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BLEAK HOUSE
BLEAK HOUSE
Dickens, Charles
- Publisher: Bradbury & Evans
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853. First Edition, First Issue. 8vo., xvi, 624 pages; VG; bound in polished light brown calf, paneled spine with brown label and gilt lettering, other panels have gilt tooling; boards have double-ruled borders with flower decoration to the corner, blind-stamped dentelles, single gilt edge-roll, text blocks marbled; marbled endpapers; very mild shelfwear; Errata listed after list of plates on xvi; First issue points present: "elgble" on page 19 line 6; "chair" instead of "hair" on page 209, line 23; "counsinship" instead of "cousinship" on page 275, line 22.; Bound without the half title; with engraved frontispiece, engraved title page, printed title page; some age-toning to plate edges, as usual; LP consignment; shelved Case 4. Full-priced Rockville.
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The White House Years: Mandate for Change 1953-1956 and The White House Years: Waging Peace 1956-1961.
The White House Years: Mandate for Change 1953-1956 and The White House Years: Waging Peace 1956-1961.
Eisenhower, Dwight D
- Publisher: Doubleday and Company 1963-65, Garden City, NY
- Format: Hardcover
Signed limited first editions, each one of 1500 copies. Two volumes, thick octavo, pictorial endpapers, original tan cloth, original slipcases. Both are fine condition with the original acetate dust jacket, which are in fine condition. The slipcases are in fine condition. An exceptional set. This is the story of President Eisenhower?s first administration. Dwight D. Eisenhower, one of the major figures of the twentieth century, writes an account of the events, as he saw them, leading up to a sweeping mandate, and then pursues the theme of change in the years 1953-1956
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Mandate for Change. 1953-1956. The White House Years
Mandate for Change. 1953-1956. The White House Years
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
- Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1963. First Trade edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth. Very good. First Trade edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Great Association Copy. Inscribed on half-title, "By one of the greatest men I ever knew, to the greatest man I ever knew, Bruce Barton from Alex F. Osborn."Bruce Barton (1886-1967) is considered by many to be one of the most influential advertising men of the 20th century. He was not your ordinary adman - religious author, Congressman, founder of the advertising agency BBDO, creator of Betty Crocker. The interesting, yet complicated, life of this man illustrates the complexity of the creative mind. A mind that was not limited to one endeavor, but found a way to apply similar skills and abilities to a multitude of opportunities. Despite all of his other accomplishments, he is still remembered first and foremost as an adman. In a fictional novel based on BBDO, The Virgin Queene, the Bruce Barton character named Barnham Dunn tried to explain his successAlex F. Osborn was born in New York City, May 24,1888, graduated Ph.B. in 1909 and Ph.M. in1921 at Hamilton College. Meanwhile, he worked as a reporter for the Buffalo (N.Y.) Times in 1909 and for the Buffalo Express during the following two years. He was assistant secretary of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce in 1911-12 and sales manager of the Hard Manufacturing Co., Buffalo from 1912 to 1915. In the latter year he entered the field of advertising as manager of the E. P Remington Advertising Co., Buffalo. During World War I, he worked as a volunteer for the United War Work campaign and there met another young writer Bruce Barton. He was married in Buffalo, Sept. 5,1916, to Helen, daughter of Edward Emerson Coatsworth of the city, a lawyer, and had five children: Katharine, Joan, Marion, Russell Barton,and Elinor. n 1919 Alex Osborn found the advertising agency of Barton, Durstine and Osborn, New York City with Bruce Barton and Roy Durstine. In 1928 the firm was merged with the George Batten Co. to formBatten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. Inc. A partner in the original firm, Osborn was named vice-president of the newly merged agency. Advanced to executive vice-president and general manager in 1939, he became vice-chairman of the board in 1946. In 1957 he became a member of the executive committee, and he served in both posts until his retirement in 1960.
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Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies; A Study in Folk-Lore & Psychical Research
Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies; A Study in Folk-Lore & Psychical Research
Kirk, Robert
- Publisher: David Nutt, London
- Format: Softcover
12mo. [lxv], 92, [2]. Frontispiece. Printed wraps, very good. (41378). Limited to 500 copies. Introduction by Andrew Lang; Bibliotheque de Carabas Vol. XII.
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HELTER SKELTER: L.A. ART IN THE 1990S - SIGNED BY CHRIS BURDEN, MIKE KELLEY, PAUL McCARTHY, MANUEL OCAMPO AND CHARLES RAY
HELTER SKELTER: L.A. ART IN THE 1990S - SIGNED BY CHRIS BURDEN, MIKE KELLEY, PAUL McCARTHY, MANUEL OCAMPO AND CHARLES RAY
Schimmel, Paul, Norman M. Klein & Lane Relyea
- Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles & Thames and Hudson, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780914357278
Schimmel, Paul, Norman M. Klein & Lane Relyea. HELTER SKELTER: L.A. ART IN THE 1990S - SIGNED BY CHRIS BURDEN, MIKE KELLEY, PAUL McCARTHY, MANUEL OCAMPO AND CHARLES RAY. Signed by the Artists. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles & Thames and Hudson, Inc., 1992. First Edition. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Near Fine. 181pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Mr. Keedy. Twenty years on, Paul Schimmel's sprawling early nineties survey of the crème de la crème of younger to mid-career Los Angeles artists pushing the edge seems almost prescient in its choices for benediction. In its clever catalogue, the work of Chris Burden, Meg Cranston, Victor Estrada, Llyn Foulkes, Richard Jackson, Mike Kelley, Liz Larner, Paul McCarthy, Manuel Ocampo, Raymond Pettibon, Lari Pittman, Charles Ray, Nancy Rubins, Jim Shaw, Megan Williams, and Robert Williams is juxtaposed with literary contributions by Charles Bukowski, Michelle T. Clinton, Dennis Cooper, Harry Gamboa, Jr., Amy Gerstler, Jim Krusoe, Bia Lowe, Rita Valencia, Helena Maria Viramontes, and Benjamin Weissman. A bright, most handsome example of this always in-demand document additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "M. Kelley 1992", "Paul McCarthy", "Charles Ray", "Chris Burden" and "Manuel Jesus Ocampo - with a drawing of a face" at the exhibition opening in black ink on the title page and its verso. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-914357-27-1 Inventory Number: 020702
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The Count of Monte-Cristo
The Count of Monte-Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre (Alexander)
- Publisher: Chapman and Hall, London
- Format: Hardcover
First Editions, First Printings SIGNED by Alexander Dumas on hand written letters tipped into each volume. A stunning two volume set in the ORIGINAL publisher's cinnamon cloth with minor wear. Both books are in excellent condition. Each book is complete with the proper title page and copyright information. The bindings are tight with NO cocking or leanings and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing or marks in the books. A superb set seldom seen in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth SIGNED by the author. Includes a lovely clamshell slipcase for each for preservation. We buy Dumas First Editions.
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The Count of Monte-Cristo
The Count of Monte-Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre (Alexander)
- Publisher: Chapman and Hall, London
Chapman and Hall, London, 1846 First Editions, First Printings SIGNED by Alexander Dumas on hand written letters tipped into each volume. A stunning two volume set in the ORIGINAL publisher's cinnamon cloth with minor wear. Both books are in excellent condition. Each book is complete with the proper title page and copyright information. The bindings are tight with NO cocking or leanings and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing or marks in the books. A superb set seldom seen in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth SIGNED by the author. Includes a lovely clamshell slipcase for each for preservation. We buy Dumas First Editions.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine.
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Les Trois Mousquetaires [The Three Musketeers]
Les Trois Mousquetaires [The Three Musketeers]
Dumas, Alexandre
- Publisher: Alph. Lebègue et Sacré Fils, Brussels
- Format: Hardcover
5 vols. 1st edition (jamais vu), preceding all other editions including multiple Brussels editions from Meline, Muquardt, and Société Belge de Librairie Hauman, as well as Baudry's 1844 Paris edition (issued last of all the 1844 editions). 1st issue (Lebègue in 18mo.) preceding their reissue in 24mo. This is the real 1st edition, listed first by Munro (Alexandre Dumas Père. A Bibliography of Works Published in French) without dispute, and prior to any other 1844 edition. It's also the rarest edition of Mousquetaires. Full French, glazed and diced, blindstamped paper covered boards. Pinpoint rubs to corners, page 183 in vol. V with a short tear to the margin (just touching but not taking 2 letters of text), else fine, complete with all 5 half-titles, and all 10 original printed wrappers (front and back) bound in. An amazing unearthing, rare by any criterion. Munro lists a set (not ours) so that makes 2 recorded, but let me continue. No copies of this Lebègue edition at auction in 50 years (the only Brussels editions sold at auction in that time were 2 copies, 13 years ago, of Meline's Brussels and Leipzig imprint, the 2nd Meline edition, the 6th overall, and the most common of the 7 Brussels editions, by 4 publishers, listed by Munro in 1844). More surprisingly, OCLC located no (zero) sets of this Lebègue 1st edition in any National or University library, and only single volumes I, II, and V at Sommerpalais, Germany (OCLC does record libraries holding sets of the other Brussels editions and, of course, extensive holdings of Baudry's Paris edition). Coll: [1]-181, [1,blank]. [1]-172. [1]-171, [1 blank]. [1]-163. [1 blank]. [1]-223, [1 blank] pp. Let me repeat. This is the true 1st edition of Les Trois Mousquetaires, as recorded in the most current and most comprehensive bibliography, one of 2 known sets, and think about this. No other 19th century novel with stature comparable to Les Trois Mousquetaires has a census that shows it to be anywhere near as rare. Tous pour un, un pour tous. The 1st appearance was a daily serialization in the newspaper Le Siècle (The Century) from March 14 to July 14, 1844. The Brussels editions were also serialized 1 volume at a time as soon as enough of the novel had appeared in the newspaper to make up a volume, and the mosh pit frenzy of the Brussels publishers to get the progressive volumes of their editions out as quickly as possible, insures that each individual volume's exact date of publication will remain an open question. That said, Lebègue's edition holds supremacy as the 1st because their edition had both its first and last volumes issued before the others, and there is no doubt it's the rarest. And beyond rational dispute is that all the 1844 Brussels editions precede the 1844 Paris edition (it's more sure with this title than with many others) because after the serial was completed, and with the Brussels editions fully published and being sold, Dumas casually opened Paris book publication rights for bidding while he unnecessarily revised the text (most who have read both texts agree the original is better than the revised). The winner (in a feisty rivalry) was finally Baudry, and he paid a lot for the Paris rights so his printing was larger than usual, but despite his edition not having priority over any Brussels edition, and being more common than any of the other Paris editions of Dumas' foremost novels, it would still be preferred in some Continental circles, though in wider circles "1st edition" still carries all the weight. And yes, it's odd that Baudry's 1st Paris edition of Les Trois Mousquetaires is the most common of the Paris 1st editions of Dumas' major novels, while Lebègue's true 1st edition of it seems the rarest one all.
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EVERY MAN HIS OWN GARDENER. BEING A NEW, AND MORE COMPLETE GARDENER'S KALENDAR THAN ANY ONE HITHERTO PUBLISHED. Containing, Not only an Account of what Work is necessary to be done in the Hot-House, Green-House, Shrubbery, Kitchen, Flower and Fruit-G
EVERY MAN HIS OWN GARDENER. BEING A NEW, AND MORE COMPLETE GARDENER'S KALENDAR THAN ANY ONE HITHERTO PUBLISHED. Containing, Not only an Account of what Work is necessary to be done in the Hot-House, Green-House, Shrubbery, Kitchen, Flower and Fruit-G
GARDENING - MAWE. THOMAS.
- Publisher: London: Printed for William Griffin, at Garrick's Head, in Catherine-Street, Strand.
12mo. 4.1 x 6.76 inches. Frontis.+ [ii] + ii + 480 + xii pp. [2], B-U12, Y-Y6. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece by Isaac Taylor. Bound with contemporary patterned calf, gilt decorated spine and gilt borders, black morocco label. Front and rear hinges loose and joints weak Small area on top border of frontispiece missing. Small abraded area at right lower edge of C6-7 with minimal loss of text. Early ink stains, especially, F6-7 and U6-7. Some foxing and browning of pages. 1947 ink inscription inside front paste-down. First published as Mawe's Gardener's Calendar in 1767, this proved to be one of the most popular gardening books of its era and indeed continued to be revised as late as 1879. It is arranged by the months of the year, with lists of plants at the end. In fact it was not written by Thomas Mawe, but by John Abercrombie (1726-1806), son of an Edinburgh market gardener, who had worked at Kew and other royal gardens and later established his own market gardens in the London area. Having expanded his practical observations into book form, his publisher, William Griffin, submitted the publication to his friend, William Mawe, gardener to the Duke of Leeds. Mawe 'bore testimony to the merit of the production, and prefixed his name to the publication in order to give it that celebrity to which it was so justly entitled, for which he received a gratuity of twenty guineas.' Following the great success of the book, Mawe, a notable figure in the gardening world, invited Abercrombie to visit him in Yorkshire. There the author saw 'a gentleman so bepowdered, and so bedaubed with gold lace, that he thought he could be in the presence of no less a personage than the Duke himself.' (both quotations from Blanche Henrey). In spite of this the two became friends and Mawe gave Abercrombie further information to use in his published works. This sixth edition is the last to appear under the sole authorship of Mawe and from the seventh edition of 1776, Abercrombie added his own name to the title page. These later editions were larger by a third or more. The fine engraving of two gardeners digging and hoeing was replaced by a portrait of Abercrombie from 1800 onwards. A scarce early edition of this influential gardening book. NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE GARDENING NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE ESTC T 33566 Blanche Henrey 1057 DNB
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Deutschland's Nutzliche und Schadliche Vogel
Deutschland's Nutzliche und Schadliche Vogel
Furst, H.
- Publisher: Berlin: Paul Parey, -. First edition.
Pp. ii, [2], 100, [4, index]; pp. (4), 32 fine double page chromolithographic plates, Publisher's blind-stamped and gilt-decorated olive green cloth, lg 8vo (text) + lg folio (plates) (16 inches x 11 inches). A rare work depicting German beneficial and deleterious birds for hunters, farmers, gardeners and naturalists. The 32 fine plates open to double-size images (21 inches x 15.5 inches). Original tissue guards present for all plates (tissue guards are a little tanned), slight wear at the head and foot of the spine of the atlas volume; a bright, clean set in near fine condition.
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Midstream
Midstream
Helen Keller
- Publisher: Doubleday Doran and Company
New York: Doubleday Doran and Company, 1929. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/no dust Jacket. Copyright date 1929, first edition, first printing. Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering and design on the spine. Red tint to the top page edges, for edge and bottom page edges are not cut. Light blue inside covers front and back. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. No Dust Jacket. No tears, bent pages, nor any writing. Shelf wear to the edges and to the head and toe of the spine, with bumps to the head and toe of the spine, spine is starting to fade. Text and illustrations remains bright and clean, binding is secure, a scarce book by Helen Keller of her later life. Size: 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Maryland Silversmiths, 1715-1830: With Illustrations of Their Silver and Their Marks and with a Facsimile of the Design Book of William Farris
Maryland Silversmiths, 1715-1830: With Illustrations of Their Silver and Their Marks and with a Facsimile of the Design Book of William Farris
Pleasants, J. Hall and Howard Sill
- Publisher: J. Hall Pleasants
Baltimore, Maryland: J. Hall Pleasants, 1930. Hardcover. G- (No dj; binding edges have moderate wear; front hinge is quite loose; page surfaces are only slightly aged; could be a candidate for rebinding.). Gray paper boards with black cloth spine, gilt letters on spine, 324 pp., 67 full-page bw plates. A tremendous resource to have at one's fingertips, with many full-page illustrations and additional reproductions of dozens of silversmiths' marks. The historical narrative covers makers; marks; operations of the Baltimore Assay Office; silversmiths in Annapolis, Baltimore, on the eastern shore, in western Maryland, and in the counties of Harford, Charles, and St. Mary's; watch and clock makers, apprentices, indentured immigrant silversmiths, and the work of William Faris of Annapolis. This copy is marked as "Proof Copy" out of 300 copies. A rare reference indeed.
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MIDSTREAM My Later Life
MIDSTREAM My Later Life
Keller, Helen
- Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. 1929. First Edition; Early Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good in boards. Edge wear to boards. A few small spots to front panel. Toning. A few faint pencil markings to bottom page edges. Text is clean and unmarked. ; Signed and inscribed by the author, Helen Keller, on the front end page. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .
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MARTHA GRAHAM Sixteen Dances in Photographs
MARTHA GRAHAM Sixteen Dances in Photographs
Morgan, Barbara ; [SIGNED by Martha Graham]
- Publisher: Morgan & Morgan
- ISBN: 9780871001764
Dobbs Ferry: Morgan & Morgan. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1980. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. 164 pages; Warmly inscribed and SIGNED on half-title by Martha Graham to Roger and Christine Stevens. Roger Stevens was founder and director of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC and a founder of the National Endowment for the Arts. Christine Stevens was a prominent conservationist, animal rights activist, and founder of the Animal Welfare Institute. Essays by Barbara Morgan, George Beiswanger and Louis Horst, as well as a statement by Graham. Illustrated with dozens of incredible photographs of Graham by Barbara Morgan. A beautiful book in extremely nice condition. .
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Book of the Bear; Being Twenty-One Tales Newly Translated from the Russian
Book of the Bear; Being Twenty-One Tales Newly Translated from the Russian
Harrison, Jane & Hope Mirrlees
- Publisher: Nonesuch Press, London
- Format: Hardcover
18mo. [xiii], 108 pp. Illustrations by Ray Garnett. Quarter cloth on decorative boards, good. (56670). Signed on title-page by Hope Mirrlees.
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Lud-in-the-Mist.
Lud-in-the-Mist.
MIRRLEES, Hope.
- Publisher: London: W. Collins & Sons, 1926
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Minor wear to extremities, text block lightly toned, mild spotting to final few leaves. An excellent copy in a worn and lightly soiled jacket with darkened spine panel and loss to extremities affecting some letters. First edition, first impression, in the red remainder binding.
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Lud-in-the-Mist.
Lud-in-the-Mist.
MIRRLEES, Hope.
- Publisher: London: W. Collins & Sons, 1926
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Minor wear to extremities, text block lightly toned, mild spotting to final few leaves. An excellent copy in a worn and lightly soiled jacket with darkened spine panel and loss to extremities affecting some letters. First edition, first impression, in the red remainder binding.
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Gryphon.
Gryphon.
CARROLL, Lewis.) TENNIEL, John.
- Publisher: 1865
Original artwork in pencil. Approx. image size 85 × 60 mm with large margins all round. John Tenniel's monogram to the lower right. Mounted, glazed and framed. Fine. Portion of backing from previous mount cut round and retained, with ink inscription of Mr & Mrs Ben Wolf; framers' label of Kennedy & Co. Rare Prints, 693 & 5th Ave.; later sticker of Newman Galleries, Philadelphia. Tenniel's original drawing for the illustration of the Gryphon which appears on page 138 of the 1865 first edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Carroll gave Tenniel the exact measurements of each image as they were to fit on the page around the text. The drawings were then traced onto woodblocks and engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. The final stage in the reproduction process was to make electrotype plates from the woodblocks, using them as masters. The electrotype plates were used for the actual printing. There were enormous difficulties preserving Tenniel's delicate pencilwork throughout this process, and Carroll famously cancelled the 1865 first edition on account of its poorly-reproduced illustrations. When one sees at first hand the extreme delicacy of line and tone in Tenniel's original, one must have some sympathy for the poor engravers and printers. Accompanying the drawing is a copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: An 1865 printing re-described (Privately printed for The Jabberwock, 1990), which includes a census of the original drawings by Justin G. Schiller, this copy with a signed inscription by Justin Schiller on the half-title: "For the owner of the recently unearthed original art of the sleeping Gryphon (A33), a genuine Tenniel drawing used by the Dalziels for making the woodblock used in the 1865 'Alice' but not [double underline] in my census", signed and dated 16 April 2004. Goodacre?Schiller A33.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis [Maggie Taylor]
- Publisher: Modernbook Editions
Palo Alto, CA: Modernbook Editions, 2008. First edition thus. Near fine/very good. Maggie Taylor. SIGNED. 186pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Lavender boards with white printed titles. Minor rubbing at the spine ends and corners of the covers; two small closed tears in the edges of the dust jacket. Signed by the artist, Maggie Taylor, on the half-title. Maggie Taylor combines found objects with digital art to create a modern and stunning Alice. Different visions of Alice converge in this book to reveal Alice as a distinctly quirky Everywoman. A must-have in any Lewis Carroll collection. Maggie Taylor is a digital artist who has exhibited her work throughout the United States and abroad.
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis [Maggie Taylor]
- Publisher: Modernbook Editions
Palo Alto, CA: Modernbook Editions, 2008. First edition thus. Near fine/very good. Maggie Taylor. SIGNED. 186pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Lavender boards with white printed titles. Minor rubbing at the spine ends and corners of the covers; two small closed tears in the edges of the dust jacket. Signed by the artist, Maggie Taylor, on the half-title. Maggie Taylor combines found objects with digital art to create a modern and stunning Alice. Different visions of Alice converge in this book to reveal Alice as a distinctly quirky Everywoman. A must-have in any Lewis Carroll collection. Maggie Taylor is a digital artist who has exhibited her work throughout the United States and abroad.
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India: Jean-Baptiste Huynh
India: Jean-Baptiste Huynh
Jean-Baptiste Huynh
- Publisher: 5 Continents Editions
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 8874391889
Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Ships Fast. 24*7 Customer Service.
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The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
- Publisher: Doubleday & Co
Doubleday & Co, 1958-01-01. Hardcover. Good//Good. . Signed. GOOD/GOOD. *AUTOGRAPHED/SIGNED* by Ray Bradbury (addressed to Linda) on fly page. Brown-to-red illustrated jacket, dust jacket in archival plastic protector. Spine lean/roll, chips to edges and corners of jacket, hinge split beginning to form interior front cover, faded jacket.. Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com Orders shipped via USPS.
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The Martian Chronicles.
The Martian Chronicles.
BRADBURY, Ray.
- Publisher: New York: Doubleday & Co. Inc., 1950
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine red. With the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, edges lightly foxed; a very good copy in the jacket, spine ends and tips rubbed and nicked. First edition, first printing, rare presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Harry and Evelyn in appreciation of your kind hospitality from Ray Bradbury. May 1950", and with the publisher's compliments slip laid in. The association is a nice one: the recipient was Harry Harrison, science-fiction author and illustrator. At the time of this inscription he was an illustrator for EC Comics, working on Weird Fantasy and Weird Science. His short story "Rock Diver" was published in Worlds Beyond in 1951, and Harrison increasingly turned his attention to prose, going on to write over 60 books, including Make Room! Make Room! (1966), which was adapted into the film Soylent Green in 1973. Locke, Vol. I, p. 39.
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The Puppet Masters
The Puppet Masters
Heinlein, Robert A.
- Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc. New York
- Format: Hardcover
First Edition, First Printing. This copy is SIGNED by Robert Heinlein on a laid in signature. This ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket is vibrant in color with minor wear to the edges. The book is great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with slight wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION SIGNED by the author. We buy SIGNED Heinlein First Editions.
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Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan
Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan
HEARN, LAFCADIO
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, the Riverside Press, Boston & New York
- Format: Hardcover
First edition, first printing of vol. I (collating as in BAL), binding B (no sequence), 2 volumes, 8vo, 4 full-p. illustrations; fine set in original decorative black cloth stamped in silver, t.e.g.
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Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan
Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan
HEARN, LAFCADIO
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, the Riverside Press, Boston & New York
- Format: Hardcover
First edition, first printing of vol. I (collating as in BAL), binding B (no sequence), 2 volumes, 8vo, 4 full-p. illustrations; fine set in original decorative black cloth stamped in silver, t.e.g.
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ORLANDO
ORLANDO
Woolf, Virginia
- Publisher: Harcort Brace
New York: Harcort Brace, 1928. First Edition.. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. New York: Harcort Brace, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Woolf, Virginia. ORLANDO. New York: Harcourt, 1928. First American Edition. 8vo., 333pp. A superb copy of the US edition bound in blue cloth in a fine, fresh cinnamon dustwrapper, designed by Vanessa Bell. A far and away better copy of the book which includes a frontispiece portrait of Orlando & several photographic plates. Woolf's romantic fantasy romp, a tribute to Vita Sackville-West and the spirit of derring-do. A superior example, so much better than the crowd of onlookers.
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Orlando
Orlando
WOOLF, Virginia
- Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1928. First American Edition. Hardcover. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); blue-violet cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; light brown topstain; dustjacket; 333pp. Topstain slightly faded, else Fine. Dustjacket slightly sunned at spine, with light rubbing to joints and flap folds, a few tiny chips to spine endes and corner tips, and a few short edge tears; Very Good+. A presentable copy.
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The Tour of the World
The Tour of the World
VERNE, Jules
- Publisher: Belford, Clarke and Co Chicago 1884
- Format: Hardcover
Early Pirated Edition. Original blue decorative cloth, gilt at spine and front cover, floral endpapers in original decorative and printed dustjacket. Exceedingly scarce in 19th Century dustjacket, with title page dated 1884. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some chipping at spine ends, some darkening overall.
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Old Christmas and Bracebridge Hall
Old Christmas and Bracebridge Hall
Irving, Washington
- Publisher: Macmillan & Co, London; (1876 and 1877)
Small Octavo. second edition, two volumes, 165pp. and 284. 4pp. ads at rear, illustrated by R. Caldecott, bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full red polished calf ruled and lettered in gilt, raised bands, double black morocco spine labels gilt, raised bands with compartments fully gilt decorated, inner gilt dentelles, decorative endpapers, all edges gilt, light rubbing to spine and boards. A lovely set. From the library of R.F. Oxnam with his card laid in and a gift inscription in both volumes.
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Old Christmas and Bracebridge Hall
Old Christmas and Bracebridge Hall
Irving, Washington
- Publisher: Macmillan & Co
London; (1876 and 1877): Macmillan & Co. Small Octavo. second edition, two volumes, 165pp. and 284. 4pp. ads at rear, illustrated by R. Caldecott, bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full red polished calf ruled and lettered in gilt, raised bands, double black morocco spine labels gilt, raised bands with compartments fully gilt decorated, inner gilt dentelles, decorative endpapers, all edges gilt, light rubbing to spine and boards. A lovely set. From the library of R.F. Oxnam with his card laid in and a gift inscription in both volumes.
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POEMS OF THE "OLD SOUTH"
POEMS OF THE "OLD SOUTH"
LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth, HOLMES, Oliver Wendell, WHITTIER, John Greenleaf, HOWE, Julia Ward, HALE, Edward Everett, CLARKE, James Freeman
- Publisher: Old South Fair Committee
- Format: Hardcover
Beautifully bound volume of American Poetry signed by all contributors published to raise money for the preservation of Boston's Old South Church. This FINE copy is bound in full elegant brown morocco with boards ruled and paneled in an arts and crafts style, with a green leaf gothic like design with accenting red berries. The spine continues the design elements adding the title, some authors and the date. Exaggerated turn ins continue the design in gilt only, paste downs and first fly in a gold moire. This volume was created as a fund raiser for the old Boston meeting house or old south church as it was known. Built in 1729 and used throughout the American Revoloution it had been in use as a church until 1872 when there were thoughts of razing it. Funds were raised to turn it into a museum and in 1877 this title was first published to help with that effort. A second fundraiser/publication occured in 1879 and included an unknown quantity containing the original signatures of the poets and theologians that contributed work. So goes this copy which contains the ORIGINAL SIGNATURES OF SOME OF THE MOST RESPECTED POETS OF THE TIME; LONGFELLOW, WHITTIER, HOLMES, HOWE, HALE AND CLARKE. This copy also contains the bookplate of Roy Arthur Hunt and a full page gift inscription which states that Hunt is a descendent of the first pastor of the church, Thomas Thacher. Binding is signed [John] GRABAU, original front cloth cover and spine bound in at rear, includes accompanying felt lined slip case with extraction ribbon.
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Lord Tennyson's Works in Nine Volumes: The Eversley Edition: Poems I and II; Idylls of The King; Enoch Arden, In Memoriam; Demeter, Etc.; Queen Mary, Harold; Ballads, Etc.; The Princess Maud; Becket, Etc.
Lord Tennyson's Works in Nine Volumes: The Eversley Edition: Poems I and II; Idylls of The King; Enoch Arden, In Memoriam; Demeter, Etc.; Queen Mary, Harold; Ballads, Etc.; The Princess Maud; Becket, Etc.
Tennyson, Alfred Lord; Tennyson, Lord Hallam (ed.)
- Publisher: MacMillan & Co Ltd. 1908, London
Complete in 9 volumes. Full red morocco with raised bands to spines and gilt title lettering. All edges gilt. Gilt dentelles. Coloured headbands. Ribbon markers. Bound for Hatchards. Minor marks to a few boards. Offsetting to endpapers from dentelles. Original owner's inscription card lightly attached to endpaper. Internally bright and fresh. A handsome set in Fine condition. Small 8vo.
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Tennyson's Guinevere and Other Poems
Tennyson's Guinevere and Other Poems
Tennyson Alfred Lord and Harrison Florence (Illus)
- Publisher: London Blackie and Son 1912
- Format: Hardcover
First Edition of these marvellous poems perfectly captured by Florence Harrison beautiful illustrations.24 in colour and many more in black and white.A lovely copy in white buckram covers with gilt decoration to the front cover and spine.A little foxing to extremities else a VG+ copy.
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TYPOLOGIA
TYPOLOGIA
Goudy, Frederic W.
- Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, California
Studies in type design & type making. With comments on the invention of typography, the first types, legibility, and fine printing. Pp. xx+170+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece portrait, text illustrations and facsimiles (some full page), one decorative initial printed in red; tall narrow cr. 4to; qr. brown leather, spine lettered in gilt between raised bands, parchment papered boards, the upper board lettered in gilt, a trifle foxed; uncut; marbled endpapers; within card slipcase; bookplate of Geoffrey Ingleton on upper pastedown, plus his small catalogue stamp and markings on recto of lower free endpaper, a little light foxing; University of California Press, Berkeley, 1940. Autographed edition, limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by the author.
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TYPOLOGIA
TYPOLOGIA
Goudy, Frederic W.
- Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, California
Studies in type design & type making. With comments on the invention of typography, the first types, legibility, and fine printing. Pp. xx+170+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece portrait, text illustrations and facsimiles (some full page), one decorative initial printed in red; tall narrow cr. 4to; qr. brown leather, spine lettered in gilt between raised bands, parchment papered boards, the upper board lettered in gilt, a trifle foxed; uncut; marbled endpapers; within card slipcase; bookplate of Geoffrey Ingleton on upper pastedown, plus his small catalogue stamp and markings on recto of lower free endpaper, a little light foxing; University of California Press, Berkeley, 1940. Autographed edition, limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by the author.
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TYPOLOGIA
TYPOLOGIA
Goudy, Frederic W.
- Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, California
Studies in type design & type making. With comments on the invention of typography, the first types, legibility, and fine printing. Pp. xx+170+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece portrait, text illustrations and facsimiles (some full page), one decorative initial printed in red; tall narrow cr. 4to; qr. brown leather, spine lettered in gilt between raised bands, parchment papered boards, the upper board lettered in gilt, a trifle foxed; uncut; marbled endpapers; within card slipcase; bookplate of Geoffrey Ingleton on upper pastedown, plus his small catalogue stamp and markings on recto of lower free endpaper, a little light foxing; University of California Press, Berkeley, 1940. Autographed edition, limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by the author.
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Chui!: A Guide to Hunting the African Leopard
Chui!: A Guide to Hunting the African Leopard
Hallamore, Lou; Woods, Bruce
- Publisher: Trophy Room Books
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9781882458066
1882458060 For your consideration is a signed & numbered copy of the title, "Chui!: A Guide to Hunting the African Leopard," by Lou Hallamore & Bruce Woods. Our book is graded Fine in a Fine dust jacket. This book was published in a limited edition of 1000 copies, of which this book is numbered 427. Our book has been signed both on the title page and separatly on the front endpaper (with an accompanying gift inscription) by Bruce Woods. Both the book and the jacket are Fine/As New with no flaws. The dust jacket has been fitted with a new, Brodart jacket cover. This book will be stored and delivered in a secure storage box with foam padding. Published by Trophy Room Books, 1994; 251 pages; Hardcover binding.
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Shoot Straight and Stay Alive
Shoot Straight and Stay Alive
Bartlett, Fred
- Publisher: Trophy Room Books, Agoura CA
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9781882458042
262 pp. ill. Super story of this professional hunter who was considered one of the "fastest shots alive" with a double rifle. He was a buffalo hunter of renown and tackled in his time most of the other dangerous game in Africa. This first limited edition sold out in record time and rarely comes up for sale. A great picture of hunting in the safari capital of the world: Kenya. Inscribed by author. Fine in fine dj. with extra signature & author inscription.
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407 Squadron History, 1941 - 1996: A Narrative History
407 Squadron History, 1941 - 1996: A Narrative History
Procter, Tom; Brigadier-General Brian Cameron (Foreword)
- Publisher: 407 Maritime Patrol Squadron Association
Comox, British Columbia: 407 Maritime Patrol Squadron Association. Paperback. 276 pages. Black and white reproductions of photos. Rolls of Honour. "8th May (1996) marked the 55th anniversary of the formation of 407 "Demon" Squadron RCAF at Thorney Island, Hampshire, England. In WWII the Demons were credited with four U-boat kills and seven U-boats damaged, plus many thousands of tons of enemy shipping sunk and damaged, but at the cost of the lives of 240 members." paraphrased from Foreword. Part One deals with the wartime years, 1941-1945 and is divided into anti-shipping operations and anti-submarine operations. Part Two deals with the peacetime years and includes these chapters: The Squadron Reformed, The Lancaster Years, The Neptune Years, The Argus Years, The Aurora Years, plus several informative appendices. Former library copy with usual markings. Binding tight. Average wear. A sound copy of this informative and important history. . Fair. 1996. First Edition.
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Jim Cummins' Book Written by Himself; The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and their Comrades, including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerillas
Jim Cummins' Book Written by Himself; The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and their Comrades, including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerillas
Cummins, Jim
- Publisher: Reed Publishing Company, Denver
- Format: Hardcover
Mylar protected pictorial green cloth boards with black titling on cover and spine. No DJ. Bright but soiled boards with light edge wear and rubbing, corners and t&b spine beginning to fray and tight sewn binding with front 1/2 of book block slightly offset from rear. Eps and paste-downs smudged with pencil notations incl orig book purch info penciled in and newspaper clippings tipped in. Page ends show use and soil with sporadic smudging on age toned pages throughout. 191 pps incl b&w photos and illus's, and 1 pg advert. . Howes C951, Graff 948, Rader 996, Adams Six-Guns 528, One-Fifty 41 From the collection of the late E.P. Lamborn, noted amateur historian and collector of items on plainsmen, crime and criminals of the Middle West in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. His collection of books often include hand-written notations, newspaper clippings and info from friends, relatives, companies, law officers, etc., who dealt with the subject at hand.
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Jim Cummins' Book Written by Himself; The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and their Comrades, including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerillas
Jim Cummins' Book Written by Himself; The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and their Comrades, including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerillas
Cummins, Jim
- Publisher: Reed Publishing Company, Denver
- Format: Hardcover
Mylar protected pictorial green cloth boards with black titling on cover and spine. No DJ. Bright but soiled boards with light edge wear and rubbing, corners and t&b spine beginning to fray and tight sewn binding with front 1/2 of book block slightly offset from rear. Eps and paste-downs smudged with pencil notations incl orig book purch info penciled in and newspaper clippings tipped in. Page ends show use and soil with sporadic smudging on age toned pages throughout. 191 pps incl b&w photos and illus's, and 1 pg advert. . Howes C951, Graff 948, Rader 996, Adams Six-Guns 528, One-Fifty 41 From the collection of the late E.P. Lamborn, noted amateur historian and collector of items on plainsmen, crime and criminals of the Middle West in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. His collection of books often include hand-written notations, newspaper clippings and info from friends, relatives, companies, law officers, etc., who dealt with the subject at hand.
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Jim Cummins' Book Written by Himself; The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and their Comrades, including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerillas
Jim Cummins' Book Written by Himself; The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and their Comrades, including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerillas
Cummins, Jim
- Publisher: Reed Publishing Company, Denver
- Format: Hardcover
Mylar protected pictorial green cloth boards with black titling on cover and spine. No DJ. Bright but soiled boards with light edge wear and rubbing, corners and t&b spine beginning to fray and tight sewn binding with front 1/2 of book block slightly offset from rear. Eps and paste-downs smudged with pencil notations incl orig book purch info penciled in and newspaper clippings tipped in. Page ends show use and soil with sporadic smudging on age toned pages throughout. 191 pps incl b&w photos and illus's, and 1 pg advert. . Howes C951, Graff 948, Rader 996, Adams Six-Guns 528, One-Fifty 41 From the collection of the late E.P. Lamborn, noted amateur historian and collector of items on plainsmen, crime and criminals of the Middle West in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. His collection of books often include hand-written notations, newspaper clippings and info from friends, relatives, companies, law officers, etc., who dealt with the subject at hand.
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Jim Cummins' Book Written by Himself; The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and their Comrades, including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerillas
Jim Cummins' Book Written by Himself; The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and their Comrades, including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerillas
Cummins, Jim
- Publisher: Reed Publishing Company, Denver
- Format: Hardcover
Mylar protected pictorial green cloth boards with black titling on cover and spine. No DJ. Bright but soiled boards with light edge wear and rubbing, corners and t&b spine beginning to fray and tight sewn binding with front 1/2 of book block slightly offset from rear. Eps and paste-downs smudged with pencil notations incl orig book purch info penciled in and newspaper clippings tipped in. Page ends show use and soil with sporadic smudging on age toned pages throughout. 191 pps incl b&w photos and illus's, and 1 pg advert. . Howes C951, Graff 948, Rader 996, Adams Six-Guns 528, One-Fifty 41 From the collection of the late E.P. Lamborn, noted amateur historian and collector of items on plainsmen, crime and criminals of the Middle West in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. His collection of books often include hand-written notations, newspaper clippings and info from friends, relatives, companies, law officers, etc., who dealt with the subject at hand.
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Jim Cummins' Book. Written by Himself; The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and their Comrades, including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerillas. [with stamped signature of Frank James]
Jim Cummins' Book. Written by Himself; The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and their Comrades, including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerillas. [with stamped signature of Frank James]
Cummins, Jim
- Publisher: The Reed Publishing Company, Denver, CO
- Format: Hardcover
191 pages, with all photo plates and illustrations as called for. A collectors' anomaly, bearing on the first front free endpaper a stamp in mauve coloured ink of the signature of Frank James brother of Jesse. I have gone through the usual channels within the trade to determine whether this stamp is known - was it a sales gimmick? was it an ownership stamp of Frank James? I remain in the dark, and the colleagues contacted have not seen its like. Offered here as a curiosity, with no guarantee of direct association. Purchased from a granddaughter of a resident (b.1911) of Shelby, OH, a gun collector and frequenter of auctions. Binding sound; minor stainis to cloth, light tideline to upper margin of a few leaves; paper toned; title page brittle at gutter. Size: 8vo.
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Jim Cummins' Book Written by Himself; The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and their Comrades, including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerillas
Jim Cummins' Book Written by Himself; The Life Story of the James and Younger Gang and their Comrades, including the Operations of Quantrell's Guerillas
Cummins, Jim
- Publisher: Reed Publishing Company, Denver
- Format: Hardcover
Mylar protected pictorial green cloth boards with black titling on cover and spine. No DJ. Bright but soiled boards with light edge wear and rubbing, corners and t&b spine beginning to fray and tight sewn binding with front 1/2 of book block slightly offset from rear. Eps and paste-downs smudged with pencil notations incl orig book purch info penciled in and newspaper clippings tipped in. Page ends show use and soil with sporadic smudging on age toned pages throughout. 191 pps incl b&w photos and illus's, and 1 pg advert. . Howes C951, Graff 948, Rader 996, Adams Six-Guns 528, One-Fifty 41 From the collection of the late E.P. Lamborn, noted amateur historian and collector of items on plainsmen, crime and criminals of the Middle West in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. His collection of books often include hand-written notations, newspaper clippings and info from friends, relatives, companies, law officers, etc., who dealt with the subject at hand.
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The Patchwork Girl of Oz
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Baum L. Frank
- Publisher: Reilly & Britton, Chicago
- Format: Hardcover
First printing, first state in original light green cloth. Wear at spine ends, light soiling to boards, joints cracked, spine heavily rubbed, lacking the front free colored endpaper, occasional browning to page edges, a few minor marginal tears, small brown spot to lower margin of preliminaries, otherwise very good internally. - still a fairly attractive copy overall and about good. Colored illustration throughout. Bienvenue 52 Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Inventory No: 045287.
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Unsere Führer im Lichte der Rassenfrage und Charakterologie. Eine rassenmäßige und charakterbiologische Beurteilung von Männern des Dritten Reiches. Mit polizeilicher und parteiamtlicher NSDAP-Genehmigung
Unsere Führer im Lichte der Rassenfrage und Charakterologie. Eine rassenmäßige und charakterbiologische Beurteilung von Männern des Dritten Reiches. Mit polizeilicher und parteiamtlicher NSDAP-Genehmigung
- Publisher: Leipzig, Verlag der Literaturwerke "Minerva" R.Max Lipold,
- Format: Hardcover
Vollständige Ausgabe im original Verlagseinband (blaues Ganzleinen GLn / OLn / Ln im Format 14 x 22 cm) mit dekoriertem Deckeltitel in Goldprägung, Text: Fraktur. 169 Seiten, mit vielen ganzseitigen Fotoabbildungen auf Kunstdruckpapier (Porträt-Aufnahmen von führenden Nationalsozialisten) sowie einem Foto des Verfassers auf Seite 6. Druck: Hansa-Buchdruckerei Bormann & Co / Leipzig. - Das Buch ist gewidmet "aus tiefer Geistverbundenheit allen schaffenden germanischen Artschwestern und Artbrüdern, die deutsch leben und streben". - Aus dem Vorwort: "Menschenkenntnis ist Macht. Keineswegs fußt die vorliegende Arbeit auf neuen wissenschaftlichen Grundsätzen. Seit dem 17.Jahrhundert bereits finden sich immer wieder Anläufe, Rassenkunde und Menschenkenntnis zu staatlich anerkannten Wissenschaften erheben. Aber die Gegner in Staatsstellen und an Schulen und Universitäten haben es verstanden, das Urwissen unserer Ahnen bis zu dieser Zeit zu unterdrücken. Von den Vorkämpfern für dieses Wissen seien erwähnt: Lavater, Dr.Gall, Dr.Spürzheimer, Prof.Combe, Carus, Hutter, Gerling und Peters. Diese deckt bereits die kühle Erde. Unter uns Lebenden weilen: Lanz von Liebensfels, Ißberner-Haldane, Georg Richter und Burger-Villingen. Lanz von Liebensfels gebührt ein besonderer Ruhmeskranz. Trotz stärkster Knebelung und erbitterter Verfolgung hat er sich voller Idealismus für die Rassenkunde eingesetzt und sie weithin verbreitet. Ißberner-Haldane und Georg Richter kämpfen heldenmütig für den Rassengedanken und lassen sich selbst durch den Verlust von Freundinnen und Freunden nicht beirren. Beide schufen und finanzierten völlig unabhängig voneinander je eine Rassenschule . . . Hinsichtlich der Literatur verweise ich auf die Angaben in meinem Werk "Die urewige Weisheitssprache der Menschenformen". Heil Deutschland! Der Verfasser. Bärenstein (Bez. Dresden), am 20. April 1933". - Aus der Einleitung: "Alle äußeren Formen, gleichviel ob Kopf, Hals, Hand, Gang, Sprache, Gebärde, Ausdruck, Schrift, entsprechen den inneren Kräfte des Menschen. Damit ist die Möglichkeit gegeben, an den Rassenmerkmalen die unterschiedlichen seelischen Anlagen zu erkennen. Rasse ist niemals mit Taufe oder Änderung der Nationalität zu verwischen. Sie besteht vielmehr immer weiter, weil die Rasse durch das unveränderte Blut bestimmt wird. An ihrer Hautfarbe kann man die vier Grund- und Hauptrassen erkennen. Weiße Hautfarbe: arisch-germanische Rasse, braune Hautfarbe: Mediterrane, gelbe Hautfarbe: Mongolen, schwarze Hautfarbe: afrikanische Stämme. Der Jude ist keine bestimmte reine Rasse, sondern eine Mischrasse aus allen vier Grundrassen unter deren Unterarten. Daraus erklärt sich sein unberechenbares, internationales Heimatgefühl. Seine Heimat ist jeweilig dort, wo ein gutes Auskommen findet. Darin unterscheidet er sich grundlegend von den germanischen Völkern, denn diese halten ihrer Heimat die unbedingte Treue. Das gleiche gilt für die schwarzen Völker und auch für die Mongolen. Wenn der Jude eine Rassengemeinschaft eingeht, so tut er das nur aus Not und Berechnung. Selten aber ist diese Gemeinschaft von langer Dauer. Denn infolge seines egoistischen und händlerischen Wesens macht er sich bei jedem Wirtsvolk bald dermaßen unbeliebt, daß er wieder vertrieben wird. Darum muss auch für das deutsche Volk aus Liebe zu seiner Rassenreinheit Rassenscheidung gefordert werden. Jede Rassenmischung ist Sünde! Seit unserer Volkskanzler die Zügel in die Hand genommen hat, ist gottlob unter dem verjudeten medizinischen Berufsstand aufgeräumt worden. Mit einemal geht von dort eine Welle des Verständnisses aus . . . - Deutsches / Drittes Reich, Antisemitismus, Sachsen, Alte Kämpfer als heroische nordisch-germanische Menschen dargestellt, deutsche Menschen um Adolf Hitler, Charakterkunde, menschlicher Charakter, Charakterologie, Phrenologie, Schädellehre, Guido von List, der Frankenführer Julius Streicher und weitere Führungspersönlichkeiten des Nationalsozialismus rassenkundlich betrachtet,
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Enhanced Web Assign Precalculus and College Algebra
Enhanced Web Assign Precalculus and College Algebra
CENGAGE Learning
- Publisher: CENGAGE learning
- Format: Printed Access Code
- ISBN: 9781285858333
ACCEPTABLE-The item maybe fairly worn but shows signs of wear which can include scratches, dents and worn corners.Pages can include considerable notes and highlighting and bookstore stickers.Do not include ACCESS CODE, CD-ROM or companion materials even if stated in item title. 8A
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Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies; A Study in Folk-Lore & Psychical Research
Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies; A Study in Folk-Lore & Psychical Research
Kirk, Robert
- Publisher: David Nutt, London
- Format: Softcover
12mo. [lxv], 92, [2]. Frontispiece. Printed wraps, very good. (41378). Limited to 500 copies. Introduction by Andrew Lang; Bibliotheque de Carabas Vol. XII.
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Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies; A Study in Folk-Lore & Psychical Research
Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies; A Study in Folk-Lore & Psychical Research
Kirk, Robert
- Publisher: David Nutt, London
- Format: Softcover
12mo. [lxv], 92, [2]. Frontispiece. Printed wraps, very good. (41378). Limited to 500 copies. Introduction by Andrew Lang; Bibliotheque de Carabas Vol. XII.
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Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies; A Study in Folk-Lore & Psychical Research
Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies; A Study in Folk-Lore & Psychical Research
Kirk, Robert
- Publisher: David Nutt, London
- Format: Softcover
12mo. [lxv], 92, [2]. Frontispiece. Printed wraps, very good. (41378). Limited to 500 copies. Introduction by Andrew Lang; Bibliotheque de Carabas Vol. XII.
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Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies; A Study in Folk-Lore & Psychical Research
Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies; A Study in Folk-Lore & Psychical Research
Kirk, Robert
- Publisher: David Nutt, London
- Format: Softcover
12mo. [lxv], 92, [2]. Frontispiece. Printed wraps, very good. (41378). Limited to 500 copies. Introduction by Andrew Lang; Bibliotheque de Carabas Vol. XII.
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The Grecian History, from the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great
The Grecian History, from the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great
(Greece) Goldsmith, Dr. [Oliver]
- Publisher: Printed for J. and F. Rivington
London: Printed for J. and F. Rivington, 1774. First edition. [iv], 389; 184, [64, index] pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf, one label missing, some rubbing at joints. First edition. [iv], 389; 184, [64, index] pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Scott, pp. 327-8; Rothschild 1030; Tinker 1136; NCBEL, II, 1200
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Platform Echoes: or, Living Truths for Head and Heart. Illustrated by Nearly Five Hundred Thrilling Anecdotes and Incidents, Humerous Stories.Drawn from the Bright and Shady Sides of Life. With a History of Mr. Gough's Life and Work, by Rev. Lyman Ab
Platform Echoes: or, Living Truths for Head and Heart. Illustrated by Nearly Five Hundred Thrilling Anecdotes and Incidents, Humerous Stories.Drawn from the Bright and Shady Sides of Life. With a History of Mr. Gough's Life and Work, by Rev. Lyman Ab
Gough, John B.
- Publisher: A.D. Worthington & Co., Publishers, Hartford, Conn
225 engravings. 639 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Spine lightly faded, else a Fine, bright copy. With ink bookstamps of previous owners 225 engravings. 639 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
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The Viruses: Biochemical, Biological and Biophysical Properties (Complete in 3 Vols.)
The Viruses: Biochemical, Biological and Biophysical Properties (Complete in 3 Vols.)
Edited by F.M. Burnet and W.M. Stanley
- Format: Hardcover
A very solid, well-preserved example of the 1959 1st edition, complete in 3 volumes. All 3 volumes tight and Near Fine (with immaculate gilt-lettering along the spines) in crisp, Near Fine dustjackets, with just a touch of rubbing to the front panels and spines. Thick octavos, over 1,440 pgs. all told.
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Eugenics of the Negro Race. Reprinted from "The Scientific Monthly", July, 1917
Eugenics of the Negro Race. Reprinted from "The Scientific Monthly", July, 1917
MILLER, Kelly
- Publisher: [Washington, D.C.: by the Author, 1917]
N.p.: [Washington, D.C.: by the Author, 1917], 1917. Paperback. Brief but quite sophisticated discussion of the issue of race eugenics and whether the "professional class" of Negroes would be self-sustaining through its own reproductivity;" Miller's preliminary conclusion is that "the upper class is headed towards extinction, unless reinforced from the fruitful mass below." Kelly Miller (1863-1939) was the first African American to receive graduate education in Mathematics (Johns Hopkins, 1887-89); he later founded the Department of Sociology at Howard University, where he taught until 1934. Though less widely-known today than his more famous contemporaries Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, Miller was arguably the most influential Black intellectual of his era, a prolific, articulate, and widely-published advocate for Negro education and civil rights, once called by Carter Woodson "undoubtedly the greatest pamphleteer of the Negro race." Octavo. Staple-bound wrappers; [3]pp. Offprint. Wrapper edges soiled and briefly chipped along upper margin; perforations for binding at bound edge; Very Good.
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The Storm & Other Poems (Signed First Edition)
The Storm & Other Poems (Signed First Edition)
MONTALE, Eugenio and Charles Wright
- Publisher: Oberlin College
- ISBN: 9780932440006
Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 141 pages. The first volume in the Field translation series, a collection of poems by Montale translated by Charles Wright. Introduction by Vinio Rossi. A very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket that has some very slight wear. Signed and dated by Wright on the title page in 1979. Scarce thus.
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THE ROVER [inscribed by Conrad]
THE ROVER [inscribed by Conrad]
Conrad, Joseph
- Format: Hardcover
Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Original blue cloth, with dust jacket. First Trade Edition (preceded one day earlier by a 377-copy special edition), published before the English edition.~This volume is in fine condition, and the jacket is just about fine as well (very slightly tanned, as usual). Keating 179.~This copy's front free endpaper bears an almost-full-page signed presentation inscription, "Signed at the request of Walter Tittle for Miss Jean Campbell with best wishes by [signed] Joseph Conrad New Year's Day 1924". Sadly, this New Year's Day would be Conrad's last -- as he would die on August 3rd of the year just beginning. On 12 November 1922, Allan Wade (who was then trying to help Conrad get his dramatic version of THE SECRET AGENT onto the stage) had paid a visit to the Conrads' home, bringing with him the American portraitist Walter Tittle (1883-1966), whom Conrad admired; that day Tittle did an etching of Conrad, which would subsequently be selected as the frontispiece for Dent's Collected Edition of his works [1923].~Provenance: small "SJS" bookplate of Stanley J. Seeger -- see Sotheby's Seeger lot #363.
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The Rover
The Rover
CONRAD, Joseph
- Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd.
- Format: Hardcover
First English edition. First Issue with "g" missing in "go" on p. 221, line 2 and the words "First Published 1923" printed on the copyright page. Publisher's green cloth, very good condition with two small dents to back cover, spine ends gently pushed in at ends and lightly curved at top. Light toning to endpapers and small book dealers label on front pastedown. Dust jacket not clipped, very good condition with chipping at spine ends and lightly age-toned. 1st Printing Language: eng
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Miscellany Poems
Miscellany Poems
The Most Eminent Hands
- Publisher: London - Jacob Tonson
- Format: Hardcover
The Complete Six volumes of Dryden's Miscellany. The fourth edition of this work. With an engraved frontispiece to every volume. Collated, complete. From the antiquarian library of Christopher Rowe. Christopher Rowe was a schoolmaster in Norwich and then in Bristol. Throughout his career he inspired many to love literature, history and music. He was a specialist on 17th century printer and bookseller, Humphrey Moseley and began his, unfortunately unfinished, PhD dissertation on him. This work is an anthology of poetry from the classic poetry as well as more recent poets including some of Dryden's own poetry. Poets featured include Mr Philips, Mr Rowe, Alexander Pope, Ovid, King Charles the First, Joseph Addison and more. John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright. Condition: In full calf bindings with gilt stamping to spines and to the board edges. Externally, rubbed to the spines. Minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Spine to volume II is particularly rubbed with the gilt '2' not very visible. Loss to the head of spine to volume V. Front joint is starting but firm to volume V with the hinge slightly strained but firm. Rear joint to volumeV has a crack from the head to the top of the spine label. Prior owner's signature to title page of all volumes. Prior owner's bookplate to front pastedown of all volume, Christopher Rowe. Internally, all volumes are firmly bound, Pages areslightly age toned to edges with the oddlight spots to throughout. Overall: VERY GOOD INDEED.
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The Annual Miscellany: for the Year 1694 Being the Fourth Part of Miscellany Poems. Containing Great Variety of new Translations and Original Copies, by the Most Eminent Hands.
The Annual Miscellany: for the Year 1694 Being the Fourth Part of Miscellany Poems. Containing Great Variety of new Translations and Original Copies, by the Most Eminent Hands.
DRYDEN, John; by the Most Eminent Hands
- Publisher: Jacob Tonson, London
- Format: Hardcover
[7], 327, [11] p. 18 cm half leather with gilt on spine and marbled boards. Ex-library with small label affixed to lower corner of front downpast endpaper. Volumes has been reboud at some point with the half leather in fine condition. Frontispiece detached at lower corner but intact. Browning to opening and ending pages but majority of pages are clean. Text unmarked. The fourth volumes of miscellany poems was the last volume edited by Dryden before his death. It includes translations of Virgil, Horace, and Homer, as well as works by Dryden and Joseph Addison.
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A Collection of Poems, in Two Volumes; Being all the Miscellanies of Mr. William Shakespeare, which were Publish'd by himself in the Year 1609, and now correctly Printed from those Editions
A Collection of Poems, in Two Volumes; Being all the Miscellanies of Mr. William Shakespeare, which were Publish'd by himself in the Year 1609, and now correctly Printed from those Editions
Shakespeare, William
- Publisher: Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Cross-Keys, Between the Two Temple-Gates in Fleet-street, London
-1710. Two volumes bound in one. Modern full period-style, paneled leather with marbled endpapers. First Edition. First Printing of Volume Two, and Second Printing (Ford) or Issue (Jaggard) of Volume One, with the four sectional titles dated 1609. The first volume contains: I. Venus and Adonis. II. The Rape of Lucrece. III. The Passionate Pilgrim. IV. Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Musick. The second volume contains: I. One Hundred and Fifty Four Sonnets, all of them in Praise of his Mistress. II. A Lover's Complaint of his Angry Mistress. In this copy, the general title-page serves in lieu of the two volume title-pages, which are not present. According to the bibliographer H. L. Ford, some copies of this printing/issue of Volume One were bound without a volume title. A of Volume Two, containing the famously ambigous dedication ["To the Onlie Begetter of These Insuing Sonnets."] has been advanced to follow the final sectional title-page in Volume One [Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Musicke] to make that title serve as well for the sonnets in Volume Two. Based on the foxing patterns, this was done at an early date. All four sectional titles in Volume One are present. Shakespeare's Sonnets were first published in a Quarto Edition in 1609, of which only a dozen or so copies survive. They were reprinted only once in the 17th century, in 1640 by the publisher John Benson in a bowdlerized version. That book, when complete, now sells at auction for several hundred thousand dollars. Benson changed several pronouns from masculine to feminine, and made about seventy other verbal changes. He also reordered the sonnets, in several cases combining up to five to form single poems, while also haphazardly inter-splicing a corrupt version of the Passionate Pilgrim and several other non-Shakespearean poems. He also omitted eight sonnets altogether (Nos. 18, 19, 43, 56, 75, 76, 96, and 126). Most 18th century editions of Shakespeare's Poetry used Benson's "mangled hodgepodge" as their textual source [Wells, Stanley, and Gary Taylor. William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion]. This is the FIRST COLLECTED EDITION of Shakespeare's complete poems, discounting Benson's edition which omitted the long poems, 'The Rape of Lucrece' and 'Venus and Adonis'. It contains only the THIRD PRINTING of the Sonnets, apparently preceding a reprinting of Benson's version published by Edmund Curll at about the same time. Significantly, Lintott reprinted the 1609 Sonnets line for line, effectively publishing a facsimile edition of that rare First Quarto [Schoenfeldt, M. C. A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets]. It is thus not only textually superior to Benson's edition, but it also contains the very first obtainable printing of the eight sonnets that Benson omitted, including one of the most celebrated, Sonnet 18, beginning "Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?" Light to moderate foxing and age-toning. With the ink inscription "Dear Nick/1912" at the head of the general title-page, and without the terminal blank in Volume Two. A Very Good copy, finely bound. Ford p. 38-39. Jaggard p. 434.
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The Casket, a Miscellany, Consisting of Unpublished Poems.
The Casket, a Miscellany, Consisting of Unpublished Poems.
Blencowe (Mrs.) edited by
- Publisher: London, John Murray
London, John Murray, 1829. First edition. Octavo, original boards with leather spine. In good condition. An anthology of original work by Praed, Montgomery, Rogers, Hodgson, Moore, and Wordsworth. Also contains a Lord Byron unpublished poem.
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