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1. Artucio, Hugo FernandezThe Nazi Underground in South AmericaFarrar & Rinehart, Inc., New York, 1942. Early reprint. viii, 311 pp. 8vo. Hitler’s Map of South American Showing Proposed Boundaries on endpapers. An account of the Nazi presence in South America, written and published by a native of Uruguay during World War II, which examines pro-German Nazi sympathizers and fellow fascists. Very good. Lacks jacket. Back board corners lightly stained.

$452. Avery, RalphRochester’s ‘Mercury’: A Portfolio of Drawings by Ralph Avery

3. Bannerman, HelenThe Story of Little Black Sambo [with] The Story of Topsy from Uncle Tom’s Cabin (The Children’s Red Books Vol. II)The Reilly & Lee Co., Chicago, 1908. 56, [4] pp. Contains both The Story of Little BlackSambo and The Story of Topsy from Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This edition includes illustrations by John R. Neill, who also contributed drawings to a number of L. Frank Baum’s (and later

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4. Beall, Todd S.; Banks, William, A.; Smith, ColinOld Testament Parsing Guide: Revised and Updated EditionBroadman & Holman Publishers, 2000. “Formerly published in a highly regarded two volume set, this new edition of Old Testament Parsing Guide seeks to offer help toHebrew students by addressing their major need— the verbal system.” Fine.

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[Rochester: Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)], 1951. Complete set of seven large prints of drawings produced in 1950 and 1951, with a single sheetintroducing the series, all printed on laid paper. Prints contained in portfolioreinforced with cardstock. Watercolor artist Ralph Avery graduated fromRochester Institute of Technology in 1928 and was a faculty member of the

$75department of Applied Art for 25 years. He often painted scenes from the local area - gray, foggy views of the downtown skyline, portraits of elegant old city homes, and abstractions of natural areas from the surrounding landscape. His most remembered work is a wonderful series of drawings depicting “The statue of Mercury;” (messenger of the god’s and the highlight of Rochester New York’s skyline) as seen through the artist’s eyes. In 1881, this statue was commissioned by William Kimball of Kimball Tobacco Factory. Very good. Light stain,moderate scuffing, and 1/2 inch closed tear to front of portfolio. A modernprintout of a contemporary advertisement contains additional information on Avery, including a note that he was for two years an associate with Louis Comfort TiffanyFoundation.

Ruth Plumly Thompson’s) Oz books, as well as several books he authored himself. He also providesillustrations for The Story of Topsy - excerpted from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous novel Uncle Tom’sCabin, which some credit partially with the rise of abolitionism that led to the American Civil War. Very good. Edges rubbed, ink name & date on front endpaper & flyleaf.

5. Bloom, Harold; Zuba, JesseAmerican Religious Poems: An AnthologyThe Library of America, 2006. First edition. Includespublisher’s slipcase. lvii, 685 pp. 8vo. An anthology of poems from four centuries, drawn from American

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religious experience and practice: the searching meditations of Puritan pioneers, the evangelical fervor of the Great Awakenings, the mystical currents ofTranscendentalism, the diverse influences of the world religions that have taken root in modern America. Includes contributions by more than 200 poets.6. Brainard, Joe; Auster, Paul; Padgett, RonThe Collected Writings of Joe Brainard


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The Library of America, 2012. First edition. xxviii, 541 pp. 8vo. An anthology of writings by the author of the autobiographical work I Remember artist, who was associated with the New York School of poets. Fine.

7. Churchill, Winston S. [Spencer]; Shirer, William L.The Second World War Six Volume Set: Their Finest Hour; The Gathering Storm; The Hinge of Fate; The Grand Alliance; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Trag-edy (Chartwell Edition)Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1983. First thus - trade edition, not Book-of-the-Month Club version$200(yellow top page ridge, no debossed stamp on rear board). 9 1/4 x 6 1/2. 8vo. Chartwell Edition. Color picture plate of Churchill’s Chartwell home on front

board of each volume. Churchill’s famous Nobel Prize winning history of World War II. This edition adds a foreword by William L. Shirer not found in other editions. Near fine.8. Copleston, FrederickA History of Philosophy, Complete Set, Volumes 1-9: Greece & Rome: From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus; Medieval Philosophy: From Augustine to Duns Scotus; Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy: Ockham, Francis Bacon, and the Beginning of the Modern World; Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Leibniz; Modern Philosophy: The British Philosophers from Hobbes to Hume; Modern Philosophy: From the FrenchEnlightenment to Kant; Modern Philosophy: From the Post-Kantian

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9. Dickens, Charles; Darwin, Bernard; Malden, R.H.; Sitwell, Osbert;Shuckburgh, John; House, Humphry; Thorndike, Sybil; Garrod, H.W.; The Earl of Wicklow; Russell, Geoffrey; Davies, E. Salter; Lane, Margaret; Holme, Thea; Page, Frederick; Trilling, Lionel; Tillotson, Kathleen; Farjeon, Eleanor; Collins, Philip; Roberts, S.C.; Sitwell, Sacheverell; Hudson, Derek; Staples, Leslie C.The Oxford Illustrated Dickens: The Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Bleak House; A Tale of Two Cities; Oliver Twist; Nicholas Nickleby; Dombey and Son; The Old Curiosity Shop; Martin Chuzzlewit; Our

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Idealists to Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche; Modern Philosophy: Empiricism, Idealism, and Pragmatism in Britain and America; Modern Philosophy: From the French Revolution to Sartre, Camus, andLevi-StraussImage Books / Doubleday, 1994. Pencil underlining & marginalia by a philosophy student who studied at Oxford and Cornell. Copleston’s history of the progression of philosophical thought remains one of the most authoritative scholarly accounts available. Absolutely essential to the library of anyone seriously interested in philosophy and the history of ideas.

Mutual Friend; Christmas Stories; Sketches by Boz; Great Expectations; Little Dorrit; Barnaby Rudge; Christmas Books; Hard Times; The Mystery of Edwin Drood; American Notes and Pictures from Italy; Master Humphrey’s Clock and A Child’s History of England; The Uncommercial Traveller and Reprinted Pieces

10. Doyle, Sir Arthur ConanThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Photoplay Edition)A.L. Burt Company, 1932. 307 pp. 8vo. Black cloth, red titles with red illustration of two pistols and a lantern on front board. Includes twelve adventures featuring theinimitable detective Sherlock Holmes. A scarce photoplay edition featuring Clive Brook on the front jacket panel and spine. Brook starred as the detective in the 1932 film

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Oxford University Press, 1987. Complete in twenty-one hardcover volumes. 8vo. 7 1/2 x 5. The complete works of Charles Dickens, including original illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) and other artists, and scholarly introductions by variouscontributors. Near fine. Corners lightly pushed on a few volumes.


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simply entitled Sherlock Holmes, after depicting Holmes in the 1929 film The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Book about fine, tiniest scuff to corner of front board. Includes scarce jacket in good condition - edges chipped, tape repairs on reverse.11. Galilei, Galileo; Drake, Stillman; Einstein, Albert; Bargmann, SonjaDialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic andCopernican

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12. Gerrare, WirtGreater Russia: The Continental Empire of the Old World, with Illustrations and a MapNew York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. First edition. xiii, 337 pp. 8vo. Frontispiece of capital city of Khabarovsk, black & white photographic plates throughout text, index and 8-panel fold-out map follows text. From NY Times Saturday Review: ‘... convey[s] an adequate idea of Russia’s advance - especially her industrial progress and commercial prospects... [with] particular attention to

University of California Press, 1953. First thus. xxvii, 496 pp. 8vo. This edition,translated from the Italian of the 1632 original, includes an introduction by AlbertEinstein (his German, with the approved English translation of Sonja Bargmannappearing on opposite pages). It is complete and unabridged, and ‘augmented by Galileo’s handwritten additions in his own copy of the first edition,’ these appearing as printed marginal notes throughout. They provide historical context and references, and abstracts for concepts included in longer passages. Extensive notes and index follow text. Near fine in very good jacket. Jacket toned with tiny tears to spine head, ink stamp & handwritten name & date on front endpaper.

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the problem of the Far East... full details of the topography of the country through which the Trans-Siberian Railway runs, of the customs of the Siberian tribes, and of the products of the country, present andprospective.’ Very good. Boards lightly soiled, front matter lightly foxed, rear hinge slightly shaken. Tabard Inn Library bookplate on front endpaper with corresponding New York Times Saturday Review on rearendpaper.

13. Grieve, M.A Modern Herbal: The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic, and Economic Properties, Cultivation, and Folklore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs, and Trees with All Their Modern Scientific UsesBarnes & Noble, 1992. An ethno-botanical resource book for herbalists and homegardeners. Very good in good jacket. Jacket rubbed.

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14. Haber, HeinzThe Walt Disney Story of Our Friend the AtomGolden Press, New York, 1956. First edition. 165 pp. Literary counterpart of the Walt Disney motion picture “Our Friend the

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Atom”. The story tells how atomic science began, and how knowledge of the atom’s energy final emerged at the result of much effort. Very good. Corners rubbed.15. Hedrick, U.P.; Howe, G.H.; Taylor, O.M.; Tubergen, C.B.The Peaches of New York (Report of the New York Agricultural ExperimentStation for the Year 1916, Volume II) (State of New York - Department ofAgriculture Twenty-Fourth Annual Report, Vol. 2, Part II)J.B. Lyon Company, Albany, 1917. First edition. xiii, 541 pp. 12 1/4 x 9 3/4. An extensive survey of many varieties of peaches grown in New York, including according to the preface “an account of the history and uses of the peach; a discussion of the botanical characters of the species of cultivated peaches; an account of the peach-regions and of peach-growing in New York with the most important statistics relating to this fruit; and, lastly and in greatest detail, the synonymy, bibliography, economic status, and full descriptions of all


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the most important cultivated peaches, with briefer notices of varieties of minor importance and of those appearing in peach-literature which are now no longer grown.’ Includes stunning full color plates depicting numerous types of peaches. Very good. Boards rubbed (common with titles from this series), binding tight & square, no foxing.

$14016. Hedrick, U.P.; Howe, G.H.; Taylor, O.M.; Tubergen,C.B.; Wellington, R.The Cherries of New York (Report of the New YorkAgricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1914,Volume II) (State of New York - Department ofAgriculture Twenty-Second Annual Report, Vol. 2,Part II)J.B. Lyon Company, Albany, 1915. First edition. xii, 371 pp. 12 1/4 x 9 3/4. Anextensive survey of many varieties of cherries grown in New York, includingaccording to the preface “an historical account of cultivated cherries, the botany of this fruit, a statement of its present economic status in America, descriptions of all known varieties of cherries, the synonymy and bibliography of the species and

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varieties, and biographical sketches of the persons who have contributed materially to cherry culture in America.” Includes stunning full color plates depicting numerous types of cherries. Fine. The best copy we have handled - tight, square binding, no foxing to plates or text, none of the rubbing one generally sees to boards of books in this series, gilt titles bright with no loss. Tiny bump to front corner is only flaw.17. Hiaasen, CarlSkin TightPutnam, 1989. “After dispatching a pistol-packing intruder from his home with the help of a stuffed Marlin head, Mick Stranahan can’t deny that someone is out to get him. His now-deceased intruder carries no I.D., and as a former Florida state investigator,Stranahan knows there are plenty of potential culprits. His long list of enemies includes an off point hit man, a personal injury lawyer of billboard fame, a notoriously irritating TV journalist, and a fumbling plastic surgeon.” Near fine in very good jacket. Inscribed to previous owner & signed on title page. Jacket lightly rubbed. $25

18. Holling, Holling ClancyChoo-Me-ShooThe Buzza Company, Minneapolis, 1928. Unpaginated. Sixth book by the award winning children’s author Holling Clancy Holling, who wrote Paddle to the Sea (which inspired a short film in 1966). Color illustrations by Lucille Holling throughout. This story focuses on Eskimos living in the Arctic Circle. Good. Glue spot on front corner, boards a bit rubbed, closed tears to margins of a few pages, ink name on rearendpaper, page between copyright and first text page removed -text complete.

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19. Hopkins, George M.Experimental Science. Elementary, Practical, and Experimental Physics. Illustratedby More Than Six Hundred and Eighty Engravings.New York: Munn & Co., 1890. xiii, 719, [7] pp. 8vo. Engraved illustrationsthroughout. A collection of experiments and principles related to physical science, mainly taken from articles originally printed in Scientific American. Very good.Boards lightly rubbed, back corner lightly bumped.

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20. Kravchenko, VictorI Chose Freedom: The Personal and Political Life of a Soviet OfficialNew York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1946. Early printing, lacks ‘A’ on copyright page. 496 pp. 8vo. A ‘detailed and dramatic revelation of life in Russia under Communist


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Party control, and of how one man escaped from the ‘totalitarian strait-jacket.’’ Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss, several tears repaired with tape on reverse.

21. Livingstone, David; Stanley, H. [Henry] M.Livingstone’s Africa. Perilous Adventures and Extensive Discoveries in the Interior of Africa, from the Personal Narrative of David Livingstone, LL.D., D.C.L., together with the Remarkable Success and Important Results of the Herald-Stanley Expedition, as Furnished by H.M. Stanley, Esq., Special Correspondent of the New York Herald.Being a Complete Reliable and Graphic History of the Extensive Explorations,Important Discoveries and Thrilling Adventures of the Greatest Explorer of Modern Times, in the Richest and Wildest Country upon the Face of the Earth, among Savage

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22. Milton, John; Newton, Thomas; Buckley, Theodore AloisThe Poetical Works of John MiltonLondon: George Routledge and Sons, 1873. No date on copyright or title page. viii, 570 pp. 8vo. Illustrations by William Harvey engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. A newedition, carefully revised, from the text of Thomas Newton, D.D., with a foreword by Theodore Alois Buckley. Most poems in English, those towards the end of the volume in the original Latin. Includes: Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes; Poems on Several Occasions; Sonnets; Psalms; Johannis Miltoni Londinensis Poemata;Elegiarum Liber Primus; Epigrammatum Liber; Sylvarum Liber. Good. Bindingrepaired, ink gift note on front flyleaf dated 1873.

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Men, Ferocious Beasts, Deadly Reptiles, Poisonous Insects, Etc., Etc., Covering aPeriod of Nearly Thirty Years, and Including a Full and Graphic Account of the Herald-Stanley Expedition and What It Experienced and Accomplished; also, the Last Letters Penned by the Great Explorer, the Full Account of His Lonely Death, Return of the Remains to England, Burial, Etc., Etc., to which is added a Sketch of OtherImportant Discoveries in Africa, Including the Celebrated Diamond Diggings at Colesberg Kopje.Hubbard Bros., 1872. First edition. xvi, 615, 2 pp. 8vo. Illustrated with numerousengravings. ‘The great explorer’s life history, from his birth to his burial.’ Very good. Edges rubbed, pencil name on front endpaper. A nicely preserved copy of a title often found in poor condition.

23. Murray, JohnCollected Writings of John Murray: Studies in TheologyBanner of Truth, 1982. First edition. Studies in Theology is the fourth and concluding volume in the Collected Writings of John Murray, produced mainly during his ministry as Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminister Theological Seminary,Philadelphia. Near fine.

$3024. Paley, Albert; Yarrington, JamesSentinel: The Design, Fabrication, and Installation of the Monumental Sculpture by Albert Paley at Rochester Institute of Technology [RIT]RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, Rochester, 2005. 127 pp. “This book chronicles allaspects of Sentinel’s inception. Essays by Jim Yarrington, director of RIT campus planning, describe the sculpture’s place in RIT’s unique architectural environment. Sam Hunter, professor emeritus at Princeton University Department of Art and Archaeology, contributes an authoritative essay on the influence of Albert Paley’s work in the context of art history. The book also includes a candid interview with the artist himself, as he discusses his thought process and the engineering decisions that went into the design of the Sentinel. Photographs of the sculpture’s construction are woven throughout the text as compelling documents of its complex installation, culminating with stunning images of the finished artwork.” Fine. Signed & dated by Albert Paley on half-title page.

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25. Pojman, Louis P.The Theory of Knowledge: Classical and Contemporary ReadingsWadsworth / Thomson Learning, 2003. Third edition. viii, [2], 614 pp. Contains 63 readings organized into eleven parts that outline the subjects’ central tocontemporary epistemology. Opposing positions are set forth for all issues and a brief synopsis introduces each reading. Very good. Pencil underlining & marginalia throughout.

$4026. Romero, George A.; Sparrow, SusannaMartinDay Books / Stein and Day, New York, 1980. First paperback printing. 213 pp.

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27. Schurer, Emil; Macpherson, John; Taylor, Sophia; Christie, PeterA History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ: Being aSecond and Revised Edition of a ‘Manual of the History of New Testament Times’, in Five Volumes: First Division: Political History of Palestine, from B.C. 175 to A.D. 135; Second Division: The Internal Condition of Palestine, and of the Jewish People, in the Time of ChristHendrickson Publishers, 2010. 7th printing. Complete in five hardcover volumes. viii, 467; viii, 407; xii, 379; viii, 327; viii, 387, iii, 99 pp. 8vo. 2010 reissue of 1890 original.Final volume includes index covering all five volumes. Includes extensive essays on the Roman political system and its leaders, the political and religious parties ofJudaism, messianic movements, and pertinent Greek and Jewish literature - including the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha - from the centuries before and after Christ.

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28. Shakespeare, WilliamRomeo and Juliet, Painted by Ludovic Marchetti, Lucius Rossi, Oreste CortazzoRaphael Tuck and Sons, London / The Fine Art Works, 1880. 43, [1] pp. Folio.Chromolithographs and half-tone illustrations from paintings by LudovicMarchetti, Lucius Rossi, and Oreste Cortazzo. Text in two columns. Good. Binding shaken - could use recasing, boards lightly soiled with light stain to base of front board, edge of RFEP a bit worn, two 1/4 inch tears to spine foot, pencil gift note on front flyleaf dated 1890. Pages are clean with no marks or foxing, with the exception of the rear endpapers which are very lightly foxed. Very minor transfer visible on pages opposite the bolder images. $125

Photoplay paperback with section of black & white stills from the 1977 film directed by George A. Romero, famous for his Night of the Living Dead. Romero called Martin hisfavorite film. Tom Savini did the special effects - this was his first film with Romero, and he went on to work on Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Creepshow, and Monkey Shines (along with numerous other high-profile horror films such as Friday the 13th. He laterdirected a remake of Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. Small sticker remnant on front wrapper, edges lightly rubbed, pages lightly toned.


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30. White, LionelThe Money TrapE.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., New York, 1963. First edition. 189 pp. 8vo. Inspiration for the 1965 Burt Kennedy film starring Glenn Ford (Joe Baron) and Elke Sommer (Lisa Baron), which also featured Ricardo Montalban (as Joe’s partner Pete Delanos). The story follows two cops who collaborate to steal money from a drug-dealing doctor, and combines the classic heist plot with elements of noir. Very good in good jacket. Front & end matter faintly foxed, jacket rubbed & lightly toned with minor tears along edges, small portion of front jacket flap corner clipped ($3.50 list price still present). $125

29. The New York TimesPortfolio of the European War in Rotogravure Etchings Selected from the Mid-Week Pictorial of The New York Times [The Photographic History of the Great European War in Gravure]Circulation Bureau, Inc., Times Bldg., Times Square, New York, 1917. Unpaginated. Folio. A large collection of photographs and andillustrations reproduced as half-tone rotogravure etchings. Captions provide context and historical information. Includes an interesting mix of military, political, social, and scenic images. Good. Spine base repaired, boards rubbed, pages toned.

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31. Forty Etchings on Copper, Reproduced from the Most Noted Examples of Modern Art and Photographs of English Landscapes. Series I.The Osborne & Murphy Company, Art Publishers, Red Oak, S.D. Forty half-tone images photographically reproduced from original photographs, and copper plate etchings by various artists. In 1888, two enterprising young men, Edmond Osborne and Thomas D. Murphy, purchased awoodcut of the Montgomery County Courthouse that was underconstruction at the time. To offset the expense of the woodcut, they decided to sell advertising around the picture and add a calendar pad. Because of


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32. Menu, Hotel Lexington, New York City, Wednesday, December 22, 1948.Hotel Lexington, New York City, 1948. Single sheet, folded once. 11 1/4 x 8 5/8. Labeled ‘Hawaiian Room’ across middle fold. A wide assortment of offerings, including whole lobster, Romanoff caviar, Lynhaven Oysters Rockefeller, etc., with nothing exceeding $4.50. There appear to be a number of variants of the 1948 menu, likely a function of them being printed daily. This example bears an etchedillustration on the front wrapper dated 1939 and labeled Washington Square New York City, with initials EPM, and printed illustrator signature below (E.P.Marquis?). Near fine. Faintly toned, folded slightly askew such that fore-edge corners do not line up, but this appears to be an error of the printer (or the folder, if this was done manually).

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their venture, Red Oak became known as the birthplace of the art calendar industry. The business became a major industry in Red Oak, with hundreds of employees and salesmen and a branch in London. Murphy also continued as publisher of The Red Oak Express. Very good. Boards faintly soiled, front hinge just beginning to weaken, portion of front free endpaper removed, front flyleaf creased. All image pages excellent with no marks, foxing, stains, or toning.

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