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Boston MA: O'Donnell. One sheet heavy onionskin, 10-1/2 x 17-1/2 inches, printed horizontally. Ten recipes for using haddock fillets, with company logo in center. Printed in blue and orange. Paper crinkled, but that might be the original texture. Paper very slightly yellowed in spots, several folds, o/w VG.

Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1979. First edn. Tall 8vo, pp. unnumbered. Paper wraps. Inscribed by the author to the poet Paul lMetcalf. VG. Poems.

Princeton NJ: Princeton University, 1979. First Edition. 8vo, pp. xiii, 310. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Illustrated wtih several photographs Black cloth. Top edge slightly spotted, o/w a nice copy in scuffed dj. Socialism and feminism: a dificult alliance. Should men and women join in the struggle against capitalism, or must women concentrate on countering male domination.

London: Panther, 1968. First Edition. Small 8vo, pp. 174. Paper wraps. Cover scuffed and soiled, o/w a VG tight copy. An account of the student uprising in France in 1968, and an analysis and predictions that seem a little strange at this point.

(Gutersloh): (Bertelsmann). Small 8vo, pp. 221. In German. Green cloth. A nice copy in little chipped dj. Maria Sibylla Merian was born on April 2, 1647, in Frankfurt/Main, the daughter of the famous engraver Matthaus Merian. She died in Amsterdam on January 13, 1717. She was taught drawing and painting by her stepfather, the Dutch flower painter, Jacob Marell. Although her Neues Blumenbuch (Nurnberg 1680) is a major achievement and shows her command of the subject, her main interests were insects, especially beetles and butterflies. After her separation from her husband, the architectural painter Johann Andreas Graff, she settled in Frisia, where she was captivated by a collection of butterflies from tropical South America. She became obsessed with a desire to study these insects in their own environment, and finally in 1699 a stipend given by the Dutch government provided her with the means to visit Surinam. Only her courage and her independent nature made the trip possible, at a time when… Leer más

London: Max Reinhardt, 1955. First UK edn. 8vo, pp. 216. Translated from the Portuguese by Roy Campbell. Black cloth. Edges slightly soiled, endpapers and a few leaves somewhat spotted, o/w a VG tight copy in faded and soiled dj.

London: Faber and Faber, 1959. Sixth printing. 8vo, pp. 328. Index. Edges slightly spotted, cover little scuffed at edges, o/w a VG tight copy.

NY: New Directions, 1977. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 180. Translated from the French by Barbara Wright. Ex library with pocket removed. VG in little soiled dj.

Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1951. First Edition. 8vo, pp. (44) Bound in printed wraps. Inscribed to poets Bill (William Jay Smith) and Barbara (Howes) by "Toto" (the author?).

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1954. Second (revised) edn. 8vo, pp. 164. Illustrated with portraits. Cover slightly worn and faded, o/w a nice copy.

London: Ferndale, 1981. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 512. Index. Copiously illustrated. Cover slightly scuffed at edges, o/w a nice copy in dj.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1982. First American edn. 8vo, pp. 176. Includes notes and index. A nice copy in slightly scuffed dj. The final installment of the author's autobiographical works; portraits of people who have interested and impressed him.

NY: Viking, 1976. 8vo, pp. 254. Index. Owner's name onflyleaf. A nice copy in somewhat scuffed and chipped dj.

Edison NJ: Wellfleet, 1997. First Wellfleet edition. 4to, pp. 174. Photographs, with commentary, in color and black and white; modeling from the Renaissance to the 1990s. Yellow paper over boards. Cover edges slightly scuffed, o/w a nice copy in dj.

Venice CA: Lapis Press, 1992. First Edition. 4to, pp. 184. Fine in lightly scuffed dj.

London: Nelson, 1915. Large 8vo, pp. 348. Nine illustrations in color. Green cloth, stamped in gilt, with colored illustration pasted on front. Cover little scuffed and soiled, one hinge tender, o/w VG. The honorees include Abraham Lincoln, Simon Bolivar, John Brown, Florence Nightingale, Garibaldi, and Father Damien, the priest who ministered to a leper colony in the South Pacific. Written for young people.

Richmond, VA: Dietz Press, 1953. First Edition. Small 4to, pp. 46. Illustrated. Paper wraps. VG. Technique of hand-cut paper silhouettes.

NY: Random, 2004. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 288. Fine in slightly creased dj. A book of columns by the Pulitzer Prize winning author.

Baton Rouge LA: Louisiana State University, 1998. First paperback edn. 8vo, pp. 242. Bibliography, index. Paper wraps. Fine.

NY: Harper, 1927. First Edition. Two volumes. 8vo, pp. 296, 359. Index. Owner's name and donor's initials on pastedowns. Illustrated. Slightly darkened on spines, o/w a nice set.