A selection of books for the Biblio.Live virtual book fair.
The virtual fair is open from 12 noon Friday, October 7 (Eastern time) to October 16.
![Item No: #361630 Afro-American: Good News for You [cover title] / The...](/pictures/thumb/361630.jpg?v=1665013037)
First Edition. A 64-page promotional book about the Afro-American, a national African American newspaper that began publishing in the 1890s. Illustrated with numerous photographs, the book provides an overview of the various departments in the company and the basics of newspaper production and distribution. The AFRO is still in business.....
Price: $100
First edition. Included in this issue are three letters from Oscar Zeta Acosta, one on his embarrassing fascination with light-skinned women, one on his troubles as an unpaid civil rights lawyer, and one on the trial of Catolicos Por La Paz—a group arrested for disturbing a Christmas Eve mass. Together.....
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A fascinating collection of recipes for making ersatz alcoholic spirits from straight alcohol, water, and flavorings manufactured by Beick, Felix and Compañía, a German pharmaceutical company with offices in Mexico City. Each recipe concludes with an estimated cost per bottle. Some of the recipes are particularly rich, calling for adding.....
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A comic Western screenplay by the writer who would give us The Exorcist a few years later. On the title page, Blatty is credited with the story and the screenplay, but the film was released as based on a novel by Frank O'Rourke. The film starred Zero Mostel and Kim.....
Price: $350
1997. The title poem, illustrated by Louise Reinoehl Max as a picture book. With a five-page introduction by Bradbury. [32] pages. 5-3/4 by 7-1/4 inches. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Bradbury to his friend and.....
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![Item No: #362237 Green Shadows, White Whale [Signed, Numbered]. Ray Bradbury](/pictures/thumb/362237.jpg?v=1665013080)
First Edition. One of 50 signed and numbered copies of Bradbury's novelization of his experience as a young writer working on the Moby-Dick screenplay for John Houston in 1953. This limited edition is signed on a tipped in page and uses the first edition sheets from Knopf, the trade publisher.....
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First Edition. An uncommon story collection, published in Japan, with no comparable volume published in the US. This book, intended for English language students, includes a brief biography of Bradbury in Japanese and a glossary of uncommon words and phrases at the back. The four short stories collected here are.....
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A one-page letter, mostly a reproduction of an engraved image, with Bradbury's computer-generated text below. The letter is dated September 18, 1991. The 14-line, about 125-word, letter responds to a letter with photos of Guanajuato, Mexico. "I climbed those hills at night to listen to the far musics, guitars, singing.....
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First Edition. An offprint from Writer's Digest and the first separate publication of this interview with Bradbury. Scarce. [28] pages made from seven sheets folded vertically and laid into printed wrappers (not stapled into the binding). The format is unusual, with the text printed in single narrow columns, as it.....
Price: $75
First Edition. Reproductions of photographs with captions. Published in an edition of 500 numbered copies. [8] pages, including a fold-out leaf. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in stapled wrappers (pamphlet). This is copy no. 85 of 500. It is inscribed on the cover to the publisher of Lord.....
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First Edition. Once of the scarcest of Burgess's books, a chapbook printing of his lecture to the Malta Library Association in June 1970. The text is based on a transcription of a tape recording, corrected by the author. Burgess and his wife moved to Malta in 1968; the Maltese government.....
Price: $350
First Edition. A memoir of Cleaver's growing up, the Black Panthers, his time in Algiers, and his conversion to Christianity. Illustrated with halftone photographs. First edition (first printing, with no indication of later printings). A near fine copy in a dust jacket showing light wear along the top edge. Signed.....
Price: $500
A short postcard addressed to the bookseller Peter Howard, of Serendipity Books in Berkeley. "Peter—thanks for writing such a kind and appreciative letter about me & my work—See you in December. Best Diane di P." Fine. The post card is not dated and the postmark is hard to read but.....
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First Edition. The first two volumes of an illustrated training manual for LAPD officers, written by the department's Field Training Unit and issued under three chiefs of police, C. B. Horrall; W. A. Worton; and W. H. Parker. The bulletins, each a single sheet printed on both sides, often with.....
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First Edition. A dictionary of criminal argot assembled by the one-time chief of police of Bessemer, Pennsylvania. Finerty lists some 2500 words, with short definitions. The words are grouped by first letter, but are not in any particular order after that. The book concludes with advice for avoiding becoming a......
Price: $400
A short note from the British novelist, perhaps best known for The French Lieutenant's Woman because it was made into a popular film, declines to send work to the literary journal Pax. "Dear Mr. [Bryce] Milligan, I'm very sorry, but I write very few short pieces these days, so can't.....
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Gay's first book, a collection of stories published by a small literary press. In 2018, Grove Press took over the rights to this book and is the current publisher. 122 pages. A trade paperback original. Ayiti appears to have been a printed-on-demand title which makes the concept of "first printing".....
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First Edition. A collection of Stephen Jay Gould's essays, issued in full bonded leather edition with gilt page edges and signed on a limitation leaf bound in at the front. This book is part of the Easton Press's signed first edition series, theoretically issued prior to the trade edition. 540.....
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First Edition. A synthesis of three decades of study and writing about evolutionary theory. Gould, ever the historian of science, traces the development of evolution in order to make his case that biologists put too much emphasis on the "design" embodied in natural selection and too little on random chance.....
Price: $150
First Edition. A brief guide to New Orleans illustrated with a large folding map of the city and a small folding plate of jetty designed by James Buchanan Eads at the mouth of the Mississippi River. The guide lists government offices, fire department leaders and the location of call boxes.....
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A fine-press edition of Hemingway's second book, a collection of short vignettes (not to be confused with the short story collection by the same name). "The text, originally published in 1924, was set by hand in the Lutetia typeface with display in Post Medieval Light. The paper is Frankfurt. The.....
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First Edition. A work mostly devoted to entomology (insects being the most common subject of these essays), with a few botanical pieces. Two examples: Essay X, "On a Species of Fly produced on the Flower of a Plant" and Essay XII: "On the Production and Fructification of a Singular Species.....
Price: $750
![Item No: #361683 A Manual of the Flowering Plants of California [Jepson Manual]....](/pictures/thumb/361683.jpg?v=1665013037)
First Edition. The first complete edition of the book that is now synonymous with California botany. The "Jepson Manual" is still updated today and is the essential work for anyone studying plants in California. This book was, like many of Jepson's works, published in parts over several years. This is.....
Price: $250
First Edition. A picture book by the author of The Phantom Tollbooth, illustrated by a Caldecott Award–winning illustrator. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed on the front free endpaper by both Juster and Raschka. Scarce signed by both.
Price: $125
First Edition. A moderately technical memoir of the Nobel Prize-winning chemist's work with enzymes over the course of 30 years. Kornberg won the Nobel Prize for his work on the enzymes involved in DNA synthesis. First edition (first printing with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a......
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