New Books for the week of March 15th, 2020
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Amiri Baraka. MALCOLM X AS IDEOLOGY. Candia, NH: John LeBow. 2008. 8vo. Stapled wraps. 37 pp. Signed by Baraka on the title page. A touch of wear to the edges, else near fine. $45 CW428646
Barrere, Dorothy B.. KAMEHAMEHA IN KONA: TWO DOCUMENTARY STUDIES. Honolulu: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. 1975. 8vo. Green wraps. 108 pp. Wraps with light wear, sun-fading at spine and edges, and light soiling. Very good. $35 CW428640
Barrere, Dorothy B.. THE KUMUHONUA LEGENDS: A STUDY OF LATE 19TH CENTURY HAWAIIAN STORIES OF CREATION AND ORIGINS. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum. 1971. Second printing. 8vo. Tan wraps. 47 pp. Light soiling and wear to covers, with some sun-fading at spine and edges. Very good. $35 CW428641
Bonbright, James C.. THE VALUATION OF PROPERTY: A TREATISE ON THE APPRAISAL OF PROPERTY FOR DIFFERENT LEGAL PURPOSES. New York and London: The McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1937. Second printing. Two volume set. 8vo. Red cloth. 1271 pp. total, continuously paginated. Rubbing to head, tail, edges, and corners. Number inked to lower spine on each volume (no other library markings). Two previous owner signatures to front free endpapers of each volume. Very good minus, no jackets. $65 CW428637
Bradford, E. E.. THE TRUE ARISTOCRACY. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.. 1923. First edition. 8vo. Red cloth. 125 pp. Light rubbing to head, heel, and corners. Spine slightly cocked. Bookseller label to front pastedown, and previous owner's signature to front free endpaper. Occasional underlining in pencil. Very good, no jacket, with faults as noted. Scarce. $295 CW428654
Bramah, Ernest. A LITTLE FLUTTER. London, Toronto, Melbourne, and Sydney: Cassell and Company. 1930. 8vo. Green cloth. 319 pp. Light shelfwear, including some slight fraying to head and tail of spine. Top of textblock dust-soiled. Light toning to page edges. Very good, no jacket. $95 CW428635
Brown, Michelle P.. THE WORLD OF THE LUTTRELL PSALTER. London: British Library. 2007. 8vo. Wraps. 96 pp. Color illustrations. Very good plus with light shelfwear. $25 CW428644
Chaucer, Geoffrey. TROILUS AND CRISEYDE: A FACSIMILE OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE MS 61. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. 1978. Tall 4to. Brown cloth. Small folio. 23 pp. followed by facsimile of 151 manuscript leaves. Light shelfwear. Some scuffs to rear board. Some penciling to introduction. Very good, no jacket. $150 CW428638
Colish, Marcia L.. THE STOIC TRADITION FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES (STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN TRADITIONS). Leiden: Brill Academic Pub. 1990. Two volume set. 8vo. Orange wraps. 459, 342 pp. Light wear to edges. Volume I with spine crease and slightly cocked. Some pencil underlining in volume I, seemingly concentrated in the first 125 pages. Oterhwise very good with faults as noted. $75 CW428652
Curjel, Hans. EXPERIMENT KROLLOPER: 1927-1931 (STUDIEN ZUR KUNST DES NEUNZEHNTEN JAHRHUNDERTS) (GERMAN EDITION). Munich: Prestel. 1975. Small square 4to. Cloth. 504 pp. Text in German. Color and b/w illustrations. Light shelfwear. Light soiling to page edges. Jacket with light wear, light soiling, and some creases at the head of the spine. Very good in a very good jacket. $100 CW428653
Dekker, Thomas. Edited by Fredson Bowers. / Cyrus Hoy. THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF THOMAS DEKKER (IN FOUR VOLUMES) [WITH] INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES, AND COMMENTARIES TO TEXTS (IN FOUR VOLUMES). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Pr. 2009. Eight volume set. 2009 digital reprints. 8vo. Wraps. Light wear to edges, else very good plus. THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF THOMAS DEKKER in four volumes, edited by Fredson Bowers. Plus INTRODUCTIONS, NOTES, AND COMMENTARIES TO TEXTS IN THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF THOMAS DEKKER by Cyrus Hoy. $150 CW428650
Hovey, Richard. SEAWARD: AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS. Boston: D. Lothrop Company. 1893. 8vo. Green cloth, top edges gilt. Unpaginated. Original prospectus laid in. Frontispiece portrait of Parsons. Light shelfwear. Stitching exposed in a few places. Very good, no jacket. BAL 9376. $50 CW428634
Lyeskov, Nicolai. THE SENTRY AND OTHER STORIES. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1923. First American edition. 8vo. Purple cloth with decorative endpapers. 320 pp. Light shelfwear. Small stain to top edge of first several leaves. Jacket with light wear at edges, some sun-fading to spine, and a small closed tear to the rear panel/joint. Very good in a very good minus jacket. Scarce. $95 CW428636
McLachlan, H. John. SOCINIANISM IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1951. 8vo. Cloth. 352 pp. Light shelfwear. Pages toned. Jacket with some toning to spine and edges, as well as some small chips at the spine ends and edges. Very good in a very good jacket. $50 CW428639
R. B. Dunning Inc.. R. B. DUNNING AND COMPANY INC. CATALOG L. PLUMBING, HEATING, AND MILL SUPPLIES. Bangor, ME: R. B. Dunning and Company. 1954. 8vo. Pebbled black cloth. 224 pp. Black and white illustrations (with a few in color). Superficial shelfwear, else near fine, in lightly-soiled original mailing box. Supply catalog for R. B. Dunning and Company of Bangor, Maine. $50 CW428633
Richard Trachsler. CLOTURES DU CYCLE ARTHURIEN: ETUDE ET TEXTES (PUBLICATIONS ROMANES ET FRANCAISES). Paris: Librairie Droz S.A.. 1996. 8vo. Wraps. 570 pp. Text in French. Wraps with light wear to edges and light soiling. Bar code sticker to rear cover. Very good plus. $45 CW428648
Rollins, Hyder Edward, edited. ENGLAND'S HELICON: 1600, 1614. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1935. Two volume set. 8vo. Cloth. 228, 241 pp. Light shelfwear. Jackets lightly rubbed, with some light soiling. Jacket of volume II with a small stain to front panel. Very good plus in very good jackets. $85 CW428651
Simpson, Roger. CAMELOT REGAINED: THE ARTHURIAN REVIVAL AND TENNYSON 1800-1849 (ARTHURIAN STUDIES). Woodbridge, Suffolk: D.S. Brewer. 1990. 8vo. Digitally-printed perfect-bound hardcover. 293 pp. Light shelfwear, tail of spine bumped, else very good plus, no jacket. $35 CW428643
Wagon, Stan. THE BANACH-TARSKI PARADOX (ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1993. 8vo. Wraps. 253 pp. Light shelfwear. Small stains to fore-edges. Previous owner's signature to half title. Very good. $30 CW428645
Wauquelin, Jehan. THE MEDIEVAL ROMANCE OF ALEXANDER: THE DEEDS AND CONQUESTS OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D.S.Brewer. 2012. 8vo. Laminated paper-covered boards (hardcover). 306 pp. Superficial shelfwear, slight bumping to corners, else very good plus, no jacket. $50 CW428630
Zilsel, Edgar. DIE ENTSTEHUNG DES GENIEBEGRIFFES. Tubingen: J. C. B. Mohr. 1926. 8vo. Wraps. 346 pp. Text in German. Wraps with wear at edges, some sunning and chipping to the spine, and some small stains to front. Some offsetting to title page and first few leaves. Very good. $50 CW428642
Zur Shalev. SACRED WORDS AND WORLDS (HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE LIBRARY / SCIENTIFIC AND LEA). Leiden/Boston: BRILL. 2011. 8vo. Laminated paper-covered boards (hardcover). 319 pp. Light shelfwear, else very good, no jacket. $50 CW428631
