Category: Non-Fiction, General

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Storie della citta di Firenze dal 1410 al 1460….. Books 1-4. [Stories of the City of Florence from the year 1410 to 1460. Written in the same times …

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Florence: Nella Stamperia di Giorgio Marescotti : 1579-1580

Seller ID: 150305

Condition: Good.

Florence: Nella Stamperia di Giorgio Marescotti, 1579-1580. [The colophon is dated Florence, 1579, but the dedication to Francesco de Medici, is dated April 15, 1580.] 1st edition. Small 4to, 1/2 vellum and purple boards, inked title on spine.[38] 829 [1] pp. Text in Italian. Buoninsegni was a Florentine patrician, merchant and historian. Politically he held some of the city's most important offices and was a member of the broader circle of the early Medici regime. He spent the last ten years of his life completing this Historia Florentine; he died in Florence in March of 1466. The history ex...
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Savage Automatic Pistols

By: Carr, James

Price: $47.50

Publisher: Privately Printed : 1969

Seller ID: 111101

1st ed. 8vo, copper cloth, 131 pp. Classic reference work on the 32 Savage automatic pistols [1907-1922]. Pristine copy in a lightly rubbed very good dust jacket. No tears or chips.
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This is Television

By: Carrickford, Richard

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Muller : 1967

Seller ID: 016001

Third, revised edition (1967) of Ralph Steadman's first book appearance. The first edition was published in 1958 and is quite scarce. VG-Near fine copy; some erased pencil marks on end-paper and some very light foxing in upper right corner of title page. In VG d/w with a few small nicks and some light spotting on back cover.
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A Handbook on Hanging: Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution....

By: Charles Duff

Price: $62.50

Publisher: Hale, Cushman & Flint, New York : 1929

Seller ID: k200325a

Condition: Very good

FULL TITLE: A Handbook on Hanging: Being a Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution, and Containing Much Useful Information on Neck-Breaking, Throttling, Strangling, Asphyxiation, Decapitation and Electrocution; As Well as Data and Wrinkles for Hangmen, an Account of the Late MR. Berry's Method of Killing and His Working List of Drops; To Which Is Added a Hangman's Ready Reckoner and Certain Other Items of Interest; All Very Proper to Be Read and Kept in Every Family ##### New York: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1929. First Edition. 16mo; Black cloth with printed spine label. 129pp + hangm...
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A Collection of Epitaphs and Inscriptions, interesting either from historical associations or quaintness of wording (2 Vols.).

COLLECTANEA ADAMANTAEA. - XII. A Collection of Epitaphs and Inscriptions, interesting either from historical associations or quaintness of wording (2 Vols.).

By: Edmund Goldsmid , editor

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Edinburgh: privately printed by E & G Goldsmid : 1885-1886

Seller ID: k200301g

Condition: Good

A Collection of Epitaphs and Inscriptions, interesting either from historical associations or quaintness of wording (2 Vols.). Edinburgh: privately printed by E & G Goldsmid 1885-86. 12vo. 54; 48pp; Limited to 275 copies. head and tail-pieces, title-pages printed in red and black. One of 275 small paper copies (total edition of 350). Printed parchment paper wrappers. A two-volume compilation of graveyard epitaphs. Condition: Good; covers soiled and toned, that of volume I chipped and partially split at spine. Interior clean and bright overall, with soiling to half-title and title page of vo...
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The Art of Walt Disney . From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms

By: Finch, Christopher

Price: $110.00

Publisher: New York, Abrams : 1973

Seller ID: 10502

The true first edition (1973) with the original 3-dimensional applique of Mickey Mouse and acetate dustjacket. The book itself is in fine condition, with the white cloth still bright on the front and with just some minor soiling along the top and bottom edges of the back cover (from shelf-wear). The acetate d/w has some scuffs and a few crayon marks and has two 3" closed tears on the back a 1/2" closed tear on the front.
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[Black Fury] Archive of film-related correspondence by Sacco-Vanzetti/Nuremberg Justice Michael A. Musmanno

By: Hon. Michael A. Musmanno / Bruce Lockwood

Price: $3,000.00

Publisher: n.p, n.p. : 1935

Seller ID: k210726g

Condition: Very Good

[Black Fury] Archive of film-related correspondence by Sacco-Vanzetti/Nuremberg Justice Michael A. Musmanno#####A remarkable archive of nearly 41 original letters from noted judge/author/screenwriter Michael A. Musmanno concerning the 1935 Warner Brothers film "Black Fury" starring Paul Muni. The letters are written to his ghostwriter/script doctor/amanuensis Bruce Lockwood. With another five letters from Lockwood to Musmanno. #####The film was based on an actual 1929 incident in whichJohn Barkoski, a miner agitating for recognition of theUnited Mine Workers of America, was beaten to death by...
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Oomingmack: The Expedition to the Musk Ox Island in the Bering Sea

By: Matthiessen, Peter

Price: $35.00

Publisher: NY, Hastings House : 1967

Seller ID: s10022

Matthiessen was a member of the Nunivak Expedition formed to capture a group of musk ox calves to raise for their wool. Black and white photographs by the author. Book is flawless. Dustwrapper has a faded spine and faint sun line 1/4" wide along spine.
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Jazzmen --The Story of Hot Jazz Told in the Lives of the Men Who Created It

By: Ramsey,Jr., Frederic; and Charles Edward Smith, editors

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Harcourt Brace and Company, New York : 1939

Seller ID: k190212a

Condition: Near Fine

1st ed., 8vo., beige cloth, 360 pp. This early jazz history focuses on the important hot spots and musicians of New Orleans, Chicago, and New York. 56 photographs; comprehensive index. CONDITION: Near fine in fair dustjacket. A clean, tight copy: prior owner’s penciled signature on front end paper, some browning in the hinges; contemporary bookshop label inside back cover [and transfer to facing page]; no tears, chips, or rubbing. The jacket is complete, not price-clipped but has numerous edge tears up to 1”, chipped a spine ends; soiled back panels.
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The BRASS CHECK / A Study of American Journalism -- in scarce 1st state d/w.

By: Upton Sinclair

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Pasadena, Published by the Author : 1919

Seller ID: s200901a

Condition: Hardcover

1st hardcover edition. 8vo, tan cloth. 445, [3 advts.] pp. Sinclair makes "a systematic and incriminating critique of the severe limitations of the 'free press' in the United States. Sinclair called The Brass Check 'the most important and most dangerous book I have ever written.' Among those critiqued was William Randolph Hearst, who made routine use of yellow journalism in his widespread newspaper and magazine business. The text is freely available on the Internet, since Sinclair chose not to copyright the work in an effort to maximize its readership. It went through ten printings in its f...
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The Sleepy Lagoon Case

By: Welles, Orson

Price: $60.00

Seller ID: 040314

1st ed., second printing with the original 5c price at the bottom of the cover. Covers age-toned with a couple of light stains. Paper cover pulling from one of the staples, but still intact. Pencil erasures on back cover and one interior page.
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PHILOSOPHY IN SPORT MADE SCIENCE IN EARNEST being an attempt to illustrate the first principles of natural philosophy by the aid of POPULAR TOYS AND SPORTS

By: [Paris, John]

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, Longman Rees Orme Brown And Green : 1827

Seller ID: k200801f

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Poor

First Edition, 1827. 3 Volumes. 8vo, boards. Vol. (1). xviii, 316pp, Vol. (2). vii, 314pp [2]. Vol. (3). vi, 207pp. Woodcut chapter headings by George Cruikshank. ##### Chapters on balls and motion, marbles, popguns, the kite, ancient music, optical illusions, the swing. Also, an important book in the history of moving pictures since Vol 3 discusses the Thaumatrope, a pioneering device for displaying images in motion. Other topics covered include momentum, geometry, elasticity and the collision of bodies; the science behind these is demonstrated using a yo-yo, a jack-in-the-box, marbles and...
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Category: Non-Fiction, General