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Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury. Herbert's Autobiography and history England under Henry VIII. London: Ward, Lock, & Co., Warwick House, [1880]. 763 pp. [3 pp advertisements]. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Very Good hard cover bound in brown cloth with black title on cover and line the edge of front cover, spine decorated with title, author, and publisher in gilt and a black lines and globe with "The World Library of Standard Works." There is slight wear at the head and tail of spine and the corners. End papers are brown paper listing other books in The World Library of Standard Books. Title page has previous owner's name. Text is unmarked, binding is tight.

This is a good condition copy in a good minus condition dust jacket. There are brief notes or marks on approximately 40 pages throughout the book in various colors of ink. The previous owner's name is stamped on the front free end paper as well as the fore edge of the book. The dust jacket is missing approximately fifteen percent at the top and bottom. It is in rough shape, with tears and soiling, but it is unclipped.
Rothbard, Murray N. For a new liberty: the libertarian manifesto. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1973, 327 pp, stated first edition, index.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Shelley's prose in the Bodleian Manuscripts, edited by A.H. Koszul. London: Henry Frowde, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1910. 148 pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very Good hardcover bound in green cloth over thin boards. Front cover has a lovely gilt design of flowers and five lines around the edge. Same design is blind stamped on rear cover. Spine is decorated with floral design, title and publisher. There is a thin red ribbon bound into the book. Front pastedown has a bookplate from the library of H. Buxton Forman, with him pictured in front of a bust of Shelley. Forman was a Victorian bibliographer of Shelley. Front Free End Paper has previous owner's name and dates his acquisition of this book from Forman's library in October 1920. Internally this book is in perfect condition. Dust jacket is in very good condition, light green on the inside and faded to light brown on the outside.

This is a very good condition hardcover copy with somewhat bumped corners. No marks, but some wear to the cloth on the spine.
Peter, Rozsa. Recursive functions. New York: Academic Press, 1967, translated by Istvan Foldes, 300 pp, appendix, bibliography, and fold out table.

Very good hardcover with very good price-clipped dust jacket, in mylar. Bookplate on front end paper, front right corner slightly bumped, other corners are sharp. Binding is tight and there is little sign of wear or age.Payne, Robert. Marx: a biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968, 582 pp., appendices, index, illustrated. Stated First Printing.

Very good paperback copy. First printing. No marks or significant signs of wear, tight binding.Crowder, Henry (with Hugo Speck). As wonderful as all that: Henry Crowder's memoir of his affair with Nancy Cunard, 1928-1935. Navarro (CA): Wild Trees Press, 1987, sources consulted, introduction and epilogue by Robert L. Allen, first edition.

Carroll, Jim. Void of course: poems: 1994-1997. New York: Penguin Books, first edition, 1998, 113 pp.Fine paperback copy. Flat signed.

This is a very good condition paperback copy. There are no marks in the text, actually just illustrations throughout. There are no visible signs of wear, outside of a small scuff on the spine.
Blackstock, Gregory L. Blackstock's collections: the drawings of an artistic savant. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006, 143 pp. 6th printing made in 2012. Foreword by Darold A. Treffert; introduction by Karen Light-Pina.

This is a very good condition paperback book. There is some creasing on the spine, but the binding is tight. There are no marks, missing pages, nor torn pages.
Camoin, Francois. Baby, please don't go: collected stories 1979-2001. [place not stated]: Doublewide Press, 2001.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Very good hardcover bound in light blue cloth with silver title, author and publisher on spine. Dust jacket is very good- condition with a few faint spots and some light edge wear, in mylar. Binding is tight and there are no marks.Haugen, Einar. The Scandinavian languages: an introduction to their history. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. First edition. 8vo. 507 pp.

[Robert Hichens] Anonymous. The Green Carnation. New York: D. Appleton And Company, 1894, 211 pp. [10 pp advertisements]. First American Edition. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Good+ hard cover bound in green cloth with silver gilt title and decoration on cover and spine. The cloth is worn at the hinges on front and back, there is some cover soiling and what may be brown ink splattered on the spine. Interior is clean, unmarked, and binding is tight.

Very good hardcover copy of this first edition. No marks or significant signs of wear. Tightly bound with the faintest signs of shelf wear at the corners. No dust jacket, as issued.Herter, George Leonard & Berthe E. How to get out of the rat race: and live on $10 a month. Waseca (MN): Herter's Inc., 1965, 329 pp, index, illustrated with photos and line drawings. First edition.

This is a very good condition paperback book. It is tightly bound, free of marks. It shows no significant signs of wear.Ernst, Carl W. Words of ecstasy in Sufism. Albany: SUNY Press, 184 pp., notes, appendix, selected bibliography, and indices of Qu'ranic citations, Hadith citations, names, and subjects and terms.

McLaughlin, Mignon. The Neurotic's notebook. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co, Inc., 1963, first edition, 96 pp. Designed by Clyde R. VollmerHardcover with dust jacket. Very good hardcover in pink cloth with gilt titles on spine and cover, as well as some of the whimsical images that adorn the interior on the cover in gilt. There is some foxing on the page edges. The dust jacket is in good plus condition with fading and wear on the spine as well as a half inch closed tear on the cover. The binding is tight and there are no marks in the book, save a price written on the dust jacket, which is price clipped.

Good paperback edition. There is writing on the first several pages, with some notes on the first 40 pages, and after that a few marks here and there. A little beat up on the corners, but the writing is the reason for the good rating.Delgado, José M. R., Physical control of the mind: toward a psychocivilized society. New York: Harper & Row, 1971 paperback edition, 288 pp. with photographs.

Very good paperback copy - no marks in book, tightly bound, no significant signs of wear.Gibne, Claidhbh O. The Boyne Currach: from beneath the shadows of Newgrange. Dublin: Open Air, 2012, 158 pp. illustrated, bibliography.

West, Cornel. Prophetic fragments. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co./Africa World Press (Trenton, NJ), first edition, 1988, 294 pp.This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket. No marks in text, tight binding, jacket protected by removable mylar.

Very good paperback copy - no marks, tightly bound, no significant signs of wear.Christian, Barbara. Black women novelists: the development of a tradition, 1892-1976. Newport: Greenwood Press, 1985, 275 pp., notes, bibliography, index.

This is a very good condition paperback. It is tightly bound, free from marks, and does not show significant wear. Ingram, Gordon Brent - editor, with Anne-Marie Bouthillette and Yolanda Retter. Queers in space: communities, public places, sites of resistance. Seattle: Bay Press, 1997, 530 pp. notes, bibliography, and contributors.

This first edition hardcover book with jacket is in good condition. It is an ex-library book. The front free end paper has been roughly cut out. There are minimal stamps and stickers. The dust jacket has a sticker on the spine, has been mylared by the library, and has been taped to the book. No pages are missing or ripped (aside from the FFE).
Towsen, John H. Clowns: A Panoramic history of fools and jesters, medieval mimes, jongleurs and minstrels, Pueblo Indian delight makers and Cheyenne contraries, harlequins and pierrots, theatrical buffoons and zanies, circus tramps, whitefaces, and Augustes. New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1976, first edition stated, ex-library. Notes, glossary, selected bibliography, and index included.