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Good. Thirty page booklet published by the Center for Investigative Reporting in 1983. This saddle-stitched (stapled) publication was compiled by the C.I.R. and is composed of five articles written by the late Angus MacKenzie, an investigative journalist best known for his work researching the CIA's systematic efforts to suppress and censor information. He co-founded the Center for Investigative Reporting. During his career he won or shared over two dozen journalism awards, including the ...
Good. Hardcover 1968 reprint by the Negro Universities Press of the original 1856 publication written by John Thompson about his years of being enslaved and his subsequent escape to the north. Brown linen covered boards are clean. There is no dust jacket. Lower corner of front board is dented and has very light wearing to the cloth, with minimal wearing to the other corner tips. Bottom of spine has very light wear to the cloth as well. Binding is extremely tight. It appears this copy has not ...
Fair. Softcover published by the Economy Book League, which was an American book publishing company based in Cleveland, Ohio. The faux leather covers are cracked and worn. Soiled with rips along the ends of spine strips. Very rubbed and scraped on all edges. Front cover and and first 50 pages or so curl upward. Age-toning to outside edges of paste-downs and endpapers. Some cracking in the hinges/gutters of a few different section of the book, but no pages are loose and this remains a good ...
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Horn & Wallace, Publishers
Date published: 1961
Description: Fair. Hardcover. Published 1961 by Horn & Wallace, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, stickers etc. FEP also has pencil erasures. Chipped, nicked and faded dust jacket has protective archival DU over it. Stains on outside edge of text block. Dented corners. Shelf-wear to spine ends. Pull out map at rear is present. Binding is solid. Good reading copy. 152 pps. Read More
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Collier
Date published: 1968
Description: Good. First Collier Books edition, 1968. Purple wraps with design and title in black and white. Stained, smudged, scuffed and scratched wraps. Yellowing to titling and back cover. Scraping to edges, incl. spine edges. Bit of wear to spine ends. Wearing to corner tips which curl up ever so slightly. Yellowed text block with thumbprint staining on lower corner. Reading creases. Former owner name torn away from very top portion of half-title page. Binding is firm. Very nice reading copy. Read More
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Date published: 1987
Description: Good. Softcover trade paperback. Light use. Light scuffing to wraps. Corners are bumped slightly. Ding to bottom of spine. The FEP has slight separation towards the bottom of the gutter. Gift inscription on half title page. A bit of waviness to text block. Thumbprint stains on lower corner of text. No markings. Good reading copy. 276 pages. Read More
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Portola Institute Inc
Date published: 1970
Description: Fair. Softcover folio. Stapled binding with outer wrap beginning to pull through but not excessively. Well toned newsprint style pages. Faded and creased wraps, scraped all the way around. Rolled corners. Soiling to outside edges of the "text block." Overall a pretty good copy of a "counter-culture" magazine. Nice collectible. 144 pages. Read More
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Don Celender
Date published: 1972
Description: Good. Self-published saddle-stitched publication, featuring reproductions of letters to a wide variety of organizations and government entities by Don Celender, an American conceptual artist and professor. Yellowed and stained wraps, which are just starting to pull through the staples, otherwise a good binding. Bumped corners, wearing along edges of spine, spine and outside edges. Unpaginated. Read More
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Enterprise Printing, Co
Date published: 1909
Description: Good. Small book, 4"w x 5" h. 24 pages. Softcover. Black, textured covering over the card boards. Gilt titling on front. Wearing to corner tips, and head and heel of spine. Pastedowns and end pages w/ green design. Smudged and soiled. First four pages have indentations which appear to have been caused by staples. All the pages have faint stains in a half moon shape adjacent to page edge. Tells the story of how the (former) South Side Library in Milwaukee, WI came into being. Read More
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Date published: 1963
Description: Fair. Dust jacket is rubbed, scraped, chipped, scuffed, faded, creased and has been taped together with cellophane tape to the point that we are unable to remove it to assess condition of boards without ripping the dust jacket completely off. Front flap is price clipped. From what we can see of the boards, they are worn and scraped along the bottom edges. Dented corner tips. Lightly tanned pages. Some stains to text block. Binding is firm. Very readable copy. 280 pages. Read More
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Laurel Leaf/Dell
Date published: 1968
Description: Fair. Mass market pb. Scraped edges. Crease/crimp on top of rear wrap. Small chunk out of outside edge of wrap. Several pages crimped at upper corners. Bookstore sticker on front wrap near spine. Bumped tips. Tanned/toned pages. Good binding. Readable copy. 94 pps. Read More
