New York: November 25, 1955. Peter Abrahams (1919- ), is a South African novelist who was deeply influenced by his discovery of the literature of the Harlem Renaissance. His early novel "Mine Boy" (1946) was the first to emphasize the dehumanizing effect of racism upon South African blacks... Read More about Portrait photograph of Peter Abrahams
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London: William Heinemann, 1958. First Edition, with second edition dust jacket. A lovely copy of Achebe's first novel and magnum opus, the most widely read and translated African novel, a masterpiece of postcolonial literature. Read More about Things Fall Apart
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New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1929. First American edition. Inscribe on FFEP: “To my fellow Highlander, Arthur Andrews, Esq., with cordial regards from/ Peregrine Acland/ March 30th, 1933. As the book was extensively revised after F. M. F. wrote his preface, I suggest reading the story first- the preface afterwards./ P.A”..... Read More about All Else is Folly. A Tale of War and Passion. With a Note by Way of Preface by Ford Madox Ford
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Columbia, S.C: The State Company, 1929. First edition, #232 of 250 numbered copies, signed by E. C. L. Adams. A play, written by a white physician in "black dialect," set in South Carolina. Read More about Potee's Gal. A Drama of Negro Life Near the Big Congaree Swamps by E. C. L. Adams
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London: William Daniell, 1814. Daniell, William. First Edition. Read More about The Adventures of Hunch-back and the Stories Connected with It [From The Arabian Nights...
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Paris: Chez Batilliot frères, [n.d., ca. 1795-1800]. Read More about Ésope en bel Humeur, ou Fables d'Ésope en Vaudevilles, avec gravures par Augustin Legrand
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![Item #338405 CHILDHOOD HOURS with SONGS FOR LITTLE TOTS. [Poems and Songs] by Maggie Pogue...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/338405.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691420933)
[United States]: [Privately Printed], 1952. First edition. Maggie Pogue Johnson, African-American poet, is the author of Virginia Dreams, Thoughts for Idle Hours and Fallen Blossoms. Read More about CHILDHOOD HOURS with SONGS FOR LITTLE TOTS. [Poems and Songs] by Maggie Pogue Johnson
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Moscow: Sovetskiĭ Pisatel', 1969. First edition. After her first book of poems Struna [String] (1962) was published, as a success, her work was criticized by the government as "superfluous and too intimate". It took her seven years to publish this, her second volume. Joseph Brodsky called her the best living..... Read More about Uroki muzyki. Stikhi. [Music Lessons
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Berlin: S. Efron, [n.d., 1920]. Nice copy of this emigré edition of these poems of Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966). Originally published in 1913. Read More about Chetki. Stikhi
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New York: Izd-vo im. Chekhova, 1952. Read More about Izbrannye stikhotvorenii︠a︡ [Selected Poems
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[Peterburg]: [Alkonost], 1922. Third edition, published in 1922. First published in 1917, it was Akhmatova’s third book, written during the disintegration of her marriage and as a world war raged on, it is a deeply Christian engagement with the manifold grief of human history. Uncommon edition. Read More about Belaia staia: Stikhotvoreniia [The White Flock: Poems]. Kniga Vtoraia [Second book
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Florence: Bernardo Giunta, 1546. Second edition, first to be printed in Italy. Second edition of Alamanni's pastoral masterpiece, composed in the manner of Virgil's Georgics. This edition was the first to be printed in Italy (the first edition printed in Paris by Robert Estienne). Read More about La Coltivatione di Luigi Alamanni al christianissimo Francessco primo
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London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1872. First British Edition, Low's copyright cheap ed. of American books. Scarce, OCLC locates only one copy, in Germany. Read More about Little Men. Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys
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New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1936. First edition, signed and numbered by the author and limited to 1250 copies. Steven Moore's and Mary McCarthy's copy. With a letter from Steven Moore enclosing this, his personal copy, to her with a copy of her 1936 "Discovery" review of the book..... Read More about Locos. A Comedy of Gestures
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Italy: 1805. Limited edition of 250 copies. Volume from Alfieri's OPERE, or collected works, comprised of odes to the American Revolution, printed here in a limited edition of 250 copies. Alfieri was an Italian dramatist and poet who published several poetical works on the American Revolution. Read More about Opere di Vittorio Alfieri da Asti: L'america Libera
Price: $450
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, [n.d., ca. 1907]. Early reprint. Rare In Dust Jacket. Read More about Chester Rand; or, A New Path to Fortune
Price: $350
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1895. The Riverside Edition. The Divine Comedy, Beautifully Bound. Read More about The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
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New York: Grossman Publishers, 1969. First printing. Read More about The Divine Comedy. Translated by Thomas G. Bergin
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London: J. Noon, 1740, 1731 & 1730. Second Edition. Read More about Alkibibla. A Disquisition upon Worshipping towards the East. In Two Parts. together with; A...
Price: $250
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition, first state, No. 276 of 332 copies, signed by the author on the title page. Superior Copy. The mythic lumberjack (and Babe, his blue ox) in picture and poetry. Laid in the front is a printed Merry Christmas note entitled “Bunyan's Biggest..... Read More about Paul Bunyan and Resinous Rhymes of The North Woods
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New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition, first state, No. 222 of 332 copies, signed by the author on the title page. Superior Copy. The mythic lumberjack (and Babe, his blue ox) in picture and poetry. Read More about Paul Bunyan and Resinous Rhymes of The North Woods
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New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First edition, second state, no. 25 of 166 copies [first state, signed by author on title, consisted of 332 copies]. The mythic lumberjack (and Babe, his blue ox) in picture and poetry; very scarce. Read More about Paul Bunyan and Resinous Rhymes of The North Woods
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Sao Paolo: Martins, [1966]. First edition, trade issue. Obras Illustrados de Jorge Amado Vol. XVII. Inscribed. Inscribed by the author on the half title, “para Niles Bond, com um abraço de um leitor e admirador de sua poesia, muito cordialmente Jorge Amado S.P. Junho 1966”. Niles Bond was a US..... Read More about Dona Flor e seus dois maridos — história moral e de amor
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[Boston]: Office of the Daily Commercial Gazette, n.d. [August, 1830]. Rare American Announcement of the July Revolution. This Boston broadside, published by the [Boston] Daily Commercial Gazette, contains extracts from the London papers detailing the July 1830 Revolution in France that overthrew Charles X. It is presumably one of the..... Read More about Revolution in France! [drop title
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Chicago: third World, nd. Ad brochure. Read More about Let's Go Some Where
Price: $50