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Brooklyn 1948. first edition. 12mo., 140pp., illustration, wraps. Photo portrait of Alfred A Tausk, principal. VG owner name in pen inside rear cover (Jack Grannola)

1st Edition. Hardcover without dust jacket as issued. Folio with 537 pages. The book is in good condition with some slight bumping to the covers edges and foxing to the top pages edges. There is some foxing to the front title page and several pages in the back (pages 528 to the back pastedown). The interior is tight. The spine is sage/black.

First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. No extraneous markings. All pages are intact and binding is strong. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

First edition. Two volumes. 12mo. 297; 301pp. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Fine in very good dust jackets with toned spines, and a small tear on both volumes tape mended on the verso and housed in an about very good cardboard slipcase with several large chips mostly on the spine and top edge. Typophiles Chap Books 42. One of 2000 copies.

Book: Near Fine/, $108.81 DISTILLED WISDOM. An Encyclopedia of Wisdom in Condensed From; Author`s Signed Inscription. * MONTAPERT, Alfred Armand PRENTICE-HALL New Jersey * * * * * 1964 1sT Edition, 6tH Printing Tall Wide Thick D/j + H/c. Light Sun Bleaching On A Lighter Blue Spine With Title In Black Outlined 0ff~White Letters. Dust Jacket: Very Good/, Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. Front Interior Flap, $8.95. Hard Cover Book: Near Fine/, Slight Shelf, Edge And Corner Wear. 355 Numbered Pages, Clean And Tight To The Spine, In Fine/As New/ condition, Printed On 0ff~White Paper, In Fine/As New/, Condition. Appear To Be Lightly Read, Clean And Tight To The Spine Which Is Tight. Inside Front Cover Is Gift Inscription, As Follows, `To our friends, The DecKers with great admiration and esteem Alfred Montapert`. Printed With A Fine Tipped Blue Pen. Corners Are Square. D/j: None. = Description Applies To This B00K, Only. = This Author Signed Book Has A Special Significance, Is Hard To Find, Will Be Wrapped In Plastic, Taped Shut, Packaged And Shipped = Carefully, To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift, For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = No Odors, No Writing, No Names, No Rippling, Not Stuck Together, No Book Plate, Not X~Library, No Remainder Or Other Marks. This Item Will Be Sent Wrapped In Plastic, Taped Shut And In A = New Corrugated Mailing B0X ~ = To Prevent Shipping Damage So That It Will Arrive In The Description Described. Description Applies To This B00K, Only. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING, AVAILABLE. =*=* California State Law Now Requires The Following Notice Be Given: *=*=* Seller Did Not Personally Know This Person Or Persons, And Did Not See And Was Not Present When This Item Was Signed. No Certificate Of Authenticity Is Implied Or Included In This Sale/Purchase Price. If You Would Like A Certificate Of Authenticity, You Can Obtain One At Your Own Convenience And Expense, Which Is Not Included In The Purchase Price Of This Item. =*=*

Size: 8vo-over 7.75"-9.75" tall; Nice first printing abridgement by Readers Union for sale to its members only in 1955, previously published by Museum Press, London in three vols. No names, closed tears or soil seen in the fine 261pp text. Only one micro chip out of half title page fore edge. Original orange/cream printed dust wrapper is unclipped, darkened on spine, shows short chips on spine ends and a 1" bit of cello tape over a like sized claw scratch in the frt gutter/spine corner of dj and mylar. Autobiography of Sir Alfred James Munnings KCVO, PRA (8 October 1878-17 July 1959), who was known as one of England's finest painters of horses, and as an outspoken enemy of Modernism (when inebriated), also past president of the Royal Academy. Engaged by Lord Beaverbrook's Canadian War Memorials Fund, he earned several prestigious commissions after the Great War that made him wealthy.

Signed and numbered [55/285] first edition, which is also inscribed by Manhood on the ffep. Red cloth boards stamped in gilt, nude pictorial on front cover. Cloth shows light soiling. A tad bit of foxing; minor soiling on endmatter. 20 leaves. Dust jacket has small chips at corners; in an archival mylar sleeve. Printed and made by The Garden city Press, Letchworth. A warped little story by Harold Alfred Manhood (1904-1991) about a randy, young man in Dublin, his uncle's printing shop, a bucket of prawns, and a mysterious room decorated with lusty tapestries which contains a hideous girl holding a revolver.

1st printing; green c w/black titles, lite wear at extremties; 252 clean, unmarked pages.

First edition stated. Hard-cover, Die Schweiz und die Fluechtlinge 1933-45German text, near fine/VG DJ Free of any markings and no writing. Minor shelf-wear. For Additional Information or pictures, Please Inquire.

near fine book very good- fine jackeet corner and spine bumping, signed, inscribed, complimentary copy letter from author, fact sheet, oversize