Crocker. Good $16
[6011] Bain, Robert. THE CLANS AND TARTANS OF SCOTLAND. Collins:
Glasgow. 1978 edition, 319 pp. Dust jacket fine, in protective mylar
wrapper. Navy blue cloth with silver spine lettering. Map endpapers.
Profusely illustrated in color. Fine $16
[6023] Beard, James. THE JAMES BEARD COOK BOOK. Dutton: 1961, 456
pp. Cloth bound with light scuffing, light wear along edges of board.
Top-edge with water stain mark which has caused minimal bleeding to
tops of several pages. Indexed and free of former ownership markings.
Co-authored with Isabel E. Callvert. Illustrated. Good $15
[6012] Benson, AC. THE THREAD OF GOLD. Dutton: 1907, 244 pages.
Brown cloth with some rubbing, fading. Attractive gold graphic and
lettering to front. Old x-libris with fairly unobtrusive markings.
Meditations on Christian themes, the philosophical, England
countryside and travel, misc. Good $15
[6021] Courtenay-Latimer, M. THE FLOWERING PLANTS OF THE TSITSIKAMA
FOREST AND COASTAL NATIONAL PARK. National Parks Board: 1967, Republic
of South Africa. Color pictorial wrappers with light soil. Copiously
illustrated with color plates, contents quite clean. Believed to be
co-printed in German. Ownership inked to half-title page. Uncommon
flora guide book. Good+ $25
[6017] Dillard, Annie. PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK. Harper's Magazine
Press: 1974, 271 pages. Stated 1st American edition. Dust jacket with
soiling and small chips else good, price is not clipped, in protective
mylar wrapper. Cloth bound with light scratches and light fading.
Pictorial endpapers. No former ownership markings. Very Good $20
[6013] Ginsber, Allen. THE FALL OF AMERICA, POEMS OF THESE STATES
1965-1971. City Lights: 1972, 188 pp. Wrappers with light to moderate
soil, mainly to spine and rear. No former ownership markings, a sound
copy. Very Good $25
[6004] Haskins, Jane. BLACK MUSIC IN AMERICA. "A History Through Its
People." Crowell: 1987, 198 pp. 1st edition. Dust jacket with one
corner of front flap clipped else very good , in protective mylar
wrapper. Cloth spine, boards. A clean and sound copy with no former
owner's markings. Photos. A panoramic overview of black music in
America from the 1800s to the present, many portraits of well-known
musicians and performers. Very Good $30
[6006] Holley, Marietta. SAMANTHA AMONG THE COLORED FOLKS. "My ideas
On the Race Problem." Dodd, Mead: 1894, 387 pages. Bound in dark blue
cloth with gilt lettering; boards and spine heavily rubbed. Top-edge
gilt. Frontispiece. Illustrated with drawings depicting black life,
Southern culture. Crack line between verso and dedication page, making
front board slightly tender. Binding otherwise sound with slight lean.
Good- $45
[6024] Kavan, Anna. JULIA AND THE BAZOOKA. "The First American
Collection of Stories. "Knopf: 1975, 155 pp. 1st American edition.
Dust jacket very good, in protective mylar wrapper. Cloth spine,
boards. No former ownership markings, very light fading to edges of
boards. Very Good $14
[6002] Lofting, Hugh. DOCTOR DOLITTLE'S CIRCUS. Lippincott: (1952)
307 pages. Color pictorial boards with the author's original artwork.
Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Illustrated with drawings by
the author. A presentable, contemporary reprint of this children's
classic. Very Good $14
[6008] Louys, Pierre. SONGS OF BILITIS. Argus Books: Chicago, 1931,
177 pages. Blue cloth with faded spine, fading to some parts of
boards. Endpapers clean and free of markings as are pages. Rough cut
pages. Illustrated with appealing drawings by Denton. Erotica. Good
$20
[6014] Merton, Thomas. THIRTY POEMS. New Directions: 1944, unpaged.
Stapled wrappers, soiled, but with no tears. Corners of all pages with
soft bending. Pages quite clean, no former ownership markings. Scarce
in this state. Good $125
[6005] Naylor, Gloria. LINDEN HILLS. Ticknor & Fields: 1985, 304
pages. Second printing. Dust jacket with old label glue remnant to
front, small chip else very good, in protective mylar wrapper. Cloth
spine, boards; clean save for small stains to lower corner. Corner
tips of first thirty pages with stains. No former ownership markings,
binding true. African-American literature. Good $16
[6003] Reeves, Donald. NOTES OF A PROCESSED BROTHER. Pantheon: 1971,
480 pp. 1st edition. Dust jacket very good, in protective mylar
wrapper. Cloth bound. From the jacket, "The best account we have of
what it's like to try to change the schools, by an intelligent student
who has made a commitment to change things and who is also capable of
writing like a first-rate novelist." Very Good $16
[6022] Royere, Jean. LE MUSICISME SCULPTURAL. Madame Archer Milton
Huntington. Albert Messein: Paris, 1933, 191 pp. Wrappers with heavy
soil, light chips. Written in French, copiously illustrated with black
and white plates of numerous famous sculptures. Some underlining in
pencil to pages browned from age. Good $15
[6010] Welty, Eudora. THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER. Random House: 1972,
180 pages. 1st edition. Dust jacket with light soil else very good, no
chips or tears, price is not clipped, in protective mylar wrapper.
Cloth bound with slight spine lean. A clean and otherwise sound book
with no former ownership markings. Very Good $25
[6015] Whalen, Philip. LIKE I SAY. Totem Press: 1960, 47 pages. Gray
wrappers with moderate soil, mainly to rear. Contents and endpapers
bright and clean. Beat poetry, Evergreen Review, Robert Creeley
tie-in. 1st edition. Good $25
[6019] Wilson, James Harrison. CHINA: TRAVELS AND INVESTIGATIONS IN
THE MIDDLE KINGDOM. Appleton: 1901 edition, 422 pages with index, and
two color, pull-out maps. Third edition. Decorated cloth is heavily
soiled. Old x-libris with fairly unobtrusive markings. Pages sound in
binding, hinges are firm. "Together with an Account of the Boxer War."
China history, culture. Above flaws noted, an otherwise sound reading
copy and Good $20
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