New York: Lancer Books, 1966–1968. 12mo. 224 pp. each (vol. 4, 256 pp.) Five mass-market paperbacks in original pictorial wrappers, with cover art by Frank Frazetta. Lancer numbers 73-526, 73-549, 73-572, 73-599, and 73-685; each priced 60¢. Purple page edges. Light rubbing, edge wear; rear wrappers toned. Paper browned. Five.....
![Item #1288 How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America [Signed]. Manning Marable](https://columbusrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1288.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1792001356)
Boston: South End Press, 1983. Octavo. Paperback; x, 343 pp. First edition. Printed wrappers, soiled, creased; dampstaining to wrappers and preliminary leaves. Inscribed on the half-title to Dr. Robert Fitrakis, "To Bob: In common struggle for political justice and socialism, and for all the struggles ahead of us: Manning 4/7/83".....
Massachusetts: Edmund Newman, Inc., 1993. Large quarto. 359 pp. First edition. Original cloth. Illustrated in color. With original lithographic dust jacket, Interior amb Flors, printed on Michel paper and hand-signed by Alvar; edition of 5,000. Transparent printed protector present, with light wear. Leaves clean. Publisher’s white box rubbed and soiled.....
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985. Octavo. xii, 207 pp. First edition, first printing. Original blue boards, gilt lettering and Egyptian motifs. With accompanying oracle cards in their illustrated card box and original outer carton. Minor binding wear; leaves clean, slightly toned. Card box edge-rubbed. Outer carton heavily rubbed, with.....
![Item #1285 Street Angel [Signed]. Jim Rugg](https://columbusrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1285.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1791936150)
Virginia: AdHouse Books, 2014. Octavo. 176 pp. Second edition, October 2014. Original illustrated boards; pink-and-purple printing throughout. Signed by Jim Rugg on the title page, with a large original profile sketch in purple ink. Light extremity wear; lower rear corner bumped and creased. Accompanied by a promotional card, illustrated bookmark.....
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1928. Thick octavo. Tenth edition, revised and enlarged. Dark green half leather over marbled boards; matching marbled endpapers. Raised bands, gilt spine lettering and floral compartments. Leather rubbed; headcap chipped and frayed, with a short split at upper front joint. Marbled boards faded and rubbed.....
![Item #1283 Poems [Signed]. Haniel Long](https://columbusrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1283.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1791923937)
New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1920. 12mo. 70 pp. First edition. Original green cloth, gilt lettering to front board. Cloth stained and discolored; gilt dulled. Corners rubbed; spine ends frayed with small losses. Endpapers toned and spotted. Diagonal crease to dedication leaf. Without dust jacket. Inscribed by the author.....
London: Soul Jazz Publishing, 2007. Quarto. 208 pp. First edition. Original red flexible wrappers. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Light surface rubbing and scratches; corners and spine ends bumped, with minor edge creasing. Interior leaves clean. Paula Court’s photographic record of downtown New York’s intersecting art and music communities. Approximately 400.....
New York: Ars Sacra / Herbert Dubler, Inc., 1942. Small format. Unpaginated, with color illustrations. Original brown pictorial paper-covered boards, extensively rubbed, with flaking and surface loss, worn edges and corners, and marks to the rear cover. Rear endpaper split along the gutter. Leaves toned, with scattered spotting. A charming.....
Koyama Press / Dustin Harbin, 2015-2018. Three volumes. Collected edition: small octavo, 236 pp.; two smaller stapled minicomics, including Diary Comics #6, May 2017. Illustrated wrappers. Each volume with an original drawing attributed to Harbin, accompanied by his monogram in purple ink. Light wrapper handling and minor edgewear. A selection.....
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897. Octavo. xxxi, 492 pp. Sixth edition, revised and enlarged, with an additional chapter on Corea in 1897. Illustrated with frontispiece, text illustrations, and maps. Colored folding map at rear, substantially torn, but complete. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Cloth rubbed and discolored;.....
![Item #1278 Coleman Young and Detroit Politics [Signed]. Wilbur C. Rich](https://columbusrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1278.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1791917267)
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989. Octavo. 298 pp. First edition, first printing; complete number line. Illustrated. Original red cloth, lettered in black, in pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed by Rich to Dr. Robert Fitrakis on the front free endpaper: “To: Bob / a scholar, friend / and student of /.....
London: Creation Books / Velvet Publications, 1999. Quarto. 192 pp. Original photographic wrappers. Illustrated in color and black and white. Wrappers rubbed, faint scratches; edgewear, small corner creases, and wear to spine ends. Rear spine fold rubbed. Light toning and scattered marks. An illustrated anthology of interviews and features documenting.....
Illinois: Lutheran Augustana Book Concern, 1899. Octavo. Approx. 300 pp. First edition. Illustrated. Original blue cloth elaborately stamped in gilt and black. Gilt titles and ornamental cover design remain strong. Moderate rubbing and soiling to boards; wear and fraying at spine crown and heel; corners rubbed. Some seperation of board.....
Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2006–2012. Folio. Six oversized hardcover volumes. First Fantagraphics Books editions. Illustrated die-cut boards in six contrasting colors, the spines collectively spelling POPEYE. Bindings square and sound. Minor shelfwear and light rubbing at extremities, with occasional small bumps. Die-cut panels intact. Interiors clean and bright. Complete six-volume Fantagraphics.....
Philadelphia: The Terminus Publishing Company, 1988-1992. Fifteen issues in original pictorial wrappers, the first issues of the Terminus Publishing revival of Weird Tales, whole numbers 290–304, Spring 1988–Spring 1992. Clean, bright copies with light handling and shelfwear. Covers remain well preserved. The start of the revival run of the legendary fantasy.....
New York: The Modern Library / Random House. 16mo. 324 pp. Translated by Thomas Common, with introduction by Mrs. Förster-Nietzsche. Green cloth boards in original dust jacket; clipped. Binding square. Pages lightly toned. Original jacket bright and substantially complete, with shallow chipping at spine crown and corners, light edgewear, rubbing.....
Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2017–2018. Large quarto. Two volumes. 528 pp. total. Illustrated boards. First editions, first printings. Volume 1 published January 2017; Volume 2 published 2018. Profusely illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white with Wallace Wood artwork, photographs, archival material, and personal ephemera. Light shelfwear only; corners and boards remain.....
Philadelphia: Terminus Publishing / DNA Publications, 1992–2001. Quarto. Sixteen illustrated magazine issues in pictorial wrappers. Includes Weird Tales nos. 305–308, the complete four-issue Worlds of Fantasy & Horror sequence, and later Weird Tales nos. 313, 315–317, 319, and 321–323. Light rubbing, handling wear, occasional creasing and edgewear; generally clean, bright.....
New York: Health Knowledge, Inc., 1970–1971. Digest. Two issues, complete run. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Fall No. 1 with light edgewear and mild rubbing; March No. 2 with light handling wear and toning at extremities. Pages naturally toned but sound. Complete and intact. Complete run of the short-lived Bizarre Fantasy Tales.....
San Diego: IDW Publishing / Yoe Books, 2014. Quarto. 184 pp. First printing. Publisher's white pictorial cloth, elaborately printed in black, red, yellow, and blue, with die-cut front-board window revealing an interior color image. Red ribbon marker. Minor handling wear; binding square and tight, boards bright, contents clean. A visually.....
New York: Warner Paperback Library, 1972. 12 mo. Mass-market paperbacks. Seven consecutive volumes, Nos. 1–7. Illustrated wrappers with striking pulp-style cover art, the early covers attributed to Peter Caras. Flat, tight spines. Bright, glossy wrappers with only minor edge and corner wear. Pages uniformly age-toned. Clean, square, attractive collector-grade copies.....
New York: Hurst & Co., Publishers, 1890s. Octavo. Publisher's deep blue cloth elaborately stamped in black and gilt, with floral and ornamental decoration to front board and spine. Patterned endpapers. Tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece. All edges gilt. Light rubbing to extremities, modest wear at spine ends and corners, scattered foxing and.....
New York: Hurst & Co., Publishers, 1890s. Octavo. Decorative publisher's red cloth elaborately stamped in black and gilt with floral and torch motifs; gilt title panel to upper board and ornate decorated spine. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Longfellow with original tissue guard. Decorative floral endpapers. Binding rubbed, particularly at spine.....
![Item #1261 The Dialogues of Plato [President James A. Garfield’s Copy]. Plato](https://columbusrarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1261.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1791311387)
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1871. James A. Garfield’s copy of the first edition of Benjamin Jowett’s landmark English translation of Plato. Volumes I and II only, of four, from the personal library of James A. Garfield (1831–1881), twentieth President of the United States. Both volumes bear Garfield’s distinctive “Inter Folia Fructus.....