Item 170Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture
Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. Publisher's pictorial softcover.
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Item 78Manichean Aesthetics: The Politics of Literature in Colonial Africa
University of Massachusetts Press, 1983. Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in red, dust jacket.
Item 375Hiroshige 1797-1858: Master of Japanese Ukiyo-e Woodblock Prints
Part of the Basic Art Series 2.0.
Cologne: Taschen, 2016. Illustrated from reproductions of Hiroshige's art, in color. Quarto. Illustrated from reproductions of Hiroshige's art, in color. Quarto.
Item 376Mein Kampf
It is what it is.
München [i.e. Munich]: Franz Eher Nachfolger, 1930. Frontispiece portrait, with tissue guard. xvii, [7], 782, [9 advertisement] pp. Octavo. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt. Frontispiece portrait, with tissue guard. xvii, [7], 782, [9 advertisement] pp. Octavo.
Item 371The Great Road: The Life and Times of Chu Teh
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1956. First Edition. Publisher's red cloth-backed green boards, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket.
Item 356Update on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Revealing memo from a Bay Area public health agency during the infancy of the AIDS crisis, when there were only 750 documented cases nationally, 170 of which were in California. The document comprises a three-page report and a final page with a blank sample "registry" sheet with a survey for gathering the required information on people diagnosed with AIDS, including whether they were a homosexual, as well as details regarding their drugs use. *PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A PHOTOCOPY* however, it does appear that it is a period, rather than later, photocopy.
Contra Costa County, California: Contra Costa County Department of.....
Item 424Tubutsch
Wien [Vienna] & Leipzig: Jahoda & Siegel, No date [ca. 1911]. With 12 drawings by Oskar Kokoschka. 68 pp. Publisher's cloth, front cover titled in dark brown. With 12 drawings by Oskar Kokoschka. 68 pp.
Item 59Brave New World [with its Monarch Notes!]
The dystopian classic, also including a copy of the Monarch Notes from 1965, ISBN 671007149, toned and with pencil annotations as well.
New York: Harper Perennial, 2006. 2 items. Paperback. 2 items.
Item 77Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750-1837
University of Michigan Press, 2014. Softcover.
Item 93Improvised Europeans: American Literary Expatriates In London
Basic Books, 1998. Publisher's duo-tone blue and patterned boards, spine lettered in silver, pictorial jacket.
Item 60Orwell and the Left
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. Second printing. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in black, dust jacket.
Item 378One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight. A Dialogue Something like Horace
London: Printed for T. Cooper, No date. [4], 10 , [1 advertisement] pp. Includes half-title page. Folio. First Edition. Bound in 20th-century boards, with fragments of an older spine label laid down. [4], 10 , [1 advertisement] pp. Includes half-title page. Folio.
Item 398The Rape of the Lock
Attractively illustrated Bensley printing of the classic poem.
London: Printed by T. Bensley; for F.J. du Roveray Great St. Helens; and sold by J. and A. Arch Gracechurch-Street; and J. Wright Piccadilly, 1798. Illustrated with engraved plates, two of which by Stothard and one by Fuseli. xxx, 79 pp. Octavo. Period red straight-grain morocco decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Illustrated with engraved plates, two of which by Stothard and one by Fuseli. xxx, 79 pp. Octavo.
Item 449Briefe von Alexander von Humboldt an Varnhagen von Ense, aus den Jahren 1827 bis 1858
With letters in German, English, and French.
New York: Bei Friedrich Gerhard, 1860. vi, 266 pp. Early half calf. vi, 266 pp.
Item 366Superior Women
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. Third printing. Publisher's quarter cloth, spine lettered in blue, dust jacket.
Item 180Ching-Li and the Dragons
New York: The Junior Literary Guild, 1931. Blue cloth stamped in silver.
Item 99The Ecology of Finnegans Wake
University Press of Florida, 2015. Publisher's pictorial boards. No jacket, as issued.
Item 473Appraisal Report: Fageol Motors Company, Oakland, California. December 1, 1930. Inventory
Typescript report comprising the inventory of the Fageol Motors Company of Oakland, California as of the end of 1930, tracing everything from lands owned by the Company to the stenographer's oak chair.
Milwaukee: The American Appraisal Company, 1930. [ix], 475 leaves. Printed on rectos only. Quarto (280x215 mm). Period leather lettered in gilt. [ix], 475 leaves. Printed on rectos only. Quarto (280x215 mm). Item 151Marilyn
Köln/Cologne: Taschen, [2011]. 2 volumes. Publisher's cloth (one black, one pictorial in color) in pictorial board slipcase. 2 volumes.
Item 491Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia
Published to accompany the eponymous exhibit shown at the Walker Art Center, Cranbrook Art Museum, and the Berkeley Art Museum and Film Archive.
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2016. Illustrated from reproductions and photographs, many in color. 448 pp. Quarto. Second printing. Softcover. Illustrated from reproductions and photographs, many in color. 448 pp. Quarto. Item 501Letters to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield from Andrew Stuart, Esqr.
Andrew Stuart (d. 1801) was an eloquent lawyer who represented the Duke of Hamilton in the famous lawsuit disputing the legitimacy and succession of Archibald James Douglas, first baron Douglas. Douglas prevailed, and in these letters Stuart assails Lord Mansfield, the judge in the case, for his "want of impartiality."
London: [No publisher], 1773. 40, 64, 48, 48 pp. First Edition. Period calf, red morocco lettering piece. 40, 64, 48, 48 pp. Item 161Vacation from Reality: The Art of Anthony Ausgang
San Francisco: 9mm Books, [2007]. Publisher's pictorial softcover.
Item 455Gelehrte Verhandlung der Materi, Von Erscheinungen der Geisteren. Und denen Vampiren in Ungarn, Mahren etc.
Bookplate of E.I. McCormac; additional bookplates removed from front pastedown and rear free endpaper verso; inscription erased from leaf )(2 recto, name inked to final page of preface.
Augspurg [i.e. Augsburg]: Matthäus Rieger, 1752. 2 parts in 1. [32], 416; [16], 216 pp. Octavo. Second Edition in German. Period calf. 2 parts in 1. [32], 416; [16], 216 pp. Octavo.
Item 412La Historia di Battista Platina delle Vita de' Pontefici, dal Salvatore Nostro fino a Paolo II
**NOT FOR SALE** Platina's Lives of the Popes (Liber de vita Christi ac omnium pontificum) in a mid-16th century Italian edition. An important humanist text, heavily influenced by Platina's experiences in and out of papal favor in Rome. Onofrio Panvinio of Verona edited and updated the text up until Pius IV. Period or early annotations throughout, often trimmed by a later binder.
Venetia [i.e. Venice]: Michele Tramezzino, 1563. [20], 374, [2 blank], [12] leaves. Translated into Italian by Lucio Fauno. Quarto. Later parchment, spine title lettered in ink. [20], 374, [2 blank], [12] leaves. Translated into Italian by Lucio Fauno. Quarto..... Item 511Album illustré du cortège historique: Organisé à Louvain à l'occasion du cinquantième anniversaire de la restauration de l'Université Catholique 1834-1884
Color plate book celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Catholic University of Leuven (Université catholique de Louvain/Katholieke Hogeschool te Leuven).
Louvain [i.e. Leuven, Belgium]: D. Aug. Peeters Ruelens, 1886. With 11 illustrated chromolithographed plates, including title page. xxi, [1] subscriber pages, 23 text pages. All leaves loose, laid in publisher's portfolio. Publisher's portfolio chemise with illustrated cover. With 11 illustrated chromolithographed plates, including title page. xxi, [1] subscriber pages, 23 text pages. All leaves loose, laid in publisher's portfolio.