Baudelaire, Charles

Les Fleurs Du Mal Et Autres Poemes.

Paris. Paris: La Renaissance Du Livre, 1919. Hardcover. This edition of Baudelaire's classic is 7" x 4.5" x 0.7". Half-bound in a fine-grained brown cloth with marbled paper, bright gilt titles to spine. Covers have a touch of wear to spine ends and corners, binding is tight and firm. Pages are lightly yellowed and somewhat brittle but clean and unfoxed. A handsome edition and copy. 204pp. Published in Paris in the original French language. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 204 pages. S6. Very Good.

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Book number: 33434

Keywords: Flowers of Evil Poetry

Bauer, Mark S

A Mind Apart: Poems of Melancholy, Madness, and Addiction.

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008. 1st Printing. Paperback. No defects; pages are clean and crisp, the binding is tight and square; book appears unread. Poems dating from the 15th century to the present. Poets include William Shakespeare, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, John Milton, William Cowper, William Blake, John Keats, Samuel Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, Siegfried Sassoon, Philip Larkin, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Sharon Olds, among many, many others. A unique collection. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 432 pages. I4. Fine.

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Book number: 29935

Keywords: Madness Insanity Melancholy Addiction Poetry

Baumann, Rebecca & Rebecca Cape (Curators) & Joss March

Conducted by Charles Dickens: An Exhibition to Commemorate the Bicentennial of His Birth.

Bloomington. Bloomington: The Lilly Library, 2012. Softcover. The illustrated card covers and a few pages have a small, slight reading crease; the pages, printed on coated paper, are Fine. Binding is tight. Exhibition catalog, including essays and numerous full-color illustrations from a selection of Dicken's works held by the Lilly Library. Scarce. Trade PB. Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall. 53 pages. I5. Very Good+.

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Book number: 29952

Keywords: Charles Dickens Bicentennial Celebration Exhibition Catalog

Baumbach, Werner

Broken Swastika: The Defeat of the Luftwaffe.

Robert Hale, 1960. 1st Edition. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Black cloth boards are a bit dinged, a few light stains. Formerly owned by the U. S. Air Force, and the book bears discard stamps on the endpapers. Contents are excellent; binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. Includes 13 photographic plates. Lacking the dust jacket. Author was one of Germany's top bomber pilots in World War Two, and these are his memoirs. A solid copy of the second printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 224 pages. J1. Very Good.

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Book number: 30024

Keywords: Luftwaffe Ww2 Bomber Pilot Memoirs

Bausback, Peter

The Old and Antique Oriental Art of Weaving: Exhibition From 7th to 17th October, 1983.

Mannheim. Mannheim: Franz Bausback, 1983. Hardcover. No defects. Glossy pictorial boards, decorated with a beautiful Heriz from northern Persia, first half of 19th century. Glossy pages, a beautiful production and extraordinary rugs, all in full and glorious color. Introductory article deals with vegetable and other natural dyes. Text is in the English language. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 160 pages. J6. Fine with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 23625

Keywords: Oriental Rugs Antiques Exhibition Catalog

Bayart, Jean-Francois & Stephen Ellis & Beatrice Hibou

Criminalization of the State in Africa.

Indiana University Press, 2009. Paperback. Fine, no defects. African Issues Series. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 192 pages. K4. Fine.

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Book number: 33077

Keywords: Africana Crime

Bayart, Jean-Francois & Groupe D'Analyse Des Trajectoires Du Politique

La Re´Invention Du Capitalisme (French Edition).

Karthala, 1994. Paperback. A few light pencil marks in the text. Formerly owned by African studies scholar Janet MacGaffey; her elegant penciled signature appears on the half-title page. Spine is uncreased. Nine writers discuss aspects of the general topic. Text is in French. Les Trajectoires Du Politique Series. Trade PB. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 254 pages. J3. Near Fine.

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Book number: 32926

Keywords: Political Science Communism New Forms

Beach, Rex

Big Brother and Other Stories.

NY. NY: Harper, 1923. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Jacket has half-inch chip at top corner and light soil, with still bright and attractive cover design of a New York street scene. Now protected with acid-free polyester sleeve. Book has beautiful bright red cloth covers with bump at head of spine, page ends slightly darkened and spotted. Tight, square, pages clean and bright. Six long stories in all, with the title story set in New York City. Scarce in this condition. According to the Internet Movie Database, no fewer than 53 short stories and novels by Beach were made into movies, including at least three in this volume: Big Brother, Recoil, and Too Fat to Fight. A nice copy, stated first edition. 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 367 pages. A1. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket.

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Book number: 20680

Catalogue: Short Stories

Keywords: Short Stories New York City Movie Tie- In

Becherer, Joseph P.

Selections From the Collections of the Kinsey Institute November 29, 1990 to May 30, 1991..

Kinsey Institute, 1990. Paperback. Glossy card covers are a bit rubbed, no other defects. Pages are clean and crisp, the binding is tight and square; book appears unread. Miscellaneous reproductions from the collections of the Kinsey Institute. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 40 pages. M1. Near Fine.

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Book number: 30788

Keywords: Kinsey Institute Art Exhibition Catalog

Bechtel, Paul M

Wheaton College a Heritage Remembered, 1860- 1984.

H. Shaw Publishers, 1984. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine book in NF dust jacket. Jacket has short tear to bottom edge, slightly sunned back panel, now protected by fresh mylar sleeve. Book has no defects. Bright gilt titles to spine, binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked, appears unread. Bound in blue cloth, a beautiful copy. History of Wheaton College to 1984. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 415 pages. G2. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

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Book number: 32402

Keywords: Wheaton College History Wheaton, Illinois

Bechtell, H.

Theory of Groups.

Addison-Wesley, 1971. Hardcover. Bound in green cloth, book is bumped at head and foot, no other defects. Pages are clean and crisp, the binding is tight and square; book appears unread. Lacking the dust jacket. Introduction to group theory. An excellent copy. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 144 pages. I1. Near Fine.

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Book number: 29868

Keywords: Group Theory Textbook

Beck, Marianna, Ed.

Libido, the Journal of Sex and Sensibility. Vol. 6 No. 1, Winter, 1993- 94..

Libido, Inc. 1994. Softcover. Rubbing to card covers. Pages are clean and crisp, the binding is tight and square; appears to be unread. This issue includes several of Picasso's erotic gravures and an excerpt from a soft-porn murder mystery by Andrei Codrescu, along with an introduction by the author. Trade PB. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 88 pages. J3. Near Fine with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 26499

Keywords: Sex Erotic Art Picasso Art Erotic Art Erotica

Beckett, Samuel

That Time.

Faber and Faber, 1976. 1st Edition. Paperback. Fine copy, no defects. This is the first edition of Beckett's play, a 16-page booklet. Faber Paperbacks Series. Thin Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall. 16 pages. U3. Fine.

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Book number: 33662

Keywords: One- Act Play. Samuel Beckett

Beckmann, M. & H. P. Künzi, Eds.

Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Kyoto 1975 : Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems.

Berlin. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1975. 1st Edition. Softcover. No defects. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. Sixteen papers treat aspects of the general topic. Former owner of this book was economist John F. Muth, the man behind the original idea of rational expectations. The theory eventually led to the Nobel Prize for Muth's colleague Robert Lucas, who built on Muth's ideas while Muth himself moved in other directions. The first endpaper bears Muth's ownership stamp. A unique association copy. Operations Research Series. Trade PB. 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 345 pages. E1. Fine with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 24890

Catalogue: Mathematics

Keywords: Multiple Criteria Decision Making Operations Research John F. Muth Mathematical Systems Decision Making Decision Theory

Beddingham, Philip, Et Al

Concerning Booklabels.

London. London: Private Libraries Association, 1963. Pamphlet. No defects. Pamphlet treats the history of booklabels, the technique of making booklabels, and the design of engraved booklabels. Illustrated with many examples of bookplates. Trade PB. 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. 16 pages. T2. Fine with no dust jacket.

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Book number: 20033

Keywords: Booklabels Bookplates